ArticleFrontiers in zoology2019
The Australian dingo: untamed or feral?
Article in Frontiers in zoology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- A global review of Livestock Guardian Donkeys (LGDks) in the prevention of carnivore depredation.PeerJ · 2026Review
- Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth.Evolution letters · 2025Article
- Ancient genomes reveal over two thousand years of dingo population structure.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The Australasian dingo archetype: de novo chromosome-length genome assembly, DNA methylome, and cranial morphology.GigaScience · 2023Article
- The Australasian dingo archetype:bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Dingoes, companions in life and death: The significance of archaeological canid burial practices in Australia.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Role of Socialisation in the Taming and Management of Wild Dingoes by Australian Aboriginal People.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Eye contact and sociability data suggests that Australian dingoes were never domesticated.Current zoology · 2022Article
- Before Azaria: A Historical Perspective on Dingo Attacks.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- The Australian dingo is an early offshoot of modern breed dogs.Science advances · 2022Article
- The Social Lives of Free-Ranging Cats.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Metabolomics shows the Australian dingo has a unique plasma profile.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- What the dingo says about dog domestication.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2021Review
- Getting Back to Nature: Feralization in Animals and Plants.Trends in ecology & evolution · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe Australian dingo continues to cause debate amongst Aboriginal people, pastoralists, scientists and the government in Australia. A lingering controversy is whether the dingo has been tamed and has now reverted to its ancestral wild state or whether its ancestors were domesticated and it now resides on the continent as a feral dog. The goal of this article is to place the discussion onto a theoretical framework, highlight what is currently known about dingo origins and taxonomy and then make a series of experimentally testable organismal, cellular and biochemical predictions that we propose can focus future research. DISCUSSION: We consider a canid that has been unconsciously selected as a
conclusionsWestern Australian Government policy is currently being revised to allow the widespread killing of the Australian dingo. These policies are based on an incomplete understanding of the evolutionary history of the canid and assume the dingo is feralized. However, accumulated evidence does not definitively show that the dingo was ever domesticated and additional focused research is required. We suggest that incorporating ancient DNA data into the debate concerning dingo origins will be pivotal to understanding the evolutionary history of the canid. Further, we advocate that future morphological, behavioural and genetic studies should focus on including genetically pure Alpine and Desert dingoes and not dingo-dog hybrids. Finally, we propose that future studies critically examine genes under selection in the dingo and employ the genome from a wild canid for comparison.
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