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Hamish McCallum

University of California, Santa Barbara · US
Area of research
Ecology · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Research interest
Research interests include Biology, Population, Disease, Genetics, Ecology, and Wildlife disease.
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citations
3,207
works
40
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Recent publications

Life-history trade-offs and reproductive strategies in Tasmanian devils following disease-induced population decline
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Response to “No evidence that transmissible cancer has shifted from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils”
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2024cited by 6position: middledoi
Adaptive potential in the face of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils
Molecular Ecology 2024cited by 3position: middledoi
Adaptive potential in the face of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils
2024cited by 1position: middledoi
Effects of a transmissible cancer on life-history traits in Tasmanian devils
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2024cited by 0position: middledoi
The tumour is in the detail: Local phylogenetic, population and epidemiological dynamics of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils
Evolutionary Applications 2023cited by 6position: middledoi
Knowledge Gaps in the Biology, Ecology, and Management of the Pacific Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star<i>Acanthaster</i>sp. on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Biological Bulletin 2021cited by 61position: middledoi
Optimizing noninvasive sampling of a zoonotic bat virus
Ecology and Evolution 2021cited by 30position: middledoi
Contemporary and historical selection in Tasmanian devils ( <i>Sarcophilus harrisii</i> ) support novel, polygenic response to transmissible cancer
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2021cited by 23position: middledoi
Spatial variation in gene expression of Tasmanian devil facial tumors despite minimal host transcriptomic response to infection
BMC Genomics 2021cited by 9position: middledoi
Gene expression of Tasmanian devil facial tumors differs among host populations
Research Square 2021cited by 0position: middledoi
A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils
Science 2020cited by 54position: middledoi
Darwin, the devil, and the management of transmissible cancers
Conservation Biology 2020cited by 53position: middledoi
Infectious disease and sickness behaviour: tumour progression affects interaction patterns and social network structure in wild Tasmanian devils
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2020cited by 35position: middledoi
Spontaneous Tumor Regression in Tasmanian Devils Associated with <i>RASL11A</i> Activation
Genetics 2020cited by 32position: middledoi
Disease swamps molecular signatures of genetic‐environmental associations to abiotic factors in Tasmanian devil ( <i>Sarcophilus harrisii</i> ) populations
Evolution 2020cited by 31position: middledoi
Comparative landscape genetics reveals differential effects of environment on host and pathogen genetic structure in Tasmanian devils (<i>Sarcophilus harrisii</i>) and their transmissible tumour
Molecular Ecology 2020cited by 24position: middledoi
Contemporary and historical selection in Tasmanian devils ( <i>Sarcophilus harrisii</i> ) support novel, polygenic response to transmissible cancer
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2020cited by 3position: middledoi
Contemporary Demographic Reconstruction Methods Are Robust to Genome Assembly Quality: A Case Study in Tasmanian Devils
Molecular Biology and Evolution 2019cited by 132position: middledoi
Conserving adaptive potential: lessons from Tasmanian devils and their transmissible cancer
Conservation Genetics 2019cited by 91position: middledoi
Synchronous shedding of multiple bat paramyxoviruses coincides with peak periods of Hendra virus spillover
Emerging Microbes & Infections 2019cited by 81position: middledoi
Individual and temporal variation in pathogen load predicts long‐term impacts of an emerging infectious disease
Ecology 2019cited by 57position: lastdoi
Tracing the rise of malignant cell lines: Distribution, epidemiology and evolutionary interactions of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils
Evolutionary Applications 2019cited by 50position: middledoi
Rate of intersexual interactions affects injury likelihood in Tasmanian devil contact networks
Behavioral Ecology 2019cited by 40position: middledoi
Disease swamps molecular signatures of genetic-environmental associations to abiotic factors in Tasmanian devil ( <i>Sarcophilus harrisii</i> ) populations
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2019cited by 5position: middledoi
Pathogen spillover during land conversion
Ecology Letters 2018cited by 294position: middledoi
Large‐effect loci affect survival in Tasmanian devils ( <i>Sarcophilus harrisii</i> ) infected with a transmissible cancer
Molecular Ecology 2018cited by 67position: middledoi
The genomic basis of tumor regression in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)
Genome Biology and Evolution 2018cited by 49position: middledoi
The devil is in the details: Genomics of transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils
PLoS Pathogens 2018cited by 33position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Menna E. Jones · University of Tasmania30 papers (2016–2025)Paul A. Hohenlohe · University of Idaho30 papers (2016–2025) · 30 papers (2016–2025)Rodrigo Hamede · Griffith University28 papers (2016–2025)Mark J. Margres · University of South Florida17 papers (2018–2025)Austin H. Patton · University of California, Berkeley10 papers (2018–2021)Sarah A. Hendricks · University of Idaho9 papers (2016–2021)Amanda R. Stahlke · University of Idaho9 papers (2018–2021) · 9 papers (2018–2021)David G. Hamilton · Australian National University8 papers (2019–2025)Sébastien Comte · UNSW Sydney8 papers (2018–2025)Manuel Ruiz‐Aravena · Mississippi State University8 papers (2018–2025)Konstans Wells · Swansea University6 papers (2017–2021)Raina K. Plowright · Cornell University6 papers (2017–2021)Brendan Epstein · University of Minnesota, Twin Cities6 papers (2016–2021) · 6 papers (2016–2021)Christopher P. Kozakiewicz · Colorado State University6 papers (2020–2025) · 5 papers (2018–2025) · 5 papers (2018–2020)Anne Veillet · University of Idaho5 papers (2019–2024)