Dr. Tobias Engl – Publications

 

Publications

in press 

2021

Nechitaylo, T.  Y. et al. (2021). Incipient genome erosion and metabolic streamlining for antibiotic production in a defensive symbiont. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2023047118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023047118

Kiefer, J. S. T. et al. (2021) Inhibition of a nutritional endosymbiont by glyphosate abolishes mutualistic benefit on cuticle synthesis in Oryzaephilus surinamensis, Communications Biology 4: 554, DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02057-6

Engl, T. (in press) Sex pheromones: Made with a little help from my (bacterial) friends. Current Biology

2020

Engl, T., Schmidt, T. H. P., Kanyile, S. N. & Klebsch, D. (2020) Metabolic cost of a nutritional symbiont manifests in delayed reproduction in a grain pest beetle. Insects 11:717. doi: 10.3390/insects11100717

Lemoine, M., Engl, T., Kaltenpoth, M. (2020) Microbial symbionts expanding or constraining abiotic niche space in insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2020.01.003

2019

Schneider, D., Ehrman, L., Engl, T., Kaltenpoth, M., Hua-Van, A., Le Rouzic, A., Miller, W.J. (2019) Symbiont-driven male mating success in neotropical Drosophila paulistorum superspecies. Behavior Genetics. doi:10.1007/s10519-018-9937-8

Strohm, E., Herzner, G., Ruther, J., Kaltenpoth, M., Engl, T. (2019) Nitric oxide radicals are emitted by wasp eggs to kill mold fungi. eLife, doi; 10.7554/eLife.43718

2018

Engl, T. (2018) Schon immer die gleiche Medizin. Nachrichten aus der Chemie, DOI:10.1002/nadc.20184075552

Engl T., Eberl N., Gorse C., Krueger T., Schmidt T.H.-P., Plarre R., Adler C., Kaltenpoth M. (2018) Ancient symbiosis confers desiccation resistance to stored grain pest beetles. Molecular Ecology 27 (8): 2095-2108.

Engl, T., Kaltenpoth, M. (2018) Influence of microbial symbionts on insect pheromones. Natural Product Reports, 35: 386-397.

Engl, T., Kroiss, J., Kai, M., Nechitaylo, T., Svatoš, A., Kaltenpoth, M. (2018). Evolutionary stability of antibiotic protection in a defensive symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(9): E2020-E2029.

Engl, T., Michalkova, V., Weiss, B. L., Uzel, G. D., Takac, P., Miller, W. J., Abd-Alla, A. M. M., Aksoy, S., and Kaltenpoth, M. (2018) Effect of antibiotic treatment and gamma-irradiation on cuticular hydrocarbon profiles and mate choice in tsetse flies (Glossina m. morsitans). BMC Microbiology. doi: 10.1186/s12866-018-1292-7

Schneider, D., Ehrman, L., Engl, T., Kaltenpoth, M., Hua-Van, A., Le Rouzic, A., Miller, W.J. (2018) Symbiont-driven male mating success in neotropical Drosophila paulistorum superspecies. Behavior Genetics. doi:10.1007/s10519-018-9937-8

Strohm, E., Herzner, G., Ruther, J., Kaltenpoth, M., Engl, T. (2018) Nitric oxide radicals are emitted by wasp eggs to kill mold fungi, bioRxiv, 495085, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/495085 

2017

Vogel, H., Shukla, S., Engl, T., Weiss, B., Fischer, R., Steiger, S., Heckel, D.G., Kaltenpoth, M., Vilcinskas, A. (2017) The digestive and defensive basis of carcass utilization by the burying beetle and its microbiota. Nature Communications 8: 15186.

Zizzarri, V., Engl, T., Lorenz, S., Ellers, J., Groot, A. (2017) Love at first sniff: a spermatophore-associated pheromone mediates partner attraction in the soil. Animal Behaviour. 124: 221-227. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.015

2016
Engl, T., Bodenstein, B., Strohm, E. (2016) Mycobiota of brood cells of the European Beewolf, Philanthus triangulum (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae). European Journal of Entomology. doi: 10.14411/eje.2016.033

2015
Flórez Patino, L. V., Biedermann, P., Engl, T., Kaltenpoth, M. (2015). Defensive symbioses of animals with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms. Natural Product Reports. doi:10.1039/c5np00010f

2014
Heuskin, S., Vanderplanck, M., Bacquet, P., Holveck, M.-J., Kaltenpoth, M., Engl, T., Pels, C., Taverne, C., Lognay, G., Nieberding, C. (2014). The composition of cuticular compounds indicates body parts, sex and age in the model butterfly Bicyclus anynana (Lepidoptera). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2: 37. doi:10.3389/fevo.2014.00037

Kaltenpoth, M., Engl, T. (2014). Defensive microbial symbionts in Hymenoptera. Functional Ecology, 28, 315-327. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12089

2011
Herzner G., Engl T., Strohm E. (2011). The cryptic combat against competing microbes is a costly component of parental care in a digger wasp. Animal Behaviour 82: 321-328