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Meagan Dewar

Dr. Meagan Dewar

Lecturer, Cell Biology

Contact

m.dewar@federation.edu.au +61 (3) 51228918

Campus

Berwick Campus

Fields of research

Microbial ecology
Vertebrate biology
Infectious agents

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Publications

2026
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2023
2020
2019
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Emergence, spread, and impact of high-pathogenicity avian influenza H5 in wild birds and mammals of South America and Antarctica

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1111/cobi.70052

Development of a portable avian influenza virus characterisation system: bringing the inside-out

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1038/s41598-025-32771-8

The expanding H5N1 avian influenza panzootic causes high mortality of skuas in Antarctica

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DOI reference: 10.1038/s41598-025-34736-3

A call to innovate Antarctic avian influenza surveillance

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.005

High pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus detected in brown Skua using portable laboratory while at sea in Antarctica

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1128/mra.00041-25

Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogens in the Oral Cavity of White (Carcharodon carcharias), Bull (Carcharhinus leucas) and Tiger (Galeocerdo cuvier) Sharks from the East Coast of Australia

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DOI reference: 10.1007/s00284-025-04272-4

Long-Distance Avian Migrants Fail to Bring 2.3.4.4b HPAI H5N1 Into Australia for a Second Year in a Row

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DOI reference: 10.1111/irv.13281

Unexpected Delayed Incursion of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 (Clade 2.3.4.4b) Into the Antarctic Region

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DOI reference: 10.1111/irv.70010

Searching for high pathogenicity avian influenza virus in Antarctica

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DOI reference: 10.1038/s41564-024-01868-7

The risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Southern Ocean: a practical guide for operators and scientists interacting with wildlife

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1017/S0954102023000342

Microbiomes of soils, plants and animals: an introduction

Book Chapters
DOI reference: 10.1017/9781108654418.001

Factors that shape the host microbiome

Book Chapters
DOI reference: 10.1017/9781108654418.004

Risk assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in Antarctic wildlife

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143352

Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean: Birds and Marine Mammals in a Changing Climate

Journals
DOI reference: 10.3389/fevo.2020.566936

Happy feet in a hostile world? The future of penguins depends on proactive management of current and expected threats

Journals
DOI reference: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00248

Conventional and molecular analysis of the diet of gentoo penguins: contributions to assess scats for non-invasive penguin diet monitoring

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1007/s00300-018-2364-8

Macroparasites in Antarctic penguins

Book Chapters
DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-319-46343-8_9

Microbiota of little penguins and short-tailed shearwaters during development

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183117

Interspecific variations in the faecal microbiota of Procellariiform seabirds

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1111/1574-6941.12332

Interspecific variations in the gastrointestinal microbiota in penguins

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1002/mbo3.66

Influence of Fasting during Moult on the Faecal Microbiota of Penguins

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DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099996

MICROBIAL IMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH STOMACH FLUSHING OF LITTLE PENGUINS

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Age-related differences revealed in Australian fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus gut microbiota

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DOI reference: 10.1111/1574-6941.12157