PRE-PRINTS
Figueiredo ART, Wanelik KM, Quicray M, Lamberth C, Raulo A, Knowles SCL (2025) The gut microbiota of two rodents varies over fine spatial scales yet is minimally influenced by the environmental microbiota. bioRxiv. DOI: tbc Link
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2025
Albery GF, Becker DJ, Firth JA, Silk M, Sweeny AR...Wanelik KM, Wielgus E, Wilson-Aggarwal J, Wohlfeil C, Bansal S (2025) Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02843-z Link
Deza-Cruz I, de Menezes A, Gardner B, Aktan I, Alnajjar S, Betson M...Wallace-Williams H, Wanelik KM, Woegerbauer M, Wright S, Lo Iacono G (2025) Mapping the evidence of the effects of environmental factors on the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in the non-built environment. Environment International. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109634 Link
Wanelik KM, Begon M, Bradley JE, Fenn J, Jackson JA, Paterson S (2025) Superspreaders have lower gut microbial alpha-diversity and distinct gut microbial composition in a natural rodent population. Animal Microbiome. DOI: 10.1186/s42523-025-00411-1 Link
2024
Worsley SF, Videvall E, Harrison XA, Björk JR, Mazel F, Wanelik KM (2024) Probing the functional significance of wild animal microbiomes using omics data. Functional Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14650 Link
Hanski E, Joseph S, Raulo A, Wanelik KM, O'Toole A, Knowles SCL and Little TJ (2024) Epigenetic age estimation of wild mice using faecal samples. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.17330 Link
2023
Wanelik KM, Raulo A, Troitsky T, Husby A and Knowles SCL (2023) Maternal transmission gives way to social transmission during gut microbiota assembly in wild mice. Animal Microbiome. DOI: 10.1186/s42523-023-00247-7 Link
Wanelik KM, Begon M, Fenton A, Norman RA and Beldomenico PM (2023) Positive feedback loops exacerbate the influence of superspreaders in disease transmission. iScience. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106618 Link
Wanelik KM, Begon M, Bradley JE, Friberg IM, Taylor CH, Jackson JA, Paterson S (2023) Early-life immune expression profiles predict later-life health and fitness in a wild rodent. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.16950 Link
Fenn J, Taylor C, Goertz S, Wanelik KM, Paterson S, Begon M, Jackson J, Bradley J (2023). Discrete patterns of microbiome variability across timescales in a wild rodent population. BMC Microbiology. DOI: 10.1186/s12866-023-02824-x Link
Wanelik KM, Begon M, Bradley JE, Friberg IM, Jackson JA, Taylor CH, Paterson S (2023). Effects of an IgE receptor polymorphism on immunity, susceptibility to infection and reproduction in a wild rodent. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.77666 Link
2022
Taylor CH, Friberg IM, Jackson JA, Arriero E, Begon M, Wanelik KM, Paterson S, Bradley, J (2022) Living with chronic infection: persistent immunomodulation during avirulent haemoparasitic infection in a wild rodent. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.16819 Link
Wanelik KM & Farine D (2022) A new method for characterising shared space use networks using animal trapping data. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-022-03222-5 Link
2020
Wanelik KM ‡, Griffin JS ‡, Head M, Ingelby FC & Lewis Z (2020) Breaking barriers? Ethnicity and socioeconomic background impact on early career progression in the fields of ecology and ecolution. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6423 ‡ joint first authors. Link. Nature Index News piece.
Wanelik KM, Begon M, Arriero E, Bradley JE, Friberg IM, Jackson JA, Taylor CH & Paterson S (2020) Transcriptome-wide analysis reveals different categories of response to a standardized immune challenge in a wild rodent. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64307-7 Link
2018
Taylor CH, Wanelik KM, Friberg IM, Lowe A, Hall AJ, Ralli C, Bradley JE (2018) Physiological, but not fitness, effects of two interacting haemoparasitic infections in a wild rodent. International Journal for Parasitology. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2017.11.006 Link
2017
Wanelik KM, Begon M, Birtles RJ, Bradley JE, Friberg IM, Jackson JA, Paterson S (2017) A candidate tolerance gene identified in a natural population of field voles. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14476 Link
Arriero E ‡, Wanelik KM ‡, Birtles RJ, Bradley JE, Jackson JA, Paterson S, Begon M (2017) From the animal house to the field: Are there consistent individual differences in immunological profile in wild populations of field voles? PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183450 ‡ joint first authors. Link
Wanelik KM, Burthe SJ, Harris MP, Nunn MA, Godfray HCJ, Sheldon BC, McLean AR, Wanless S (2017). Investigating the effects of age-related spatial structuring on the transmission of a tick-borne virus in a colonially breeding host. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3612 Link
2013
Wanelik KM, Azis A, Cheyne SM (2013) Note-, phrase- and song-specific acoustic variables contributing to the individuality of male duet song in the Bornean southern gibbon. Primates. DOI: 10.1007/s10329- 012-0338-y Link
POLICY DOCUMENTS
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Deep Sea Mining, POSTnote, September 2015. Link
BLOG POSTS
Contribution to a post on 'Barriers facing early career researcher in minority groups'. Ecology and Evolution Blog.
Post on 'A toolkit for managing multiple (busy) supervisors'. Academic life histories Blog.
Post on 'My experience of the Aurora Leadership Programme'. University of Liverpool Institute of Integrative Biology and School of Life Sciences outreach Blog and Log.
Contribution to a post on 'Meet the Scientists On Tour', an initiative that aims to bring science to the public in places they don’t expect it. University of Liverpool Institute of Integrative Biology and School of Life Sciences outreach Blog and Log.