​Taylor H, Masand A, Presswell B, Bennett J, Williams R, Tana T and Argilla L (2026) New reports of helminth parasites from New Zealand seabirds and fish, 2018-2025. Surveillance 52(4):10-15

Li C, Bennett J and Poulin R (2026) Hidden hosts: limpets as key players in trematode transmission. Journal of Helminthology 100:e21

Poulin R, Bennett J and Presswell B (2025) Variability among taxonomists in helminth species discrimination decisions: a noise audit. International Journal for Parasitology 56:104702

Buschang K, Bennett J, Lagrue C and Poulin R (2025) Global analysis of Toxoplasma gondii prevalence in wild avian hosts: effects of phylogeny, ecology and detection methods. International Journal for Parasitology 55:721-729

​Viriyautsahakul S, Poulin R, Bennett J, Johnson SL (2025) Brain-Encysting Trematodes Increase the Frequency but Reduce the Repeatability of Surfacing Behaviour in Mottled Triplefin. Ethology 131:239-249

Bennett J, Presswell B, Little M, Lagrue C, Webster T, Dutoit L, Poulin R, Davidson I, Cahill P and Hutson KS (2025) Endoparasite communities of New Zealand penguins differ over time and among species. Marine Biology 172(6):1-12

Viryautsahakul S, Poulin R, Johnson SL and Bennett J (2025) Unravelling hidden battles: genetic insights into parasite diversity and competition in mottled triplefin (Forsterygion capito). Parasitology Research 124:62

Presswell B, Bennett J (2025) Two new species of kidney flukes (Renicolidae: Trematoda) from New Zealand penguins, with a description of Renicola websterae n. sp. Systematic Parasitology 102(2):1-14

Poulin R and Bennett J (2025) Evolutionary biology of aquatic parasites. In: Smit N and Sures B (eds). Aquatic Parasitology: Ecological and Environmental Concepts and Implications of Marine and Freshwater Parasites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83903-0_11 

Sabadel A, Riekenberg P, Ayala-Diaz M, Belk M, Bennett J et al. (2025) Establishing a comprehensive host-parasite stable isotope database to unravel trophic relationships. Scientific Data 12(1):623.

Presswell B, Salloum PM, Bennett J, Buschang KE and Poulin R (2025) Size, spines and primes: the drivers of collar spine numbers among echinostome trematodes. Parasitology 27:1-9

Poulin R, Salloum PM and Bennett J (2024) Evolution of parasites in the Anthropocene: new pressures, new adaptive directions. Biological Reviews 99(6):2234-2252

Martin S, Gonchar A, Louvard C, Achatz TJ, Truter M, Yong R Q-Y, Kremnev G, Wee N Q-X, Bennett J, Doung B, Duflot M and Theisen S (2024) Trematodes 2024: the inaugural international meeting for trematode researchers. Trends in Parasitology 40:942-953

Presswell B and Bennett J (2024) Gastrointestinal helminths of the Australasian harrier (Circus approximans Peale, 1848) in New Zealand, and a description of a new species of nematode, Procyrnea fraseri n. sp. (Habronematidae). Journal of Helminthology 98:e6

Bennett J, Niebuhr C, Lagrue C, Middlemiss KL, Webster T and Filion A (2024) New insights into avian malaria infections in New Zealand seabirds. Parasitology Research 123(4):184

Shanebeck KM, Bennett J, Green S, Lagrue C and Presswell B (2024) Identification of new species of Versteria (Cestoda: Taeniidae) parasitizing Neogale vison and Lontra canadensis (Carnivora: Mustelidae) from Western Canada. Journal of Helminthology 98:e4

Presswell B and Bennett J (2024) Description and molecular data for a new cestode parasite, Cladotaenia anomalis n. sp. (Paruterinidae) from the Australasian harrier (Circus approximans Peale, 1848) in New Zealand. Systematic Parasitology 101(2):25

Bennett J, Presswell B and Poulin R (2024) Parasites influence the structure and functioning of a large marine food web. Marine Ecology Progress Series 727:19-33

Presswell B and Bennett J (2023) Chapter 8. Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms, cestodes, trematodes & monogeneans) Pp. 163-179 in: Kelly M, Mills S, Terezow M, Sim-Smith C, Nelson W (Eds) The Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity inventory. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 136, 494 pp.

Presswell B and Bennett J (2023) Chapter 11. Kingdom Animalia, phylum Acanthocephala (thorny-headed worms). Pp. 193-200 in: Kelly M, Mills S, Terezow M, Sim-Smith C, Nelson W (Eds) The Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity inventory. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 136, 494 pp.

Presswell B and Bennett J (2023) Description and molecular data for a new acanthocephalan parasite, Polymorphus circi n. sp. (Polymorphidae) from the Australasian harrier (Circus approximans Peale, 1848) in New Zealand. Systematic Parasitology 100:725-733

Presswell B, Bennett J, Chai X, Poulin R (2023) Physical evidence of direct antagonistic interactions between trematodes in the host gut: the kiss of death? Parasitology Research 122(8):1953-1957.

Bennett J, Poulin R, Presswell B (2023) Acanthocephalan diversity and host associations revealed from a large-scale biodiversity survey. Diversity 15:665.

Bennett J, Presswell B, Poulin R (2023) Tracking life cycles of parasites across a broad taxonomic scale in a marine ecosystem. International Journal for Parasitology 53:285-303.

Poulin R, Presswell B, Filion A, Salloum PM, Chai X, Bennett J, de Angeli Durta D (2023) Battle of the sexes: analysis of sex-bias in host use and reporting practices in parasitological experiments. International Journal for Parasitology 53:381-389.

Hutson KS, Davidson, IC, Bennett J, Poulin R, Cahill PL (2023) Advancing aquatic aetiology – assigning causation for emerging marine and freshwater diseases in a changing climate. Trends in Microbiology 31(7):681-691.

Poulin R, Presswell B, Bennett J, de Angeli Dutra D, Salloum PM (2023) Biases in parasite biodiversity research: why some helminth species attract more research than others. Invited to contribute article to Special Issue of International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 21:89-98.

Sabadel A, Cresson P, Finucci B and Bennett J (2022) Unravelling the trophic interactions between a parasitic barnacle (Anelasma squalicola) and its host Baxter’s dogfish (Etmopterus granulosus) using stable isotopes. Parasitology 149(4):1976-1984.

Bennett J, Poulin R, Presswell B (2022) Large-scale genetic investigation of nematode diversity and their phylogenetic patterns in New Zealand marine animals. Parasitology 149:1794-1809 * This paper was selected as paper of the month in Parasitology.

Chai, X, Bennett J, Poulin R (2022) Decay of parasite community similarity with host phylogenetic and geographic distances among deep-sea fish (grenadiers). Parasitology 149:1737-1748

Poulin R, Presswell B, Bennett J (2022) Male-biased selection of holotypes in parasite taxonomy: is it justified? Trends in Parasitology 38:926-929

Bennett J, Poulin R, Presswell B (2022) Annotated checklist and genetic data for parasitic helminths infecting New Zealand marine invertebrates Invertebrate Biology e12380

Presswell B and Bennett J (2022) Gastrointestinal helminth parasites of the threatened Australasian crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus australis, Gould 1844) in New Zealand, with descriptions of Baruscapillaria kamanae n. sp. (Nematoda: Trichuridae) and Cryptocotyle micromorpha n. sp. (Trematoda: Opistorchiidae). Systematic Parasitology 99:217-239

Bennett J, Presswell B and Poulin R (2022) Biodiversity of marine helminth parasites in New Zealand: what don’t we know? New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 56(2): 175-190

Ruehle BP, Presswell B and Bennett J (2021) Distribution and diversity of diplostomids in New Zealand. Journal of Parasitology 107(6):933-942

Doherty JF, Filion A, Bennett J, Bhattrai UR, Chai X, de Angeli Durta D, Donlon E, Jorge F, Milotic M, Park E, Sabadel AJM, Thomas LJ and Poulin R (2021) The people versus science: can passively crowdsourced internet data shed light on host-parasite interactions? Parasitology 148(11):1313-1319

Poulin R, Bennett J, Filion A, Bhattarai UR, Chai X, de Angeli Dutra D, Donlon, E, Doherty J-H, Jorge F, Milotic M, Park E, Sabadel A and Thomas LJ (2021) iParasitology: mining the internet to test parasitological hypotheses. Trends in Parasitology 37: 267-272

Bennett J, McPherson O and Presswell B (2021) Gastrointestinal helminths of little blue penguins, Eudyptula novaehollandiae (Stephens), from Otago, New Zealand​. Parasitology International 80: 102185

Presswell B and Bennett J (2021) Helminth parasites of shags (Phalacrocoracidae) from the Otago region of southern New Zealand. Journal of Helminthology 95: e9

Presswell B and Bennett J (2021) Diomedenema dinarctos n. sp. (Spiruromorpha: Desmidocercidae), a new species of lung nematode in Fiordland crested penguins (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus; Sphenisciformes), from South Island, New Zealand. Systematic Parasitology 98(3):285-290

Presswell B and Bennett J (2020) Galactosomum otepotiense n. sp. (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) infecting four different species of fish-eating birds in New Zealand: genetically identical but morphologically variable. Journal of Helminthology 94: e86

Presswell B, Bennett J and Smales LR (2020) Morphological and molecular characterisation of a new genus and species of acanthocephalan, Tenuisoma tarapungi n. g., n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) infecting red-billed gulls in New Zealand, with a key to the genera of the Polymorphidae Meyer, 1931. Systematic Parasitology 97: 25-39

Poulin R, Bennett J, de Angeli Dutra D, Doherty J, Filion A, Park E and Ruehle B (2020) Evolutionary signature of ancient parasite pressures, or the ghost of parasitism past. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:195

​Selbach C, Jorge F, Dowle E, Bennett J, Chai X, Doherty J, Eriksson A, Filion A, Hay E, Herbison R, Lindner J, Park E, Presswell B, Ruehle B, Sobrinho PM, Wainwright E and Poulin R (2019) Parasitological research in the molecular age. Parasitology 146:1361-1370

Bennett J and Presswell B (2019) Morphology and molecules resolve the identity and life cycle of an eye trematode, Philophthalmus attenuatus n. sp. (Trematoda: Philophthalmidae) infecting gulls in New Zealand. Parasitology Research 118: 1501-1509

Bennett J, Jorge F, Poulin R and Randhawa H (2019) Revealing trophic transmission pathways of marine tapeworms. Parasitology Research 118:1435-1444

Bennett J and Randhawa H (2019) Diet composition of New Zealand’s endemic rough skate. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 53(1):162-168