Publications

2012

• Aavik T, Edwards PJ, Holderegger R, Graf R, Billeter R (2012). Genetic consequences of using seed mixtures in restoration: A case study of a wetland plant Lychnis flos-cuculi. Biological Conservation 145(1): 195-204.
• Ackermann M, Ajello M, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, et al. (2012). Multi-Wavelength Observations of Blazar Ao 0235+164 in the 2008-2009 Flaring State. Astrophysical Journal 751(2).
• Alp M, Keller I, Westram AM, Robinson CT (2012). How river structure and biological traits influence gene flow: a population genetic study of two stream invertebrates with differing dispersal abilities. Freshwater Biology 57(5): 969-981.
• Beenken L, Zoller S, Berndt R (2012). Rust fungi on Aninonaceae II: the genus Dasyspora Berk. & MA Curtis. Mycologia 104(3): 659-681.
• Berenos C, Schmid-Hempel P, Wegner KM (2012). Complex adaptive responses during antagonistic coevolution between Tribolium castaneum and its natural parasite Nosema whitei revealed by multiple fitness components. Bmc Evolutionary Biology 12.
• Berenos C, Schmid-Hempel P, Wegner KM (2012). Antagonistic Coevolution Accelerates the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Tribolium castaneum. American Naturalist 180(4): 520-528.
• Blavet N, Blavet H, Cegan R, Zemp N, Zdanska J, et al. (2012). Comparative analysis of a plant pseudoautosomal region (PAR) in Silene latifolia with the corresponding S-vulgaris autosome. Bmc Genomics 13.
• Boukef S, McDonald BA, Yahyaoui A, Rezgui S, Brunner PC (2012). Frequency of mutations associated with fungicide resistance and population structure of Mycosphaerella graminicola in Tunisia. European Journal of Plant Pathology 132(1): 111-122.
• Brankatschk R, Bodenhausen N, Zeyer J, Burgmann H (2012). Simple Absolute Quantification Method Correcting for Quantitative PCR Efficiency Variations for Microbial Community Samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78(12): 4481-4489.
• Buehler D, Graf R, Holderegger R, Gugerli F (2012). Contemporary gene flow and mating system of Arabis alpina in a Central European alpine landscape. Annals of Botany 109(7): 1359-1367.
• Cisarovsky G, Koch H, Schmid-Hempel P (2012). A field study on the influence of food and immune priming on a bumblebee-gut parasite system. Oecologia online early.
• Dal Grande F, Widmer I, Wagner HH, Scheidegger C (2012). Vertical and horizontal photobiont transmission within populations of a lichen symbiosis. Molecular Ecology 21(13): 3159-3172.
• Drabseova J, Rysanek P, Brunner P, McDonald BA, Croll D (2012). Population genetic structure of Mycosphaerella graminicola and Quinone Outside Inhibitor (QoI) resistance in the Czech Republic. European Journal of Plant Pathology: in press.
• Duo A, Bruggmann R, Zoller S, Bernt M, Grunig CR (2012). Mitochondrial genome evolution in species belonging to the Phialocephala fortinii s.l. - Acephala applanata species complex. Bmc Genomics 13.
• Fahrentrapp J, Broggini GAL, Kellerhals M, Malnoy M, Peil A, et al. (2012). News of Malus x robusta candidate resistance gene. Proceedings of Biotech Fruit II Acta Hort (ISHS): in press.
• Fahrentrapp J, Broggini GAL, Kellerhals M, Peil A, Richer K, et al. (2012). A Candidate Gene for Fire Blight Resistance in Malus × robusta 5 is Coding for a CC-NBS-LRR. Tree Genetics and Genomes.
• Finger A, Kaiser-Bunbury CN, Kettle CJ (2012). Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers of the Seychelles endemic tree Glionnetia sericea (Rubiaceae). Conservation Genetics Resources 4(2): 239-241.
• Finger A, Kettle CJ, Kaiser-Bunbury CN, Valentin T, Mougal J, et al. (2012). Forest fragmentation genetics in a formerly widespread island endemic tree: Vateriopsis seychellarum (Dipterocarpaceae). Molecular Ecology 21(10): 2369-2382.
• Franchini AG, Zeyer J (2012). Freeze-Coring Method for Characterization of Microbial Community Structure and Function in Wetland Soils at High Spatial Resolution. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78(12): 4501-4504.
• Garcia-Fernandez A, Lara-Romero C, Segarra-Moragues JG, Iriondo JM, Widmer A, et al. (2012). Characterization of microsatellites in the mountain plant Armeria caespitosa (Plumbaginaeae) and transferability to congeners. American Journal of Botany: e292-e294.
• Garcia-Fernandez A, Segarra-Moragues JG, Widmer A, Escudero A, Iriondo JM (2012). Unravelling genetics at the top: mountain islands or isolated belts? Annals of Botany 110(6): 1221-1232.
• Gardiner DM, McDonald MC, Covarelli L, Solomon PS, Rusu AG, et al. (2012). Comparative Pathogenomics Reveals Horizontally Acquired Novel Virulence Genes in Fungi Infecting Cereal Hosts. Plos Pathogens 8(9).
• Gross A, Grunig CR, Queloz V, Holdenrieder O (2012). A molecular toolkit for population genetic investigations of the ash dieback pathogen Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus. Forest Pathology 42(3): 252-264.
• Gross A, Zaffarano PL, Duo A, Gruenig CR (2012). Reproductive mode and life cycle of the ash dieback pathogen Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus. Fungal Genetics and Biology 49: 977-986.
• Gugerli F, K. S (2012). Reduced fitness at early life stages in peripheral versus core populations of Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra) is not reflected by levels of inbreeding in seed families. Alpine Botany 122: 75-85.
• Gupta AK, Akhtar TA, Widmer A, Pichersky E, Schiestl FP (2012). Identification of white campion (Silene latifolia) guaiacol O-methyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of veratrole, a key volatile for pollinator attraction. BMC Plant Biology 12: 158 - 170.
• Hahn T, Kettle CJ, Ghazoul J, Frei ER, Matter P, et al. (2012). Patterns of genetic variation across altitude in three plant species of semi-dry grasslands. PlosOne accepted.
• Hangartner S, Laurila A, Rasanen K (2012). Adaptive Divergence in Moor Frog (Rana Arvalis) Populations Along an Acidification Gradient: Inferences from Qst-Fst Correlations. Evolution 66(3): 867-881.
• Ismail S, Ghazoul J, Ravikanth G, Shaanker RU, Kushalappa CG, et al. (2012). Does long-distance pollen dispersal preclude inbreeding in tropical trees? Fragmentation genetics of Dysoxylum malabaricum in an agro-forest landscape. Molecular Ecology 21(22): 5484-5496.
• Keller D, Van Strien MJ, Holderegger R (2012). Do landscape barriers affect functional connectivity of populations of an endangered damselfly? Freshwater Biology 57(7): 1373-1384.
• Keller I, Wagner CE, Greuter L, Mwaiko S, Selz O, et al. (2012). Population genomic signatures of divergent adaptation, gene flow, and hybrid speciation in the rapid radiation of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes. . Molecular Ecology.
• Kerstes NAG, Berenos C, Schmid-Hempel P, Wegner KM (2012). Antagonistic experimental coevolution with a parasite increases host recombination frequency. Bmc Evolutionary Biology 12.
• Klank C, Ghazoul J, Pluess AR (2012). Genetic variation and plant performance in fragmented populations of globeflowers (Trollius europaeus) within agricultural landscapes. Conservation Genetics 13(3): 873-884.
• Koch H, Cisarovsky G, Schmid-Hempel P (2012). Ecological effects on gut bacterial communities in wild bumble bee colonies. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY online early.
• Koch H, Schmid-Hempel P (2012). Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system. Ecology Letters online early.
• Liu ZH, Zhang ZC, Faris JD, Oliver RP, Syme R, et al. (2012). The Cysteine Rich Necrotrophic Effector SnTox1 Produced by Stagonospora nodorum Triggers Susceptibility of Wheat Lines Harboring Snn1. Plos Pathogens 8(1).
• Matter P, Määttänen K, Kettle CJ, Ghazoul J, Pluess AR (2012). Eleven microsatellite markers for the mountain clover Trifolium montanum (Fabaceae). American Journal of Botany - Primer Notes and Protocols in press.
• Matter P, Pluess AR, Ghazoul J, Kettle C (2012). Eight microsatellite markers for the bulbous buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus (Ranunculaceae). American Journal of Botany - Primer Notes and Protocols.
• McDonald MC, Razavi M, Brunner PC, McDonald BA (2012). Phylogenetic and population genetic analyses of Phaeosphaeria nodorum and its close relatives indicate cryptic species and an origin in the Fertile Crescent. Fungal Genetics and Biology 49: 882-895.
• Mirouze M, Lieberman-Lazarovich M, Aversano R, Bucher E, Nicolet J, et al. (2012). Loss of DNA methylation affects the recombination landscape in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(15): 5880-5885.
• Moest M, Petrusek A, Sommaruga P, Juracka P, Slusarcyk M, et al. (2012). At the edge and on the top: Molecular identification and ecology of Daphnia dentifera and D. longispina in high-altitude Asian lakes. Hydrobiologia: 1-12.
• Muyle A, Zemp N, Deschamps C, Mousset S, Widmer A, et al. (2012). Rapid De Novo Evolution of X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Silene latifolia, a Plant with Young Sex Chromosomes. Plos Biology 10(4).
• Oberhofer M, Leuchtmann A (2012). Genetic diversity in epichloid endophytes of Hordelymus europaeus suggests repeated host jumps and interspecific hybridizations. Molecular Ecology 21(11): 2713-2726.
• Pluess AR, Weber P (2012). Drought-Adaptation Potential in Fagus sylvatica: Linking Moisture Availability with Genetic Diversity and Dendrochronology. Plos One 7(3).
• Refardt D (2012). Real-time quantitative PCR to discriminate and quantify lambdoid bacteriophages of Escherichia coli K-12. Bacteriophage 2(2): 98-104.
• Reininger V, Grunig CR, Sieber TN (2012). Host species and strain combination determine growth reduction of spruce and birch seedlings colonized by root-associated dark septate endophytes. Environmental Microbiology 14(4): 1064-1076.
• Reininger V, Sieber TN (2012). Mycorrhiza Reduces Adverse Effects of Dark Septate Endophytes (DSE) on Growth of Conifers. Plos One 7(8).
• Ruffner B, Pechy-Tarr M, Ryffel F, Hoegger P, Obrist C, et al. (2012). Oral insecticidal activity of plant-associated pseudomonads. Environmental Microbiology.
• Salathe R, Schmid-Hempel R, Schmid-Hempel P (2012). Probing mixed-genotype infections I: Extraction and cloning of infections from hosts of the trypanosomatid Crithidia bombi. Plos One 7: e49046.
• Salzer K, Gugerli F (2012). Reduced fitness at early life stages in peripheral versus core populations of Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra) is not reflected by levels of inbreeding in seed families. . Alpine Botany 122: 75–85.
• Sedivy C, Dorn S, Mueller A (2012). Molecular phylogeny of the bee genus Hoplitis (Megachilidae: Osmiini) – how does nesting biology affect biogeography? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
• Sedivy C, Dorn S, Widmer A, Mueller A (2012). Host range evolution in a selected group of osmiine bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): the Boraginaceae-Fabaceae paradox. Biological Journal of Linnean Society in press.
• Tan KC, Ferguson-Hunt M, Rybak K, Waters ODC, Stanley WA, et al. (2012). Quantitative Variation in Effector Activity of ToxA Isoforms from Stagonospora nodorum and Pyrenophora tritici-repentis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 25(4): 515-522.
• Tellenbach C, Sieber TN (2012). Do colonization by dark septate endophytes and elevated temperature affect pathogenicity of oomycetes? Fems Microbiology Ecology 82(1): 157-168.
• Tognazzo M, Schmid-Hempel R, Schmid-Hempel P (2012). Probing Mixed-Genotype Infections II: High Multiplicity in Natural Infections of the Trypanosomatid, Crithidia bombi, in Its Host, Bombus spp. Plos One 7(11).
• Ugolini F, Schroth M, Bürgmann H, Hammes F, Zeyer J (2012). Chemical Extraction of Microorganisms from Water-Saturated, Packed Sediment. . Water Environment Research: in press.
• Ulrich Y, Schmid-Hempel P (2012). Host modulation of parasite competition in multiple infections. . Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences.
• Van Strien MJ, Keller D, Holderegger R (2012). A new analytical approach to landscape genetic modelling: least-cost transect analysis and linear mixed models. Molecular Ecology 21: 4010-4023.
• Wagner CE, Keller I, Wittwer OM, Mwaiko S, Greuter L, et al. (2012). Genome-wide RAD sequence data provide unprecedented resolution of species boundaries and relationships in the Lake Victoria cichlid adaptive radiation. Molecular Ecology in press.
• Widmer A, Dal Grande F, Excoffier L, Holderegger R, Keller C, et al. (2012). European phylogeography of the epiphytic lichen fungus Lobaria pulmonaria and its green algal symbiont. . Molecular Ecology 21: 5827-5844.

2011

• Alp M, Karpati T, Werth S, Gostner W, Scheidegger C, et al. (2011). Erhaltung und Förderung der Biodiversität von Fliessgewässern. Wasser, Energie, Luft, 103(3): 216-223.
• Berenos C, Wegner KM, Schmid-Hempel P (2011). Antagonistic coevolution with parasites maintains host genetic diversity: an experimental test. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 278(1703): 218-224.
• 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 98(5): E103-E105.
• Fahrentrapp J, Broggini GAL, Gessler C, Peil A, Kellerhals M, et al. (2011). Fine mapping of fire blight resistance locus in malus x robusta 5 on linkage group 3. Acta Hort (ISHS) 8696: 243-244.
• Fahrentrapp J, Broggini GAL, Kellerhals M, Malnoy M, Peil A, et al. (2011). A candidate gene of Malus x robusta 5 for breeding towards fire blight resistance. Proceedings of XIII EUCARPIA meeting on Fruit breeding and Genetics Acta Hort (ISHS)(in press).
• Finger A, Kettle CJ, Kaiser-Bunbury CN, Valentin T, Doudee D, et al. (2011). Back from the brink: potential for genetic rescue in a critically endangered tree. Molecular Ecology 20(18): 3773-3784.
• Fleischer-Dogley F, Kettle CJ, Edwards PJ, Ghazoul J, Maattanen K, et al. (2011). Morphological and genetic differentiation in populations of the dispersal-limited coco de mer (Lodoicea maldivica): implications for management and conservation. Diversity and Distributions 17(2): 235-243.
• Johnson AP, Schmid-Hempel R, Schmid-Hempel P (2011). Female lines in social insects - a homage to the Croziers' mitochondria. Myrmecological News 15: 101-108.
• Keller I, Taverna A, Seehausen O (2011). A pyrosequencing assay for the rapid discrimination of mitochondrial lineages in the Salmo trutta species complex. Molecular Ecology Resources 11(1): 196-199.
• Kettle CJ, C.R. M, J. G, P.M. H, Khoo E, et al. (2011). Flower size and differential pollination success in tropical forest trees. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16111.
• Kettle CJ, Hollingsworth PM, Burslem DFRP, Maycock CR, Khoo E, et al. (2011). Determinants of fine-scale spatial genetic structure in three co-occurring rain forest canopy trees in Borneo. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics 13(1): 45-54.
• Kiros-Meles A, Gomez D, McDonald BA, Yahyaoui A, Linde CC (2011). Invasion of Rhynchosporium commune onto wild barley in the Middle East. Biological Invasions 13(2): 321-330.
• Koch H, Schmid-Hempel P (2011). Bacterial Communities in Central European Bumblebees: Low Diversity and High Specificity. Microbial Ecology 62(1): 121-133.
• Koch H, Schmid-Hempel P (2011). Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(48): 19288-19292.
• Kophimai Y, Cornejo C, Peintinger M, Bergamini A, Scheidegger C (2011). Characterization of Nuclear Microsatellite Loci in the Calcareous Fen Specialist Scorpidium Cossonii (Calliergonaceae). American Journal of Botany 98(10): E290-E292.
• Lazzaro A, Gauer A, Zeyer J (2011). Field-Scale Transplantation Experiment To Investigate Structures of Soil Bacterial Communities at Pioneering Sites. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77(23): 8241-8248.
• Meyer JB, Frapolli M, Keel C, Maurhofer M (2011). Pyrroloquinoline Quinone Biosynthesis Gene pqqC, a Novel Molecular Marker for Studying the Phylogeny and Diversity of Phosphate-Solubilizing Pseudomonads. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77(20): 7345-7354.
• Queloz V, Grunig CR, Berndt R, Kowalski T, Sieber TN, et al. (2011). Cryptic speciation in Hymenoscyphus albidus. Forest Pathology 41(2): 133-142.
• Queloz V, Sieber TN, Holdenrieder O, McDonald BA, Grunig CR (2011). No biogeographical pattern for a root-associated fungal species complex. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20(1): 160-169.
• Rampoldi A, Jacobsen MJ, Bertschinger HU, Joller D, Burgi E, et al. (2011). The receptor locus for Escherichia coli F4ab/F4ac in the pig maps distal to the MUC4-LMLN region. Mammalian Genome 22(1-2): 122-129.
• Reininger V, Grunig CR, Sieber TN (2011). Microsatellite-Based Quantification Method to Estimate Biomass of Endophytic Phialocephala Species in Strain Mixtures. Microbial Ecology 61(3): 676-683.
• Rellstab C, Louhi KR, Karvonen A, Jokela J (2011). Analysis of trematode parasite communities in fish eye lenses by pyrosequencing of naturally pooled DNA. Infection Genetics and Evolution 11(6): 1276-1286.
• Sadd BM (2011). Food-Environment Mediates the Outcome of Specific Interactions between a Bumblebee and Its Trypanosome Parasite. Evolution 65(10): 2995-3001.
• Schmid-Hempel R, Salathe R, Tognazzo M, Schmid-Hempel P (2011). Genetic exchange and emergence of novel strains in directly transmitted trypanosomatids. Infection Genetics and Evolution 11(3): 564-571.
• Schulze J, Stoll P, Widmer A, Erhardt A (2011). Searching for gene flow from cultivated to wild strawberries in Central Europe. Annals of Botany 107(4): 699-707.
• Sommerhalder RJ, McDonald BA, Mascher F, Zhan JS (2011). Effect of hosts on competition among clones and evidence of differential selection between pathogenic and saprophytic phases in experimental populations of the wheat pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum. Bmc Evolutionary Biology 11.
• Stukenbrock EH, Bataillon T, Dutheil JY, Hansen TT, Li RQ, et al. (2011). The making of a new pathogen: Insights from comparative population genomics of the domesticated wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola and its wild sister species. Genome Research 21(12): 2157-2166.
• 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(2): 192-197.
• Torriani SFF, Stukenbrock EH, Brunner PC, McDonald BA, Croll D (2011). Evidence for Extensive Recent Intron Transposition in Closely Related Fungi. Current Biology 21(23): 2017-2022.
• Ulrich Y, Sadd BM, Schmid-Hempel P (2011). Strain filtering and transmission of a mixed infection in a social insect. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24(2): 354-362.
• Werth S, Scheidegger C (2011). Isolation and characterization of 22 nuclear and 5 chloroplast microsatellite loci in the threatened riparian plant Myricaria germanica (Tamaricaceae, Caryophyllales). Conservation Genetics Resources 3(3): 445-448.
• Werth S, Weibel D, Alp M, Junker J, Karpati T, et al. (2011). Lebensraumverbund Fliessgewässer: Die Bedeutung der Vernetzung. Wasser, Energie, Luft, 103(3): 224-234.
• Westram AM, Jokela J, Baumgartner C, Keller I (2011). Spatial Distribution of Cryptic Species Diversity in European Freshwater Amphipods (Gammarus fossarum) as Revealed by Pyrosequencing. Plos One 6(8).
• Wirth LR, Waser NM, Graf R, Gugerli F, Landergott U, et al. (2011). Effects of floral neighborhood on seed set and degree of outbreeding in a high-alpine cushion plant. Oecologia 167(2): 427-434.
• Zaffarano PL, McDonald BA, Linde CC (2011). Two new species of Rhynchosporium. Mycologia 103(1): 195-202.

2010

• Beenken L, Berndt R (2010). Rust fungi on Annonaceae: the genus Sphaerophragmium. Mycologia 102(3): 650-663.
• Dal Grande F, Widmer I, Beck A, Scheidegger C (2010). Microsatellite markers for Dictyochloropsis reticulata (Trebouxiophyceae), the symbiotic alga of the lichen Lobaria pulmonaria (L.). Conservation Genetics 11(3): 1147-1149.
• Finger A, Ismail S, Ghazoul J, Kettle CJ (2010). Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers of the endangered and endemic Vateriopsis seychellarum (Dipterocarpaceae), a relict canopy tree of the Seychelles. Conservation Genetics Resources 2: 309-311.
• Gonzalez-Vera AD, Bernardes-De-Assis J, Zala M, McDonald BA, Correa-Victoria F, et al. (2010). Divergence Between Sympatric Rice- and Maize-Infecting Populations of Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA from Latin America. Phytopathology 100(2): 172-182.
• Greeff M, Schmid-Hempel P (2010). Influence of co-evolution with a parasite, Nosema whitei, and population size on recombination rates and fitness in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Genetica 138(7): 737-744.
• Koch H (2010). Combining morphology and DNA barcoding resolves the taxonomy of Western Malagasy Liotrigona Moure, 1961 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). African Invertebrates 51(2): 413-421.
• Queloz V, Duo A, Sieber TN, Grunig 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(2): 348-367.
• 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.
• Schluns 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(7): 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.
• Sornmerhalder RJ, McDonald BA, Mascher F, Zhan JS (2010). Sexual Recombinants Make a Significant Contribution to Epidemics Caused by the Wheat Pathogen Phaeosphaeria nodorum. Phytopathology 100(9): 855-862.
• Tellenbach C, Grunig CR, Sieber TN (2010). Suitability of Quantitative Real-Time PCR To Estimate the Biomass of Fungal Root Endophytes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76(17): 5764-5772.
• Torriani MVG, Mazzi D, Hein S, Dorn S (2010). Structured populations of the oriental fruit moth in an agricultural ecosystem. Molecular Ecology 19(13): 2651-2660.
• 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 2: 401-404.
• Wirth LR, 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(5): 899-901.
• Zaffarano PL, Duo A, Grunig 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 KM (2009). Evolution of host resistance and trade-offs between virulence and transmission potential in an obligately killing parasite. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(10): 2049-2056.
• Bernardes-de-Assis J, Storari M, Zala M, Wang W, Jiang D, et al. (2009). Genetic structure of populations of the rice-infecting pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA from China. Phytopathology 99(9): 1090-1099.
• Brunner PC, Keller N, McDonald BA (2009). Wheat domestication accelerated evolution and triggered positive selection in the beta-xylosidase enzyme of Mycosphaerella graminicola. PloS one 4(11): e7884.
• Linde CC, Zala M, McDonald BA (2009). Molecular evidence for recent founder populations and human-mediated migration in the barley scald pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 51(3): 454-464.
• Liu Z, Faris JD, Oliver RP, Tan KC, Solomon PS, et al. (2009). SnTox3 acts in effector triggered susceptibility to induce disease on wheat carrying the Snn3 gene. PLoS pathogens 5(9): e1000581.
• 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.
• 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(9): 1937-1943.
• Roth O, Sadd BM, Schmid-Hempel P, Kurtz J (2009). Strain-specific priming of resistance in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 276(1654): 145-151.
• Sadd BM, Schmid-Hempel P (2009). A distinct infection cost associated with trans-generational priming of antibacterial immunity in bumble-bees. Biology Letters 5(6): 798-801.
• Stolle E, Rohde M, Vautrin D, Solignac M, Schmid-Hempel P, et al. (2009). Novel microsatellite DNA loci for Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758). Molecular Ecology Resources 9(5): 1345-1352.
• Torriani SFF, Brunner PC, McDonald BA, Sierotzki H (2009). QoI resistance emerged independently at least 4 times in European populations of Mycosphaerella graminicola. Pest Management Science 65(2): 155-162.
• Torriani SFF, Linde CC, McDonald BA (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.
• Wegner KM, Berenos C, Schmid-Hempel P (2009). Host genetic architecture in single and multiple infections. Journal of evolutionary biology 22(2): 396-404.
• Zaffarano PL, McDonald BA, Linde CC (2009). Phylogeographical analyses reveal global migration patterns of the barley scald pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis. Molecular ecology 18(2): 279-293.
• Zuber D, Widmer A (2009). Phylogeography and host race differentiation in the European mistletoe (Viscum album L.). Molecular ecology 18(9): 1946-1962.

2008

• Zaffarano PL, McDonald BA, Linde CC (2008). Rapid speciation following recent host shifts in the plant pathogenic fungus Rhynchosporium. Evolution 62(6): 1418-1436.