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• 2026: Higgins C.M., Hector T.E, & Will I. Recent advances in understanding the impact of climate change on insects and their parasites across multiple scales. Under Review
• 2025: Will I., Smith C.A., Hector T.E, & King K.C. Coinfections dampen the effects of temperature on host-parasite interactions. bioRxiv PREPRINT. doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.10.693475
• 2025: Li J., Will I., Silva, L.M., Travers-Cook, T.J., Blackwood, P.E., King, K.C. Integrating the microbiome into infection ecology and evolution in wild animals Molecular Ecology. vol 35(5). doi.org/10.1111/mec.70281
• 2025: Will I., Stevens E.J., King K.C., & Bates K.A. Host Transcriptomics Reveal Reduction in Defence-Reproduction Trade-Offs During Coinfection Molecular Ecology. vol 34(21). doi.org/10.1111/mec.70124
• 2024: Edwards S., Knud N.N., Will I., de Bekker C., Kotta-Loizou I., & de Fine Licht H. Pathogenic fungus expresses effector proteins in combination with a symbiotic virus to behaviourally manipulate housefly hosts. bioRxiv PREPRINT. doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.20.608796
• 2024: Will I., Stevens E.J., Belcher T., & King K.C. ‘Re-wilding’ an animal model with microbiota shifts immunity and stress gene expression during infection Molecular Ecology. vol 34(1). Co-first with Stevens. doi.org/10.1111/mec.17586
• 2023: Will I., Attardo G.M., & de Bekker C. Multiomic interpretation of fungus-infected ant metabolomes during manipulated summit disease Scientific Reports. vol 13(14363). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40065-0
• 2023: Will I., Beckerson W.C., & de Bekker C. Using machine learning to predict protein-protein interactions between a zombie ant fungus and its carpenter ant host. Scientific Reports. vol 13(13821). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40764-8
• 2023: Das B., Will I., Brouns R., Brachmann, A. , & de Bekker C. Using RNASeq to investigate the involvement of the Ophiocordyceps clock in ant host infection and behavioral manipulation. bioRxiv PREPRINT. doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.20.524843
• 2022: Will I., Linehan S., Jenkins D.G., & de Bekker C. Natural history trends and environmental effects on the fate of Florida carpenter ant cadavers manipulated by the parasitic manipulator Ophiocordyceps camponoti-floridani. Functional Ecology. vol 37. Co-first with Linehan. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14224
• 2020: Will I., Das B., Trinh T., Brachmann A., Ohm R.A., & de Bekker C. Genetic underpinnings of host manipulation by Ophiocordyceps as revealed by comparative transcriptomics. G3. vol 10(7). doi.org/10.1534/g3.120.401290
• 2018: de Bekker C., Will I., Das B., & Adams R.M.M. The Formicidae and their parasites: effects of parasitic manipulations and host responses on ant behavioral ecology. Myrmecological News. vol 28. doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_028:001
• 2017: de Bekker C., Will I., Hughes D., Brachmann A., & Merrow M. Daily rhythm and enrichment patterns in the transcriptome of the behaviormanipulating parasite Ophiocordyceps kimflemingiae. PLOS One. vol 12(11). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187170