Publications

13. Mackevicius-Dubickaja V, Gottlieb Y, White JA, and Doremus MR. 2025. Wolbachia feminises a spider host with assistance from co-infecting symbionts. Environmental Microbiology 27: e70149.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70149.

12. Mathieson OL, Schultz DL, Hunter MS, Kleiner M, Schmitz-Esser S, Doremus MR. 2025. The ecology, evolution and physiology of Cardinium: a widespread heritable endosymbiont of invertebrates, FEMS Microbiology Reviews: fuaf031. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuaf031

11. Doremus MR and Hunter MS. 2025. Symbiosis: An escalating arms race between a butterfly and bacterium. Current Biology, 35(9): R339-R341. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.061

10. Doremus MR, Stouthamer CM, Kelly SE, Schmitz-Esser S, Hunter MS. 2022. Quality over quantity: Unraveling the contributions to cytoplasmic incompatibility caused by two coinfecting symbionts. Heredity. 2022; 128:187–195. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-022-00507-3

9. Schultz DL, Selberherr E, Stouthamer CM, Doremus MR, Kelly SE, Hunter MS,   Schmitz-Esser S. 2022. Sex-based de novo transcriptome assemblies of the parasitoid wasp Encarsia suzannae, a host of the manipulative heritable symbiont Cardinium hertigii. Gigabyte. 2022:1-3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.05.502955

8. Doremus MR, Stouthamer CM, Kelly SE, Schmitz-Esser S, Hunter MS. 2020. Cardinium localization during its parasitoid wasp host’s development provides insights into cytoplasmic incompatibility. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:606399. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.606399

7. Doremus MR and Hunter MS. 2020. The Saboteur’s tools: Common mechanistic themes across manipulative symbioses. In: Advances in Insect Physiology: Mechanisms underlying microbial symbioses. 58: 317-353. Ed: Oliver KM and Russell JA. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/bs.aiip.2020.03.003

6. Doremus MR, Kelly SE, Hunter MS. 2019. Exposure to opposing temperature extremes causes comparable effects on Cardinium density but contrasting effects on Cardinium-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility. PLoS Pathogens 15(8):e1008022. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008022

5. Doremus MR, Kim KL, Holder AJ, Russell JA, Oliver KM. 2018. Breakdown of a defensive symbiosis, but not endogenous defenses, at high temperatures. J Molecular Ecology DOI: 10.1111/mec.14399

4. Martinez AJ, Doremus MR, Kim KL, Oliver KM. 2018. Multi-modal defenses in aphids offer redundant protection and increased costs likely impeding a protective mutualism. Journal of Animal Ecology 87(2):464-477. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12675.

3. Doremus MR and Oliver KM. 2017. Aphid heritable symbiont exploits heritable mutualism. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 83:1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03276-16

2. Gebiola M, Giorgini M, Kelly SE, Doremus MR, Ferree PM, Hunter MS. 2017. Cytological analysis of cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by Cardinium suggests convergent evolution with its distant cousin Wolbachia. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, Series B. 284. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1433

1. Martinez AJ, Ritter SG, Doremus MR, Russell JA, Oliver KM. 2014. Aphid-encoded variability in susceptibility to a parasitoid. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-127

Doremus Arthropod-Microbe Symbioses Lab
Email: mdoremus@illinois.edu