Publications of Martin Kaltenpoth

Lemoine, M. M.; Wöhner, T.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Microbial community dynamics in natural Drosophila melanogaster populations across seasons. Environmental Microbiology 27 (6), e70104 (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)

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)

Kaltenpoth, M.; Flórez, L. V.; Vigneron, A.; Dirksen, P.; Engl, T.: Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects. Nature Reviews Microbiology (2025)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Salem, H.; Kaltenpoth, M.: The Nagoya Protocol and its implications for microbiology. Nature Microbiology 8, pp. 2234 - 2237 (2023)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Kanyile, S. N.; Engl, T.; Heddi, A.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Endosymbiosis allows Sitophilus oryzae to persist in dry conditions. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1199370 (2023)