Publications with IMPRS doctoral researchers

Dornelas, M.; Antão, L. H.; Bates, A. E.; Brambilla, V.; Chase, J. M.; Chow, C. F. Y.; Fontrodona-Eslava, A.; Magurran, A. E.; Martins, I. S.; Moyes, F. et al.; et al.; Medina van Berkum, P.; Assaf Zvuloni, A.: BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and improving a database of biodiversity time series. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34 (5), e70003 (2025)

Dwivedi, S.; Garde, R.; Schuster, S.: How hosts and pathogens choose the strengths of defense and counterdefense: a game-theoretical view. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12, 1379868 (2025)

Florean, M.; Schultz, H.; Wurlitzer, J.; O’Connor, S. E.; Köllner, T. G.: Independent evolution of plant natural products: Formation of benzoxazinoids in Consolida orientalis (Ranunculaceae). Journal of Biological Chemistry 301 (1), 108019 (2025)

Freire, M.; Oberweiser, M. M.; Bollig, A.; Kunert, G.; Knaden, M.: How a salt pan ant Cataglyphis fortis navigates artificially complex environments. Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (4), JEB249369 (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)

Kamileen, M. O.; Hong, B.; Gase, K.; Kunert, M.; Caputi, L.; Lichman, B. R.; O’Connor, S. E.: Oxidative rearrangements of the alkaloid intermediate geissoschizine. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English, e202501323 (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)

Kimbadi Lombe, B.; Zhou, T.; Caputi, L.; Ploss, K.; O’Connor, S. E.: Biosynthetic origin of the methoxy group in quinine and related alkaloids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (5), e202418306 (2025)

Li, Z.; Wang, Q.; Knebel, D.; Grabe, V.; Ulrich, Y.: Division of labour in colony defence in a clonal ant. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1922), 20230270 (2025)

Moreira-Soto, R. D.; Hansson, B. S.; Knaden, M.: Oviposition dynamics and niche utilization in two sympatric Drosophila species. Journal of Chemical Ecology 51, 21 (2025)

Pal Mahadevan, V.; Galagovsky, D.; Knaden, M.; Hansson, B. S.: Preference for and resistance to a toxic sulfur volatile opens up a unique niche in Drosophila busckii. Nature Communications 16, 767 (2025)

Stathaki, A.; Alam, R. M.; Köllner, T. G.; O’Connor, S. E.: Engineering of insect juvenile hormone III biosynthesis in the plant Nicotiana benthamiana. Metabolic Engineering 88, pp. 77 - 84 (2025)

Varma, M.; Winter, G.; Ebeling, A.; Lehmann, A.; Cabon, L.; Gimenez, O. M. P.; Pratap, N.; Schielzeth, H.: Few genetic loci control the green-brown color polymorphism in the meadow grasshopper Pseudochorthippus parallelus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (accepted)

Walther, C.; Vallet, M.; Reichelt, M.; Giri, P.; Rothe, B.; Medina van Berkum, P.; Gershenzon, J.; Unsicker, S.: A fungal endophyte alters poplar leaf chemistry, deters insect feeding and shapes insect community assembly. Ecology Letters 28 (2), e70007 (2025)

Amyntas, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Scheu, S.; Klarner, B.; Ilieva-Makulec, K.; Madaj, A.-M.; Gauzens, B.; Li, J.; Potapov, A. M.; Rosenbaum, B. et al.; Bassi, L.; Medina van Berkum, P.; Brose, U.: Soil community history strengthens belowground multitrophic functioning across plant diversity levels in a grassland experiment. Nature Communications 15, 10029 (2024)

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)

Boccia, M.; Kessler, D.; Seibt, W.; Grabe, V.; Rodriguez Lopez, C. E.; Grzech, D.; Heinicke, S.; O’Connor, S. E.; Sonawane, P. D.: A scaffold protein manages the biosynthesis of steroidal defense metabolites in plants. Science 386 (6728), pp. 1366 - 1372 (2024)

Boccia, M.; Ploß, K.; Kunert, M.; Keshan, R.; Hatam, M.; Grabe, V.; O’Connor, S. E.; Sonawane, P. D.: Metabolic engineering of vitamin D3 in Solanaceae plants. Plant Biotechnology Journal 22 (12), pp. 3389 - 3391 (2024)

Chakraborty, S.; Dwivedi, S.; Schuster, S.: Mathematical modeling predicts that endemics by generalist insects are eradicated if nearly all plants produce constitutive defense. Scientific Reports 14, 25771 (2024)

Chakraborty, S.; Schuster, S.: How plant toxins cause early larval mortality in herbivorous insects: An explanation by modeling the net energy curve. Toxins 16 (2), 72 (2024)