Prof. Dr. Erhard Strohm
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 | Contact: Department for Zoology University of Regensburg 93040 Regensburg Germany Phone: +49-941-943-3072 Room: D4.1.303 Email: |
?erhard.strohm [at] biologie.uni-regensburg.deI am interested in different aspects of the behaviour, ecology and life history evolution of insects, mainly in three species of aculeate Hymenoptera, the European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum, Sphecidae), the solitary Red Mason Bee (Osmia rufa = bicornis, Megachilidae) and the primitively eusocial bee Lasioglossum malachurum (Halictidae). There are currently four main focuses that are investigated in diploma theses and PhD projects: (1) Allocation of parental investment among progeny. (2) Chemical ecology of Hymenoptera. (3) Plasticity of life history in bees and wasps(4) Interactions between insects and microorganisms.
Curriculum vitae
| 1988 | Study of biology, Diploma thesis, University of Würzburg |
| 1988-1994 | Founding member of a company for ecological consulting |
| 1988-1994 | Editorial assistant for Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology |
| 1995 | PhD in Zoology, University of Würzburg (thesis received the Horst Wiehe Award of the German Zoological Society, DZG) |
| 1994-1996 | Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Department of Ethology, University of Bonn |
| 1996-2004 | Wissenschaftlicher Assistent and Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg |
| 2003 | Habilitation in Zoology, University of Würzburg |
| Since 2004 | Professor for Zoology at the University of Regensburg |
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Publications
Nechitayloa TY, Mario Sandoval-Calderón M, Tobias Engl T, Wielsch N, Dunne DM, Goesmannf A, Strohm E. Svato? A, Dale C, B. Weisse R, Kaltenpoth M (2021) Incipient genome erosion and metabolic streamlining for antibiotic production in a defensive symbiont. PNAS 2021 Vol. 118 No. 17 e2023047118. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023047118.
Heinze J, Marschall J, Lautenschl?ger B, Seifert B, Gratiashvili N, Strohm E (2020) Courtship with two spoons—Anatomy and presumed function of the bizarre antennae of?Cardiocondyla zoserka?ant males. Ecology and Evolution. 2021;11:7827–7833. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.7615
Strohm E, Herzner G, Ruther J, Kaltenpoth M, Engl T (2019). Nitric oxide radicals are emitted by wasp eggs to kill mold fungi. eLife 2019;8:e43718. DOI:?https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43718.
Weiss K, Herzner G, Strohm E (2017) Sexual selection and the evolution of male pheromone glands in philanthine wasps (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology (2017) 17:128
bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-017-0963-6
Weiss K, Strohm E, Kaltenpoth M, Herzner G (2015) Comparative?morphology of the postpharyngeal gland in the Philanthinae (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) and the evolution of an antimicrobial brood protection mechanism. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 291.?http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/15/291
Wurdack M,?Herbertz S,?Dowling D,?Kroiss J,?Strohm E,?Baur H,?Niehuis O,?Schmitt?T (2015). Striking cuticular hydrocarbon dimorphism in the mason wasp Odynerus spinipes and its possible evolutionary cause (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae, Vespidae) Proeedings of the R. Society B 282: 20151777. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1777.
Kaltenpoth M, Roeser-Mueller K, Koehler S, Peterson A, Nechitaylo T, Stubblefield JW, Herzner G, Seger J, Strohm E (2014). Partner choice and fidelity stabilize co-evolution in a Cretaceous-age defensive symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 111: 6359-6364.
Herzner G, Kaltenpoth M, Poettinger T, Weiss K, Koedam D, Kroiss J, Strohm E (2013) Morphology, chemistry and function of the postpharyngeal gland in the South American digger wasps?Trachypus boharti?and?Trachypus elongatus. PLoS ONE 8(12): e82780. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082780.
Schmid VS, Kaltenpoth M, Strohm E, Heinze J (2013) Worker self-restraint and policing maintain the queen's reproductive monopoly in a pseudomyrmecine ant. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 571-581.
Kautz S, Ballhorn DJ, Kroiss J, Pauls SU, Moreau CS, Eilmus S, Strohm E, Heil M (2012) Host plant use by competing Acacia-ants: Mutualists monopolize while parasites share hosts. PLoS ONE 7 (5): e37691. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037691.
Kaltenpoth M, Showers Corneli P, Dunn DM, Weiss RB, Strohm E, Seger J (2012) Accelerated evolution of mitochondrial but not nuclear genomes of Hymenoptera: New evidence from crabronid wasps. PLoS ONE 7 (3): e32826. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032826
Kaltenpoth M, Yildirim E, Gürbüz M, Herzner G, Strohm E (2012) Refining the roots of the beewolf-Streptomyces?symbiosis: Antennal symbionts in the rare genus?Philanthinus?(Hymenoptera, Crabronidae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78 (3): 822-827
Weissel N, Mitesser O, Poethke HJ, Strohm E (2012) Availability and depletion of fat reserves in halictid foundress queens with a focus on solitary nest founding. Insectes Sociaux 59: 67-74.
Herzner G, Engl T, Strohm E (2011). The cryptic combat against competing microbes is a costly component of parental care in a digger wasp. Animal Behaviour 82: 321-328.
Herzner G, Ruther J, Goller S, Schulz S, Goettler W, Strohm E (2011) Structure, chemical composition and putative function of the postpharyngeal gland of the Emerald cockroach wasp,?Ampulex compressa?(Hymenoptera, Ampulicidae). Zoology 114: 36-45.
Strohm E (2011) How can cleptoparasitic drosophilid flies emerge from the closed brood cells of the red Mason bee? Physiological Entomology 36: 77-83
Radmacher S, Strohm E (2011) Effects of co