Long-term impacts of captivity on skull morphology and endocranial volume in a marsupial carnivore.

Emily L Scicluna, Marissa L Parrott, Leila Siciliano-Martina, Margot Michaud, Kylie Robert, Peter T Green

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Emily L SciclunaDepartment of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8357-8611

Marissa L ParrottWildlife Conservation and Science, Zoos Victoria, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.

Leila Siciliano-MartinaDepartment of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.

Margot MichaudEvolution and Diversity Dynamics Lab, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.

Kylie RobertDepartment of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Peter T GreenDepartment of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Abstract

A challenge in modern conservation is maintaining ecological roles and natural behaviours of wildlife in an anthropogenic world. Captive breeding has been linked to morphological changes that may impact individual fitness for reintroduction to the wild. Changes in skull morphology and brain size may be linked to functional and behavioural changes, influencing survival outcomes. These issues have been explored in numerous eutherian mammals, but rarely in metatherians. We compared skull morphology and endocranial volume in a carnivorous marsupial, the fat-tailed dunnart (

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captive husbandryconservationcranial morphologymorphometricsphenotypic changereintroduction biology

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PMID40400529

DOI10.1098/rsos.240868

PMCPMC12092114

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