Southwestern Sydney's koalas have avoided the chlamydia outbreak threatening the entire species. But their isolation has left them extremely inbred.

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New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

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Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...

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Gold Coast woman Zoe Scharenguivel was driving with her two kids in the car when she spotted the endangered marsupial on a ...

The research team has found that a koala population in Australia has evolved a distinctive genomic immunity to a retrovirus.

One example is koala retrovirus, a condition all koalas are born with in the wild and in managed care, which scientists are trying to understand better. “It’s all connected,” Thomas said.