Publications

Doyle, E., Blanchon, D., Wells, S.J., de Lange, P., Lockhart, P., Waipara, N., Manefield, M., Wallis, S., & Berry, T.A. (2023). Internal Transcribed Spacer and 16S Amplicon Sequencing Identifies Microbial Species Associated with Asbestos in New Zealand. Genes (Vol. 14 (729)).

van Winkel, D., Wells, S. J., Harker, N., & Hitchmough, R. A. (2023). On the sand and among the crowds: a new species of Woodworthia gecko (Reptilia: Diplodactylidae) from Auckland, Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Zootaxa (Vol. 5374(2)).

Wells, S. J., van Winkel, D., & Barr, B. P. (2023). Interference competition following a recent invasion of plague skinks (Lampropholis delicata) into a nationally critical native skink population. Pacific Conservation Biology (Vol. 29(5)).

van Winkel, D., & Wells, S. J. (2023). Oreophryne brachypus (Gazelle Cross Frog) advertisement call. Herpetological Review (Vol. 54(3)).

Pearman, W. S., Wells, S. J., Dale, J., Silander, O. K., & Freed, N. E. (2022). Long-read sequencing reveals atypical mitochondrial genome structure in a New Zealand marine isopod. Royal Society Open Science (Vol. 9).

Wells, S.J., van Winkel, D., & Barr, B.P. (2022). Evidence of interference competition between the invasive plague skink and a native skink. Unitec/MIT Research symposium, Unitec Institute of Technology.

Blanchon, D., Wells, S. J., Marshall, A., Doyle, E., & de Lange, P. (2021). Untangling lichens: a morphological and molecular study of the genus Cladia in Aotearoa / New Zealand. MIT/Unitec Institute of Technology research symposium, Unitec Institute of Technology, Mt Albert.

van Winkel, D., Wells, S. J., Harker, N., & Hitchmough, R. (2021). SANDY TOES: A NEW SPECIES OF GECKO FOUND IN AUCKLAND DUNELAND. Unitec Institute of Technology research symposium, Unitec Institute of Technology, Mt Albert.

Pearman, W. S., Wells, S. J., Silander, O. K., Freed, N. E., & Dale, J. (2020). Concordant geographic and genetic structure revealed by genotyping-by-sequencing in a New Zealand marine isopod. Ecology and Evolution (Vol. Open access).

Wells, S. J., Pearman, W. S., Silander, O. K., Freed, N. E., & Dale, J. (2020). Population genomics of a Nzew Zealand endemic marine isopod. 2020 Unitec research Symposium, Unitec campus, Mt Albert, Auckland.

Wells, S. J., Valcu, M., Kempenaers, B., Anderson, M., & Dale, J. (2018). Does extra-pair paternity drive sexual dichromatism and sexual size dimorphism in passerines? Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Waiheke Island.

Landers, T.J., Hill, S.D., Ludbrook, M.R., Wells, S.J., & Bishop, C.D. (2018). Avian biodiversity across Auckland's volcanic cone reserves. New Zealand Journal of Ecology (Vol. 46(2)).

Wells, S.J., & Dale, J. (2018). Contrasting gene flow at different spatial scales revealed by genotyping-by-sequencing in Isocladus armatus, a massively colour polymorphic New Zealand marine isopod. PeerJ (Vol. 6).

Wells, S.J., Ji, W., Gleeson, D., Jones, B., & Dale, J. (2017). Population social structure facilitates indirect benefits from extra-pair mating. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Vol. 5).

Wells, S. J., & Dale, J. (2016). Population genomics of a New Zealand marine isopod. 19th Annual New Zealand Molecular Ecology Conference, Shakespear Regional Park, Auckland.

Wells, S. J., Safran, R., & Dale, J. (2016). Piecing together female extra-pair mate choice: females really do prefer more ornamented males. Molecular Ecology (Vol. 25).

Wells, S. J. (2015). Evolutionary consequences and fitness correlates of extra-pair paternity in the tui, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae. Massey University, Auckland.

Wells, S. J., Ji, W., Dale, J., Jones, B., & Gleeson, D. (2015). Male size predicts extra-pair paternity in a socially monogamous bird with extreme sexual size dimorphism. Behavioral Ecology (Vol. 26(1)).