Joint forces on carcasses

Cooperation of burying beetles and their microbiota (Nature Communications, May 2017) more »

April 28, 2017

Symbiotic bacteria: from hitchhiker to beetle bodyguard

Bacterial symbionts transition between plant pathogenicity and insect defensive mutualism (Nature Communications, April 2017) more »

April 20, 2017

Bergamotene ̶ alluring and lethal for Manduca sexta

The volatile compound bergamotene increases the moths’ pollination success and protects tobacco leaves against their voracious offspring (Current Biology, April 2017) more »

April 3, 2017

Herbivore-induced early defense signaling and its evolution in Nicotiana

Phylogenomic analysis of the genes involved in herbivore induced transcriptomic responses in Nicotiana showed that genome multiplication likely played an important role in shaping the evolution of early defense signaling in plants (Yearbook 2017 of the Max Planck Society) more »

News

May 23, 2017
Newsletter PULS/CE, Issue 29, is now online.

Events

September 21-22, 2017

Seminars

June 06, 2017, 17:00
Ernst Stahl Seminar Series

Pierre Jean Malé: Evolutionary ecology of ant-plant mutualisms in Amazonian rainforest

August 16, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Institute Seminar

Robert Winkler: Approaching life's chemistry with ambient ionization mass spectrometry and MS data mining

Recent publications

Machado: Herbivory-induced jasmonates constrain plant sugar accumulation and growth by antagonizing gibberellin signaling and not by promoting secondary metabolite production. New Phytologist

Vogel: The digestive and defensive basis of carcass utilization by the burying beetle and its microbiota. Nature Communications

Flórez: Antibiotic-producing symbionts dynamically transition between plant pathogenicity and insect-defensive mutualism. Nature Communications