Male (left) and female (right) moths of the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis. The caterpillars of this pest mainly attack the stems of maize plants.

Publications of Theresa Sporer

Journal Article (7)

2023
Journal Article
Körnig, J.; Ortizo, K.; Sporer, T.; Yang, Z.-L.; Beran, F.: Different myrosinases activate sequestered glucosinolates in larvae and adults of the horseradish flea beetle. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 163, 104040 (2023)
2021
Journal Article
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)
2020
Journal Article
Kirsch, R.; Vurmaz, E.; Schaefer, C.; Eberl, F.; Sporer, T.; Haeger, W.; Pauchet, Y.: Plants use identical inhibitors to protect their cell wall pectin against microbes and insects. Ecology and Evolution 10 (8), pp. 3814 - 3824 (2020)
Journal Article
Sporer, T.; Körnig, J.; Beran, F.: Ontogenetic differences in the chemical defence of flea beetles influence their predation risk. Functional Ecology 34 (7), pp. 1370 - 1379 (2020)
Journal Article
Yang, Z.-L.; Kunert, G.; Sporer, T.; Körnig, J.; Beran, F.: Glucosinolate abundance and composition in Brassicaceae influence sequestration in a specialist flea beetle. Journal of Chemical Ecology 46, pp. 186 - 197 (2020)
2018
Journal Article
Beran, F.; Sporer, T.; Paetz, C.; Ahn, S.-J.; Betzin, F.; Kunert, G.; Shekhov, A.; G. Vassão, D.; Bartram, S.; Lorenz, S. et al.; Reichelt, M.: One pathway is not enough: The cabbage stem flea beetle Psylliodes chrysocephala uses multiple strategies to overcome the glucosinolate-myrosinase defense in its host plants. Frontiers in Plant Science 9, 1754 (2018)
2016
Journal Article
Krempl, C.; Sporer, T.; Reichelt, M.; Ahn, S.-J.; Heidel-Fischer, H. M.; Vogel, H.; Heckel, D. G.; Joußen, N.: Potential detoxification of gossypol by UDP-glycosyltransferases in the two Heliothine moth species Helicoverpa armigera and Heliothis virescens. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 71, pp. 49 - 57 (2016)

Thesis - PhD (1)

2021
Thesis - PhD
Sporer, T.: The mechanism and ecological function of plant glucoside sequestration in Phyllotreta flea beetles. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2021)

Thesis - Master (1)

2015
Thesis - Master
Sporer, T.: Detoxification of gossypol in the heliothine moth Helicoverpa armigera via glycosylation by UDP-Glycosyltransferases. Master, Universität Hohenheim, Naturwissenschaften, Stuttgart (2015)
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