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Heiko Vogel is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a focused research profile in agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work primarily addresses insect science, molecular biology, plant science, genetics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research topics encompass insect-plant interactions and control, insect and pesticide research, insect resistance and genetics, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, insect utilization and effects, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and antimicrobial peptides and activities.

Among the recent scholarly contributions are:

  • Antimicrobial Peptides: A New Hope in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Fields, 2021, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Insect antimicrobial peptides: potential weapons to counteract the antibiotic resistance, 2021, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • A bioinformatic study of antimicrobial peptides identified in the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A Whole-Genome Scan for Association with Invasion Success in the Fruit Fly Drosophila suzukii Using Contrasts of Allele Frequencies Corrected for Population Structure, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • The Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda Utilizes Specific UDP-Glycosyltransferases to Inactivate Maize Defensive Benzoxazinoids, 2020, Frontiers in Physiology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Heiko Vogel include Andreas Vilcinskas, Yu Okamura, Natalie Wielsch, Rosanna Salvia, and Patrizia Falabella. These collaborations reflect a network that spans several fields related to the scientist's core research areas.

Heiko Vogel's work is published repeatedly in venues that include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Physiology, and Communications Biology. The body of work demonstrates a range of publication channels within life sciences and biological research communities.

Best Publications

  • Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species

    Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra;James R. Walters;Adriana D. Briscoe

  • Successful herbivore attack due to metabolic diversion of a plant chemical defense

    Ute Wittstock;Niels Agerbirk;Einar J. Stauber;Carl Erik Olsen

  • The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications.

    Patrick P. Edger;Patrick P. Edger;Patrick P. Edger;Hanna M. Heidel-Fischer;Michaël Bekaert;Jadranka Rota

  • Molecular traces of alternative social organization in a termite genome

    Nicolas Terrapon;Nicolas Terrapon;Cai Li;Hugh M. Robertson;Lu Ji

  • An ABC transporter mutation is correlated with insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac toxin.

    Linda J. Gahan;Yannick Pauchet;Heiko Vogel;David G. Heckel

  • The genetic basis of a plant–insect coevolutionary key innovation

    Christopher W. Wheat;Heiko Vogel;Ute Wittstock;Michael F. Braby

  • Genomic innovations, transcriptional plasticity and gene loss underlying the evolution and divergence of two highly polyphagous and invasive Helicoverpa pest species

    S. L. Pearce;D. F. Clarke;D. F. Clarke;P. D. East;S. Elfekih

  • Antimicrobial Peptides: A New Hope in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Fields

    Antonio Moretta;Carmen Scieuzo;Anna Maria Petrone;Rosanna Salvia

  • Evolution of insect olfactory receptors

    Christine Missbach;Hany Km Dweck;Heiko Vogel;Andreas Vilcinskas

  • Parallel Evolution of Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin Resistance in Lepidoptera

    Simon W Baxter;Francisco R Badenes-Pérez;Anna Morrison;Heiko Vogel

  • Molecular mechanisms of insect adaptation to plant secondary compounds

    Hanna M. Heidel-Fischer;Heiko Vogel

  • A comprehensive transcriptome and immune-gene repertoire of the lepidopteran model host Galleria mellonella

    Heiko Vogel;Boran Altincicek;Gernot Glöckner;Andreas Vilcinskas

  • The Gene Controlling the Indole Glucosinolate Modifier1 Quantitative Trait Locus Alters Indole Glucosinolate Structures and Aphid Resistance in Arabidopsis

    Marina Pfalz;Heiko Vogel;Juergen Kroymann

  • Antennal transcriptome of Manduca sexta.

    Ewald Grosse-Wilde;Linda S. Kuebler;Sascha Bucks;Heiko Vogel

  • The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and reveals selective chromosomal fusions in Lepidoptera

    Virpi Ahola;Rainer Lehtonen;Panu Somervuo;Leena Salmela

  • Paleopolyploidy in the Brassicales: Analyses of the Cleome Transcriptome Elucidate the History of Genome Duplications in Arabidopsis and Other Brassicales

    Michael S. Barker;Heiko Vogel;M. Eric Schranz

  • Comparative analysis of the UDP-glycosyltransferase multigene family in insects.

    Seung-Joon Ahn;Heiko Vogel;David G. Heckel

  • Immune system responses and fitness costs associated with consumption of bacteria in larvae of Trichoplusia ni.

    Dalial Freitak;Christopher W Wheat;David G Heckel;Heiko Vogel

  • Vitamin supplementation by gut symbionts ensures metabolic homeostasis in an insect host

    Hassan Salem;Eugen Bauer;Anja S. Strauss;Heiko Vogel

  • Pyrosequencing the Manduca sexta larval midgut transcriptome: messages for digestion, detoxification and defence

    Yannick Pauchet;P. Wilkinson;Heiko Vogel;D.R. Nelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Vilcinskas
Andreas Vilcinskas University of Giessen
David G. Heckel
David G. Heckel Max Planck Society
Bill S. Hansson
Bill S. Hansson Max Planck Society
Wilhelm Boland
Wilhelm Boland Max Planck Society
Thomas Mitchell-Olds
Thomas Mitchell-Olds Duke University
Aleš Svatoš
Aleš Svatoš Max Planck Society
Gernot Glöckner
Gernot Glöckner University of Cologne
Michael Reichelt
Michael Reichelt Max Planck Society
Jonathan Gershenzon
Jonathan Gershenzon Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Martin Kaltenpoth
Martin Kaltenpoth Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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