Publications in peer-reviewed journals
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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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2018
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19) Siozios S, Gerth M, Griffin JS, Hurst GDD (2018) Symbiosis: Wolbachia host shifts in the fast lane. Current Biology 28: R269–R271. Link
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2017
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18) Bleidorn C, Gerth M (2018) A critical re-evaluation of multilocus sequence typing (MLST) efforts in Wolbachia. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94: fix163. Link
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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
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16) Gerth M, Hurst GDD (2017) Short reads from honey bee (Apis sp.) sequencing projects reflect microbial associate diversity. PeerJ 5: e3529. Link
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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
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2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2014
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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
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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
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2013
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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
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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
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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
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Glowska E, Filutowska ZK, Dabert M, Gerth M (2018) Microbial composition of enigmatic bird parasites: Wolbachia and Spiroplasma are the most important bacterial associates of quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae). Link
Sontowski R, Gerth M, Richter S, Gruppe A, Schlegel M, van Dam N, Bleidorn C (2018) Infection patterns and fitness effects of Rickettsia and Sodalis symbionts in the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea. Link
Dencker T, Leimeister C, Gerth M, Bleidorn C, Snir S, Morgenstern B (2018) Multi-SpaM: a Maximum-likelihood approach to phylogeny reconstruction based on multiple spaced-word matches. Link
Leimeister C, Schellhorn J, Schoebel S, Gerth M, Bleidorn C, Morgenstern B (2018) Prot-SpaM: Fast alignment-free phylogeny reconstruction based on whole-proteome sequences. Link
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
Sontowski R, Gerth M, Richter S, Gruppe A, Schlegel M, van Dam N, Bleidorn C (2018) Infection patterns and fitness effects of Rickettsia and Sodalis symbionts in the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea. Link
Dencker T, Leimeister C, Gerth M, Bleidorn C, Snir S, Morgenstern B (2018) Multi-SpaM: a Maximum-likelihood approach to phylogeny reconstruction based on multiple spaced-word matches. Link
Leimeister C, Schellhorn J, Schoebel S, Gerth M, Bleidorn C, Morgenstern B (2018) Prot-SpaM: Fast alignment-free phylogeny reconstruction based on whole-proteome sequences. Link
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.
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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.
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.