Kayla C. King

This study investigates pleiotropy in host defense mechanisms of C. elegans against Pseudomonas aeruginosa by analyzing gene knockouts and their effects on multiple defense traits.

This study tests how pesticide deployment regimes affect resistance evolution in C. elegans, finding that compound mixtures with refuge most effectively constrain resistance.

This study shows coinfections reduce temperature effects on host mortality in nematodes, but this effect weakens at extreme temperatures and with genetic variation.

This study shows that competition reduces thermal adaptation in bacteriophages under fluctuating temperatures compared to monoculture conditions.

The paper shows that toxin-producing yeast strains are outcompeted by resistant strains, leading to intransitive dynamics driven by coinfections in natural yeast populations.

This study shows evolutionary rescue prevents parasite extinction but can destabilize communities by promoting competitive exclusion in a viral parasite system under thermal stress.

This study uses MYCroplanters to identify how host, microbiota, and pathogen factors interact to influence host health in an Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas system.

This study shows that rising temperatures increase parasite virulence and drive parallel molecular evolution during host jumps.

The paper shows that within-host competition between pathogens and microbiota drives molecular evolution and microbiota dysbiosis in C. elegans hosts.

This study shows that warming increases host mortality from infections, with bacterial pathogens causing more deaths than fungal ones, and effects depend on pathogen type and host-pathogen history.

This study uses comparative genomics of Arsenophonus to show that endosymbionts initially expand their genomes through horizontal gene transfer and loss of defense systems, followed by genome reduction.