Area of research
Insect Science · Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Research interest
Research interests include Biology, Wolbachia, Genetics, Host (biology), Cytoplasmic incompatibility, and Rickettsia.
Quality over quantity: unraveling the contributions to cytoplasmic incompatibility caused by two coinfecting Cardinium symbionts
Cardinium Localization During Its Parasitoid Wasp Host’s Development Provides Insights Into Cytoplasmic Incompatibility
Exposure to opposing temperature extremes causes comparable effects on Cardinium density but contrasting effects on Cardinium-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility
What Goes Up Might Come Down: the Spectacular Spread of an Endosymbiont Is Followed by Its Decline a Decade Later
Development of a multi-locus sequence typing system helps reveal the evolution of Cardinium hertigii, a reproductive manipulator symbiont of insects
Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals Novel Candidate Genes for<i>Cardinium hertigii</i>-Caused Cytoplasmic Incompatibility and Host-Cell Interaction
Cytological analysis of cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by<i>Cardinium</i>suggests convergent evolution with its distant cousin<i>Wolbachia</i>
“Darwin's corollary” and cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by <i>Cardinium</i> may contribute to speciation in <i>Encarsia</i> wasps (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
Conditional fitness benefits of the Rickettsia bacterial symbiont in an insect pest
Cryptic diversity, reproductive isolation and cytoplasmic incompatibility in a classic biological control success story
Comparative Genomics Suggests an Independent Origin of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Cardinium hertigii