Aram Arshak Mikaelyan

A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of "lower" and "higher" termites

Carrijo, T. F., Engel, M. S., Chouvenc, T., Gile, G. H., Mikaelyan, A., Dedeine, F., … Santos, C. M. D. (2023, August 23). INSECTES SOCIAUX, Vol. 8.

Reevaluating Symbiotic Digestion in Cockroaches: Unveiling the Hindgut's Contribution to Digestion in Wood-Feeding Panesthiinae (Blaberidae)

INSECTS, 14(9).

The use of Beauveria bassiana for the control of the larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus, in stored maize: Semi-field trials in Ghana

Fungal Biology, 8.

Wood fibers are a crucial microhabitat for cellulose- and xylan- degrading bacteria in the hindgut of the wood-feeding beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus

FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 14.

Comparative Efficacy of a Fungal Entomopathogen with a Broad Host Range against Two Human-Associated Pests

INSECTS, 13(9).

Beating Them with Their Own Stick-Tick Uses Amidase of Bacterial Origin as Part of Its Immune Arsenal

Mikaelyan, A. (2021, January 13). CELL HOST & MICROBE, Vol. 29, pp. 1–3.

Genomes of Gut Bacteria from Nasonia Wasps Shed Light on Phylosymbiosis and Microbe-Assisted Hybrid Breakdown

MSYSTEMS, 6(2).

Genomes of gut bacteria from Nasonia wasps shed light on phylosymbiosis and microbe-assisted hybrid breakdown

Cross, K. L., Leigh, B. A., Hatmaker, E. A., Mikaelyan, A., Miller, A. K., & Bordenstein, S. R. (2021, February 14). (Vol. 2). Vol. 2.

The power of poop: Defecation behaviors and social hygiene in insects

PLOS PATHOGENS, 17(10).

Diet is not the primary driver of bacterial community structure in the gut of litter-feeding cockroaches

BMC MICROBIOLOGY, 19(1).

Gut microbial compositions mirror caste-specific diets in a major lineage of social insects

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS, 11(2), 196–205.

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), E11996–E12004.

Finer-Scale Phylosymbiosis: Insights from Insect Viromes

MSYSTEMS, 3(6).

Pycnoscelus surinamensis cockroach gut microbiota respond consistently to a fungal diet without mirroring those of fungus-farming termites.

PloS One.

'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), 2548–2564,

Deterministic Assembly of Complex Bacterial Communities in Guts of Germ-Free Cockroaches.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(4), 1256–1263,

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.

Microenvironmental heterogeneity of gut compartments drives bacterial community structure in wood- and humus-feeding higher termites.

FEMS Microbiology Ecology.

Age polyethism drives community structure of the bacterial gut microbiota in the fungus-cultivating termite Odontotermes formosanus.

Environmental Microbiology.

Classifying the bacterial gut microbiota of termites and cockroaches: A curated phylogenetic reference database (DictDb).

Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 38(7), 472–482.

Diet is the primary determinant of bacterial community structure in the guts of higher termites.

Molecular Ecology, 24(20), 5284–5295.

Metagenomic analysis of the microbiota in the highly compartmented hindguts of six wood- or soil-feeding higher termites.

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Physicochemical conditions, metabolites and community structure of the bacterial microbiota in the gut of wood-feeding cockroaches (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae).

FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91(2), 1–14.

Analysis of Midgut Bacterial Community Structure of Neanthes chilkaensis from Polluted Mudflats of Gorai, Mumbai, India

Identifying the core microbial community in the gut of fungus-growing termites.

Molecular Ecology, 23(18), 4631–4644.

The fibre-associated cellulolytic bacterial community in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites (Nasutitermes spp.)

Environmental Microbiology.

Immune-modulating gut symbionts are not "Candidatus Arthromitus".

Mucosal Immunology, 6(1), 200–201.

'Candidatus Arthromitus' revised: segmented filamentous bacteria in arthropod guts are members of Lachnospiraceae.

Environmental Microbiology, 14(6), 1454–1465.