Publications of Andreas Brune

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, 99, March.

Kästle Silva, Joana Maria, Herve, Vincent, Mies, Undine S., Platt, Katja and Brune, Andreas: (2025) A novel lineage of endosymbiotic Actinomycetales genome reduction and acquisition of new functions in Bifidobacteriaceae associated with termite gut flagellates, Environmental Microbiology, Oxford, England, Blackwell Science, 27 (1).

Moreira Salgado, Joao Felipe, Herve, Vincent, Vera, Manuel A. G., Tokuda, Gaku and Brune, Andreas: (2024) Unveiling lignocellulolytic potential: a genomic exploration of bacterial lineages within the termite gut, Microbiome, United Kingdom, BioMed Central, 12 (1).

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).

Nweze, Julius Eyiuche, Šustr, Vladimír, Brune, Andreas and Angel, Roey: (2024) Functional similarity, despite taxonomical divergence in the millipede gut microbiota, points to a common trophic strategy, Microbiome, United Kingdom, BioMed Central, 12, January.

Arora, Jigyasa, Buček, Aleš, Hellemans, Simon, Beránková, Tereza, Arias, Johanna Romero, Fisher, Brian L., Clitheroe, Crystal, Brune, Andreas, Kinjo, Yukihiro, Šobotník, Jan and Bourguignon, Thomas: (2023) Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, London, Royal Society, 290 (2001).

Pavlopoulos, Georgios A., Baltoumas, Fotis A., Liu, Sirui, Selvitopi, Oguz, Camargo, Antonio Pedro, Nayfach, Stephen, Azad, Ariful, Roux, Simon, Call, Lee, Ivanova, Natalia N., Chen, I. Min, Paez-Espino, David, Karatzas, Evangelos, Acinas, Silvia G., Ahlgren, Nathan, Attwood, Graeme, Baldrian, Petr, Berry, Timothy, Bhatnagar, Jennifer M., Bhaya, Devaki, Bidle, Kay D., Blanchard, Jeffrey L., Boyd, Eric S., Bowen, Jennifer L., Bowman, Jeff, Brawley, Susan H., Brodie, Eoin L., Brune, Andreas, Bryant, Donald A., Buchan, Alison, Cadillo-Quiroz, Hinsby, Campbell, Barbara J., Cavicchioli, Ricardo, Chuckran, Peter F., Coleman, Maureen, Crowe, Sean, Colman, Daniel R., Currie, Cameron R., Dangl, Jeff, Delherbe, Nathalie, Denef, Vincent J., Dijkstra, Paul, Distel, Daniel D., Eloe-Fadrosh, Emiley, Fisher, Kirsten, Francis, Christopher, Garoutte, Aaron, Gaudin, Amelie, Gerwick, Lena, Godoy-Vitorino, Filipa, Guerra, Peter, Guo, Jiarong, Habteselassie, Mussie Y., Hallam, Steven J., Hatzenpichler, Roland, Hentschel, Ute, Hess, Matthias, Hirsch, Ann M., Hug, Laura A., Hultman, Jenni, Hunt, Dana E., Huntemann, Marcel, Inskeep, William P., James, Timothy Y., Jansson, Janet, Johnston, Eric R., Kalyuzhnaya, Marina, Kelly, Charlene N., Kelly, Robert M., Klassen, Jonathan L., Nüsslein, Klaus, Kostka, Joel E., Lindow, Steven, Lilleskov, Erik, Lynes, Mackenzie, Mackelprang, Rachel, Martin, Francis M., Mason, Olivia U., McKay, R. Michael, McMahon, Katherine, Mead, David A., Medina, Monica, Meredith, Laura K., Mock, Thomas, Mohn, William W., Moran, Mary Ann, Murray, Alison, Neufeld, Josh D., Neumann, Rebecca, Norton, Jeanette M., Partida-Martinez, Laila P., Pietrasiak, Nicole, Pelletier, Dale, Reddy, T. B. K., Reese, Brandi Kiel, Reichart, Nicholas J., Reiss, Rebecca, Saito, Mak A., Schachtman, Daniel P., Seshadri, Rekha, Shade, Ashley, Sherman, David, Simister, Rachel, Simon, Holly, Stegen, James, Stepanauskas, Ramunas, Sullivan, Matthew, Sumner, Dawn Y., Teeling, Hanno, Thamatrakoln, Kimberlee, Treseder, Kathleen, Tringe, Susannah, Vaishampayan, Parag, Valentine, David L., Waldo, Nicholas B., Waldrop, Mark P., Walsh, David A., Ward, David M., Wilkins, Michael, Whitman, Thea, Woolet, Jamie, Woyke, Tanja, Iliopoulos, Ioannis, Konstantinidis, Konstantinos, Tiedje, James M., Pett-Ridge, Jennifer, Baker, David, Visel, Axel, Ouzounis, Christos A., Ovchinnikov, Sergey, Buluç, Aydin, Kyrpides, Nikos C. and Consortium, Novel Metagenome Protein Families: (2023) Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics, Nature, London, Nature Publishing Group, 622 (7983), pp. 594–602.

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.

Treitli, Sebastian C., Hanousková, Pavla, Beneš, Vladimír, Brune, Andreas, Čepička, Ivan and Hampl, Vladimír: (2023) Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is the key process in the obligately syntrophic consortium of the anaerobic ameba Pelomyxa schiedti, The ISME Journal, Basingstoke, Nature Publishing Group, 17 (11), pp. 1884–1894.

Song, Y., Pfeiffer, F., Radek, R., Hearne, C., Hervé, V. and Brune, A.: (2022) Comparative analysis of Brucepastera parasyntrophica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Teretinema zuelzerae gen. nov., comb. nov. (Treponemataceae) reveals the importance of interspecies hydrogen transfer in the energy metabolism of spirochetes, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 88 (14).

Brune, A., Song, Y., Oren, A. and Paster, B. J.: (2022) A new family for 'termite gut treponemes': description of Breznakiellaceae fam. nov., Gracilinema caldarium gen. nov., comb. nov., Leadbettera azotonutricia gen. nov., comb. nov., Helmutkoenigia isoptericolens gen. nov., comb. nov., and Zuelzera stenostrepta gen. nov., comb. nov., and proposal of Rectinemataceae fam. nov, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Reading, UK, Society for General Microbiology, 72 (5).

Arora, J., Kinjo, Y., Sobotnik, J., Bucek, A., Clitheroe, C., Stiblik, P., Roisin, Y., Zifcakova, L., Park, Y. C., Kim, K. Y., Sillam-Dusses, D., Herve, V., Lo, N., Tokuda, G., Brune, A. and Bourguignon, T.: (2022) The functional evolution of termite gut microbiota, Microbiome, United Kingdom, BioMed Central, 10 (1).

Loh, Hui Qi, Herve, Vincent and Brune, Andreas: (2021) Metabolic potential for reductive acetogenesis and a novel energy-converting [NiFe] hydrogenase in Bathyarchaeia from termite guts - A genome-centric analysis, Frontiers in Microbiology, Lausanne, Frontiers Media, 11, February.

Strassert, Juergen F. H., Wurzbacher, Christian, Herve, Vincent, Antany, Taraha, Brune, Andreas and Radek, Renate: (2021) Long rDNA amplicon sequencing of insect-infecting nephridiophagids reveals their affiliation to the Chytridiomycota and a potential to switch between hosts, Scientific Reports, London, UK, Nature Publishing Group, 11 (1).

Horvathova, Terezia, Sustr, Vladimir, Chronakova, Alica, Semanova, Stanislava, Lang, Kristina, Dietrich, Carsten, Hubacek, Tomas, Ardestani, Masoud M., Lara, Ana C., Brune, Andreas and Simek, Miloslav: (2021) Methanogenesis in the digestive tracts of the tropical millipedes Archispirostreptus gigas (Diplopoda, Spirostreptidae) and Epibolus pulchripes (Diplopoda, Pachybolidae), Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 87 (15).

Nayfach, S., Roux, S., Seshadri, R., Udwary, D., Varghese, N., Schulz, F., Wu, D., Paez-Espino, D., Chen, I. M., Huntemann, M., Palaniappan, K., Ladau, J., Mukherjee, S., Reddy, T. B. K., Nielsen, T., Kirton, E., Faria, J. P., Edirisinghe, J. N., Henry, C. S., Jungbluth, S. P., Chivian, D., Dehal, P., Wood-Charlson, E. M., Arkin, A. P., Tringe, S. G., Visel, A., Abreu, H., Acinas, S. G., Allen, E., Allen, M. A., Alteio, L. V., Andersen, G., Anesio, A. M., Attwood, G., Avila-Magaña, V., Badis, Y., Bailey, J., Baker, B., Baldrian, P., Barton, H. A., Beck, D. A. C., Becraft, E. D., Beller, H. R., Beman, J. M., Bernier-Latmani, R., Berry, T. D., Bertagnolli, A., Bertilsson, S., Bhatnagar, J. M., Bird, J. T., Blanchard, J. L., Blumer-Schuette, S. E., Bohannan, B., Borton, M. A., Brady, A., Brawley, S. H., Brodie, J., Brown, S., Brum, J. R., Brune, A., Bryant, D. A., Buchan, A., Buckley, D. H., Buongiorno, J., Cadillo-Quiroz, H., Caffrey, S. M., Campbell, A. N., Campbell, B., Carr, S., Carroll, J. L., Cary, S. C., Cates, A. M., Cattolico, R. A., Cavicchioli, R., Chistoserdova, L., Coleman, M. L., Constant, P., Conway, J. M., Mac Cormack, W. P., Crowe, S., Crump, B., Currie, C., Daly, R., DeAngelis, K. M., Denef, V., Denman, S. E., Desta, A., Dionisi, H., Dodsworth, J., Dombrowski, N., Donohue, T., Dopson, M., Driscoll, T., Dunfield, P., Dupont, C. L., Dynarski, K. A., Edgcomb, V., Edwards, E. A., Elshahed, M. S., Figueroa, I., Flood, B., Fortney, N., Fortunato, C. S., Francis, C., Gachon, C. M. M., Garcia, S. L., Gazitua, M. C., Gentry, T., Gerwick, L., Gharechahi, J., Girguis, P., Gladden, J., Gradoville, M., Grasby, S. E., Gravuer, K., Grettenberger, C. L., Gruninger, R. J., Guo, J., Habteselassie, M. Y., Hallam, S. J., Hatzenpichler, R., Hausmann, B., Hazen, T. C., Hedlund, B., Henny, C., Herfort, L., Hernandez, M., Hershey, O. S., Hess, M., Hollister, E. B., Hug, L. A., Hunt, D., Jansson, J., Jarett, J., Kadnikov, V. V., Kelly, C., Kelly, R., Kelly, W., Kerfeld, C. A., Kimbrel, J., Klassen, J. L., Konstantinidis, K. T., Lee, L. L., Li, W. J., Loder, A. J., Loy, A., Lozada, M., MacGregor, B., Magnabosco, C., Maria da Silva, A., McKay, R. M., McMahon, K., McSweeney, C. S., Medina, M., Meredith, L., Mizzi, J., Mock, T., Momper, L., Moran, M. A., Morgan-Lang, C., Moser, D., Muyzer, G., Myrold, D., Nash, M., Nesbø, C. L., Neumann, A. P., Neumann, R. B., Noguera, D., Northen, T., Norton, J., Nowinski, B., Nüsslein, K., O’Malley, M. A., Oliveira, R. S., Maia de Oliveira, V., Onstott, T., Osvatic, J., Ouyang, Y., Pachiadaki, M., Parnell, J., Partida-Martinez, L. P., Peay, K. G., Pelletier, D., Peng, X., Pester, M., Pett-Ridge, J., Peura, S., Pjevac, P., Plominsky, A. M., Poehlein, A., Pope, P. B., Ravin, N., Redmond, M. C., Reiss, R., Rich, V., Rinke, C., Rodrigues, J. L. M., Rodriguez-Reillo, W., Rossmassler, K., Sackett, J., Salekdeh, G. H., Saleska, S., Scarborough, M., Schachtman, D., Schadt, C. W., Schrenk, M., Sczyrba, A., Sengupta, A., Setubal, J. C., Shade, A., Sharp, C., Sherman, D. H., Shubenkova, O. V., Sierra-Garcia, I. N., Simister, R., Simon, H., Sjöling, S., Slonczewski, J., Correa de Souza, R. S., Spear, J. R., Stegen, J. C., Stepanauskas, R., Stewart, F., Suen, G., Sullivan, M., Sumner, D., Swan, B. K., Swingley, W., Tarn, J., Taylor, G. T., Teeling, H., Tekere, M., Teske, A., Thomas, T., Thrash, C., Tiedje, J., Ting, C. S., Tully, B., Tyson, G., Ulloa, O., Valentine, D. L., Van Goethem, M. W., VanderGheynst, J., Verbeke, T. J., Vollmers, J., Vuillemin, A., Waldo, N. B., Walsh, D. A., Weimer, B. C., Whitman, T., van der Wielen, P., Wilkins, M., Williams, T. J., Woodcroft, B., Woolet, J., Wrighton, K., Ye, J., Young, E. B., Youssef, N. H., Yu, F. B., Zemskaya, T. I., Ziels, R., Woyke, T., Mouncey, N. J., Ivanova, N. N., Kyrpides, N. C., Eloe-Fadrosh, E. A. and Consortium, Img M. Data: (2021) A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes, Nature Biotechnology, New York, Gale Group Inc., 39 (4), pp. 499–509.

Song, Yulin, Herve, Vincent, Radek, Renate, Pfeiffer, Fabienne, Zheng, Hao and Brune, Andreas: (2021) Characterization and phylogenomic analysis of Breznakiella homolactica gen. nov. sp. nov. indicates that termite gut treponemes evolved from non-acetogenic spirochetes in cockroaches., Environmental Microbiology, Oxford, England, Blackwell Science, 23 (8), pp. 4228–4245.

Feldewert, Christopher, Lang, Kristina and Brune, Andreas: (2020) The hydrogen threshold of obligately methyl-reducing methanogens, FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS, 367 (17).