Publications

Publications with GDC support

2011

Ulrich, Y., B. Sadd, et al. (2011) Strain filtering and transmission of a mixed infection in a social insect. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24(2): 354-362.

Schmid-Hempel, R., M. Tognazzo, et al. (2011) Genetic exchange and emergence of novel strains in directly transmitted, monoxenic trypanosomatids. Infection, Genetics, and Evolution 11(201): 564-571.

Buehler D, Graf R, Holderegger R, Gugerli F (2011) Using the 454 Pyrosequencing-based technique in the development of nuclear microsatellite loci in the alpine plant Arabis Alpina (Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany, e103- e105.

Fahrentrapp J, Broggini GAL, Gessler C, Peil A, Kellerhals M, Malnoy M, Richter K (2011) Fine mapping of fire blight resistance locus in malus x robusta 5 on linkage group  3. Acta Hort (ISHS), 896:243-244.

Koch H, Schmid-Hempel P (2011) Bacterial communities in central European bumblebees: low diversity and high specificity. Microbial Ecology, doi: 10.1007/s00248-011-9854-3.

Queloz V, Grünig CR, Berndt R, Kowalski T, Sieber TN, Holdenrieder O (2011). Cryptic speciation in Hymenoscyphus albidus. Forest Pathology, 41: 133-142.

Queloz V, Sieber TN, Holdenrieder O, McDonald BA, Grünig CR (2011) No biogeographical pattern for a root-associated fungal species complex. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20:160–169.

Rellstab C, Louhi K, Karvonen A, Jokela J (2011) Analysis of trematode parasite communities in fish eye lenses by pyrosequencing of naturally pooled DNA. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2011.04.018.

Reiniger V, Grünig CR, Sieber T N (2011) Microsatellite-based quantification method to estimate biomass of endophytic Phialocephala species
in strain mixtures. Microbial Ecology, 61: 676-683.

Torriani SFF, Brunner PC, McDonald BA (2011) Evolutionary history of the mitochondrial genome in Mycosphaerella populations infecting bread wheat, durum wheat and wild grasses.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 58:192–197.

Wirth LR, Waser NM, Graf R, Gugerli F, Landergott U, Erhardt A, Linder HP, Holderegger R (2011). Effects of floral neighborhood and genetic diversity of seeds in high-alpine cushion plants. Oecologia, in press.

Zaffarano PL, McDonald BA, Linde CC, (2011) Two new species of Rhynchosporium. Mycologia, 103 (1):195-202.

2010

Berenos C, Wegner MK, Schmid-Hempel P (2010) Antagonistic co-evolution with parasites maintains host genetic diversity: an experimental test. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B (in press).

Greeff M, Schmid-Hempel P (2010) Influence of selection by the parasite Nosema whitei and of population size on recombination rates and fitness in Tribolium castaneum. Genetica, 138: 737-744.

Gonzalez-Vera AD, Bernardes-de-Assis J, Zala M, McDonald BA, Correa-Victoria F, Graterol-Matute EJ, Ceresini PC (2010) Divergence Between Sympatric Rice- and Maize-Infecting Populations of Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA from Latin America. Phytopathology, 100 (2): 172-182.

Keller I, Taverna A & Seehausen O (2010) A pyrosequencing assay for the rapid discrimination of mitochondrial lineages in the Salmo trutta species complex. Molecular Ecology Resources (in press).

Kiros-Meles A, Gomez D, McDonald BA, Yahyaoui A, Linde CC (2010) Invasion of Rhynchosporium commune onto wild barley in the Middle East. Biological Invasions (in press).

Koch H (2010) Combining morphology and DNA barcoding resolves the taxonomy of Western Malagasy Liotrigona Moure, 1961. African Invertebrates, 51 (2): 413-421.

Queloz V, Duo A, Sieber TN, Grünig CR (2010) Microsatellite size homoplasies and null alleles do not affect species diagnosis and population genetic analysis in a fungal species complex. Molecular Ecology Resources 10, 348-367.

Rampoldi A, Jacobsen MJ, Bertschinger HU, Joller D, Bürgi E, Vögeli P, Andersson L, Archibald AL, Fredholm M, Jørgensen CB, Neuenschwander S (2010) The receptor locus for Escherichia coli F4ab/F4ac in the pig maps distal to the MUC4 – LMLN region. Mammalian Genome (in press).

Sadd BM, Kube M, Klages S, Reinhardt R, Schmid-Hempel P (2010) Analysis of a normalised expressed sequence tag (EST) library from a key pollinator, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. BMC Genomics, 11: 110.

Schlüns H, Sadd BM, Schmid-Hempel P, Crozier RH (2010) Infection with the trypanosome Crithidia bombi and expression of immune-related genes in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Developmental and Comparative Immunology, 34:705-709

Schmid-Hempel R & Tognazzo M (2010) Molecular Divergence Defines Two Distinct Lineages of Crithidia bombi (Trypanosomatidae), Parasites of Bumblebees. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 57 (4): 337-345.

Schoebel CN, Wolinska J & Spaak P (2010) Higher parasite resistance in Daphnia
populations with recent epidemics. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23 (11): 2370–2376.

Sommerhalder RJ, McDonald BA, Mascher F, Zhan J (2010) Sexual recombinants make a significant contribution to epidemics caused by the wheat pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum.  Phytopathology (in press).

Stukenbrock EH, McDonald BA, Jørgensen FG, Zala M, Hansen TT and Schierup MH Molecular genome evolution associated with the recent host shift of the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola.  Public Library of Science Genetics (accepted).

Tellenbach C, Grünig CR, Sieber TN (2010) Suitability of quantitative real-time PCR to estimate biomass of fungal root endophytes. Applied and environmental microbiology. 76: 5764-5772.

Torriani MVG, Mazzi D, Hein S and Dorn S (2010). Structured populations of the oriental fruit moth in an agricultural ecosystem. Molecular Ecology. 19: 2651-2660.

Ulrich Y, Sadd B, Schmid-Hempel P (2010) Strain filtering and transmission of a mixed infection in a social insect. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (in press) (doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02172.x)

Wirth R, Graf R, Gugerli F, Landergott U, Holderegger R (2010) Lower selfing rate at higher altitudes in the alpine plant Eritrichium nanum (Boraginaceae). American Journal of Botany, 97: 899-901.

Westram AM, Jokela J, Keller I (2010) Isolation and characterization of ten polymorphic microsatellite markers for three cryptic Gammarus fossarum (Amphipoda) species. Conservation Genetics Resources. doi: 10.1007/s12686-010-9287-1.

Zaffarano PL, Duò A, Grünig CR (2010) Characterization of the mating type (MAT) locus in the Phialocephala fortinii s.l. – Acephala applanata species complex. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 47 (9):761-772.

2009

Berenos C, Schmid-Hempel P, Wegner MK (2009) Evolution of host resistance and trade-offs between virulence and transmissive potential in an obligately killing parasite Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:2049-2056

Bernardes-de-Assis, J., Storari, M., Zala, M., Wang, W., Jiang, D., Li S., Jin, M., McDonald, B.A., Ceresini, P.C. 2009. Genetic structure of populations of the rice-infecting pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA from China. Phytopathology 99:1090-1099.

Brunner, P.C., Keller, N., McDonald, B.A. 2009. Wheat domestication accelerated evolution and triggered positive selection in the β-Xylosidase enzyme of Mycosphaerella graminicola. PLoS ONE 4(11): e7884. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007884.

Dal Grande F. et al. 2009. Microsatellite markers for Dictyochloropsis reticulata (Trebouxiophyceae), the symbiotic alga of the lichen Lobaria pulmonaria (L.). Conservation Genetics. 11:1147-1149.

Liu, Z., Faris, J.D., Oliver, R.P., Tan, K.C., Solomon, P.C., McDonald, M.C., McDonald, B.A., Nunez, A., Rasmussen, J.B., Friesen, T.L. 2009.  SnTox3, a novel fungal effector gene involved in the inverse gene-for-gene interaction of the Stagonospora nodorum-wheat pathosystem. Public Library of Science Pathogens 5(9): e1000581. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000581.

Linde, C. C., Zala, M. and McDonald, B. A. 2009. Molecular evidence for recent founder populations and man-mediated migration in the barley scald pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51:454-464.

Moccia MD, Oger-Desfeux C, Marais GAB, Widmer A. 2009. A White Campion (Silene latifolia) floral expressed sequence tag (EST) library: annotation, EST-SSR characterization, transferability, and utility for comparative mapping. BMC Genomics, 10:243.

Queloz, V., Duo A., Sieber T. N., Grünig, C.R.  2009. Microsatellite size homoplasies and null alleles do not affect species diagnosis and populations genetic analysis in a fungal species complex. Molecular Ecology Resources, 10: 348-367.

Rahme, J., Widmer, A. Karrenberg, S. 2009. Pollen competition as an asymmetric reproductive barrier between two closely related Silene species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22: 1937-1943.

Roth, O., Sadd B. M., Schmid-Hempel, P., Kurtz, J. 2009. Strain-specific priming of resistance in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Proc. R. Soc. B. 276: 145-151.

Torriani, S.F.F., Linde, C.C., McDonald, B.A. 2009. Sequence conservation in the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene and lack of G143A QoI resistance allele in a global sample of Rhynchosporium secalis. Australasian Journal of Plant Pathology 38: 202-207.

Sadd B, Schmid-Hempel P (2009) A distinct infection cost associated with trans-generational immune priming of antibacterial immunity in bumble-bees. Biology Letters 5:798-801.

Stolle E, Rohde M, Solignac M, Schmid-Hempel P, Schmid-Hempel R, Moritz RFA (2009) Novel microsatellite DNA loci for Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus 1758). Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1345-1352.

Vera, A.D.G., Bernardes-de-Assis, J., Ciampi, M.B., Zala, M., McDonald, B.A., Correa-Victoria, F., Graterol-Matute, E.J., Ceresini, P.C. 2010. Divergence between sympatric rice- and maize-infecting populations of Rhizoctonia solani AG 1 IA from Latin America. Phytopathology: 100, 172-182.

Wegner, K. M., Berenos, C., Schmid-Hempel, P. 2009. Host genetic architecture in single and multiple infections. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22: 396-404.

Zaffarano, P.L., McDonald, B.A., Linde. C.C. 2009. Phylogeography of Rhynchosporium secalis. Molecular Ecology 18:279-293.

Zuber, D. & Widmer, A. 2009. Phylogeography and host race differentiation in the European mistletoe (Viscum album L.). Molecular Ecology 18:1946–1962.


2008
Zaffarano, P. L., McDonald B. A. & Linde C. C. 2008. Rapid speciation following recent host shifts in the plant pathogenic fungus Rhynchosporium. Evolution 62: 1418-1436

Presentations and posters of GDC supported work

2011

Aavik T, Edwards P, Holderegger R, Billeter R (2011) Genetic consequences of using commercially produced seeds in ecological restoration. PACE11, Zürich.

Buehler D, Poncet BN, Manel S, Holderegger R, Gugerli F (2011) Identification and verification of candidate locus for habitat-related adaptation in the alpine plant Arabis alpina. biology11, Zürich, Switzerland.

Luo Y (2011) Stigma-anther separation confers outcrossing in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), Austria.

Luo Y (2011) Natural variation for stigma-anther separation and outcrossing in Arabidopsis thaliana. Institute of Plant Biology, Shimuzu Group. University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Westram AM, Jokela J, Keller I (2011) Discovering hidden biodiversity: population genetics of cryptic Gammarus fossarum species. Population Genetics Group meeting, Hull, United Kingdom.

Westram AM, Jokela J, Keller I (2011) Discovering hidden biodiversity: population genetics of cryptic Gammarus fossarum species. biology11 meeting, Zürich, Switzerland. (Poster)

Rellstab C, Louhi K, Karvonen A, Jokela J (2011) Parasite infections in the eye lenses of
freshwater fish – analyzing community structure by pyrosequencing of
naturally pooled samples. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Zulliger D (2011) Identifying adaptive genetic diversity in relation to environmental variation: association genetics in Brassicaceae. Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour Seminar Series, University of Neuchatel.

2010

Alexander, J. & Keller,I. 2010. Genetic diversity, contemporary evolution and the maintenance of biodiversity in changing alpine environments (BioChange). Latsis Symposium, ETH Zürich. Nov 15-17.

Beenken, L. 2010. Dasyspora, a genus of neotropical rust fungi. Internationale Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Mykologie (German Mycological Society) in Hamburg. Sept 20-23.

Grünig, C. R., Duo, A., Bruggmann, R. 2010. De-Novo Genome Sequencing of Phialocephala fortinii s.l. Symposium on Symbiontic Associations, Agroscope Reckenholz Tänikon Research Station ART, Zürich, Switzerland. Sept 22. (Poster)

Grünig, C. R. 2010. Seeking the elusive function of dark septate root endophytes. Seminar of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, HelmholtzZentrum, München, Germany. Nov 11.

Keller, D., Aavik, T., Van Strien, M. 2010. Fördern landwirtschaftliche Vernetzungsmassnahmen den Austausch von Individuen? SWIFCOB 2010, Fribourg. (Poster)

Koch, H., Schmid-Hempel, P. 2010. Low diversity and high specificity of bacterial communities in the bumble bee gut.  International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), XVI Congress Kopenhagen. (Poster)

Koch, H., Schmid-Hempel, P. 2010. Low diversity and high specificity of bacterial communities in bumble bee hosts.  Latsis Symposium 2010: Research in Environment and Sustainability – Insights and Conclusions, Zürich. (Poster)

Koch, H., Schmid-Hempel, P. 2010. Only in it for the honey? Insights into the ecology of bumble bee gut bacteria.  Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (DZG) 103. Annual meeting, Hamburg. (Poster)

Koch, H., Schmid-Hempel, P. 2010. Communities in Central European Bumble Bees: Diversity and Distributions.  69th annual assembly of the Swiss Society for Microbiology, Zürich. (Poster)

Luo, Y. 2010. The way to plant integrative biology - Genetic basis of high-altitude adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana. 21st International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Japan. June 6-10. (Poster)

Luo, Y. 2010. Towards an understanding of altitudinal adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Conference: CCES Latsis Symposium 2010, ETH Zurich. Nov 15-17. (Poster)

Oberhofer, M. & Leuchtmann, A. 2010. Diversity of hybrid and non-hybrid Epichloë endophytes in a native woodland grass species across Europe. International Symposion on Fungal Endophytes in Grasses, Lexington, Kentucky.

Pluess A. R. & P. Weber, 2010. Genetic differentiation of beech at dry and mesic sites in Switzerland. COST E52 "Evaluation of Beech Genetic Resources for Sustainable Forestry", Burgos, Spain. May 4-6.

Queloz, V., Sieber, T. N., Holdenrieder, O., McDonald, B. A., Grünig, C. R. 2010. Biogeography of Microbes - Is Everything Everywhere? Symposium on Symbiontic Associations, Agroscope Reckenholz Tänikon Research Station ART, Zürich, Switzerland. Sept 22. (Poster)

Reininger, V., Grünig, C. R., Holdenrieder, O, Sieber, T. N. 2010. Strain-wise biomass quantification of endophytic fungi co-colonizing roots. Latsis-Symposium 2010, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Nov 15-17. (Poster)

Torriani, S. 2010. Mycosphaerella graminicola as a fungal model for understanding pathogen evolution. 9th International Mycological Congress, Edinburgh, UK. August 1-6.

Ulrich, Y. 2010. Multi-phase filtering and transmission of a mixed infection in bumblebee colonies' at the IUSSI (stands for : Inetrnational Union for the Study of Social Insects) XVI Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark. August 8-13.

Van Strien, M., Aavik, T., Keller, D. 2010. Gene flow in fragmented agricultural landscapes. Latsis Symposium, ETH, Zürich. (Poster)

Werth, S. & Scheidegger, C. 2010. Phylogeography and genetic structure of three lichen-forming fungi. Invited oral presentation. Mycological Congress, Edinburgh. August 1-6.

Westram, A. M., Baumgartner, C., Keller, I,. Jokela, J. 2010. Discovering hidden biodiversity: Population genetics of cryptic Gammarus fossarum species. IEB seminar series, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Germany.

Westram, A. M., Keller, I., Jokela, J. 2010. Discovering hidden biodiversity - population genetics of cryptic amphipod species. CCES Latsis Symposium, ETH Zürich. Nov 15-17. (Poster)

Zulliger D. 2010. Landscape genomics and adaptation. WSL, Birmensdorf. Nov 24.

Zulliger D. 2010. Landscape genomics and adaptation. University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel. Dez 7.

2009

Holderegger, R. et al. 2009. Landscape genomics: adaptive genetic variation in a landscape context (invited keynote). 6th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting, Cologne.

Minder, A. M. & Widmer, A. 2009. Divergence in gene expression between two closely related Silene species and their hybrids (Poster). ESEB, 24.-29. August 2009, Torino.

Oberhofer, M. & Leuchtmann, A. 2009. Interspecific hybridization amongst asexual Epichloë endophytes of Hordelymus europaeus (Poster). biology09, 12./13. Feb. 2009, Lausanne.

Westram, A. et al. 2009. Distribution and coexistence of cryptic amphipod species in Switzerland (Poster). ESEB, 24.-29. August 2009, Torino.

Widmer, I. et al. 2009. Coevolutionary history of a lichen symbiosis in Europe and its implication for conservation strategies (Talk). 2nd European Congress of Conservation Biology, Prague.

Werth, S. & Scheidegger, C. 2009. Genetic structure of the riparian plant Myricaria germanica (Tamaricaceae). Invited seminar. EAWAG, November 26.