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Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune. Research Area. Termite guts are tiny bioreactors converting lignocellulose to microbial fermentation products that fuel the metabolism of the host. My research group studies the role of the gut microbiota in the symbiotic digestion of wood, focusing on the structure and functions of the gut microbiome, the biology of ...
Dept. of Biogeochemistry. Germany. Position. Group Leader. Publications (299) Characterization and phylogenomic analysis of Breznakiella homolactica gen. nov. sp. nov. indicate that termite...
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology - Cited by 16,760 - Microbiology - Microbial Ecology - Termites - Microbiome - Symbiosis
Prof. Dr. Andreas Brune. Research Group Leader. FG Brune. +49 6421 178 101. brune@... A.0.06. Curriculum Vitae. Andreas Brune (born 1960) Diplom (Biology), Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1986. Dr. rer. nat. (Microbiology), Universität Tübingen, 1990. Postdoc, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1991–1993.
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Protasov, E., Nonoh, J.O., Kästle Silva, J.M., Mies, U.S., Hervé, V., Dietrich, C., Lang, K., Mikulski, L., Platt, K., Poehlein, A., Köhler-Ramm, T., Miambi, E., Boga, H.I., Feldewert, C., Ngugi, D...
1. Diversity and taxonomic revision of methanogens and other archaea in the intestinal tract of terrestrial arthropods. Front. Microbiol. 14: 1281628.(Online)
Treitli, S.C., Hanousková, P., Beneš, V., Brune, A., Cepicka, I., Hampl, V.(2023)
1. Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is the key process in the obligately syntrophic consortium of the anaerobic ameba Pelomyxa schiedti. ISME J. 17: 1884–1894.(Online)
Arora, J., Bucek, A., Hellemans, S., Beránková, T., Romero Arias, J., Fisher, B.L., Clitheroe, C., Brune, A., Kinjo, Y., Šobotník, J., Bourguignon, T.(2023)
1. Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale. Proc. R. Soc. B. 290: 20230619.(Online)
Song, Y., Pfeiffer, F., Radek, R., Hearne, C., Hervé, V., Brune, A.(2022)
1. Comparative analysis of Brucepastera parasyntrophica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Teretinema zuelzerae gen. nov., comb. nov. (Treponemataceae) reveals the importance of interspecies hydrogen transfer in the energy metabolism of spirochetes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 88: e00503-22. (Online)
Brune, A., Song, Y., Oren, A., Paster, B.J.(2022)
1. A new family for 'termite gut treponemes': Description of Breznakiellaceae fam. nov., Gracilinema caldarium gen. nov., comb. nov., Leadbettera azotonutricia gen. nov., comb. nov., Helmutkoenigia isoptericolens gen. nov., comb. nov., and Zuelzera stenostrepta gen. nov., comb. nov., and proposal of Rectinemataceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 72: 5439.(Online)
Arora, J., Kinjo, Y., Šobotník, J., Bucek, A., Clitheroe, C., Stiblik, P., Roisin, Y., Žifcáková, L., Park, Y.C., Kim, K.Y., Sillam-Dussès, D., Hervé, V., Lo, N., Tokuda, G., Brune, A., Bourguignon...
1. The functional evolution of termite gut microbiota. Microbiome 10: 78.(Online)
Song, Y., Hervé, V., Radek, R., Pfeiffer, F., Zheng, H., Brune, A.(2021)
1. Characterization and phylogenomic analysis of Breznakiella homolactica gen. nov. sp. nov. indicates that termite gut treponemes evolved from non-acetogenic spirochetes in cockroaches. Environ. Microbiol. 23: 4228–4245.(Online)
Horváthová, T., Šustr, V., Chroňáková, A., Semanová, S., Lang, K., Dietrich, C., Hubáček, T., Ardestani, M., Lara, A., Brune, A., Šimek, M.(2021)
1. Methanogenesis in the digestive tract of the tropical millipedes Archispirostreptus gigas (Diplopoda, Spirostreptidae) and Epibolus pulchripes (Diplopoda, Pachybolidae). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 87: e00614–21.(Online)
Loh, H.Q., Hervé, V., Brune, A.(2021)
1. Metabolic potential for reductive acetogenesis and a novel energy-converting [NiFe] hydrogenase in Bathyarchaeia from termite guts – a genome-centric analysis. Front. Microbiol. 11: 3644.(Online)
Feldewert, C., Lang, K., Brune, A.(2020)
1. The hydrogen threshold of obligately methyl-reducing methanogens. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 367: fnaa137.(Online)
Hervé, V., Liu, P., Dietrich, C., Sillam-Dussès, D., Stiblik, P., Šobotník, J., Brune, A. (2020)
1. Phylogenomic analysis of 589 metagenome-assembled genomes encompassing all major prokaryotic lineages from the gut of higher termites. PeerJ 8: e8614.(Online)
Michaud, C., Hervé, V., Dupont, S., Dubreuil, G., Bézier, A.M., Meunier, J., Brune, A., Dedeine, F. (2020)
1. Efficient but occasionally imperfect vertical transmission of gut mutualistic protists in a wood-feeding termite. Mol. Ecol. 29: 308–324.(Online)
Brune, A.(2019)
1. Methanogenesis in the digestive tracts of insects and other arthropods. In: Biogenesis of Hydrocarbons (Book series: Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology) (Stams, A.J.M., Sousa, D., eds.). Springer, Cham, pp. 229–260. (Online)
Frouz, J., Lin, Q., Li, X., Abakumov, E., Brune, A., Sustr, V.(2019)
1. Utilization of dietary protein in the litter-dwelling larva of Bibio marci (Diptera: Bibionidae). Eurasian Soil Sc. 52: 1583–1587. (Online)
Lampert, N., Mikaelyan, A., Brune, A.(2019)
1. Diet is not the primary driver of bacterial community structure in the gut of litter-feeding cockroaches. BMC Microbiol. 19: 238. (Online)
Bourguignon, T., Lo, N., Dietrich, C., Šobotník, J., Sidek, S., Roisin, Y., Brune, A., Evans, T.A.(2018)
1. Rampant host-switching shaped the termite gut microbiome. Curr. Biol. 28: 649–654.e2. (Online)
Brune, A.(2018)
1. Methanogens in the digestive tract of termites. In: (Endo)symbiotic Methanogenic Archaea, 2nd edn. Microbiology Monographs, vol. 19 (J.H.P. Hackstein, ed.). Springer, Cham, pp. 81–101. (Online)
Brune, A.(2018)
1. Phylum Elusimicrobia. In: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (W. B. Whitman, F. Rainey, P. Kämpfer, M. Trujillo, J. Chun, P. DeVos, B. Hedlund and S. Dedysh, eds.). Wiley Online Library. (Online)
Brune, A.(2017)
1. Ectosymbiotic Endomicrobia – a transition stage towards intracellular symbionts? Environ. Microbiol. Rep. 9: 474–476.(Online)
Hervé, V., Brune, A.(2017)
1. The complete mitochondrial genomes of the higher termites Labiotermes labralis and Embiratermes neotenicus (Termitidae: Syntermitinae). Mitochondr. DNA Part B 2: 109–110.(Online)
Mikaelyan, A., Meuser, K., Brune, A.(2017)
1. Microenvironmental heterogeneity of gut compartments drives bacterial community structure in wood- and humus-feeding higher termites. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 93: fiw20.(Online)
Brune, A.(2016)
1. Co-evolution of marine worms and their chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts: unexpected host switches explained by ecological fitting? Mol. Ecol. 25: 2964–2966.(Online)
Dietrich, C., Brune, A.(2016)
1. The complete mitogenomes of six higher termite species reconstructed from metagenomic datasets (Cornitermes sp., Cubitermes ugandensis, Microcerotermes parvus, Nasutitermes corniger, Neocapritermes taracua, and Termes hospes). Mitochondr. DNA Part A 27: 3903–3904.(Online)
Ikeda-Ohtsubo, W., Strassert, J.F.H., Köhler, T., Mikaelyan, A., Gregor, I., McHardy, A.C., Tringe, S.G., Hugenholtz, P., Radek, R., Brune, A.(2016)
1. 'Candidatus Adiutrix intracellularis', an endosymbiont of termite gut flagellates, is the first representative of a deep-branching clade of Deltaproteobacteria and a putative homoacetogen. Environ. Microbiol. 18: 2548–2564.(Online)
Andreas Brune 'Endomicrobia', a distinct and diverse group of uncultivated bacteria in the candidate phylum Termite Group I (TG-1), have been found exclusively in the gut of lower termites and...
Andreas BRUNE | Group Leader | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. | Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg an der Lahn | MPITM | Research Group Insect Gut Microbiology and Symbiosis |...
