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Dr. Katharina Dittmar

Associate Professor

Dittmar Lab Website

109 Cooke Hall
Tel: 716 645 4912

kd52@buffalo.edu

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
[* graduate student authors]

1. *Morse S, Olival K, Patterson BD, Dick CW, Kosoy M, Dittmar K. 2012. Genetic diversity of bartonellae in a global sampling of bat flies (Hippoboscoidea, Streblidae, Nycteribiidae). Infection, Genetics, and Evolution 12(8):1717-1723.

2. *Morse S, Dick CW, Patterson BD, Dittmar K. 2012. Some like it hot: Evolution and ecology of novel endosymbionts in bat flies of cave roosting bats (Hippoboscoidea, Nycterophiliinae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78 (24): 8639-8649.

3. *Balasubramaniam KN, Dittmar K, Berman CM, Butovskaya M, Cooper MA, Ma-jolo B, Ogawa H, Schino G, Thierry B, de Waal FBM. 2012. Hierarchical steepness and phylogenetic models: phylogenetic signals in Macaca. Animal Behaviour 83: 1207-1218

4. Dittmar K, *Morse S, Gruwell M, *Mayberry J, *DiBlasi E. 2011. Spatial and temporal complexities of reproductive behavior and sex ratios: A case from parasitic insects. PLoS One 6(5): e19438.

5. Taylor D, Dittmar K, *Ballinger M, Bruenn J. 2011. The evolutionary mainte-nance of filovirus-like genes in bat genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:336. [Highly Accessed]

6. Gruwell M, Hardy N, Gullan P, Dittmar K. 2010. Evolutionary relationships among primary endosymbionts in the mealybug subfamily Phenacoccinae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76: 7521-7525.

7. *Dittmar K, Dick C, Patterson B, Whiting M & M Gruwell. 2009. Pupal deposition and ecology of bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae): Trichobius sp. (caecus group) in a Mexican cave habitat. Journal of Parasitology 95: 308-314.

8. Rothenburg S, Seo EJ, Gibbs J, Dever T, Dittmar K. 2009. Rapid evolution of protein kinase alters the sensitivity to viral inhibitors. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 16:63-70. [Must Read: Faculty of 1000]

9. Patterson, BD, CW Dick & Dittmar K. 2008. Parasitism by bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae) on Neotropical bats: effects of host body size, distribution and abundance. Parasitology Research 103:1091-1100.