Publications

2025

Dania Albini, Emma Ransome, Alex J. Dumbrell, Samraat Pawar, Eoin J. O'Gorman, Thomas P Smith, Thomas Bell, Michelle C. Jackson, Guy Woodward (2025) Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment Communications Biology doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-07380-2

2024

Thomas P Smith, Swapnil Mishra, Ilaria Dorigatti, Mahika K. Dixit, Michael Tristem, William D Pearse (2024) Differential responses of SARS-CoV-2 variants to environmental drivers during their selective sweeps Scientific Reports doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-64044-1

Thomas P Smith, Tom Clegg, Emma Ransome, Thomas Martin-Lilley, James Rosindell, Guy Woodward, Samraat Pawar, Thomas Bell (2024) High-throughput chatacterization of bacterial responses to complex mixtures of chemical pollutants. Nature Microbiology doi: 10.1038/s41564-024-01626-9

2022

Thomas P Smith, Shorok Mombrikotb, Emma Ransome, Dimitrios-Georgios Kontopoulos, Samraat Pawar, Thomas Bell (2022) Latent functional diversity may accelerate microbial community responses to temperature fluctuations. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.80867

Thomas P Smith, Michael Stemkovski, Austin Koontz, William D Pearse (2022) AREAdata: a worldwide climate dataset averaged across spatial units at different scales through time. Data in Brief doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108438

2021

Pablo Lechon, Tom Clegg, Jacob Cook, Thomas P Smith, Samraat Pawar (2021) The role of competition versus cooperation in microbial community coalescence. PLOS Computational Biology doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009584

Thomas P Smith, Tom Clegg, Thomas Bell, Samraat Pawar (2021) Systematic variation in the temperature dependence of bacterial carbon use efficiency. Ecology Letters doi: 10.1111/ele.13840

Thomas P Smith, Seth Flaxman, Amanda S Gallinat, Sylvia P Kinosian, Michael Stemkovski, H Juliette T Unwin, Oliver J Watson, Charles Whittaker, Lorenzo Cattarino, Ilaria Dorigatti, Michael Tristem, William D Pearse (2021) Temperature and population density influence SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the absence of non-pharmaceutical interventions. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.2019284118

2020

Dimitrios-Georgios Kontopoulos, Thomas P Smith, Timothy G Barraclough, Samraat Pawar (2020) Adaptive evolution shapes the present-day distribution of the thermal sensitivity of population growth rate. PLOS Biology 18(10):e3000894 doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000894

2019

Thomas P Smith, Thomas J H Thomas, Bernardo Garcia-Carreras, Sofia Sal, Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Thomas Bell, Samraat Pawar (2019) Community-level respiration of prokaryotic microbes may rise with climate change. Nature Communications 10:5124 doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13109-1

Alexander ST Papadopulos, Javier Igea, Thomas P Smith, Ian Hutton, William J Baker, Roger K Butlin, Vincent Savolainen (2019) Ecological speciation in sympatric palms: 4. Demographic analyses support speciation of Howea in the face of high gene flow. Evolution 73:9 10.1111/evo.13813

2018

Reuben W Nowell, Pedro Almeida, Christopher G Wilson, Thomas P Smith, Diego Fontaneto, Alastair Crisp, Gos Micklem, Alan Tunnacliffe, Chiara Boschetti, Timothy G Barraclough (2018) Comparative genomics of bdelloid rotifers: Insights from desiccating and nondesiccating species. PLoS Biology 16(4), e2004830. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2004830

Dimitrios-Georgios Kontopoulos, Bernardo García-Carreras, Sofía Sal, Thomas P Smith, Samraat Pawar (2018) Use and misuse of temperature normalisation in meta-analyses of thermal responses of biological traits. Peer J 6:e4363. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4363

2015

Isobel Eyres, Chiara Boschetti, Alastair Crisp, Thomas P Smith, Diego Fontaneto, Alan Tunnacliffe, Timothy G Barraclough (2015) Horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers is ancient, ongoing and more frequent in species from desiccating habitats. BMC Biology 13:90 doi: 10.1186/s12915-015-0202-9

Harriet Cole, Massimiliano Porrini, Ryan Morris, Tom Smith, Jason Kalapothakis, Stefan Weidt, C. Logan Mackay, Cait E. MacPhee, Perdita E. Barran (2015) Early stages of insulin fibrillogenesis examined with ion mobility mass spectrometry and molecular modelling. Analyst 140:7000-7011 doi: 10.1039/C5AN01253H

2014

Anna Liakhovitskaia, Stanislav Rybtsov, Tom Smith, Antoniana Batsivari, Natalia Rybtsova, Christina Rode, Marella De Bruijn, Frank Buchholz, Sabrina Gordon-Keylock, Suling Zhao, Alexander Medvinsky (2014) Runx1 is required for progression of CD41+ embryonic precursors into HSCs but not prior to this. Development 141(17):3319-23. doi: 10.1242/dev.110841