Publications
_Mutualisms

Pitsillides, F.; Salem, H.: An earful of fungi: Hearing organ repurposed for symbiosis. Cell Host & Microbe 33 (12), pp. 1999 - 2000 (2025)

Berasategui, A.; Salem, H.: Plant Pathogens Moonlighting as Beneficial Insect Symbionts. Annual Review of Entomology Epub ahead (2025)

Salem, H.: Hassan Salem. Current Biology 35 (13), pp. R641 - R642 (2025)

García-Lozano, M.; Salem, H.: Microbial bases of herbivory in beetles. Trends in Microbiology 33 (2), pp. 151 - 163 (2025)

Kirsch, R.; Okamura, Y.; García-Lozano, M.; Weiss, B.; Keller, J.; Vogel, H.; Fukumori, K.; Fukatsu, T.; Konstantinov, A.; Montagna, M. et al.; Moseyko, A.; Riley, E.; Slipinski, A.; Vencl, F.; Windsor, D.; Salem, H.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Pauchet, Y.: Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer promote herbivory in the megadiverse leaf beetles. Current Biology 35 (3), pp. 640 - 654 (2025)

Berasategui, A.; Salem, H.; Moller, A.; Christopher, Y.; Vidaurre-Montoya, Q.; Conn, C.; Read, T.; Rodrigues, A.; Ziemert, N.; Gerardo, N.: Genomic insights into the evolution of secondary metabolism of Escovopsis and its allies, specialized fungal symbionts of fungus-farming ants. mSystems 9 (7), e0057624 (2024)

García-Lozano, M.; Henzler, C.; González Porras, M.; Pons, I.; Berasategui, A.; Lanz, C.; Budde, H.; Oguchi, K.; Matsuura, Y.; Pauchet, Y. et al.; Goffredi, S.; Fukatsu, T.; Salem, H.: Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles. Current Biology 34 (8), pp. 1621 - 1634 (2024)

Renoz, F.; Arai, H.; Pons, I.: The genus Sodalis as a resource for understanding the multifaceted evolution of bacterial symbiosis in insects. Symbiosis 92 (2), pp. 187 - 208 (2024)

González Porras, M.; Pons, I.; García-Lozano, M.; Jagdale, S.; Emmerich, C.; Weiss, B.; Salem, H.: Extracellular symbiont colonizes insect during embryo development. ISME Communications 4 (1), ycae005 (2024)

Salem, H.; Kaltenpoth, M.: The Nagoya Protocol and its implications for microbiology. Nature Microbiology 8 (12), pp. 2234 - 2237 (2023)

Berasategui, A.; Jagdale, S.; Salem, H.: Fusarium phytopathogens as insect mutualists. PLoS Pathogens 19 (7), e1011497 (2023)

Salem, H.; Biedermann, P.; Fukatsu, T.: Editorial: Diversity of beetles and associated microorganisms. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1252736 (2023)

Berasategui, A.; Salem, H.: Synergy in symbiosis. eLife 12, e85565 (2023)

Hilker, M.; Salem, H.; Fatouros, N.: Adaptive Plasticity of Insect Eggs in Response to Environmental Challenges. Annual Review of Entomology 68, pp. 451 - 469 (2023)

Berasategui, A.; Breitenbach, N.; García-Lozano, M.; Pons, I.; Sailer, B.; Lanz, C.; Rodríguez, V.; Hipp, K.; Ziemert, N.; Windsor, D. et al.; Salem, H.: The leaf beetle Chelymorpha alternans propagates a plant pathogen in exchange for pupal protection. Current Biology 32 (19), pp. 4114 - 4127 (2022)

Pons, I.; González Porras, M.; Breitenbach, N.; Berger, J.; Hipp, K.; Salem, H.: For the road: calibrated maternal investment in light of extracellular symbiont transmission. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1973), 20220386 (2022)

Salem, H.; Kaltenpoth, M.: Beetle-bacterial symbioses: Endless forms most functional. Annual Review of Entomology 67, pp. 201 - 219 (2022)

Berasategui, A.; Moller, A.; Weiss, B.; Beck, C.; Bauchiero, C.; Read, T.; Gerardo, N.; Salem, H.: Symbiont genomic features and localization in the bean beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 87 (12), e0021221 (2021)

Salem, H.; Kirsch, R.; Pauchet, Y.; Berasategui, A.; Fukumori, K.; Moriyama, M.; Cripps, M.; Windsor, D.; Fukatsu, T.; Gerardo, N.: Symbiont digestive range reflects host plant breadth in herbivorous beetles. Current Biology 30 (15), pp. 2875 - 2886 (2020)

Bauer, E.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Salem, H.: Minimal fermentative metabolism fuels extracellular symbiont in a leaf beetle. The ISME Journal 14 (3), pp. 866 - 870 (2020)