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Publications: DR Kieran Bates

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( 2025 ) . Unraveling the disease pyramid: the role of environmental micro-eukaryotes in amphibian resistance to the deadly fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis . mSystems vol. 11 , ( 1 ) e01436 - e01425 .
( 2025 ) . Rapid emergence of Trichophyton indotineae (Trichophyton mentagrophytes ITS genotype VIII) observed in the United Kingdom, up to August 2025 . Eurosurveillance vol. 30 , ( 49 )
Will I, Stevens EJ, King KC, Bates KA ( 2025 ) . Host Transcriptomics Reveal Reduction in Defence‐Reproduction Trade‐Offs During Coinfection . Molecular Ecology vol. 34 , ( 21 )
Bates KA, Garner TWJ ( 2025 ) . Ranavirus . vol. 33 , is. Viruses 3 2011 , pp. 701 - 702 . Elsevier
( 2025 ) . Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution . Ecology Letters vol. 28 , ( 2 )
Spiro S, Pereira M, Bates KA, Jaunmuktane Z, Everest DJ, Denk D, Núñez A, Wrigglesworth E et al. ( 2024 ) . Incidence and characterization of polyglucosan bodies in the cerebella of montserrat orioles (Icterus oberi) . Veterinary Pathology vol. 62 , ( 4 ) 581 - 585 .
Thumsová B, González-Miras E, Rubio Á, Bates KA ( 2024 ) . Author Correction: Chemical disinfection as a simple and reliable method to control the amphibian chytrid fungus at breeding points of endangered amphibians . Scientific Reports vol. 14 , ( 1 )
Thumsová B, González-Miras E, Rubio Á, Granados I, Bates KA ( 2024 ) . Chemical disinfection as a simple and reliable method to control the amphibian chytrid fungus at breeding points of endangered amphibians . Scientific Reports vol. 14 , ( 1 )
Hanski E, Khanyari M, Li J, Bates KA, Zuther S, Kock R ( 2023 ) . Gut microbiota of the critically endangered Saiga antelope across two wild populations in a year without mass mortality . Scientific Reports vol. 13 , ( 1 )
Bates KA, Friesen J, Loyau A, Butler H, Laufer J, Schmeller DS ( 2022 ) . Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Shape the Skin Bacterial Communities of a Semi-Arid Amphibian Species . Microbial Ecology vol. 86 , ( 2 ) 1393 - 1404 .
Li J, Bates KA, Hector TE, Knowles SCL ( 2022 ) . Experimental temperatures shape host microbiome diversity and composition . Global Change Biology vol. 29 , ( 1 ) 41 - 56 .
Schmeller DS, Urbach D, Bates K, Catalan J, Cogălniceanu D, Friesen J, Füreder L, Gaube V et al. ( 2022 ) . Scientists' warning of threats to mountains . The Science of The Total Environment vol. 853 ,
Wu-Chuang A, Bates KA, Obregon D, King KC ( 2022 ) . Rapid evolution of a novel protective symbiont into keystone taxon in Caenorhabditis elegans microbiota . Scientific Reports vol. 12 , ( 1 )
Bates KA, Higgins C, Neiman M ( 2022 ) . Turning the tide on sex and the microbiota in aquatic animals . Hydrobiologia vol. 850 , ( 17 ) 3823 - 3835 .
Bates KA, Sommer U, Hopkins KP, Shelton JMG, Wierzbicki C, Sergeant C, Tapley B, Michaels CJ et al. ( 2022 ) . Microbiome function predicts amphibian chytridiomycosis disease dynamics . Microbiome vol. 10 , ( 1 )
( 2021 ) . Leucobacter . Trends in Microbiology vol. 29 , ( Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 70 2020 ) 1046 - 1047 .
Bates KA, Bolton JS ( 2021 ) . A globally ubiquitous symbiont can drive experimental host evolution . Molecular Ecology vol. 30 , ( 15 ) 3882 - 3892 .
( 2021 ) . Host microbiota can facilitate pathogen infection . PLOS Pathogens vol. 17 , ( 5 )
Marcogliese DJ, King KC ( 2021 ) . Effects of multiple stressors on northern leopard frogs in agricultural wetlands . Parasitology vol. 148 , ( 7 ) 827 - 834 .
Bates KA, Shelton JMG, Mercier VL, Hopkins KP, Harrison XA, Fisher MC ( 2019 ) . Captivity and Infection by the Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Perturb the Amphibian Skin Microbiome . Frontiers in Microbiology vol. 10 ,
( 2018 ) . Diagnosing Emerging Fungal Threats: A One Health Perspective . Frontiers in Genetics vol. 9 ,
Fisher MC, Ghosh P, Shelton JMG, Bates K, Brookes L, Wierzbicki C, Rosa GM, Farrer RA et al. ( 2018 ) . Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi . Scientific Reports vol. 8 , ( 1 )
O'Hanlon SJ, Rieux A, Farrer RA, Rosa GM, Waldman B, Bataille A, Kosch TA, Murray KA et al. ( 2018 ) . Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines . Science vol. 360 , ( 6389 ) 621 - 627 .
Bates KA, Clare FC, O’Hanlon S, Bosch J, Brookes L, Hopkins K, McLaughlin EJ, Harrison XA ( 2018 ) . Amphibian chytridiomycosis outbreak dynamics are linked with host skin bacterial community structure . Nature Communications vol. 9 , ( 1 )
( 2016 ) . Tracking the amphibian pathogens Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans using a highly specific monoclonal antibody and lateral‐flow technology . Microbial Biotechnology vol. 10 , ( 2 ) 381 - 394 .
Bates KA, Shelton JMG, Mercier VL, Hopkins KP, Harrison XA, Petrovan SO, Fisher MC . Captivity and exposure to the emerging fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans are linked to perturbation and dysbiosis of the amphibian skin microbiome .
Fisher MC, Ghosh P, Shelton JMG, Bates K, Brookes L, Wierzbicki C, Rosa GM, Farrer RA et al. . Development and worldwide use of a non-lethal and minimal population-level impact protocols for the isolation of chytrids from amphibians .
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