Publications of Aram Mikaelyan

Lampert, Niclas, Mikaelyan, Aram and Brune, Andreas: (2019) Diet is not the primary driver of bacterial community structure in the gut of litter-feeding cockroaches, BMC MICROBIOLOGY, 19 (1).

Tokuda, G., Mikaelyan, A., Fukui, C., Matsuura, Y., Watanabe, H., Fujishima, M. and Brune, A.: (2018) Fiber-associated spirochetes are major agents of hemicellulose degradation in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 115 (51), pp. E11996–E12004.

Mikaelyan, A., Thompson, C., Meuser, K., Zheng, H., Rani, P., Plarre, R. and Brune, A.: (2017) High-resolution phylogenetic analysis of Endomicrobia reveals multiple acquisitions of endosymbiotic lineages by termite gut flagellates, Environmental Microbiology Reports, 9 (5), pp. 477–483.

Mikaelyan, Aram, Meuser, Katja and Brune, Andreas: (2017) Microenvironmental heterogeneity of gut compartments drives bacterial community structure in wood-and humus-feeding higher termites, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93 (1).

Strassert, J. F. H., Mikaelyan, A., Woyke, T. and Brune, A.: (2016) Genome analysis of 'Candidatus Ancillula trichonymphae', first representative of a deep-branching clade of Bifidobacteriales, strengthens evidence for convergent evolution in flagellate endosymbionts, Environmental Microbiology Reports, 8 (5 Sp. Iss. SI), pp. 865–873.

Ikeda-Ohtsubo, W., Strassert, J.F.H., Köhler, T., Mikaelyan, A., Gregor, I., McHardy, A.C., Tringe, S., Hugenholtz, P., Radek, R. and Brune, A.: (2016) "Candidatus Adiutrix intracellularis', an endosymbiont of termite gut flagellates, is the first representative of a deep-branching clade of Deltaproteobacteria and a putative homoacetogen, Environmental Microbiology, 18 (8), pp. 2548–2564.

Li, H., Dietrich, C., Zhu, N., Mikaelyan, A., Ma, B., Pi, R., Liu, Y., Yang, M., Brune, A. and Mo, J.: (2016) Age polyethism drives community structure of the bacterial gut microbiota in the fungus-cultivating termite Odontotermes formosanus, Environmental Microbiology, 18 (5), pp. 1440–1451.

Mikaelyan, A., Thompson, C.L., Hofer, M.J. and Brune, A.: (2016) Deterministic Assembly of Complex Bacterial Communities in Guts of Germ-Free Cockroaches, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82 (4), pp. 1256–1263.

Rossmassler, K., Dietrich, C., Thompson, C., Mikaelyan, A., Nonoh, J., Scheffrahn, R., Sillam-Dusses, D. and Brune, A.: (2015) Metagenomic analysis of the microbiota in the highly compartmented hindguts of six wood- or soil-feeding higher termites, Microbiome, 3, November.

Mikaelyan, A., Dietrich, C., Kohler, T., Poulsen, M., Sillam-Dusses, D. and Brune, A.: (2015) Diet is the primary determinant of bacterial community structure in the guts of higher termites, Molecular Ecology, 24 (20), pp. 5284–5295.

Bauer, E., Lampert, N., Mikaelyan, A., Kohler, T., Maekawa, K. and Brune, A.: (2015) Physicochemical conditions, metabolites and community structure of the bacterial microbiota in the gut of wood-feeding cockroaches (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae), FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91 (2).

Mikaelyan, Aram, Köhler, Tim, Lampert, Niclas, Rohland, Jeffrey, Boga, Hamadi, Meuser, Katja and Brune, Andreas: (2015) Classifying the bacterial gut microbiota of termites and cockroaches: A curated phylogenetic reference database (DictDb), Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 38 (7), pp. 472–482.

Mikaelyan, A., Strassert, J., Tokuda, G. and Brune, A.: (2014) The fibre-associated cellulolytic bacterial community in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites (Nasutitermes spp.), Environmental Microbiology, HOBOKEN, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 16 (9 Sp. Iss. SI), pp. 2711–2722.

Otani, S., Mikaelyan, A., Nobre, T., Hansen, L., Kone, N., Sorensen, S., Aanen, D., Boomsma, J., Brune, A. and Poulsen, M.: (2014) Identifying the core microbial community in the gut of fungus-growing termites, Molecular Ecology, HOBOKEN, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 23 (18), pp. 4631–4644.

Thompson, C. L., Mikaelyan, A. and Brune, A.: (2013) Immune-modulating gut symbionts are not "Candidatus Arthromitus", Mucosal Immunology, NEW YORK, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 6 (1), pp. 200–201.

Thompson, C. L., Vier, R., Mikaelyan, A., Wienemann, T. and Brune, A.: (2012) Candidatus Arthromitus' revised: segmented filamentous bacteria in arthropod guts are members of Lachnospiraceae, Environmental Microbiology, HOBOKEN, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 14 (6), pp. 1454–1465.

Mikaelyan, Aram: (2013) Microhabitat specificity of the hindgut microbiota in higher termites, Philipps-Universität Marburg.