Research Interests
Arthropod-microbe symbioses; heritable symbioses; reproductive manipulation
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Entomology
Assistant Professor, Prairie Research Institute
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Doremus, M. R., & Hunter, M. S. (2025). Symbiosis: An escalating arms race between a butterfly and bacterium. Current Biology, 35(9), R339-R341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.061
Mackevicius-Dubickaja, V., Gottlieb, Y., White, J. A., & Doremus, M. R. (2025). Wolbachia Feminises a Spider Host With Assistance From Co-Infecting Symbionts. Environmental Microbiology, 27(7), Article e70149. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70149
Mathieson, O. L., Schultz, D. L., Hunter, M. S., Kleiner, M., Schmitz-Esser, S., & Doremus, M. R. (2025). The ecology, evolution, and physiology of Cardinium: A widespread heritable endosymbiont of invertebrates. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 49, Article fuaf031. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuaf031
Doremus, M. R., Stouthamer, C. M., Kelly, S. E., Schmitz-Esser, S., & Hunter, M. S. (2022). Quality over quantity: unraveling the contributions to cytoplasmic incompatibility caused by two coinfecting Cardinium symbionts. Heredity, 128(3), 187-195. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-022-00507-3
Schultz, D. L., Selberherr, E., Stouthamer, C. M., Doremus, M. R., Kelly, S. E., Hunter, M. S., & Schmitz-Esse, S. (2022). Sex-based de novo transcriptome assemblies of the parasitoid wasp Encarsia suzannae, a host of the manipulative heritable symbiont Cardinium hertigii. GigaByte, 2022. https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.68