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List of works by Phillip Watts

A Critically Endangered new dragonfly species from Morocco: Onychogomphus boudoti sp. nov. (Odonata: Gomphidae)

scientific article (publication date: 25 August 2014)

A century-long genetic record reveals that protist effective population sizes are comparable to those of macroscopic species

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

A legacy of contrasting spatial genetic structure on either side of the Atlantic-Mediterranean transition zone in a marine protist

scientific article (publication date: 18 December 2012)

A panel of microsatellite loci from two species of octopus, Pareledone turqueti (Joubin, 1905) and Pareledone charcoti (Joubin, 1905).

scientific article

A panel of ten microsatellite loci for the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae).

scientific article

A rapid and cost-effective quantitative microsatellite genotyping protocol to estimate intraspecific competition in protist microcosm experiments

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Analysis of heteroplasmy in bank voles inhabiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone: A commentary on Baker et al. (2017) "Elevated mitochondrial genome variation after 50 generations of radiation exposure in a wild rodent."

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Applying the Anna Karenina principle for wild animal gut microbiota: temporal stability of the bank vole gut microbiota in a disturbed environment

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Balancing selection maintains polymorphisms at neurogenetic loci in field experiments

scientific article

Bergmann's rule is maintained during a rapid range expansion in a damselfly

scientific article published on 26 December 2013

Comparable response of wild rodent gut microbiome to anthropogenic habitat contamination

scientific article

Compatible genetic and ecological estimates of dispersal rates in insect (Coenagrion mercuriale: Odonata: Zygoptera) populations: analysis of 'neighbourhood size' using a more precise estimator.

scientific article published in February 2007

Conservation implications of genetic variation between spatially and temporally distinct colonies of the endangered damselfly Coenagrion mercuriale

scientific article published in 2005

Cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci in some European zygopteran species (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in April 2004

Defining gut mycobiota for wild animals: a need for caution in assigning authentic resident fungal taxa

scientific article

Development of a multiplex PCR assay for fine-scale population genetic analysis of the Komodo monitor Varanus komodoensis based on 18 polymorphic microsatellite loci.

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Development of the GENIPOL European flounder (Platichthys flesus) microarray and determination of temporal transcriptional responses to cadmium at low dose.

scientific article

Developmental plasticity as a cohesive evolutionary process between sympatric alternate-year insect cohorts

scientific article published on 27 July 2011

Does Intraspecific Variation in rDNA Copy Number Affect Analysis of Microbial Communities?

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Early life of fathers affects offspring fitness in a wild rodent

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

Ecological and evolutionary drivers of range size in Coenagrion damselflies

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

Ecological mechanisms can modify radiation effects in a key forest mammal of Chernobyl

scientific article

Effective population sizes and migration rates in fragmented populations of an endangered insect (Coenagrion mercuriale: Odonata).

scientific article published on July 2007

Eight microsatellite loci for the sexually transmitted, parasitic mite Coccipolipus hippodamiae.

scientific article published on 31 January 2009

Empirical evidence of senescence in adult damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera).

scientific article published on 24 June 2010

Environmental radiation alters the gut microbiome of the bank vole Myodes glareolus

scientific article published on 09 July 2018

Erratum to: First record of the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii in Ukraine indicates multiple sources of invasion

scholarly article published in Journal of Pest Science

Expansion of rDNA and pericentromere satellite repeats in the genomes of bank voles exposed to environmental radionuclides

scientific article

Exposure to environmental radionuclides alters mitochondrial DNA maintenance in a wild rodent

scientific article

Exposure to environmental radionuclides associates with tissue-specific impacts on telomerase expression and telomere length

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Exposure to environmental radionuclides is associated with altered metabolic and immunity pathways in a wild rodent

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Fibroblasts from bank voles inhabiting Chernobyl have increased resistance against oxidative and DNA stresses

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Field estimates of reproductive success in a model insect: behavioural surrogates are poor predictors of fitness ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

First record of the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii in Ukraine indicates multiple sources of invasion

scholarly article by Anton Lavrinienko et al published 15 November 2016 in Journal of Pest Science

First report of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti in rodents in Finland

scientific article

Genetic distinctiveness of the damselfly Coenagrion puella in North Africa: an overlooked and endangered taxon

Genetic identification of two sibling species of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) that produce distinct male sex pheromones in Sobral, Ceará State, Brazil.

scientific article

Genetic structure and gene flow of the flea Xenopsylla cheopis in Madagascar and Mayotte.

scientific article

Genetic structure of juvenile plaice Pleuronectes platessa on nursery grounds within the Irish Sea

Genome characterisation of two Ljungan virus isolates from wild bank voles (Myodes glareolus) in Sweden

scientific article

Genomic evidence for West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse during the Last Interglacial

scientific article published on 21 December 2023

High genetic diversity and fine-scale spatial structure in the marine flagellate Oxyrrhis marina (Dinophyceae) uncovered by microsatellite loci

scientific article

How useful is DNA extracted from the legs of archived insects for microsatellite-based population genetic analyses?

article by Phillip C. Watts et al published 25 November 2006 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Hybridization betweenCalopteryx splendensandC. haemorrhoidalisconfirmed by morphological and genetic analyses ⬇️

Impact of landscape on spatial genetic structure and diversity of Coenagrion mercuriale (Zygoptera:Coenagrionidae) in northern France

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Infection Load and Prevalence of Novel Viruses Identified from the Bank Vole Do Not Associate with Exposure to Environmental Radioactivity

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Intergenerational fitness effects of the early life environment in a wild rodent

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Interpretation of gut microbiota data in the ‘eye of the beholder’: A commentary and re‐evaluation of data from ‘Impacts of radiation exposure on the bacterial and fungal microbiome of small mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone’

scientific article published on 13 June 2022

Isolation and characterization of 10 microsatellite loci in the common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius

scientific article

Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the European plaice, Pleuronectes platessa L. (Teleostei: pleuronectidae).

scientific article published in December 1999

Local extinctions and range contraction of the endangered Coenagrion mercuriale in North Africa ⬇️

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Low dose of neonicotinoid insecticide reduces foraging motivation of bumblebees

scientific article published on 25 July 2018

Low-level environmental metal pollution is associated with altered gut microbiota of a wild rodent, the bank vole (Myodes glareolus)

scientific article

Microsatellite loci for two threatened dragonfly (Odonata: Anisoptera) species: Oxygastra curtisii (Dale, 1834) and Macromia splendens (Pictet, 1843)

Microsatellite loci from the endemic Southern Ocean octopus Adelieledone polymorpha (Robson, 1930).

scientific article

Movement patterns and genetic diversity of wild and reintroduced common dormice, Muscardinus avellanarius

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

New EPIC nuclear DNA sequence markers to improve the resolution of phylogeographic studies of coenagrionids and other odonates ⬇️

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Next generation sequencing yields the complete mitochondrial genome of the scarce blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura pumilio

scientific article

Novel Hantavirus in Wildlife, United Kingdom

scientific article published in April 2013

Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) as a bridge between ecology and evolutionary genomics

scientific article

Parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons.

scientific article

Patterns of genetic divergence among populations of the common dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius in the UK.

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Patterns of genetic diversity in the marine heterotrophic flagellate Oxyrrhis marina (Alveolata: Dinophyceae).

scientific article published on 19 January 2010

Persistent genetic signatures of historic climatic events in an Antarctic octopus.

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Physiological and genetic correlates of boldness: Characterising the mechanisms of behavioural variation in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Plasticity of boldness in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss: do hunger and predation influence risk-taking behaviour?

scientific article published on 3 April 2012

Polymorphic microsatellite loci in the black-and-gold chromis, Neoglyphidodon nigroris (Teleostei: Pomacentridae)

scientific article published in 2004

Prevalence of multiple mating by female common dormice, Muscardinus avellanarius

Reproductive timing and patterns of development for the damselfly Coenagrion puella in the field

scientific article published in August 2009

Selection and gene flow on a diminishing cline of melanic peppered moths

scientific article

Sex-biased inbreeding effects on reproductive success and home range size of the critically endangered black rhinoceros

scientific article

Skin and gut microbiomes of a wild mammal respond to different environmental cues

scientific article published in 2018

Stabilizing selection on microsatellite allele length at arginine vasopressin 1a receptor and oxytocin receptor loci.

scientific article published in December 2017

Strain-specific functional and numerical responses are required to evaluate impacts on predator-prey dynamics

scientific article

Strong genetic divergence indicates that congeneric damselflies Coenagrion puella and C. pulchellum (Odonata: Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) do not hybridise

The complete mitochondrial genome of the broad-winged damselfly Mnais costalis Selys (Odonata: Calopterygidae) obtained by next-generation sequencing ⬇️

The transcriptome of the novel dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina (Alveolata: Dinophyceae): response to salinity examined by 454 sequencing

scientific article

Transcriptional Upregulation of DNA Damage Response Genes in Bank Voles (Myodes glareolus) Inhabiting the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

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Two hundred and fifty-four metagenome-assembled bacterial genomes from the bank vole gut microbiota

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Use of DNA barcoding to reveal species composition of convenience seafood

scientific article

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