Nicole Gerardo, PhD - Publications

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Biology Emory University, Atlanta, GA 

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2024 Schultz TR, Sosa-Calvo J, Kweskin MP, Lloyd MW, Dentinger B, Kooij PW, Vellinga EC, Rehner SA, Rodrigues A, Montoya QV, Fernández-Marín H, Ješovnik A, Niskanen T, Liimatainen K, Leal-Dutra CA, ... ... Gerardo NM, et al. The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture. Science (New York, N.Y.). 386: 105-110. PMID 39361762 DOI: 10.1126/science.adn7179  0.538
2024 Chen JZ, Junker A, Zheng I, Gerardo NM, Vega NM. A strong priority effect in the assembly of a specialized insect-microbe symbiosis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. e0081824. PMID 39291984 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00818-24  0.325
2024 Berasategui A, Salem H, Moller AG, Christopher Y, Vidaurre Montoya Q, Conn C, Read TD, Rodrigues A, Ziemert N, Gerardo N. Genomic insights into the evolution of secondary metabolism of and its allies, specialized fungal symbionts of fungus-farming ants. Msystems. e0057624. PMID 38904377 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00576-24  0.609
2024 Chen JZ, Kwong Z, Gerardo NM, Vega NM. Ecological drift during colonization drives within-host and between-host heterogeneity in an animal-associated symbiont. Plos Biology. 22: e3002304. PMID 38662791 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002304  0.374
2023 Stoy KS, Díaz-Almeyda EM, Bartelt C, Acosta A, Morran LT, Gerardo NM. Host-associated transmission favors transition of a commensal towards antagonism. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 37739788 DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpad173  0.385
2023 Villa SM, Chen JZ, Kwong Z, Acosta A, Vega NM, Gerardo NM. Specialized acquisition behaviors maintain reliable environmental transmission in an insect-microbial mutualism. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 37385254 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.062  0.358
2022 Stoy KS, Chavez J, De Las Casas V, Talla V, Berasategui A, Morran LT, Gerardo NM. Evaluating coevolution in a horizontally transmitted mutualism. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 36622711 DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpac009  0.364
2022 Gotting K, May DS, Sosa-Calvo J, Khadempour L, Francoeur CB, Berasategui A, Thairu MW, Sandstrom S, Carlson CM, Chevrette MG, Pupo MT, Bugni TS, Schultz TR, Johnston JS, Gerardo NM, et al. Genomic diversification of the specialized parasite of the fungus-growing ant symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2213096119. PMID 36508678 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2213096119  0.401
2022 Hoang KL, Choi H, Gerardo NM, Morran LT. Coevolution's conflicting role in the establishment of beneficial associations. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. PMID 35304743 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14472  0.391
2022 Mendiola SY, Stoy KS, DiSalvo S, Wynn CL, Civitello DJ, Gerardo NM. Competitive Exclusion of Phytopathogenic Serratia marcescens from Squash Bug Vectors by the Gut Endosymbiont . Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88: e0155021. PMID 34669447 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01550-21  0.326
2021 Christopher Y, Aguilar C, Gálvez D, Wcislo WT, Gerardo NM, Fernández-Marín H. Interactions among , Antagonistic Microfungi Associated with the Fungus-Growing Ant Symbiosis. Journal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland). 7. PMID 34946990 DOI: 10.3390/jof7121007  0.544
2021 Acevedo TS, Fricker GP, Garcia JR, Alcaide T, Berasategui A, Stoy KS, Gerardo NM. The Importance of Environmentally Acquired Bacterial Symbionts for the Squash Bug (), a Significant Agricultural Pest. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12: 719112. PMID 34671328 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.719112  0.37
2021 Montoya QV, Martiarena MJS, Bizarria R, Gerardo NM, Rodrigues A. Fungi inhabiting attine ant colonies: reassessment of the genus Escovopsis and description of Luteomyces and Sympodiorosea gens. nov. Ima Fungus. 12: 23. PMID 34429165 DOI: 10.1186/s43008-021-00078-8  0.54
2021 Christopher Y, Wcislo WT, Martínez-Luis S, Hughes WOH, Gerardo NM, Fernández-Marín H. Disease management in two sympatric fungus-growing ants for controlling the parasitic fungus . Ecology and Evolution. 11: 6041-6052. PMID 34141201 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7379  0.606
2021 Berasategui A, Moller AG, Weiss B, Beck CW, Bauchiero C, Read TD, Gerardo NM, Salem H. Symbiont genomic features and localization in the bean beetle, . Applied and Environmental Microbiology. PMID 33863703 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00212-21  0.358
2020 Salem H, Kirsch R, Pauchet Y, Berasategui A, Fukumori K, Moriyama M, Cripps M, Windsor D, Fukatsu T, Gerardo NM. Symbiont Digestive Range Reflects Host Plant Breadth in Herbivorous Beetles. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 32502409 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2020.05.043  0.401
2019 Tan WH, Acevedo T, Harris EV, Alcaide TY, Walters JR, Hunter MD, Gerardo NM, de Roode JC. Transcriptomics of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) reveals that toxic host plants alter expression of detoxification genes and down-regulate a small number of immune genes. Molecular Ecology. PMID 31483077 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.15219  0.314
2019 Couret J, Huynh-Griffin L, Antolic-Soban I, Acevedo-Gonzalez TS, Gerardo NM. Even obligate symbioses show signs of ecological contingency: Impacts of symbiosis for an invasive stinkbug are mediated by host plant context. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 9087-9099. PMID 31463006 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5454  0.38
2019 Maravillas KE, Diaz-Almeyda E, Gerardo N. Bacterial Growth in Milpa Polyculture and Monoculture Soils [Emory University] Journal of Student Research. DOI: 10.47611/Jsr.Vi.691  0.317
2018 Tan WH, Reyes ML, Hoang KL, Acevedo T, Leon F, Barbosa JD, Gerardo NM. How symbiosis and ecological context influence the variable expression of transgenerational wing induction upon fungal infection of aphids. Plos One. 13: e0201865. PMID 30365488 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201865  0.326
2017 Gerardo N, Hurst G. Q&A: Friends (but sometimes foes) within: the complex evolutionary ecology of symbioses between host and microbes. Bmc Biology. 15: 126. PMID 29282064 DOI: 10.1186/S12915-017-0455-6  0.464
2017 Birnbaum SSL, Rinker DC, Gerardo NM, Abbot P. Transcriptional profile and differential fitness in a specialist milkweed insect across host plants varying in toxicity. Molecular Ecology. 26: 6742-6761. PMID 29110382 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14401  0.588
2017 Parker BJ, McLean AHC, Hrček J, Gerardo NM, Godfray HCJ. Establishment and maintenance of aphid endosymbionts after horizontal transfer is dependent on host genotype. Biology Letters. 13. PMID 28566541 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0016  0.387
2016 Hoang KL, Morran LT, Gerardo NM. Experimental Evolution as an Underutilized Tool for Studying Beneficial Animal-Microbe Interactions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7: 1444. PMID 27679620 DOI: 10.3389/Fmicb.2016.01444  0.38
2016 Birnbaum SS, Gerardo NM. Patterns of Specificity of the Pathogen Escovopsis across the Fungus-Growing Ant Symbiosis. The American Naturalist. 188: 52-65. PMID 27322121 DOI: 10.1086/686911  0.362
2016 de Man TJ, Stajich JE, Kubicek CP, Teiling C, Chenthamara K, Atanasova L, Druzhinina IS, Levenkova N, Birnbaum SS, Barribeau SM, Bozick BA, Suen G, Currie CR, Gerardo NM. Small genome of the fungus Escovopsis weberi, a specialized disease agent of ant agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 26976598 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1518501113  0.359
2015 Salem H, Florez L, Gerardo N, Kaltenpoth M. An out-of-body experience: the extracellular dimension for the transmission of mutualistic bacteria in insects. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 282: 20142957. PMID 25740892 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.2957  0.499
2015 Searle CL, Ochs JH, Cáceres CE, Chiang SL, Gerardo NM, Hall SR, Duffy MA. Plasticity, not genetic variation, drives infection success of a fungal parasite. Parasitology. 142: 839-48. PMID 25711627 DOI: 10.1017/S0031182015000013  0.327
2014 Gerardo NM, Parker BJ. Mechanisms of symbiont-conferred protection against natural enemies: an ecological and evolutionary framework. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 4: 8-14. PMID 28043411 DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2014.08.002  0.36
2014 Garcia JR, Gerardo NM. The symbiont side of symbiosis: do microbes really benefit? Frontiers in Microbiology. 5: 510. PMID 25309530 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00510  0.357
2014 Parker BJ, Garcia JR, Gerardo NM. Genetic variation in resistance and fecundity tolerance in a natural host-pathogen interaction Evolution. 68: 2421-2429. PMID 24689981 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12418  0.342
2014 Barribeau SM, Parker BJ, Gerardo NM. Exposure to natural pathogens reveals costly aphid response to fungi but not bacteria. Ecology and Evolution. 4: 488-93. PMID 24634732 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.892  0.302
2014 Costopoulos K, Kovacs JL, Kamins A, Gerardo NM. Aphid facultative symbionts reduce survival of the predatory lady beetle Hippodamia convergens Bmc Ecology. 14. PMID 24555501 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-14-5  0.364
2014 Garcia JR, Laughton AM, Malik Z, Parker BJ, Trincot C, S L Chiang S, Chung E, Gerardo NM. Partner associations across sympatric broad-headed bug species and their environmentally acquired bacterial symbionts. Molecular Ecology. 23: 1333-47. PMID 24384031 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12655  0.387
2014 Laughton AM, Fan MH, Gerardo NM. The Combined Effects of Bacterial Symbionts and Aging on Life History Traits in the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80: 470-477. PMID 24185857 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02657-13  0.3
2013 Gerardo NM. The give and take of host-microbe symbioses Cell Host and Microbe. 14: 1-3. PMID 23870305 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2013.07.001  0.353
2013 Parker BJ, Spragg CJ, Altincicek B, Gerardo NM. Symbiont-mediated protection against fungal pathogens in Pea aphids: A role for pathogen specificity Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79: 2455-2458. PMID 23354709 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03193-12  0.337
2012 Barribeau SM, Gerardo NM. An evolutionarily and ecologically focused strategy for genome sequencing efforts Heredity. 108: 577-580. PMID 22126851 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.109  0.309
2011 Gerardo NM, Wilson AC. The power of paired genomes. Molecular Ecology. 20: 2038-40. PMID 21692233 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05103.x  0.578
2011 Laughton AM, Garcia JR, Altincicek B, Strand MR, Gerardo NM. Characterisation of immune responses in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum Journal of Insect Physiology. 57: 830-839. PMID 21439291 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jinsphys.2011.03.015  0.327
2011 Parker BJ, Barribeau SM, Laughton AM, de Roode JC, Gerardo NM. Non-immunological defense in an evolutionary framework Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 26: 242-248. PMID 21435735 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.02.005  0.356
2011 de Roode JC, Rarick RM, Mongue AJ, Gerardo NM, Hunter MD. Aphids indirectly increase virulence and transmission potential of a monarch butterfly parasite by reducing defensive chemistry of a shared food plant. Ecology Letters. 14: 453-61. PMID 21375682 DOI: 10.1111/J.1461-0248.2011.01604.X  0.352
2011 Suen G, Teiling C, Li L, Holt C, Abouheif E, Bornberg-Bauer E, Bouffard P, Caldera EJ, Cash E, Cavanaugh A, Denas O, Elhaik E, Favé MJ, Gadau J, Gibson JD, ... ... Gerardo NM, et al. The genome sequence of the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotes reveals insights into its obligate symbiotic lifestyle. Plos Genetics. 7: e1002007. PMID 21347285 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pgen.1002007  0.386
2011 Cafaro MJ, Poulsen M, Little AE, Price SL, Gerardo NM, Wong B, Stuart AE, Larget B, Abbot P, Currie CR. Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 278: 1814-22. PMID 21106596 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.2118  0.601
2010 Poulsen M, Cafaro MJ, Erhardt DP, Little AE, Gerardo NM, Tebbets B, Klein BS, Currie CR. Variation in Pseudonocardia antibiotic defence helps govern parasite-induced morbidity in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2: 534-540. PMID 22896766 DOI: 10.1111/J.1758-2229.2009.00098.X  0.367
2010 Richards S, Gibbs RA, Gerardo NM, Moran N, Nakabachi A, Stern D, Tagu D, Wilson ACC, Muzny D, Kovar C, Cree A, Chacko J, Chandrabose MN, Dao MD, Dinh HH, et al. Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum Plos Biology. 8. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000313  0.623
2010 Goodrich-Blair H, Ané JM, Bever JD, Bordenstein SR, Bright M, Chaston JM, Clay K, Currie CR, Douglas AE, Gerardo N, Harrison MJ, Ley RE, McFall-Ngai M, Mukherjee A, Rader B, et al. Symbiosis research, technology, and education: Proceedings of the 6th International Symbiosis Society Congress held in Madison Wisconsin, USA, August 2009 Symbiosis. 51: 1-12. DOI: 10.1007/S13199-010-0076-0  0.332
2007 Gerardo NM, Caldera EJ. Labile associations between fungus-growing ant cultivars and their garden pathogens Isme Journal. 1: 373-384. PMID 18043657 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2007.57  0.364
2006 Gerardo NM, Mueller UG, Currie CR. Complex host-pathogen coevolution in the Apterostigma fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 6: 88. PMID 17083733 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-88  0.627
2006 Gerardo NM, Jacobs SR, Currie CR, Mueller UG. Ancient host-pathogen associations maintained by specificity of chemotaxis and antibiosis. Plos Biology. 4: e235. PMID 16805647 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.0040235  0.611
2005 Moran NA, Tran P, Gerardo NM. Symbiosis and insect diversification: an ancient symbiont of sap-feeding insects from the bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71: 8802-10. PMID 16332876 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.71.12.8802-8810.2005  0.582
2005 Mueller UG, Gerardo NM, Aanen DK, Six DL, Schultz TR. The evolution of agriculture in insects Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 36: 563-595. DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Ecolsys.36.102003.152626  0.522
2004 Gerardo NM, Mueller UG, Price SL, Currie CR. Exploiting a mutualism: parasite specialization on cultivars within the fungus-growing ant symbiosis. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 271: 1791-8. PMID 15315894 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2004.2792  0.618
2002 Mueller UG, Gerardo N. Fungus-farming insects: multiple origins and diverse evolutionary histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 15247-9. PMID 12438688 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.242594799  0.585
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