Dr Kieran Bates
Lecturer in Microbiome Science
Research
Microbiome, Glycobiology, Ecology and Evolution, Experimental Biology, Fungal Pathogens
Interests
I am interested in understanding how microbial communities assemble, persist and influence the health of their hosts. My research combines theory with wild and experimental systems to investigate microbial function through to eco-evolutionary dynamics. My group is especially interested in the role of host mucosal and epithelial glycans as both ligands for microbial colonisation and nutrient sources.Publications
2025
2024
Incidence and characterization of polyglucosan bodies in the cerebella of montserrat orioles (Icterus oberi)Spiro S, Pereira M, Bates KA, Jaunmuktane Z, Everest DJ, Stidworthy MF, Denk D, Núñez A et al.
Veterinary Pathology, Sage Publications vol. 62 (4), 581-585.
15-08-2024
Author Correction: Chemical disinfection as a simple and reliable method to control the amphibian chytrid fungus at breeding points of endangered amphibiansThumsová B, González-Miras E, Rubio Á, Bates KA
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 14 (1)
20-03-2024
Chemical disinfection as a simple and reliable method to control the amphibian chytrid fungus at breeding points of endangered amphibiansThumsová B, González-Miras E, Rubio Á, Granados I, Bates KA, Bosch J
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 14 (1)
02-03-2024
2023
Gut microbiota of the critically endangered Saiga antelope across two wild populations in a year without mass mortalityHanski E, Khanyari M, Li J, Bates KA, Zuther S, Maiden MCJ, Kock R, Knowles SCL
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 13 (1)
11-10-2023
2022
Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Shape the Skin Bacterial Communities of a Semi-Arid Amphibian SpeciesBates KA, Friesen J, Loyau A, Butler H, Vredenburg VT, Laufer J, Chatzinotas A, Schmeller DS
Microbial Ecology, Springer Nature vol. 86 (2), 1393-1404.
29-11-2022
Experimental temperatures shape host microbiome diversity and compositionLi J, Bates KA, Hoang KL, Hector TE, Knowles SCL, King KC
Global Change Biology, Wiley vol. 29 (1), 41-56.
17-10-2022
Scientists' warning of threats to mountainsSchmeller DS, Urbach D, Bates K, Catalan J, Cogălniceanu D, Fisher MC, Friesen J, Füreder L et al.
The Science of The Total Environment, Elsevier vol. 853
07-09-2022
Rapid evolution of a novel protective symbiont into keystone taxon in Caenorhabditis elegans microbiotaWu-Chuang A, Bates KA, Obregon D, Estrada-Peña A, King KC, Cabezas-Cruz A
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 12 (1)
18-08-2022
Turning the tide on sex and the microbiota in aquatic animalsBates KA, Higgins C, Neiman M, King KC
Hydrobiologia, Springer Nature vol. 850 (17), 3823-3835.
05-05-2022
Microbiome function predicts amphibian chytridiomycosis disease dynamicsBates KA, Sommer U, Hopkins KP, Shelton JMG, Wierzbicki C, Sergeant C, Tapley B, Michaels CJ et al.
Microbiome, Springer Nature vol. 10 (1)
10-03-2022
2021
A globally ubiquitous symbiont can drive experimental host evolutionBates KA, Bolton JS, King KC
Molecular Ecology, Wiley vol. 30 (15), 3882-3892.
14-06-2021
Effects of multiple stressors on northern leopard frogs in agricultural wetlandsMarcogliese DJ, King KC, Bates KA
Parasitology, Cambridge University Press (Cup) vol. 148 (7), 827-834.
09-03-2021
2019
Captivity and Infection by the Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Perturb the Amphibian Skin MicrobiomeBates KA, Shelton JMG, Mercier VL, Hopkins KP, Harrison XA, Petrovan SO, Fisher MC
Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers vol. 10
23-08-2019
2018
Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungiFisher MC, Ghosh P, Shelton JMG, Bates K, Brookes L, Wierzbicki C, Rosa GM, Farrer RA et al.
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 8 (1)
17-05-2018
Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declinesO'Hanlon SJ, Rieux A, Farrer RA, Rosa GM, Waldman B, Bataille A, Kosch TA, Murray KA et al.
Science, American Association For The Advancement of Science (Aaas) vol. 360 (6389), 621-627.
11-05-2018
Amphibian chytridiomycosis outbreak dynamics are linked with host skin bacterial community structureBates KA, Clare FC, O’Hanlon S, Bosch J, Brookes L, Hopkins K, McLaughlin EJ, Daniel O et al.
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 9 (1)
15-02-2018
Captivity and exposure to the emerging fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans are linked to perturbation and dysbiosis of the amphibian skin microbiomeIn Biorxiv
Development and worldwide use of a non-lethal and minimal population-level impact protocols for the isolation of chytrids from amphibiansIn Biorxiv