Researcher
Nicky Wybouw
- Keywords:herbivory, endosymbionts
- Disciplines:Molecular evolution, Phylogeny and comparative analysis, Invertebrate biology, Computational evolutionary biology, comparative genomics and population genomics
Affiliations
- Biology (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2020 → Today - Department of Plants and Crops (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2018 → 30 Sep 2020 - Department of Crop protection (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2010 → 31 Dec 2017
Projects
1 - 6 of 6
- A mechanistic study of an evolving plant-herbivore metapopulation in controlled and anthropogenic environmentsFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Molecular-genetic mechanisms of reproductive symbiosis in haplodiploidsFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Unravelling the molecular-genetic underpinnings of hybrid defects in agricultural pestsFrom1 May 2023 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
- BOF ZAP evolutionary geneticsFrom1 Feb 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - ZAP BOF mandates
- The eco-evolutionary drivers of the Wolbachia pandemic in garden spider mitesFrom1 Oct 2020 → 1 Feb 2023Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Possibilities of ring-cleaving dioxygenases Tetranychus urticae in crop protection and beyondFrom1 Oct 2010 → 5 Jan 2016Funding: IWT personal funding - specialisation scholarships
Publications
1 - 10 of 19
- Adaptation of an arthropod predator to a challenging environment is associated with a loss of a genome-wide plastic transcriptional response(2024)
Authors: Sabina Bajda-Wybouw, Nicky Wybouw, Việt Hà Nguyễn, Patrick De Clercq, Thomas Van Leeuwen
Pages: 2021 - 2031 - The complex II resistance mutation H258Y in succinate dehydrogenase subunit B causes fitness penalties associated with mitochondrial respiratory deficiency(2023)
Authors: Christine Njiru, Corinna Saalwaechter, Konstantinos Mavridis, John Vontas, Sven Geibel, Nicky Wybouw, Thomas Van Leeuwen
Pages: 4403 - 4413 - Egg provisioning explains the penetrance of symbiont-mediated sex allocation distortion in haplodiploids(2023)
Authors: Nicky Wybouw, Emma Van Reempts, Flore Zélé, Dries Bonte
Pages: 221 - 229 - A salivary GMC oxidoreductase of Manduca sexta re-arranges the green leaf volatile profile of its host plant(2023)
Authors: Yu-Hsien Lin, Juliette J. M. Silven, Nicky Wybouw, Richard A. Fandino, Henk L. Dekker, Heiko Vogel, Yueh-Lung Wu, Chris de Koster, Ewald Große-Wilde, Michel A. Haring, et al.
- The host plant strongly modulates acaricide resistance levels to mitochondrial complex II inhibitors in a multi-resistant field population of Tetranychus urticae(2023)
Authors: Christine Njiru, Marilou Vandenhole, Wim Jonckheere, Nicky Wybouw, Thomas Van Leeuwen
- Cardinium symbionts are pervasive in Iranian populations of the spider mite Panonychus ulmi despite inducing an infection cost and no demonstrable reproductive phenotypes when Wolbachia is a symbiotic partner(2023)
Authors: Nastaran Haghshenas-Gorgabi, Nafiseh Poorjavd, Jahangir Khajehali, Nicky Wybouw
Pages: 369 - 380 - Genomic diversity across the Rickettsia and ‘Candidatus Megaira’ genera and proposal of genus status for the Torix group(2022)
Authors: Helen R. Davison, Jack Pilgrim, Nicky Wybouw, Joseph Parker, Stacy Pirro, Simon Hunter-Barnett, Paul M. Campbell, Frances Blow, Alistair C. Darby, Gregory D. D. Hurst, et al.
- Structural and functional characterization of beta-cyanoalanine synthase from Tetranychus urticae(2022)
Authors: Leily Daneshian, Isabella Renggli, Ryan Hanaway, Lesa R. Offermann, Caleb R. Schlachter, Shannon Henry, Rahul Prakash, Nicky Wybouw, Wannes Dermauw, Linda S. Shimizu, et al.
- A H258Y mutation in subunit B of the succinate dehydrogenase complex of the spider mite Tetranychus urticae confers resistance to cyenopyrafen and pyflubumide, but likely reinforces cyflumetofen binding and toxicity(2022)
Authors: Christine Njiru, Corinna Saalwaechter, Oliver Gutbrod, Sven Geibel, Nicky Wybouw, Thomas Van Leeuwen
- Interacting host modifier systems control Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite(2022)
Authors: Nicky Wybouw, Frederik Mortier, Dries Bonte
Pages: 255 - 265