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Doctoral theses

Feldewert, Christopher (2022): Diversity, function and oxygen relationship of free-living and flagellate-associated Opitutales (phylum Verrucomicrobiota) in the termite gut (Universität Marburg)
Song, Yulin (2022): Phylogeny and metabolism of novel spirochetes from cockroaches and evolutionary origin of reductive acetogenesis in termite gut treponemes (Universität Marburg).
Wang, Wanyang (2018): The bacterial gut microbiota of wood- and humus-feeding termites: Diazotrophic populations and compartment-specific response of bacterial communities to environmental factors (Universität Marburg)
Lampert, Niclas (2017): Microenvironment and bacterial community structure in the gut of wood- and litter-feeding cockroaches (Universität Marburg)
Tegtmeier, Dorothee (2016): The gut microbiota of the cockroach Shelfordella lateralis: Primary colonization, succession, and metabolic response to microenvironmental conditions (Universität Marburg)
Zheng, Hao (2015): Genome evolution of Endomicrobia: From free-living bacteria to intracellular symbionts of termite gut flagellates (Universität Marburg)
Dietrich, Carsten (2015): Ecological and evolutionary drivers of microbial community structure in termite guts (Universität Marburg)
Lang, Kristina (2014): Diversity, ultrastructure, and comparative genomics of "Methanoplasmatales", the seventh order of methanogens (Universität Marburg)
Mikaelyan, Aram (2013): Microhabitat specificity of the hindgut microbiota in higher termites (Universität Marburg)
Nonoh, James O. (2013): Archaeal diversity and community structure in the compartmented gut of higher termites (Universität Marburg)
Schauer, Christine (2011): The gut microbiota of the blattid cockroach Shelfordella lateralis (Universität Marburg)
Köhler, Tim (2011): Diversity and evolutionary patterns in the bacterial gut microbiota of termites and cockroaches (Universität Marburg)
Strassert, Jürgen (2009): The symbioses of termite gut flagellates and their bacterial endo- and ectosymbionts: analysis of ultrastructure, phylogeny, and cospeciation (Freie Universität Berlin)
Herlemann, Daniel (2009): The candidate phylum "Termite group 1" – diversity, distribution, metabolism and evolution of representatives of an unexplored bacterial phylum (Universität Marburg)
Desai, Mahesh (2008): Bacterial symbionts of termite gut flagellates: cospeciation and nitrogen fixation in the gut of dry-wood termites (Universität Marburg)
Ngugi, David Kamanda (2008): Transformation and mineralization of nitrogenous soil components in the gut of soil-feeding termites (Universität Marburg)
Ikeda-Ohtsubo, Wakako (2007): Endomicrobia in termite guts: symbionts within a symbiont (Universität Marburg)
Andert, Janet (2007): Transformation of nitrogenous soil components by humivorous beetle larvae (Universität Marburg)
Pester, Michael (2006): Hydrogen metabolism in the hindgut of lower termites: Fluxes of hydrogen-dependent and related processes and identification of the homoacetogenic microbiota (Universität Marburg)
Li, Xiangzhen (2004): Transformation and mineralization of organic matter by the humivorous larva of Pachnoda ephippiata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (Universität Konstanz)
Stingl, Ulrich (2004): Termite gut flagellates and their bacterial symbionts: Phylogenetic analysis and localization in situ (Universität Konstanz)
Yang, Hong (2004): Structure and diversity of the bacterial community in the gut of wood-feeding lower termites (Reticulitermes spp.). (Central China Normal University, Wuhan)
Schmitt-Wagner, Dirk (2003): The intestinal microbiota of soil-feeding termites: Microbial diversity, community structure, and metabolic activities in the highly compartmentalized gut of Cubitermes spp. (Universität Konstanz)
Kappler, Andreas (2000): Redox processes and humification of organic matter in guts of soil-feeding termites and in lake sediments (Universität Konstanz)
Boga, Hamadi Iddi (2000): Numerical and physiological characterization of the microbiota in the intestinal tracts of soil-feeding Termitinae (Universität Konstanz)
Ji, Rong (2000): Transformation and mineralization of organic matter by soil-feeding termites (Universität Konstanz)
Tholen, Anne (1999): Der Termitendarm als strukturiertes Ökosystem: Untersuchung der Mikrobiota und der Stoffflüsse im Darm von Reticulitermes flavipes und Cubitermes spp. (Universität Konstanz)