Martha (Molly) S. Hunter

Selected publications

Ravenscraft, A.R., M.W. Thairu, A.K. Hansen, and M.S. Hunter 2020. Continent-scale sampling reveals fine-scale turnover in a beneficial symbiont. In press. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Stouthamer, C.M., S.E. Kelly, E. Mann, S. Schmitz-Esser and M.S. Hunter 2019. Development of a multi-locus sequence typing system helps reveal the evolution of Cardinium hertigii, a reproductive manipulator of insects. BMC Microbiology. 19:266. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1638-9

Doremus, M.R., S.E. Kelly and M.S. Hunter 2019. Exposure to opposing temperature regimes causes comparable effects on Cardinium density but contrasting effects on Cardinium-caused cytoplasmic incompatibility. PLoS Pathogens. 15: e1008022

Bockoven, A.A., E.C. Bondy, M.J. Flores, S.E. Kelly, and M.S. Hunter 2019. What goes up might come down: The spectacular spread of an endosymbiont is followed by its decline a decade later. Microbial Ecology. doi: 10.1007/s00248-019-01417-4

Bondy, E.C., and M.S. Hunter 2019. Determining the egg fertilization rate of Bemisia tabaci using a cytogenetic technique. Journal of Visual Experiments. (146), e59213, doi:10.3791/59213.

Stouthamer, C.M., S.E. Kelly and M.S. Hunter 2018. Enrichment of low-density symbiont DNA from minute insects. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 151:16-19.

Mann, E., C.M. Stouthamer, S.E. Kelly, M.S. Hunter, S. Schmitz-Esser 2017. Transcriptome sequencing reveals novel candidate genes for Cardinium hertigii-caused cytoplasmic incompatibility and host cell interaction. MSystems 2: e00141-17.

Gebiola, M., M. Giorgini, S.E. Kelly, P. Feree, M.S. Hunter 2017. Cytological analysis of cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by Cardinium suggests convergent evolution with its distant cousin Wolbachia. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. 284:20171433.

Gebiola, M., S.E. Kelly, L. Velten, R. Zug, P. Hammerstein, M. Giorgini, M.S. Hunter 2017. Reproductive interference, hybrid sterility and fecundity affect competitive interactions of sibling species with low mating barriers: Experimental and theoretical evidence. Heredity 119: 438-446.

Hunter, M.S., P. Asiimwe, A.G. Himler, S.E. Kelly 2017. Host nuclear genotype influences phenotype of a conditional mutualist symbiont. Journal of Evolutionary Biology DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12993

Gebiola, M., P.A. Pedata, R.C. Johnson, M.M. Monti, J. B. Woolley, M.S. Hunter, and M. Giorgini 2017. Revision of the Encarsia pergandiella species complex (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of whitefly pests. Systematic Entomology DOI: 10.1111/syen.12187

Gebiola, M., J.A. White, B.N. Cass, A. Kozuch, L. R. Harris, S.E. Kelly, M. Giorgini, S.J. Perlman and M.S. Hunter 2016. Cryptic diversity, reproductive isolation and cytoplasmic incompatibility in a classic biological control success story. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society117: 217-230.

Cass, B.N., A.G. Himler, E.C. Bondy, J. Bergen, S.K. Fung, S.E. Kelly and M.S. Hunter 2016. Conditional fitness benefits of the Rickettsia bacterial symbiont in an insect pest. Oecologia 180: 169-179.

Gebiola, M., S.E. Kelly, P. Hammerstein, M. Giorgini, and M.S. Hunter 2016. “Darwin’s corollary” and cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by Cardinium may contribute to speciation in Encarsia wasps (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Evolution. 70: 2447–2458. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13037

Tajebe, L.S., D. Guastella, V. Cavalieri, S.E. Kelly, M.S. Hunter, O.S. Lund, J.P. Legg, and C. Rapisarda 2015. Diversity of symbiotic bacteria associated with Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) in cassava mosaic disease pandemic areas of Tanzania. Annals of Applied Biology 166: 297-310

Cass, B.N., R. Yallouz, E.C. Bondy, N. Mozes-Daube, A.R. Horowitz, S.E. Kelly, E. Zchori-Fein, and M.S. Hunter 2015. Dynamics of the endosymbiont Rickettsia in an insect pest. Microbial Ecology 70: 287-297.