Publications
Gabriel, E., Wilson, D. J., Leatherbarrow, A. J. H., Cheesbrough, J., Gee, S., Bolton, E., Fox, A., Fearnhead, P., Hart, C. A. and P. J. Diggle (2010)
Spatio-temporal epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis, in an area of Northwest England, 2000-2002.
Epidemiology and Infection, in press. (abstract)
Mullner, P., Shadbolt, T., Collins-Emerson, J. M., Midwinter, A. C., Spencer, S. E. F., Marshall, J., Carter, P., Campbell, D. M., Wilson, D. J., Hathaway, S., Pirie, R. and N. P. French (2010)
Molecular and spatial epidemiology of human campylobacteriosis in New Zealand - source association and genotype-related risk factors.
Epidemiology and Infection, in press. (abstract)
Fledel-Alon, A., Wilson, D. J., Broman, K., Wen, X., Ober, C., Coop, G. and M. Przeworski (2009)
Broad-scale recombination patterns underlying proper disjunction in humans.
PLoS Genetics 5: e1000658. (abstract pdf)
Brehony, C., Wilson, D. J. and M. C. J. Maiden (2009)
Variation of the factor H-binding protein of Neisseria meningitidis.
Microbiology 155: 4155-4169. (abstract pdf)
Mullner, P., Spencer, S. E. F., Wilson, D. J., Jones, G., Noble, A. D., Midwinter, A. C., Collins-Emerson, J. M., Carter, P., Hathaway, S. and N. P. French (2009)
Assigning the source of human campylobacteriosis in New Zealand: a comparative genetic and epidemiological approach.
Infection, Genetics and Evolution 9: 1311-1319. (abstract pdf)
Wilson, D. J., Gabriel, E., Leatherbarrow, A. J. H., Cheesbrough, J., Gee, S., Bolton, E., Fox, A., Hart, C. A., Diggle, P. J. and P. Fearnhead (2009)
Rapid evolution and the importance of recombination to the gastro-enteric pathogen Campylobacter jejuni.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 26: 385-397. (abstract pdf)
Sheppard, S. K., Dallas, J. F., Strachan, N. J. C., MacRae, M., McCarthy, N. D., Wilson, D. J., Gormley, F. J., Falush, D., Ogden, I. D., Maiden, M. C. J. and K. J. Forbes (2009)
Campylobacter genotyping to determine the source of human infection.
Clinical Infectious Diseases 48: 1072-1078. (abstract pdf)
Wilson, D. J., E. Gabriel, A. J. H. Leatherbarrow, J. Cheesbrough, S. Gee, E. Bolton, A. Fox, P. Fearnhead, C. A. Hart and P. J. Diggle (2008)
Tracing the source of campylobacteriosis.
PLoS Genetics 4: e1000203. (abstract pdf press-release)
Wilson, D. J. and G. McVean (2006)
Estimating diversifying selection and functional constraint in the presence of
recombination.
Genetics 172: 1411-1425. (abstract
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Falush, D., M. Torpdahl, X. Didelot, D. F. Conrad, D. J. Wilson and M. Achtman (2006)
Mismatch induced speciation in Salmonella: model and data.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 361: 2045-2053. (abstract pdf)
Edwards, C. T. T., E. C. Holmes, O. G. Pybus, D. J. Wilson, R. P. Viscidi,
E. J. Abrams, R. E. Phillips and A. J. Drummond (2006)
Evolution of the HIV-1 envelope gene is dominated by purifying selection.
Genetics 174: 1441-1453. (abstract pdf)
Edwards, C. T. T., E. C. Holmes, D. J. Wilson, R. P. Viscidi, E. J. Abrams, R.
E. Phillips and A. J. Drummond (2006)
Population genetic estimation of the loss of genetic diversity during horizontal
transmission of HIV-1.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 28. (abstract pdf)
Wilson, D. J., D. Falush and G. McVean (2005)
Germs, genomes and genealogies.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 39-45. (abstract pdf)
Wilson, D. J. and D. Falush (2005)
The genetic structure of human pathogens.
In Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics edited
by L. B. Jorde, P. F. R. Little, M. J. Dunn and S. Subramaniam. Wiley, New
York. (abstract)
Jolley, K. A., D. J. Wilson, P. Kriz, G. McVean and M. C. J. Maiden (2005)
The influence of mutation, recombination, population history and selection on
patterns of genetic diversity in Neisseria meningitidis.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 22: 562-569. (abstract pdf)
Claus, H., M. C. J. Maiden, D. J. Wilson, N. D. McCarthy, K. A. Jolley, R.
Urwin, F. Hessler, M. Frosch and U. Vogel (2005)
Genetic analysis of meningococci carried by children and young adults.
Journal of Infectious Diseases 191: 1263-1271. (abstract pdf)
Yazdankhah, S. P., P. Kriz, G. Tzanakaki, J. Kremastinou, J. Kalmusova, M.
Musilek, T. Alvedstad, K. A. Jolley, D. J. Wilson, N. D. McCarthy, D. A.
Caugant and M. C. J. Maiden (2004)
Distribution of Serogroups and Genotypes among Disease-Associated and Carried
Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from the Czech Republic, Greece, and
Norway.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42: 5146-5153. (abstract pdf)
Thesis
Wilson, D. J. (2005)
Multilocus sequence analysis of the pathogen Neisseria meningitidis.
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