BACTERIAL ENDOSYMBIONTS OF BEEWOLVES Symbiotic interactions between different species are ubiquitous and essential components of the natural world and have probably affected the evolution of every living organism. Insects are the most diverse metazoan class on earth, and they benefit from the extensive metabolic potential of microorganisms in a wide variety of symbiotic associations. The vast majority of well-studied insect-microbe symbioses to date are nutritional interactions in which the symbionts provide their hosts with essential nutrients. Some cases, however, have been described in which symbiotic bacteria play an important role in intraspecific olfactory communication or serve as a defense against pathogens or parasitoids. This thes...
There is an increasingly urgent need to understand and predict how organisms will cope with the envi...
Modern agriculture is the basis of human existence, a blessing, but also a curse. It provides nouris...
Chapter I The gradual turnover of dead organic material into mineral nutrients is a key ecological...
The evolutionary success of insects is believed to be at least partially facilitated by symbioses be...
Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa, plasmodial slime molds) are one of the last larger groups of organisms where...
Pilze sind eine bemerkenswert vielfältige Gruppe von Organismen auf der Erde, die eine zentrale Roll...
Microsporidia are a group of parasites that infect a wide range of species, many of which play impor...
Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) abound on the surface of arthropods. In spite of their simple structure...
Myxomycetes or Myxogastria (supergroup Amoebozoa) are one of several Protistean groups dispersing vi...
Species are the basic units of evolution and biodiversity, and the process of speciation has been on...
Recent progresses and developments in molecular biology provide a wealth of new but insufficiently c...
Aufgrund ihrer vielfältigen Anpassungen in Ökologie und Verhalten stellen die Carnivora eine geeigne...
The superfamiliy of bees, Apiformes, comprises more than 20,000 species. Within the group, the eusoc...
Myxomycetes are protists belonging to the super-group Amoebozoa. The traditional taxonomic system, w...
The thesis aims at investigating the potential of phytoremediation on a heavy metal contaminated soi...
There is an increasingly urgent need to understand and predict how organisms will cope with the envi...
Modern agriculture is the basis of human existence, a blessing, but also a curse. It provides nouris...
Chapter I The gradual turnover of dead organic material into mineral nutrients is a key ecological...
The evolutionary success of insects is believed to be at least partially facilitated by symbioses be...
Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa, plasmodial slime molds) are one of the last larger groups of organisms where...
Pilze sind eine bemerkenswert vielfältige Gruppe von Organismen auf der Erde, die eine zentrale Roll...
Microsporidia are a group of parasites that infect a wide range of species, many of which play impor...
Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) abound on the surface of arthropods. In spite of their simple structure...
Myxomycetes or Myxogastria (supergroup Amoebozoa) are one of several Protistean groups dispersing vi...
Species are the basic units of evolution and biodiversity, and the process of speciation has been on...
Recent progresses and developments in molecular biology provide a wealth of new but insufficiently c...
Aufgrund ihrer vielfältigen Anpassungen in Ökologie und Verhalten stellen die Carnivora eine geeigne...
The superfamiliy of bees, Apiformes, comprises more than 20,000 species. Within the group, the eusoc...
Myxomycetes are protists belonging to the super-group Amoebozoa. The traditional taxonomic system, w...
The thesis aims at investigating the potential of phytoremediation on a heavy metal contaminated soi...
There is an increasingly urgent need to understand and predict how organisms will cope with the envi...
Modern agriculture is the basis of human existence, a blessing, but also a curse. It provides nouris...
Chapter I The gradual turnover of dead organic material into mineral nutrients is a key ecological...