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Overview

Karen D. McCoy is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research primarily focuses on the study of vector-borne infectious diseases, particularly relating to ticks, birds, and parasitic interactions within ecosystems. Their work spans multiple disciplines including immunology and microbiology, environmental science, and agricultural and biological sciences.

Their scholarly output includes publications in both highly specialized and interdisciplinary venues. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Peer Community Journal
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Infection Genetics and Evolution

Karen D. McCoy has collaborated regularly with other researchers, including notable coauthors such as:

  • Marion Vittecoq
  • Carole Leray
  • Céline Toty
  • Marlène Dupraz
  • Thierry Blanchon

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader fields, their subfields of expertise include:

  • Parasitology
  • Ecology
  • Insect Science
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Bird parasitology and diseases
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Avian ecology and behavior

Some of Karen D. McCoy's recent papers include:

  • Climate change in the Arctic: Testing the poleward expansion of ticks and tick-borne diseases, 2023, Global Change Biology
  • Changes in plastic ingestion by yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) over the breeding season, 2023, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • The distribution, phenology, host range and pathogen prevalence of Ixodes ricinus in France: a systematic map and narrative review, 2023, Peer Community Journal
  • Changes in Bacterial Diversity, Composition and Interactions During the Development of the Seabird Tick Ornithodoros maritimus (Argasidae), 2020, Microbial Ecology
  • Distribution of ticks, tick-borne pathogens and the associated local environmental factors including small mammals and livestock, in two French agricultural sites: the OSCAR database, 2020, Biodiversity Data Journal

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of population differentiation in seabirds

    V. L. Friesen;T. M. Burg;K. D. McCOY

  • The Recent Evolution of a Maternally-Inherited Endosymbiont of Ticks Led to the Emergence of the Q Fever Pathogen, Coxiella burnetii

    Olivier Duron;Valérie Noël;Karen D. Mccoy;Matteo Bonazzi

  • Changing distributions of ticks: causes and consequences.

    Elsa Léger;Gwenaël Vourc’h;Laurence Vial;Christine Chevillon

  • Evolutionary changes in symbiont community structure in ticks.

    Olivier Duron;Florian Binetruy;Valérie Noël;Julie Cremaschi

  • Host specialization in ticks and transmission of tick-borne diseases: a review

    Karen Denise Mccoy;Karen Denise Mccoy;Elsa Léger;Muriel Dietrich

  • Host-dependent genetic structure of parasite populations: differential dispersal of seabird tick host races.

    Karen D. McCoy;Thierry Boulinier;Claire Tirard;Yannis Michalakis

  • Population genetics and molecular epidemiology or how to "débusquer la bête".

    Thierry de Meeûs;Karen D. McCoy;Franck Prugnolle;Christine Chevillon

  • Host specificity of a generalist parasite: genetic evidence of sympatric host races in the seabird tick Ixodes uriae

    K. D. Mccoy;T. Boulinier;C. Tirard;Y. Michalakis

  • Public information affects breeding dispersal in a colonial bird: kittiwakes cue on neighbours

    Thierry Boulinier;Karen D McCoy;Nigel G Yoccoz;Julien Gasparini

  • Worldwide distribution and diversity of seabird ticks: implications for the ecology and epidemiology of tick-borne pathogens.

    Muriel Dietrich;Elena Gómez-Díaz;Karen D. McCoy

  • Induced maternal response to the Lyme disease spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in a colonial seabird, the kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

    Julien Gasparini;Karen D. McCoy;Claudy Haussy;Torkild Tveraa

  • The implications of accepting untestedhypotheses: a review of the effectsof purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)in North America

    Heather a. Hager;Karen D. Mccoy

  • Comparative host-parasite population structures: disentangling prospecting and dispersal in the black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla.

    Karen D. McCOY;Thierry Boulinier;Claire Tirard

  • Midichloria mitochondrii is widespread in hard ticks (Ixodidae) and resides in the mitochondria of phylogenetically diverse species.

    S. Epis;D. Sassera;T. Beninati;N.L. Lo

  • Host race formation in the Acari

    Sara Magalhães;Mark R. Forbes;Anna Skoracka;Masahiro Osakabe

  • Recurrent evolution of host-specialized races in a globally distributed parasite

    Karen D McCoy;Elodie Chapuis;Elodie Chapuis;Claire Tirard;Thierry Boulinier

  • Host dispersal as the driver of parasite genetic structure: a paradigm lost?

    Elise Mazé-Guilmo;Simon Blanchet;Karen D. McCoy;Géraldine Loot;Géraldine Loot

  • Local adaptation of the ectoparasite Ixodes uriae to its seabird host

    Karen D. McCoy;Thierry Boulinier;Solveig Schjørring;Yannis Michalakis

  • The population genetic structure of vectors and our understanding of disease epidemiology.

    K D McCoy

  • Sympatric speciation in parasites – what is sympatry?

    Karen D. McCoy

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Boulinier
Thierry Boulinier University of Montpellier
Torkild Tveraa
Torkild Tveraa Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Jacob González-Solís
Jacob González-Solís University of Barcelona
Yannis Michalakis
Yannis Michalakis University of Montpellier
Nicolas Morellet
Nicolas Morellet Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Matthieu Le Corre
Matthieu Le Corre University of La Réunion
Blandine Doligez
Blandine Doligez Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Mark L. Mallory
Mark L. Mallory Acadia University
Jennifer F. Provencher
Jennifer F. Provencher Government of Canada
Mark R. Forbes
Mark R. Forbes Carleton University

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