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Joachim Kurtz
Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Faculty Member: ECOLOGY > Behavioural ecology [ since 26 January 2006 ]
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Evaluations

Massive horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers.
Gladyshev EA, Meselson M, Arkhipova IR
Science 2008 May 30 320(5880):1210-3 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz / Oliver Pybus
Evaluated 2 Jun 2008

cis-Regulatory changes in Kit ligand expression and parallel evolution of pigmentation in sticklebacks and humans.
Miller CT, Beleza S, …, Shriver MD, Kingsley DM
Cell 2007 Dec 14 131(6):1179-89 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz / Darryl Nishimura
Evaluated 4 Jan 2008

Condition-dependent expression of red colour differs between stickleback species.
Boughman JW
J Evol Biol 2007 Jul 20(4):1577-90 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 4 Jan 2008

Not all Panorpa (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) scorpionfly mating systems are characterized by resource defence polygyny.
Missoweit M, Sauer KP
Anim Behav 2007 74:1207-1213 [full text]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 4 Jan 2008

The role of microorganisms in coral health, disease and evolution.
Rosenberg E, Koren O, …, Efrony R, Zilber-Rosenberg I
Nat Rev Microbiol 2007 May 5(5):355-62 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 4 Jan 2008

Wood ants use resin to protect themselves against pathogens.
Chapuisat M, Oppliger A, Magliano P, Christe P
Proc Biol Sci 2007 Aug 22 274(1621):2013-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 9 Aug 2007

Immune-like phagocyte activity in the social amoeba.
Chen G, Zhuchenko O, Kuspa A
Science 2007 Aug 3 317(5838):678-81 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz / Etienne Joly / Richard Gomer
Evaluated 9 Aug 2007

Host immune system gene targeting by a viral miRNA.
Stern-Ginossar N, Elefant N, …, Margalit H, Mandelboim O
Science 2007 Jul 20 317(5836):376-81 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Sabine Müller / David Leib / Arthur Hurwitz / Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 9 Aug 2007

A specific primed immune response in Drosophila is dependent on phagocytes.
Pham LN, Dionne MS, Shirasu-Hiza M, Schneider DS
PLoS Pathog 2007 Mar 3(3):e26 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Kenneth Vernick / Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 29 Mar 2007


Drosophila eiger mutants are sensitive to extracellular pathogens.
Schneider DS, Ayres JS, …, Pham LN, Shirasu-Hiza MM
PLoS Pathog 2007 Mar 3(3):e41 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 29 Mar 2007

CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes.
Barrangou R, Fremaux C, …, Romero DA, Horvath P
Science 2007 Mar 23 315(5819):1709-12 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz / Julian Parkhill / Judy Wall
Evaluated 27 Mar 2007

Host life span and the evolution of resistance characteristics.
Miller MR, White A, Boots M
Evolution Int J Org Evolution 2007 Jan 61(1):2-14 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 27 Mar 2007

Psidin is required in Drosophila blood cells for both phagocytic degradation and immune activation of the fat body.
Brennan CA, Delaney JR, Schneider DS, Anderson KV
Curr Biol 2007 Jan 9 17(1):67-72 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 17 Jan 2007

Testosterone and oxidative stress: the oxidation handicap hypothesis.
Alonso-Alvarez C, Bertrand S, …, Chastel O, Sorci G
Proc Biol Sci 2007 Mar 22 274(1611):819-25 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 16 Jan 2007

Climate change affects marine fishes through the oxygen limitation of thermal tolerance.
Pörtner HO, Knust R
Science 2007 Jan 5 315(5808):95-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz / Ary Hoffmann / James Hicks
Evaluated 12 Jan 2007

Antigen-receptor genes of the agnathan lamprey are assembled by a process involving copy choice.
Nagawa F, Kishishita N, …, Otsuka AJ, Sakano H
Nat Immunol 2007 Feb 8(2):206-13 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 10 Jan 2007

Self-harm caused by an insect's innate immunity.
Sadd BM, Siva-Jothy MT
Proc Biol Sci 2006 Oct 7 273(1600):2571-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 2 Jan 2007

Transgeneration memory of stress in plants.
Molinier J, Ries G, Zipfel C, Hohn B
Nature 2006 Aug 31 442(7106):1046-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Andy Maule / Joachim Kurtz / Michael Thomashow / Elizabeth Dennis / JS Heslop-Harrison / Sandra Knapp / Joachim Messing
Evaluated 17 Aug 2006

Unexpected diversity displayed in cDNAs expressed by the immune cells of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.
Terwilliger DP, Buckley KM, …, Moorjani PG, Smith LC
Physiol Genomics 2006 Jul 12 26(2):134-44 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 17 Aug 2006

AgDscam, a hypervariable immunoglobulin domain-containing receptor of the Anopheles gambiae innate immune system.
Dong Y, Taylor HE, Dimopoulos G
PLoS Biol 2006 Jun 4(7):e229 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Kenneth Vernick / Joachim Kurtz / Richard Willson / Michael Gold
Evaluated 28 Jun 2006

Insect immunity shows specificity in protection upon secondary pathogen exposure.
Sadd BM, Schmid-Hempel P
Curr Biol 2006 Jun 20 16(12):1206-10 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 23 Jun 2006

Intensity of sexual selection along the anisogamy-isogamy continuum.
Bjork A, Pitnick S
Nature 2006 Jun 8 441(7094):742-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz / Suzanne Alonzo
Evaluated 15 Jun 2006

The molecular diversity of Dscam is functionally required for neuronal wiring specificity in Drosophila.
Chen BE, Kondo M, …, Lamar DR, Schmucker D
Cell 2006 May 5 125(3):607-20 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Ken Irvine / Joachim Kurtz / Silvia Arber
Evaluated 18 May 2006

T cell- and B cell-independent adaptive immunity mediated by natural killer cells.
O'Leary JG, Goodarzi M, Drayton DL, von Andrian UH
Nat Immunol 2006 May 7(5):507-16 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Caetano Reis e Sousa / Eric Vivier / Kenneth Tung / Joachim Kurtz / Mercedes Rincon / Michael Gold
Evaluated 8 May 2006

Transitions to asexuality result in excess amino acid substitutions.
Paland S, Lynch M
Science 2006 Feb 17 311(5763):990-2 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz / Molly Przeworski / Rafael Zardoya
Evaluated 27 Feb 2006

Sexually selected signals are not similar to sports handicaps.
Getty T
Trends Ecol Evol 2006 Feb 21(2):83-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 27 Feb 2006

MHC peptides and the sensory evaluation of genotype.
Boehm T, Zufall F
Trends Neurosci 2006 Feb 29(2):100-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 14 Feb 2006

Extensive diversity of Ig-superfamily proteins in the immune system of insects.
Watson FL, Püttmann-Holgado R, …, Rebel VI, Schmucker D
Science 2005 Sep 16 309(5742):1874-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Vincent Ling / Siegfried Roth / Carl Thummel / Joachim Kurtz
Evaluated 14 Feb 2006

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