Maternal and Environmental Effects on Symbiont-Mediated Antimicrobial Defense

Dynamics of symbiont-mediated antibiotic production reveal efficient long-term protection for beewolf offspring

(2013) Sabrina Koehler et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Defensive microbial symbionts in Hymenoptera

(2013) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Biologically active secondary metabolites from Actinomycetes

(2012) Jolanta Solecka et al.   Open Life Sciences

Cryptic combat against competing microbes is a costly component of parental care in a digger wasp

(2011) Gudrun Herzner et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Refining the Roots of the Beewolf-Streptomyces Symbiosis: Antennal Symbionts in the Rare Genus Philanthinus (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

(2011) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiotic bacteria on the cuticle of the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus protect workers from attack by entomopathogenic fungi

(2011) T. C. Mattoso et al.   Biology Letters

Chemical Analyses of Wasp-Associated Streptomyces Bacteria Reveal a Prolific Potential for Natural Products Discovery

(2011) Michael Poulsen et al.   PLoS One

Chemical basis of the synergism and antagonism in microbial communities in the nests of leaf-cutting ants

(2011) Ilka Schoenian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A mixed community of actinomycetes produce multiple antibiotics for the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus

(2010) Jörg Barke et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Host Defence: Getting By with a Little Help from Our Friends

(2010) Gregory D.D. Hurst et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Secondary metabolites and other small molecules as intercellular pathogenic signals

(2010) Nicholas Dufour et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Is the postpharyngeal gland of a solitary digger wasp homologous to ants? Evidence from chemistry and physiology

(2010) E. Strohm et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Symbiotic streptomycetes provide antibiotic combination prophylaxis for wasp offspring

(2010) Johannes Kroiss et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Symbiotic streptomycetes in antennal glands of the South American digger wasp genus Trachypus (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

(2010) MARTIN KALTENPOTH et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Hydrocarbons in the antennal gland secretion of female European beewolves, Philanthus triangulum (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Intercellular communication in bacteria

(2009) L. Caetano M. Antunes et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The role of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in nature

(2009) Rustam I. Aminov   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Life cycle and population dynamics of a protective insect symbiont reveal severe bottlenecks during vertical transmission

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Microbial drug discovery: 80 years of progress

(2009) Arnold L Demain et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS

Dentigerumycin: a bacterial mediator of an ant-fungus symbiosis

(2009) Dong-Chan Oh et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Mycangimycin, a Polyene Peroxide from a MutualistStreptomycessp.

(2009) Dong-Chan Oh et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Candicidin-producing Streptomyces support leaf-cutting ants to protect their fungus garden against the pathogenic fungus Escovopsis

(2009) S. Haeder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Actinobacteria as mutualists: general healthcare for insects?

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Variation in Pseudonocardia antibiotic defence helps govern parasite-induced morbidity in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

(2009) Michael Poulsen et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The Chemistry of the Postpharyngeal Gland of Female European Beewolves

(2008) Erhard Strohm et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Structurally diverse natural products that cause potassium leakage trigger multicellularity in Bacillus subtilis

(2008) D. Lopez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

(2008) J. J. Scott et al.   SCIENCE