EVA 4.0

Subproject 2 (Biology – Termites)

2024

Khara, A., Chakraborty, A., Modlinger, R., Synek, J., & Roy, A. (2024). Comparative metagenomic study unveils new insights on bacterial communities in two pine-feeding Ips beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Frontiers in Microbiology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1400894
Pastierovič, F., Kalyniukova, A., Hradecký, J., Dvořák, O., Vítámvás, J., Mogilicherla, K., & Tomášková, I. (2024). Biochemical Responses in Populus tremula: Defending against Sucking and Leaf-Chewing Insect Herbivores. Plants, 13(9), 1243. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13091243
Pastierovič, F., Mogilicherla, K., Hradecký, J., Kalyniukova, A., Dvořák, O., Roy, A., & Tomášková, I. (2024). Genome-Wide Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Analyses Unveiling the Defence Mechanisms of Populus tremula against Sucking and Chewing Insect Herbivores. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(11), 6124. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25116124
Sellamuthu, G., Chakraborty, A., Vetukuri, R. R., Sarath, S., & Roy, A. (2024). RNAi-biofungicides: a quantum leap for tree fungal pathogen management. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/07388551.2024.2430478
Wu, J., Tang, W., Li, Z., Chakraborty, A., Zhou, C., Li, F., & He, S. (2024). Duplications and Losses of the Detoxification Enzyme Glycosyltransferase 1 Are Related to Insect Adaptations to Plant Feeding. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(11), 6080. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25116080
Zádrapová, D., Chakraborty, A., Žáček, P., Korecký, J., Bhar, A., & Roy, A. (2024). Exploring the Rhizospheric Microbial Communities under Long-Term Precipitation Regime in Norway Spruce Seed Orchard. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(17), 9658. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25179658

2023

Bhar, A., Chakraborty, A., & Roy, A. (2023). The captivating role of calcium in plant-microbe interaction. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1138252
Chakraborty, A., Purohit, A., Khara, A., Modlinger, R., & Roy, A. (2023). Life-stage and geographic location determine the microbial assemblage in Eurasian spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus L. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1176160
Chakraborty, A., Šobotník, J., Votýpková, K., Hradecký, J., Stiblik, P., Synek, J., Bourguignon, T., Baldrian, P., Engel, M. S., Novotný, V., Odriozola, I., & Větrovský, T. (2023). Impact of Wood Age on Termite Microbial Assemblages. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 89(5). https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00361-23
Chakraborty, A., Zádrapová, D., Dvořák, J., Faltinová, Z., Žáček, P., Cajthaml, T., Korecký, J., & Roy, A. (2023). Impact of 30 years precipitation regime differences on forest soil physiology and microbial assemblages. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1142979
Farinha, A. O., Branco, M., Courtin, C., Lesieur, V., Gallego, D., Sanchez-Garcia, F. J., Sousa, E., Roques, A., Auger-Rozenberg, M.-A., & Bras, A. (2023). Another Chapter in the History of the European Invasion by the Western Conifer Seed Bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis: The Iberian Peninsula. Diversity, 15(1), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15010064
González Plaza, J. J., & Hradecký, J. (2023). The tropical cookbook: Termite diet and phylogenetics—Over geographical origin—Drive the microbiome and functional genetic structure of nests. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1089525
He, S., Chakraborty, A., Li, F., Zhou, C., Zhang, B., Chen, B., & Jiang, B. (2023). Genome-wide identification reveals conserved carbohydrate-active enzyme repertoire in termites. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1240804
Johny, J., Diallo, S., Lukšan, O., Shewale, M., Kalinová, B., Hanus, R., & Große-Wilde, E. (2023). Conserved orthology in termite chemosensory gene families. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1065947
Kajla, M., Roy, A., Singh, I. K., & Singh, A. (2023). Regulation of the regulators: Transcription factors controlling biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites during biotic stresses and their regulation by miRNAs. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1126567
Macháček, S., Tupec, M., Horáček, N., Halmová, M., Roy, A., Machara, A., Kyjaková, P., Lukšan, O., Pichová, I., & Hanus, R. (2023). Evolution of Linoleic Acid Biosynthesis Paved the Way for Ecological Success of Termites. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad087
Mogilicherla, K., & Roy, A. (2023a). Epigenetic regulations as drivers of insecticide resistance and resilience to climate change in arthropod pests. Frontiers in Genetics, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.1044980
Mogilicherla, K., & Roy, A. (2023b). RNAi-chitosan biopesticides for managing forest insect pests: an outlook. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1219685
Naidu, S., Pandey, J., Mishra, L. C., Chakraborty, A., Roy, A., Singh, I. K., & Singh, A. (2023). Silicon nanoparticles: Synthesis, uptake and their role in mitigation of biotic stress. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 255, 114783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.114783
Sandal, S., Singh, S., Bansal, G., Kaur, R., Mogilicherla, K., Pandher, S., Roy, A., Kaur, G., Rathore, P., & Kalia, A. (2023). Nanoparticle-Shielded dsRNA Delivery for Enhancing RNAi Efficiency in Cotton Spotted Bollworm Earias vittella (Lepidoptera: Nolidae). International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(11), 9161. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24119161
Sillam-Dusses, D., Jandák, V., Stiblik, P., Delattre, O., Chouvenc, T., Balvín, O., Cvačka, J., Soulet, D., Synek, J., Brothánek, M., Jiříček, O., Engel, M. S., Bourguignon, T., & Šobotník, J. (2023). Alarm communication predates eusociality in termites. Communications Biology, 6(1), 83. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04438-5

Bhar, A., Chakraborty, A., & Roy, A. (2022). Plant responses to biotic stress: Old memories matter. Plants, 11(1), 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11010084
Bourguignon, T., Dahlsjö, C. A. L., Salim, K. A., & Evans, T. A. (2018). Termite diversity and species composition in heath forests, mixed dipterocarp forests, and pristine and selectively logged tropical peat swamp forests in Brunei. Insectes Sociaux, 65(3), 439–444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-018-0630-y
Bourguignon, T., Lo, N., Dietrich, C., Šobotník, J., Sidek, S., Roisin, Y., Brune, A., & Evans, T. A. (2018). Rampant Host Switching Shaped the Termite Gut Microbiome. Current Biology, 28(4), 649-654.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.035
Bras, A., Roy, A., Heckel, D. G., Anderson, P., & Karlsson Green, K. (2022). Pesticide resistance in arthropods: Ecology matters too. Ecology Letters, 25(8), 1746–1759. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14030
Bucek, A., Šobotník, J., He, S., Shi, M., McMahon, D. P., Holmes, E. C., Roisin, Y., Lo, N., & Bourguignon, T. (2019). Evolution of Termite Symbiosis Informed by Transcriptome-Based Phylogenies. Current Biology, 29(21), 3728-3734.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.076
Chakraborty, A., Ashraf, M. Z., Modlinger, R., Synek, J., Schlyter, F., & Roy, A. (2020). Unravelling the gut bacteriome of Ips (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae): identifying core bacterial assemblage and their ecological relevance. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 18572. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75203-5
Chakraborty, A., Modlinger, R., Ashraf, M. Z., Synek, J., Schlyter, F., & Roy, A. (2020). Core Mycobiome and Their Ecological Relevance in the Gut of Five Ips Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.568853
Chakraborty, D., Dobor, L., Zolles, A., Hlásny, T., & Schueler, S. (2021). High-resolution gridded climate data for Europe based on bias-corrected EURO-CORDEX: The ECLIPS dataset. Geoscience Data Journal, 8(2), 121–131. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.110
Chakraborty, D., Móricz, N., Rasztovits, E., Dobor, L., & Schueler, S. (2021). Provisioning forest and conservation science with high-resolution maps of potential distribution of major European tree species under climate change. Annals of Forest Science, 78(2), 26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-021-01029-4
González Plaza, J. J. (2020). Small RNAs as Fundamental Players in the Transference of Information During Bacterial Infectious Diseases. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2020.00101
He, S., Sieksmeyer, T., Che, Y., Mora, M. A. E., Stiblik, P., Banasiak, R., Harrison, M. C., Šobotník, J., Wang, Z., Johnston, P. R., & McMahon, D. P. (2021). Evidence for reduced immune gene diversity and activity during the evolution of termites. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1945), 20203168. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.3168
Hervé, V., Liu, P., Dietrich, C., Sillam-Dusses, D., Stiblik, P., Šobotník, J., & Brune, A. (2020). Phylogenomic analysis of 589 metagenome-assembled genomes encompassing all major prokaryotic lineages from the gut of higher termites. PeerJ, 2020(2), e8614. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8614
Palma-Onetto, V., Pflegerová, J., Plarre, R., Synek, J., Cvačka, J., Sillam-Dusses, D., & Šobotník, J. (2019). The labral gland in termites: Evolution and function. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 126(3), 587–597. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly212
Sellamuthu, G., Bílý, J., Joga, M. R., Synek, J., & Roy, A. (2022). Identifying optimal reference genes for gene expression studies in Eurasian spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Scientific Reports, 12(1), 4671. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08434-3
Sen, M. K., Hamouzová, K., Košnarová, P., Roy, A., & Soukup, J. (2021). Identification of the most suitable reference gene for gene expression studies with development and abiotic stress response in Bromus sterilis. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 13393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92780-1
Sillam-Dusses, D., Hradecký, J., Stiblik, P., da Cunha, H. F., Carrijo, T. F., Lacey, M. J., Bourguignon, T., & Šobotník, J. (2021). The trail-following pheromone of the termite Serritermes serrifer. Chemoecology, 31(1), 11–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-020-00324-2
Singh, A., Mehta, S., Yadav, S., Nagar, G., Ghosh, R., Roy, A., Chakraborty, A., & Singh, I. K. (2022). How to Cope with the Challenges of Environmental Stresses in the Era of Global Climate Change: An Update on ROS Stave off in Plants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(4), 1995. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23041995
Singh, S., Singh, A., Baweja, V., Roy, A., Chakraborty, A., & Singh, I. K. (2021). Molecular rationale of insect-microbes symbiosis—from insect behaviour to mechanism. Microorganisms, 9(12), 2422. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9122422
Soukup, P., Větrovský, T., Stiblik, P., Votýpková, K., Chakraborty, A., Sillam-Dusses, D., Kolařík, M., Odriozola, I., Lo, N., Baldrian, P., Šobotník, J., & Bourguignone, T. (2021). Termites Are Associated with External Species-Speci?c Bacterial Communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 87(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02042-20
Stiblik, P., Akama, P. D., & Šobotník, J. (2021). Complete mitochondrial genome of the drywood termite Cryptotermes havilandi (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources, 6(2), 533–535. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2021.1873710
Taerum, S. J., Jasso-Selles, D. E., Wilson, M., Ware, J. L., Sillam-Dusses, D., Šobotník, J., & Gile, G. H. (2019). Molecular Identity of Holomastigotes (Spirotrichonymphea, Parabasalia) with Descriptions of Holomastigotes flavipes n. sp. and Holomastigotes tibialis n. sp. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 66(6), 882–891. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12739
Yadav, M., Pandey, J., Chakraborty, A., Hassan, M. I., Kundu, J. K., Roy, A., Singh, I. K., & Singh, A. (2022). A Comprehensive Analysis of Calmodulin-Like Proteins of Glycine max Indicates Their Role in Calcium Signaling and Plant Defense Against Insect Attack. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.817950