Publications of Franziska Beran

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Shukla, S.; Beran, F.: Gut microbiota degrades toxic isothiocyanates in a flea beetle pest. Molecular Ecology 29 (23), pp. 4692 - 4705 (2020)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Feistel, F.; Paetz, C.; Lorenz, S.; Beran, F.; Kunert, G.; Schneider, B.: Idesia polycarpa (Salicaceae) leaf constituents and their toxic effect on Cerura vinula and Lymantria dispar (Lepidoptera) larvae. Phytochemistry 143, pp. 170 - 179 (2017)

Zhou, W.; Kügler, A.; McGale, E.; Haverkamp, A.; Knaden, M.; Guo, H.; Beran, F.; Yon, F.; Li, R.; Lackus, N. et al.; Köllner, T. G.; Bing, J.; Schuman, M. C.; Hansson, B. S.; Kessler, D.; Baldwin, I. T.; Xu, S.: Tissue-specific emission of (E)-a-bergamotene helps resolve the dilemma when pollinators are also herbivores. Current Biology 27 (9), pp. 1336 - 1341 (2017)

Beran, F.; Gershenzon, J.: Microbes matter: herbivore gut endosymbionts play a role in breakdown of host plant toxins. Environmental Microbiology 18 (5), pp. 1306 - 1307 (2016)

Beran, F.; Jimenez-Aleman, G. H.; Lin, M.-Y.; Hsu, Y.-C.; Mewis, I.; Srinavasan, R.; Ulrichs, C.; Boland, W.; Hansson, B. S.; Reinecke, A.: The aggregation pheromone of Phyllotreta striolata (Coleop­tera: Chrysomelidae) revisited. Journal of Chemical Ecology 42 (8), pp. 748 - 755 (2016)

Beran, F.; Rahfeld, P.; Luck, K.; Nagel, R.; Vogel, H.; Wielsch, N.; Irmisch, S.; Ramasamy, S.; Gershenzon, J.; Heckel, D. G. et al.; Köllner, T. G.: Novel family of terpene synthases evolved from trans-isoprenyl diphosphate synthases in a flea beetle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (11), pp. 2922 - 2927 (2016)

Schuman, M. C.; van Dam, N.; Beran, F.; Harpole, W. S.: How does plant chemical diversity contribute to biodiversity at higher trophic levels? Current opinion in insect science 14, pp. 46 - 55 (2016)