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Andreas Brune

Andreas Brune

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Microbiology

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80
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Overview

Andreas Brune is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within the life sciences, with particular focuses on insect ecology, symbiosis, molecular biology, and microbial communities.

Their recent publications include:

  • A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics, 2023, Nature
  • The functional evolution of termite gut microbiota, 2022, Microbiome
  • The hydrogen threshold of obligately methyl-reducing methanogens, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Letters
  • Phylogenomic analysis of 589 metagenome-assembled genomes encompassing all major prokaryotic lineages from the gut of higher termites, 2020, PeerJ

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Andreas Brune include:

  • Vincent Hervé
  • Jan Šobotník
  • David Sillam-Dussès
  • Katja Platt
  • Renate Radek

Andreas Brune has published often in the following venues:

  • Chemie Ingenieur Technik
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Microbiome
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

The main fields of study for this researcher are Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Subfields of study include:

  • Insect Science
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The main topics covered by Andreas Brune's work involve:

  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Best Publications

  • Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

    Andreas Brune

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Role of Microorganisms in the Digestion of Lignocellulose by Termites

    J. A Breznak;A Brune

  • Life at the oxic-anoxic interface: microbial activities and adaptations.

    Andreas Brune;Peter Frenzel;Heribert Cypionka

  • Electron shuttling via humic acids in microbial iron(III) reduction in a freshwater sediment

    Andreas Kappler;Marcus Benz;Bernhard Schink;Andreas Brune

  • The Termite Gut Microflora as an Oxygen Sink: Microelectrode Determination of Oxygen and pH Gradients in Guts of Lower and Higher Termites.

    A Brune;D Emerson;J A Breznak

  • "Methanoplasmatales," Thermoplasmatales-related archaea in termite guts and other environments, are the seventh order of methanogens.

    Kristina Paul;James O. Nonoh;Lena Mikulski;Andreas Brune

  • The Gut Microbiota of Termites: Digesting the Diversity in the Light of Ecology and Evolution.

    Andreas Brune;Carsten Dietrich

  • Humic Acid Reduction by Propionibacterium freudenreichii and Other Fermenting Bacteria

    Marcus Benz;Bernhard Schink;Andreas Brune

  • Termite guts: the world's smallest bioreactors

    Andreas Brune

  • Anaerobic and aerobic oxidation of ferrous iron at neutral pH by chemoheterotrophic nitrate-reducing bacteria

    Marcus Benz;Andreas Brune;Bernhard Schink

  • Microecology of the termite gut: structure and function on a microscale.

    Andreas Brune;Michael Friedrich

  • New mode of energy metabolism in the seventh order of methanogens as revealed by comparative genome analysis of “Candidatus methanoplasma termitum”.

    Kristina Lang;Jörg Schuldes;Andreas Klingl;Anja Poehlein

  • Microbial community structure in midgut and hindgut of the humus-feeding larva of Pachnoda ephippiata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae).

    Markus Egert;Bianca Wagner;Thorsten Lemke;Andreas Brune

  • High-resolution analysis of gut environment and bacterial microbiota reveals functional compartmentation of the gut in wood-feeding higher termites (Nasutitermes spp.).

    Tim Köhler;Carsten Dietrich;Rudolf H. Scheffrahn;Andreas Brune

  • The Cockroach Origin of the Termite Gut Microbiota: Patterns in Bacterial Community Structure Reflect Major Evolutionary Events

    Carsten Dietrich;Tim Köhler;Andreas Brune

  • Role of the Termite Gut Microbiota in Symbiotic Digestion

    Andreas Brune;Moriya Ohkuma

  • Soil-carbon preservation through habitat constraints and biological limitations on decomposer activity

    Klemens Ekschmitt;Ellen Kandeler;Christian Poll;Andreas Brune

  • Compartmentation and transport of zinc in barley primary leaves as basic mechanisms involved in zinc tolerance

    A. Brune;W. Urbach;Karl-Josef Dietz

  • Hydrogen Concentration Profiles at the Oxic-Anoxic Interface: a Microsensor Study of the Hindgut of the Wood-Feeding Lower Termite Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar).

    Andrea Ebert;Andreas Brune

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Schink
Bernhard Schink University of Konstanz
Rong Ji
Rong Ji Nanjing University
Michael W. Friedrich
Michael W. Friedrich University of Bremen
Xiangzhen Li
Xiangzhen Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Andreas Kappler
Andreas Kappler University of Tübingen
Wolfgang Ludwig
Wolfgang Ludwig Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Martin Zimmer
Martin Zimmer University of Bremen
Michael Poulsen
Michael Poulsen University of Copenhagen
Andreas Schäffer
Andreas Schäffer RWTH Aachen University
Jan Šobotník
Jan Šobotník Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

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