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Jones JI, Arnold A, Buchner D, Murphy JF, Childress JN, Beja P, Altermatt F, Meissner K, Adams I, Anderson M, Borrell YJ, Briscoe AG, Bruce K, Chaves C, Conyers C, Deiner K, Elbrecht V, Fueyo Á, Goodall T, …, and RC Blackman. (2025). Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16, 1658–1673. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70093

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Aleuy OA, Woods LW, Padilla BJ, Richardson D, Schamel JT, Baker S, ..., and KD Lafferty. (2024). The invasive acanthocephalan parasite Pachysentis canicola is associated with a declining endemic island fox population on San Miguel Island. International Journal for Parasitology, 54(14), 723-732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2024.09.003

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Childress JN, Faust CL,  and K Deiner. (2024). Introduction to special issue: Advancing disease ecology through eDNA monitoring of infectious agents. Environmental DNA, 6, e502. https://doi.org/10.1002/ edn3.502

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Miller-ter Kuile A, Apigo A, Bui A, Butner K, Childress JN, Copeland S, ... and HS Young (2022). Changes in invertebrate food web structure between high-and low-productivity environments are driven by intermediate but not top-predator diet shifts. Biology Letters, 18(10), 20220364. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0364

 

Miller-ter Kuile A, Apigo A, Bui A, DiFiore B, Forbes ES., Lee M, Orr D, et al. 2022. “ Predator–Prey Interactions of Terrestrial Invertebrates are Determined by Predator Body Size and Species Identity.” Ecology 103( 5): e3634. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3634

 

Jerde CL, Mahon AR, Campbell T, McElroy ME, Pin K, Childress, JN, Armstrong MN, Zehnpfennig JR, Kelson SJ, Koning AA, Ngor PB, Nuon V, So N, Chandra S, and ZS Hogan. 2021. Are Genetic Reference Libraries Sufficient for Environmental DNA Metabarcoding of Mekong River Basin Fish?. Water, 13(13), 1767. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13131767

 

Lafferty KD, Garcia-Vedrenne AE, McLaughlin JP, Childress JN, Morse, M, and CL Jerde. 2021. At Palmyra Atoll, the fish-community environmental DNA signal changes across habitats but not with tides. Journal of Fish Biology. Advance online access. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14403

 

Athni TS, Shocket MS, Caldwell I, Caldwell JM, Childress JN, Childs ML, Couper L, De Leo G, Kirk D, MacDonald AJ, Nova N, Olivarius K, Pickel DG, Winokur OC, Young HS, Cheng J, Grant EA, Kurzner PM, Kyaw SK, Lin B, Lopez R, Massihpour D, Olsen EC, Roache M, Ruiz A, Schultz EA, Shafat M, Shocket MS, Spencer RL, and EA Mordecai. 2021. The influence of vector-borne disease on human history: socio-ecological mechanisms Ecology Letters: Reviews and Syntheses. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13675

 

Lafferty KD, McLaughlin JP, Gruner DS, Bogar TA, Bui A, Childress JN, Espinoza M, Forbes ES, Johnston CA, Klope M, Miller-ter Kuile A, Lee M, Plummer KA, Weber DA, Young RT, and HS Young. 2018. Local extinction of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) following rat eradication on Palmyra Atoll. Biology Letters 14. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0743

 

Childress JN, Rogers SC, Bolek MG, and GJ Langford. 2017. Reproductive plasticity in the nematode Gyrinicola batrachiensis: does an intermediate reproductive strategy exist in sexually reproducing, didelphic pinworms? Journal of Parasitology 103(6) 663-668. https://doi.org/10.1645/17-30

 

Andrews JN, Childress JN, Iakovidis TJ, and GJ Langford. 2015. Elucidating the life history and ecological aspects of Allodero hylae (Annelida: Clitella: Naididae), a parasitic oligochaete of invasive Cuban tree frogs in Florida. Journal of Parasitology. 101(3) 275-281.​ https://doi.org/10.1645/14-608.1