2025

• Sayed, Rascha, Şahin, Özge, Errbii, Mohammed, Prüser, Tobias, Schrader, Lukas, Schulz, Nora, and Kurtz, Joachim. 2025. “HSP90 as an Evolutionary Capacitor Drives Adaptive Eye Size Reduction via atonal.” Nature Communications 16. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-65027-0.
• Korša, Ana, Baur, Moritz, Schulz, Nora KE, Anaya-Rojas, Jaime M, Mellmann, Alexander, and Kurtz, Joachim. 2025. “Experimental evolution of a pathogen confronted with innate immune memory increases variation in virulence.” PLoS Pathogens 21 (6). doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012839.
• Mundinger, C, Schulz, NKE, Singh, P, Janz, S, Schurig, M, Seidemann, J, Kurtz, J, Müller, C, Schielzeth, H, von Kortzfleisch, VT, and Richter, SH. 2025. “Testing the reproducibility of ecological studies on insect behavior in a multi-laboratory setting identifies opportunities for improving experimental rigour.” PLoS Biology 23 (4) e3003019. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003019.
• Schulz, Nora K. E., Korsa, Ana, Jensen, Helle, Lo, Lai Ka, Friedrichs, Jeanne, Müller, Caroline, and Kurtz, Joachim. 2025. “Resistance evolution driven by niche construction – the role of microbiota and beetle secretions.” Preprint. Research Square doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6353988/v1 .
• R, Reshma, Schulz, Nora KE, Feldmann, Carlina C, Mews, Sina, Ogueta, Maite, Stanewsky, Ralf, and Kurtz, Joachim. 2025. “Testing the role of heat shock protein 90 as an evolutionary capacitor of behavioural variation in Tribolium castaneum.” Preprint. Research Square doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6354107/v1.
• Lo, Lai Ka, Schulz, Nora K. E., Jensen, Helle, and Kurtz, Joachim. 2025. “Experimental Removal of Niche Construction Alters the Pace and Mechanisms of Resistance Evolution.” Preprint. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2025.03.27.645637.
• Baur, Moritz, Schulz, Nora KE, Greune, Lilo, Länger, Zoe M, Eirich, Jürgen, Finkemeier, Iris, Peuss, Robert, Dersch, Petra, and Kurtz, Joachim. 2025. “Immune priming in the insect gut: a dynamic response revealed by ultrastructural and transcriptomic changes.” BMC Biology 23. doi: 10.1186/s12915-025-02334-4.

2022

• Schulz, Nora K. E., Mohamed, Fakry F., Lo, KaLai, Peuß, Robert, de Buhr, Maike F., and Kurtz, Joachim. 2022. “Paternal knockdown of tRNA (cytosine‐5‐)‐methyltransferase (Dnmt2) increases offspring susceptibility to infection in red flour beetles.” Insect Molecular Biology 31 (6): 711–721. doi: 10.1111/imb.12798.

2018

• Schulz, NKE, Wagner, CI, Ebeling, J, Raddatz, G, Diddens-de, Buhr MF, Lyko, F, and Kurtz, J. 2018. “Dnmt1 has an essential function despite the absence of CpG DNA methylation in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum.” Scientific Reports 8. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34701-3.