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Last updated April 2026

Peer Reviewed Articles, Primary/Joint Primary Author

1. Mayne R, Smith D, Brown K, Chen Y, Firth A, Katayama K, et al. Comprehensive hallmark gene

sequence, genomic and structural analysis of Picornavirales viruses clariﬁes new and existing taxa.

Virus Evolution. 2026;12(veag023)

2. Mayne R, Simmonds P, Smith B, Adriaenssens E, Lefkowitz E, Oksanen H, et al. Virus Taxonomy

Proposal Summaries: A Searchable and Citeable Resource to Disseminate Virus Taxonomy Advances.

Journal of General Virology. 2025;106(7)

3. Mayne R, Aiewsakun P, Turner D, Adriaenssens E, Simmonds P. GRAViTy-V2: a grounded viral

taxonomy application. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2024 9;6

4. Mayne R, Secret S, Geoghegan C, Trebes A, Kean K, Reid K, et al. Castanet: A pipeline for rapid

analysis of targeted multi-pathogen genomic data. Bioinformatics. 2024 10;

5. Mayne R, Roberts N, Philips N, Weerasekera R, Adamatzky A. Propagation of electrical signals by

fungi. Biosystems. 2023;p. 104933

6. Mayne R, Green H. Virtual Reality for Teaching and Learning in Crime Scene Investigation. Science

& Justice. 2020;60(5):466–472

7. Mayne R, Draper TC, Phillips N, Whiting JGH, Weerasekera R, Fullarton C, et al. Neuromorphic

Liquid Marbles with Aqueous Carbon Nanotube Cores. Langmuir. 2019;35(40):13182–13188

8. Mayne R, Phillips N, Adamatzky A. Towards experimental P-systems using multivesicular liposomes.

Journal of Membrane Computing. 2019;1(2):20–28

9. Mayne R, Morgan J, Whiting J, Phillips N, Adamatzky A. On measuring nanoparticle toxicity and

clearance with Paramecium caudatum. Nature Scientiﬁc Reports. 2019;9(1):8957

10. Mayne R, Whiting J, Andrew A. Toxicity and applications of internalised magnetite nanoparticles

within live Paramecium caudatum cells. BioNanoScience. 2017;

11. Mayne R, Whiting JGH, Wheway G, Melhuish C, Adamatzky A. Particle Sorting by Paramecium

Cilia Arrays. Biosystems. 2017;156-157:46–52

12. Mayne R, Jones J, Gale E, Adamatzky A. On coupled oscillator dynamics and incident behaviour

patterns in slime mould Physarum polycephalum: emergence of wave packets, global streaming clock

frequencies and anticipation of periodic stimuli. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Dis-

tributed Systems. 2016;32(1):85—118

13. Mayne R, Adamatkzy A. Cellular automata modelling of slime mould actin network signalling. Natural

Computing. 2016;

14. Mayne R, Tsompanas MA, Sirakoulis GC, Adamatzky A. Towards a slime Mould-FPGA interface.

Biomedical Engineering Letters. 2015;5(1):51–57

15. Mayne R, Adamatzky A, Jones J. On the role of the plasmodial cytoskeleton in facilitating intel-

ligent behaviour in slime mould Physarum polycephalum. Communicative and Integrative Biology.

2015;8(4):e1059007

16. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. On the Computing Potential of Intracellular Vesicles. Plos One. 2015;10(10):e0139617

17. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Towards Hybrid Nanostructure-Slime Mould Devices. Nano LIFE. 2015;5(1):140007

18. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Slime mould foraging behaviour as optically coupled logical operations.

International Journal of General Systems. 2015;44(3):305–313

19. Mayne R, Patton D, Costello BDL, Adamatzky A, Patton RC. On the Internalisation, Intraplasmodial

Carriage and Excretion of Metallic Nanoparticles in the Slime Mould, Physarum Polycephalum. Inter-

national Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation. 2011;3(3):1–14

Books (Primary Author / Editor)

20. Mayne R, den Toonder J, editors. Atlas of Cilia Bioengineering and Biocomputation. River Publishers;

2018

21. Mayne R. Orchestrated Biocomputation: Unravelling the Mystery of Slime Mould ”Intelligence”.

Bristol, UK: Luniver Press; 2016

Book Chapters, Primary Author

22. Mayne R. Collapsing the Wave Function on Postquantum Unconventional Computing. In: Adamatzky

A, editor. Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy. World Scientiﬁc; 2021. p. 459–469

23. Mayne R. Programming Ciliary Object Manipulation. In: Mayne R, den Toonder J, editors. Atlas of

Cilia Bioengineering and Biocomputing. Delft, NL: River Publishers; 2018. p. 37–50

24. Mayne R, Wheway G. Biological preliminaries for cilia study. In: Mayne R, den Toonder J, editors.

Atlas of Cilia Bioengineering and Biocomputing. Delf: River Publishers; 2018. p. 3–14

25. Mayne R. When the path is never shortest: a reality check on shortest path biocomputation. In:

Adamatzky A, editor. Unconventional computation of shortest paths. Springer; 2018.

26. Mayne R, Tsompanas MA, Sirakoulis G, Adamatzky A. Towards a Slime Mould-FPGA Interface. In:

Adamatzky A, editor. Advances in Physarum Machines; 2016. p. 299–309

27. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Slime Mould Nanotechnology. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Advances in

Physarum Machines. Springer; 2016. p. 133–152

28. Mayne R. Biology of the Physarum polycephalum plasmodium: preliminaries for unconventional com-

puting. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Advances in Physarum Machines. vol. 21. Springer; 2016. p. 3–22

29. Mayne R. Slime mould biotechnology. In: Adamatzky AI, editor. Atlas of Physarum Computing.

World Scientiﬁc; 2015. p. 47–59

Peer Reviewed Articles, Non-Primary Author

30. M¨onttinen H, Ravantti J, Mayne R, Simmonds P, Poranen M. Revealing deep evolutionary relationships

between RNA viruses using predicted structural models of viral RNA polymerases. Molecular Biology

and Evolution. 2025;43(msag088)

31. Secret S, Mayne R, Reid K, Hook L, Lloyd-Evans P, Maddox V, et al. Bioinformatic identiﬁcation of

lentivirus transfer plasmid contamination causing false-positive HIV NAT results in a high-throughput

molecular screening laboratory. Microbiology Spectrum. 2026 Feb;p. e02500–25

32. Simmonds P, Adriaenssens E, Lefkowitz E, Oksanen H, Zerbini F, Alfenas-Zerbini P, et al. Changes

to virus taxonomy, the international code of virus classiﬁcation and nomenclature, and the ICTV

statutes ratiﬁed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2025). Archives of Virology.

2025;171(1)

33. Simmonds P, Butkovic A, Grove J, Mayne R, Mifsud J, Beer M, et al. Taxonomic expansion and

reorganization of Flaviviridae. Nature Microbiology. 2025;

34. Zerbini FM, Crane A, Kuhn JH, Simmonds P, Lefkowitz EJ, et al. Summary of taxonomy changes rat-

iﬁed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) – General taxonomy proposals,

2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106

35. Krupovic M, Baquero DP, Bignon EA, Bize A, Borrel G, Cai M, et al. Summary of taxonomy changes

ratiﬁed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Archaeal Viruses

Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106

36. Rubino L, Abrahamian P, An W, Aranda MA, Ascencio-Iba˜nez JT, Bejerman N, et al. Summary of

taxonomy changes ratiﬁed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses from the Plant

Viruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106

37. Turner D, Adriaenssens EM, Amann RI, Bardy P, Bartlau N, Barylski J, et al. Summary of taxonomy

changes ratiﬁed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Bacterial

Viruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106

38. Sabanadzovic S, Abergel C, Ayll´on MA, Botella L, Canuti M, Chiba Y, et al. Summary of taxonomy

changes ratiﬁed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Fungal and

Protist Viruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106

39. Hughes HR, Ballinger MJ, Bao Y, Bejerman N, Blasdell KR, Briese T, et al. Summary of taxonomy

changes ratiﬁed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Animal

dsRNA and ssRNA() Viruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106

40. Varsani A, Abd-Alla AMM, Arnberg N, Bateman KS, Benk˝o M, B´ezier A, et al. Summary of taxonomy

changes ratiﬁed by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Animal DNA

Viruses and Retroviruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106

41. Nurmi V, Mayne R, Knight C, Almonacid-Mendoza HL, Secret S, Estcourt L, et al. Individual patient

and donor seroproﬁles in convalescent plasma treatment of COVID-19 in REMAP-CAP clinical trial.

Journal of Infection. 2025;p. 106412

42. McClure CP, Kean K, Reid K, Mayne R, Fu MX, Rajendra P, et al. Reconstruction of the historic

time course of blood-borne virus contamination of clotting factor concentrates, 1974–1992. Journal of

Medical Virology. 2024 7;96

43. Philips N, Draper T, Mayne R, Reynolds D, Adamatzky A. Marimo Actuated Rover Systems. Journal

of Biological Engineering. 2022;16(3)

44. Philips N, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Chlorella sensors in liquid marbles and droplets. Sensing and

bio-sensing research. 2022;36:100491

45. Adamatzky A, Ayres P, Beasley A, Chiolerio A, Deshibi M, Gandia A, et al. Fungal Electronics.

Biosystems. 2022;212:104588

46. Nomura Si, Hayase G, Toyota T, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Spontaneous and Driven Growth of Multi-

cellular Lipid Compartments to Millimeter Size from Porous Polymer Structures. ChemSystemsChem.

2022;4(5):e202200006

47. Deshibi M, Chiolerio A, Nikolaidou A, Mayne R, Gandia A, Ashtari-Majlan M, et al. Stimulating Fungi

Pleurotus ostreatus with Hydrocortisone. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. 2021;7(8):3718–

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48. Adamatzky A, Tegelaar M, Wosten HAB, Powell AL, Beasley AE, Mayne R. On Boolean gates in

fungal colony. Biosystems. 2020;193-194(104138)

49. Adamatzky A, Draper T, Tsomapanas MA, Fullarton C, Mayne R. Liquid Marble Photosensor.

ChemPhysChem. 2019;21(90):1–10

50. Chiolerio A, Draper TC, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. On resistance switching and oscillations in tubulin

microtubule droplets. Journal of Colloid And Interface Science. 2020;560:589–595

51. Draper TC, Phillips N, Weerasekera R, Mayne R, Fullarton C, Lacy BPJD, et al. Contactless Sensing

of Liquid Marbles for Detection and Characterisation. Lab on a Chip. 2019;20(1):136–146

52. Draper T, Fullarton C, Mayne R, Phillips N, Canciani G, de Lacy Costello BPJ, et al. Mapping

outcomes of liquid marble collisions. Soft Matter. 2019;

53. Phillips N, Draper TC, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Marimo machines: oscillators, biosensors and actua-

tors. Journal of Biological Engineering. 2019;13(1):72

54. Yang H, Mayne R, Deng Y. A Bio-inspired Network Design Method for Intelligent Transportation.

International Journal of Unconventional Computing. 2019;Preprint

55. Whiting JGH, Mayne R, Melhuish C, Adamatzky A. A Cilia-inspired Closed-loop Sensor-actuator

Array. Journal of Bionic Engineering. 2018;15(3):526—-532

56. Whiting JGH, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. A Parallel Modular Biomimetic Cilia Sorting Platform.

Biomimetics. 2018;3(5):1–15

57. Fullarton C, Draper T, Phillips N, Mayne R, de Lacy Costello BPJ, Andrew A. Evaporation, Lifetime,

and Robustness Studies of Liquid Marbles for Collision-Based Computing. Langmuir. 2018;

58. Adamatzky A, Akl S, Burgin M, Calude CS, Costa JF, Dehshibi MM, et al. East-West paths to

unconventional computing. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 2017;

59. Phillips N, Adamatzky A, Mayne R. What if houses were powered by milk? Biosystems. 2017;153-

154:1–5

60. Walter XA, Horsﬁeld I, Mayne R, Ieropoulos IA, Adamatzky A. On hybrid circuits exploiting ther-

mistive properties of slime mould. Nature Scientiﬁc Reports. 2016;6(23925)

61. Gizzie N, Mayne R, Yitzchaik S, Ikbal M, Adamatzky A. Living Wires - Eﬀects of Size and Coating

of Gold Nanoparticles in Altering the Electrical Properties of Physarum polycephalum and Lettuce

Seedlings Living Wires — Eﬀects of Size and Coating of Gold Nanoparticles in Altering the Electrical

Properties of. Nano LIFE. 2016;6(1):165001

62. Gizzie N, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. On modulating the Physarum polycephalum plasmodium’s electrical

resistance, resting membrane potential and capacitance by application of nanoparticles and nanostruc-

tures. Organic Electronics. 2016;32:267–273

63. Gizzie N, Mayne R, Patton D, Kendrick P, Adamatzky A. On hybridising lettuce seedlings with

nanoparticles and the resultant eﬀects on the organisms ’ electrical characteristics. BioSystems.

2016;147:28–34

64. Assaf T, Mayne R, Adamatzky A, Melhuish C. Emergent Behaviors in a Bio-Inspired Platform Con-

trolled by a Physical Cellular Automata Cluster. Biomimetics. 2016;1(5):1–13

65. Martinez GJ, Adamatzky A, Mayne R, Chen F, He Q. Majority Gates and Circular Computation in

Slime Mould. In: ECAL2015: The Thirteenth European Conference on Artiﬁcial Life. vol. 27. York,

UK; 2015. p. 18–24

66. Tsompanas MaI, Mayne R, Sirakoulis GC, Adamatzky AI. A Cellular Automata Bioinspired Algo-

rithm Designing Data Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor

Networks. 2015;501:471045

67. Jones J, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Representation of shape mediated by environmental stimuli in

Physarum polycephalum and a multi-agent model. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and

Distributed Systems. 2015;(2):166–184

68. Costello BJPDL, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Conducting polymer-coated Physarum polycephalum

towards the synthesis of bio-hybrid electronic devices. International Journal of General Systems.

2015;44(3):409—-420

69. Adamatzky A, Mayne R. Actin Automata: Phenomenology and Localizations. International Journal

of Bifurcation and Chaos. 2015;25(2)

70. Gale E, Mayne R, Adamatzky A, De Lacy Costello B. Drop-coated titanium dioxide memristors.

Materials Chemistry and Physics. 2014;143(2):524–529

71. Adamatzky A, Armstrong R, De Lacy Costello B, Deng Y, Jones J, Mayne R, et al. Slime mould

analogue models of space exploration and planet colonisation. Journal of the British Interplanetary

Society. 2014;67:290–304

Book Chapters, Non-Primary Author

72. Adamatzky A, Mayne R. Actin Automata: Phenomenology and Localisations. In: Adamatzky A,

editor. Actin Computation. World Scientiﬁc; 2024. p. 9–36

73. Adamatzky A, Tegelaar M, Wosten H, Beasley A, Mayne R. On Boolean gates in fungal colony. In:

Adamatzky A, editor. Fungal machines: sensing and computing with fungi. vol. 47. World Scientiﬁc;

2023. p. 275–292

74. Deshibi M, Chiolerio A, Nikolaidou A, Mayne R, Gandia A, Ashtari-Majlan M, et al. On stimulating

fungi Pleurotus Ostreatus with hydrocortisone. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Fungal machines: sensing

and computing with fungi. vol. 47. World Scientiﬁc; 2023. p. 105–121

75. Adamatzky A, De Lacy Costello B, Draper T, Fullarton C, Mayne R, Philips N, et al. Sensing and

Computing with Liquid Marbles. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Handbook of Unconventional Computing.

World Scientiﬁc; 2022. p. 371–429

76. Dillon T, Ballam E, Mayne R, Phillips N, Adamatzky A. Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City

Infrastructures with Slime Mould. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture.

River Publishers; 2019. p. 171–188

77. Adamatzky A, Harding S, Erokhin V, Mayne R, Gizzie N, Baluska F, et al. Computers from plants

we never made. Speculations. In: Stepney S, Andrew A, editors. Inspired by Nature. Computing

inspired by physics, chemistry and biology. Essays presented to Julian Miller on the occasion of his

60th birthday. Springer; 2017. p. [epub ahead of print]

78. Adamatzky A, Jones J, Mayne R, Whiting J, Schumann A, Siccardi S. PhyChip : Growing Computers

with Slime Mould. In: Stepney S, Rasmussen S, Amos M, editors. Computational Matter. Springer;

2017. p. 109–126

79. Gale E, Matthews O, Jones J, Mayne R, Sirakoulis G, Adamatzky A. Physarum Inspired Audio: From

Oscillatory Soniﬁcation to Memristor Music. In: Guide to Unconventional Computing and Music; 2017.

80. Adamatzky A, Jones J, Mayne R, Tsuda S, Whiting J. Logical Gates and Circuits Implemented in

Slime Mould. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Advances in Physarum Machines. Springer; 2016. p. 37–74

Conference Proceedings

81. Mayne R, Adamatkzy A. Slime mould actin sensoriactuation networks : topology, dynamic transfor-

mations and models of self-assembly. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Artiﬁcial Life

2015; 2015. p. 25–32

82. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. The Physarum polycephalum actin network: formalisation , topology and

morphological correlates with computational ability. In: 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired

Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS); 2014. p. 87–94

Book Reviews

83. Mayne R. Book Review: Embryogenesis Explained. International Journal of Unconventional Comput-

ing. 2017;13:83–84

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