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Historically low mitochondrial DNA diversity in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus).
BMC genetics - 24 Oct 2012
Tsangaras Kyriakos, Ávila-Arcos María C, Ishida Yasuko, Helgen Kristofer M, Roca Alfred L, Greenwood Alex D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal marsupial that was historically widespread across eastern Australia until the end of the 19th century when it suffered a steep population decline. Hunting for the fur trade, habitat conversion, and disease contributed to a precipitous reduction in koala population size during the late 1800s and early 1900s. To examine the effects of these reductions in...
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