Publications of David G. Heckel

Lassance, J. M.; Groot, A. T.; Liénard, M. A.; Binu, A.; Borgwardt, C.; Andersson, F.; Hedenström, E.; Heckel, D. G.; Löfstedt, C.: Allelic variation in a fatty-acyl reductase gene causes divergence in moth sex pheromones. Nature 466, pp. 486 - 489 (2010)

Liu, Z.; Scheirs, J.; Heckel, D. G.: Host plant flowering increases both adult oviposition preference and larval performance of a generalist herbivore. Environmental Entomology 39 (2), pp. 552 - 560 (2010)

Nyabuga, F.; Loxdale, H.D.; Heckel, D. G.; Weisser, W. W.: Spatial population dynamics of a specialist aphid parasitoid, Lysiphlebus hirticornis Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae): evidence for philopatry and restricted dispersal. Heredity 105, pp. 433 - 442 (2010)

Olsson, S.; Kesevan, S.; Groot, A. T.; Dekker, T.; Heckel, D. G.; Hansson, B.: Ostrinia revisited: Evidence for sex linkage in European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner) pheromone reception. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10, 285 (2010)

Papanicolaou, A.; Heckel, D. G.: The GMOD drupal bioinformatic server framework. Bioinformatics 26 (24), pp. 3119 - 3124 (2010)

Pauchet, Y.; Wilkinson, P.; Vogel, H.; Nelson, D.R.; Reynolds, S.E.; Heckel, D. G.; ffrench-Constant, R.H.: Pyrosequencing the Manduca sexta larval midgut transcriptome: messages for digestion, detoxification and defence. Insect Molecular Biology 19 (1), pp. 61 - 75 (2010)

Sehlmeyer, S.; Wang, L.; Langel, D.; Heckel, D. G.; Mohagheghi, H.; Petschenka, G.; Ober, D.: Flavin-dependent monooxygenases as a detoxification mechanism in insects: new insights from the Arctiids (Lepidoptera). PLoS One 5 (5), e10435 (2010)

Tay, W. T.; Behere, G. T.; Batterham, P.; Heckel, D. G.: Generation of microsatellite repeat families by RTE retrotransposons in lepidopteran genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10, 144 (2010)

Vogel, H.; Heidel, A. J.; Heckel, D. G.; Groot, A. T.: Transcriptome analysis of the sex pheromone gland of the noctuid moth Heliothis virescens. BMC Genomics 11, 29 (2010)

Dabrowska, P.; Freitak, D.; Vogel, H.; Heckel, D. G.; Boland, W.: The phytohormone precursor OPDA is isomerized in the insect gut by a single, specific glutathione transferase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (38), pp. 16304 - 16309 (2009)

Freitak, D.; Heckel, D. G.; Vogel, H.: Dietary-dependent trans-generational immune priming in an insect herbivore. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1667), pp. 2617 - 2624 (2009)

Freitak, D.; Heckel, D. G.; Vogel, H.: Bacterial feeding induces changes in immune-related gene expression and has trans-generational impacts in the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni). Frontiers in Zoology 6, 7 (2009)

Hölscher, D.; Shroff, R.; Knop, K.; Gottschaldt, M.; Crecelius, A.; Schneider, B.; Heckel, D. G.; Schubert, U. S.; Svatos, A.: Matrix-free UV-laser desorption/ionization (LDI) mass spectrometric imaging at the single-cell level: Distribution of secondary metabolites of Arabidopsis thaliana and Hypericum species. The Plant Journal 60 (5), pp. 907 - 918 (2009)

Kaiser, T. S.; Heckel, D. G.: Isolation of 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the marine midge Clunio marinus (Chironomidae, Diptera) and their efficient characterization by heteroduplex analysis. Molecular Ecology Resources 9 (1), pp. 195 - 198 (2009)

Liu, Z.-D.; Gong, P.-Y.; Heckel, D. G.; Wei, W.; Sun, J.; Li, D.: Effects of larval host plants on over-wintering physiological dynamics and survival of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Journal of Insect Physiology 55 (1), pp. 1 - 9 (2009)

Papanicolaou, A.; Stierli, R.; ffrench-Constant, R. H.; Heckel, D. G.: Next generation transcriptomes for next generation genomes using est2assembly. BMC Bioinformatics 10, 447 (2009)

Pauchet, Y.; Freitak, D.; Heidel-Fischer, H. M.; Heckel, D. G.; Vogel, H.: Immunity or digestion: glucanase activity in a glucan-binding protein family from lepidoptera. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 284 (4), pp. 2214 - 2224 (2009)

Pauchet, Y.; Muck, A.; Svatos, A.; Heckel, D. G.: Chromatographic and electrophoretic resolution of proteins and protein complexes from the larval midgut microvilli of Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39 (7), pp. 467 - 474 (2009)

Schöfl, G.; Heckel, D. G.; Groot, A. T.: Time-shifted reproductive behaviours among fall armyworm (Noctuidae: Spodoptera frugiperda) host strains: evidence for differing modes of inheritance. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, pp. 1447 - 1459 (2009)

Clark, R.; Brown, S. M.; Collins, S. C.; Jiggins, C. D.; Heckel, D. G.; Vogler, A. P.: Colour pattern specification in the Mocker swallowtail Papilio dardanus: the transcription factor invected is a candidate for the mimicry locus H. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1639), pp. 1181 - 1188 (2008)