Publications of Benjamin Weiss

Kirsch, R.; Okamura, Y.; García-Lozano, M.; Weiss, B.; Keller, J.; Vogel, H.; Fukumori, K.; Fukatsu, T.; Konstantinov, A. S.; Montagna, M. et al.; Moseyko, A. G.; Riley, E. G.; Slipinski, A.; Vencl, F. V.; Windsor, D. M.; Salem, H.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Pauchet, Y.: Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer promote herbivory in the megadiverse leaf beetles. Current Biology 35, pp. 1 - 15 (2025)

Weiss, B.; Shalom, S. R.; Dolgova, A.; Teh, L. S.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Dale, C.; Chiel, E.: Maternal symbiont transmission via envenomation in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni. Current Biology 35 (8), pp. 1693 - 1705 (2025)

Fischer, M. L.; Schmidtberg, H.; Tidswell, O.; Weiss, B.; Dersch, L.; Lüddecke, T.; Wielsch, N.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Vilcinskas, A.; Vogel, H.: Divergent venom effectors correlate with ecological niche in neuropteran predators. Communications Biology 7, 981 (2024)

González Porras, M. Á.; Pons, I.; García-Lozano, M.; Jagdale, S.; Emmerich, C.; Weiss, B.; Salem, H.: Extracellular symbiont colonizes insect during embryo development. ISME Communications 4 (1), ycae005 (2024)

Wierz, J. C.; Dirksen, P.; Kirsch, R.; Krüsemer, R.; Weiss, B.; Pauchet, Y.; Engl, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Intracellular symbiont Symbiodolus is vertically transmitted and widespread across insect orders. The ISME Journal 18 (1), wrae099 (2024)

Rodrigues, A.; Johnson, A. J.; Joseph, R. A.; Li, Y.; Keyhani, N. O.; Stanley, E. L.; Weiss, B.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Smith, M. E.; Hulcr, J.: Fungal symbiont community and absence of detectable mycangia in invasive Euplatypus ambrosia beetles. Symbiosis 90, pp. 305 - 319 (2023)

Janke, R. S.; Moog, S.; Weiss, B.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.: Morphological adaptation for ectosymbiont maintenance and transmission during metamorphosis in Lagria beetles. Frontiers in Physiology 13, 979200 (2022)

Shalom, S. R.; Weiss, B.; Lalzar, M.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Chiela, E.: Abundance and localization of symbiotic bacterial communities in the fly parasitoid Spalangia cameroni. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 48 (9), e02549-21 (2022)

Berasategui, A.; Moller, A. G.; Weiss, B.; Beck, C. W.; Bauchiero, C.; Read, T. D.; Gerardo, N. M.; Salem, H.: Symbiont genomic features and localization in the bean beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 87 (12), e0021221 (2021)

Kiefer, J.; Batsukh, S.; Bauer, E.; Hirota, B.; Weiss, B.; Wierz, J.; Fukatsu, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Engl, T.: Inhibition of a nutritional endosymbiont by glyphosate abolishes mutualistic benefit on cuticle synthesis in Oryzaephilus surinamensis. Communications Biology 4, 554 (2021)

Semiatizki, A.; Weiss, B.; Bagim, S.; Rohkin-Shalom, S.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Chiel, E.: Effects, interactions, and localization of Rickettsia and Wolbachia in the house fly parasitoid, Spalangia endius. Microbial Ecology 80 (3), pp. 718 - 728 (2020)

Wu, Y.; Liu, Q.; Weiss, B.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Kadowaki, T.: Honey bee suppresses the parasitic mite Vitellogenin by antimicrobial peptide. Frontiers in Microbiology 11, 1037 (2020)

Pakwan, C.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Weiss, B.; Chantawannakul, P.; Jun, G.; Disayathanoowat, T.: Bacterial communities associated with the ectoparasitic mites Varroa destructor and Tropilaelaps mercedesae of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94 (1), fix160 (2018)

Salem, H.; Bauer, E.; Kirsch, R.; Berasategui, A.; Cripps, M.; Weiss, B.; Koga, R.; Fukumori, K.; Vogel, H.; Fukatsu, T. et al.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Drastic genome reduction in an herbivore’s pectinolytic symbiont. Cell 171, pp. e1 - e7 (2017)

Vogel, H.; Shukla, S.; Engl, T.; Weiss, B.; Fischer, R.; Steiger, S.; Heckel, D. G.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Vilcinskas, A.: The digestive and defensive basis of carcass utilization by the burying beetle and its microbiota. Nature Communications 8, 15186 (2017)

Weiss, B.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Bacteriome-localized intracellular symbionts in pollen-feeding beetles of the genus dasytes (Coleoptera, Dasytidae). Frontiers in Microbiology 7, 1486 (2016)

Vogel, H.; Weiss, B.; Rama, F.; Rinklef, A.; Engl, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Vilcinskas, A.: A multi-partner symbiotic community inhabits the emerging pest Pentastiridius leporinus. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)

Weiss, B.: Techniques of Insect Histology. A guideline for the preparation of insects for light microscopic analysis. (2023)