2025
Stevens, E.J.* et al., 2025. Within-host competition causes pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis. The ISME Journal, wraf071, https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wraf071
Hector, T.E., Kreiner, J.M., Forward, J.C., Hoang, K.L., Stevens, E.J. et al., 2025. Rising temperatures favour parasite virulence and parallel molecular evolution following a host jump. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.14.632940
2024
Will, I.$, Stevens, E.J.$, Belcher, T. & King, K.C., 2024. “Re-wilding” an animal model with microbiota shifts immunity and stress gene expression during infection. Molecular Ecology, 0:e17586. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17586
Greenrod, S.T.E., Stevens, E.J., Hector, T.E., Johnson, S., MacLean, R.C., King, K.C., 2024. Warming alters life history traits and competition in a phage community. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 90(5), e00286-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00286-24
Li, J., Gao, Y.Y., Stevens, E.J. & King, K.C., 2024. Dual stressors of infection and warming can destabilize host microbiomes. Philosophical Transactions B, 379: 20230069. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0069
2023
Pike, V.L., Stevens, E.J., Griffin, A.S. & King, K.C., 2023. Within- and between-host dynamics of producer and non-producer pathogens. Parasitology, 150(9). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182023000586
2022
Jangir, P.K., Ogunlana, L., Szili, P., Czikkely, M., Stevens, E.J. et al., 2022. The evolution of colistin resistance increases bacterial resistance to host antimicrobial peptides and virulence. eLife, e84395. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84395
Stevens, E.J. et al., 2022. Targeted control of pneumolysin production by a mobile genetic element in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Microbial Genomics, 8(4). https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000784
2021
Stevens, E.J.*, Bates, K.A. & King, K.C., 2021. Host microbiota can facilitate pathogen infection. PLoS Pathogens, 17(5), e1009514. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009514
Drew, G.C.$, Stevens, E.J.$ & King, K.C., 2021. Microbial evolution and transitions along the parasite-mutualist continuum. Nature Reviews Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-021-00550-7
Ekroth, A.K.E., Gerth, M., Stevens, E.J. et al., 2021. Host genotype and genetic diversity shape the evolution of a novel bacterial infection. The ISME Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-00911-3
2020
King, K.C., Stevens, E.J. & Drew, G.C., 2020. Microbiome: Evolution in a world of interaction. Current Biology, 30(6). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.010
2018
Yokoyama, M., Stevens, E. et al., 2018. Epistasis analysis uncovers hidden antibiotic resistance-associated fitness costs hampering the evolution of MRSA. Genome Biology, 19(94). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1469-2
2017
Stevens, E. et al., 2017. Cytolytic toxin production by Staphylococcus aureus is dependent upon the activity of the protoheme IX farnesyltransferase. Scientific Reports, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14110-8
Recker, M., Laabei, M., Toleman, M., Reuter, S., Saunderson, R.B., Blane, B., Török, M.E., Ouadi, K., Stevens, E. et al., 2017. Clonal differences in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia-associated mortality. Nature Microbiology, 2(10). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-017-0001-x
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