Aram Mikaelyan

Beza-Beza, C. F., Wiegmann, B. M., Ware, J. A., Petersen, M., Gunter, N., Cole, M. E., … Mikaelyan, A. (2024, March 27). Chewing through challenges: Exploring the evolutionary pathways to wood-feeding in insects. BIOESSAYS, Vol. 3. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202300241

Wilkins, M. R., Rapciak, S. E., Goller, C. C., Weintraub, J., & Mikaelyan, A. (2024). Scaling the wall: overcoming barriers to STEM knowledge mobilization. FRONTIERS IN COMMUNICATION, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1366207

Wang, Y.-H., Mikaelyan, A., Coates, B. S., & Lorenzen, M. (2024). The Genome of <i>Arsenophonus</i> sp. and Its Potential Contribution in the Corn Planthopper, <i>Peregrinus maidis</i>. INSECTS, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15020113

Amanor, G. T., Acheampong, M. A., Luke, B., Smith, D., Ryan, M., Kermode, A., … Mikaelyan, A. (2024, March 22). Viability and virulence of freeze-dried <i>Beauveria bassiana</i>, <i>Metarhizium acridum</i>, and <i>Hirsutella thompsonii</i> isolates under non-refrigerated conditions in Ghana. BIOCONTROL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 3. https://doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2024.2332337

Carrijo, T. F., Engel, M. S., Chouvenc, T., Gile, G. H., Mikaelyan, A., Dedeine, F., … Santos, C. M. D. (2023, August 23). A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of "lower" and "higher" termites. INSECTES SOCIAUX, Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-023-00929-0

Beza-Beza, C. F., Wiegmann, B. M., Ware, J. A., Petersen, M., Gunter, N., Cole, M. E., … Mikaelyan, A. (2023, December 28). Chewing Through Challenges: Exploring the Evolutionary Pathways to Wood-Feeding in Insects. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.27.573094

Schwarz, M., Tokuda, G., Osaki, H., & Mikaelyan, A. (2023). Reevaluating Symbiotic Digestion in Cockroaches: Unveiling the Hindgut's Contribution to Digestion in Wood-Feeding Panesthiinae (Blaberidae). INSECTS, 14(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14090768

Luke, B., Acheampong, M. A., Rangel, D. E. N., Cornelius, E. W., Asante, S. K., Nboyine, J. A., … Mikaelyan, A. (2023). 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, 127(12), 1505–1511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2023.08.004

Schwarz, M., Beza-Beza, C. F. F., & Mikaelyan, A. (2023). 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. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1173696

Ashbrook, A. R., Mikaelyan, A., & Schal, C. (2022). Comparative Efficacy of a Fungal Entomopathogen with a Broad Host Range against Two Human-Associated Pests. INSECTS, 13(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13090774

Mikaelyan, A. (2021, January 13). Beating Them with Their Own Stick-Tick Uses Amidase of Bacterial Origin as Part of Its Immune Arsenal. CELL HOST & MICROBE, Vol. 29, pp. 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2020.12.019

Cross, K. L., Leigh, B. A., Hatmaker, E. A., Mikaelyan, A., Miller, A. K., & Bordenstein, S. R. (2021). Genomes of Gut Bacteria from Nasonia Wasps Shed Light on Phylosymbiosis and Microbe-Assisted Hybrid Breakdown. MSYSTEMS, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.01342-20

Cross, K. L., Leigh, B. A., Hatmaker, E. A., Mikaelyan, A., Miller, A. K., & Bordenstein, S. R. (2021, February 14). Genomes of gut bacteria from Nasonia wasps shed light on phylosymbiosis and microbe-assisted hybrid breakdown (Vol. 2). Vol. 2. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.13.431100

Cole, M. E., Ceja-Navarro, J. A., & Mikaelyan, A. (2021). The power of poop: Defecation behaviors and social hygiene in insects. PLOS PATHOGENS, 17(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009964

Lampert, N., Mikaelyan, A., & Brune, A. (2019). Diet is not the primary driver of bacterial community structure in the gut of litter-feeding cockroaches. BMC MICROBIOLOGY, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1601-9

Otani, S., Zhukova, M., Kone, N. A., Costa, R. R., Mikaelyan, A., Sapountzis, P., & Poulsen, M. (2019). Gut microbial compositions mirror caste-specific diets in a major lineage of social insects. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS, 11(2), 196–205. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12728

Tokuda, G., Mikaelyan, A., Fukui, C., Matsuura, Y., Watanabe, H., Fujishima, M., & Brune, A. (2018). 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. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810550115

Leigh, B. A., Bordenstein, S. R., Brooks, A. W., Mikaelyan, A., & Bordenstein, S. R. (2018). Finer-Scale Phylosymbiosis: Insights from Insect Viromes. MSYSTEMS, 3(6). https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00131-18

Pycnoscelus surinamensis cockroach gut microbiota respond consistently to a fungal diet without mirroring those of fungus-farming termites. (2017). PloS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185745

Ikeda-Ohtsubo, W., Strassert, J. F., Köhler, T., Mikaelyan, A., Gregor, I., McHardy, A. C., … Brune, A. (2016). '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, https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13234

Mikaelyan, A., Thompson, C. L., Hofer, M. J., & Brune, A. (2016). Deterministic Assembly of Complex Bacterial Communities in Guts of Germ-Free Cockroaches. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(4), 1256–1263, https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.03700-15

Strassert, J. F., Mikaelyan, A., Woyke, T., & Brune, A. (2016). 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12451

Microenvironmental heterogeneity of gut compartments drives bacterial community structure in wood- and humus-feeding higher termites. (2016). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw210

Li, H., Dietrich, C., Zhu, N., Mikaelyan, A., Ma, B., Pi, R., … Mo, J. (2015). Age polyethism drives community structure of the bacterial gut microbiota in the fungus-cultivating termite Odontotermes formosanus. Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13046

Mikaelyan, A., Köhler, T., Lampert, N., Rohland, J., Boga, H., Meuser, K., & Brune, A. (2015). Classifying the bacterial gut microbiota of termites and cockroaches: A curated phylogenetic reference database (DictDb). Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 38(7), 472–482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2015.07.004

Mikaelyan, A., Dietrich, C., Köhler, T., Poulsen, M., Sillam-Dussès, D., & Brune, A. (2015). Diet is the primary determinant of bacterial community structure in the guts of higher termites. Molecular Ecology, 24(20), 5284–5295. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13376

Rossmassler, K., Dietrich, C., Thompson, C., Mikaelyan, A., Nonoh, J. O., Scheffrahn, R. H., … Brune, A. (2015). Metagenomic analysis of the microbiota in the highly compartmented hindguts of six wood- or soil-feeding higher termites. 3, 56, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-015-0118-1

Bauer, E., Lampert, N., Mikaelyan, A., Köhler, T., Maekawa, K., & Brune, A. (2015). 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiu028

Analysis of Midgut Bacterial Community Structure of Neanthes chilkaensis from Polluted Mudflats of Gorai, Mumbai, India. (2014). https://doi.org/10.4236/aim.2014.413101

Otani, S., Mikaelyan, A., Nobre, T., Hansen, L. H., Koné, N. A., Sørensen, S. J., … Poulsen, M. (2014). Identifying the core microbial community in the gut of fungus-growing termites. Molecular Ecology, 23(18), 4631–4644. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12874

The fibre-associated cellulolytic bacterial community in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites (Nasutitermes spp.). (2014). Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12425

Thompson, C. L., Mikaelyan, A., & Brune, A. (2013). Immune-modulating gut symbionts are not "Candidatus Arthromitus". Mucosal Immunology, 6(1), 200–201. https://doi.org/10.1038/mi.2012.91

Thompson, C. L., Vier, R., Mikaelyan, A., Wienemann, T., & Brune, A. (2012). 'Candidatus Arthromitus' revised: segmented filamentous bacteria in arthropod guts are members of Lachnospiraceae. Environmental Microbiology, 14(6), 1454–1465. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02731.x