Marine diatoms Coscinodiscus granii: They live in open waters such as the North Sea. Under the microscope, many single-celled diatoms can be seen, some of which are healthy, while others are infected by an egg fungus. The zoospores that the fungus forms for reproduction can be seen as small dots.

Publications of Martin Kaltenpoth

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2025
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Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.; Vigneron, A.; Dirksen, P.; Engl, T.: Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects. Nature Reviews Microbiology (2025)
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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)
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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)
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Lemoine, M. M.; Wöhner, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Microbial community dynamics in natural Drosophila melanogaster populations across seasons. Environmental Microbiology 27 (6), e70104 (2025)
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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)
2024
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Baños Quintana, A. P.; Gershenzon, J.; Kaltenpoth, M.: The Eurasian spruce bark beetle Ips typographus shapes the microbial communities of its offspring and the gallery environment. Frontiers in Microbiology 15, 1367127 (2024)
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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)
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Glaser-Schmitt, A.; Lemoine, M.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Parsch, J.: Pervasive tissue-, genetic background-, and allele-specific gene expression effects in Drosophila melanogaster. PLOS Genetics 20 (8), e1011257 (2024)
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Subasi, B. S.; Grabe, V.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Rolff, J.; Armitage, S. A. O.: How frequently are insects wounded in the wild? A case study using Drosophila melanogaster. Royal Society Open Science 11 (6), 240256 (2024)
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Timmis, K.; Hallsworth, J. E.; McGenity, T. J.; Armstrong, R.; Colom, M. F.; Karahan, Z. C.; Chavarría, M.; Bernal, P.; Boyd, E. S.; Ramos, J. L. et al.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Pruzzo, C.; Clarke, G.; López-Garcia, P.; Yakimov, M. M.; Perlmutter, J.; Greening, C.; Eloe-Fadrosh, E.; Verstraete, W.; Nunes, O. C.; Kotsyurbenko, O.; Nikel, P. I.; Scavone, P.; Häggblom, M. M.; Lavigne, R.; Le Roux, F.; Timmis, J. K.; Parro, V.; Michán, C.; García, J. L.; Casadevall, A.; Payne, S. M.; Frey, J.; Koren, O.; Prosser, J. I.; Lahti, L.; Lal, R.; Anand, S.; Sood, U.; Offre, P.; Bryce, C. C.; Mswaka, A. Y.; Jores, J.; Kaçar, B.; Blank, L. M.; Maaßen, N.; Pope, P. B.; Banciu, H. L.; Armitage, J.; Lee, S. Y.; Wang, F.; Makhalanyane, T. P.; Gilbert, J. A.; Wood, T. K.; Vasiljevic, B.; Soberón, M.; Udaondo, Z.; Rojo, F.; Tamang, J. P.; Giraud, T.; Ropars, J.; Ezeji, T.; Müller, V.; Danbara, H.; Averhoff, B.; Sessitsch, A.; Partida-Martínez, L. P.; Huang, W.; Molin, S.; Junier, P.; Amils, R.; Wu, X.-L.; Ron, E.; Erten, H.; de Martinis, E. C. P.; Rapoport, A.; Öpik, M.; Pokatong, W. D. R.; Stairs, C.; Amoozegar, M. A.; Serna, J. G.: A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society. Microbial Biotechnology 17 (5), e14456 (2024)
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Uppal, S.; Waterworth, S. C.; Nick, A.; Vogel, H.; Flórez, L. V.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Kwan, J. C.: Repeated horizontal acquisition of lagriamide-producing symbionts in Lagriinae beetles. The ISME Journal 18 (1), wrae211 (2024)
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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)
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Wierz, J. C.; Gimmel, M. L.; Huthmacher, S.; Engl, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Evolutionary history of tyrosine-supplementing endosymbionts in pollen-feeding beetles. The ISME Journal 18 (1), wrae080 (2024)
2023
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Ganesan, R.; Janke, R. S.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.: Colonization dynamics of a defensive insect ectosymbiont. Biology Letters 19 (5), 20230100 (2023)
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Ingham, C. S.; Engl, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Protection of a defensive symbiont does not constrain the composition of the multifunctional hydrocarbon profile in digger wasps. Biology Letters 19 (11), 20230301 (2023)
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Ingham, C. S.; Engl, T.; Matarrita-Carranza, B.; Vogler, P.; Huettel, B.; Wielsch, N.; Svatoš, A.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Host hydrocarbons protect symbiont transmission from a radical host defense. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (31), e2302721120 (2023)
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Kanyile, S. N.; Engl, T.; Heddi, A.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Endosymbiosis allows Sitophilus oryzae to persist in dry conditions. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1199370 (2023)
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Kiefer, J. S. T.; Bauer, E.; Okude, G.; Fukatsu, A.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Engl, T.: Cuticle supplementation and nitrogen recycling by a dual bacterial symbiosis in a family of xylophagous beetles. The ISME Journal 17, pp. 1029 - 1039 (2023)
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Lange, C.; Boyer, S.; Bezemer, T. M.; Lefort, M.-C.; Dhami, M. K.; Biggs, E.; Groenteman, R.; Fowler, S. V.; Paynter, Q.; Mogena, A. M. V. et al.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Impact of intraspecific variation in insect microbiomes on host phenotype and evolution. The ISME Journal 17, pp. 1798 - 1807 (2023)
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Michalik, A.; Bauer, E.; Szklarzewicz, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Nutrient supplementation by genome-eroded Burkholderia symbionts of scale insects. The ISME Journal 17, pp. 2221 - 2231 (2023)
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