Dr Kay Boulton
Research Fellow
Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh Master of Science, University of Edinburgh Bachelor of Science, University of Manchester
Research activities
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Dissecting the Genomic Architecture of Resistance to Eimeria maxima Parasitism in the Chicken
(13 pages)
In:
Frontiers in genetics, vol. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00528
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Phenotypic and genetic variation in the response of chickens to Eimeria tenella induced coccidiosis
(12 pages)
In:
Genetics Selection Evolution, vol. 50, no. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-018-0433-7
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Phenotypic and genetic integration of personality and growth under competition in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni
In:
Evolution, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 187-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13398
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Effects of Eimeria tenella infection on chicken caecal microbiome diversity, exploring variation associated with severity of pathology
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. e0184890
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184890
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Serum IL10 provides separable resistance and tolerance traits in chicken response to coccidiosis
Contribution to conference › Poster (Published) -
Analysis of the function of IL-10 in chickens using specific neutralising antibodies and a sensitive capture ELISA
In:
Developmental and Comparative Immunology, vol. 63, pp. 206-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dci.2016.04.016
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
The potential of serum IL-10 as a diagnostic biomarker of resilience in the domestic chicken to infection from Eimeria Spp.
(2 pages)
In:
Journal of Animal Science, vol. 94, no. Suppt. 4, pp. 158-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2134/jas2016.94supplement4158a
Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract (Published) -
Sex-specific plasticity and genotype x sex interactions for age and size of maturity in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni
In:
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 645-656
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12814
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
How integrated are behavioral and endocrine stress response traits? : A repeated measures approach to testing the stress-coping style model
(16 pages)
In:
Ecology and Evolution, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 618-633
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1395
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
How stable are personalities? A multivariate view of behavioural variation over long and short timescales in the sheepshead swordtail, Xiphophorus birchmanni
(13 pages)
In:
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 791-803
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-014-1692-0
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)