Koalas are facing a shocking health crisis: widespread chlamydia infections — so are they born with the STD and how do they ...

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

Inbreeding or chlamydia? It’s an impossible situation. But it’s a situation that koalas are facing in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, where low levels of genetic diversity are threatening one of the ...

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

Koalas in one of the few chlamydia free populations in NSW have been found with the disease that causes infertility, blindness and increases ...

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

However, there is a chance that koalas from the neighboring Wollondilly Shire, where chlamydia is present, may find their way to the Sydney populations. Gene flow analysis showed koalas are moving ...

Koalas in one of the few chlamydia free populations in NSW have been found with the disease that causes infertility, blindness and increases susceptibility to dog attack and other threats. The South ...

The scat provides a trove of valuable information. Analysis in the lab can tell ecologists if the koala has diseases like chlamydia, which can cause blindness and infertility, and is now common ...

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