Dr. Melissa Danks
MSU Manager
Dr. Melissa Danks oversees the management and operation of the Molecular Systematics laboratory.
Projects
Management and operation of the MSU laboratory.
Selected Publications
Perina, G., Camacho Pérez, A. I., Danks, M., White, N., & Guzik, M. T. (2023) Two new species of Atopobathynella (Parabathynellidae, Bathynellacea) from the Pilbara region, Australia, Systematics and Biodiversity, 21:1, 2228326, doi: 10.1080/14772000.2023.2228326
Decker, O., Egidi, E., Hopkins, A. J., Danks, M., & Gibb, H. (2023) Reintroduction of Threatened Digging Mammals Influences Soil Microbial Communities Differently Along a Rainfall Gradient. Pedobiologia 150889. doi: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2023.150889
Elliott TF, Travouillon KJ, Warburton NM, Danks MA, Vernes K (2021) New Guinean bandicoots: new insights into diet, dentition and digestive tract morphology and a dietary review of all extant non-Australian Peramelemorphia. Australian Mammalogy doi: 10.1071/AM21015
Danks M, Simpson N, Elliott TF, Paine CETP, Vernes K (2020) Modeling mycorrhizal fungi dispersal by the mycophagous swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor). Ecology and Evolution. 10 (23): 12920-12928. doi: 10.1002/ece3.6873
Phelps CM, Bernasconi R, Danks M, Gasol JM, et al. (2018) Microbiomes of Western Australian marine environments. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 101: 17–43, 2018
Neaves LE, Danks M, Lott MJ, Dennison S, Frankham GJ, et al. (2018) Unmasking the complexity of species identification in Australasian flying-foxes. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0194908. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194908
