2025 

Guzik, M.T., Stringer, D.N., Thornhill, J., Coates, P.J., van der Heyde, M., Hillyer, M.J., White, N.E., Saccò, M., Beasley-Hall, P.G., Humphreys, W.F., Harvey, M.S., Huey, J.A., Wilson, N.G., Alexander, J., Humphreys, G., King, R.A., Cooper, S.J.B., Pinder, A., Perina, G., Hosie, A.M., Kirkendale, L., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D (2025). What are the best practices for curating eDNA custom barcode reference libraries? A case study using Australian subterranean fauna. Biological journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London 146:blaf053. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaf053 

Guzik, M.T., Thornhill, J.C., van der Heyde, M., Stringer, D.N., White, N.E., Saccò, M., Beasley-Hall, P.G., King, R.A., Cooper, S.J.B., Pinder, A., Perina, G., Nevill, P., and Austin, A.D. 2025. Towards a global barcode reference library for subterranean fauna.  https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.20.613981

Saccò, M., Elmasri, A., Tawal, M., Alther, R., Altermatt, F., Martínez, A., … & Guzik, M. T. (2025). Advancing subterranean conservation through Global Research on eDNA in Groundwaters (GReG). Subterranean biology, 53, 31-40. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.53.165710 

Saccò, M., Huggins, X., Martínez, A., & Reinecke, R. (2025). Collaborative Science for Groundwater Biodiversity Conservation. Ground water. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13495 

Power, Haylea, Mitchell J. O’Brien, Miwa Takahashi, Henry Hui, Kathy Fuller, Darren Korbie, Oliver Berry, and Simon Jarman. “Isolation and Genetic Identification of Metazoan Cells From Seawater.” Environmental DNA 7, no. 4 (2025): e70154. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70154

Thompson, Samuel, Simon Jarman, Kingsley Griffin, Matthew Heydenrych, Julian Partridge, and Tim Langlois. “In Vitro Passive eDNA Sampling Provides a Cost‐Effective Alternative for Large Scale Sample Collection.” Environmental DNA 7, no. 3 (2025): e70101. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70101

Teufel D, Wells FE. (2025) Notes on the northern baler shell Melo amphora. The Malacological society of Australasia, 193.

Tan SK, Wells FE, Tan KS, Lukehurst S, Morgan M & Fotedar S. (In press). Identity of the enigmatic oyster Saccostrea cuccullata (Bivalvia: Ostreidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2025-0002  

Dawkins, K.L., Heyward, B.L., Mousavi-Derazmahalleh, M., White, N.E., Allentoft, M.E. (2025). A qPCR assay for the threatened Pilbara Olive Python (Liasis olivaceus barroni). Environmental DNA, 7:e70114. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70114

Saccò, M., Campbell, M.A., Aguilar, P., Salazar, G., Berry, T.E., Heydenrych, M.J., Lawrie, A., White, N.E., Harrod, C., Allentoft, M.E. (2025). Metazoan diversity in Chilean hypersaline lakes unveiled by environmental DNA. Frontiers in ecology and evolution 13:1504666. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2025.1504666

Duangdee T., Sanpanich K., Lukehurst S.S., Wells F.E. (2025). Clarification of the identity of oysters in the genera Magallana and Saccostrea in the upper Gulf of Thailand based on 16S rRNA sequences. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 73: 12–33. https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2025-0002

Smits, A. P., Hall, E. K., Deemer, B. R., Scordo, F., Barbosa, C. C., Carlson, S. M., … & Saccò, M. (2025). Too much and not enough data: Challenges and solutions for generating information in freshwater research and monitoring. Ecosphere, 16(3), e70205. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70205 

2024 

 

Perina, G., Camacho A.I., White, N.E., Callan, S.K., Abello, J., Morgan, L., Guzik, M.T. (2024). An integrated study of Atopobathynella (Parabathynellidae, Bathynellacea) species reveals restricted distributions in a complex hydrogeological setting: two new species from the Pilbara (Australia). Contributions to zoology (Amsterdam, Netherlands: 1995) 93:324–370. https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-bja10063  

Tan S. H.M., Wells F.E, Lukehurst S.S., Strong E.E., Sanpanich K., Duangdee T., Ambarwati R., Tan K.S. (2024). Unravelling the Brachidontes variabilis species complex (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) of the Indo-Pacific region. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 90 (4): eyae037. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyae037 

Tan K.S., Tan S.K., Lukehurst S.S., Wells F.E. (2024). Assessing the threat of the oyster genus Magallana (Bivalvia: Ostreidae) in Singapore to the Australian marine environment. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 72: 162–183. https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2024-0014 

Wells F.E., Lukehurst S.S., Fullwood L.A.F., Harvey E.S. (2024). Distribution of intertidal rock oysters in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Management of Biological Invasions, 15(1): 131–143. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2024.15.1.08 

Wells F.E., Duangdee T., Sanpanich K., Lukehurst S.S. (2024). Status of the invasive charru mussel Mytella strigata (Hanley, 1843) in the upper Gulf of Thailand five years after it was first surveyed. BioInvasions Records, 13(1): 69–82. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2024.13.1.07 

2023 

Beasley-Hall, P.G., Murphy, N.P., King, R.A., White, N.E., Hedges, B.A., Cooper, S.J.B., Austin, A.D., Guzik, M.T (2023) Time capsules of biodiversity: Future research directions for groundwater-dependent ecosystems of the Great Artesian Basin. Frontiers in Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1021987 

Campbell, M. A., Laini, A., White, N. E., Allentoft, M. E., & Saccò, M. (2023). When nets meet environmental DNA metabarcoding: Integrative approach to unveil invertebrate community patterns of hypersaline lakes. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 41(4): 1331–1340. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-022-2151-9 

Laini, A., Stubbington, R., Beermann, A.J., Burgazzi, G., Datry, T., Viaroli, P., Wilkes, M., Zizka, V.M.A., Saccò, M. and Leese, F., 2023. Dissecting biodiversity: assessing the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic structure of an insect metacommunity in a river network using morphological and metabarcoding data. The European Zoological Journal, 90(1): 320–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2023.2197924 

Mousavi-Derazmahalleh M., Ellis R.J., D’Rozario B.L., Berry T.E., Peverley G., Dawkins K.L., Campbell M., White N.E. and Allentoft M.E. (2023). Rock pools as a source of environmental DNA for the detection of the threatened Pilbara olive python (Liasis olivaceus barroni). Front. Environ. Sci., 11:1187545. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1187545 

Perina, G., Camacho, 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2023.2228326  

Saccò, M., Mammola, S., Altermatt, F., Alther, R., Bolpagni, R., Brancelj, A., Brankovits, D., Fišer, C., Gerovasileiou, V., Griebler, C., Guareschi, S., Hose, G. C., Korbel, K., Lictevout, E., Malard, F., Martínez, A., Niemiller, M. L., Robertson, A., Tanalgo, K. C., Guzik, M.T., … Reinecke, R. (2023). Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 30: e17066. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17066  

Simpson T.J., Wellington C.M., Lukehurst S.S., Huerlimann R., Veilleux H., Snow M., Dias J., McDonald J.I.(2023). Development of a real-time PCR (qPCR) method for the identification of the invasive paddle crab Charybdis japonica (Crustacea,Portunidae). PeerJ 11: e15522. https://peerj.com/articles/15522/ 

Takahashi, M., Saccò, M., Kestel, J. H., Nester, G., Campbell, M. A., Van Der Heyde, M., … & Allentoft, M. E. (2023). Aquatic environmental DNA: A review of the macro-organismal biomonitoring revolution. Science of The Total Environment, 162322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162322 

van der Heyde, M., White, N.E., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D., Stevens, N., Jones, M. and Guzik, M.T., (2023). Taking eDNA underground: factors affecting eDNA detection of subterranean fauna in groundwater. Molecular Ecology Resources. 23: 1257–1274. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13792  

2022 

Saccò, M., Blyth, A. J., Douglas, G., Humphreys, W. F., Hose, G. C., Davis, J., … & Halse, S. A. (2022). Stygofaunal diversity and ecological sustainability of coastal groundwater ecosystems in a changing climate: The Australian paradigm. Freshwater Biology, 67: 2007–2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13987 

Saccò, M., Guzik, M. T., van der Heyde, M., Nevill, P., Cooper, S. J., Austin, A. D., … & White, N. E. (2022). eDNA in subterranean ecosystems: Applications, technical aspects, and future prospects. Science of The Total Environment, 153223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153223 

Saccò, M., Campbell, M. A., Nevill, P., Humphreys, W. F., Blyth, A. J., Grierson, P. F., & White, N. E. (2022). Getting to the root of organic inputs in groundwaters: stygofaunal plant consumption in a calcrete aquifer. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.854591 

2021 

Saccò, M., White, N. E., Harrod, C., Salazar, G., Aguilar, P., Cubillos, C. F., … & Allentoft, M. E. (2021). Salt to conserve: A review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems. Biological Reviews, 96(6): 2828–2850. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12780 

Saccò, M., White, N. E., Campbell, M., Allard, S., Humphreys, W. F., Pringle, P., … & Allentoft, M. E. (2021). Metabarcoding under brine: microbial ecology of five hypersaline lakes at Rottnest Island (WA, Australia). Water, 13(14): 1899. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13141899 

2020 

Burgazzi, G., Laini, A., Ovaskainen, O., Saccò, M., Stubbington, R. and Viaroli, P., 2020. Communities in high definition: Spatial and environmental factors shape the micro‐distribution of aquatic invertebrates. Freshwater biology, 65(12): 2053–2065. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13599