Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus threatening their species. Researchers from The University of Queensland and ...

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

Wildfires continue to rage in southeastern Australia, devastating coastal areas and threatening one of the nation’s most iconic species -- the koala. Dozens of bushfires have raged across ...

"What we found is that there is a single genetic switch that has been activated in about 30% of the koala population in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, suppressing the retrovirus," Professor ...

Koalas infected with the retrovirus are at a higher risk of chlamydia, which has devastated populations in Queensland and New South Wales. The virus has also been linked to lymphomas that have caused ...