List of works by Joachim Kurtz

A Novel Mechanism of Immune Memory Unveiled at the Invertebrate-Parasite Interface

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A multi-faceted approach testing the effects of previous bacterial exposure on resistance and tolerance

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

A temperature shock can lead to trans-generational immune priming in the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum.

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Altered host behaviour: manipulation or energy depletion in tapeworm-infected copepods?

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Alternative adaptive immunity in invertebrates.

scientific article published on 18 September 2006

An experimental approach to the immuno-modulatory basis of host-parasite local adaptation in tapeworm-infected sticklebacks.

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An experimental test of the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in a teleost fish: 11-ketotestosterone suppresses innate immunity in three-spined sticklebacks

scientific article published in August 2007

Comparative Mortality and Adaptation of a Smurf Assay in two Species of Tenebrionid Beetles Exposed to Bacillus thuringiensis

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

Cu,Zn Superoxide Dismutase Genes in Tribolium castaneum: Evolution, Molecular Characterisation, and Gene Expression during Immune Priming

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

DNA preparation and efficient microsatellite analysis from insect hemolymph.

scientific article published in December 1998

Different effects of paternal trans-generational immune priming on survival and immunity in step and genetic offspring.

scientific article published in December 2014

Dissecting the dynamics of trans-generational immune priming

scientific article published in August 2017

Dnmt1 has an essential function despite the absence of CpG DNA methylation in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1: testing for a role in insect immunity, behaviour and reproduction.

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Downregulation of the evolutionary capacitor Hsp90 is mediated by social cues.

scientific article published in November 2015

Dscam and pancrustacean immune memory - a review of the evidence.

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Ecological immunology of a tapeworms' interaction with its two consecutive hosts.

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Effects of environmental variation on host-parasite interaction in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

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Environmental temperature variation influences fitness trade-offs and tolerance in a fish-tapeworm association

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Evolutionary implications of the adaptation to different immune systems in a parasite with a complex life cycle.

scientific article published in December 2005

Excretory products of the cestode, Schistocephalus solidus, modulate in vitro responses of leukocytes from its specific host, the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

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Experimental evolution of external immune defences in the red flour beetle.

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Experimental evolution of immunological specificity

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Gender differences and individual variation in the immune system of the scorpionfly Panorpa vulgaris (Insecta: Mecoptera).

scientific article published in January 2000

Gender differences in phenoloxidase activity of Panorpa vulgaris hemocytes.

scientific article published in July 2001

Genetic variability in the diapause response of the burnet moth Zygaena trifolii (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae).

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Genetic variation in MHC class II expression and interactions with MHC sequence polymorphism in three-spined sticklebacks.

scientific article published in April 2006

Genotype and diet affect resistance, survival, and fecundity but not fecundity tolerance.

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Heat and immunity: an experimental heat wave alters immune functions in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

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Host-Pathogen Coevolution: The Selective Advantage of Bacillus thuringiensis Virulence and Its Cry Toxin Genes

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Host-parasite coevolution-rapid reciprocal adaptation and its genetic basis

scientific article published on 01 July 2016

How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance

scientific article published in 2022

Immune memory in invertebrates

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Immune priming in arthropods: an update focusing on the red flour beetle

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In vitro effects of prostaglandin E2 on leucocytes from sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) infected and not infected with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus

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In vitro effects of the neuroactive substances serotonin and γ-aminobutyric acid on leucocytes from sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

In vitro leukocyte response of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) to helminth parasite antigens.

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Increased survival in the red flour beetle after oral priming with bacteria-conditioned media.

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Infection of Tribolium castaneum with Bacillus thuringiensis: quantification of bacterial replication within cadavers, transmission via cannibalism, and inhibition of spore germination.

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Infection routes matter in population-specific responses of the red flour beetle to the entomopathogen Bacillus thuringiensis

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Infectivity of two nematode parasites, Camallanus lacustris and Anguillicola crassus, in a paratenic host, the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus.

scientific article published in February 2007

Innate defence: evidence for memory in invertebrate immunity.

scientific article published in September 2003

Integrating evolutionary aspects into dual-use discussion: the cases of influenza virus and enterohemorrhagic <i>Escherichia coli</i>

scientific article published in 2021

Introduction. Ecological immunology

scientific article published in January 2009

Juvenile immune status affects the expression of a sexually selected trait in field crickets.

scientific article published in July 2005

Local differences in immunocompetence reflect resistance of sticklebacks against the eye fluke Diplostomum pseudospathaceum

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MHC genes and oxidative stress in sticklebacks: an immuno-ecological approach.

scientific article published in June 2006

Major histocompatibility complex diversity influences parasite resistance and innate immunity in sticklebacks

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Mating System and Sexual Selection in the Scorpionfly Panorpa vulgaris (Mecoptera: Panorpidae)

scientific article published in 1998

Microbiota Plays a Role in Oral Immune Priming in Tribolium castaneum

scientific article published in January 2015

Modulation of granulocyte responses in three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus infected with the tapeworm Schistocephalus solidus

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Oral immune priming with Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum larvae

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

Parasite Selection for Immunogenetic Optimality

scientific article published in Science

Parasite-infected sticklebacks increase the risk-taking behaviour of uninfected group members

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Paternally derived immune priming for offspring in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

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Phagocytosis mediates specificity in the immune defence of an invertebrate, the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda).

scientific article published on 18 May 2009

Population genetic dynamics of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in anthropogenic altered habitats.

scientific article published on June 2012

Quantitative profiling of Drosophila melanogaster Dscam1 isoforms reveals no changes in splicing after bacterial exposure

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Resistance against heterogeneous sequential infections: experimental studies with a tapeworm and its copepod host.

scientific article published in June 2006

Schistocephalus solidus: establishment of tapeworms in sticklebacks--fast food or fast lane?

scientific article published on 11 January 2007

Serial passage in an insect host indicates genetic stability of the human probiotic <i>Escherichia coli</i> Nissle 1917

scientific article published on 11 February 2022

Shifts between cooperation and antagonism driven by individual variation: a systematic synthesis review

scientific article published in 2021

Specificity of oral immune priming in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

scientific article published in December 2017

Strain-specific priming of resistance in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum.

scientific article published in January 2009

Surface carbohydrate composition of a tapeworm in its consecutive intermediate hosts: individual variation and fitness consequences.

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The correlation between immunocompetence and an ornament trait changes over lifetime in Panorpa vulgaris scorpionflies.

scientific article published on 27 August 2007

The hologenome concept: we need to incorporate function

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The red flour beetle as a model for bacterial oral infections

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The stimulation of immune defence accelerates development in the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum).

scientific article published on 18 August 2008

To avoid or eliminate: cestode infections in copepods

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