Publications
 

Publications

  • R Reshma , Prüser Tobias , Schulz E. K. Nora , Mayer F. M. Paula , Ogueta Maite , Stanewsky Ralf , Kurtz Joachim. . ‘Deciphering a Beetle Clock: Individual and Sex-Dependent Variation in Daily Activity Patterns.’ Journal of Biological Rhythms 00, № 00. doi: 10.1177/07487304241263619.
  • Riddle, Misty R; Nguyen, Nguyen K; Nave, Maeve; Peuß, Robert; Maldonado, Ernesto; Rohner, Nicolas; Tabin, Clifford J. . ‘Host evolution shapes gut microbiome composition in Astyanax mexicanus.’ Ecology and Evolution 14, № 4. doi: 10.1002/ece3.11192.
  • Herrera-Rivero M; Gutiérrez-Fragoso K; Kurtz J; Baune BT; Thalamuthu A; Amare AT; Adli M; Akiyama K; Akula N; Ardau R; Arias B; Aubry J; Backlund L; Bellivier F; Benabarre A; Bengesser S; Bhattacharjee AK; Biernacka JM; Birner A; Cearns M; Cervantes P; Chen H; Chillotti C; Cichon S; Clark SR; Colom F; Cruceanu C; Czerski PM; Dalkner N; Degenhardt F; Del Zompo M; DePaulo JR; Etain B; Falkai P; Ferensztajn-Rochowiak E; Forstner AJ; Frank J; Frisén L; Frye MA; Fullerton JM; Gallo C; Gard S; Garnham JS; Goes FS; Grigoroiu-Serbanescu M; Grof P; Hashimoto R; Hasler R; Hauser J; Heilbronner U; Herms S; Hoffmann P; Hou L; Hsu Y; Jamain S; Jiménez E; Kahn J; Kassem L; Kato T; Kelsoe J; Kittel-Schneider S; Kuo P; Kusumi I; König B; Laje G; Landén M; Lavebratt C; Leboyer M; Leckband SG; Maj M; Manchia M; Marie-Claire C; Martinsson L; McCarthy MJ; McElroy SL; Millischer V; Mitjans M; Mondimore FM; Monteleone P; Nievergelt CM; Novák T; Nöthen MM; O’Donovan C; Ozaki N; Papiol S; Pfennig A; Pisanu C; Potash JB; Reif A; Reininghaus E; Richard-Lepouriel H; Roberts G; Rouleau GA; Rybakowski JK; Schalling M; Schofield PR; Schubert KO; Schulte EC; Schweizer BW; Severino G; Shekhtman T; Shilling PD; Shimoda K; Simhandl C; Slaney CM; Squassina A; Stamm T; Stopkova P; Streit F; Tekola-Ayele F; Tortorella A; Turecki G; Veeh J; Vieta E; Viswanath B; Witt SH; Zandi PP; Alda M; Bauer M; McMahon FJ; Mitchell PB; Rietschel M; Schulze TG. . ‘Immunogenetics of lithium response and psychiatric phenotypes in patients with bipolar disorder.’ Translational Psychiatry 14, № 1. doi: 10.1038/s41398-024-02865-4.
  • Ng TH; Harrison MC; Scharsack JP; Kurtz J. . ‘Disentangling specific and unspecific components of innate immune memory in a copepod–tapeworm system.’ Frontiers in immunology 15. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1307477.
  • Kaiser, M. I., Killin, A., Abendroth, A.-K., Back, M. D., Baune, B. T., Bilstein, N., Breitmoser, Y., Caspers, B. A., Gadau, J., Gossmann, T. I., Kaiser, S., Krüger, O., Kurtz, J. Lengersdorf, D., Malsch, A. K. F., Müller, C. Rauthmann, J.F., Reinhold, K., Richter, S. H., Stummer, C., Trappes, R., Voelcker-Rehage, C., Wittmann, M. J. . ‘Individualisation and individualised science across disciplinary perspectives.’ European Journal for Philosophy of Science 14, № 41: 41. doi: 10.1007/s13194-024-00602-8.
  • Vommaro, Maria Luigia; Korša, Ana; Lindeza, Ana Sofia; Giglio, Anita; Kurtz, Joachim. . ‘The combined effect of herbicide and Bacillus thuringiensis exposure delays development in the red flour beetle.’ Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 207. doi: 10.1016/j.jip.2024.108227. [unknown status]
  • Bauhus, Marc B.; Mews, Sina; Kurtz, Joachim; Brinker, Alexander; Peuß, Robert; Anaya-Rojas, Jaime M. . ‘Tapeworm infection affects sleep-like behaviour in three-spined sticklebacks.’ Scientific Reports 14: 23395. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-73992-7.

  • Hesse T, Nachev M, Khaliq S, Jochmann MA, Franke F, Scharsack JP, Kurtz J, Sures B, Schmidt TC. . ‘A new technique to study nutrient flow in host-parasite systems by carbon stable isotope analysis of amino acids and glucose.’ Scientific Reports 13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-24933-9.
  • Lo Ka Lai , R Reshma , Tewes Johanna Lisa , Milutinović Barbara , Müller Caroline , Kurtz Joachim. . ‘Immune Stimulation via Wounding Alters Chemical Profiles of Adult Tribolium castaneum.’ Journal of Chemical Ecology 49, № 1-2: 46–58. doi: 10.1007/s10886-022-01395-x.
  • Trienens Monika , Kurtz Joachim , Wertheim Bregje. . ‘Rapid but narrow – Evolutionary adaptation and transcriptional response of Drosophila melanogaster to toxic mould.’ Molecular Ecology 32, № 11: 2784–2797. doi: 10.1111/mec.16885.
  • Länger Marie Zoe , Baur Moritz , Korša Ana , Eirich Jürgen , Lindeza Sofia Ana , Zanchi Caroline , Finkemeier Iris , Kurtz Joachim. . ‘Differential proteome profiling of bacterial culture supernatants reveals candidates for the induction of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle.’ Biology Letters 19, № 11. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0322.
  • Vommaro ML; Zanchi C; Angelone T; Giglio A; Kurtz J. . ‘Herbicide exposure alters the effect of the entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana on immune gene expression in mealworm beetles.’ Environmental Pollution 338. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122662.
  • Grandchamp Anna , Kühl Lucas , Lebherz Marie , Brüggemann Kathrin , Parsch John , Bornberg-Bauer Erich. . ‘Population genomics reveals mechanisms and dynamics of de novo expressed open reading frame emergence in Drosophila melanogaster.’ Genome Research 33. doi: 10.1101/gr.277482.122.
  • Drakula, Maja; Buellesbach, Jan; Schrader, Lukas. . ‘The role of cuticular hydrocarbons in intraspecific aggression in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior.’ Myrmecological news 33: 187–196. doi: 10.25849/myrmecol.news_033:187.
  • Olsen, Luke; Levy, Michaella; Medley, Kyle J; Hassan, Huzaifa; Miller, Brandon; Alexander, Richard; Wilcock, Emma; Yi, Kexi; Florens, Laurence; Weaver, Kyle; McKinney, Sean A; Peuß, Robert; Persons, Jenna; Kenzior, Alexander; Maldonado, Ernesto; Delventhal, Kym; Gluesenkamp, Andrew; Mager, Edward; Coughlin, David; Rohner, Nicolas. . ‘Metabolic reprogramming underlies cavefish muscular endurance despite loss of muscle mass and contractility.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120, № 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2204427120.
  • Churakov, Gennady; Kuritzin, Andrej; Chukharev, Konstantin; Zhang, Fengjun; Wünnemann, Florian; Ulyantsev, Vladimir; Schmitz, Jürgen. . ‘A 4-lineage Statistical Suite to Evaluate the Support of Large-Scale Retrotransposon Insertion Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees.’ Systematic Biology 72, № 3: 649–661. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syac082.

  • Korša A, Lo LK, Gandhi S, Bang C, Kurtz J. . ‘Oral Immune Priming Treatment Alters Microbiome Composition in the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium castaneum.’ Frontiers in Microbiology 13: 793143. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.793143.
  • Trappes Rose; Nematipour Bezad; Kaiser Marie I.; Krohs Ulrich; van Benthem Koen J.; Ernst Ulrich R.; Gadau Jürgen; Korsten Peter; Kurtz Joachim; Schielzeth Holger; Schmoll Tim; Takola Elina. . ‘How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice and Niche Conformance.’ BioScience 72, № 6: 538–548. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biac023.
  • Moran N, Caspers B, Chakarov N, Ernst U, Fricke C, Kurtz J, Lilie N, Lo L, Müller C, Reshma R, Takola E, Trimmer P, Benthem K, Winternitz J, Wittmann M. . ‘Shifts between cooperation and antagonism driven by individual variation: a systematic synthesis review.’ Oikos 130. doi: 10.1111/oik.08201.
  • Schulz NKE, Mohamed FF, Lo LK, Peuss R, Buhr MF, Kurtz J. . ‘Paternal knockdown of tRNA(cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase (Dnmt2) increases offspring susceptibility to infection in red flour beetles.’ Insect Molecular Biology 31. doi: 10.1111/imb.12798.
  • Trappes R, Nematipour B, Kaiser M, Krohs U, Benthem KJ, Ernst UR, Gadau J, Korsten P, Kurtz J, Schielzeth H, Schmoll T, Takola E. . ‘How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance.’ BioScience 72, № 6: 538–548. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biac023.
  • Hesse T, Nachev M, Khaliq S, Jochmann MA, Franke F, Scharsack JP, Kurtz J, Sures B, Schmidt TC. . ‘Insights into amino acid fractionation and incorporation by compound-specific carbon isotope analysis of three-spined sticklebacks.’ Scientific Reports 12, № 1. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-15704-7.
  • Vommaro ML, Zanchi C, Giglio A, Kurtz J. . ‘Herbicide exposure alters the expression of antimicrobial peptide patterns in the mealworm beetle infected with the natural entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana.’ Contributed to the XXIst scientific meeting of the Italian Association of Developmental and Comparative Immunobiology (IADCI), Padua.
  • Schulz E. K. Nora , Mohamed F. Fakry , Lo Ka Lai , Peuß Robert , Buhr de F. Maike , Kurtz Joachim. . ‘Paternal knockdown of tRNA (cytosine‐5‐)‐methyltransferase ( Dnmt2 ) increases offspring susceptibility to infection in red flour beetles.’ Insect Molecular Biology 31, № 6: 711–721. doi: 10.1111/imb.12798.
  • Schulz, Nora K. E.; Mohamed, Fakry F.; Lo, Lai Ka; Peuß, Robert; de Buhr, Maike F.; Kurtz, Joachim. . ‘Paternal knockdown of tRNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase (Dnmt2 ) increases offspring susceptibility to infection in red flour beetles.’ Insect Molecular Biology 2022. doi: 10.1111/imb.12798.
  • Krishnan, Jaya; Wang, Yan; Kenzior, Olga; Hassan, Huzaifa; Olsen, Luke; Tsuchiya, Dai; Kenzior, Alexander; Peuß, Robert; Xiong, Shaolei; Wang, Yongfu; Zhao, Chongbei; Rohner, Nicolas. . ‘Liver-derived cell lines from cavefish Astyanax mexicanus as an in vitro model for studying metabolic adaptation.’ Scientific Reports 12, № 10115. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-14507-0.
  • Medley, Kyle J; Persons, Jenna; Biswas, Tathagata; Olsen, Luke; Peuß, Robert; Krishnan, Jaya; Xiong, Shaolei; Rohner, Nicolas. . ‘The metabolome of Mexican cavefish shows a convergent signature highlighting sugar, antioxidant, and Ageing-Related metabolites.’ eLife 11, № e74539. doi: 10.7554/eLife.74539.
  • Krishnan, Jaya; Seidel, Chris W.; Zhang, Ning; Singh, Narendra P.; VanCampen, Jake; Peuß, Robert; Xiong, Shaolei; Kenzior, Alexander; Li, Hua; Conaway, Joan W.; Rohner, Nicolas. . ‘Genome-wide analysis of cis-regulatory changes underlying metabolic adaptation of cavefish.’ Nature Genetics 54: 684–693. doi: 10.1038/s41588-022-01049-4.
  • Doronina, Liliya Reising, Olga Clawson, Hiram Churakov, Gennady Schmitz, Jürgen. . ‘Euarchontoglires Challenged by Incomplete Lineage Sorting.’ Genes 13, № 774. doi: 10.3390/genes13050774.
  • Xiong S, Wang W, Kenzior A, Olsen L, Krishnan J, Persons J, Medley K, Peuß R, Wang Y, Chen S, Zhang N, Thomas N, Miles JM, Alvarado AS, Rohner N. . ‘Enhanced lipogenesis through Pparγ helps cavefish adapt to food scarcity.’ Current biology 0. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.03.038.
  • Schröder NCH, Korša A, Wami H, Mantel O, Dobrindt U, Kurtz J. . ‘Serial passage in an insect host indicates genetic stability of the human probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917.’ Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 10, № 1: 71–86.

  • Catania F, Rothering R, Vitali V. . ‘One cell, two gears: extensive somatic genome plasticity accompanies high germline genome stability in Paramecium.’ Genome Biology and Evolution x. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evab263/6443145. [online first]
  • Capp JP, Nedelcu AM, Dujon AM, Roche B, Catania F, Ujvari B, Alix-Panabières C, Thomas F. . ‘Does cancer biology rely on Parrondo’s principles?’ Cancers 13, № 9: 2197. doi: 10.3390/cancers13092197.
  • VItali V, Rothering R, Catania F. . ‘Fifty generations of amitosis: tracing asymmetric allele segregation in polyploid cells with single-cell DNA sequencing.’ Microorganisms 9: 1979.
  • Catania F, Baedke J, Fábregas-Tejeda A, Delgado AN, Vitali V, Nguyen Long LA. . ‘Global climate change, diet and the complex relationship between human host and microbiome: Towards an integrated picture.’ BioEssays . doi: 10.1002/bies.202100049.
  • Desjardins E, Kurtz J, Kranke N, Lindeza A, Richter SH. . ‘Beyond standardization: Improving external validity and reproducibility in experimental evolution.’ BioScience biab008. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biab008.
  • Zanchi C, Lo L, Reshma R, Moritz I, Kurtz J, Müller C. . ‘Survival of the Sawfly Athalia rosae Upon Infection by an Entomopathogenic Fungus and in Relation to Clerodanoid Uptake.’ Frontiers in Physiology 12. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.637617.
  • Vommaro M, Kurtz J, Giglio A. . ‘Morphological characterisation of haemocytes in the mealworm beetle tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera, tenebrionidae).’ Insects 12, № 5. doi: 10.3390/insects12050423.
  • Demandt N, Bierbach D, Kurvers R, Krause J, Kurtz J, Scharsack J. . ‘Parasite infection impairs the shoaling behaviour of uninfected shoal members under predator attack.’ Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75, № 11. doi: 10.1007/s00265-021-03080-7.
  • Accorsi A, Box AC, Peuß R, Wood C, Sánchez Alvarado A, Rohner N. . ‘Image3C, a multimodal image-based and label-independent integrative method for single-cell analysis.’ eLife 10: e65372C1 - eLife 2021;10:e65372DO - 10.7554/eLife.65372. doi: 10.7554/eLife.65372.
  • Warren WC, Boggs TE, Borowsky R, Carlson BM, Ferrufino E, Gross JB, Hillier L, Hu Z, Keene AC, Kenzior A, Kowalko JE, Tomlinson C, Kremitzki M, Lemieux ME, Graves-Lindsay T, McGaugh SE, Miller JT, Mommersteeg MTM, Moran RL, Peuß R, Rice ES, Riddle MR, Sifuentes-Romero I, Stanhope BA, Tabin CJ, Thakur S, Yamamoto Y, Rohner N. . ‘A chromosome-level genome of Astyanax mexicanus surface fish for comparing population-specific genetic differences contributing to trait evolution.’ Nature Communications 12, № 1: 1447. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21733-zDO-10.1038/s41467-021-21733-z.
  • Melotti L, Siestrup S, Peng M, Vitali V, Dowling D, von Kortzfleisch VT, Bracic M, Sachser N, Kaiser S, Richter SH. . ‘Individuality, as well as genetic background, affects syntactical features of courtship songs in male mice.’ Animal Behaviour 180: 179–196.
  • Catania F, Ujvari B, Capp JP, Roche B, Thomas F. . ‘Bridging tumorigenesis and therapy resistance with a non-Darwinian and non-Lamarckian mechanism of adaptive evolution.’ Frontiers in Oncology 11: 732081. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.732081.
  • Gati NS, Altinok OA, Kumar S, Ferrando VA, Kurtz J, Quante M, Ludwig S, Mellmann A. . ‘Integrating evolutionary aspects into dual-use discussion: the cases of influenza virus and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli.’ Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 9, № 1: 383–392. doi: 10.1093/emph/eoab034.

  • Fricke C, Avila-Calero S, Armitage SAO. . ‘Genotypes and their interaction effects on reproduction and mating-induced immune activation in Drosophila melanogaster.’ Journal of Evolutionary Biology 00. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13625. [online first]
  • Thind AS, Vitali V, Guarracino MR, Catania F. . ‘What’s genetic variation got to do with it? Starvation-induced self-fertilization enhances survival in Paramecium.’ Genome Biology and Evolution 12: 626–638. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evaa052.
  • Scharsack JP, Wieczorek B, Schmidt-Drewello A, Büscher J, Franke F, Moore A, Branca A, Witten A, Stoll M, Bornberg-Bauer E, Wicke S, Kurtz J. . ‘Climate change facilitates a parasite’s host exploitation via temperature-mediated immunometabolic processes.’ Global Change Biology 26. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15402.
  • Demandt N, Praetz M, Kurvers RHJM, Krause J, Kurtz J, Scharsack JP. . ‘Parasite infection disrupts escape behaviours in fish shoals.’ Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, № 1938. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1158.
  • Ng TH, Kurtz J. . ‘Dscam in immunity: A question of diversity in insects and crustaceans.’ Developmental and Comparative Immunology 105. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2019.103539.
  • Zanchi C, Lindeza AS, Kurtz J. . ‘Comparative Mortality and Adaptation of a Smurf Assay in Two Species of Tenebrionid Beetles Exposed to Bacillus thuringiensis.’ Insects 11, № 4. doi: 10.3390/insects11040261.
  • Hagen R, Vitali V, Catania F. . ‘Cross-generational effects and non-random developmental response to temperature variation in Paramecium.’ Frontiers Cell and Developmental Biology 8: 584219. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2020.584219.
  • Krishnan J, Persons JL, Peuß R, Hassan H, Kenzior A, Xiong S, Olsen L, Maldonado E, Kowalko JE, Rohner N. . ‘Comparative transcriptome analysis of wild and lab populations of Astyanax mexicanus uncovers differential effects of environment and morphotype on gene expression.’ Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 1-10. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22933.
  • Milutinović B, Stock M, Grasse AV, Naderlinger E, Hilbe C, Cremer S. . ‘Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens.’ Ecology Letters 23, № 3: 565–574. doi: 10.1111/ele.13458.
  • Peuß R, Box AC, Chen S, Wang Y, Tsuchiya D, Persons JL, Kenzior A, Maldonado E, Krishnan J, Scharsack JP, Slaughter BD, Rohner N. . ‘Adaptation to low parasite abundance affects immune investment and immunopathological responses of cavefish.’ Nature Ecology and Evolution 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1234-2.

  • Fricke C, Koppik M. . ‘Male reproductive ageing - a tale of the whole ejaculate.’ Reproduction 158: R219–R229. doi: 10.1530/REP-18-0579.
  • Ng TH, Kumar R, Apitanyasai K, He ST, Chiu SP, Wang HC. . ‘Selective expression of a "correct cloud" of Dscam in crayfish survivors after second exposure to the same pathogen.’ Fish Shellfish Immunol. 92: 430–437.
  • Bretman A, Fricke C. . ‘Exposure to males, but not receipt of sex peptide, accelerates functional aging in female fruit flies.’ Functional Ecology 33: 1459–1468. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13339.
  • Hollis B, Koppik M, Wensing KU, Ruhmann H, Genzoni E., Erkosar B, Kawecki TJ, Fricke C, Keller L. . ‘Sexual conflict drives male manipulation of female postmating responses in Drosophila melanogaster.’ PNAS 116, № 17: 8437–8444. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1821386116.
  • Kutzer MAM, Kurtz J, Armitage SAO. . ‘A multi-faceted approach testing the effects of previous bacterial exposure on resistance and tolerance.’ Journal of Animal Ecology 88. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12953.
  • Schulz NKE, Sell MP, Ferro K, Kleinhölting N, Kurtz J. . ‘Transgenerational Developmental Effects of Immune Priming in the Red Flour Beetle Tribolium castaneum.’ Frontiers in Physiology 10, № 98. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00098.
  • Franke F, Raifarth N, Kurtz J, Scharsack J. . ‘Consequences of divergent temperature optima in a host–parasite system.’ Oikos 128. doi: 10.1111/oik.05864.
  • Kutyrev I, Franke F, Kurtz J, Scharsack J. . ‘In vitro effects of the neuroactive substances serotonin and γ-aminobutyric acid on leucocytes from sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).’ Fish and Shellfish Immunology 87: 286–296. doi: 10.1016/j.fsi.2019.01.022.
  • Franke F, Raifarth N, Kurtz J, Scharsack JP. . ‘Consequences of divergent temperature optima in a host–parasite system.’ Oikos 0. doi: 10.1111/oik.05864. [online first]
  • Kutyrev IA, Franke F, Kurtz J, Scharsack JP. . ‘In vitro effects of the neuroactive substances serotonin and γ-aminobutyric acid on leucocytes from sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).’ Fish and Shellfish Immunology 87: 286–296. doi: 10.1016/j.fsi.2019.01.022.
  • Vitali V, Hagen R, Catania F. . ‘Environmentally-induced plasticity of programmed DNA elimination boosts somatic variability in Paramecium tetraurelia.’ Genome Research 29. doi: 10.1101/gr.245332.118.
  • Giglio A, Cavaliere F, Giulianini PG, Kurtz J, Vommaro ML, Brandmayr P. . ‘Continuous Agrochemical Treatments in Agroecosystems Can Modify the Effects of Pendimethalin-Based Herbicide Exposure on Immunocompetence of a Beneficial Ground Beetle.’ DIVERSITY-BASEL 11, № 12. doi: 10.3390/d11120241.
  • Loomis C, Peuß R, Jaggard JB, Wang Y, McKinney SA, Raftopoulos SC, Raftopoulos A, Whu D, Green M, McGaugh SE, Rohner N, Keene AC, Duboue ER. . ‘An Adult Brain Atlas Reveals Broad Neuroanatomical Changes in Independently Evolved Populations of Mexican Cavefish .’ Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 13: 88. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2019.00088.
  • Peuß R, Zakibe Z, Krishnan J, Merryman MS, Baumann DP, Rohner N. . ‘Gamete Collection and In Vitro Fertilization of Astyanax mexicanus.’ Journal of Visualized Experiments 2019, № 147: e59334.
  • Stahl BA, Peuß R, McDole B, Kenzior A, Jaggard JB, Gaudenz K, Krishnan J, McGaugh SE, Duboue ER, Keene AC. . ‘Stable transgenesis in Astyanax mexicanus using the Tol2 transposase system.’ Developmental Dynamics 248, № 8: 679–687. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.32.
  • Yang, Gloria; Anderson, Dave W.; Baier, Florian; Dohmen, Elias; Hong, Nansook; Carr, Paul D.; Kamerlin, Shina Caroline Lynn; Jackson, Colin J.; Bornberg-Bauer, Erich; Tokuriki, Nobuhiko. . ‘Higher-order epistasis shapes the fitness landscape of a xenobiotic-degrading enzyme (vol 51, pg 831, 2020).’ Nature Chemical Biology 16, № 8. doi: 10.1038/s41589-020-0588-8.
  • Ferro K, Peuß R, Yang W, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg H, Kurtz J. . ‘Experimental evolution of immunological specificity.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1904828116.
  • Hollis B, Koppik M, Wensing KU, Ruhmann H, Genzoni E, Erkosar B, Kawecki TJ, Fricke C, Keller L. . ‘Sexual conflict drives male manipulation of female postmating responses in Drosophila melanogaster.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116, № 17: 8437–8444. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1821386116.

  • Wensing KU, Fricke C. . ‘Divergence in sex peptide-mediated female post-mating responses in Drosophila melanogaster.’ Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, № 1886. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1563.
  • Kumar R, Chang CC, Ng TH, Ding JY, Tseng TC, Lo CF, Wang HC. . ‘Draft Genome Sequence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strain M1-1, Which Causes Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease in Shrimp in Vietnam.’ Genome Announc. 6: e01468–17.
  • Ng TH, Lu CW, Lin SS, Chang CC, Tran LH, Chang WC, Lo CF, Wang HC. . ‘The Rho signaling pathway mediates the pathogenicity of AHPND-causing V. parahaemolyticus in shrimp.’ Cell Microbiol. e12849.
  • Wohlleben AM, Franke F, Hamley M, Kurtz J, Scharsack JP. . Early stages of infection of three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus. doi: 10.1111/jfd.12876.
  • Demandt N, Saus B, Kurvers RHJM, Krause J, Kurtz J, Scharsack JP. . ‘Parasite-infected sticklebacks increase the risk-taking behaviour of uninfected group members.’ Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, № 1881. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0956.
  • Wohlleben AM, Franke F, Hamley M, Kurtz J, Scharsack JP. . ‘Early stages of infection of three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus.’ Journal of Fish Diseases 41, № 11: 1701–1708. doi: 10.1111/jfd.12876.
  • Schulz NKE, Wagner CI, Ebeling J, Raddatz G, Diddens-de Buhr MF, Lyko F, Kurtz J. . ‘Dnmt1 has an essential function despite the absence of CpG DNA methylation in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum.’ Scientific Reports 8. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34701-3.
  • Schulz NKE, Diddens-de Buhr MF, Kurtz J. . ‘Paternal knockdown of Dnmt2 increases offspring susceptibility to bacterial infection.’ bioRxiv 2018: 422063.
  • Koppik M, Ruhmann H, Fricke C. . ‘The effect of mating history on male reproductive ageing in Drosophila melanogaster.’ Journal of Insect Physiology 111: 16–24. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2018.10.003.
  • Koppik M, Specker J-H, Lindenbaum I, Fricke C. . ‘Physiological maturation lags behind behavioral maturation in newly eclosed Drosophila melanogaster males.’ Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 91: 399–408. [accepted / in Press (not yet published)]
  • Wensing KU Fricke C. . ‘Divergence in sex peptide-mediated female post-mating responses in Drosophila melanogaster.’ Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 285. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1563.
  • Xiong S, Krishnan J, Peuß R, Rohner N. . ‘Early adipogenesis contributes to excess fat accumulation in cave populations of Astyanax mexicanus.’ Developmental Biology 441, № 2: 297–304. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.06.003.
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