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Schwarz, M.; Tokuda, G.; Osaki, H.; Mikaelyan, A. (2023). Reevaluating Symbiotic Digestion in Cockroaches: Unveiling the Hindgut’s Contribution to Digestion in Wood-Feeding Panesthiinae (Blaberidae). Insects. 14, 768.
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Carrijo, T.F., Engel, M.S., Chouvenc, T., Gile, G.H., Mikaelyan, A., Dedeine, F., Ware, J.L., Haifig, I., Arab, A., Constantini, J.P., Souza, J.P., and others. (2023). A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of “lower” and “higher” termites. Insectes Sociaux.
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Mikaelyan, A., Torres, T. T., Meiklejohn, K., and Weidner, L. (2023). Blow flies. IMLI (International Microbiology Literacy Initiative) Topic Framework. Learn more about IMLI
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Luke, B., Acheampong, M. A., Rangel, D. E. N., Cornelius, E. W., Asante, S. K., Nboyine, J. A., Eziah, V. Y., Fening, K. O., Storm, C., Jessop, N., Clottey, V. A., Potin, O., Tyson, C., Moore, D., and Mikaelyan, A. (2023). The use of Beauveria bassiana for the control of the larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus, in stored maize: Semi-field trials in Ghana. Fungal Biology.
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Schwarz, M., Beza-Beza, C.F. and Mikaelyan, A., (2023). Wood fibers are a crucial microhabitat for cellulose-and xylan-degrading bacteria in the hindgut of the wood-feeding beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, p.1173696.
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Ashbrook, A. R., Mikaelyan, A., and Schal, C. (2022). Comparative Efficacy of a Fungal Entomopathogen with a Broad Host Range against Two Human-Associated Pests. Insects, 13(9), 774.
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Cole, M. and Mikaelyan, A. (2022). Termites. IMLI (International Microbiology Literacy Initiative) Topic Framework. Learn more about IMLI
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Cole, M. E., Ceja-Navarro, J. A., and Mikaelyan, A. (2021). The power of poop: Defecation behaviors and social hygiene in insects. PLoS pathogens, 17(10), e1009964.
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Cross, K.L., Leigh, B.A., Hatmaker, E.A., Mikaelyan, A., Miller, A.K. and Bordenstein, S.R., 2021. Genomes of gut bacteria from Nasonia wasps shed light on phylosymbiosis and microbe-assisted hybrid breakdown. Msystems, 6(2), pp.e01342-20.
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Mikaelyan, A., 2021. Beating Them with Their Own Stick—Tick Uses Amidase of Bacterial Origin as Part of Its Immune Arsenal. Cell Host & Microbe, 29(1), pp.1-3.
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Lampert, N., Mikaelyan, A. and Brune, A., 2019. Diet is not the primary driver of bacterial community structure in the gut of litter-feeding cockroaches. BMC microbiology, 19(1), pp.1-14.
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Otani, S., Zhukova, M., Koné, N.G.A., da Costa, R.R., Mikaelyan, A., Sapountzis, P. and Poulsen, M., 2019. Gut microbial compositions mirror caste‐specific diets in a major lineage of social insects. Environmental microbiology reports, 11(2), pp.196-205.
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Tokuda, G., Mikaelyan, A., Fukui, C., Matsuura, Y., Watanabe, H., Fujishima, M. and Brune, A., 2018. Fiber-associated spirochetes are major agents of hemicellulose degradation in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(51), pp.E11996-E12004.
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Leigh, B.A., Bordenstein, S.R., Brooks, A.W., Mikaelyan, A. and Bordenstein, S.R., 2018. Finer-scale phylosymbiosis: insights from insect viromes. Msystems, 3(6), pp.e00131-18.
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Richards, C., Otani, S., Mikaelyan, A. and Poulsen, M., 2017. Pycnoscelus surinamensis cockroach gut microbiota respond consistently to a fungal diet without mirroring those of fungus-farming termites. PLoS One, 12(10), p.e0185745.
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Mikaelyan, A., Thompson, C.L., Meuser, K., Zheng, H., Rani, P., Plarre, R. and Brune, A., 2017. High‐resolution phylogenetic analysis of Endomicrobia reveals multiple acquisitions of endosymbiotic lineages by termite gut flagellates. Environmental microbiology reports, 9(5), pp.477-483.
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Mikaelyan, A., Meuser, K. and Brune, A., 2017. Microenvironmental heterogeneity of gut compartments drives bacterial community structure in wood-and humus-feeding higher termites. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93(1).
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Strassert, J.F., Mikaelyan, A., Woyke, T. and Brune, A., 2016. Genome analysis of ‘Candidatus Ancillula trichonymphae’, first representative of a deep‐branching clade of Bifidobacteriales, strengthens evidence for convergent evolution in flagellate endosymbionts. Environmental microbiology reports, 8(5), pp.865-873.
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Ikeda‐Ohtsubo, W., Strassert, J.F., Köhler, T., Mikaelyan, A., Gregor, I., McHardy, A.C., Tringe, S.G., Hugenholtz, P., Radek, R. and Brune, A., 2016. ‘Candidatus Adiutrix intracellularis’, an endosymbiont of termite gut flagellates, is the first representative of a deep‐branching clade of Deltaproteobacteria and a putative homoacetogen. Environmental microbiology, 18(8), pp.2548-2564.
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Mikaelyan, A., Thompson, C.L., Hofer, M.J. and Brune, A., 2016. Deterministic assembly of complex bacterial communities in guts of germ-free cockroaches. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(4), pp.1256-1263.
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Rossmassler, K., Dietrich, C., Thompson, C., Mikaelyan, A., Nonoh, J.O., Scheffrahn, R.H., Sillam-Dussès, D. and Brune, A., 2015. Metagenomic analysis of the microbiota in the highly compartmented hindguts of six wood-or soil-feeding higher termites. Microbiome 3 (1), 1-6
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Mikaelyan, A., Köhler, T., Lampert, N., Rohland, J., Boga, H., Meuser, K. and Brune, A., 2015. Classifying the bacterial gut microbiota of termites and cockroaches: a curated phylogenetic reference database (DictDb). Systematic and applied microbiology, 38(7), pp.472-482.
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Mikaelyan, A., Dietrich, C., Köhler, T., Poulsen, M., Sillam‐Dussès, D. and Brune, A., 2015. Diet is the primary determinant of bacterial community structure in the guts of higher termites. Molecular ecology, 24(20), pp.5284-5295.
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Bauer, E., Lampert, N., Mikaelyan, A., Köhler, T., Maekawa, K. and Brune, A., 2015. Physicochemical conditions, metabolites and community structure of the bacterial microbiota in the gut of wood-feeding cockroaches (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae). FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91(2), pp.1-14.
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Markande, A.R., Mikaelyan, A., Nayak, B.B., Patel, K.D., Vachharajani, N.B., Vennila, A., Rajendran, K.V. and Purushothaman, C.S., 2014. Analysis of midgut bacterial community structure of Neanthes chilkaensis from polluted mudflats of Gorai, Mumbai, India. Advances in Microbiology, 4(13), p.906.
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Otani, S., Mikaelyan, A., Nobre, T., Hansen, L.H., Koné, N.G.A., Sørensen, S.J., Aanen, D.K., Boomsma, J.J., Brune, A. and Poulsen, M., 2014. Identifying the core microbial community in the gut of fungus‐growing termites. Molecular Ecology, 23(18), pp.4631-4644.
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Mikaelyan, A., Strassert, J.F., Tokuda, G. and Brune, A., 2014. The fibre‐associated cellulolytic bacterial community in the hindgut of wood‐feeding higher termites (Nasutitermes spp.). Environmental Microbiology, 16(9), pp.2711-2722.
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Thompson, C.L., Mikaelyan, A. and Brune, A., 2013. Immune-modulating gut symbionts are not “Candidatus Arthromitus”. Mucosal immunology, 6(1), pp.200-201.
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Thompson, C.L., Vier, R., Mikaelyan, A., Wienemann, T. and Brune, A., 2012. ‘Candidatus Arthromitus’ revised: segmented filamentous bacteria in arthropod guts are members of Lachnospiraceae. Environmental microbiology, 14(6), pp.1454-1465.