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Sarah Wells

Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Animal Sciences

Publications

Wells, S., Patuawa, T., Calder, M., Townsend, A., de Lange, P., & Tianyi, T. (2024, November). Conservation genomics of Ngā roimata ō Tōhe (Pimelea eremitica), a critically endangered endemic plant [Paper presentation]. Unitec School of Environmental and Animal Sciences symposium, Unitec.

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

Patuawa, T., Wells, S. J., Calder, M., Townsend, A., & de Lange, P. (2024, September). Ngā roimata ō Tōhe (Pimelea eremitica) - Innovative strategies for conservation (Keynote address) [Paper presentation]. New Zealand Plant Conservation Network, Whangarei.

Parkinson, A., & Wells, S. J. (2022, October). Phylogenetic and morphological differentiation between subspecies of New Zealand red admiral butterfly Vanessa gonerilla Alfken (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) [Paper presentation]. New Zealand Entomological Society Conference, Rotorua.

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

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

Blanchon, D., Wells, S. J., Marshall, A., Doyle, E., & de Lange, P. (2021, December). Untangling lichens: a morphological and molecular study of the genus Cladia in Aotearoa / New Zealand. [Poster presentation]. MIT/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, Open access, 1-16. 10.1002/ece3.6802

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, 9, 211550. 10.1098/rsos.211550

Tang, T., Blanchon, D., Wells, S., Fisher, L., Cox, H., & Waipara, N. (2024). First record of Fusarium cortaderiae on climbing asparagus (Asparagus scandens): an invasive plant species in New Zealand. Plant Pathology and Quarantine, 14(1), 143-148. 10.5943/ppq/14/1/12

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, 29(5), A-J. 10.1071/PC23003

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, 14 (729), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14030729

Marshall, A. J., Blanchon, D. J., de Lange, P. J., Wells, S. J., Fryday, A. M., Tang, T., & Knight, A. (2023). Megalaria crispisulcans, a new isidiate species of Megalaria (Ramalinaceae) from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Perspectives in Biodiversity, 1(1), 26-41. 10.34074/pibdiv.001103

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, 5374(2), 263-294. 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.2.7

van Winkel, D., & Wells, S. J. (2023). Oreophryne brachypus (Gazelle Cross Frog) advertisement call. Herpetological Review, 54(3), 431-432.

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)).