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Nicole M. Gerardo

Nicole M. Gerardo

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
6229
World Ranking
7066
National Ranking
2376

Overview

Nicole M. Gerardo is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and conducts research primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, notably Insect Science, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research focuses largely on insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, a topic that features prominently in their publications. Other main areas of work include plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, insect-plant interactions and control, insect and pesticide research, forest insect ecology and management, and entomopathogenic microorganisms in pest control.

Gerardo has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed journals and publication venues, with frequent publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Evolution, Current Biology, and Frontiers in Microbiology.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Nicole M. Gerardo include:

  • Symbiont Digestive Range Reflects Host Plant Breadth in Herbivorous Beetles, 2020, Current Biology
  • Evolution of animal immunity in the light of beneficial symbioses, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The Importance of Environmentally Acquired Bacterial Symbionts for the Squash Bug (Anasa tristis), a Significant Agricultural Pest, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • A need to consider the evolutionary genetics of host-symbiont mutualisms, 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Specialized acquisition behaviors maintain reliable environmental transmission in an insect-microbial mutualism, 2023, Current Biology

Among frequent collaborators, Nicole M. Gerardo has worked extensively with Aileen Berasategui, Kayla S. Stoy, Jason Chen, Christopher W. Beck, and André Rodrigues, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their areas of research interest.

The scientist's contributions center on understanding the complexities of host-symbiont relationships, including evolutionary genetics and immunity as influenced by symbiotic interactions. Their research addresses ecological and biological processes governing mutualisms, environmental transmission of symbionts, and the role of microbial associates in insect health and pest management.

Best Publications

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

  • The Evolution of Agriculture in Insects

    Ulrich G. Mueller;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nicole M. Gerardo;Duur K. Aanen;Diana L. Six

  • Animal Behavior and the Microbiome

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Nicole M. Gerardo;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Mónica Medina

  • Symbiosis and Insect Diversification: an Ancient Symbiont of Sap-Feeding Insects from the Bacterial Phylum Bacteroidetes

    Nancy A. Moran;Phat Tran;Nicole M. Gerardo

  • An out-of-body experience: the extracellular dimension for the transmission of mutualistic bacteria in insects.

    Hassan Salem;Laura Florez;Nicole Gerardo;Martin Kaltenpoth

  • The genome sequence of the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotes reveals insights into its obligate symbiotic lifestyle

    Garret Suen;Garret Suen;Clotilde Teiling;Lewyn Li;Carson Holt

  • Fungus-farming insects: Multiple origins and diverse evolutionary histories

    Ulrich G. Mueller;Nicole Gerardo

  • Non-immunological defense in an evolutionary framework

    Benjamin J. Parker;Seth M. Barribeau;Alice M. Laughton;Jacobus C. de Roode

  • Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria

    Matías J. Cafaro;Michael Poulsen;Ainslie E. F. Little;Shauna L. Price

  • Horizontally transferred fungal carotenoid genes in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae.

    Boran Altincicek;Jennifer Kovacs;Nicole Marie Gerardo

  • Symbiont-Mediated Protection against Fungal Pathogens in Pea Aphids: a Role for Pathogen Specificity?

    Benjamin J. Parker;Chelsea J. Spragg;Boran Altincicek;Nicole Marie Gerardo

  • Leucoagaricus gongylophorus produces diverse enzymes for the degradation of recalcitrant plant polymers in leaf-cutter ant fungus gardens.

    Frank O. Aylward;Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson;Susannah G. Tringe;Clotilde Teiling

  • Characterisation of immune responses in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum.

    Alice M. Laughton;Justine R. Garcia;Boran Altincicek;Boran Altincicek;Michael R. Strand

  • Mechanisms of symbiont-conferred protection against natural enemies: an ecological and evolutionary framework.

    Nicole M Gerardo;Benjamin J Parker

  • Ancient host-pathogen associations maintained by specificity of chemotaxis and antibiosis.

    Nicole M Gerardo;Nicole M Gerardo;Nicole M Gerardo;Sarah R Jacobs;Sarah R Jacobs;Cameron R Currie;Cameron R Currie;Ulrich G Mueller;Ulrich G Mueller

  • Variation in Pseudonocardia antibiotic defence helps govern parasite-induced morbidity in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

    Michael Poulsen;Matías J. Cafaro;Daniel P. Erhardt;Ainslie E. F. Little

  • Symbiont Digestive Range Reflects Host Plant Breadth in Herbivorous Beetles.

    Hassan Salem;Hassan Salem;Hassan Salem;Roy Kirsch;Yannick Pauchet;Aileen Berasategui

  • The symbiont side of symbiosis: do microbes really benefit?

    Justine R. Garcia;Nicole M. Gerardo

  • Small genome of the fungus Escovopsis weberi, a specialized disease agent of ant agriculture

    Tom J. B. de Man;Jason E. Stajich;Christian P. Kubicek;Clotilde Teiling

  • Complex host-pathogen coevolution in the Apterostigma fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis

    Nicole M Gerardo;Nicole M Gerardo;Nicole M Gerardo;Ulrich G Mueller;Ulrich G Mueller;Cameron R Currie;Cameron R Currie

  • Exploiting a mutualism: parasite specialization on cultivars within the fungus-growing ant symbiosis

    Nicole M. Gerardo;Ulrich Gerhard Mueller;Ulrich Gerhard Mueller;Shauna L. Price;Shauna L. Price;Cameron Robert Currie;Cameron Robert Currie

Frequent Co-Authors

Cameron R. Currie
Cameron R. Currie University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ulrich G. Mueller
Ulrich G. Mueller The University of Texas at Austin
Garret Suen
Garret Suen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrés Moya
Andrés Moya University of Valencia
George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock The Jackson Laboratory
Amparo Latorre
Amparo Latorre University of Valencia
Andreas Vilcinskas
Andreas Vilcinskas University of Giessen
Yvan Rahbé
Yvan Rahbé Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Toni Gabaldón
Toni Gabaldón Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Murad Ghanim
Murad Ghanim Agricultural Research Organization

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