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Monika Hilker is affiliated with the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. They have a significant body of work focusing on insect science, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, and plant science.

Their research primarily addresses insect-plant interactions and control, plant and animal studies, insect and pesticide research, forest insect ecology and management, plant parasitism and resistance, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, as well as insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Plant responses to butterfly oviposition partly explain preference-performance relationships on different brassicaceous species (2020, Oecologia)
  • Adaptive Plasticity of Insect Eggs in Response to Environmental Challenges (2022, Annual Review of Entomology)
  • Priming by Timing: Arabidopsis thaliana Adjusts Its Priming Response to Lepidoptera Eggs to the Time of Larval Hatching (2020, Frontiers in Plant Science)
  • Pine defense against eggs of an herbivorous sawfly is elicited by an annexin-like protein present in egg-associated secretion (2021, Plant Cell & Environment)
  • Insectivorous birds can see and smell systemically herbivore-induced pines (2020, Ecology and Evolution)

Monika Hilker has frequently published in venues such as:

  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Journal of Chemical Ecology
  • Tree Physiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The researcher collaborates often with other scientists, including Vivien Lortzing, Luis R. Paniagua Voirol, Reinhard Kunze, Norbert Bittner, and Nina E. Fatouros. These frequent co-authors highlight a collaborative approach to advancing research in entomology and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Priming and memory of stress responses in organisms lacking a nervous system.

    Monika Hilker;Jens Schwachtje;Margarete Baier;Salma Balazadeh

  • Early herbivore alert: insect eggs induce plant defense.

    Monika Hilker;Torsten Meiners

  • Plant responses to insect egg deposition.

    Monika Hilker;Nina E. Fatouros

  • Foraging behavior of egg parasitoids exploiting chemical information

    Nina E. Fatouros;Marcel Dicke;Roland Mumm;Torsten Meiners

  • Bacterial Symbionts in Lepidoptera: Their Diversity, Transmission, and Impact on the Host

    Luis R. Paniagua Voirol;Enric Frago;Martin Kaltenpoth;Monika Hilker

  • Stress priming, memory, and signalling in plants.

    Monika Hilker;Thomas Schmülling

  • Induced plant defences: from molecular biology to evolutionary ecology

    Marcel Dicke;Monika Hilker

  • The Relevance of Background Odor in Resource Location by Insects: A Behavioral Approach

    Roland Schröder;Monika Hilker

  • Insect egg deposition induces Pinus sylvestris to attract egg parasitoids

    Monika Hilker;Carsten Kobs;Martti Varama;Kai Schrank

  • Induction of Plant Synomones by Oviposition of a Phytophagous Insect

    Torsten Meiners;Monika Hilker

  • Direct and indirect chemical defence of pine against folivorous insects.

    Roland Mumm;Roland Mumm;Monika Hilker

  • Chemoecology of insect eggs and egg deposition

    Monika Hilker;Torsten Meiners

  • The fungal fast lane: common mycorrhizal networks extend bioactive zones of allelochemicals in soils.

    E. Kathryn Morris Barto;Monika Hilker;Frank Müller;Brian K. Mohney

  • Induction of plant responses to oviposition and feeding by herbivorous arthropods: a comparison

    Monika Hilker;Torsten Meiners

  • How do plants "notice" attack by herbivorous arthropods?

    Monika Hilker;Torsten Meiners

  • Behavioral responses of Drosophila to biogenic levels of carbon dioxide depend on life-stage, sex and olfactory context

    Cécile Faucher;Manfred Forstreuter;Monika Hilker;Marien de Bruyne

  • Vegetation complexity—The influence of plant species diversity and plant structures on plant chemical complexity and arthropods

    Barbara Randlkofer;Elisabeth Obermaier;Monika Hilker;Torsten Meiners

  • Plant odour plumes as mediators of plant–insect interactions

    Ivo Beyaert;Monika Hilker

  • Plants and insect eggs: how do they affect each other?

    Monika Hilker;Torsten Meiners

  • Chemical Analysis of Volatiles Emitted by Pinus sylvestris After Induction by Insect Oviposition

    Roland Mumm;Kai Schrank;Robert Wegener;Stefan Schulz

  • Host location in Oomyzus gallerucae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an egg parasitoid of the elm leaf beetle Xanthogaleruca luteola (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

    Torsten Meiners;Monika Hilker

Frequent Co-Authors

Joachim Ruther
Joachim Ruther University of Regensburg
Marcel Dicke
Marcel Dicke Wageningen University & Research
Stefan Schulz
Stefan Schulz Technische Universität Braunschweig
Jonathan Gershenzon
Jonathan Gershenzon Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Matthias C. Rillig
Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universität Berlin
Caroline Müller
Caroline Müller Bielefeld University
Bill S. Hansson
Bill S. Hansson Max Planck Society
Christer Björkman
Christer Björkman Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Joop J. A. van Loon
Joop J. A. van Loon Wageningen University & Research
Ludger Witte
Ludger Witte Technische Universität Braunschweig

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