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  1. The buzzOmeter system: In situ audio recordings of pollinators in flight

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, November 2023, Wiley

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  2. Hidden jewels of Malaysia: two new genera and species of remarkable clearwing moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Osminiini)

    Article • The European Zoological Journal, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  3. Southeast Asian clearwing moths buzz like their model bees

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  4. Erratum: Skowron Volponi, M. A Vivid Orange New Genus and Species of Braconid-Mimicking Clearwing Moth (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) Found Puddling on Plecoptera Exuviae. Insects 2020, 11, 425

    Article • Insects, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  5. A Vivid Orange New Genus and Species of Braconid-Mimicking Clearwing Moth (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) Found Puddling on Plecoptera Exuviae

    Article • Insects, July 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  6. A new species of spectacular spider wasp mimic from Thailand is the first representative of the genus Melanosphecia Le Cerf 1916 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Osminiini) to be filmed in the wild

    Article • Zootaxa, November 2019, Magnolia Press

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  7. Scientific Note: First record of the remarkable clearwing moth, Akaisphecia melanopuncta O. Gorbunov & Arita, 1995 (Sesiidae: Sesiinae: Osminiini), from Thailand, with comments on likely Batesian mimicry

    Article • Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  8. Moving like a model: mimicry of hymenopteran flight trajectories by clearwing moths of Southeast Asian rainforests

    Article • Biology Letters, May 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  9. trajr: An R package for characterisation of animal trajectories

    Article • Ethology, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  10. A new species of clearwing moth which imitates a bee has been discovered in Thailand

    Article • Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  11. Multiple factors correlating with wing malformations in the population of Parnassius apollo (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) restituted from a low number of individuals: A mini review

    Article • Insect Science, December 2017, Wiley

    Grzegorz Wegrzyn, Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  12. A new species of wasp-mimicking clearwing moth from Peninsular Malaysia with DNA barcode and behavioural notes (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae)

    Article • ZooKeys, August 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  13. Lost species of bee-mimicking moth rediscovered after 130 years

    Article • Tropical Conservation Science, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  14. A putative Type IIS restriction endonuclease GeoICI from Geobacillus sp. – A robust, thermostable alternative to mezophilic prototype BbvI

    Article • Journal of Biosciences, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  15. A new species of clearwing moth (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Osminiini) from Peninsular Malaysia, exhibiting bee-like morphology and behaviour

    Article • Zootaxa, October 2015, Magnolia Press

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  16. MmoSTI restriction endonuclease, isolated from Morganella morganii infecting a tropical moth, Actias selene, cleaving 5′-|CCNGG-3′ sequences

    Article • Journal of Applied Genetics, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  17. A rapidly progressing, deadly disease of Actias selene (Indian moon moth) larvae associated with a mixed bacterial and baculoviral infection

    Article • Journal of Biosciences, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi

  18. A new prototype IIS/IIC/IIG endonuclease-methyltransferase TsoI from the thermophile Thermus scotoductus, recognising 5′-TARCCA(N11/9)-3′ sequences

    Article • Journal of Biotechnology, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Marta Skowron Volponi