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[11] Li J. 2025. (interview) Scientific mobility in microbiology - 8. Trends in microbiology, S0966-842X(25)00252-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2025.08.009.

[10] Li, J, King, K. 2025. (Perspective) Microbial Primer: Microbiome and thermal tolerance - a new frontier in climate resilience?. Microbiology, 171(1), 001523.https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001523.  – Media: [Microbial Talk Podcast]

[9] Li, J, Smith, C. A., Chen, J., Bates, K.A., King, K. C. 2025. Warming during different life stages has distinct impacts on host resistance ecology and evolution. Ecology letters. 10.1111/ele.70087. 

[8]  Stevens, E, Li, J, Hector, T, Drew, G, K. Hoang, Greenrod, S, Paterson S, King K. C. 2025. Within-host competition sparks pathogen molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis. The ISME journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wraf071.

[7] Li, J, N. Guttmann, G. C. Drew, J. Wolinska, K. C. King. 2024. Excess mortality of infected ectotherms induced by climate change depends on pathogen kingdom and evolutionary history. PLoS biology 22(11): e3002900. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002900. – Media: [Fairchild TV] [University of British Columbia News]

[6]  Gao, Y, Kai P, et al., Li, J, et al. 2024. “The Microbiome Protocols eBook Initiative: Building a Bridge to Microbiome Research.” iMeta 3, e182. https://doi.org/10.1002/imt2.182.

[5] Li, J, Y. Gao, Stevens. E, King. K. C. 2024. Dual stressors of infection and warming can destabilize host microbiomes. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 10.1098/rstb.2023.0069.

[4]  Hanski, E, Khanyari, M, Li, J, Bates, K. A, Zuther, S, Maiden, M. C. J, Kock, R, & Knowles, S. C. L. 2023. Gut microbiota of the critically endangered Saiga antelope across two wild populations in a year without mass mortality. Scientific reports, 13(1), 17236.

[3] Li, J, Bates, K, Hoang, K, Hector, T, Knowles, S, & King, K. C. 2023. Experimental temperatures shape host microbiome diversity and composition. Global change biology. 10.1111/gcb.16429.

[2]  Hector, T. E, Hoang, K. L, Li, J, King, K. C. 2022. (review) Symbiosis and host responses to heat. Trends in ecology & evolution 37, 611-624.

[1]  Hui-Meng Lu*, Li, J*, Yu-Dan Zhang, Xiao-Li Lu, Chang Xu, Yuan Huang, Michael Gribskov. 2020. The evolution history of Fe-S cluster A-type assembly protein reveals multiple gene duplication events and essential protein motifs. Genome biology and evolution12(3):160-173.