Peer Reviewed Publications
2023
9)Da Silva Neto, J.G, Williams, L.A., Lawson, C.R., Groves, J.D., BYL, T., GIBSON, C., Perkins, C. and Sutton, W.B., 2021. Landuse and Water Quality Threats to Current and Historical Cryptobranchus Alleganiensis Streams Across Multiple Ecoregions. Freshwater Science. (Accepted pending minor edits)
8) Hardman, H.L., Ammar, S., Gerhold, R., Sutton, W., Davis Carter, E., Snyder, S., Da Silva Neto, J.G., Tarkington, M., Gray, M.J., and Miller, D.L. 2023. Coccidiosis in wild eastern newts: An unexpected finding in consecutive mortality events. Journal of Wildlife Diseases.
2021
7) Hardman, H.L., LeCleir, G., Fitzpatrick, B., Kelly, J.I., Sutton, W.B., Da Silva Neto, J.G., Freake, M., Walker, D.M., Miller, D.L. 2021. Dorsal Skin Microbial Assemblages in Free-Ranging Hellbenders, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, Associated with Subspecies and Chronic Toe Lesions, but not with Chytrid Fungal Infection. Preprint.
2020
6) Zemmer, S,A, Detwiler, J.T., Sokol, E.R., Da Silva Neto, J.G., Wyderko, J., Potts, K., Gajewski, Z.J., Sarment, L.V., Benfield, E.F., and Belden, L.K. 2020. Spatial scale and structure of complex life cycle trematode parasite communities in streams. PLoS ONE 15(11): e0241973.
5) Da Silva Neto, J.G., Sutton, W.B., Spear, S.F., Freake, M.J., Kéry, M., and Schmidt, B.R. 2020. Integrating species distribution and occupancy modeling to study hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) occurrence based on eDNA surveys. Biological Conservation, 251, 108787.
4) Hardman, R.H., Sutton, W.B., Irwin, K.J., McGinnity, D., Reinsch, S.D., Freake, M., Colclough, P., Miller, B.T., Da Silva Neto, J.G., Souza, M. and Fitzpatrick, B., 2020. Geographic and Individual Determinants of Important Amphibian Pathogens in Hellbenders ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) in Tennessee and Arkansas, U.S.A. Journal of Wildlife Disease.
2019
3) Da Silva Neto, J. G., W.B. Sutton, and M.J Freake. 2019) Life-Stage Differences in Microhabitat Use by Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis). Herpetologica, 75: 21-29.
2017
2) Zemmer, S. A., Wyderko, J., Da Silva Neto, J., Cedillos, I., Clay, L., Benfield, E. F., and Belden, L. K. 2017. Seasonal and Annual Variation in Trematode Infection of Stream Snail Elimia proxima in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Journal of Parasitology, 103: 213-220.
2014
1) Da Silva Neto, J. G., Gorman, T. A., Bishop, D. C., and Haas, C. A. 2014. Population Demographics of the Florida Bog Frog (Lithobates okaloosae). Southeastern naturalist, 13: 128-137.