Publications of Roy Kirsch

Pauchet, Y.; Kirsch, R.; Giraud, S.; Vogel, H.; Heckel, D. G.: Identification and characterization of plant cell wall degrading enzymes from three glycoside hydrolase families in the cerambycid beetle Apriona japonica. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 49, pp. 1 - 13 (2014)

Rahfeld, P.; Kirsch, R.; Kugel, S.; Wielsch, N.; Stock, M.; Groth, M.; Boland, W.; Burse, A.: Independently recruited oxidases from the glucose-methanol-choline oxidoreductase family enabled chemical defences in leaf beetle larvae (subtribe Chrysomelina) to evolve. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1788), 20140842 (2014)

Kirsch, R.; Wielsch, N.; Vogel, H.; Svatos, A.; Heckel, D. G.; Pauchet, Y.: Combining proteomics and transcriptome sequencing to identify active plant-cell-wall-degrading enzymes in a leaf beetle. BMC Genomics 13, 587 (2012)

Kirsch, R.; Vogel, H.; Muck, A.; Reichwald, K.; Pasteels, J. M.; Boland, W.: Host plant shifts affect a major defense enzyme in Chrysomela lapponica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108 (12), pp. 4897 - 4901 (2011)

Kirsch, R.; Vogel, H.; Pasteels, J.; Boland, W.: To be or not to be convergent in salicin-based defense in chrysomeline leaf beetle larvae: Evidence from Phratora vitellinae SAO. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1722), pp. 3225 - 3232 (2011)

Tolzin-Banasch, K.; Dagvadorj, E.; Sammer, U.; Kunert, M.; Kirsch, R.; Ploss, K.; Pasteels, J.M.; Boland, W.: Glucose and glucose esters in the larval secretion of Chrysomela lapponica: Selectivity of the glucoside import system from host plant leaves. Journal of Chemical Ecology 37 (2), pp. 195 - 204 (2011)

Burse, A.; Frick, S.; Discher, S.; Tolzin-Banasch, K.; Kirsch, R.; Strauß, A.; Kunert, M.; Boland, W.: Always being well prepared for defense: The production of deterrents by juvenile Chrysomelina beetles (Chrysomelidae). Phytochemistry 70 (15-16), pp. 1899 - 1909 (2009)

Kirsch, R.; Richter, S.: The nervous system of Leptodora kindtii (Branchiopoda, Cladocera) surveyed with Confocal Scanning Microscopy (CLSM), including general remarks on the branchiopod neuromorphological ground pattern. Arthropod Structure & Development 36 (2), pp. 143 - 156 (2007)

Kirsch, R.: Identification and characterization of defense related enzymes in Chrysomelina larvae (Coleoptera:Chrysomelidae): Contributions to understand the evolutionary and molecular dynamics of chemical defense in leaf beetles. Dissertation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (2011)