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Christoph Vorburger is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with numerous publications contributing to these areas.

The scientist's work focuses on several specialized subfields:

  • Insect Science
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Plant Science

Key research topics addressed by Christoph Vorburger include:

  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Their publication record features papers in several prominent journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecology Letters
  • BMC Genomics
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Christoph Vorburger include:

  • "Bending the curve: Simple but massive conservation action leads to landscape-scale recovery of amphibians", 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems", 2022, Ecology Letters
  • "Validation of an eDNA-based method for the detection of wildlife pathogens in water", 2020, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
  • "Building on 150 Years of Knowledge: The Freshwater Isopod Asellus aquaticus as an Integrative Eco-Evolutionary Model System", 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Functional insights from the GC-poor genomes of two aphid parasitoids, Aphidius ervi and Lysiphlebus fabarum", 2020, BMC Genomics

Christoph Vorburger regularly collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Blake Matthews
  • Piet Spaak
  • Florian Altermatt
  • Anita Narwani
  • Elvira Lafuente

Best Publications

  • A strain of the bacterial symbiont Regiella insecticola protects aphids against parasitoids.

    Christoph Vorburger;Lukas Gehrer;Paula Rodriguez

  • Aggression and competition for shelter between a native and an introduced crayfish in Europe

    Christoph Vorburger;Georg Ribi

  • Environmentally related patterns of reproductive modes in the aphid Myzus persicae and the predominance of two ‘superclones’ in Victoria, Australia

    Christoph Vorburger;Melanie Louise Lancaster;Paul James Sunnucks

  • Only helpful when required: a longevity cost of harbouring defensive symbionts.

    C. Vorburger;A. Gouskov

  • Parasitoids as vectors of facultative bacterial endosymbionts in aphids

    Lukas Gehrer;Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger

  • GENOTYPIC VARIATION AND THE ROLE OF DEFENSIVE ENDOSYMBIONTS IN AN ALL‐PARTHENOGENETIC HOST–PARASITOID INTERACTION

    Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Sandrock;Alexandre Gouskov;Luis E. Castañeda

  • Development, specificity and sublethal effects of symbiont‐conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids

    Maike Schmid;Raphael Sieber;Yannick-Serge Zimmermann;Yannick-Serge Zimmermann;Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger

  • The role of defensive symbionts in host-parasite coevolution.

    Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger;Steve J. Perlman

  • Genomic basis of endosymbiont-conferred protection against an insect parasitoid

    Allison K. Hansen;Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger;Nancy A. Moran

  • FIXATION OF DELETERIOUS MUTATIONS IN CLONAL LINEAGES: EVIDENCE FROM HYBRIDOGENETIC FROGS

    Christoph Vorburger

  • Cheaper is not always worse: strongly protective isolates of a defensive symbiont are less costly to the aphid host

    Luis Cayetano;Lukas Rothacher;Lukas Rothacher;Jean-Christophe Simon;Christoph Vorburger

  • Fish population genetic structure shaped by hydroelectric power plants in the upper Rhine catchment.

    Alexandre Gouskov;Alexandre Gouskov;Marta Reyes;Lisa Wirthner‐Bitterlin;Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger

  • Comparing constitutive and induced costs of symbiont‐conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids

    Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger;Pravin Ganesanandamoorthy;Marek Kwiatkowski;Marek Kwiatkowski

  • The evolutionary ecology of symbiont‐conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids

    Christoph Vorburger

  • Single-Locus Recessive Inheritance of Asexual Reproduction in a Parasitoid Wasp

    Christoph Sandrock;Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger

  • Genetic variation and covariation of susceptibility to parasitoids in the aphid Myzus persicae: no evidence for trade-offs

    Simone von Burg;Julia Ferrari;Christine B Müller;Christoph Vorburger

  • Temporal dynamics of genotypic diversity reveal strong clonal selection in the aphid Myzus persicae

    C. Vorburger

  • EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF PARASITOID INFECTIVITY ON SYMBIONT-PROTECTED HOSTS LEADS TO THE EMERGENCE OF GENOTYPE SPECIFICITY

    Romain Rouchet;Romain Rouchet;Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger

  • Symbiont‐conferred protection against Hymenopteran parasitoids in aphids: how general is it?

    Luis Cayetano;Luis Cayetano;Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger

  • Bacterial endosymbionts protect aphids in the field and alter parasitoid community composition.

    Lukas Rothacher;Lukas Rothacher;Mar Ferrer-Suay;Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger

  • Parasitoid gene expression changes after adaptation to symbiont-protected hosts.

    Alice B. Dennis;Alice B. Dennis;Alice B. Dennis;Vilas Patel;Kerry M. Oliver;Christoph Vorburger;Christoph Vorburger

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanja Schwander
Tanja Schwander University of Lausanne
Paul Sunnucks
Paul Sunnucks Monash University
Christine B. Müller
Christine B. Müller University of Zurich
Jukka Jokela
Jukka Jokela Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Jean-Christophe Simon
Jean-Christophe Simon University of Rennes
Nickolas G. Kavallieratos
Nickolas G. Kavallieratos Agricultural University of Athens
Dirk S. Schmeller
Dirk S. Schmeller National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
Leo W. Beukeboom
Leo W. Beukeboom University of Groningen
Heinz-Ulrich Reyer
Heinz-Ulrich Reyer University of Zurich
Heiko Vogel
Heiko Vogel Max Planck Society

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