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Sarah Wells

Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Animal Sciences

Publications

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., 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)).

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)).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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., & 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).

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., 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.

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., 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., & 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., 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)).

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