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Overview

Nicholas Evans is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has a research focus that spans across medicine and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work converges on several specific subfields, including agronomy and crop science, small animals, microbiology, epidemiology, and ecology.

The scientific contributions center predominantly on topics related to animal behavior and welfare studies, animal disease management and epidemiology, microbial infections and disease research, nail diseases and treatments, poxvirus research and outbreaks, dermatology and skin diseases, and insect and pesticide research.

Frequent publication venues where Nicholas Evans's research has appeared include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nursing Standard
  • Nursing Older People
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Journal of Dairy Research

Co-authorship is a significant aspect of their research profile, collaborating often with the following scholars:

  • Stuart Carter (18 joint publications)
  • Gareth J. Staton (14 joint publications)
  • Roger Blowey (11 joint publications)
  • Amy Gillespie (7 joint publications)
  • Jennifer Duncan (6 joint publications)

Among the notable papers where Evans has contributed are:

  • The dysbiosis of ovine foot microbiome during the development and treatment of contagious ovine digital dermatitis, 2021, Animal Microbiome
  • Removal of bovine digital dermatitis-associated treponemes from hoof knives after foot-trimming: a disinfection field study, 2020, BMC Veterinary Research
  • Contagious Ovine Digital Dermatitis: A Novel Bacterial Etiology and Lesion Pathogenesis, 2021, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • The bovine foot skin microbiota is associated with host genotype and the development of infectious digital dermatitis lesions, 2023, Microbiome
  • Surveying bovine digital dermatitis and non-healing bovine foot lesions for the presence of Fusobacterium necrophorum, Porphyromonas endodontalis and Treponema pallidum, 2020, Veterinary Record

Best Publications

  • The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science

    Nicholas Evans;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Insubordination and its uses

    Nicholas Evans

  • In the Mind's Ear: The Semantic Extensions of Perception Verbs in Australian Languages.

    Nicholas Evans;David Wilkins

  • A Grammar of Kayardild: With Historical-Comparative Notes on Tangkic

    Nicholas D. Evans

  • Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    Nicholas Evans

  • Conceptualizing agriculture: a critique of post-productivism as the new orthodoxy:

    Nick Evans;Carol Morris;Michael Winter

  • Bininj Gun-wok : a pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune

    Nicholas Evans

  • Multiple case‐marking in Australian languages

    Alan Dench;Nicholas Evans

  • Context, culture and structuration in the languages of Australia

    Nicholas Evans

  • The grammar of engagement I: Framework and initial exemplification

    Nicholas Evans;Henrik Bergqvist;Lila San Roque;Lila San Roque

  • Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes

    Nicholas Evans;Toshiki Osada

  • The enigma of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia

    N Evans;P McConvell

  • The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia : comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region

    Nicholas Evans

  • Macassan loanwords in top end languages

    Nicholas Evans

  • Characterization of Novel Bovine Gastrointestinal Tract Treponema Isolates and Comparison with Bovine Digital Dermatitis Treponemes

    Nicholas J. Evans;Jennifer M. Brown;Richard D. Murray;Brian Getty

  • A grammar of Kayardild

    Nicholas Evans

  • Australian Languages Reconsidered: A Review of Dixon (2002)

    Nicholas Evans

  • Arsenic’s Interaction with Humic Acid

    Peter Warwick;Edu Inam;Nick Evans

  • Dalabon pronominal prefixes and the typology of syncretism: a Network Morphology analysis

    Nicholas Evans;Dunstan Brown;Greville G. Corbett

  • The syntax and semantics of body part incorporation in Mayali

    Nicholas Evans

  • Agricultural turns, geographical turns: retrospect and prospect

    Carol Morris;Nick Evans

  • An acoustic phonetic analysis of intonational prominence in two Australian languages

    Janet Fletcher;Nicholas Evans

  • Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon

    Nicholas Evans;Janet Fletcher;Belinda Ross

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart D. Carter
Stuart D. Carter University of Liverpool
Richard D. Murray
Richard D. Murray University of Liverpool
Richard J. Birtles
Richard J. Birtles University of Salford
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
C. Anthony Hart
C. Anthony Hart University of Liverpool
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Greville G. Corbett
Greville G. Corbett University of Surrey
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Johnathan A. Napier
Johnathan A. Napier Rothamsted Research
Rainer Breitling
Rainer Breitling University of Manchester

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