Publications of Katja Meuser

Radek, R.; Hassler, J.; Meuser, K.; Ahmad, H.; Fromm, T.; Strüder-Kypke, M.; Sillam-Dussès, D.; Synek, J.; Šobotník, J.; Herve, V. et al.; Brune, A.: Phylogeny, morphology, and ultrastructure of sessilid peritrich ciliates in termite guts, Termitophrya africana and Doliophrys denislynni gen. nov., sp. nov. European Journal of Protistology 99, 126140 (2025)

Kästle Silva, J. M.; Herve, V.; Mies, U. S.; Platt, K.; Brune, A.: A novel lineage of endosymbiotic Actinomycetales genome reduction and acquisition of new functions in Bifidobacteriaceae associated with termite gut flagellates. Environmental Microbiology 27 (1), e70010 (2025)

Protasov, E.; Reeh, H.; Liu, P.; Poehlein, A.; Platt, K.; Heimerl, T.; Herve, V.; Daniel, R.; Brune, A.: Genome reduction in novel, obligately methyl-reducing Methanosarcinales isolated from arthropod guts (Methanolapillus gen. nov. and Methanimicrococcus). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 100 (9), fiae111 (2024)

Mies, U. S.; Hervé, V.; Kropp, T.; Platt, K.; David, S.-D.; Jan, Š.; Brune, A.: Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia—rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates. mBio 15 (6), e00826-24 (2024)

Protasov, E.; Nonoh, J. O.; Kästle Silva, J. M.; Mies, U. S.; Herve, V.; Dietrich, C.; Lang, K.; Mikulski, L.; Platt, K.; Poehlein, A. et al.; Köhler-Ramm, T.; Miambi, E.; Boga, H. I.; Feldewert, C.; Ngugi, D. K.; Plarre, R.; Sillam-Dussès, D.; Šobotník, J.; Daniel, R.; Brune, A.: Diversity and taxonomic revision of methanogens and other archaea in the intestinal tract of terrestrial arthropods. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1281628 (2023)

Radek, R.; Platt, K.; Oztas, D.; Sobotnik, J.; Sillam-Dusses, D.; Hanus, R.; Brune, A.: 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 11, 1111484 (2023)

Radek, R.; Meuser, K.; Altinay, S.; Lo, N.; Brune, A.: Novel Lineages of Oxymonad Flagellates from the Termite Porotermes adamsoni (Stolotermitidae): the Genera Oxynympha and Termitimonas. PROTIST 170 (6), 125683 (2019)

Radek, R.; Meuser, K.; Strassert, J. F. H.; Arslan, O.; Teßmer, A.; Šobotník, J.; Sillam-Dussès, D.; Nink, R. A.; Brune, A.: 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 65 (1), pp. 77 - 92 (2018)

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

Mikaelyan, A.; Meuser, K.; Brune, A.: Microenvironmental heterogeneity of gut compartments drives bacterial community structure in wood-and humus-feeding higher termites. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93 (1), fiw210 (2017)

Mikaelyan, A.; Köhler, T.; Lampert, N.; Rohland, J.; Boga, H.; Meuser, K.; Brune, A.: Classifying the bacterial gut microbiota of termites and cockroaches: A curated phylogenetic reference database (DictDb). Systematic and Applied Microbiology 38 (7), pp. 472 - 482 (2015)

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

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

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

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

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