Andrew S. Flies

A Smart Bait Dispenser with Real-time Monitoring for Species-Specific Bait Delivery

1. Remote image capture using trail cameras has become an essential part of many wildlife monitoring and management programs. Oral bait vaccination has been a valuable tool in wildlife disease management, but baits are generally dropped on the ground or delivered by devices that...

Identification of expressed endogenous retroviral element associated long terminal repeats in devil facial tumour cells

Abstract The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population has undergone a major decline in the wild owing to the epidemics of two transmissible cancers known as devil facial tumours (DFT1 and DFT2). A multipronged conservation strategy is in place, but a vaccine that prevent...

Ethyl-iophenoxic acid as a serum biomarker for marsupial species in oral bait trials

Abstract Ethyl-iophenoxic acid (Et-IPA) is widely recognized as a useful biomarker to confirm oral bait consumption in eutherian species. In historical studies on marsupials, Et-IPA was rapidly eliminated from brushtail possums ( Trichosurus vulpecula ) and swamp wallabies ( Wall...