A summary of my career.
PhD Entomology (2010); BSc (Hons) Entomology (2006); BSc Entomology and Zoology (2005) Rhodes University, Makhanda (Grahamstown), South Africa.
Jones, J. Iwan, Arnold, Amanda, Buchner, Dominik et al (2025). "Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring." Methods in Ecology and Evolution n/a(n/a).
Sterling, Mark J., Price BW, Lees, David C. (2025). "A revision of the hitherto neglected genus Topiris Walker, 1863 (Lepidoptera, Xyloryctidae) with taxonomic notes on the genus Athrypsiastis Meyrick, 1910." ZooKeys 1229: 297--368.
Price, Ben (2025). "Museum specimen sampling SOP." Unknown Venue.
Price, Ben, Powell, Owain, Paul, Alyssa, Gustave, Carla, Beasley, Jordan (2025). "Historical DNA Library Preparation (Spotlight)." Unknown Venue.
Paul, Alyssa, Gustave, Carla, Powell, Owain, Price, Ben (2025). "Historical DNA Library Preparation (Santa Cruz Reaction)." Unknown Venue.
Parsons, Daniel A. j, Price, Benjamin (2025). "Gene Fetch: A Python tool for sequence retrieval from GenBank across the tree of life." Journal of Open Source Software 10(112).
Marsh, William A., Hall, Andie, Barnes, Ian, Price, Ben (2025). "Facilitating high throughput collections-based genomics: a comparison of DNA extraction and library building methods." Scientific Reports 15(1).
Hollister, Jack D., Martin, Geoff, Cai, Xiaohao et al (2025). "A Computer Vision Method for Finding Mislabelled Specimens Within Natural History Collections." Ecology and Evolution 15(7).
Price BW, Cristovao, J., Sivell, O. et al (2024). "UK Barcode of Life: 2024 project update. DEFRA Centre of Excellence for DNA Methods.." Unknown Venue.
Sherwood, Danniella, Henrard, Arnaud, Peters, Martina et al (2024). "Two new sympatric species of the pirate spider genus Ero C.L. Koch, 1836 from the cloud forest of Saint Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean (Araneae: Mimetidae)." European Journal of Taxonomy.
White, Oliver W., Hall, Andie, Price BW, Williams, Suzanne T., Clark, Matthew D. (2024). "A Snakemake Toolkit for the Batch Assembly, Annotation and Phylogenetic Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes and Ribosomal Genes From Genome Skims of Museum Collections." Molecular Ecology Resources 25(1).
Zhang, Jia-Zhi, Price, Benjamin (2024). "Revision of the genus Deroplatys Westwood, 1839 (Mantodea: Deroplatyidae) with the description of three new species." Zootaxa 5445(1).
Skipp, SJ, Macadam, CR, Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab et al (2024). "The genome sequence of the Common February Red Stonefly, Brachyptera risi (Morton, 1896) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 9(405).
Twyford, Alex D., Beasley, Jordan, Barnes, Ian et al (2024). "A DNA barcoding framework for taxonomic verification in the Darwin Tree of Life Project." Wellcome Open Research 9: 339.
Hollister, Jack D., Cai, Xiaohao, Horton, Tammy et al (2023). "Using computer vision to identify limpets from their shells: a case study using four species from the Baja California peninsula." Frontiers in Marine Science 10.
Price BW, Cristovao, J., Sivell, O. et al (2023). "UK Barcode of Life: 2023 project update. DEFRA Centre of Excellence for DNA Methods." Natural England.
Crowley, L, Allen, H, Barnes, I et al (2023). "A sampling strategy for genome sequencing the British terrestrial arthropod fauna [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8(123).
Moliner Cachazo, Luis, Makati, Kaelo, Chadwick, Michael A. et al (2023). "A review of the freshwater diversity in the Okavango Delta and Lake Ngami (Botswana): taxonomic composition, ecology, comparison with similar systems and conservation status." Aquatic Sciences 85(4).
Hall, Andie C., Powell, Owain N., Cuber, Piotr, Price BW (2023). "Low-cost museum DNA extraction using magnetic beads." Unknown Venue.
Price, BW, Allan, EL, Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab et al (2023). "The genome sequence of the White-legged damselfly, Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas, 1771) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 320.
Farr, A, Skipp, SJ, Macadam, CR et al (2023). "The genome sequence of the pond olive, Cloeon dipterum [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review].." Wellcome Open Research 8: 540.
McSwan, E, Broad, GR, Wallace, I et al (2023). "The genome sequence of the Mottled Sedge, Glyphotaelius pellucidus (Retzius, 1783) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 102.
Jones, T, McSwan, E, Wallace, I et al (2023). "The genome sequence of the micro grey sedge, Agapetus fuscipes (Curtis, 1834) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 363.
Price, BW, Broad, GR, Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab et al (2023). "The genome sequence of an ichneumonid wasp, Tromatobia lineatoria (Villers, 1789) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 339.
McSwan, E, Clifford, Caleala, Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab et al (2023). "The genome sequence of the Common Yellow Sally, Isoperla grammatica (Poda, 1761) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 107.
Crowley, LM, Price, BW, Allan, EL et al (2023). "The genome sequence of the Common Darter, Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 389.
Clifford, Caleala, Friend, Kathy, Skipp, Sue et al (2023). "The genome sequence of the cinnamon sedge caddisfly, Limnephilus marmoratus (Curtis, 1834) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 64.
Broad, GR, Wallace, I, Price, BW et al (2023). "The genome sequence of a caddisfly, Limnephilus rhombicus (Linnaeus, 1758) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 170.
Austin, M, Clifford, C, Rutt, G et al (2023). "The genome sequence of a caddisfly, Limnephilus lunatus (Curtis, 1834) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 25.
Wallace, I, Findlay, JD, Price, BW et al (2023). "The genome sequence of the Brown Silverhorn, Athripsodes cinereus (Curtis, 1834) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 378.
Clifford, Caleala, Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab, Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective et al (2023). "The genome sequence of the black needle fly, Leuctra nigra (Olivier, 1811) [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]." Wellcome Open Research 8: 95.
Cuber, Piotr, Chooneea, Darren, Geeves, Clementine et al (2023). "Comparing the accuracy and efficiency of third generation sequencing technologies, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and Pacific Biosciences, for DNA barcode sequencing applications." Ecological Genetics and Genomics 28: 100181.
Wilson, Rebecca J., de Siqueira, Alexandre Fioravante, Brooks, Stephen J. et al (2023). "Applying computer vision to digitised natural history collections for climate change research: Temperature-size responses in British butterflies." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(2).
MacLeod, Norman, Price, Benjamin, Stevens, Zackary (2022). "What you sample is what you get: ecomorphological variation in Trithemis (Odonata, Libellulidae) dragonfly wings reconsidered." BMC Ecology and Evolution 22(1).
Price, B. W., Cristovao, Joana, Hall, Andie C. et al (2022). "UK Barcode of Life: 2022 project update." Unknown Venue: 64.
Jiang, Yunlan, Yue, Lu, Yang, Fan et al (2022). "Similar pattern, different paths: tracing the biogeographical history of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) using mitochondrial phylogenomics." Cladistics 38(3).
Miller, C. Giles, Brewer, Philippa, Carine, Mark et al (2022). "Join the Dots: assessing a collection of 80 million items at The Natural History Museum, London." Museum Management and Curatorship 0(0).
Price, B. W., Misra, Raju, Broad, Gavin R., Clark, Katie (2022). "Initiation of UK Barcode of Life and filling priority gaps. DEFRA Centre of Excellence for DNA Methods.." Unknown Venue: 183.
Macadam, Craig, Clifford, Caleala, Price BW et al (2022). "The genome sequence of a stonefly, Nemurella pictetii Klapalek, 1900." Unknown Venue.
Price BW, Winter, Martin, Brooks, Stephen J. et al (2022). "The genome sequence of the blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820)." Wellcome Open Research 7: 66.
Zheng, Yuchen, Hayashi, Fumio, Price BW, Liu, Xingyue (2022). "Unveiling the Evolutionary History of a Puzzling Antlion Genus Gatzara Navás (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Dendroleontinae) Based on Systematic Revision, Molecular Phylogenetics, and Biogeographic Inference." Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(3).
Orr, Albert G, Price BW (2022). "A description of the larva of Matronoides cyaneipennis Förster, 1897 from northern Borneo (Odonata: Calopterygidae)." Odonatologica 51(1-2).
Hill, Kathy B R, Marshall, David C, Marathe, Kiran et al (2021). "The molecular systematics and diversification of a taxonomically unstable group of Asian cicada tribes related to Cicadini Latreille, 1802 (Hemiptera : Cicadidae)." Invertebrate Systematics 35: 570--601.
Jacobus, Luke M., Salles, Frederico F., Price, Ben et al (2021). "Mayfly taxonomy (Arthropoda: Hexapoda: Ephemeroptera) during the first two decades of the twenty-first century and the concentration of taxonomic publishing." Zootaxa 4979(1).
Wonglersak, Rungtip, Fenberg, Phillip B., Langdon, Peter G., Brooks, Stephen J., Price BW (2021). "Insect body size changes under future warming projections: a case study of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera)." Hydrobiologia 848: 2785--2796.
Potts, Katy, Wardlaw, Jessica, Clark, Katie et al (2021). "Genepools: Instruction Booklet." Natural History Museum.
Woodcock, P, Cottrell, J, Heaver, D et al (2021). "An Action Plan for making progress with using DNA to monitor terrestrial invertebrates." Unknown Venue.
Hupało, Kamil, Majaneva, Markus, Czachur, Molly Victoria et al (2020). "An urban Blitz with a twist: rapid biodiversity assessment using aquatic environmental DNA." Environmental DNA 3(1).
Wonglersak, Rungtip, Fenberg, Phillip B., Langdon, Peter G., Brooks, Stephen J., Price BW (2020). "Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata." Ecological Entomology 45(4).
Hansen, Oskar L. P., Svenning, Jens-Christian, Olsen, Kent et al (2020). "Species-level image classification with convolutional neural network enables insect identification from habitus images." Ecology and Evolution 10(2).
Dow, Rory A., Price BW (2020). "A review of Megalogomphus sumatranus (Krüger, 1899) and its allies in Sundaland with a description of a new species from Borneo (Odonata: Anisoptera: Gomphidae)." Zootaxa 4845(4).
Pereira‐da‐Conceicoa, Lyndall, Elbrecht, Vasco, Hall, Andie et al (2020). "Metabarcoding unsorted kick-samples facilitates macroinvertebrate-based biomonitoring with increased taxonomic resolution, while outperforming environmental DNA." Environmental DNA n/a(n/a).
Price, B. W., Briscoe, Andrew, Misra, Raju, Broad, Gavin R. (2020). "Evaluation of DNA barcode libraries used in the UK and developing an action plan to fill priority gaps.." Unknown Venue: 51.
Martins, Caleb Califre, Price BW (2020). "An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the Osmylidae collection (Neuroptera) at the Natural History Museum, London." Zootaxa 4883(1).
Dupont, Steen, Humphries, Josh, Butcher, Alice et al (2020). "Ahead of the curve: three approaches to mass digitisation of vials with a focus on label data capture." Research Ideas and Outcomes 6: e53606.
Price BW, Marshall, David C., Barker, Nigel P., Simon, Chris, Villet, Martin H. (2019). "Out of Africa? A dated molecular phylogeny of the cicada tribe Platypleurini Schmidt (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), with a focus on African genera and the genus Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville." Systematic Entomology 44(4).
Allan, E. Louise, Livermore, Laurence, Price, Benjamin, Shchedrina, Olha, Smith, Vincent (2019). "A Novel Automated Mass Digitisation Workflow for Natural History Microscope Slides." Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e32342.
Allan, Elizabeth Louise, Dupont, Steen, Hardy, Helen et al (2019). "High-Throughput Digitisation of Natural History Specimens." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37337.
Weigand, Hannah, Beermann, Arne J., Čiampor, Fedor et al (2019). "DNA barcode reference libraries for the monitoring of aquatic biota in Europe: Gap-analysis and recommendations for future work." Science of The Total Environment 678: 499--524.
Dupont, Steen, Price, Benjamin (2019). "ALICE, MALICE and VILE: High throughput insect specimen digitisation using angled imaging techniques." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37141.
Blackman, Rosetta C., Mächler, Elvira, Altermatt, Florian et al (2019). "Advancing the use of molecular methods for routine freshwater macroinvertebrate biomonitoring – the need for calibration experiments." Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 3: e34735.
Prathapan, K. Divakaran, Pethiyagoda, Rohan, Bawa, Kamaljit S. et al (2018). "When the cure kills—CBD limits biodiversity research." Science 360(6396).
Marshall, David C., Moulds, Max, Hill, Kathy B. R. et al (2018). "A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification." Zootaxa 4424(1).
Allan, Elizabeth Louise, Price BW, Shchedrina, Olha et al (2018). "A Low Cost Approach to Specimen Level Imaging of Natural History Microscope Slides using a DSLR System." OSF Preprints.
Marshall, David C., Moulds, Max, Boulard, Michel et al (2018). "Case 3761 — Platypleurini Schmidt, 1918: Proposed precedence over Hamzaria Distant, 1905 to conserve nomenclatural stability in the Cicadidae (Insecta, Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadoidea)." The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75: 49--54.
Price BW, Dupont, Steen, Allan, Elizabeth Louise et al (2018). "ALICE: Angled Label Image Capture and Extraction for high throughput insect specimen digitisation." OSF Preprints.
Christou, Antaia, Brooks, Stephen J., Price, Benjamin (2017). "Wing size variation in Calopteryx virgo (L.) (Beautiful Demoiselle), in response to geographic and climatic variables, using museum collections." Journal of the British Dragonfly Society 33(1).
Price, Benjamin, Baker, Ed (2016). "NightLife: A cheap, robust, LED based light trap for collecting aquatic insects in remote areas." Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7648.
Price, Benjamin, Allan, Elizabeth, Marathe, Kiran et al (2016). "The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography." Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e8051.
Upton, Laura, Price, Ben, Percy, Diana, Brooks, Steve (2016). "Applying novel digital visualization tools and traditional morphometrics to the analysis of wing size and asymmetry and to male wing spot size in Calopteryx splendens (Harris)(Banded Demoiselle)." Journal of the British Dragonfly Society 32: 8--25.
Price BW, Henry, Charles S., Hall, Andie C. et al (2015). "Singing from the Grave: DNA from a 180 Year Old Type Specimen Confirms the Identity of Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens)." PLOS ONE 10(4).
Hudson, Lawrence N., Blagoderov, Vladimir, Heaton, Alice et al (2015). "Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections." PLOS ONE 10(11).
Dupont, Steen, Price, Benjamin, Blagoderov, Vladimir (2015). "IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator." ZooKeys 481: 131--138.
Baker, Edward, Price BW, Rycroft, S. D., Hill, Jon, Smith, Vincent S. (2015). "BioAcoustica: a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics." Database 2015.
Tolley, Krystal A., Bowie, Rauri C.K., John Measey, G., Price BW, Forest, Félix (2014). "The shifting landscape of genes since the Pliocene: terrestrial phylogeography in the Greater Cape Floristic Region." Fynbos: 142--163.
Liu, Xingyue, Price BW, Hayashi, Fumio, De Moor, Ferdinand, Yang, Ding (2014). "Revision of the Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) of Madagascar." Zootaxa 3796(2).
Pio, Dorothea V., Engler, Robin, Linder, H. Peter et al (2014). "Climate change effects on animal and plant phylogenetic diversity in southern Africa." Global Change Biology 20(5).
Liu, Xingyue, Price, Benjamin, Hayashi, Fumio, De Moor, Ferdinand, Yang, Ding (2013). "Systematic revision reveals underestimated diversity of the South African endemic fishfly genus Taeniochauliodes Esben-Petersen (Megaloptera: Corydalidae)." Systematic Entomology 38(3).
Price, Benjamin, Liu, Xingyue, de Moor, Ferdy, Villet, Martin (2012). "A review of the alderfly genus Leptosialis Esben-Petersen (Megaloptera, Sialidae) with description of a new species from South Africa." ZooKeys 201: 27--41.
Pereira-da-Conceicoa, Lyndall L, Price BW, Barber-James, Helen M et al (2012). "Cryptic variation in an ecological indicator organism: mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data confirm distinct lineages of Baetis harrisoni Barnard (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) in southern Africa." BMC Evolutionary Biology 12(1).
Price BW, Villet, Martin H., Walton, Shaun M., Barker, Nigel P. (2011). "Using molecules and morphology to infer the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the Dirini (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), a tribe of butterflies endemic to Southern Africa." Systematic Entomology 36(2).
Liu, Xingyue, Price BW, Hayashi, Fumio, Yang, Ding (2011). "Revision of the fishfly genus Platychauliodes Esben-Petersen (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) endemic to South Africa." Zootaxa 2909(1).
Price BW, Barker, N.P., Villet, M.H. (2010). "A watershed study on genetic diversity: Phylogenetic analysis of the Platypleura plumosa (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) complex reveals catchment-specific lineages." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54(2).
Richards, C. S., Price, B. W., Villet, M. H. (2009). "Thermal ecophysiology of seven carrion-feeding blowflies in Southern Africa." Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 131(1).
Price, B. W., Barker, N. P., Villet, M. H. (2007). "Patterns and processes underlying evolutionary significant units in the Platypleura stridula L. species complex (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa." Molecular Ecology 16(12).