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
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
Bates KA, Friesen J, Loyau A, et al., 2022, Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Shape the Skin Bacterial Communities of a Semi-Arid Amphibian Species, Microbial Ecology, ISSN:0095-3628
Li J, Bates KA, Hoang KL, et al., 2022, Experimental temperatures shape host microbiome diversity and composition, Global Change Biology, Vol:29, ISSN:1354-1013, Pages:41-56
Wu-Chuang A, Bates KA, Obregon D, et al., 2022, Rapid evolution of a novel protective symbiont into keystone taxon in Caenorhabditis elegans microbiota, Scientific Reports, Vol:12, ISSN:2045-2322
Bates KA, Higgins C, Neiman M, et al., 2022, Turning the tide on sex and the microbiota in aquatic animals, Hydrobiologia, ISSN:0018-8158