Publications with IMPRS doctoral researchers

Acharya, N.; Wiesel, E.; Selcho, M.; Ehmann, N.; Hansson, B. S.; Wicher, D.; Kittel, R. J.: Type-specific molecular signaling architectures and synaptic plasticity of Drosophila olfactory sensory neurons. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 19, 1579821 (2025)

Briceño Aguilar, E.: ECR Spotlight – Eduardo Briceño-Aguilar. Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (17), jeb251413 (2025)

Briceño-Aguilar, E.; Wiehler, M.; Hansson, B. S.; Knaden, M.: Constancy versus flexibility in oviposition: host choice behavior in a hawkmoth. The Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (17), jeb250600 (2025)

Bröcher, M.; Ebeling, A.; Bassi, L.; Medina van Berkum, P.; van Dam, N. M.; Eisenhauer, N.; Madaj, A.-M.; Unsicker, S.; Weigelt, A.; Meyer, S. T.: Plant–herbivore interactions depend on plant richness, plant and soil history. Functional Ecology (2025)

Cabon, L.; Varma, M.; Winter, G.; Ebeling, A.; Schielzeth, H.: Phenotypic plasticity, heritability, and genotype-by-environment interactions in an insect dispersal polymorphism. BMC Ecology and Evolution 25, 94 (2025)

Colinas, M.; Morweiser, C.; Dittberner, O.; Chioca, B.; Alam, R. M.; Leucke, H.; Nakamura, Y.; Serna Guerrero, D. A.; Heinicke, S.; Kunert, M. et al.; Wurlitzer, J.; Ploss, K.; Hong, B.; Grabe, V.; Lopes, A. A.; O’Connor, S. E.: Ipecac alkaloid biosynthesis in two evolutionarily distant plants. Nature Chemical Biology 23 (8), pp. 3414 - 3416 (2025)

Dornelas, M.; Antão, L. H.; Bates, A. E.; Brambilla, V.; Medina van Berkum, P.; et al.; 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.; Grabe, V.; Luck, K.; O’Connor, S. E.; Köllner, T. G.: A pseudoenzyme enables indole biosynthesis in eudicot plants. Nature Chemical Biology (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)

Fruitet, E.; Jong, R. D.; Blankers, T.; Groot, A. T.; Burdfield-Steel, E.: Resource limitation reveals that high acetate levels in Heliothis subflexa sex pheromone blend are associated with reduced fitness. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (accepted)

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)

Ismaieel, A. R.; Stieber, R.; Hansson, B. S.; Bisch-Knaden, S.: Hawkmoths can smell with grooming organs on their legs. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology (2025)

Jiang, C.; Varma, M.; Shah, A.; Palacios-Gimenez, O. M.; Schielzeth, H.: Replicated differential expression analysis in a green-brown polymorphic grasshopper reveals Role of beta-carotene-binding protein in body coloration. Molecular Ecology, e70142 (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)

Kang, M.; Vu, H. A.; Casper, A. L.; Kim, R.; Wurlitzer, J.; Heinicke, S.; Yeroslaviz, A.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.: Single-cell metabolome and RNA-seq multiplexing on single plant cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (43), e2512828122 (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)

Lemoine, M. M.; Wöhner, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Microbial community dynamics in natural Drosophila melanogaster populations across seasons. Environmental Microbiology 27 (6), e70104 (2025)