Martin Kaltenpoth

Evolutionary transition in symbiotic syndromes enabled diversification of phytophagous insects on an imbalanced diet.

A novel intracellular mutualistic bacterium in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior.

Potential applications of insect symbionts in biotechnology.

Symbiont transmission entails the risk of parasite infection.

Comparative morphology of the postpharyngeal gland in the Philanthinae (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) and the evolution of an antimicrobial brood protection mechanism.

Bacterial and fungal symbionts of parasitic Dendroctonus bark beetles.

Bacteriome-Localized Intracellular Symbionts in Pollen-Feeding Beetles of the Genus (Coleoptera, Dasytidae).

Bacterial Community and PHB-Accumulating Bacteria Associated with the Wall and Specialized Niches of the Hindgut of the Forest Cockchafer ().

Symbiont Acquisition and Replacement as a Source of Ecological Innovation.

Antibiotic-producing symbionts dynamically transition between plant pathogenicity and insect-defensive mutualism.

The digestive and defensive basis of carcass utilization by the burying beetle and its microbiota.

Gut microbiota of the pine weevil degrades conifer diterpenes and increases insect fitness.

Burying beetles regulate the microbiome of carcasses and use it to transmit a core microbiota to their offspring.

Symbiont dynamics and strain diversity in the defensive mutualism between Lagria beetles and Burkholderia.

Ancient symbiosis confers desiccation resistance to stored grain pest beetles.

Bacterial communities associated with the ectoparasitic mites Varroa destructor and Tropilaelaps mercedesae of the honey bee (Apis mellifera).

Drastic Genome Reduction in an Herbivore's Pectinolytic Symbiont.

Evolutionary stability of antibiotic protection in a defensive symbiosis.

Influence of microbial symbionts on insect pheromones.

Bacterial Symbionts in Lepidoptera: Their Diversity, Transmission, and Impact on the Host.

Convergent Evolution in Intracellular Elements: Plasmids as Model Endosymbionts.

An antifungal polyketide associated with horizontally acquired genes supports symbiont-mediated defense in Lagria villosa beetles.

The cotton stainer's gut microbiota suppresses infection of a cotransmitted trypanosomatid parasite.

Unexpected Bacterial Origin of the Antibiotic Icosalide: Two-Tailed Depsipeptide Assembly in Multifarious Burkholderia Symbionts.

Microbiome-assisted carrion preservation aids larval development in a burying beetle.

Effect of antibiotic treatment and gamma-irradiation on cuticular hydrocarbon profiles and mate choice in tsetse flies (Glossina m. morsitans).

Transmission of mutualistic bacteria in social and gregarious insects.

Established Cotton Stainer Gut Bacterial Mutualists Evade Regulation by Host Antimicrobial Peptides.

Quantitative PCR primer design affects quantification of dsRNA-mediated gene knockdown.

Versatile and Dynamic Symbioses Between Insects and Bacteria.

Angiosperm to Gymnosperm host-plant switch entails shifts in microbiota of the Welwitschia bug, Probergrothius angolensis (Distant, 1902).

Minimal fermentative metabolism fuels extracellular symbiont in a leaf beetle.

Abdominal microbial communities in ants depend on colony membership rather than caste and are linked to colony productivity.

Microbial symbionts expanding or constraining abiotic niche space in insects.

Effects, interactions, and localization of Rickettsia and Wolbachia in the house fly parasitoid, Spalangia endius.

Honey Bee Suppresses the Parasitic Mite Vitellogenin by Antimicrobial Peptide.

Bacterial symbionts support larval sap feeding and adult folivory in (semi-)aquatic reed beetles.

Insect-Associated Bacteria Assemble the Antifungal Butenolide Gladiofungin by Non-Canonical Polyketide Chain Termination.

An endosymbiont's journey through metamorphosis of its insect host.

De novo biosynthesis of simple aromatic compounds by an arthropod ().

Biosynthesis of Sinapigladioside, an Antifungal Isothiocyanate from Burkholderia Symbionts.

Incipient genome erosion and metabolic streamlining for antibiotic production in a defensive symbiont.

Inhibition of a nutritional endosymbiont by glyphosate abolishes mutualistic benefit on cuticle synthesis in Oryzaephilus surinamensis.