Kayla C. King

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Kayla C. King is a scholar working on Genetics, Insect Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kayla C. King has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Genetics, 34 papers in Insect Science and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kayla C. King's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (62 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (34 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (22 papers). Kayla C. King is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (62 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (34 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (22 papers). Kayla C. King collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Kayla C. King's co-authors include Justyna Wolinska, Curtis M. Lively, Emily J. Stevens, Suzanne A. Ford, Georgia Drew, Michael A. Brockhurst, Jukka Jokela, Kieran A. Bates, Gregory D. D. Hurst and Alex Betts and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kayla C. King

87 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Microbial evolution and transitions along the parasite–mutualist continuum

2021 193 citations Georgia Drew, Emily J. Stevens et al. profile →

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Nick Colegrave United Kingdom

Oliver Kaltz France

Jan Engelstädter Australia

Anna‐Liisa Laine Finland

Thierry De Meeûs France

Steve Paterson United Kingdom

Robert M. Brucker United States

Michael Boots United Kingdom

Lars Råberg Sweden

David J. Civitello United States

Nick Colegrave United Kingdom

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664 ×0.7

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Countries citing papers authored by Kayla C. King

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kayla C. King

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kayla C. King

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Stevens, Emily J., et al.. (2025). Host Transcriptomics Reveal Reduction in Defence‐Reproduction Trade‐Offs During Coinfection. Molecular Ecology. 34(21). e70124–e70124.

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Bates, Kieran A., et al.. (2025). Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution. Ecology Letters. 28(2). e70087–e70087.

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Hoang, Kim L., et al.. (2024). The impacts of host association and perturbation on symbiont fitness. Symbiosis. 92(3). 439–451.

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Gao, Yangyang, et al.. (2024). Dual stressors of infection and warming can destabilize host microbiomes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1901). 20230069–20230069. 3 indexed citations

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Hoang, Kim L., Timothy Read, & Kayla C. King. (2024). Defense Heterogeneity in Host Populations Gives Rise to Pathogen Diversity. The American Naturalist. 204(4). 370–380. 3 indexed citations

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Drew, Georgia, et al.. (2024). Excess mortality of infected ectotherms induced by warming depends on pathogen kingdom and evolutionary history. PLoS Biology. 22(11). e3002900–e3002900. 2 indexed citations

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Stevens, Emily J., et al.. (2023). Within- and between-host dynamics of producer and non-producer pathogens. Parasitology. 150(9). 805–812. 1 indexed citations

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King, Kayla C., et al.. (2023). Interactions between insect vectors and plant pathogens span the parasitism–mutualism continuum. Biology Letters. 19(3). 20220453–20220453. 7 indexed citations

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King, Kayla C., Matthew D. Hall, & Justyna Wolinska. (2023). Infectious disease ecology and evolution in a changing world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1873). 20220002–20220002. 8 indexed citations

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Rafaluk‐Mohr, Charlotte, et al.. (2022). Microbial protection favors parasite tolerance and alters host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics. Current Biology. 32(7). 1593–1598.e3. 16 indexed citations

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Ford, Suzanne A., Georgia Drew, & Kayla C. King. (2022). Immune-mediated competition benefits protective microbes over pathogens in a novel host species. Heredity. 129(6). 327–335. 10 indexed citations

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Hoang, Kim L., et al.. (2022). Symbiosis and host responses to heating. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 37(7). 611–624. 35 indexed citations

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Bates, Kieran A., et al.. (2022). Experimental temperatures shape host microbiome diversity and composition. Global Change Biology. 29(1). 41–56. 54 indexed citations

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Ekroth, Alice K. E., Michael Gerth, Emily J. Stevens, Suzanne A. Ford, & Kayla C. King. (2021). Host genotype and genetic diversity shape the evolution of a novel bacterial infection. The ISME Journal. 15(7). 2146–2157. 26 indexed citations

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Hodžić, Adnan, et al.. (2021). Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on tick-borne pathogen co-infections. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 100049–100049. 13 indexed citations

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Stevens, Emily J., Kieran A. Bates, & Kayla C. King. (2021). Host microbiota can facilitate pathogen infection. PLoS Pathogens. 17(5). e1009514–e1009514. 109 indexed citations

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Bankers, Laura, Dylan Dahan, Maurine Neiman, et al.. (2020). Invasive freshwater snails form novel microbial relationships. Evolutionary Applications. 14(3). 770–780. 14 indexed citations

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Ford, Suzanne A. & Kayla C. King. (2020). In Vivo Microbial Coevolution Favors Host Protection and Plastic Downregulation of Immunity. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(4). 1330–1338. 25 indexed citations

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Bonsall, Michael B., et al.. (2020). Evolution and maintenance of microbe‐mediated protection under occasional pathogen infection. Ecology and Evolution. 10(16). 8634–8642. 5 indexed citations

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Ford, Suzanne A., et al.. (2019). Fecundity compensation is dependent on the generalized stress response in a nematode host. Ecology and Evolution. 9(20). 11957–11961. 12 indexed citations

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