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ReaserchBroadly, I am
interested in the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions.
My research examines the geographic variation in coevolution between
sterilizing trematode parasites and their snail intermediate host,
Potamopyrgus antipodarum.
Host-parasite coevolution can maintain the
coexistence of sexual and asexual forms of P. antipodarum (Red
Queen
coevolution), and populations across New Zealand vary in the frequency
of sexual snails. I am investigating the role of multiple parasite
species as well as gene flow between coevolutionary
“hotspots” and “coldspots” in
producing among population variation in parasite local adaptation and
sexual frequency.
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Study system
Potamopyrgus antipodarum and larval trematode parasites (Microphallus sp.)Education
PhD student, Indiana University, Department of Biology, EEB program, 2006-presentMSc, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2006
BSc, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2004
Publications
King, K.C., Jokela, J., and Lively, C.M. Parasites, sex, and clonal diversity in natural snail populations. Evolution. In press.King, K.C., Jokela, J., and Lively, C.M. Trematode parasites infect or die in snail hosts. Biology Letters. In press.
King, K.C. and Hurst, G.D.D. (2010). Losing the desire: selection can promote obligate asexuality.
BMC Biology 8: 101
King, K.C., McLaughlin, J.D., Boily, M., and Marcogliese, D.J. (2010). Effects of agricultural landscape and pesticides on parasitism in native bullfrogs. Biological Conservation 143, 302-310
King, K.C., Delph, L.F., Jokela, J., and Lively, C.M. (2009). The geographic mosaic of sex and the Red Queen. Current Biology 19: 1438-1441.
King, K.C. and Lively, C.M. (2009). Geographic variation in sterilizing parasite species and the Red Queen. Oikos 118: 1416-1420.
Wolinska, J. and King, K.C. (2009). Environment can alter selection in host-parasite interactions. Trends in Parasitology 25: 236-244.
Marcogliese, D.J., King, K.C., Salo, H., Fournier, M., Brousseau, P., Spear, P., Champoux, L., McLaughlin, J.D., and Boily, M. (2009) Interactions between agriculture and parasitism: effects on biomarkers in the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana. Aquatic Toxicology 91: 126-134.
Wolinska, J., King, K.C., Vigneux, F., and Lively, C.M. (2008) Virulence, cultivating conditions, and phylogenetic analyses of oomycete parasites in Daphnia. Parasitology 135: 1667-1678.
King, K.C., Gendron, A.D., McLaughlin, J.D , Giroux, I., Brousseau, P., Cyr, D., Ruby, S.M., Fournier, M., and Marcogliese, D.J. (2008) Short-term seasonal changes in parasite community structure in northern leopard froglets (Rana pipiens) inhabiting agricultural wetlands. Journal of Parasitology 94: 13-22.
King, K. C., McLaughlin, J. D., Gendron, A. D., Pauli, B. D., Giroux, I., Rondeau, B., Boily, M., Juneau, P., and Marcogliese, D. J. (2007) Impacts of agriculture on the parasite communities of northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) in southern Quebec, Canada. Parasitology 134: 2063-2080.
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USA