Villacorta Rath, Cecilia (2024) Development of two species-specific environmental DNA (eDNA) assays for electric ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) and tropical fire ant (Solenopsis germinata) detection: A report for the Department of Environment, Science and Innovation. Report. TropWATER, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

De Brauwer, Maarten, Clarke, Laurence J., Chariton, Anthony, Cooper, Madalyn K., De Bruyn, Mark, Furlan, Elise, Macdonald, Anna J., Rourke, Meaghan L., Sherman, Craig D.H., Suter, Leonie, Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, Zaiko, Anastasija, and Trujillo-González, Alejandro (2023) Best practice guidelines for environmental DNA biomonitoring in Australia and New Zealand. Environmental DNA, 5 (3). pp. 417-423.

Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, Lach, Lori, Andrade Rodriguez, Natalia, Burrows, Damien, Gleeson, Dianne, and Trujillo-Gonzalez, Alejandro (2023) Invasive terrestrial invertebrate detection in water and soil using a targeted eDNA approach. NeoBiota, 83. pp. 71-89.

Waltham, Nathan J., Snape, Natale, Villacorta-Rath, Cecilia, and Burrows, Damien (2023) New Australian frontier in freshwater fish invasion via Torres Strait Islands. Biodiversity and Conservation, 32. pp. 4551-4571.

Kwong, Sarah Lok Ting, Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, Pratchett, Morgan, and Uthicke, Sven (2023) Telomere dynamics in the Pacific crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris): effect of age, diet, and tissue type. Coral Reefs, 42. pp. 977-985.

Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, Green, Bridget S., Gardner, Caleb, Murphy, Nick P., Souza, Carla A., and Strugnell, Jan M. (2022) Disentangling genetic from environmental effects on phenotypic variability of Southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) postlarvae. Ecology and Evolution, 12 (11). e9519.

Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, Espinoza, Thomas, Cockayne, Bernie, Schaffer, Jason, and Burrows, Damien (2022) Environmental DNA analysis confirms extant populations of the cryptic Irwin’s turtle within its historical range. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22. 57.

Snape, Natale, Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, and Burrows, Damien (2022) Environmental DNA survey of Torres Strait Islands for invasive species – 2022 sampling campaign. Report. TropWATER, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

Cooper, Madalyn K., Villacorta-Rath, Cecilia, Burrows, Damien, Jerry, Dean R., Carr, Leah, Barnett, Adam, Huveneers, Charlie, and Simpfendorfer, Colin A. (2022) Practical eDNA sampling methods inferred from particle size distribution and comparison of capture techniques for a Critically Endangered elasmobranch. Environmental DNA, 4 (5). pp. 1011-1023.

Trujillo-González, Alejandro, Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, White, Nicole E., Furlan, Elise M., Sykes, Mark, Grossel, Geoff, Divi, Uday K., and Gleeson, Dianne (2021) Considerations for future environmental DNA accreditation and proficiency testing schemes. Environmental DNA, 3 (6). pp. 1049-1058.

Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, and Burrows, Damien (2021) Environmental DNA survey in areas of the Kimberley region at risk of invasion by cane toads. Report. National Environmental Science Programme (NESP), Townsville, QLD, Australia.

Villacorta-Rath, Cecilia, Hoskin, Conrad J., Strugnell, Jan M., and Burrows, Damien (2021) Long distance (>20 km) downstream detection of endangered stream frogs suggests an important role for eDNA in surveying for remnant amphibian populations. PeerJ, 9. e12013.

Kwong, Lok Ting, Villacorta-Rath, Cecilia, Doyle, Jason, and Uthicke, Sven (2021) Quantifying shedding and degradation rates of environmental DNA (eDNA) from Pacific crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris). Marine Biology, 168. 85.

Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, and Burrows, Damien (2021) Standard operating procedure for environmental DNA field sample collection. Report. National Environmental Science Program (NESP), Townsville, QLD, Australia.

Villacorta Rath, Cecilia, Adekunle, Adeshina I., Edmunds, Richard C., Strugnell, Jan M., Schwarzkopf, Lin, and Burrows, Damien (2020) Can environmental DNA be used to detect first arrivals of the cane toad, Rhinella marina, into novel locations? Environmental DNA, 2 (4). pp. 635-646.

Huerlimann, R., Cooper, M.K., Edmunds, R.C., Villacorta-Rath, C., Le Port, A., Robson, H.L.A., Strugnell, J.M., Burrows, D., and Jerry, D.R. (2020) Enhancing tropical conservation and ecology research with aquatic environmental DNA methods: an introduction for non-environmental DNA specialists. Animal Conservation, 23 (6). pp. 632-645.

Silva, Catarina N.S., Villacorta-Rath, Cecilia, Woodings, Laura N., Murphy, Nicholas P., Green, Bridget S., Hartmann, Klaas, Gardner, Caleb, Bell, James J., and Strugnell, Jan M. (2019) Advancing our understanding of the connectivity, evolution and management of marine lobsters through genetics. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 29 (3). pp. 669-687.

Villacorta-Rath, Cecilia, Souza, Carla A., Murphy, Nicholas P., Green, Bridget S., Gardner, Caleb, and Strugnell, Jan M. (2018) Temporal genetic patterns of diversity and structure evidence chaotic genetic patchiness in a spiny lobster. Molecular Ecology, 27 (1). pp. 54-65.

Souza, Carla A., Murphy, Nicholas, Villacorta-Rath, Cecilia, Woodings, Laura N., Ilyushkina, Irina, Hernandez, Cristian E., Green, Bridget S., Bell, James J., and Strugnell, Jan (2017) Efficiency of ddRAD target enriched sequencing across spiny rock lobster species (Palinuridae: Jasus). Scientific Reports, 7 (1). 6781.

Villacorta-Rath, Cecilia, Ilyushkina, Irina, Strugnell, Jan M., Green, Bridget S., Murphy, Nicholas P., Doyle, Stephen R., Hall, Nathan E., Robinson, Andrew J., and Bell, James J. (2016) Outlier SNPs enable food traceability of the southern rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii. Marine Biology, 163 (11). 223.

Collier, Catherine J., Villacorta-Rath, Cecilia, van Dijk, Kor-jent, Takahashi, Miwa, and Waycott, Michelle (2014) Seagrass proliferation precedes mortality during hypo-salinity events: a stress-induced morphometric response. PLoS ONE, 9 (4). e94014. pp. 1-11.

Villacorta Rath, Ana Cecilia (2011) Determinants of selective mortality during the early life history of Spratelloides delicatulus in the northern Great Barrier Reef. Masters (Research) thesis, James Cook University.