Berasategui A, Salem H, Moller A, Christopher Y, Montoya Q, Conn C, Read T, Rodrigues A, Ziemert N, Gerardo N (2024)
Genomic insights into the evolution of secondary metabolism of Escovopsis and its allies, specialized fungal symbionts of fungus-farming ants.
mSystems
[In press] [Preprint]

Berasategui A, Jagdale S, Salem H (2023)
Fusarium phytopathogens as insect mutualists.
PLoS Pathogens
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Salem H, Kaltenpoth M (2023)
The Nagoya Protocol and its implications for microbiology.
Nature Microbiology
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Berasategui A, Salem H (2023)
Gut bacteria: Synergy in symbiosis.
eLife
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Hilker M, Salem H, Fatouros N (2023)
Adaptive plasticity of insect eggs in response to environmental challenges.
Annual Review of Entomology
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Berasategui A, Breitenbach N, García-Lozano M, Pons I, Sailer B, Lanz C, Rodriguez V, Hipp K, Ziemert N, Windsor D, Salem H (2022)
The leaf beetle Chelymorpha alternans propagates a plant pathogen in exchange for pupal protection.
Current Biology
Commentary by Kim Hoang & Kayla King
Press release: Max Planck Society
Highlighted in The Scientist, Ethologisch, Chemie in unserer Zeit
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Pons I, Porras M, Breitenbach N, Berger J, Hipp K, Salem H (2022)
For the road: Calibrated maternal investment in light of extracellular symbiont transmission.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences
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Salem H, Kaltenpoth M (2022)
Beetle-bacterial symbioses: Endless forms most functional.
Annual Review of Entomology
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Berasategui A, Moller A, Weiss B, Beck C, Bauchiero C, Read T, Gerardo N, Salem H (2021)
Symbiont genomic features and localization in the bean beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
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Salem H, Kirsch R, Pauchet Y, Berasategui A, Fukumori K, Moriyama M, Cripps M, Windsor D, Fukatsu T, Gerardo N (2020)
Symbiont digestive range reflects host plant breadth in herbivorous beetles.
Current Biology
Commentary by Duane McKenna
Press release: Max Planck Society
[pdf] Cover Feature

Bauer E, Kaltenpoth M, Salem H (2020)
Minimal fermentative metabolism fuels extracellular symbiont in a leaf beetle.
The ISME Journal
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Berasategui A, Salem H (2020)
Microbial determinants of folivory in insects.
In Bosch T & Hadfield M (ed.): Cellular Dialogues in the Holobiont. CRC Press.
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Martinez A, Onchuru T, Ingham C, Sandoval M, Salem H, Deckert J, Kaltenpoth (2019)
Angiosperm to Gymnosperm host-plant switch entails dramatic shifts in microbiota of the Welwitschia bug.
Molecular Ecology
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Salem H, Bauer E, Kirsch R, Berasategui A, Cripps M, Koga R, Fukumori K, Vogel H, Fukatsu T, Kaltenpoth M (2017)
Drastic genome reduction in an herbivore's pectinolytic symbiont.
Cell
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Commentary by Angela Douglas
Press releases: Emory University, Max Planck Society
Highlighted in Science Magazine, Plantae, Small Things Considered, Chemical & Engineering News, Cosmos Magazine, American Council on Science and Health, Futurity

Berasategui A, Salem H, Paetz C, Santoro V, Gershenzon J, Kaltenpoth M, Schmidt A (2017)
Gut microbiota of the pine weevil degrades conifer diterpenes and increases insect fitness.
Molecular Ecology
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Berasategui A, Shukla S, Salem H, Kaltenpoth M (2016)
Potential applications of insect symbionts in biotechnology.
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
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Salem H, Florez L, Gerardo N, Kaltenpoth M (2015)
An out-of-body experience: the extracellular dimension for the transmission of mutualistic bacteria in insects.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences
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Salem H, Onchuru OT, Bauer E, Kaltenpoth M (2015)
Symbiont transmission entails the risk of parasite infection.
Biology Letters         
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Bauer E, Salem H, Vogel H, Marz M, Kaltenpoth M (2014)
Transcriptomic immune response of the cotton stainer Dysdercus fasciatus to experimental elimination of vitamin-supplementing intestinal symbionts.
Plos One         
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Salem H, Bauer E, Strauss A, Vogel H, Marz M, Kaltenpoth M (2014)
Vitamin supplementation by gut symbionts ensures metabolic homeostasis in an insect host.
Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences         
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Press release: Max Planck Society

Salem H, Kreutzer E, Sudakaran S, Kaltenpoth M (2013)
Actinobacteria as essential symbionts in firebugs and cotton stainers (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae).
Environmental Microbiology         
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Sudakaran S, Salem H, Kost C, Kaltenpoth M (2012)
Geographic and ecological stability of the symbiotic midgut microbiota in European firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae).
Molecular Ecology         
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Commentary by Takema Fukatsu

Schussler E, Rowland F, Distel C, Bauman J, Keppler M, Kawarasaki K, McCarthy M, Glover A, Salem H (2011) 
Promoting the development of graduate student teaching philosophy statements.
Journal of College Science Teaching                    
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