PD Dr H Michael G Lattorff
Curriculum vitae
- Year of birth – 1974
- Nationality – german
- Married, 5 children
- Current position: associated researcher
- Habilitation – 2013, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
- PhD – 2005, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
- Diplom (Biologie) – 2000, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Research Interests
I'm interested in certain characteristics of insect societies, particularly reproductive division of labour and defences against pathogens. Particularly, I'm interested in
- worker reproduction in order to understand the evolution of the sterile worker caste
- the genetic basis of disease resistance
- plasticity in the activation of immune responses
- the evolutionary forces driving immune gene evolution at the molecular level
- social context dependent gene expression changes in social insects.
Selected Publications
Barribeau, SM, Sadd BM, ..., Helbing S, Karaus E, Lattorff HMG, Marxer, M, Meeus I, ..., Zbodnov EM, Schmid-Hempel P 2015. A depauperate immune repertoire precedes evolution of sociality in bees. Genome Biol 16: 83.
Lattorff HMG, Buchholz J, Fries I, Moritz RFA 2015. A selective sweep in a Varroa destructor resistant honeybee (Apis mellifera) population. Infect Genet Evol 31: 169-176.
Erler S, Lhomme P, Rasmont P, Lattorff HMG 2014. Rapid evolution of antimicrobial peptide genes in an insect host-social parasite system. Infect Genet Evol 23: 129-137.
Lattorff HMG, Moritz RFA 2013. Genetic underpinnings of division of labor in the honeybee. Trends Genet 29: 641-648.
Richter J, Helbing S, Erler S, Lattorff HMG 2012. Social context dependent immune gene expression in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 66: 791-796.
Fouks B, Lattorff HMG 2011. Recognition and avoidance of contaminated flowers by foraging bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). PLoS ONE 6: e26328.
Erler S, Popp M, Lattorff HMG 2011. Dynamics of Immune System Gene Expression upon Bacterial Challenge and Wounding in a Social Insect (Bombus terrestris). PLoS ONE 6: e18126.
Lattorff HMG, Moritz RFA, Crewe RM, Solignac M 2007. Control of reproductive dominance by the thelytoky gene in honeybees. Biol Lett 3: 292-295.
The Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium (HGSC) 2006. Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Nature 443: 931-949.
Moritz RFA, Lattorff HMG, Neumann P, Kraus FB, Radloff SE, Hepburn HR 2005. Rare royal families in honeybees, Apis mellifera. Naturwissenschaften 92: 488-491.