Amelia C. McKitterick

Temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern phage-pathogen conflicts

Kristen N. LeGault, Stephanie G. Hays, Angus Angermeyer et al. · Science · 2021 · 162 citations · Full text

A highly specific phage defense system is a conserved feature of the Vibrio cholerae mobilome

Brendan J. O’Hara, Zachary K. Barth, Amelia C. McKitterick et al. · PLoS Genetics · 2017 · 156 citations · Full text

Vibrio Cholerae-specific Bacteriophages, Phage Predation, Virulence Factor +12

Anti-phage islands force their target phage to directly mediate island excision and spread

Amelia C. McKitterick, Kimberley D. Seed · Nature Communications · 2018 · 80 citations · Full text

Competition between mobile genetic elements drives optimization of a phage-encoded CRISPR-Cas system: insights from a natural arms race

Amelia C. McKitterick, Kristen N. LeGault, Angus Angermeyer et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2019 · 54 citations · Full text

Engineering, Mobile Genetic Elements, Genetics +19

Viral Satellites Exploit Phage Proteins to Escape Degradation of the Bacterial Host Chromosome

Amelia C. McKitterick, Stephanie G. Hays, Fatema‐Tuz Johura et al. · Cell Host & Microbe · 2019 · 42 citations · Full text

Medicine, Escape Degradation, Pathogenesis +5