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2023
- Ten (mostly) simple rules to future-proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences K. Bacon, ed. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), Pp. 444–458. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2041-210X.14033.2023.
- Inter- and intraspecific phytochemical variation correlate with epiphytic flower and leaf bacterial communities. Environmental Microbiology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1462-2920.16382.2023.
2022
- Wild bee larval food composition in five European cities. Ecology, P. in press.2022.
- Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020. Journal of Pollination Ecology, P. in press.2022.
- Plants, pollinators and their interactions under global ecological change: The role of pollen DNA metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology, n/a(n/a). Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.16689.2022.
- Phylogenetic relatedness of food plants reveals highest insect herbivore specialisation at intermediate temperatures along a broad climatic gradient. Global Change Biology, P. in press.2022.
- Forest landscapes increase diversity of honeybee diets in the tropics. Forest Ecology and Management, P. in press.2022.
- Do amino and fatty acid profiles of pollen provisions correlate with bacterial microbiomes in the mason bee Osmia bicornis?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, P. in press.2022.
- Diets maintained in a changing world: Does land-use intensification alter wild bee communities by selecting for flexible generalists?. Ecology and Evolution, P. in press.2022.
- Decreased efficiency of pollen collection due to Sulfoxaflor exposure leads to a reduction in the size of bumble bee workers in late European summer. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10. Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.842563.2022.
- Critical links between biodiversity, nutrition and health in wild bee conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, P. in press.2022.
2021
- Transmission of Bacterial Symbionts With and Without Genome Erosion Between a Beetle Host and the Plant Environment. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffmicb.2021.715601.2021.
- Standard methods for pollen research. Journal of Apicultural Research, 60(4), Pp. 1–109.2021.
- Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient. Nature Ecology and Evolution, P. in press.2021.
- Putative roles of bacteria in the carbon and nitrogen cycles in a tropical peat swamp forest. Basic and Applied Ecology, Special issue: Predictors of microbiomes.2021.
- Preservation methods of honey-bee collected pollen are not a source of bias in ITS2 metabarcoding. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, P. in press.2021.
- Pollen diets and niche overlap of honey bees and native bees in protected areas. Basic and Applied Ecology, Special issue: Sequence based molecular ecology.2021.
- Osmotic adaptation and compatible solute biosynthesis of phototrophic bacteria as revealed from genome analyses. Microorganisms, 9(1), P. 46. Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/1/46.2021.
- Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology \& Evolution, Pp. 294–303.2021.
- Many small rather than few large sources identified in long-term bee pollen diets in agroecosystems. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.2021.
- Inferring core genome phylogenies for bacteria In A. Mengoni, M. Fondi, & G. Bacci, eds. Bacterial Pangenomics (in press). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag.2021.
- How bees find a way in European cities: pollen metabarcoding unravels multiple feeding strategies and their effects on distribution patterns in four wild bee species. Journal of Applied Ecology, P. in press.2021.
- Functional resin use in solitary bees. Ecological Entomology, P. in press.2021.
- Effects of three flower field types on bumblebees and their pollen diets. Basic and Applied Ecology, 52, Pp. 95–108. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S143917912100027X.2021.
- DNA sequence-based biodiversity and interaction ecology. Basic and Applied Ecology.2021.
- Cryptic species and hidden ecological interactions of halictine bees along an elevational gradient. Ecology and Evolution. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ece3.7605.2021.
- Changes amid constancy: flower and leaf microbiomes along land use gradients and between bioregions. Basic and Applied Ecology, 50, Pp. 1–15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.baae.2020.10.003.2021.
- An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals. Plants, People, Planet, P. in press.2021.
- (More than) Hitchhikers through the network: The shared microbiome of bees and flowers. Current Opinion in Insect Science.2021.
2020
- Tracking beekeepers in floristic regions of Iran: employing DNA metabarcoding to determine the geographical origin of honey. Heliyon.2020.
- The genus Micromonospora as a model microorganism for bioactive natural product discovery. Royal Society of Chemistry Advances, 10(35), Pp. 20939–20959. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0RA04025H.2020.
- Susceptibility of red mason bee larvae to bacterial threats due to microbiome exchange with imported pollen provisions. Insects, 11(6). Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/6/373.2020.
- Strong phylogenetic constraint on transition metal incorporation in the mandibles of the hyper-diverse Hymenoptera (Insecta). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution, P. in press.2020.
- Introduced bees (Osmia cornifrons) collect pollen from both coevolved and novel host-plant species within their family-level phylogenetic preferences. Royal Society Open Science, P. in press.2020.
- Floral Species Richness Correlates with Changes in the Nutritional Quality of Larval Diets in a Stingless Bee. Insects, 11(2). Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/11/2/125.2020.
- CRISPR/Cas 9 mediated mutations as a new tool for studying taste in honeybees. Chemical Senses, P. bjaa063.2020.
- BCdatabaser: on-the-fly reference database creation for DNA (meta-)barcoding. Bioinformatics, P. in press.2020.
2019
- Venus flytrap microbiota withstand harsh conditions during prey digestion. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, P. fiz010.2019.
- Linking the foraging patterns of megachilid bee species to nest bacteria. Ecology and Evolution, P. in press.2019.
- Honey bee waggle dance communication increases diversity of pollen diets in intensively managed agricultural landscapes. Molecular Ecology, P. in press.2019.
- Drivers, diversity and functions of solitary bee microbiota. Trends in Microbiology, P. in press.2019.
- Cold-adaptation of Subtercola vilae DB165T, an isolate from a high-altitude cold volcano lake, as revealed by its genome analysis.2019.
- Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Nature. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1048-z.2019.
- Bacterial community structure and succession in nests of two megachilid bee genera. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95(1), P. fiy218. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy218.2019.
2018
- Wild bees and their nests host Paenibacillus bacteria with functional potential of avail. Microbiome, (6), P. 229.2018.
- The characterization of the circadian clock in the olive fly Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae) reveals a Drosophila-like organization. Scientific Reports, 8(1), P. 816. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19255-8.2018.
- Physical contact between mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial precursors induces distinct signatures with relevance to the very early phase of regeneration. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcb.27175.2018.
- Microbial community structure in a Malaysian tropical peat swamp forest: the influence of tree species and depth. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, P. 2859. Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02859.2018.
- FENNEC - Functional Exploration of Natural Networks and Ecological Communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Pp. 2028–2033.2018.
- Draft Genome Sequence of Paraburkholderia sp. Strain C35, Isolated from a Malaysian Tropical Peat Swamp Forest. Genome Announcements, 6(25). Available at: https://mra.asm.org/content/6/25/e00561-18.2018.
- Draft Genome Sequence of Klebsiella sp. Strain C31 Isolated from a Malaysian Tropical Peat Swamp Forest. Genome announcements, 6(25), Pp. e00560–18.2018.
- Draft Genome Sequence of Dyella sp. Strain C9, Isolated from a Malaysian Tropical Peat Swamp Forest. Microbiol Res Announc, 7(12), Pp. e01083–18.2018.
- Draft Genome Sequence of Dyella sp. Strain C11, Isolated from a Malaysian Tropical Peat Swamp Forest. Genome announcements, 6(25), Pp. e00459–18.2018.
2017
- Release from prey preservation behavior via prey switch allowed diversification of cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in digger wasps. Evolution, in press.2017.
- Honey bee foraging ecology: Season but not landscape diversity shapes the amount and diversity of collected pollen. PloS one, 12(8), P. e0183716.2017.
- Honey bee foraging ecology: Season but not landscape diversity shapes the amount and diversity of collected pollen. PLoS one, in press.2017.
- Generalist social bees maximize diversity intake in plant species-rich and resource-abundant environments. Ecosphere, 8(3), P. e01758-n/a. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1758.2017.
- AliTV - interactive visualization of whole genome comparisons. PeerJ Comput. Sci., 3, P. e116. Available at: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/peerj-cs/peerj-cs3.html#AnkenbrandHHF17.2017.
2016
- TBro: visualization and management of de novo transcriptomes. Database, 2016.2016.
- Silent listeners: Can preferences of eavesdropping midges predict the parasitism risk of their host?. Behavioral Ecology, 27, Pp. 995–1003.2016.
- Pollen DNA barcoding: current applications and future prospects. Genome, 59, Pp. 629–640.2016.
- Laboratory rearing of solitary bees and wasps. Insect Science, 23, P. 918.2016.
- Draft genome of the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere bacterium, Williamsia sp. ARP1. Standards in Genomic Sciences.2016.
- DNA-Metabarcoding – ein neuer Blick auf organismische Diversität. BioSpektrum, 22, Pp. 147–150.2016.
- Crown galls of grapevine (Vitis vinifera) host distinct microbiota. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82, Pp. 5542–5552.2016.
- Contact of myeloma cells induces a characteristic transcriptome signature in skeletal precursor cells--Implications for myeloma bone disease. Bone, 93, Pp. 155–166.2016.
- biojs-io-biom, a {BioJS} component for handling data in Biological Observation Matrix ({BIOM}) format. F1000Research, 5, P. 2348. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.9618.1.2016.
- bcgTree: automatized phylogenetic tree building from bacterial core genomes. Genome, 59, Pp. 783–791.2016.
- Bacterial Diversity and Community Structure in Two Bornean Nepenthes Species with Differences in Nitrogen Acquisition Strategies. Microbial Ecology, 71, Pp. 938–953.2016.
2015
- Reptiles as reservoirs of bacterial infections: real threat or methodological bias?. Microbial Ecology, 70(3), Pp. 579–84.2015.
- Monophyletic clades of Macaranga pollinating thrips with high specificity to host plant taxonomic sections. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 116(3), Pp. 558–570.2015.
- Microhabitat heterogeneity across leaves and flower organs promotes bacterial diversity. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91(1), P. fiv09.2015.
- ITS2 Database V: Twice as Much. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32(11), Pp. 3030–3032. Available at: http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/11/3030.abstract.2015.
- Functional and phylogenetic diversities of plant communities differently affect the structure of flower-visitor interactions and reveal convergences in floral traits. Evolutionary Ecology, 29, Pp. 437–450.2015.
- Evaluating multiplexed next-generation sequencing as a method in palynology for mixed pollen samples. Plant Biology, 17, Pp. 558–566.2015.
- DNA-analyses of Venerupis philippinarum (Adams and Reeve, 1850) with a new and constant shell-pattern from Italy, Emilia Romagna. Malacologia, 86(1), Pp. 30–32.2015.
2014
- Pollen DNA barcoding using next-generation sequencing. Barcode Bulletin, 5(3), P. 8.2014.
- Novel form of X-linked nonsyndromic hearing loss with cochlear malformation caused by a mutation in the type IV collagen gene COL4A6. European Journal of Human Genetics, (22), Pp. 208–215.2014.
- Identification of WISP1 as an important survival factor in human mesenchymal stem cells. Gene, 551(2), Pp. 243–54.2014.
- Density-dependent responses by bumblebees to flower dwelling bacteria. Apidologie, 45, Pp. 467–477.2014.
- Confirmation of warfarin resistance of naturally occurring VKORC1 variants by coexpression with coagulation factor IX and in silico protein modelling. BMC Genetics, 15, P. 17.2014.
2013
- Only distance matters--non-choosy females in a poison frog population. Frontiers in Zoology, 10(1), P. 29.2013.
- Diverse microbiota identified in whole intact nest chambers of the red mason bee Osmia bicornis (Linnaeus 1758). PloS one, 8(10), P. e78296.2013.
2012
- Common ancestry or environmental trait filters: cross-continental comparisons of trait--habitat relationships in tropical anuran amphibian assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21(7), Pp. 704–715.2012.
2011
- Internal transcribed spacer 2 (nu ITS2 rRNA) sequence-structure phylogenetics: towards an automated reconstruction of the green algal tree of life. PLoS One, 6(2), P. e16931.2011.
- Hawaiian ant-flower networks: nectar-thieving ants prefer undefended native over introduced plants with floral defenses. Ecological Monographs, 81(2), Pp. 295–311.2011.
- Composition of epiphytic bacterial communities differs on petals and leaves. Plant Biology, 13(6), Pp. 918–924.2011.
2010
- The ITS2 Database III—sequences and structures for phylogeny. Nucleic Acids Research, 38(Suppl 1), Pp. D275-D279.2010.
- Ribosomal RNA phylogenetics: the third dimension. Biologia, 65(3), Pp. 388–391.2010.
- ITS2 sequence-structure phylogeny in the Scenedesmaceae with special reference to \em Coelastrum \em (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae), including the new genera \em Comasiella \em and \em Pectinodesmus\em. Phycologia, 49(4), Pp. 325–335.2010.
- Including RNA secondary structures improves accuracy and robustness in reconstruction of phylogenetic trees. Biology Direct, 5, P. 4.2010.
2009
- The importance of environmental heterogeneity for species diversity and assemblage structure in Bornean stream frogs. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78(2), Pp. 305–314.2009.
- ITS2 secondary structure improves phylogeny estimation in a radiation of blue butterflies of the subgenus \em Agrodiaetus \em (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: \em Polyommatus\em ). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9(1), P. 300.2009.
- Die Artenvielfalt der Amphibien in einem Tieflandregenwald auf Borneo. Terraria, 18(1), Pp. 80–83.2009.
- A Bornean amphibian hotspot: the lowland mixed dipterocarp rainforest at Ulu Temburong National Park, Brunei Darussalam. Salamandra, 45, Pp. 16–25.2009.
- 5.8S-28S rRNA interaction and HMM-based ITS2 annotation. Gene, 430(1), Pp. 50–57.2009.
2008
- ITS2 data corroborate a monophyletic chlorophycean DO-group (Sphaeropleales). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8(1), P. 218. Available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/218/.2008.
- Geographic distribution: Xenodermus javanicus (Short Note). Herpetological Review, 39, P. 373.2008.
- Geographic distribution: Parias sumatranus (Short Note). Herpetological Review, 39, P. 373.2008.