Publications

Beran, F.; Petschenka, G.: Sequestration of plant defense compounds by insects: From mechanisms to insect–plant coevolution. Annual Review of Entomology 67, pp. 163 - 180 (2022)

Dearing, M. D.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Gershenzon, J.: Demonstrating the role of symbionts in mediating detoxification in herbivores. Symbiosis 87, pp. 59 - 66 (2022)

Ganesan, R.; Wierz, J. C.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.: How it all begins: Bacterial factors mediating the colonization of invertebrate hosts by beneficial symbionts. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 86 (4), pp. 1 - 21 (2022)

Goettler, W.; Kaltenpoth, M.; McDonald, S.; Strohm, E.: Comparative morphology of the symbiont cultivation glands in the antennae of female digger wasps of the genus Philanthus (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae). Frontiers in Physiology 13, 815494 (2022)

Haeger, W.; Pauchet, Y.; Kirsch, R.: Evolution of polygalacturonases and polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins: A view beyond the classical perspective. Annual Plant Reviews 5 (1), pp. 81 - 122 (2022)

Janke, R. S.; Kaftan, F.; Niehs, S. P.; Scherlach, K.; Rodrigues, A.; Svatoš, A.; Hertweck, C.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.: Bacterial ectosymbionts in cuticular organs chemically protect a beetle during molting stages. The ISME Journal 16 (12), pp. 2691 - 2701 (2022)

Janke, R. S.; Moog, S.; Weiss, B.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.: Morphological adaptation for ectosymbiont maintenance and transmission during metamorphosis in Lagria beetles. Frontiers in Physiology 13, 979200 (2022)

Jeckel, A. M.; Beran, F.; Züst, T.; Younkin, G.; Petschenka, G.; Pokharel, P.; Dreisbach, D.; Ganal-Vonarburg, S. C.; Robert, C. A. M.: Metabolization and sequestration of plant specialized metabolites in insect herbivores: Current and emerging approaches. Frontiers in Physiology 13, 1001032 (2022)

Kaltenpoth, M.: Fast track to mutualism. Nature Microbiology 7, pp. 1104 - 1105 (2022)

Kanyile, S. N.; Engl, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Nutritional symbionts enhance structural defence against predation and fungal infection in a grain pest beetle. The Journal of Experimental Biology 225 (1), jeb243593 (2022)

Karunaraj, P.; Tidswell, O.; Duncan, E. J.; Lovegrove, M. R.; Jefferies, G.; Johnson, T. K.; Beck, C. W.; Dearden, P. K.: Noggin proteins are multifunctional extracellular regulators of cell signaling. Genetics 221 (1), iyac049 (2022)

Kiefer, J. S. T.; Schmidt, G.; Krüsemer, R.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Engl, T.: Wolbachia causes cytoplasmic incompatibility but not male-killing in a grain pest beetle. Molecular Ecology 31 (24), pp. 6570 - 6587 (2022)

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)