Comment on a research note reporting new populations of the northern quoll in Western Australia
M. Westerman A and P. A. Woolley ADepartment of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic. 3086, Australia. Email: m.westerman@latrobe.edu.au; p.woolley@latrobe.edu.au
Australian Mammalogy 38(1) 124-126 https://doi.org/10.1071/AM15024
Submitted: 20 July 2015 Accepted: 12 August 2015 Published: 4 September 2015
Abstract
The recent report by Turpin and Bamford (2015) notes a range extension for northern quolls in the Pilbara Bioregion of Western Australia. Mitochondrial DNA sequences derived from five scats show that the new individuals nest within a clade containing all other Pilbara animals. Northern quolls from the Pilbara Bioregion are genetically distinct from congeners from the Kimberley Bioregion. We note that there is no evidence for maternal gene flow between these two regions.
Additional keywords: Dasyurus hallucatus, gene flow, Pilbara Bioregion.
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