Michael Gerth
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    • Experimental evolution of Spiroplasma after host shifts
    • Wolbachia phylogenomics
    • Rickettsial symbionts in green lacewings
    • The role of Wolbachia in quill mites
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Publications in peer-reviewed journals

This is a list of peer-reviewed publications which I have authored. For each of the publications, a link to the publisher's website is provided. For full texts, please visit my ResearchGate page. 
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​To find out more about my work, see research or check out my blog. 
2018
18) Bleidorn C,  Gerth M (2018) A critical re-evaluation of multilocus sequence typing (MLST) efforts in Wolbachia. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94:fix163. Link 

2017
17) Gerth M, Wolf R, Bleidorn C, Richter J, Sontowski R, Unrein J, Schlegel M, Gruppe A (2017) Green lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) are commonly associated with a diversity of rickettsial endosymbionts. Zoological Letters 3: 12. Link 
16) Gerth M, Hurst GDD​ (2017) Short reads from honey bee (Apis sp.) sequencing projects reflect microbial associate diversity. PeerJ 5: e3529. Link 
15) Menger J, Gerth M, Unrein J, Henle K, Schlegel M (2017) Isolation and characterization of Polymorphic microsatellite loci from the Rufous-throated Antbird Gymnopithys rufigula (Aves: Thamnophilidae). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129: 407–411. Link

2016
​14) Gerth M, Bleidorn C (2016) Comparative genomics provides a timeframe for Wolbachia evolution and exposes a recent biotin synthesis operon transfer. Nature Microbiology 2: 16241. Link​
13) Gerth M (2016) Classification of Wolbachia (Alphaproteobacteria, Rickettsiales): No evidence for a distinct supergroup in cave spiders. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 43: 378–380. Link 
12) Suh A, Witt CC, Menger J, Sadanandan KR, Podsiadlowski L, Gerth M, Weigert A, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Edwards SV, Rheindt FE (2016) Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes. Nature Communications 7: 11396. Link
​11) Aguado MT, Grande C, Gerth M, Bleidorn C, Norena C (2016) Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genomes from Polycladida (Plathyhelminthes) using next-generation sequencing. Gene 575: 199–205. Link​​
10) Weigert A, Golombek A, Gerth M, Schwarz F, Struck TH, Bleidorn C (2016) Evolution of mitochondrial gene order in Annelida. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94: 196–206. Link​

2015
9) Sontowski R, Bernhard D, Bleidorn C, Schlegel M, Gerth M (2015) Wolbachia distribution in selected beetle taxa characterized by PCR screens and MLST data. Ecology and Evolution 5: 4345–4353. Link ​
8) Kahnt B, Gerth M, Paxton RJ, Bleidorn C, Husemann M (2015) The complete mitochondrial genome of the endemic and highly specialised South African bee species, Rediviva intermixta (Hymenoptera: Melittidae), with a comparison to other bee mitogenomes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 116: 940–953. Link
7) Gerth M, Saaed A, White JA, Bleidorn C (2015) Extensive screen for bacterial endosymbionts reveals taxon specific distribution patterns among bees (Hymenoptera, Anthophila) FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91: fiv047. Link​ 
6) Glowska E, Dragun-Damian A, Dabert M, Gerth M (2015) New Wolbachia supergroups detected in quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae). Infection, Genetics and Evolution 30: 140–146. ​Link​

2014
5) Gerth M, Gansauge M-T, Weigert A and Bleidorn C (2014) Phylogenomic analyses uncover origin and spread of the Wolbachia pandemic. Nature Communications 5: 5117. Link​
4) Kahnt B, Soro A, Kuhlmann M, Gerth M, Paxton RJ (2014) Insights into the biodiversity of the Succulent Karoo hotspot of South Africa: the population genetics of a rare and endemic halictid bee, Patellapis doleritica Conservation Genetics 15: 1491–1502. Link

2013
​3) Gerth M, Röthe J, Bleidorn C (2013) Tracing horizontal Wolbachia movements among bees (Anthophila): a combined approach using MLST data and host phylogeny. Molecular Ecology 22: 6149–6162. Link​
2) Gerth M, Bleidorn C (2013) A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) approach to diminish the problems that are associated with DNA barcoding: A reply to Stahlhut et  al. (2012). Systematics and Biodiversity 11: 15–17.​ Link
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2011
1) Gerth M, Geissler A, Bleidorn C (2011) Wolbachia infections in bees (Anthophila) and possible implications for DNA barcoding. Systematics and Biodiversity 9: 319–327. ​Link

 

Preprints

These can be found on the bioRxiv preprint server. I will update the entry if the article was published with a journal. Comments on preprints are especially welcome!
Bleidorn C, Gerth M (2017) A critical re-evaluation of multilocus sequence typing (MLST) efforts in Wolbachia. bioRxiv 133710. Link. Now published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Gerth M (2016) Classification of Wolbachia (Alphaproteobacteria, Rickettsiales): No evidence for a distinct supergroup in cave spiders. bioRxiv 046169. Link. Now published in Infection, Genetics and Evolution

 

Other publications

The following publications have not undergone peer-review and were published in small, German journals focussed on faunistics. Again, most of the full texts can be found on my ResearchGate page. A link to the publisher's website is provided where available.
Bleidorn C, Gerth M, Hopfe C, May M, Mayer R, Müller M, Rudolph A, Schaffer S, Wolf R, Bernhard D (2016) Die Stechimmenfauna (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) der Halde Trages bei Leipzig. Ampulex 8: 6–15. Link

Weniger R, Bernhard D, Gerth M (2015) Schwebfliegenfunde (Diptera, Syrphidae) vom Bienitz bei Leipzig mit dem Erstnachweis von Melangyna pavlovskyi (Violovitsh, 1956) aus Deutschland. Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 59: 185–192. Link

Gerth M, Mayer R, Hering L, Wolf R, Schaffer S, Bleidorn C (2012) Zur Stechimmenfauna (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) des Bienitz in Leipzig. Ampulex 5: 5–14. Link

Sann M, Gerth M, Venne C, Tiedemann R, Bleidorn C (2010) Molekulare und morphologische Untersuchungen zum Status des Nomada alboguttata (Apiformes) Artkomplexes. Ampulex 2: 65–72. Link

Gerth M, Franke F, Stolle E., Bleidorn C (2010) Ein neuer Nachweis der Goldwespe Chrysis leachii Shuckard (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) in Thüringen mit Anmerkungen zu potentiellen Wirten. Ampulex 2: 61–64. Link

​Helm C, Sametschek T, Gerth M (2010) Nachweis des Edelkrebses Astacus astacus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Crustacea: Decapoda, Astacidae) in der Dahlener Heide (Sachsen). Jahresschrift für Feldherpetologie und Ichtyofaunistik in Sachsen 12: 89–91.
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    • Wolbachia phylogenomics
    • Rickettsial symbionts in green lacewings
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