B Jonathan
Scientist
Coastal and Freshwater
Cawthron Institute
New Zealand
Biography
Jonathan is a senior scientist whose area of expertise and research interests include: tracing the source of faecal contamination of marine and freshwaters by genetically identifying host-specific bacteria characterising aquatic invertebrate communities using genetics to measure water quality.
Research Interest
Associate editor of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology The louse Forficuloecus banksi that parasitises the mulga parrot is named after him Systematics and taxonomy of birds and invertebrates Evolutionary relationships between hosts and their parasites Detection of the presence of fish in lakes and streams from DNA shed into the water.
Publications
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Clark JA, Banks JC and Waas JR 2013. Economical genotyping of little blue penguin (Eudyptula minor) clades from feather-based DNA. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 37:146-150.
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Pochon X, Zaiko A, Hopkins GA, Banks JC and Wood SA 2015. Early detection of eukaryotic communities from marine biofilm using high-throughput sequencing: an assessment of different sampling devices. Biofouling. Volume 31, Issue 3. Pages 241-251.
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Dowle E, Pochon X, Banks JC, Shearer KA and Wood SA 2016. Targeted gene enrichment and high throughput sequencing for environmental biomonitoring: a case study using freshwater macroinvertebrates. Molecular Ecology Resources. Volume 16, Issue 5. Pages 1240-1254.
