Melissa Danks Technical Officer Molecular Systematics Unit BSc (Hons); PhD 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 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