Monika Prus-Frankowska

This study shows that insect COI barcoding data can reliably detect Wolbachia presence, provide phylogenetic insights, and guide metagenomic sampling.

This study uses a novel multi-target amplicon sequencing approach to analyze microbiota in wild scuttle flies, revealing significant variation in bacterial abundance and composition across host species and genotypes.

The paper presents comprehensive DNA metabarcoding data from Sweden and Madagascar, characterizing terrestrial arthropod faunas and providing insights into community composition and dynamics.

The paper presents the smallest bacterial genomes known and evaluates patterns of reductive evolution in planthopper symbionts.

This study uses genome-level data to resolve the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of planthoppers, identifying new taxonomic placements and dating the origin of the group to the Permian period.

The paper analyzes microbial communities in Greenland mosquitoes, finding low abundance and no core microbiota, with high diversity and sex-specific associations.

The paper introduces a high-throughput quantitative multi-target amplicon sequencing workflow to improve microbial community profiling in wild insects, addressing contamination and identification issues.

The paper surveys microbial symbionts in Macrosteles leafhoppers, finding limited variation in symbiont prevalence across populations and over time.

This study characterizes the microbiota of 44 cultured tardigrade species, finding that microbial communities are largely from environmental sources, with limited evidence of true symbiotic associations.

The paper sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two endosymbiotic bacteria in planthoppers, revealing independent evolutionary origins and genomic rearrangements that challenge previous assumptions about their shared ancestry.