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Michael Gerth

- Verified email at idiv.de - Cited by 1206

Monica L. Gerth

- Verified email at vuw.ac.nz - Cited by 1008

Phytophthora agathidicida: research progress, cultural perspectives and knowledge gaps in the control and management of kauri dieback in New Zealand

…, SE Bellgard, A Black, BR Burns, ML Gerth… - Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Waipoua is home to the famous Tāne Mahuta (‘God of The Forest’), NZ's largest kauri tree
with a height of >50 m and girth of just over 14 m as of April 2019 (I. Horner, Plant and Food …

[HTML][HTML] Enzyme evolution: innovation is easy, optimization is complicated

MS Newton, VL Arcus, ML Gerth, WM Patrick - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2018 - Elsevier
… The second important point when considering activity and fitness is that kinetic parameters
such as k cat or k cat /K M are not sufficient as the sole definition of an enzyme's contribution …

Engineering quorum quenching enzymes: progress and perspectives

SA Murugayah, ML Gerth - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Quorum sensing is a key contributor to the virulence of many important plant, animal and
human pathogens. The disruption of this signalling—a process referred to as ‘quorum …

Impact of climate change on the Baltic Sea ecosystem over the past 1,000 years

…, F Adolphi, TJ Andersen, H Siegel, M Gerth… - Nature Climate …, 2012 - nature.com
… of two sediment cores taken in 232 m (370531; a) and 175 m (303600; b) water depth,
instrumental oxygen concentrations in 200 m water depth (hydrogen sulphide expressed as …

New Wolbachia supergroups detected in quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae)

…, A Dragun-Damian, M Dabert, M Gerth - Infection, Genetics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Wolbachia is the most abundant intracellular bacterial genus infecting a wide range of arthropods
and filarial nematodes. Wolbachia have evolved parasitic, mutualistic and commensal …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic analyses uncover origin and spread of the Wolbachia pandemic

M Gerth, MT Gansauge, A Weigert… - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Of all obligate intracellular bacteria, Wolbachia is probably the most common. In general,
Wolbachia are either widespread, opportunistic reproductive parasites of arthropods or …

Comparative genomics provides a timeframe for Wolbachia evolution and exposes a recent biotin synthesis operon transfer

M Gerth, C Bleidorn - Nature Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
The genus Wolbachia (Alphaproteobacteria) comprises the most abundant inherited intracellular
bacteria 1. Despite their relevance as manipulators of human pathogen transmission 2 …

Reconstruction of an acetogenic 2, 3-butanediol pathway involving a novel NADPH-dependent primary-secondary alcohol dehydrogenase

M Köpke, ML Gerth, DJ Maddock… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acetogenic bacteria use CO and/or CO 2 plus H 2 as their sole carbon and energy sources.
Fermentation processes with these organisms hold promise for producing chemicals and …

Evolution of mitochondrial gene order in Annelida

A Weigert, A Golombek, M Gerth, F Schwarz… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Annelida is a highly diverse animal group with over 21,000 described species. As part of
Lophotrochozoa, the vast majority of annelids are currently classified into two groups: Errantia …

Evolution of cyclohexadienyl dehydratase from an ancestral solute-binding protein

BE Clifton, JA Kaczmarski, PD Carr, ML Gerth… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
… to assess the statistical significance of differences in T M between untreated and ligand-treated
samples. ΔT M values were taken to be indicative of binding if ΔT M > 2 C and P < 0.05. …