Publications of David G. Heckel

Barthel, A.; Kopka, I.; Vogel, H.; Zipfel, P.; Heckel, D. G.; Groot, A. T.: Immune defence strategies of generalist and specialist insect herbivores. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1788), 20140897 (2014)

Gschloessl, B.; Vogel, H.; Burban, C.; Heckel, D. G.; Streiff, R.; Kerdelhué, C.: Comparative analysis of two phenologically divergent populations of the pine processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) by de novo transcriptome sequencing. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 46, pp. 31 - 42 (2014)

Henniges-Janssen, K.; Heckel, D. G.; Groot, A. T.: Preference of diamondback moth larvae for novel and original host plant after host range expansion. Insects 5 (4), pp. 793 - 804 (2014)

Hölscher, D.; Dhakshinamoorthy, S.; Alexandrov, T.; Becker, M.; Bretschneider, T.; Bürkert, A.; Crecelius, A. C.; De Waele, D.; Elsen, A.; Heckel, D. G. et al.; Heklau, H.; Hertweck, C.; Kai, M.; Knop, K.; Krafft, C.; Maddula, R. K.; Matthäus, C.; Popp, J.; Schneider, B.; Schubert, U.S.; Sikora, R.; Svatoš, A.; Swennen, R.: Phenalenone-type phytoalexins mediate resistance of banana plants (Musa spp.) to the burrowing nematode Radopholus similis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (1), pp. 105 - 110 (2014)

Juarez, M.L.; Schöfl, G.; Vera, M.T.; Vilardi, J.C.; Murua, M.G.; Willink, E.; Hänniger, S.; Heckel, D. G.; Groot, A. T.: Population structure of Spodoptera frugiperda maize and rice host forms in South America: are they host strains? Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 152 (3), pp. 182 - 199 (2014)

Karpinski, A.; Hänniger, S.; Schöfl, G.; Heckel, D. G.; Groot, A. T.: Host plant specialization in the generalist moth Heliothis virescens and the role of egg imprinting. Evolutionary Ecology 28, pp. 1075 - 1093 (2014)

Kirsch, R.; Gramzow, L.; Theißen, G.; Siegfried, B. D.; ffrench-Constant, R. H.; Heckel, D. G.; Pauchet, Y.: Horizontal gene transfer and functional diversification of plant cell wall degrading polygalacturonases: Key events in the evolution of herbivory in beetles. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 52, pp. 33 - 50 (2014)

Knolhoff, L.; Heckel, D. G.: Behavioral assays for studies of host plant choice and adaptation in herbivorous insects. Annual Review of Entomology 59, pp. 263 - 278 (2014)

Rasool, A.; Joußen, N.; Lorenz, S.; Ellinger, R.; Schneider, B.; Khan, S. A.; Ashfaq, M.; Heckel, D. G.: An independent occurrence of the chimeric P450 enzyme CYP337B3 of Helicoverpa armigera confers cypermethrin resistance in Pakistan. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 53, pp. 54 - 65 (2014)

Shabab, M.; Khan, S. A.; Vogel, H.; Heckel, D. G.; Boland, W.: OPDA isomerase GST16 is involved in phytohormone detoxification and insect development. The FEBS Journal 281 (12), pp. 2769 - 2783 (2014)

Traut, W.; Vogel, H.; Glöckner, G.; Hartmann, E.; Heckel, D. G.: High-throughput sequencing of a single chromosome: a moth W chromosome. Chromosome Research 21, pp. 491 - 505 (2013)

Pauchet, Y.; Heckel, D. G.: The genome of the mustard leaf beetle encodes two active xylanases originally acquired from bacteria through horizontal gene transfer. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1763), 20131021 (2013)

Unbehend, M.; Hänniger, S.; Meagher, R. L.; Heckel, D. G.; Groot, A. T.: Pheromonal divergence between two strains of Spodoptera frugiperda. Journal of Chemical Ecology 39, pp. 364 - 376 (2013)

Groot, A. T.; Staudacher, H.; Barthel, A.; Inglis, O.; Schöfl, G.; Santangelo, R. G.; Gebauer-Jung, S.; Vogel, H.; Emerson, J.; Schal, C. et al.; Heckel, D. G.; Gould, F.: One quantitative trait locus for intra- and interspecific variation in a sex pheromone. Molecular Ecology 22 (4), pp. 1065 - 1080 (2013)

Badenes-Pérez, F. R.; Reichelt, M.; Gershenzon, J.; Heckel, D. G.: Interaction of glucosinolate content of Arabidopsis thaliana mutant lines and feeding and oviposition by generalist and specialist lepidopterans. Phytochemistry 86, pp. 36 - 43 (2013)

Heckel, D. G.: Learning the ABCs of Bt: ABC transporters and insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis provide clues to a crucial step in toxin mode of action. Pesticide biochemistry and physiology: an international journal 104 (2), pp. 103 - 110 (2012)

Joußen, N.; Agnolet, S.; Lorenz, S.; Schöne, S. E.; Ellinger, R.; Schneider, B.; Heckel, D. G.: Resistance of Australian Helicoverpa armigera to fenvalerate is due to the chimeric P450 enzyme CYP337B3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (38), pp. 15206 - 15211 (2012)

Dasmahapatra, K. K.; Walters, J. R.; Briscoe, A. D.; Davey, J. W.; Whibley, A.; Nadeau, N. J.; Zimin, A. V.; Hughes, D. S. T.; Ferguson, L. C.; Martin, S. H. et al.; Salazar, C.; Lewis, J. J.; Adler, S.; Ahn, S.-J.; Baker, D. A.; Baxter, S. W.; Chamberlain, N. L.; Chauhan, R.; Counterman, B. A.; Dalmay, T.; Gilbert, L. E.; Gordon, K.; Heckel, D. G.; Hines, H. M.; Hoff, K. J.; Holland, P. W. H.; Jacquin-Joly, E.; Jiggins, F. M.; Jones, R. T.; Kapan, D. D.; Kersey, P.; Lamas, G.; Lawson, D.; Mapleson, D.; Maroja, L. S.; Martin, A.; Moxon, S.; Palmer, W. J.; Papa, R.; Papanicolaou, A.; Pauchet, Y.; Ray, D. A.; Rosser, N.; Salzberg, S. L.; Supple, M. A.; Surridge, A.; Tenger-Trolander, A.; Vogel, H.; Wilkinson, P. A.; Wilson, D.; Yorke, J. A.; Yuan, F.; Balmuth, A. L.; Eland, C.; Gharbi, K.; Thomson, M.; Gibbs, R. A.; Han, Y.; Jayaseelan, J. C.; Kovar, C.; Mathew, T.; Muzny, D. M.; Ongeri, F.; Pu, L.-L.; Qu, J.; Thornton, R. L.; Worley, K. C.; Wu, Y.-Q.; Linares, M.; Blaxter, M. L.; ffrench-Constant, R. H.; Joron, M.; Kronforst, M. R.; Mullen, S. P.; Reed, R. D.; Scherer, S. E.; Richards, S.; Mallet, J.; McMillan, W. O.; Jiggins, C. D.; The Heliconius Genome Consortium: Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species. Nature 487, pp. 94 - 98 (2012)

Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W.W.: Coevolutionary fine-tuning: evidence for genetic tracking between a specialist wasp parasitoid and its aphid host in a dual metapopulation interaction. Bulletin of Entomological Research 102, pp. 149 - 155 (2012)

Liu, Z.; Scheirs, J.; Heckel, D. G.: Trade-offs of host use between generalist and specialist Helicoverpa sibling species: adult oviposition and larval performance. Oecologia 168 (2), pp. 459 - 469 (2012)