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 Laura V. Flórez

Journal Article (10)

2020
Journal Article
Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.: Versatile and dynamic symbioses between insects and Burkholderia bacteria. Annual Review of Entomology 65, pp. 145 - 170 (2020)
Journal Article
Waterworth, S. C.; Flórez, L. V.; Rees, E. R.; Hertweck, C.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Kwan, J. C.: Horizontal gene transfer to a defensive symbiont with a reduced genome in a multipartite beetle microbiome. mBio 11 (1), e02430-19 (2020)
2018
Journal Article
Dose, B.; Niehs, S. P.; Scherlach, K.; Flórez, L. V.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Hertweck, C.: Unexpected bacterial origin of the antibiotic icosalide: Two-tailed depsipeptide assembly in multifarious Burkholderia symbionts. ACS Chemical Biology 13 (9), pp. 2414 - 2420 (2018)
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Flórez, L. V.; Scherlach, K.; Miller, I. J.; Rodrigues, A.; Kwan, J. C.; Hertweck, C.; Kaltenpoth, M.: An antifungal polyketide associated with horizontally acquired genes supports symbiont-mediated defense in Lagria villosa beetles. Nature Communications 9, 2478 (2018)
2017
Journal Article
Flórez, L. V.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Symbiont dynamics and strain diversity in the defensive mutualism between Lagria beetles and Burkholderia. Environmental Microbiology 19 (9), pp. 3674 - 3688 (2017)
Journal Article
Flórez, L. V.; Scherlach, K.; Gaube, P.; Ross, C.; Sitte, E.; Hermes, C.; Rodrigues, A.; Hertweck, C.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Antibiotic-producing symbionts dynamically transition between plant pathogenicity and insect-defensive mutualism. Nature Communications 8, 15172 (2017)
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Gaube, P.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.: Infection of soybean plants with the insect bacterial symbiont Burkholderia gladioli and evaluation of plant fitness. Bio-protocol 7 (24), pp. 1 - 13 (2017)
2016
Journal Article
Klein, A.; Schrader, L.; Gil, R.; Manzano-Marín, A.; Flórez Patino, L. V.; Wheeler, D.; Werren, J. H.; Latorre, A.; Heinze, J.; Kaltenpoth, M. et al.; Moya, A.; Oettler, J.: A novel intracellular mutualistic bacterium in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior. The ISME Journal 10 (2), pp. 376 - 388 (2016)
2015
Journal Article
Flórez Patino, L. V.; Biedermann, P.; Engl, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Defensive symbioses of animals with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms. Natural Product Reports 32 (7), pp. 904 - 936 (2015)
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Salem, H.; Florez, L.; Gerardo, N.; Kaltenpoth, M.: An out-of-body experience: the extracellular dimension for the transmission of mutualistic bacteria in insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1804), 20142957 (2015)

Thesis - PhD (1)

2016
Thesis - PhD
Flórez Patino, L. V.: Burkholderia as bacterial symbionts of Lagriinae beetles. Dissertation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (2016)
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