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Journal articles
2024, 'Clinical Setting Comparative Analysis of Uropathogens and Antibiotic Resistance: A Retrospective Study Spanning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad676
,2024, 'Extinctions Caused by Host-Range Expansion', SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 23, pp. 1677 - 1703, http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/23M1605582
,2023, 'Genomic Epidemiology and Multilevel Genome Typing of Australian Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis', Microbiology Spectrum, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03014-22
,2022, 'Spatial dynamics of inflammation-causing and commensal bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 548, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111194
,2022, 'Gut mutualists can persist in host populations despite low fidelity of vertical transmission', Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.38
,2022, 'Hazardous Loss of Genetic Diversity through Selective Sweeps in Asexual Populations', American Naturalist, 199, pp. 313 - 329, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/717813
,2022, 'The role of a programmatic immune response on the evolution of pathogen traits', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 534, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110962
,2022, 'Genomic dissection of the microevolution of Australian epidemic Bordetella pertussis', Emerging Microbes and Infections, 11, pp. 1460 - 1473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2022.2077129
,2022, 'MGTdb: A web service and database for studying the global and local genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens', Database, 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baac094
,2022, 'Surviving environmental change: When increasing population size can increase extinction risk', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0439
,2021, 'Modelling the effect of birth and feeding modes on the development of human gut microbiota', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, pp. 20201810, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1810
,2021, 'Elucidation of global and national genomic epidemiology of salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis through multilevel genome typing', Microbial Genomics, 7, pp. 000605, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/MGEN.0.000605
,2021, 'Enhancing genomics-based outbreak detection of endemic salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium using dynamic thresholds', Microbial Genomics, 7, pp. 000310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/MGEN.0.000310
,2020, 'The dual landscape model of adaptation and niche construction', Philosophy of Science, 87, pp. 478 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/708692
,2020, 'Emergence of pertactin-deficient pertussis strains in Australia can be explained by models of vaccine escape', Epidemics, 31, pp. 100388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2020.100388
,2020, 'Multilevel genome typing: Genomics-guided scalable resolution typing of microbial pathogens', Eurosurveillance, 25, pp. 1900519, http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.20.1900519
,2020, 'Lifting the veil on arid-to-hyperarid Antarctic soil microbiomes: A tale of two oases', Microbiome, 8, pp. 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00809-w
,2020, 'Evolution of the stator elements of rotary prokaryote motors', Journal of Bacteriology, 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.00557-19
,2020, 'MERCAT: Visualising molecular epidemiology data combining genetic markers and drug resistance profiles', Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 77, pp. 104043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2019.104043
,2020, 'Nonsynonymous Polymorphism Counts in Bacterial Genomes: a Comparative Examination', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 87, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02002-20
,2019, 'Novel insights into endogenous RNA viral elements in Ixodes scapularis and other arbovirus vector genomes', Virus Evolution, 5, pp. vez010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ve/vez010
,2019, 'Extreme niche partitioning promotes a remarkably high diversity of soil microbiomes across eastern Antarctica', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/559666
,2018, 'Genomic analysis of oral Campylobacter concisus strains identified a potential bacterial molecular marker associated with active Crohn's disease', Emerging Microbes and Infections, 7, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41426-018-0065-6
,2018, 'The role of pleiotropy in the evolutionary maintenance of positive niche construction', American Naturalist, 192, pp. 35 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/697471
,2017, 'Comparative genomics of Australian and international isolates of Salmonella Typhimurium: Correlation of core genome evolution with CRISPR and prophage profiles', Scientific Reports, 7, pp. 9733, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06079-1
,2017, 'Genomic heterogeneity of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium bacteriuria from chronic infection', Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 51, pp. 17 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2017.03.004
,2017, 'Persistent infections in immunocompromised hosts are rarely sources of new pathogen variants', Virus Evolution, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ve/vex018
,2017, 'Maximum likelihood estimates of pairwise rearrangement distances', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 423, pp. 31 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.04.015
,2016, 'Controlled fire use in early humans might have triggered the evolutionary emergence of tuberculosis', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, pp. 9051 - 9056, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1603224113
,2016, 'The genome-wide DNA sequence specificity of the anti-tumour drug bleomycin in human cells', Molecular Biology Reports, 43, pp. 639 - 651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11033-016-3998-7
,2016, 'The emergence of latent infection in the early evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283, pp. 20160499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0499
,2016, 'Modelling the role of immunity in reversion of viral antigenic sites', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 392, pp. 23 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.12.008
,2016, 'Evolution of variable number tandem repeats and its relationship with genomic diversity in Salmonella typhimurium', Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, pp. 2002, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.02002
,2016, 'Examination of the effects of Campylobacter concisus zonula occludens toxin on intestinal epithelial cells and macrophages', Gut Pathogens, 8, pp. 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13099-016-0101-9
,2015, 'Dynamics of bacterial insertion sequences: Can transposition bursts help the elements persist? Theories and models', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, pp. 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0560-5
,2015, 'Genomic variability of serial human isolates of salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium associated with prolonged carriage', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 53, pp. 3507 - 3514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01733-15
,2015, 'Defining the core genome of salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium for genomic surveillance and epidemiological typing', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 53, pp. 2530 - 2538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03407-14
,2015, 'Delineating community outbreaks of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium by use of whole-genome sequencing: Insights into genomic variability within an outbreak', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 53, pp. 1063 - 1071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03235-14
,2015, 'Connecting within-host dynamics to the rate of viral molecular evolution', Virus Evolution, 1, pp. vev013 - vev013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ve/vev013
,2014, 'Viral niche construction alters hosts and ecosystems at multiple scales', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 29, pp. 594 - 599, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.08.005
,2014, 'The emergence and evolution of the novel epidemic norovirus GII.4 variant Sydney 2012', Virology, 450-451, pp. 106 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2013.12.005
,2014, 'Dynamics of evolutionary rescue in changing environments and the emergence of antibiotic resistance', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 340, pp. 222 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.09.026
,2014, 'Exact vs. approximate computation: Reconciling different estimates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis epidemiological parameters', Genetics, 196, pp. 1227 - 1230, http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.113.158808
,2014, 'Group-theoretic models of the inversion process in bacterial genomes', Journal of Mathematical Biology, 69, pp. 243 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-013-0702-6
,2014, 'Timing of antimicrobial use influences the evolution of antimicrobial resistance during disease epidemics', Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, 2014, pp. 150 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eou027
,2013, 'Epidemiological control of drug resistance and compensatory mutation under resistance testing and second-line therapy', Epidemics, 5, pp. 164 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2013.08.002
,2013, 'The effects of linkage on comparative estimators of selection', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, pp. 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-244
,2013, 'Behavioural manipulation of insect hosts by Baculoviridae as a process of niche construction', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, pp. 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-170
,2013, 'Recombination within the pandemic norovirus GII.4 lineage', Journal of Virology, 87, pp. 6270 - 6282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.03464-12
,2013, 'Viral mutation rates: Modelling the roles of within-host viral dynamics and the trade-off between replication fidelity and speed', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences, 280, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2047
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