2023

San Juan, E., Araya-Donoso, R., Sierra-Rosales, C., Correa, J. P., Quiroga, N., Campos-Soto, R., Solari, A., Llewellyn, M. , Bacigalupo, A. and Botto-Mahan, C. (2023) Humans as blood-feeding sources in sylvatic triatomines of Chile unveiled by next-generation sequencing. Parasites and Vectors, 16, 225. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-023-05841-x) (PMID:37415248) (PMCID:PMC10327138)

Segovia, M., Schwabl, P., Sueto, S., Nakad, C. C., Londoño, J. C., Rodriguez, M., Paiva, M., Llewellyn, M. S. and Carrasco, H. J. (2023) Vector mapping and bloodmeal metabarcoding demonstrate risk of urban Chagas disease transmission in Caracas, Venezuela. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17(3), e0010613. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010613) (PMID:36930686) (PMCID:PMC10057784)

2022

Delgado-Noguera, L. A. et al. (2022) Tele-entomology and tele-parasitology: A citizen science-based approach for surveillance and control of Chagas disease in Venezuela. Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 19, e00273. (doi: 10.1016/j.parepi.2022.e00273) (PMID:36118050) (PMCID:PMC9475302)

Kazlauskaite, R. et al. (2022) Deploying an in vitro gut model to assay the impact of the mannan-oligosaccharide prebiotic bio-mos on the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) gut microbiome. Microbiology Spectrum, 10(3), e0195321. (doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01953-21) (PMID:35532227) (PMCID:PMC9241627)

Cruz-Saavedra, L., Schwabl, P., Vallejo, G. A., Carranza, J. C., Muñoz, M., Patino, L. H., Paniz-Mondolfi, A., Llewellyn, M. S. and Ramírez, J. D. (2022) Genome plasticity driven by aneuploidy and loss of heterozygosity in Trypanosoma cruzi. Microbial Genomics, 8(6), 000843. (doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000843) (PMID:35748878) (PMCID:PMC9455712)

De Noia, M., Kaufmann, J., Waters, C., Adams, C. , McGinnity, P. and Llewellyn, M. (2022) Towards an in-situ non-lethal rapid test to accurately detect the presence of the nematode parasite, Anguillicoloides crassus, in European eel, Anguilla anguilla. Parasitology, 149(5), pp. 605-611. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182021002146) (PMID:35042576)

Hernandez-Castro, L. E. et al. (2022) Population genomics and geographic dispersal in Chagas disease vectors: landscape drivers and evidence of possible adaptation to the domestic setting. PLoS Genetics, 18(2), e1010019. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010019) (PMID:35120121) (PMCID:PMC8849464)

Schaal, P., Cheaib, B. , Kaufmann, J., Phillips, K., Ryder, L., McGinnity, P. and Llewellyn, M. (2022) Links between host genetics, metabolism, gut microbiome and amoebic gill disease (AGD) in Atlantic Salmon. Animal Microbiome, 4, 53. (doi: 10.1186/s42523-022-00203-x) (PMID:36109797) (PMCID:PMC9479442)

2021

Cheaib, B. et al. (2021) Genome erosion and evidence for an intracellular niche – exploring the biology of mycoplasmas in Atlantic salmon. Aquaculture, 541, 736772. (doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.736772) (PMID:34471330) (PMCID:PMC8192413)

Schwabl, P. et al. (2021) Colonization and genetic diversification processes of Leishmania infantum in the Americas. Communications Biology, 4, 139. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01658-5) (PMID:33514858) (PMCID:PMC7846609)

Cheaib, B. , Seghouani, H., Llewellyn, M. , Vandal-Lenghan, K., Mercier, P.-L. and Derome, N. (2021) The yellow perch (Perca flavescens) microbiome revealed resistance to colonisation mostly associated with neutralism driven by rare taxa under cadmium disturbance. Animal Microbiome, 3, 3. (doi: 10.1186/s42523-020-00063-3) (PMID:33499999) (PMCID:PMC7934398)

Grillet, M. E. et al. (2021) Malaria in Southern Venezuela: the hottest hotspot in Latin America. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(1), e0008211. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008211) (PMID:33493212) (PMCID:PMC7861532)

Kazlauskaite, R. et al. (2021) SalmoSim: the development of a three-compartment in vitro simulator of the Atlantic Salmon GI tract and associated microbial communities. Microbiome, 9, 179. (doi: 10.1186/s40168-021-01134-6) (PMID:34465363) (PMCID:PMC8408954)

2020

Schwabl, P. et al. (2020) Culture-free genome-wide locus sequence typing (GLST) provides new perspectives on Trypanosoma cruzi dispersal and infection complexity. PLoS Genetics, 16(12), e1009170. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009170) (PMID:33326438) (PMCID:PMC7743988)

Lindsay, E. C., Metcalfe, N. B. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2020) The potential role of gut microbiota in shaping host energetics and metabolic rate. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(11), pp. 2415-2426. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13327) (PMID:32858775)

Heys, C. , Cheaib, B. , Busetti, A., Kazlauskaite, R., Maier, L., Sloan, W.T. , Ijaz, U.Z. , Kaufmann, J., McGinnity, P. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2020) Neutral processes dominate microbial community assembly in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86(8), e02283-19. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.02283-19) (PMID:32033945) (PMCID:PMC7117918)

Boité, M. C., Späth, G. F., Bussotti, G., Porrozzi, R., Morgado, F. N., Llewellyn, M. , Schwabl, P. and Cupolillo, E. (2020) Trans-Atlantic spill over: deconstructing the ecological adaptation of Leishmania infantum in the Americas. Genes, 11(1), 4. (doi: 10.3390/genes11010004) (PMID:31861501) (PMCID:PMC7017240)

Hollingsworth, P.M. et al. (2020) Scotland’s Biodiversity Progress to 2020 Aichi targets: Aichi target 13 - Genetic Diversity Maintained - Supplementary Report 2020. Technical Report. Scottish Natural Heritage, Inverness.

2019

Schwabl, P., Imamura, H., Van den Broeck, F., Costales, J. A., Maiguashca-Sánchez, J., Miles, M. A., Andersson, B., Grijalva, M. J. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2019) Meiotic sex in Chagas disease parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Nature Communications, 10, 3972. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11771-z) (PMID:31481692) (PMCID:PMC6722143)

Grillet, M. E. et al. (2019) Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, resurgence of vector-borne diseases, and implications for spillover in the region. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 19(5), e149-e161. (doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30757-6) (PMID:30799251)

Paniz-Mondolfi, A. E. et al. (2019) Resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases in Venezuela as a regional public health threat in the Americas. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 25(4), pp. 625-632. (doi: 10.3201/eid2504.181305) (PMID:30698523) (PMCID:PMC6433037)

Perry, W. B. et al. (2019) Evolutionary drivers of kype size in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): domestication, age and genetics. Royal Society Open Science, 6(4), 190021. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.190021) (PMID:31183145) (PMCID:PMC6502380)

2018

Peters, L., Spatharis, S. , Dario, M. A., Dwyer, T., Roca, I. J.T., Kintner, A., Kanstad-Hanssen, Ø., Llewellyn, M. S. and Praebel, K. (2018) Environmental DNA: a new low-cost monitoring tool for pathogens in salmonid aquaculture. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 3009. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03009) (PMID:30581425) (PMCID:PMC6292926)

McGregor, A. , Llewellyn, M. and Spatharis, S. (2018) Research 'Mini-projects': The Importance of Student-led, Peer-supported Research in Gaining Experience and Confidence Prior to Final-year Honours Projects. British Ecological Society Learning and Teaching Symposium, Birmingham, UK, 2018.

Jacobs, A., De Noia, M., Praebel, K., Kanstad-Hanssen, Ø., Paterno, M., Jackson, D., McGinnity, P., Sturm, A., Elmer, K. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2018) Genetic fingerprinting of salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) populations in the North-East Atlantic using a random forest classification approach. Scientific Reports, 8, 1203. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19323-z) (PMID:29352185) (PMCID:PMC5775277)

2017

Dario, M. A. et al. (2017) High Trypanosoma spp. diversity is maintained by bats and triatomines in Espírito Santo state, Brazil. PLoS ONE, 12(11), e0188412. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188412) (PMID:29176770) (PMCID:PMC5703495)

Khan, N. H., Sutherland, C. J., Llewellyn, M. S. and Schönian, G. (2017) Variability of cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions is not associated with genetic diversity of Leishmania tropica in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 97(5), pp. 1489-1497. (doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0887) (PMID:29016290)

Dario, M. A., da Rocha, R. M. M., Schwabl, P., Jansen, A. M. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2017) Small subunit ribosomal metabarcoding reveals extraordinary trypanosomatid diversity in Brazilian bats. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(7), e0005790. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005790) (PMID:28727769) (PMCID:PMC5544246)

Hernandez Castro, L. E. , Paterno, M., Villacís, A. G., Andersson, B., Costales, J. A., De Noia, M., Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Yumiseva, C. A., Grijalva, M. J. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2017) 2b-RAD genotyping for population genomic studies of Chagas disease vectors: Rhodnius ecuadoriensis in Ecuador. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(7), e0005710. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005710) (PMID:28723901) (PMCID:PMC5536387)

Acosta, N., Lopez, E., Lewis, M. D., Llewellyn, M. S. , Gomez, A., Roman, F., Miles, M. A. and Yeo, M. (2017) Hosts and vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing units in the Chagas disease endemic region of the Paraguayan Chaco. Parasitology, 144(7), pp. 884-898. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182016002663) (PMID:28179034) (PMCID:PMC5471830)

Schwabl, P., Llewellyn, M. S. , Landguth, E. L., Andersson, B., Kitron, U., Costales, J. A., Ocaña, S. and Grijalva, M. J. (2017) Prediction and prevention of parasitic diseases using a landscape genomics framework. Trends in Parasitology, 33(4), pp. 264-275. (doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.10.008) (PMID:27863902)

Llewellyn, M.S. et al. (2017) Parasitism perturbs the mucosal microbiome of Atlantic Salmon. Scientific Reports, 7, 43465. (doi: 10.1038/srep43465) (PMID:28266549) (PMCID:PMC5339869)

Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Yeo, M., Messenger, L.A. and Miles, M.A. (2017) Experimental and natural recombination in Trypanosoma cruzi. In: Telleria, J. and Tibayrenc, M. (eds.) American Trypanosomiasis Chagas Disease: One Hundred Years of Research [2nd ed.]. Elsevier, pp. 455-473. (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801029-7.00020-4)

2016

Sylvain, F.-É., Cheaib, B. , Llewellyn, M. , Gabriel Correia, T., Barros Fagundes, D., Luis Val, A. and Derome, N. (2016) pH drop impacts differentially skin and gut microbiota of the Amazonian fish tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum). Scientific Reports, 6, 32032. (doi: 10.1038/srep32032) (PMID:27535789) (PMCID:PMC4989189)

Messenger, L. A., Ramirez, J. D., Llewellyn, M. S. , Guhl, F. and Miles, M. A. (2016) Importation of hybrid human-associated Trypanosoma cruzi strains of Southern South American origin, Colombia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(8), pp. 1452-1455. (doi: 10.3201/eid2208.150786) (PMID:27434772) (PMCID:PMC4982185)

2015

Ramírez, J.D. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2015) Response to Tibayrenc and Ayala: reproductive clonality in protozoan pathogens - truth or artefact? Molecular Ecology, 24(23), pp. 5782-5784. (doi: 10.1111/mec.13442) (PMID:26607215)

Costales, J. A., Jara-Palacios, M. A., Llewellyn, M. S. , Messenger, L. A., Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Villacís, A. G., Tibayrenc, M. and Grijalva, M. J. (2015) Trypanosoma cruzi population dynamics in the Central Ecuadorian Coast. Acta Tropica, 151, pp. 88-93. (doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.07.017) (PMID:26200787)

Pennington, P.M., Messenger, L.A., Reina, J., Juárez, J.G., Lawrence, G.G., Dotson, E.M., Llewellyn, M.S. and Cordón-Rosales, C. (2015) The Chagas disease domestic transmission cycle in Guatemala: parasite-vector switches and lack of mitochondrial co-diversification between Triatoma dimidiata and Trypanosoma cruzi subpopulations suggest non-vectorial parasite dispersal across the Motagua valley. Acta Tropica, 151, pp. 80-87. (doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.07.014) (PMID:26215126)

Costales, J.A., Kotton, C.N., Zurita-Leal, A.C., Garcia-Perez, J., Llewellyn, M.S. , Messenger, L.A., Bhattacharyya, T. and Burleigh, B.A. (2015) Chagas disease reactivation in a heart transplant patient infected by domestic Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing unit I (TcIDOM). Parasites and Vectors, 8, 435. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-1039-3) (PMID:26303927) (PMCID:PMC4548706)

Messenger, L.A., Garcia, L., Vanhove, M., Huaranca, C., Bustamante, M., Torrico, M., Torrico, F., Miles, M.A. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2015) Ecological host fitting of Trypanosoma cruziTcI in Bolivia: mosaic population structure, hybridization and a role for humans in Andean parasite dispersal. Molecular Ecology, 24(10), pp. 2406-2422. (doi: 10.1111/mec.13186) (PMID:25847086)

Llewellyn, M.S. et al. (2015) Deep sequencing of the trypanosoma cruzi GP63 surface proteases reveals diversity and diversifying selection among chronic and congenital chagas disease patients. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(4), e0003458. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003458) (PMID:25849488) (PMCID:PMC4388557)

Llewellyn, M. S. , McGinnity, P., Dionne, M., Letourneau, J., Thonier, F., Carvalho, G. R., Creer, S. and Derome, N. (2015) The biogeography of the atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) gut microbiome. ISME Journal, 10, pp. 1280-1284. (doi: 10.1038/ismej.2015.189) (PMID:26517698)

Messenger, L.A., Yeo, M., Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. and Miles, M. (2015) Molecular genotyping of trypanosoma cruzi for lineage assignment and population genetics. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1201, pp. 297-337. (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1438-8_19) (PMID:25388123)

2014

Diosque, P. et al. (2014) Optimized Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) scheme for Trypanosoma cruzi. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 8(8), e3117. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003117) (PMID:25167160) (PMCID:PMC4148231)

Lima, V.S., Jansen, A.M., Messenger, L.A., Miles, M.A. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2014) Wild Trypanosoma cruzi I genetic diversity in Brazil suggests admixture and disturbance in parasite populations from the Atlantic Forest region. Parasites and Vectors, 7, 263. (doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-263) (PMID:24903849) (PMCID:PMC4062772)

2012

Franzén, O. et al. (2012) Comparative genomic analysis of human infective Trypanosoma cruzi lineages with the bat-restricted subspecies T. cruzi marinkellei. BMC Genomics, 13, 531. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-531) (PMID:23035642) (PMCID:PMC3507753)

Ramirez, J. D., Guhl, F., Messenger, L. A., Lewis, M. D., Montilla, M., Cucunuba, Z., Miles, M. A. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2012) Contemporary cryptic sexuality in Trypanosoma cruzi. Molecular Ecology, 21(17), pp. 4216-4226. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05699.x) (PMID:22774844)

Lauthier, J.J. et al. (2012) Candidate targets for multilocus sequence typing of trypanosoma cruzi: validation using parasite stocks from the Chaco region and a set of reference strains. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 12(2), pp. 350-358. (doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.12.008) (PMID:22210092)

Zingales, B. et al. (2012) The revised Trypanosoma cruzi subspecific nomenclature: Rationale, epidemiological relevance and research applications. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 12(2), pp. 240-253. (doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.12.009) (PMID:22226704)

Carrasco, H.J. et al. (2012) Geographical distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi genotypes in Venezuela. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 6(6), e1707. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001707) (PMID:22745843) (PMCID:PMC3383755)

Traub-Csekö, Y.M., Messenger, L.A., Llewellyn, M.S. , Bhattacharyya, T., Franzén, O., Lewis, M.D., Ramírez, J.D., Carrasco, H.J., Andersson, B. and Miles, M.A. (2012) Multiple mitochondrial introgression events and heteroplasmy in trypanosoma cruzi revealed by Maxicircle MLST and next generation sequencing. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 6(4), e1584. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001584) (PMID:22506081) (PMCID:PMC3323513)

2011

Yoshida, N., Tyler, K.M. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2011) Invasion mechanisms among emerging food-borne protozoan parasites. Trends in Parasitology, 27(10), pp. 459-466. (doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.06.006) (PMID:21840261)

Yeo, M., Mauricio, I.L., Messenger, L.A., Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Acosta, N., Bhattacharyya, T., Diosque, P., Carrasco, H.J. and Miles, M.A. (2011) Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for lineage assignment and high resolution diversity studies in Trypanosoma cruzi. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(6), e1049. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001049) (PMID:21713026) (PMCID:PMC3119646)

Llewellyn, M. S. , Rivett-Carnac, J. B., Fitzpatrick, S., Lewis, M. D., Yeo, M., Gaunt, M. W. and Miles, M. A. (2011) Extraordinary Trypanosoma cruzi diversity within single mammalian reservoir hosts implies a mechanism of diversifying selection. International Journal for Parasitology, 41(6), pp. 609-614. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2010.12.004) (PMID:21232539) (PMCID:PMC3084450)

Bates, P.A., Franzén, O., Ochaya, S., Sherwood, E., Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Miles, M.A. and Andersson, B. (2011) Shotgun sequencing analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi I sylvio X10/1 and comparison with T. cruzi VI CL Brener. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(3), e984. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000984) (PMID:21408126) (PMCID:PMC3050914)

Carlton, J.M., Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Yeo, M., Acosta, N., Gaunt, M.W. and Miles, M.A. (2011) Recent, independent and anthropogenic origins of Trypanosoma cruzi hybrids. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(10), e1363. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001363) (PMID:22022633) (PMCID:PMC3191134)

2010

Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Llewellyn, M.S. , Costales, J.A., Miles, M.A. and Grijalva, M.J. (2010) Sex, subdivision, and domestic dispersal of Trypanosoma cruzi lineage I in southern Ecuador. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 4(12), e915. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000915) (PMID:21179502) (PMCID:PMC3001902)

2009

Lewis, M.D., Ma, J., Yeo, M., Carrasco, H.J., Llewellyn, M.S. and Miles, M.A. (2009) Genotyping of trypanosoma cruzi: systematic selection of assays allowing rapid and accurate discrimination of all known lineages. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 81(6), pp. 1041-1049. (doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0305) (PMID:19996435) (PMCID:PMC2825677)

Marcili, A. et al. (2009) Comparative phylogeography of Trypanosoma cruzi TCIIc: new hosts, association with terrestrial ecotopes, and spatial clustering. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 9(6), pp. 1265-1274. (doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2009.07.003) (PMID:19632356)

Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Gaunt, M.W., Yeo, M., Carrasco, H.J. and Miles, M.A. (2009) Flow cytometric analysis and microsatellite genotyping reveal extensive DNA content variation in Trypanosoma cruzi populations and expose contrasts between natural and experimental hybrids. International Journal for Parasitology, 39(12), pp. 1305-1317. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.04.001) (PMID:19393242) (PMCID:PMC2731025)

Miles, M.A., Llewellyn, M.S. , Lewis, M.D., Yeo, M., Baleela, R., Fitpatrick, S., Gaunt, M.W. and Mauricio, I.L. (2009) The molecular epidemiology and phylogeography of Trypanosoma cruzi and parallel research on Leishmania: looking back and to the future. Parasitology, 136(12), p. 1509. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182009990977) (PMID:19691868)

Llewellyn, M.S. , Lewis, M.D., Acosta, N., Yeo, M., Carrasco, H.J., Segovia, M., Vargas, J., Torrico, F., Miles, M.A. and Gaunt, M.W. (2009) Trypanosoma cruzi IIc: phylogenetic and phylogeographic insights from sequence and microsatellite analysis and potential Impact on emergent chagas disease. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 3(9), e510. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000510) (PMID:19721699) (PMCID:PMC2727949)

Llewellyn, M. S. et al. (2009) Genome-scale multilocus microsatellite typing of trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing Unit I reveals phylogeographic structure and specific genotypes linked to human infection. PLoS Pathogens, 5(5), e1000410. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000410) (PMID:19412340) (PMCID:PMC2669174)

2005

Yeo, M. et al. (2005) Origins of chagas disease: Didelphis species are natural hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi I and armadillos hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi II, including hybrids. International Journal for Parasitology, 35(2), pp. 225-233. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2004.10.024) (PMID:15710443)

2004

Kassen, R., Llewellyn, M.S. and Rainey, P.B. (2004) Ecological constraints on diversification in a model adaptive radiation. Nature, 431(7011), pp. 984-988. (doi: 10.1038/nature02923) (PMID:15496923)

Articles

San Juan, E., Araya-Donoso, R., Sierra-Rosales, C., Correa, J. P., Quiroga, N., Campos-Soto, R., Solari, A., Llewellyn, M. , Bacigalupo, A. and Botto-Mahan, C. (2023) Humans as blood-feeding sources in sylvatic triatomines of Chile unveiled by next-generation sequencing. Parasites and Vectors, 16, 225. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-023-05841-x) (PMID:37415248) (PMCID:PMC10327138)

Segovia, M., Schwabl, P., Sueto, S., Nakad, C. C., Londoño, J. C., Rodriguez, M., Paiva, M., Llewellyn, M. S. and Carrasco, H. J. (2023) Vector mapping and bloodmeal metabarcoding demonstrate risk of urban Chagas disease transmission in Caracas, Venezuela. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17(3), e0010613. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010613) (PMID:36930686) (PMCID:PMC10057784)

Delgado-Noguera, L. A. et al. (2022) Tele-entomology and tele-parasitology: A citizen science-based approach for surveillance and control of Chagas disease in Venezuela. Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 19, e00273. (doi: 10.1016/j.parepi.2022.e00273) (PMID:36118050) (PMCID:PMC9475302)

Kazlauskaite, R. et al. (2022) Deploying an in vitro gut model to assay the impact of the mannan-oligosaccharide prebiotic bio-mos on the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) gut microbiome. Microbiology Spectrum, 10(3), e0195321. (doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01953-21) (PMID:35532227) (PMCID:PMC9241627)

Cruz-Saavedra, L., Schwabl, P., Vallejo, G. A., Carranza, J. C., Muñoz, M., Patino, L. H., Paniz-Mondolfi, A., Llewellyn, M. S. and Ramírez, J. D. (2022) Genome plasticity driven by aneuploidy and loss of heterozygosity in Trypanosoma cruzi. Microbial Genomics, 8(6), 000843. (doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000843) (PMID:35748878) (PMCID:PMC9455712)

De Noia, M., Kaufmann, J., Waters, C., Adams, C. , McGinnity, P. and Llewellyn, M. (2022) Towards an in-situ non-lethal rapid test to accurately detect the presence of the nematode parasite, Anguillicoloides crassus, in European eel, Anguilla anguilla. Parasitology, 149(5), pp. 605-611. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182021002146) (PMID:35042576)

Hernandez-Castro, L. E. et al. (2022) Population genomics and geographic dispersal in Chagas disease vectors: landscape drivers and evidence of possible adaptation to the domestic setting. PLoS Genetics, 18(2), e1010019. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010019) (PMID:35120121) (PMCID:PMC8849464)

Schaal, P., Cheaib, B. , Kaufmann, J., Phillips, K., Ryder, L., McGinnity, P. and Llewellyn, M. (2022) Links between host genetics, metabolism, gut microbiome and amoebic gill disease (AGD) in Atlantic Salmon. Animal Microbiome, 4, 53. (doi: 10.1186/s42523-022-00203-x) (PMID:36109797) (PMCID:PMC9479442)

Cheaib, B. et al. (2021) Genome erosion and evidence for an intracellular niche – exploring the biology of mycoplasmas in Atlantic salmon. Aquaculture, 541, 736772. (doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.736772) (PMID:34471330) (PMCID:PMC8192413)

Schwabl, P. et al. (2021) Colonization and genetic diversification processes of Leishmania infantum in the Americas. Communications Biology, 4, 139. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01658-5) (PMID:33514858) (PMCID:PMC7846609)

Cheaib, B. , Seghouani, H., Llewellyn, M. , Vandal-Lenghan, K., Mercier, P.-L. and Derome, N. (2021) The yellow perch (Perca flavescens) microbiome revealed resistance to colonisation mostly associated with neutralism driven by rare taxa under cadmium disturbance. Animal Microbiome, 3, 3. (doi: 10.1186/s42523-020-00063-3) (PMID:33499999) (PMCID:PMC7934398)

Grillet, M. E. et al. (2021) Malaria in Southern Venezuela: the hottest hotspot in Latin America. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(1), e0008211. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008211) (PMID:33493212) (PMCID:PMC7861532)

Kazlauskaite, R. et al. (2021) SalmoSim: the development of a three-compartment in vitro simulator of the Atlantic Salmon GI tract and associated microbial communities. Microbiome, 9, 179. (doi: 10.1186/s40168-021-01134-6) (PMID:34465363) (PMCID:PMC8408954)

Schwabl, P. et al. (2020) Culture-free genome-wide locus sequence typing (GLST) provides new perspectives on Trypanosoma cruzi dispersal and infection complexity. PLoS Genetics, 16(12), e1009170. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009170) (PMID:33326438) (PMCID:PMC7743988)

Lindsay, E. C., Metcalfe, N. B. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2020) The potential role of gut microbiota in shaping host energetics and metabolic rate. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(11), pp. 2415-2426. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13327) (PMID:32858775)

Heys, C. , Cheaib, B. , Busetti, A., Kazlauskaite, R., Maier, L., Sloan, W.T. , Ijaz, U.Z. , Kaufmann, J., McGinnity, P. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2020) Neutral processes dominate microbial community assembly in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86(8), e02283-19. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.02283-19) (PMID:32033945) (PMCID:PMC7117918)

Boité, M. C., Späth, G. F., Bussotti, G., Porrozzi, R., Morgado, F. N., Llewellyn, M. , Schwabl, P. and Cupolillo, E. (2020) Trans-Atlantic spill over: deconstructing the ecological adaptation of Leishmania infantum in the Americas. Genes, 11(1), 4. (doi: 10.3390/genes11010004) (PMID:31861501) (PMCID:PMC7017240)

Schwabl, P., Imamura, H., Van den Broeck, F., Costales, J. A., Maiguashca-Sánchez, J., Miles, M. A., Andersson, B., Grijalva, M. J. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2019) Meiotic sex in Chagas disease parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Nature Communications, 10, 3972. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11771-z) (PMID:31481692) (PMCID:PMC6722143)

Grillet, M. E. et al. (2019) Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, resurgence of vector-borne diseases, and implications for spillover in the region. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 19(5), e149-e161. (doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30757-6) (PMID:30799251)

Paniz-Mondolfi, A. E. et al. (2019) Resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases in Venezuela as a regional public health threat in the Americas. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 25(4), pp. 625-632. (doi: 10.3201/eid2504.181305) (PMID:30698523) (PMCID:PMC6433037)

Perry, W. B. et al. (2019) Evolutionary drivers of kype size in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): domestication, age and genetics. Royal Society Open Science, 6(4), 190021. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.190021) (PMID:31183145) (PMCID:PMC6502380)

Peters, L., Spatharis, S. , Dario, M. A., Dwyer, T., Roca, I. J.T., Kintner, A., Kanstad-Hanssen, Ø., Llewellyn, M. S. and Praebel, K. (2018) Environmental DNA: a new low-cost monitoring tool for pathogens in salmonid aquaculture. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 3009. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03009) (PMID:30581425) (PMCID:PMC6292926)

Jacobs, A., De Noia, M., Praebel, K., Kanstad-Hanssen, Ø., Paterno, M., Jackson, D., McGinnity, P., Sturm, A., Elmer, K. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2018) Genetic fingerprinting of salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) populations in the North-East Atlantic using a random forest classification approach. Scientific Reports, 8, 1203. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-19323-z) (PMID:29352185) (PMCID:PMC5775277)

Dario, M. A. et al. (2017) High Trypanosoma spp. diversity is maintained by bats and triatomines in Espírito Santo state, Brazil. PLoS ONE, 12(11), e0188412. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188412) (PMID:29176770) (PMCID:PMC5703495)

Khan, N. H., Sutherland, C. J., Llewellyn, M. S. and Schönian, G. (2017) Variability of cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions is not associated with genetic diversity of Leishmania tropica in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 97(5), pp. 1489-1497. (doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.16-0887) (PMID:29016290)

Dario, M. A., da Rocha, R. M. M., Schwabl, P., Jansen, A. M. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2017) Small subunit ribosomal metabarcoding reveals extraordinary trypanosomatid diversity in Brazilian bats. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(7), e0005790. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005790) (PMID:28727769) (PMCID:PMC5544246)

Hernandez Castro, L. E. , Paterno, M., Villacís, A. G., Andersson, B., Costales, J. A., De Noia, M., Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Yumiseva, C. A., Grijalva, M. J. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2017) 2b-RAD genotyping for population genomic studies of Chagas disease vectors: Rhodnius ecuadoriensis in Ecuador. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(7), e0005710. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005710) (PMID:28723901) (PMCID:PMC5536387)

Acosta, N., Lopez, E., Lewis, M. D., Llewellyn, M. S. , Gomez, A., Roman, F., Miles, M. A. and Yeo, M. (2017) Hosts and vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing units in the Chagas disease endemic region of the Paraguayan Chaco. Parasitology, 144(7), pp. 884-898. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182016002663) (PMID:28179034) (PMCID:PMC5471830)

Schwabl, P., Llewellyn, M. S. , Landguth, E. L., Andersson, B., Kitron, U., Costales, J. A., Ocaña, S. and Grijalva, M. J. (2017) Prediction and prevention of parasitic diseases using a landscape genomics framework. Trends in Parasitology, 33(4), pp. 264-275. (doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.10.008) (PMID:27863902)

Llewellyn, M.S. et al. (2017) Parasitism perturbs the mucosal microbiome of Atlantic Salmon. Scientific Reports, 7, 43465. (doi: 10.1038/srep43465) (PMID:28266549) (PMCID:PMC5339869)

Sylvain, F.-É., Cheaib, B. , Llewellyn, M. , Gabriel Correia, T., Barros Fagundes, D., Luis Val, A. and Derome, N. (2016) pH drop impacts differentially skin and gut microbiota of the Amazonian fish tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum). Scientific Reports, 6, 32032. (doi: 10.1038/srep32032) (PMID:27535789) (PMCID:PMC4989189)

Messenger, L. A., Ramirez, J. D., Llewellyn, M. S. , Guhl, F. and Miles, M. A. (2016) Importation of hybrid human-associated Trypanosoma cruzi strains of Southern South American origin, Colombia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(8), pp. 1452-1455. (doi: 10.3201/eid2208.150786) (PMID:27434772) (PMCID:PMC4982185)

Ramírez, J.D. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2015) Response to Tibayrenc and Ayala: reproductive clonality in protozoan pathogens - truth or artefact? Molecular Ecology, 24(23), pp. 5782-5784. (doi: 10.1111/mec.13442) (PMID:26607215)

Costales, J. A., Jara-Palacios, M. A., Llewellyn, M. S. , Messenger, L. A., Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Villacís, A. G., Tibayrenc, M. and Grijalva, M. J. (2015) Trypanosoma cruzi population dynamics in the Central Ecuadorian Coast. Acta Tropica, 151, pp. 88-93. (doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.07.017) (PMID:26200787)

Pennington, P.M., Messenger, L.A., Reina, J., Juárez, J.G., Lawrence, G.G., Dotson, E.M., Llewellyn, M.S. and Cordón-Rosales, C. (2015) The Chagas disease domestic transmission cycle in Guatemala: parasite-vector switches and lack of mitochondrial co-diversification between Triatoma dimidiata and Trypanosoma cruzi subpopulations suggest non-vectorial parasite dispersal across the Motagua valley. Acta Tropica, 151, pp. 80-87. (doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.07.014) (PMID:26215126)

Costales, J.A., Kotton, C.N., Zurita-Leal, A.C., Garcia-Perez, J., Llewellyn, M.S. , Messenger, L.A., Bhattacharyya, T. and Burleigh, B.A. (2015) Chagas disease reactivation in a heart transplant patient infected by domestic Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing unit I (TcIDOM). Parasites and Vectors, 8, 435. (doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-1039-3) (PMID:26303927) (PMCID:PMC4548706)

Messenger, L.A., Garcia, L., Vanhove, M., Huaranca, C., Bustamante, M., Torrico, M., Torrico, F., Miles, M.A. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2015) Ecological host fitting of Trypanosoma cruziTcI in Bolivia: mosaic population structure, hybridization and a role for humans in Andean parasite dispersal. Molecular Ecology, 24(10), pp. 2406-2422. (doi: 10.1111/mec.13186) (PMID:25847086)

Llewellyn, M.S. et al. (2015) Deep sequencing of the trypanosoma cruzi GP63 surface proteases reveals diversity and diversifying selection among chronic and congenital chagas disease patients. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(4), e0003458. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003458) (PMID:25849488) (PMCID:PMC4388557)

Llewellyn, M. S. , McGinnity, P., Dionne, M., Letourneau, J., Thonier, F., Carvalho, G. R., Creer, S. and Derome, N. (2015) The biogeography of the atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) gut microbiome. ISME Journal, 10, pp. 1280-1284. (doi: 10.1038/ismej.2015.189) (PMID:26517698)

Messenger, L.A., Yeo, M., Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. and Miles, M. (2015) Molecular genotyping of trypanosoma cruzi for lineage assignment and population genetics. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1201, pp. 297-337. (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1438-8_19) (PMID:25388123)

Diosque, P. et al. (2014) Optimized Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) scheme for Trypanosoma cruzi. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 8(8), e3117. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003117) (PMID:25167160) (PMCID:PMC4148231)

Lima, V.S., Jansen, A.M., Messenger, L.A., Miles, M.A. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2014) Wild Trypanosoma cruzi I genetic diversity in Brazil suggests admixture and disturbance in parasite populations from the Atlantic Forest region. Parasites and Vectors, 7, 263. (doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-263) (PMID:24903849) (PMCID:PMC4062772)

Franzén, O. et al. (2012) Comparative genomic analysis of human infective Trypanosoma cruzi lineages with the bat-restricted subspecies T. cruzi marinkellei. BMC Genomics, 13, 531. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-531) (PMID:23035642) (PMCID:PMC3507753)

Ramirez, J. D., Guhl, F., Messenger, L. A., Lewis, M. D., Montilla, M., Cucunuba, Z., Miles, M. A. and Llewellyn, M. S. (2012) Contemporary cryptic sexuality in Trypanosoma cruzi. Molecular Ecology, 21(17), pp. 4216-4226. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05699.x) (PMID:22774844)

Lauthier, J.J. et al. (2012) Candidate targets for multilocus sequence typing of trypanosoma cruzi: validation using parasite stocks from the Chaco region and a set of reference strains. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 12(2), pp. 350-358. (doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.12.008) (PMID:22210092)

Zingales, B. et al. (2012) The revised Trypanosoma cruzi subspecific nomenclature: Rationale, epidemiological relevance and research applications. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 12(2), pp. 240-253. (doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.12.009) (PMID:22226704)

Carrasco, H.J. et al. (2012) Geographical distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi genotypes in Venezuela. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 6(6), e1707. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001707) (PMID:22745843) (PMCID:PMC3383755)

Traub-Csekö, Y.M., Messenger, L.A., Llewellyn, M.S. , Bhattacharyya, T., Franzén, O., Lewis, M.D., Ramírez, J.D., Carrasco, H.J., Andersson, B. and Miles, M.A. (2012) Multiple mitochondrial introgression events and heteroplasmy in trypanosoma cruzi revealed by Maxicircle MLST and next generation sequencing. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 6(4), e1584. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001584) (PMID:22506081) (PMCID:PMC3323513)

Yoshida, N., Tyler, K.M. and Llewellyn, M.S. (2011) Invasion mechanisms among emerging food-borne protozoan parasites. Trends in Parasitology, 27(10), pp. 459-466. (doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.06.006) (PMID:21840261)

Yeo, M., Mauricio, I.L., Messenger, L.A., Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Acosta, N., Bhattacharyya, T., Diosque, P., Carrasco, H.J. and Miles, M.A. (2011) Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for lineage assignment and high resolution diversity studies in Trypanosoma cruzi. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(6), e1049. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001049) (PMID:21713026) (PMCID:PMC3119646)

Llewellyn, M. S. , Rivett-Carnac, J. B., Fitzpatrick, S., Lewis, M. D., Yeo, M., Gaunt, M. W. and Miles, M. A. (2011) Extraordinary Trypanosoma cruzi diversity within single mammalian reservoir hosts implies a mechanism of diversifying selection. International Journal for Parasitology, 41(6), pp. 609-614. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2010.12.004) (PMID:21232539) (PMCID:PMC3084450)

Bates, P.A., Franzén, O., Ochaya, S., Sherwood, E., Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Miles, M.A. and Andersson, B. (2011) Shotgun sequencing analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi I sylvio X10/1 and comparison with T. cruzi VI CL Brener. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(3), e984. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000984) (PMID:21408126) (PMCID:PMC3050914)

Carlton, J.M., Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Yeo, M., Acosta, N., Gaunt, M.W. and Miles, M.A. (2011) Recent, independent and anthropogenic origins of Trypanosoma cruzi hybrids. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(10), e1363. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001363) (PMID:22022633) (PMCID:PMC3191134)

Ocaña-Mayorga, S., Llewellyn, M.S. , Costales, J.A., Miles, M.A. and Grijalva, M.J. (2010) Sex, subdivision, and domestic dispersal of Trypanosoma cruzi lineage I in southern Ecuador. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 4(12), e915. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000915) (PMID:21179502) (PMCID:PMC3001902)

Lewis, M.D., Ma, J., Yeo, M., Carrasco, H.J., Llewellyn, M.S. and Miles, M.A. (2009) Genotyping of trypanosoma cruzi: systematic selection of assays allowing rapid and accurate discrimination of all known lineages. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 81(6), pp. 1041-1049. (doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0305) (PMID:19996435) (PMCID:PMC2825677)

Marcili, A. et al. (2009) Comparative phylogeography of Trypanosoma cruzi TCIIc: new hosts, association with terrestrial ecotopes, and spatial clustering. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 9(6), pp. 1265-1274. (doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2009.07.003) (PMID:19632356)

Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Gaunt, M.W., Yeo, M., Carrasco, H.J. and Miles, M.A. (2009) Flow cytometric analysis and microsatellite genotyping reveal extensive DNA content variation in Trypanosoma cruzi populations and expose contrasts between natural and experimental hybrids. International Journal for Parasitology, 39(12), pp. 1305-1317. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.04.001) (PMID:19393242) (PMCID:PMC2731025)

Miles, M.A., Llewellyn, M.S. , Lewis, M.D., Yeo, M., Baleela, R., Fitpatrick, S., Gaunt, M.W. and Mauricio, I.L. (2009) The molecular epidemiology and phylogeography of Trypanosoma cruzi and parallel research on Leishmania: looking back and to the future. Parasitology, 136(12), p. 1509. (doi: 10.1017/S0031182009990977) (PMID:19691868)

Llewellyn, M.S. , Lewis, M.D., Acosta, N., Yeo, M., Carrasco, H.J., Segovia, M., Vargas, J., Torrico, F., Miles, M.A. and Gaunt, M.W. (2009) Trypanosoma cruzi IIc: phylogenetic and phylogeographic insights from sequence and microsatellite analysis and potential Impact on emergent chagas disease. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 3(9), e510. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000510) (PMID:19721699) (PMCID:PMC2727949)

Llewellyn, M. S. et al. (2009) Genome-scale multilocus microsatellite typing of trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing Unit I reveals phylogeographic structure and specific genotypes linked to human infection. PLoS Pathogens, 5(5), e1000410. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000410) (PMID:19412340) (PMCID:PMC2669174)

Yeo, M. et al. (2005) Origins of chagas disease: Didelphis species are natural hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi I and armadillos hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi II, including hybrids. International Journal for Parasitology, 35(2), pp. 225-233. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2004.10.024) (PMID:15710443)

Kassen, R., Llewellyn, M.S. and Rainey, P.B. (2004) Ecological constraints on diversification in a model adaptive radiation. Nature, 431(7011), pp. 984-988. (doi: 10.1038/nature02923) (PMID:15496923)

Book Sections

Lewis, M.D., Llewellyn, M.S. , Yeo, M., Messenger, L.A. and Miles, M.A. (2017) Experimental and natural recombination in Trypanosoma cruzi. In: Telleria, J. and Tibayrenc, M. (eds.) American Trypanosomiasis Chagas Disease: One Hundred Years of Research [2nd ed.]. Elsevier, pp. 455-473. (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801029-7.00020-4)

Research Reports or Papers

Hollingsworth, P.M. et al. (2020) Scotland’s Biodiversity Progress to 2020 Aichi targets: Aichi target 13 - Genetic Diversity Maintained - Supplementary Report 2020. Technical Report. Scottish Natural Heritage, Inverness.

Conference or Workshop Item

McGregor, A. , Llewellyn, M. and Spatharis, S. (2018) Research 'Mini-projects': The Importance of Student-led, Peer-supported Research in Gaining Experience and Confidence Prior to Final-year Honours Projects. British Ecological Society Learning and Teaching Symposium, Birmingham, UK, 2018.