Associated Researcher

Dr. Julia Johnke

Institution

Kiel University Zoological Institute

Contact

+49 431 880 4148

jjohnke@zoologie.uni-kiel.de

www.uni-kiel.de/zoologie/evoecogen/johnke/

Research

Molecular basis and evolutionary dynamics of C. elegans-microbiota interactions

The model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is associated with a distinct microbial community under natural conditions. Yet, to date, the role of the worm’s microbiota for

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Publications

2020

Community assembly of the native C. elegans microbiome is influenced by time, substrate and individual bacterial taxa.

Johnke J, Dirksen P, Schulenburg H (2020) Environmental Microbiology 22(4), 1265–1279. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14932

2019

Bdellovibrio and like organisms are predictors of microbiome diversity across diverse host groups.

Johnke J, Fraune S, Bosch TCG, Hentschel U, Schulenburg H (2019) Microbial Ecology DOI: 10.1007/s00248-019-01395-7