Hammoud, C., Balbuena, J.A., Blasco-Costa, I., O'Dwyer, K., Paterson, R.A., Scholz, T., Selbach, C., Sures, B. & Thieltges, D.W. (2025). Long-term trends in parasite diversity and infection levels: approaches and patterns. Biological Reviews, DOI: 10.1002/brv.70119.
Klimesova, B., O'Dwyer, K., D'Arcy, J., Talbot, A., Lyashevska, O., Rodger, H., McManus, C. & Ruane, N.M. (2025). Assessing sea lice infection levels in Irish Atlantic salmon farms: Metrics and treatment trigger levels. Aquaculture, 743568.
Klimesova, B., Lyashevska, O., Ruane, N. M., D’Arcy, J., Talbot, A., Rodger, H., & O’Dwyer, K. (2025). Effects of temporal, geographical and environmental factors on salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) levels of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Ireland. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 34614.
Ruy, P.E., Ball, S., Barry, G., Cuq, B., McDevitt, A.D., English, H.M., Farrell, M.L., Gormley, E., O’Connor, I., Romero, P., Vale, A. & O'Dwyer, K. (2025). Expanding wildlife serosurveillance: a study of influenza A virus exposure in Irish carnivores. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 71(4), 71.
Faltýnková, A., Kudlai, O., Jouet, D., O’Dwyer, K., Pantoja, C. & Skírnisson, K. (2025). Freshwater trematodes in Iceland and the surrounding north – current advances and questions. Journal of Helminthology, 99, e33.
Alwis, H.A.S.S., Albrecht, S., Murphy, S., O'Donovan, J., Berrow, S., Daly, M., Levesque, S. & O'Dwyer, K. (2025). Stomach parasites and health status of short-beaked common dolphins, Delphinus delphis, stranded along the Irish coastline. Marine Biology, 172(5), 1-15.
Ruy, P-É., McDevitt,A., O'Connor, I. & O'Dwyer, K. (2024). Using ELISA to detect pathogen antibodies in wild mammal carcasses: a systematic literature review. Mammal Review, 55: e12379.
Martin, S., Stewart, K., Smith, C., Barr, W., Cheslett, D., O’Connor, I., Swords, F. , Zeeshan Ijaz, U. & O’Dwyer, K. (2024). The hepatopancreas microbiome of velvet crab, Necora puber. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 16(5), e70014.
Faltýnková, A., O’Dwyer,, K., Pantoja, C., Jouet, D., Skírnisson, K. & Kudlai, O. (2024). Trematode species diversity in the faucet snail, Bithynia tentaculata at the western edge of its native distribution, in Ireland. Journal of Helminthology, 98, e52.
Martin, S., Cheslett, D., Georgieva, S., O’Connor, I., Swords, F. & O’Dwyer, K. (2024). Microparasite screening across four species of decapod crustaceans (Decapoda: Brachyura, Astacidea) in Ireland. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 44(3).
O'Dwyer, K., Milotic, D., Milotic, M. & Koprivnikar, J. (2024). Behave yourself: effects of exogenous glucocorticoid exposure on larval amphibian anti-parasite behaviour and physiology. Oecologia, 205, 95-106.
Martin, S., Cheslett, D., Collins, E., Georgieva, S., O'Connor, I., Swords, F. & O'Dwyer, K. (2024). Variation in Paramarteilia canceri infections in velvet crab Necora puber. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 157, 61-72.
Gittenberger, A., Mirimin, L., Boyd, J., O’Beirn, F., Devine, G., O’Brien, M., Rensing, M., O’Dwyer, K. & Gittenberger, E. (2023). Marine non-indigenous species dynamics in time and space within the coastal waters of the Republic of Ireland. Diversity, 15(9), 1019.
Golin, F., Moore, S. & O'Dwyer, K. (2022). Isopod parasite influences prawn responsiveness and activity. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 151, 129-133.
Bacco-Mannina, N., Acampora, H., O'Connor, I., Newton, S. & O'Dwyer, K. (2022). An investigation into factors contributing to mortality of young terns at a managed colony. Seabird, 34.
Rohonczy, J., O'Dwyer, K., Robinson, S.A. & Forbes, M.R. (2021). Meta-analysis shows environmental contaminants elevate cortisol levels in teleost fish - Effect sizes depend on contaminant class and duration of experimental exposure. Science of the Total Environment, 800, 14902.
Pantoja, C., Faltýnková, A., O'Dwyer, K., Jouet, D., Skírnisson, K. & Kudlai, O. (2021). Diversity of echinostomes (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) in their snail hosts at high latitudes. Parasite, 28: 59.
Kudlai, O., Pantoja, C., O’Dwyer, K., Jouet, D., Skírnisson, K. & Faltýnková, A. (2021). Diversity of Plagiorchis (Trematoda: Digenea) in high latitudes: species composition and snail host spectrum revealed by integrative taxonomy. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59(5).
O'Dwyer, K., Dargent, F., Forbes, M.F. & Koprivnikar, J. (2020). Parasite infection leads to widespread glucocorticoid hormone increases in vertebrate hosts: A meta‐analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(2), 519-529.
Thieltges, D.W., Goedknegt, A., O'Dwyer, K., Senior, A.M. & Kamiya, T. (2019). Parasites and stable isotopes: a comparative analysis of isotopic discrimination in parasitic trophic interactions. Oikos, 128(9): 1329-1339.
Senior, A., Grueber, C., Kamiya, T., Lagisz, M., O'Dwyer, K., Santos, E. & Nakagawa, S. (2016) Heterogeneity in ecological and evolutionary meta- analyses: Its magnitude and implications. Ecology, 97(12): 3293-3299.
Lynch, S.A., Darmody, G., O'Dwyer, K. Gallagher, M.C., Nolan, S., McAllen, R. & Culloty, S.C. (2016) Biology of the invasive ascidianAscidiella aspersa in its native habitat: reproductive patterns and parasite load. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 181: 249-255.
O'Dwyer, K. & Poulin, R. (2015) Taken to the limit - is desiccation stress causing precocious encystment of trematode parasites in snails? Parasitology International, 64 (6): 632-637.
O'Dwyer, K., Faltynkova, A., Georgieva, S. & Kostadinova, A. (2015) An integrative taxonomic investigation of the diversity of digenean parasites infecting the intertidal snail Austrolittorina unifasciata Gray 1826 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in Australia. Parasitology Research, 114 (6): 2381-2397.
Quigley, D., O'Dwyer, K., Flannery, U. & Flannery, K. (2015) The pram shrimp Phronima sedentaria (Forskal, 1775) (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Phronimidae) in Irish waters and a review of it association with gelatinous zooplankton. Irish Naturalists' Journal, 34: 1-7.
O'Dwyer, K., Blasco-Costa, I., Poulin, R. & Faltynkova, A. (2014) Four marine digenean parasites of Austrolittorina spp. (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in New Zealand: morphological and molecular data. Systematic Parasitology, 89 (2): 133-152.
Kamiya, T., O'Dwyer, K., Westerdahl, H., Senior, A. & Nakagawa, S. (2014) A quantitative review of MHC-based mating preference: The role of diversity and dissimilarity. Molecular Ecology 23 (21): 5151-5163.
O'Dwyer, K., Lynch, A., & Poulin, R. (2014) Reduced attachment strength of rocky shore gastropods caused by trematode infection. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 458: 1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2014.04.022
Kamiya, T., O'Dwyer, K., Nakagawa, S. & Poulin, R. (2014) Host diversity drives parasite diversity: meta-analytical insights into patterns and causal mechanisms. Ecography, 37 (7): 689-697. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00571.x
O'Dwyer, K., Kamiya, T., & Poulin, R. (2014) Altered microhabitat use and movement of littorinid gastropods: the effects of parasites. Marine Biology, 161 (2): 437-455. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2349-7
Kamiya, T., O'Dwyer, K., Nakagawa, S. & Poulin, R. (2014) What determines biodiversity of parasitic and pathogenic organisms? A meta-analysis across animal, plant and fungal hosts. Biological Reviews, 89 (1): 123-134. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12046
Kamiya, T., O'Dwyer, K., Nuy, J. & Poulin, R. (2013) What determines the sizes of colony members in caste-forming trematodes? Evolutionary Ecology, 27: 1235-1247. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-013-9646-y