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Publications: Ms Joanne Littlefair

Monchamp M-E, Taranu ZE, Garner RE, Rehill T, Morissette O, Iversen LL, Fugère V, Littlefair JE et al. ( 2023 ) . Prioritizing taxa for genetic reference database development to advance inland water conservation . Biological Conservation vol. 280 ,
Garrett NR, Watkins J, Simmons NB, Fenton B, Maeda-Obregon A, Sanchez DE, Froehlich EM, Walker FM et al. ( 2023 ) . Airborne eDNA documents a diverse and ecologically complex tropical bat and other mammal community . Environmental DNA
Littlefair J, Hleap J, Palace V, Rennie M, Paterson M, Cristescu M ( 2022 ) . Freshwater connectivity transforms spatially integrated signals of biodiversity .
Littlefair JE, Rennie MD, Cristescu ME ( 2022 ) . Environmental nucleic acids: A field-based comparison for monitoring freshwater habitats using eDNA and eRNA . Molecular Ecology Resources
Lynggaard C, Littlefair JE, Bohmann K, Clare EL ( 2022 ) . Shunning the scoop: Sidestepping the race to publish . iScience vol. 25 , ( 4 )
Clare EL, Economou CK, Bennett FJ, Dyer CE, Adams K, McRobie B, Drinkwater R, Littlefair JE ( 2022 ) . Measuring biodiversity from DNA in the air . Current Biology vol. 32 , ( 3 ) 693 - 700.e5 .
Hleap JS, Littlefair JE, Steinke D, Hebert PDN, Cristescu ME ( 2021 ) . Assessment of current taxonomic assignment strategies for metabarcoding eukaryotes . Molecular Ecology Resources vol. 21 , ( 7 ) 2190 - 2203 .
Clare EL, Economou CK, Faulkes CG, Gilbert JD, Bennett F, Drinkwater R, Littlefair JE ( 2021 ) . eDNAir: Proof of concept that animal DNA can be collected from air sampling . PeerJ vol. 9 ,
Capo E, Giguet-Covex C, Rouillard A, Nota K, Heintzman PD, Vuillemin A, Ariztegui D, Arnaud F et al. ( 2021 ) . Lake sedimentary dna research on past terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity: Overview and recommendations . Quaternary vol. 4 , ( 1 )
Littlefair JE, Hrenchuk LE, Blanchfield PJ, Rennie MD, Cristescu ME ( 2020 ) . Thermal stratification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distributions in lakes . Molecular Ecology vol. 30 , ( 13 ) 3083 - 3096 .
Littlefair J, Hrenchuk L, Blanchfield P, Rennie M, Cristescu M ( 2020 ) . Thermal stratification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distributions in lakes .
Gordon R, Ivens S, Ammerman LK, Fenton MB, Littlefair JE, Ratcliffe JM, Clare EL ( 2019 ) . Molecular diet analysis finds an insectivorous desert bat community dominated by resource sharing despite diverse echolocation and foraging strategies . Ecology and Evolution vol. 9 , ( 6 ) 3117 - 3129 .
Littlefair JE, Zander A, Costa CDS, Clare EL ( 2018 ) . DNA metabarcoding reveals changes in the contents of carnivorous plants along an elevation gradient . MOLECULAR ECOLOGY vol. 28 , ( 2 ) 281 - 292 .
Czenze ZJ, Tucker JL, Clare EL, Littlefair JE, Hemprich-Bennett D, Oliveira HFM, Brigham RM, Hickey AJR et al. ( 2018 ) . Spatiotemporal and demographic variation in the diet of New Zealand lesser short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata) . Ecology and Evolution
Brandon-Mong G-J, Littlefair JE, Sing K-W, Lee Y-P, Gan H-M, Clare EL, Wilson J-J ( 2018 ) . Temporal changes in arthropod activity in tropical anthropogenic forests . Bull Entomol Res1 - 8 .
Eckert IMK, Littlefair JE, Zhang GK, Chain FJJ, Crease TJ, Cristescu ME ( 2018 ) . Bioinformatics for Biomonitoring: Species Detection and Diversity Estimates Across Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms . Advances in Ecological Research , vol. 59 ,
Eckert IMK, Littlefair JE, Zhang GK, Chain FJJ, Crease TJ, Cristescu ME ( 2018 ) . Chapter One Bioinformatics for Biomonitoring: Species Detection and Diversity Estimates Across Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms . Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part 2 , vol. 59 ,
CLARE EL, Lim VC, Littlefair JE, Ramli R, Bhassu S, Wilson JJ ( 2017 ) . Impact of urbanisation and agriculture on the diet of fruit bats . Urban Ecosystems
Littlefair JE, Knell RJ ( 2016 ) . Within- and Trans-Generational Effects of Variation in Dietary Macronutrient Content on Life-History Traits in the Moth Plodia interpunctella . PLoS One vol. 11 , ( 12 ) e0168869 - e0168869 .
Littlefair JE, Clare EL ( 2016 ) . Barcoding the food chain: from Sanger to high-throughput sequencing . Genome vol. 59 , ( 11 ) 946 - 958 .
Clare EL, Chain FJJ, Littlefair JE, Cristescu ME ( 2016 ) . The effects of parameter choice on defining molecular operational taxonomic units and resulting ecological analyses of metabarcoding data . Genome vol. 59 , ( 11 ) 981 - 990 .
Littlefair JE, Laughton A, KNELL RJ ( 2016 ) . Maternal pathogen exposure causes diet- and pathogen-specific transgenerational costs . OIKOS
Littlefair JE, Nunn KA, Knell RJ ( 2016 ) . The development of a synthetic diet for investigating the effects of macronutrients on the development of Plodia interpunctella . Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata vol. 159 , ( 3 ) 305 - 310 .
Cotter SC, Littlefair JE, Grantham PJ, Kilner RM ( 2013 ) . A direct physiological trade-off between personal and social immunity . Journal of Animal Ecology vol. 82 , ( 4 ) 846 - 853 .