Lee Skerratt

Declining amphibians might be evolving increased reproductive effort in the face of devastating disease

Laura A Brannelly, Rebecca J Webb, Zhixuan Jiang, Lee Berger, Lee F Skerratt, Laura F Grogan

Journal article  |  2021  |  EVOLUTION

The devastating infectious disease chytridiomycosis has caused declines of amphibians across the globe, yet some populations are p..

Importance of health assessments for conservation in noncaptive wildlife

Sara Kophamel, Bjorn Illing, Ellen Ariel, Morgan Difalco, Lee F Skerratt, Mark Hamann, Leigh C Ward, Diana Mendez, Suzanne L Munns

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Wildlife health assessments help identify populations at risk of starvation, disease, and decline from anthropogenic impacts on na..

Australian Bat Lyssavirus: Analysis of National Bat Surveillance Data from 2010 to 2016

Rachel Iglesias, Keren Cox-Witton, Hume Field, Lee F Skerratt, Janine Barrett

Journal article  |  2021  |  VIRUSES-BASEL

Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) was first described in 1996 and has been regularly detected in Australian bats since that time. W..

Haematological and serum biochemical reference intervals of free‐ranging Lumholtz's tree‐kangaroos (Dendrolagus lumholtzi)

AL Shima, L Berger, LF Skerratt

Journal article  |  2021  |  Australian Veterinary Journal

Background Reference intervals for haematology and serum biochemistry parameters were developed for free‐ranging Lumholtz's tree‐k..

OCULAR ANATOMY AND PATHOLOGY IN LUMHOLTZ'S TREE-KANGAROO (DENDROLAGUS LUMHOLTZI)

Amy L Shima, Linda K Johnson, Lee F Skerratt, Caroline Zeiss

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE

Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) is one of two species of tree-kangaroos found in Queensland, Australia. There is ..

Herpesvirus Infection in Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi)

Amy L Shima, Paola K Vaz, Linda Johnson, Joanne M Devlin, Lee F Skerratt

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Herpesvirus infections associated with a range of clinical findings are widespread in free-ranging and captive Australian marsupia..

Infectious disease and emergency conservation interventions

Andrew Peters, Anna Meredith, Lee Skerratt, Scott Carver, Shane Raidal

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A rapid and inexpensive viability assay for zoospores and zoosporangia of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (vol 165, 105688, 2019)

Rebecca J Webb, Lee Berger, Lee F Skerratt, Alexandra A Roberts

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

The authors regret an error in the reporting of concentrations of methylene blue used in the study. The correct concentrations wer..

Connectivity over a disease risk gradient enables recovery of rainforest frogs

Sara C Bell, Geoffrey W Heard, Lee Berger, Lee F Skerratt

Journal article  |  2020  |  ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Chytridiomycosis has been a key driver of global frog declines and extinctions, particularly for high-altitude populations across ..

An unprecedented cluster of Australian bat lyssavirus in Pteropus conspicillatus indicates pre-flight flying fox pups are at risk of mass infection

Janine Barrett, Alison Hoger, Kalpana Agnihotri, Jane Oakey, Lee F Skerratt, Hume E Field, Joanne Meers, Craig Smith

Journal article  |  2020  |  ZOONOSES AND PUBLIC HEALTH

In November 2017, two groups of P. conspicillatus pups from separate locations in Far North Queensland presented with neurological..