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Overview

Kenneth Wilson is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses broadly on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including insect science, molecular biology, emergency medicine, genetics, and plant science.

Wilson's scholarly output includes research on insect resistance, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, insect-plant interactions and control, insect pest control strategies, entomopathogenic microorganisms in pest control, trauma and emergency care studies, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Their most cited papers include studies on pest management and insect-virus relationships, such as:

  • "Genetic structure and insecticide resistance characteristics of fall armyworm populations invading China" (2020, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • "Novel partiti-like viruses are conditional mutualistic symbionts in their normal lepidopteran host, African armyworm, but parasitic in a novel host, Fall armyworm" (2020, PLoS Pathogens)
  • "Updated assessment of potential biopesticide options for managing fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in Africa" (2021, Journal of Applied Entomology)
  • "A novel formulation technology for baculoviruses protects biopesticide from degradation by ultraviolet radiation" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Adaptive evolution to the natural and anthropogenic environment in a global invasive crop pest, the cotton bollworm" (2023, The Innovation)

Wilson has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Yutao Xiao
  • Minghui Jin
  • Pengjun Xu
  • Judith A. Smith
  • Annabel Rice

Key publication venues for Wilson's research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Physiological Entomology

Wilson has contributed to book publications as well, including a chapter in Difficult Decisions in Trauma Surgery (2021), which is part of the book titled Difficult decisions in surgery: an evidence-based approach.

Their research addresses practical challenges in insect pest control and trauma care, exploring biological control agents such as biopesticides and viruses, and mechanisms of pest resistance and adaptation. The work combines molecular and ecological approaches to understand the interactions between insects, pathogens, and plants.

Best Publications

  • Parasites as a Viability Cost of Sexual Selection in Natural Populations of Mammals.

    Sarah L. Moore;Kenneth Wilson

  • Heterogeneities in macroparasite infections : patterns and processes.

    Kenneth Wilson;O. N. Bjornstad;A. P. Dobson;S. Merler

  • Sex ratios : concepts and research methods

    Ian C.W. Hardy

  • Noise and determinism in synchronized sheep dynamics

    B T Grenfell;K Wilson;B F Finkenstadt;T N Coulson

  • Statistical analysis of sex ratios : an introduction.

    Kenneth Wilson;Ian C.W. Hardy

  • Major histocompatibility complex variation associated with juvenile survival and parasite resistance in a large unmanaged ungulate population (Ovis aries L.)

    S. Paterson;K. Wilson;J. M. Pemberton

  • Long-range seasonal migration in insects: mechanisms, evolutionary drivers and ecological consequences

    Jason W. Chapman;Jason W. Chapman;Don R. Reynolds;Don R. Reynolds;Kenneth Wilson

  • Melanism and disease resistance in insects

    Kenneth Wilson;Sheena C. Cotter;Andrew Francis Reeson;Judith K. Pell

  • Flexible diet choice offsets protein costs of pathogen resistance in a caterpillar

    K. P. Lee;J. S. Cory;J. S. Cory;Kenneth Wilson;D. Raubenheimer;D. Raubenheimer

  • Dominant rams lose out by sperm depletion

    Brian T. Preston;Ian R. Stevenson;Josephine M. Pemberton;Kenneth Wilson

  • Bacterial pathogens in wild birds: a review of the frequency and effects of infection.

    Clare McW. H. Benskin;Kenneth Wilson;Keith Jones;Ian R. Hartley

  • Overt and covert competition in a promiscuous mammal: the importance of weaponry and testes size to male reproductive success.

    B. T. Preston;I. R. Stevenson;J. M. Pemberton;D. W. Coltman

  • Coping with crowds: density-dependent disease resistance in desert locusts.

    Kenneth Wilson;Matthew B. Thomas;Simon Blanford;Matthew Doggett

  • Macronutrient balance mediates trade‐offs between immune function and life history traits

    Sheena C. Cotter;Stephen J. Simpson;David Raubenheimer;Kenneth Wilson

  • Dietary protein-quality influences melanization and immune function in an insect.

    K. P. Lee;K. P. Lee;K. P. Lee;S. J. Simpson;Ken Wilson

  • Costs of resistance: genetic correlations and potential trade-offs in an insect immune System

    S. L. Cotter;L. E. B. Kruuk;Kenneth Wilson

  • Can the protein costs of bacterial resistance be offset by altered feeding behaviour

    Sonia R. Povey;Sheena C. Cotter;Stephen J. Simpson;Kwang Pum Lee

  • Baculovirus resistance in the noctuid Spodoptera exempta is phenotypically plastic and responds to population density

    Andrew F Reeson;Andrew F Reeson;Kenneth Wilson;Alan Gunn;Rosemary S Hails

  • Generalized linear modelling for parasitologists

    Kenneth Wilson;Bryan T. Grenfell

  • A microsatellite polymorphism in the gamma interferon gene is associated with resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes in a naturally-parasitized population of Soay sheep.

    D. Coltman;Kenneth Wilson;J. G. Pilkington;M. J. Stear

  • Stability and Instability in Ungulate Populations: An Empirical Analysis

    T. H. Clutton-Brock;A. W. Illius;K. Wilson;K. Wilson;B. T. Grenfell

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Simpson
Stephen J. Simpson University of Sydney
Josephine M. Pemberton
Josephine M. Pemberton University of Edinburgh
Bryan T. Grenfell
Bryan T. Grenfell Princeton University
Jill G. Pilkington
Jill G. Pilkington University of Edinburgh
Kongming Wu
Kongming Wu Zhengzhou University
David Raubenheimer
David Raubenheimer University of Sydney
Tim Coulson
Tim Coulson University of Oxford
Jason W. Chapman
Jason W. Chapman University of Exeter
David W. Coltman
David W. Coltman University of Western Ontario
Roger W. Pickup
Roger W. Pickup Lancaster University

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