By Dr Kylie Mae Cairns

Book Chapters

Smith BP; Appleby RG; Cairns KM, 2023, '15 Reimagining the Dingo: The ‘Australian Wolf ’ or Just a Feral Dog?', in The Wolf, Boydell and Brewer, pp. 161 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781805430551-020

Smith BP; Appleby RG; Cairns KM, 2023, 'Reimagining the Dingo: The ‘Australian Wolf ’ or Just a Feral Dog?', in , Boydell and Brewer Limited, pp. 161 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781805430551.018

Cairns KM; Wilton AN; Ballard JWO, 2011, 'The identification of dingoes in a background of hybrids', in Urbano KV (ed.), Advances in Genetics Research. Volume 6, edn. Original, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge NY, USA, pp. 309 - 327

Journal articles

Kumar M; Conroy G; Ogbourne S; Cairns K; Borburgh L; Subramanian S, 2023, 'Genomic signatures of bottleneck and founder effects in dingoes', Ecology and Evolution, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10525

Cairns K; Crowther M; Parker H; Ostrander E; Letnic M, 2023, 'Genome-wide variant analyses reveal new patterns of admixture and population structure in Australian dingoes', Molecular Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16998

Letnic M; Donfrancescoo ; Allen ; Appleby ; Behrendorff ; Conroy ; Crowther ; Dickman ; Doherty ; Fancourt ; Gordon ; Jackson ; Johnson ; Kennedy ; Koungoulos ; Leung ; Mitchell ; Nesbitt ; Newsome ; Pacioni ; Phillip ; Purcell ; Ritchie ; Smith ; Stephens ; Tatler ; van Eden ; Cairns K, 2023, 'Understanding conflict among experts working oncontroversial species: A case study on the Australian dingo', Conservation Science and Practice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12900

Jordan NR; Campbell-Ward M; Vandersteen J; Colman N; Alting B; Gamage D; Cairns KM; Bell M; Altuna J; Pitcher BJ, 2023, 'Inferring interspecific killing of Red Fox by Dingo from wounds and inter-canine distance measures – and a call for more data', Australian Zoologist, 43, pp. 276 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.030

Cairns KM; Surbakti S; Parker HG; McIntyre JK; Maury HK; Selvig M; Pangau-Adam M; Safonpo A; Numberi L; Runtuboi DYP; Ostrander EA; Davis BW, 2021, 'Genetics supersedes observational records regarding New Guinea canids', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022368118

Cairns K; Newman K; Crowther M; Letnic M, 2021, 'Pelage variation in dingoes across southeastern Australia: implications for conservation and management', Journal of Zoology

Crowther MS; Cairns KM; van Eeden LM; Letnic M, 2021, 'Introgression does not influence the positive ecological and functional role of dingo populations', Australian Zoologist, 41, pp. 338 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.016

Tatler J; Prowse TAA; Roshier DA; Cairns KM; Cassey P, 2021, 'Phenotypic variation and promiscuity in a wild population of pure dingoes (Canis dingo)', Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59, pp. 311 - 322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12418

Cairns KM; Crowther MS; Nesbitt B; Letnic M, 2021, 'The myth of wild dogs in Australia: Are there any out there?', Australian Mammalogy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AM20055

Cairns KM, 2021, 'What is a dingo - Origins, hybridisation and identity', Australian Zoologist, 41, pp. 322 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.004

Surbakti S; Parker HG; McIntyre JK; Maury HK; Cairns KM; Selvig M; Pangau-Adam M; Safonpo A; Numberi L; Runtuboi DYP; Davis BW; Ostrander EA, 2020, 'New Guinea highland wild dogs are the original New Guinea singing dogs', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, pp. 24369 - 24376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007242117

Cairns K; Nesbitt B; Laffan S; Letnic M; Crowther M, 2019, 'Geographic hot spots of dingo genetic ancestry in southeastern Australia despite hybridisation with domestic dogs', Conservation Genetics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-019-01230-z

Smith B; Cairns K; Adams J; Newsome T; Fillios M; Deaux E; Parr W; Letnic M; van Eden L; Appelby R; Bradshaw C; Savolainen P; Ritchie E; Nimmo D; Archer-Lean C; Greenville A; Dickman C; Watson L; Moseby K; Doherty T; Wallach A; Morrant D; Crowther M, 2019, 'Taxonomic status of the Australian dingo: the case for Canis dingo meyer, 1793', Zootaxa, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4564.1.6

Cairns KM; Shannon LM; Koler-Matznick J; Ballard WJO; Boyko AR, 2018, 'Elucidating biogeographical patterns in Australian native canids using genome wide SNPs', PLoS ONE, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198754

Cairns KM; Brown SK; Sacks BN; Ballard JWO, 2017, 'Conservation implications for dingoes from the maternal and paternal genome: Multiple populations, dog introgression, and demography', Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 9787 - 9807, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3487

O'Neill AJ; Cairns KM; Kaplan G; Healy E, 2017, 'Managing dingoes on Fraser Island: Culling, conflict, and an alternative', Pacific Conservation Biology, 23, pp. 4 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PC16026

Arendt M; Cairns KM; Ballard JWO; Savolainen P; Axelsson E, 2016, 'Diet adaptation in dog reflects spread of prehistoric agriculture', Heredity, 117, pp. 301 - 306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2016.48

Cairns KM; Wilton AN, 2016, 'New insights on the history of canids in Oceania based on mitochondrial and nuclear data', Genetica, 144, pp. 553 - 565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10709-016-9924-z

Cairns K; Wolff J; Brooks RC; Ballard JWO, 2010, 'Evidence of recent population expansion in the field cricket Teleogryllus commodus.', Australian Journal of Zoology, 58, pp. 33 - 38

Conference Papers

Ostrander EA; Parker HG; Evans JM; Plassais J; Dreger D; Harris A; Davis BW; McIintyre JK; Cairns KM; Ali BM; Hogan AW, 2021, 'Big and small, short and tall, dog genes tell all', in INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, ELECTR NETWORK, pp. E672 - E673, presented at Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB), ELECTR NETWORK, 31 January 2021 - 28 February 2021, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000651814702111&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Preprints

Leon-Apodaca AV; Kumar M; Del Castillo A; Conroy GC; Lamont RW; Ogbourne S; Cairns KM; Borburgh L; Behrendorff L; Subramanian S; Szpiech ZA, 2024, Genomic consequences of isolation and inbreeding in an island dingo population., , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.15.557950

Kumar M; Conroy G; Ogbourne S; Cairns K; Borburgh L; Subramanian S, 2023, Genomic signatures of bottleneck and founder effects in dingoes, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.05.527211

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