Publications of the Animal Evolutionary Ecology Group

For a complete list see personal pages.

• Armitage SAO, Freiburg, RY, Kurtz J & Bravo IG. (2012) The evolution of Dscam genes across the arthropods. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12: 53

• Armitage SAO, Fernández Marín H, Wcislo WT & Boomsma JJ. (2012) An evaluation of the possible adaptive function of fungal brood covering by attine ants. Accepted in Evolution.

• Armitage SAO, Broch J, Fernández Marín H, Nash DR & Boomsma JJ. (2011) Immune defence in leaf-cutting ants: a cross-fostering approach. Evolution, 65: 1791-1799.

• Boughton RK, Joop G & Armitage SAO. (2011) Outdoor immunology: methodological considerations for ecologists. Functional Ecology, 25: 81-100

• Roth, O., Kurtz J. and Reusch T.B.H. (2010). A summer heat wave decreases the immunocompetence of the mesograzer, Idotea baltica. Marine Biology 157(7), 1605-1611. doi:10.1007/s00227-010-1433-5

• Roth, O., Joop, G., Eggert, H., Hilbert, J., Daniel, J., Schmid-Hempel, P. and Kurtz J. (2010). Paternally derived immune priming for offspring in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Journal of Animal Ecology 79, 403-413. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01617.x, in focus article, press release

• Roth, O. and Kurtz, J. (2009). Phagocytosis mediates specificity in the immune defence of an invertebrate, the woodlouse Porcellia scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda). Dev Comp Immunol 33 (11), 1151-5. doi:10.1016/j.dci.2009.04.005
  

   

• Hammerschmidt, K. and Kurtz, J. (2009). Ecological immunology of a tapeworms' interaction with its two consecutive hosts. Adv. Parasitol. 68, 111-137. doi:10.1016/S0065-308X(08)00605-2

• Roth, O., Sadd, B.M., Schmid-Hempel, P., and Kurtz, J. (2009). Strain-specific priming of resistance in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Proc R Soc B-Biol Sci 276, 145-151. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1157

• Schulenburg, H., Kurtz, J., Moret, Y., and Siva-Jothy, M.T. (2009). Introduction. Ecological immunology. Philos Trans R Soc B-Biol Sci 364, 3-14. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0249

• Roth, O., and Kurtz, J. (2008). The stimulation of immune defence accelerates development in the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum). J Evol Biol 21, 1703-1710. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01584.x

• Kurtz, J. (2007). The correlation between immunocompetence and an ornament trait changes over lifetime in Panorpa vulgaris scorpionflies. Zoology 110, 336-343. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2007.07.001

• Kurtz, J., and Scharsack, J.P. (2007). Resistance is skin-deep: innate immunity may help amphibians to survive a deadly fungus. Anim Conserv 10, 422-424. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2007.00149.x

• Kurtz, J., Kalbe, M., Langefors, S., Mayer, I., Milinski, M., and Hasselquist, D. (2007). An experimental test of the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in a teleost fish: 11-ketotestosterone suppresses innate immunity in three-spined sticklebacks. Am Nat 170, 509-519. doi:10.1086/521316

• Kurtz, J. (2007). Big fleas have little fleas: How discoveries of invertebrate diseases are advancing modern science. Am J Hum Biol 19, 600-601. doi:10.1002/ajhb.20696