Publications of Franziska Beran

Güney, G.; Cedden, D.; Körnig, J.; Ulber, B.; Beran, F.; Scholten, S.; Rostás, M.: Physiological and transcriptional changes associated with obligate aestivation in the cabbage stem flea beetle (Psylliodes chrysocephala). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 173, 104165 (2024)

Letsch, H.; Vukotić, S.; Gottsberger, B.; Friedman, A. L. L.; Wanat, M.; Beran, F.; Fiedler, K.; Riedel, A.: The phylogeny of ceutorhynchine weevils (Ceutorhynchinae, Curculionidae): Mitogenome data improve the resolution of tribal relationships. Systematic Entomology 49 (4), pp. 624 - 634 (2024)

Beran, F.; Heckel, D. G.: Escalation by duplication: Milkweed bug trumps Monarch butterfly. Molecular Ecology 33 (14), e17443 (2024)

Gikonyo, M. W.; Ahn, S.-J.; Biondi, M.; Fritzlar, F.; Okamura, Y.; Vogel, H.; Köllner, T. G.; Şen, I.; Hernández-Teixidor, D.; Lee, C.-F. et al.; Letsch, H.; Beran, F.: A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes. Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, qpad197, pp. 127 - 145 (2024)

Li, Z.; Costamagna, A. C.; Beran, F.: Biology, ecology, and management of flea beetles in Brassica crops. Annual Review of Entomology 69, pp. 199 - 217 (2024)

Körnig, J.; Ortizo, K.; Sporer, T.; Yang, Z.-L.; Beran, F.: Different myrosinases activate sequestered glucosinolates in larvae and adults of the horseradish flea beetle. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 163, 104040 (2023)

Letsch, H.; Beran, F.: Jumping to new hosts: the diversification of flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini) in the context of their host plant associations. Insect Systematics and Diversity 7 (5), pp. 1 - 12 (2023)

Köllner, T. G.; David, A.; Luck, K.; Beran, F.; Kunert, G.; Zhou, J.-J.; Caputi, L.; O’Connor, S. E.: Biosynthesis of iridoid sex pheromones in aphids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (42), e2211254119 (2022)

Jeckel, A. M.; Beran, F.; Züst, T.; Younkin, G.; Petschenka, G.; Pokharel, P.; Dreisbach, D.; Ganal-Vonarburg, S. C.; Robert, C. A. M.: Metabolization and sequestration of plant specialized metabolites in insect herbivores: Current and emerging approaches. Frontiers in Physiology 13, 1001032 (2022)

Yang, Z.-L.; Seitz, F.; Grabe, V.; Nietzsche, S.; Richter, A.; Reichelt, M.; Beutel, R.; Beran, F.: Rapid and selective absorption of plant defense compounds from the gut of a sequestering insect. Frontiers in Physiology 13, 846732 (2022)

Beran, F.; Petschenka, G.: Sequestration of plant defense compounds by insects: From mechanisms to insect–plant coevolution. Annual Review of Entomology 67, pp. 163 - 180 (2022)

Sporer, T.; Körnig, J.; Wielsch, N.; Gebauer-Jung, S.; Reichelt, M.; Hupfer, Y.; Beran, F.: Hijacking the mustard-oil bomb: How a glucosinolate-sequestering flea beetle copes with plant myrosinases. Frontiers in Plant Science 12, 645030 (2021)

Yang, Z.-L.; Nour-Eldin, H. H.; Hänniger, S.; Reichelt, M.; Crocoll, C.; Seitz, F.; Vogel, H.; Beran, F.: Sugar transporters enable a leaf beetle to accumulate plant defense compounds. Nature Communications 12, 2658 (2021)

Shukla, S.; Beran, F.: Gut microbiota degrades toxic isothiocyanates in a flea beetle pest. Molecular Ecology 29 (23), pp. 4692 - 4705 (2020)

Sporer, T.; Körnig, J.; Beran, F.: Ontogenetic differences in the chemical defence of flea beetles influence their predation risk. Functional Ecology 34 (7), pp. 1370 - 1379 (2020)

Chen, J.; Ullah, C.; Reichelt, M.; Beran, F.; Yang, Z.-L.; Gershenzon, J.; Hammerbacher, A.; G. Vassão, D.: The phytopathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum detoxifies plant glucosinolate hydrolysis products via an isothiocyanate hydrolase. Nature Communications 11 (1), 3090 (2020)

Yang, Z.-L.; Kunert, G.; Sporer, T.; Körnig, J.; Beran, F.: Glucosinolate abundance and composition in Brassicaceae influence sequestration in a specialist flea beetle. Journal of Chemical Ecology 46, pp. 186 - 197 (2020)

Ahn, S.-J.; Betzin, F.; Gikonyo, M. W.; Yang, Z.-L.; Köllner, T. G.; Beran, F.: Identification and evolution of glucosinolate sulfatases in a specialist flea beetle. Scientific Reports 9, 15725 (2019)

Beran, F.; Köllner, T. G.; Gershenzon, J.; Tholl, D.: Chemical convergence between plants and insects: biosynthetic origins and functions of common secondary metabolites. New Phytologist 223 (1), pp. 52 - 67 (2019)

Gikonyo, M. W.; Biondi, M.; Beran, F.: Adaptation of flea beetles to Brassicaceae: host plant associations and geographic distribution of Psylliodes Latreille and Phyllotreta Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Zookeys 856, pp. 51 - 73 (2019)