Publications of Katja Meuser

Mies, U. S.; Zheng, H.; Meuser, K.; Radek, R.; Paczia, N.; Treitli, S. C.; Brune, A.: Comparative genomics of Elusimicrobiaceae (phylum Elusimicrobiota) and description of the isolates Elusimicrobium simillimum sp. nov., Elusimicrobium posterum sp. nov., and Parelusimicrobium proximum gen. nov. sp. nov. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 48 (3), 126606 (2025)

Radek, R.; Hassler, J.; Meuser, K.; Ahmad, H.; Fromm, T.; Strüder-Kypke, M.; Sillam-Dussès, D.; Synek, J.; Šobotník, J.; Herve, V. et al.; Brune, A.: Phylogeny, morphology, and ultrastructure of sessilid peritrich ciliates in termite guts, Termitophrya africana and Doliophrys denislynni gen. nov., sp. nov. European Journal of Protistology 99, 126140 (2025)

Kästle Silva, J. M.; Herve, V.; Mies, U. S.; Platt, K.; Brune, A.: A novel lineage of endosymbiotic Actinomycetales genome reduction and acquisition of new functions in Bifidobacteriaceae associated with termite gut flagellates. Environmental Microbiology 27 (1), e70010 (2025)

Protasov, E.; Reeh, H.; Liu, P.; Poehlein, A.; Platt, K.; Heimerl, T.; Herve, V.; Daniel, R.; Brune, A.: Genome reduction in novel, obligately methyl-reducing Methanosarcinales isolated from arthropod guts (Methanolapillus gen. nov. and Methanimicrococcus). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 100 (9), fiae111 (2024)

Mies, U. S.; Hervé, V.; Kropp, T.; Platt, K.; David, S.-D.; Jan, Š.; Brune, A.: Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia—rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates. mBio 15 (6), e00826-24 (2024)

Protasov, E.; Nonoh, J. O.; Kästle Silva, J. M.; Mies, U. S.; Herve, V.; Dietrich, C.; Lang, K.; Mikulski, L.; Platt, K.; Poehlein, A. et al.; Köhler-Ramm, T.; Miambi, E.; Boga, H. I.; Feldewert, C.; Ngugi, D. K.; Plarre, R.; Sillam-Dussès, D.; Šobotník, J.; Daniel, R.; Brune, A.: Diversity and taxonomic revision of methanogens and other archaea in the intestinal tract of terrestrial arthropods. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1281628 (2023)

Radek, R.; Platt, K.; Oztas, D.; Sobotnik, J.; Sillam-Dusses, D.; Hanus, R.; Brune, A.: New insights into the coevolutionary history of termites and their gut flagellates: Description of Retractinympha glossotermitis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Retractinymphidae fam. nov.). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11, 1111484 (2023)