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  1. Rapid spread of nutritional Wolbachia symbionts across and within solitary bee species

    Article • June 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Michael Gerth

  2. Symbiont interactions bias measures of arthropod biodiversity

    Article • June 2026, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Michael Gerth

  3. Latitudinal genetic diversity gradients steepen toward the poles

    Article • July 2025, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Dr Michael Gerth

  4. Draft genome sequence of a Wolbachia endosymbiont from Syringophilopsis turdi (Fritsch, 1958) (Acari, Syringophilidae)

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, November 2023, ASM Journals

    Dr Michael Gerth

  5. Rapid divergence in independent aspects of the compatibility phenotype in a Spiroplasma–Drosophila interaction

    Article • Microbiology, December 2022, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Michael Gerth

  6. Microbial protection favors parasite tolerance and alters host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics

    Article • Current Biology, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Michael Gerth

  7. Host genotype and genetic diversity shape the evolution of a novel bacterial infection

    Article • The ISME Journal, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael Gerth

  8. Rapid molecular evolution of Spiroplasma symbionts of Drosophila

    Article • Microbial Genomics, February 2021, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Michael Gerth, Florent Masson

  9. Rapid divergence in independent aspects of the compatibility phenotype in the Spiroplasma/Drosophila interaction

    Article • February 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth

  10. Infection Patterns and Fitness Effects of Rickettsia and Sodalis Symbionts in the Green Lacewing Chrysoperla carnea

    Article • Insects, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Michael Gerth

  11. Multiple colonisations and Wolbachia infections influence the fine-scale population structure of the widespread Common Blue butterfly (Polyomattus icarus) in the British Isles

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth

  12. Rapid molecular evolution of Spiroplasma symbionts of Drosophila

    Article • June 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth, Florent Masson

  13. Microbial composition of enigmatic bird parasites: Wolbachia and Spiroplasma are the most important bacterial associates of quill mites (Acariformes: Syringophilidae)

    Article • MicrobiologyOpen, March 2020, Wiley

    Dr Michael Gerth

  14. Neglecting model selection alters phylogenetic inference

    Article • November 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth

  15. Read-SpaM: assembly-free and alignment-free comparison of bacterial genomes with low sequencing coverage

    Article • February 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth

  16. Is Anopheles gambiae a natural host of Wolbachia?

    Article • December 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth

  17. Prot-SpaM: fast alignment-free phylogeny reconstruction based on whole-proteome sequences

    Article • GigaScience, December 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Michael Gerth

  18. Microbial composition of enigmatic bird parasites: Wolbachia and Spiroplasma are the most important bacterial associates of quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae)

    Article • July 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth

  19. Infections patterns and fitness effects of Rickettsia and Sodalis symbionts in the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea

    Article • May 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth

  20. Green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) are commonly associated with a diversity of rickettsial endosymbionts

    Article • Zoological Letters, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael Gerth

  21. Short reads from honey bee (Apis sp.) sequencing projects reflect microbial associate diversity

    Article • PeerJ, July 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Michael Gerth

  22. Is It Time To Retire Wolbachia Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST)?

    Article • May 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth

  23. Comparative genomics provides a timeframe for Wolbachia evolution and exposes a recent biotin synthesis operon transfer

    Article • Nature Microbiology, December 2016, Nature

    Dr Michael Gerth

  24. Classification of Wolbachia (Alphaproteobacteria, Rickettsiales): No evidence for a distinct supergroup in cave spiders

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Michael Gerth

  25. Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2016, Nature

    Dr Michael Gerth

  26. Classification of Wolbachia (Alphaproteobacteria, Rickettsiales): No evidence for a distinct supergroup in cave spiders

    Article • March 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Michael Gerth

  27. Evolution of mitochondrial gene order in Annelida

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Michael Gerth

  28. Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genomes from Polycladida (Platyhelminthes) using next-generation sequencing

    Article • Gene, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Michael Gerth

  29. W olbachia distribution in selected beetle taxa characterized by PCR screens and MLST data

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Michael Gerth

  30. The complete mitochondrial genome of the endemic and highly specialized South African bee speciesRediviva intermixta(Hymenoptera: Melittidae), with a comparison with other bee mitogenomes

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, August 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Michael Gerth

  31. Extensive screen for bacterial endosymbionts reveals taxon-specific distribution patterns among bees (Hymenoptera, Anthophila)

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, April 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Michael Gerth

  32. New Wolbachia supergroups detected in quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae)

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Michael Gerth

  33. Phylogenomic analyses uncover origin and spread of the Wolbachia pandemic

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2014, Nature

    Dr Michael Gerth

  34. Insights into the biodiversity of the Succulent Karoo hotspot of South Africa: the population genetics of a rare and endemic halictid bee, Patellapis doleritica

    Article • Conservation Genetics, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael Gerth

  35. Tracing horizontal Wolbachia movements among bees (Anthophila): a combined approach using multilocus sequence typing data and host phylogeny

    Article • Molecular Ecology, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Michael Gerth

  36. A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) approach to diminish the problems that are associated with DNA barcoding: A reply to Stahlhutet al. (2012)

    Article • Systematics and Biodiversity, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael Gerth

  37. Wolbachiainfections in bees (Anthophila) and possible implications for DNA barcoding

    Article • Systematics and Biodiversity, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Michael Gerth