Publications

Becker, C.; Steingass, C. B.; Vogel, H.; Reineke, A.: Change your diet: How CO₂, plant phenology and genotype alter grapevine quality and affect performance and larval transcriptome of an insect herbivore. Molecular Ecology, e17636 (2025)

Brunetti, A. E.; Saravia, A. M.; Barrionuevo, J. S.; Delgado, J. A.; Vargas, V. J.; Faivovich, J.: Parental care of underwater egg clutches in Andean water frogs (Anura: Telmatobiidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology = Revue Canadienne de Zoologie 103, pp. 1 - 15 (2025)

Grzech, D.; Smit, S. J.; Alam, R. M.; Boccia, M.; Nakamura, Y.; Hong, B.; Barbole, R.; Heinicke, S.; Kunert, M.; Seibt, W. et al.; Grabe, V.; Caputi, L.; Lichman, B. R.; O’Connor, S. E.; Aharoni, A.; Sonawane, P. D.: Incorporation of nitrogen in antinutritional Solanum alkaloid biosynthesis. Nature Chemical Biology 21, pp. 131 - 142 (2025)

Hendricks, A.; Philips, T. K.; Engl, T.; Plarre, R. (.; Martinson, V. G.: The bacterial microbiome in spider beetles and deathwatch beetles. Microbiology Spectrum 13 (5), pp. 1 - 14 (2025)

Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.; Vigneron, A.; Dirksen, P.; Engl, T.: Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects. Nature Reviews Microbiology (2025)

Keesey, I.; Doll, G.; Das Chakraborty, S.; Baschwitz, A.; Lemoine, M.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Svatoš, A.; Sachse, S.; Knaden, M.; Hansson, B. S.: Neuroecology of alcohol risk and reward: Methanol boosts pheromones and courtship success in Drosophila melanogaster. Science Advances 11 (14), eadi9683 (2025)

Kirsch, R.; Okamura, Y.; García-Lozano, M.; Weiss, B.; Keller, J.; Vogel, H.; Fukumori, K.; Fukatsu, T.; Konstantinov, A. S.; Montagna, M. et al.; Moseyko, A. G.; Riley, E. G.; Slipinski, A.; Vencl, F. V.; Windsor, D. M.; Salem, H.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Pauchet, Y.: Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer promote herbivory in the megadiverse leaf beetles. Current Biology 35, pp. 1 - 15 (2025)

Vogel, H.; Rügen, N.; Wielsch, N.; Twyman, R. M.; Tonk-Rügen, M.; Vilcinskas, A.: Molecular basis of the explosive defence response in the bombardier beetle Brachinus crepitans. Royal Society Open Science 12 (5), 241823 (2025)

Weiss, B.; Shalom, S. R.; Dolgova, A.; Teh, L. S.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Dale, C.; Chiel, E.: Maternal symbiont transmission via envenomation in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni. Current Biology 35 (8), pp. 1693 - 1705 (2025)

Baños Quintana, A. P.; Gershenzon, J.; Kaltenpoth, M.: The Eurasian spruce bark beetle Ips typographus shapes the microbial communities of its offspring and the gallery environment. Frontiers in Microbiology 15, 1367127 (2024)

Beran, F.; Heckel, D. G.: Escalation by duplication: Milkweed bug trumps Monarch butterfly. Molecular Ecology 33 (14), e17443 (2024)

Biswas, T.; Vogel, H.; Biedermann, P. H. W.; Lehenberger, M.; Yuvaraj, J. K.; Andersson, M. N.: Few chemoreceptor genes in the ambrosia beetle Trypodendron lineatum may reflect its specialized ecology. BMC Genomics 25, 764 (2024)

Engl, T.: Reproductive manipulation: Wolbachia induce host parthenogenesis using a stolen transformer. Current Biology 34 (11), pp. R547 - R549 (2024)

Fischer, M. L.; Schmidtberg, H.; Tidswell, O.; Weiss, B.; Dersch, L.; Lüddecke, T.; Wielsch, N.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Vilcinskas, A.; Vogel, H.: Divergent venom effectors correlate with ecological niche in neuropteran predators. Communications Biology 7, 981 (2024)

Garcia-Lozano, M.; Henzler, C.; Porras, M. A. G.; Pons, I.; Berasategui, A.; Lanz, C.; Budde, H.; Oguchi, K.; Matsuura, Y.; Pauchet, Y. et al.; Goffredi, S.; Fukatsu, T.; Salem, H.: Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles. Current Biology 34 (8), pp. 1621 - 1634.e9 (2024)

Gikonyo, M. W.; Ahn, S.-J.; Biondi, M.; Fritzlar, F.; Okamura, Y.; Vogel, H.; Köllner, T. G.; Şen, I.; Hernández-Teixidor, D.; Lee, C.-F. et al.; Letsch, H.; Beran, F.: A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes. Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, qpad197, pp. 127 - 145 (2024)

Glaser-Schmitt, A.; Lemoine, M.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Parsch, J.: Pervasive tissue-, genetic background-, and allele-specific gene expression effects in Drosophila melanogaster. PLOS Genetics 20 (8), e1011257 (2024)

González Porras, M. Á.; Pons, I.; García-Lozano, M.; Jagdale, S.; Emmerich, C.; Weiss, B.; Salem, H.: Extracellular symbiont colonizes insect during embryo development. ISME Communications 4 (1), ycae005 (2024)

González-Cabanelas, D.; Perreca, E.; Rohwer, J. M.; Schmidt, A.; Engl, T.; Raguschke, B.; Gershenzon, J.; Wright, L.: Deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate synthase does not play a major role in regulating the methylerythritol 4-phosphate pathway in poplar. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25 (8), 4181 (2024)

Han, C.-J.; Cheng, C.-H.; Yeh, T.-F.; Pauchet, Y.; Shelomi, M.: Coconut rhinoceros beetle digestive symbiosis with potential plant cell wall degrading microbes. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 10, 34 (2024)