Molecular evidence suggests that the ancestors of the devil are split from the quoll’s ancestors between 10 and 15 million years ago. At Naracoorte (South Australia), fossil deposits excavated in limestone caves date back to the Miocene. It includes specimens ofS. laniariusthat were about 50% ...
The long-term consequences (over 5 generations) of assuming founders to be unrelated were small when compared to a model of known founder relationships and known inbreeding values. However, short-term consequences (3 to 5 generations) of an initial increase in inbreeding values were exposed when ...
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 5, Hobart, 7001, Tasmania, Australia Menna Jones, Rodrigo Hamede & Barbara Schönfeld Department of Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Drive, Moscow, 83844-3051, Idaho,...