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Education
PhD student, Indiana University, Department of Biology, EEB program, 2006-present

MSc, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2006

BSc, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2004
Publication  
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. In press.
 
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.
 

bio dep
Department of Biology
1001 East Third St
Bloomington, IN 47405-3700
USA
Kayla Christina King
PhD Candidate
kingkc at indiana.edu

Research
Broadly, 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.
Study system
Potamopyrgus antipodarum and larval trematode parasites (Microphallus sp.)