Kirsch, R.; Okamura, Y.; Häger, W.; Vogel, H.; Kunert, G.; Pauchet, Y.: Metabolic novelty originating from horizontal gene transfer is essential for leaf beetle survival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (40), e2205857119 (2022)

Köllner, T. G.; David, A.; Luck, K.; Beran, F.; Kunert, G.; Zhou, J.-J.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.: Biosynthesis of iridoid sex pheromones in aphids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (42), e2211254119 (2022)

Okamura, Y.; Dort, H.; Reichelt, M.; Tunström, K.; Wheat, W. C.; Vogel, H.: Testing hypotheses of a coevolutionary key innovation reveals a complex suite of traits involved in defusing the mustard oil bomb. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (51), e2208447119 (2022)

Okamura, Y.; Sato, A.; Kawaguchi, L.; Nagano, A. J.; Murakami, M.; Vogel, H.; Kroymann, J.: Microevolution of Pieris butterfly genes involved in host plant adaptation along a host plant community cline. Molecular Ecology 31 (11), pp. 3083 - 3097 (2022)

Salem, H.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Beetle-bacterial symbioses: Endless forms most functional. Annual Review of Entomology 67, pp. 201 - 219 (2022)

Shalom, S. R.; Weiss, B.; Lalzar, M.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Chiela, E.: Abundance and localization of symbiotic bacterial communities in the fly parasitoid Spalangia cameroni. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 48 (9), e02549-21 (2022)

Shin, N. R.; Doucet, D.; Pauchet, Y.: Duplication of horizontally acquired GH5_2 enzymes played a central role in the evolution of longhorned beetles. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39 (6), msac128 (2022)

Vigneron, A.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Symbiosis: Creating a tractable intracellular insect-microbe association. Current Biology 32 (18), pp. R943 - R946 (2022)

Yang, Z.-L.; Seitz, F.; Grabe, V.; Nietzsche, S.; Richter, A.; Reichelt, M.; Beutel, R.; Beran, F.: Rapid and selective absorption of plant defense compounds from the gut of a sequestering insect. Frontiers in Physiology 13, 846732 (2022)

Dávila-Lara, A.; Reichelt, M.; Wang, D.; Vogel, H.; Mithöfer, A.: Proof of anthocyanins in the carnivorous plant genus Nepenthes. FEBS Open Bio 11 (9), pp. 2576 - 2585 (2021)

Ganesan, R.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.: Transposon-insertion sequencing as a tool to elucidate bacterial colonization factors in a Burkholderia gladioli symbiont of Lagria villosa beetles. Journal of Visualized Experiments 174, e62843 (2021)

Gegner, J.; Vogel, H.; Billion, A.; Förster, F.; Vilcinskas, A.: Complete metamorphosis in Manduca sexta involves specific changes in DNA methylation patterns. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 646281 (2021)

Kiefer, J.; Batsukh, S.; Bauer, E.; Hirota, B.; Weiss, B.; Wierz, J.; Fukatsu, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Engl, T.: Inhibition of a nutritional endosymbiont by glyphosate abolishes mutualistic benefit on cuticle synthesis in Oryzaephilus surinamensis. Communications Biology 4, 554 (2021)

Nechitaylo, T. Y.; Sandoval-Calderón, M.; Engl, T.; Wielsch, N.; Dunn, D. M.; Goesmann, A.; Strohm, E.; Svatoš, A.; Dale, C.; Weiss, R. B. et al.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Incipient genome erosion and metabolic streamlining for antibiotic production in a defensive symbiont. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (17), e2023047118 (2021)

Rügen, N.; Jenkins, T. P.; Wielsch, N.; Vogel, H.; Hempel, B.-F.; Süssmuth, R. D.; Ainsworth, S.; Cabezas-Cruz, A.; Vilcinskas, A.; Tonk, M.: Hexapod assassins’ potion: Venom composition and bioactivity from the Eurasian assassin bug Rhynocoris iracundus. Biomedicines 9 (7), 819 (2021)

Sporer, T.; Körnig, J.; Wielsch, N.; Gebauer-Jung, S.; Reichelt, M.; Hupfer, Y.; Beran, F.: Hijacking the mustard-oil bomb: How a glucosinolate-sequestering flea beetle copes with plant myrosinases. Frontiers in Plant Science 12, 645030 (2021)

Steward, R. A.; Okamura, Y.; Boggs, C. L.; Vogel, H.; Wheat, C. W.: The genome of the margined white butterfly (Pieris macdunnoughii): sex chromosome insights and the power of polishing with PoolSeq data. Genome Biology and Evolution 13 (4), evab053 (2021)

Wierz, J. C.; Gaube, P.; Klebsch, D.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.: Transmission of bacterial symbionts with and without genome erosion between a beetle host and the plant environment. Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 715601 (2021)

Yang, Z.-L.; Nour-Eldin, H. H.; Hänniger, S.; Reichelt, M.; Crocoll, C.; Seitz, F.; Vogel, H.; Beran, F.: Sugar transporters enable a leaf beetle to accumulate plant defense compounds. Nature Communications 12, 2658 (2021)

Brückner, A.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Heethoff, M.: De novo biosynthesis of simple aromatic compounds by an arthropod (Archegozetes longisetosus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 (1934), 20201429 (2020)