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 Franziska Beran

Journal Article (34)

2024
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Beran, F.; Heckel, D. G.: Escalation by duplication: Milkweed bug trumps Monarch butterfly. Molecular Ecology 33 (14), e17443 (2024)
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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)
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Güney, G.; Cedden, D.; Körnig, J.; Ulber, B.; Beran, F.; Scholten, S.; Rostás, M.: Physiological and transcriptional changes associated with obligate aestivation in the cabbage stem flea beetle (Psylliodes chrysocephala). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 173, 104165 (2024)
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Letsch, H.; Vukotić, S.; Gottsberger, B.; Friedman, A. L. L.; Wanat, M.; Beran, F.; Fiedler, K.; Riedel, A.: The phylogeny of ceutorhynchine weevils (Ceutorhynchinae, Curculionidae): Mitogenome data improve the resolution of tribal relationships. Systematic Entomology 49 (4), pp. 624 - 634 (2024)
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Li, Z.; Costamagna, A. C.; Beran, F.: Biology, ecology, and management of flea beetles in Brassica crops. Annual Review of Entomology 69, pp. 199 - 217 (2024)
2023
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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)
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Letsch, H.; Beran, F.: Jumping to new hosts: the diversification of flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini) in the context of their host plant associations. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7 (5), pp. 1 - 12 (2023)
2022
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Beran, F.; Petschenka, G.: Sequestration of plant defense compounds by insects: From mechanisms to insect–plant coevolution. Annual Review of Entomology 67, pp. 163 - 180 (2022)
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Jeckel, A. M.; Beran, F.; Züst, T.; Younkin, G.; Petschenka, G.; Pokharel, P.; Dreisbach, D.; Ganal-Vonarburg, S. C.; Robert, C. A. M.: Metabolization and sequestration of plant specialized metabolites in insect herbivores: Current and emerging approaches. Frontiers in Physiology 13, 1001032 (2022)
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Köllner, T. G.; David, A.; Luck, K.; Beran, F.; Kunert, G.; Zhou, J.-J.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.: Biosynthesis of iridoid sex pheromones in aphids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (42), e2211254119 (2022)
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Yang, Z.-L.; Seitz, F.; Grabe, V.; Nietzsche, S.; Richter, A.; Reichelt, M.; Beutel, R.; Beran, F.: Rapid and selective absorption of plant defense compounds from the gut of a sequestering insect. Frontiers in Physiology 13, 846732 (2022)
2021
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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)
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Yang, Z.-L.; Nour-Eldin, H. H.; Hänniger, S.; Reichelt, M.; Crocoll, C.; Seitz, F.; Vogel, H.; Beran, F.: Sugar transporters enable a leaf beetle to accumulate plant defense compounds. Nature Communications 12, 2658 (2021)
2020
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Chen, J.; Ullah, C.; Reichelt, M.; Beran, F.; Yang, Z.-L.; Gershenzon, J.; Hammerbacher, A.; G. Vassão, D.: The phytopathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum detoxifies plant glucosinolate hydrolysis products via an isothiocyanate hydrolase. Nature Communications 11 (1), 3090 (2020)
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Shukla, S.; Beran, F.: Gut microbiota degrades toxic isothiocyanates in a flea beetle pest. Molecular Ecology 29 (23), pp. 4692 - 4705 (2020)
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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)
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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)
2019
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Ahn, S.-J.; Betzin, F.; Gikonyo, M. W.; Yang, Z.-L.; Köllner, T. G.; Beran, F.: Identification and evolution of glucosinolate sulfatases in a specialist flea beetle. Scientific Reports 9, 15725 (2019)
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Beran, F.; Köllner, T. G.; Gershenzon, J.; Tholl, D.: Chemical convergence between plants and insects: biosynthetic origins and functions of common secondary metabolites. New Phytologist 223 (1), pp. 52 - 67 (2019)
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Gikonyo, M. W.; Biondi, M.; Beran, F.: Adaptation of flea beetles to Brassicaceae: host plant associations and geographic distribution of Psylliodes Latreille and Phyllotreta Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Zookeys 856, pp. 51 - 73 (2019)
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