Melissa Danks Acting MSU Manager Molecular Systematics Unit BSc (Hons); PhD Contact (08) 9212 3780 melissa.danks@museum.wa.gov.au Projects Net Conservation Benefits Project: Conservation Systematics of the Western Pilbara Fauna Provides technical support to research scientists and students Develops collections of DNA and molecular data Assists in the running and maintenance of the MSU laboratory Selected Publications 2017-present 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 Ruthrof KX, Hopkins AJM, Danks M, O’Hara G, et al. Rethinking soil water repellency and its management. Plant Ecology 220, 977–984 (2019). doi: 10.1007/s11258-019-00967-4 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 Melissa’s full publication list can be found here