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Mackevicius-Dubickaja V., White J.A., Williams E.E., Klement E., Gottlieb Y., Doremus M.R. Elevated temperatures disrupt Wolbachia-induced feminisation and reshape microbial community dynamics across generations in a spider host. (2026) Molecular Ecology. May;35(9):e70371.
Mackevicius-Dubickaja, V., Gottlieb, Y., White, JA. MR Doremus, MR (2025) Wolbachia feminizes a spider host with assistance from co-infecting symbionts. Environmental Microbiology. 27 (7), e70149
Chiel, E., Gottlieb, Y. (2025) How do microbial symbionts shape the life histories of multicellular organisms? In Segoli, M. and Wajnberg, E. (eds.) Life History Evolution: Traits, Interactions, and Applications. Wiley Publisher.
Giupponi, C., Jourdan-Pineau, H., Bernard, C., Blanda, V., Bourquia, M., Bru, D., Cabezón, O., Carrera-Faja, L., Espunyes, J., Gottlieb, Y., Joly-Kukla, C., Malandrin, L., Mechouk, N., Mihalca, AD., Pollet, T., Saengram, P., Torina, A., Valcárcel, F., Vatansever, Z., Vial, L., Zahri, A., Verheyden, H., Huber, K. (2025) Tracking invasion events: phylogeography of Hyalomma marginatum in the Mediterranean basin with a focus on Southern France. Parasites & Vectors, 18 (1), 407
Pollmann, M. Reinisch, R., von Berg, L., Avidan King, M., Geiselmann, M., Käppeler, L-M., Leibson, R., Traub, N., Steidle, JLM., Gottlieb, Y. (2025) Male-dependent resistance to Spiroplasma-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility. Royal Society Open Science, 12: 250545.
Proctor, J.D., Mackevicius‐Dubickaja, V., Gottlieb, Y., White, J.A., 2024. Warm temperature inhibits cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by endosymbiotic Rickettsiella in spider hosts. Environmental Microbiology, 26(9), p.e16697.
Cibichakravarthy, B., Shaked, N., Kapri, E. Gottlieb, Y. (2024) Endosymbiont-derived metabolites are essential for tick host reproductive fitness. mSphere 0:e00693-23.
Pollmann, M., Kuhn, D., König, C., Homolka, D., Paschke, S., Reinisch, R., Schmidt, A., Schwabe, N., Weber, J., Gottlieb, Y., Steidle, J.L. M. (2023) New species based on the biological species concept within the complex of Lariophagus distinguendus (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae), a parasitoid of household pests. Ecology and Evolution. 13: e10524.
Santos-Garcia, D., Morel, O., Henri, H., El Filali, A., Buysse, M., Noël, V., McCoy, K.D., Gottlieb, Y., Klasson, L., Zenner, L., Duron, O. 2023. Genomic changes during the evolution of the Coxiella genus along the parasitism-mutualism continuum. Peer Community Journal, 3.
Pollmann, M., Moore, L.D., Krimmer, E., D'Alvise, P., Hasselmann, M., Perlman, S.J., Ballinger, M.J, Steidle, J.L.M., Gottlieb, Y. (2022) Highly transmissible cytoplasmic incompatibility by the extracellular insect symbiont Spiroplasma. iScience, 25(5):104335.
Cibichakravarthy, B., Oses-Prieto, J.A., Ben-Yosef, M., Burlingame, A.L., Karr, T.L., Gottlieb, Y. (2022) Comparative proteomics of Coxiella Like Endosymbionts (CLEs) in the symbiotic organs of Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(1):e0167321