Inhaltspezifische Aktionen

Publications

Havlikova, M., Bosakova, T., Petschenka, G., Cabala, R., Exnerova, A, Bosakova, Z. (submitted). Analysis of defensive secretion of a milkweed bug Lygaeus equestris by 1D GC-MS and GC×GC-MS: sex differences and host-plant effect.

Züst, T., Strickler, S.R., Powell, A.F., Mabry, M.E., An, H., Mirzaei, M., York, T., Holland, C.K., Kumar, P.,   Erb, M., Petschenka, G., Gomez, J.-M., Perfectti, F., Müller, C., Pires, C., Mueller, L.A., Jander, G. (2019). Rapid and independent evolution of ancestral and novel defenses in a genus of toxic plants (Erysimum, Brassicaceae). bioRxiv, 761569. doi:10.1101/761569.

Taverner, A.M., Yang, L., Barile, Z.J., Lin, B., Peng, J., Pinharanda, A., Rao, A., Roland, B.P., Talsma, A.D., Wei, D., Petschenka, G., Palladino, M.J., Andolfatto, P. (in press). Adaptive substitutions underlying cardiac glycoside insensitivity in insects exhibit epistasis in vivo. eLife

Jones, P.L., Petschenka, G., Flacht, L., Agrawal, A.A. (2019): Cardenolide intake, sequestration, and excretion by the monarch butterfly along gradients of plant toxicity and larval ontogeny. Journal of Chemical Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-019-01055-7

Züst, T., Petschenka, G., Hastings, A.P., Agrawal, A.A. (2019): Toxicity of milkweed leaves and latex: chromatographic quantification versus biological activity of cardenolides in 16 Asclepias species. Journal of Chemical Ecology 45, 50-60.

Petschenka, G., Fei, C.S., Araya, J.J., Schröder, S., Timmermann, B.N., Agrawal, A.A. (2018): Structure-activity relationships for plant cardiac glycosides on insect Na+/K+-ATPases: Implications for monarch-milkweed coevolution. Frontiers in Plant Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01424

Mohammadi, S., Petschenka, G., French, S.S., Mori, A., Savitzky, A.H. (2018): Snakes exhibit tissue-specific variation in cardiotonic steroid sensitivity of Na+/K+-ATPase. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B 217, 21-26.

Petschenka, G., Wagschal, V., von Tschirnhaus, M., Donath, A., Dobler, S. (2017): Convergently evolved toxic secondary metabolites in plants drive the parallel molecular evolution of insect resistance. The American Naturalist, DOI: 10.1086/691711

Petschenka, G., Agrawal, A.A. (2016): How herbivores coopt plant defenses: Natural selection, specialization, and sequestration. Current Opinion in Insect Science 14, 17-24.

Petschenka, G., Agrawal, A.A. (2015): Milkweed butterfly resistance to plant toxins is linked to sequestration, not coping with a toxic diet. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282, 20151865, DOI 10.1098/rspb.2015.1865.

Dobler, S., Petschenka, G., Wagschal, V., Flacht, L. (2015): Convergent Adaptive Evolution – How Insects Master the Challenge of Cardiac Glycoside-Containing Host Plants. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 157, 30-39.

Bramer, C., Dobler, S., Deckert, J., Stemmer, M., Petschenka, G. (2015): Na+/K+-ATPase resistance and cardenolide sequestration: basal adaptations to host plant toxins in the milkweed bugs (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Lygaeinae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282, DOI 10.1098/rspb.2014.2346.

Petschenka, G., Fandrich, S., Sander, N., Boppré, M., Dobler, S. (2013): Stepwise evolution of resistance to toxic cardenolides via genetic substitutions in the Na+/K+-ATPase of milkweed butterflies (Lepidoptera: Danaini). Evolution 67, 2753-2761.

Petschenka, G., Pick, C., Wagschal, V., Dobler, S. (2013): Functional evidence for physiological mechanisms to circumvent neurotoxicity of cardenolides in an adapted and a non-adapted hawk-moth species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280, DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.3089.

Agrawal, A.A., Petschenka, G., Bingham, R.A., Weber, M.G., Rasmann, S. (2012): Toxic cardenolides: chemical ecology and coevolution of specialized plant-herbivore interactions. New Phytologist 194, 28-45.

Petschenka, G., Offe, J., Dobler, S. (2012): Physiological screening for target-site-insensitivity and localization of Na+K+-ATPase in cardenolide adapted Lepidoptera. Journal of Insect Physiology 58, 607-612.

Dobler, S., Petschenka, G., Pankoke, H.C. (2011): Coping with toxic plant compounds - the insect's perspective on iridoid glycosides and cardenolides. Phytochemistry 72, 1593-604.

Petschenka, G., Bramer, C., Pankoke, H., Dobler, S. (2011): Evidence for a deterrence effect of cardenolides on Nephila spiders. Basic and Applied Ecology 12, 260-267.

Sehlmeyer, S., Wang, L., Langel, D., Heckel, D.G., Mohagheghi, H., Petschenka, G., Ober, D. (2010): Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases as a Detoxification Mechanism in Insects: New Insights from the Arctiids (Lepidoptera). PLoS ONE 5, e10435.

Petschenka, G., Dobler, S. (2009): Target-site sensitivity in a specialized herbivore towards major toxic compounds of its host plant: The Na+K+-ATPase of the Oleander hawk-moth (Daphnis nerii) is highly susceptible to cardenolides. Chemoecology 19, 235-239.

Petschenka, G., Tavakoli, M., Trusch, R. (2006): Description of the unknown female of Agriopis beschkovi Ganev, 1987 (Geometridae: Ennominae), and illustration of the larvae. Nota Lepidopterologica 29, 27-35.

Petschenka, G. (2006): On the Morphology of Bittacus hageni BRAUER, 1860 and Bittacus italicus (MÜLLER, 1766) (Mecoptera: Bittacidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 116, 124-126.

Petschenka, G. (2003): Erstfund von Eratophyes amasiella (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) in Baden Württemberg (Lep., Oecophoridae). Melanargia, 15, 181-184.*

* = non peer-reviewed