Summary
My research focusses on how microbes interact with each other, their environment and the multicellular hosts that they colonise over space and time. I am particularly interested in the role of microbial communities in shaping ecological dynamics in nature and what impact these communities may have on the evolution of host resistance to infection.
Publications
Journals
Bates KA, Higgins C, Neiman M, et al., 2023, Turning the tide on sex and the microbiota in aquatic animals, Hydrobiologia, Vol:850, ISSN:0018-8158, Pages:3823-3835
Bates KA, Friesen J, Loyau A, et al., 2023, Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Shape the Skin Bacterial Communities of a Semi-Arid Amphibian Species, Microbial Ecology, Vol:86, ISSN:0095-3628, Pages:1393-1404
Li J, Bates KA, Hoang KL, et al., 2023, Experimental temperatures shape host microbiome diversity and composition, Global Change Biology, Vol:29, ISSN:1354-1013, Pages:41-56
Schmeller DS, Urbach D, Bates K, et al., 2022, Scientists' warning of threats to mountains, Science of the Total Environment, Vol:853, ISSN:0048-9697
Wu-Chuang A, Bates KA, Obregon D, et al., 2022, Rapid evolution of a novel protective symbiont into keystone taxon in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> microbiota, Scientific Reports, Vol:12, ISSN:2045-2322