Publications of Katja Meuser

Radek, Renate, Hassler, Janneke, Meuser, Katja, Ahmad, Hisar, Fromm, Thomas, Strüder-Kypke, Michaela, Sillam-Dussès, David, Synek, Jiří, Šobotník, Jan, Herve, Vincent and Brune, Andreas: (2025) Phylogeny, morphology, and ultrastructure of sessilid peritrich ciliates in termite guts, Termitophrya africana and Doliophrys denislynni gen. nov., sp. nov., European Journal of Protistology, Elsevier GmbH, March.

Protasov, Evgenii, Reeh, Hanna, Liu, Pengfei, Poehlein, Anja, Platt, Katja, Heimerl, Thomas, Herve, Vincent, Daniel, Rolf and Brune, Andreas: (2024) Genome reduction in novel, obligately methyl-reducing Methanosarcinales isolated from arthropod guts (Methanolapillus gen. nov. and Methanimicrococcus)., FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Amsterdam, Oxford University Press, 100 (9).

Mies, Undine S., Hervé, Vincent, Kropp, Tom, Platt, Katja, David, Sillam-Dussès, Jan, Šobotník and Brune, Andreas: (2024) Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia—rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates, mBio, Washington, DC, American Society for Microbiology, 15 (6).

Protasov, Evgenii, Nonoh, James O., Kästle Silva, Joana Maria, Mies, Undine S., Herve, Vincent, Dietrich, Carsten, Lang, Kristina, Mikulski, Lena, Platt, Katja, Poehlein, Anja, Köhler-Ramm, Tim, Miambi, Edouard, Boga, Hamadi I., Feldewert, Christopher, Ngugi, David K., Plarre, Rudy, Sillam-Dussès, David, Šobotník, Jan, Daniel, Rolf and Brune, Andreas: (2023) Diversity and taxonomic revision of methanogens and other archaea in the intestinal tract of terrestrial arthropods, Frontiers in Microbiology, Lausanne, Frontiers Media, 14.

Radek, Renate, Platt, Katja, Oztas, Deniz, Sobotnik, Jan, Sillam-Dusses, David, Hanus, Robert and Brune, Andreas: (2023) New insights into the coevolutionary history of termites and their gut flagellates: Description of Retractinympha glossotermitis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Retractinymphidae fam. nov.), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Lausanne, Frontiers Media, 11.

Radek, Renate, Meuser, Katja, Altinay, Samet, Lo, Nathan and Brune, Andreas: (2019) Novel Lineages of Oxymonad Flagellates from the Termite Porotermes adamsoni (Stolotermitidae): the Genera Oxynympha and Termitimonas, PROTIST, 170 (6).

Radek, Renate, Meuser, Katja, Strassert, Jürgen F. H., Arslan, Oguzhan, Teßmer, Anika, Šobotník, Jan, Sillam-Dussès, David, Nink, Ricardo A. and Brune, Andreas: (2018) Exclusive Gut Flagellates of Serritermitidae Suggest a Major Transfaunation Event in Lower Termites: Description of Heliconympha glossotermitis gen. nov. spec. nov., Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 65 (1), pp. 77–92.

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).

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.

Zheng, H., Dietrich, C., Thompson, C., Meuser, K. and Brune, A.: (2015) Population Structure of Endomicrobia in Single Host Cells of Termite Gut Flagellates (Trichonympha spp.), Microbes and Environments, 30 (1), pp. 92–98.

Radek, R., Strassert, J., Kruger, J., Meuser, K., Scheffrahn, R. and Brune, A.: (2014) Phylogeny and Ultrastructure of Oxymonas jouteli, a Rostellum-free Species, and Opisthomitus longiflagellatus sp nov., Oxymonadid Flagellates from the Gut of Neotermes jouteli, Protist, JENA, ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG, 165 (3), pp. 384–399.

Wienemann, T., Schmitt-Wagner, D., Meuser, K., Segelbacher, G., Schink, B., Brune, A. and Berthold, P.: (2011) The bacterial microbiota in the ceca of Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) differs between wild and captive birds, Systematic and Applied Microbiology, JENA, ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG, 34 (7), pp. 542–551.

Desai, M. S., Strassert, J. F. H., Meuser, K., Hertel, H., Ikeda-Ohtsubo, W., Radek, R. and Brune, A.: (2010) Strict cospeciation of devescovinid flagellates and Bacteroidales ectosymbionts in the gut of dry-wood termites (Kalotermitidae), Environmental Microbiology, 12 (8), pp. 2120–2132.

Köhler, T., Stingl, U., Meuser, K. and Brune, A.: (2008) Novel lineages of Planctomycetes densely colonize the alkaline gut of soil-feeding termites (Cubitermes spp.), Environmental Microbiology, 10 (5), pp. 1260–1270.