Martha S Hunter

Interests

Research

Microbe-animal interactions, evolutionary ecology, parasite-host interactions

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Doremus, M. R., & Hunter, M. S. (2020). The saboteur’s tools: Common mechanistic themes across manipulative symbioses.. In Advances in Insect Physiology(pp 317-353).

Journals/Publications

• Doremus, M. R., Stouthamer, C. M., Kelly, S. E., Schmitz-Esser, S., & Hunter, M. S. (2020). Cardinium localization during its parasitoid wasp host’s development provides insights into cytoplasmic incompatibility.. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 60639. doi:https://doi.org/10.33389/fmicb.2020.606399
• Ravenscraft, A. R., Thairu, M. W., Hansen, A. K., & Hunter, M. S. (2020). Continent-scale sampling reveals fine-scale turnover in a beneficial symbiont. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 1276. doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01276
• Bockoven, A. A., Bondy, E. C., Flores, M. J., Kelly, S. E., & Hunter, M. S. (2019). What goes up might come down: The spectacular spread of an endosymbiont is followed by its decline a decade later.. Microbial Ecology. doi:doi: 10.1007/s00248-019-01417-4
• Bondy, E. C., & Hunter, M. S. (2019). Determining the egg fertilization rate of Bemisia tabaci using a cytogenetic technique.. Journal of Visual Experiments, (146), e59213. doi:doi:10.3791/59213
• Bondy, E. C., & Hunter, M. S. (2019). Sex ratios in haplodiploid herbivores (Aleyrodidae and Thysanoptera): A review and tools for study.. Advances in Insect Physiology, 56, 251-281.
• Doremus, M. R., & Hunter, M. S. (2019). Exposure to opposing temperature regimes causes comparable effects on Cardinium density but contrasting effects on Cardinium-caused cytoplasmic incompatibility.. PLoS Pathogens, 15, e1008022.
• Stothamer, C. M., Kelly, S. E., Mann, E., Schmitz-Esser, S., & Hunter, M. S. (2019). Development of a multi-locus sequence typing system helps reveal the evolution of Cardinium hertigii, a reproductive manipulator of insects.. BMC Microbiology, 19, 266. doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1638-9
• Stouthamer, C. M., Kelly, S. E., & Hunter, M. S. (2018). Enrichment of low-density symbiont DNA from minute insects.. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 151, 16-19.
• Gebiola, M., Giorgini, M., Kelly, S. E., Feree, P., & Hunter, M. S. (2017). Cytological analysis of cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by Cardinium suggests convergent evolution with its distant cousin Wolbachia.. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B.
• Gebiola, M., Kelly, S. E., Velten, L., Zug, R., Hammerstein, P., Giorgini, M., & Hunter, M. S. (2017). Reproductive interference, hybrid sterility and fecundity affect competitive interactions of sibling species with low mating barriers: Experimental and theoretical evidence.. Heredity, 119, 438-446.
• Gebiola, M., Pedata, P. A., Johnson, R. C., Monti, M. M., Woolley, J. B., Hunter, M. S., & Giorgini, M. (2017). Revision of the Encarsia pergandiella species complex (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of whitefly pests.. Systematic Entomology, 42, 31-59. doi:DOI: 10.1111/syen.12187
• Mann, E., Stouthamer, C. M., Kelly, S. E., Hunter, M. S., & Schmitz-Esser, S. (2017). Transcriptome sequencing suggests convergent evolution of cytoplasmic incompatibility and host cell interaction in unrelated arthropod symbionts.. mSystems, 2, e00141-17. doi:10/1128

Presentations

• Bronstein, J., Hunter, M. S., Davidowitz, G., & Cruz, A. (2021). Scaling up: Linking thermal ecology to species interactions in a sessile herbivore. Ecological Society of America. virtual.
• Hunter, M. S. (2021, July). Plenary speaker: Environmental transmission: Upending our assumptions about the intimacy of mutualist arthropod microbe symbioses.. International Conference of Insect Science of 2021.. Baoding, Hebei, China.
• Hunter, M. S. (2021, November). Microbes come along for the ride: cryptic players in insect invasion and biological control. Entomological Society of America Annual Conference. Denver, CO: Entomological Society of America.
• Hunter, M. S. (2020, February). Environmental transmission: Upending our assumptions about the intimacy of mutualist arthropod microbe symbioses. Al Boyce Annual Invited Lecturer. University of California, Riverside.
• Hunter, M. S. (2019, April). The dependable parasite and the risky mutualist: Bacterial symbiont roles in parasitoid wasps and leaf-footed bugs.. HR MacCarthy Pest Management Lecture. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Department of Biological Sciences.
• Hunter, M. S. (2019, December). The dependable parasite and the risky mutualist: Bacterial symbiont roles in parasitoid wasps and leaf-footed bugs.. Departmental Seminar. USDA Arid Lands Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, AZ: USDA.
• Hunter, M. S. (2019, July). The comparative biology of the reproductive manipulator symbiont, Cardinium.. Keynote Speaker, Eighth International Conference in Insect Molecular Biology. Sitges, Spain: The University of Arizona Center for Insect Science and Elsevier.
• Hunter, M. S. (2019, July). The environmentally-acquired Burkholderia symbiont of a leaf-footed bug host: What does it do and how does it get there?. EVOSYM workshop: Convergence evolution of symbioses in ticks.. Montpellier, France: CNRS- MiVEGEC Research Unit, Montpellier.
• Hunter, M. S. (2019, May). Environmental transmission: Upending our assumptions about the intimacy of mutualist arthropod microbe symbioses.. Keynote Speaker, Yosemite Symbiosis Conference. Yosemite Valley, CA: Yosemite Symbiosis Group, UC Merced and UC Riverside.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, April). The rise and fall of a transformation endosymbiont of whiteflies. UK Microbiology Conference. Birmingham, UK: UK Microbiology Society.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, June). The rise and fall of a transformation endosymbiont of whiteflies. International Wolbachia Conference. Salem, MA.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, March). Comparative biology of reproductive manipulation by the bacterial symbiont Cardinium. Departmental Seminar, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan. Tsukuba, Japan: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, March). Comparative biology of reproductive manipulation by the bacterial symbiont Cardinium. Japan Entomological Society Annual Meeting. Kagashima, Japan: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, March). Role of symbionts in biological control. Department Seminar, University of Miyazaki. Miyazaki, Japan: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, March). The rise and fall of a transformation endosymbiont of whiteflies. Department Seminar, University of Bristol. Bristol, UK.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, March). The rise and fall of a transformation endosymbiont of whiteflies. Department Seminar, University of Sapporo. Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, November). The communication that divides us. Entomological Society of American Annual Meeting. Vancouver, Canada.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, October). The rise and fall of a transformation endosymbiont of whiteflies. Nanjing Workshop on Symbiosis. Nanjing, China: Nanjing, China.
• Hunter, M. S. (2018, September). The symbiont Cardinium and Burkholderia shape their symbionts in different ways. University of Georgia, Department of Entomology. Athens, GA: University of Georgia.
• Hunter, M. S. (2017, April). The rise and fall of a transformational endosymbiont of whiteflies.. Invited Department Seminar, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University. College Station, TX.
• Hunter, M. S. (2017, May). Comparative biology of the endosymbiont Cardinium. Invited and sponsored presentation. France-Israel conference on Insect Symbionts: Plasticity in confronting environmental challenges. Sde Boker, Israel.
• Hunter, M. S. (2017, May). The rise and fall of a transformational endosymbiont of whiteflies.. Invited Department Seminar. Israel Agricultural Organization in Newe Ya'ar, Ramat Ishay, Israel: Newe Ya'ar Research Institute Seminar Series.
• Hunter, M. S. (2017, November). A comparative genomic approach to understanding reproductive manipulation by the symbiont Cardinium. Entomological Society of America. Denver, Colorado.
• Hunter, M. S. (2017, October). Defensive symbionts of insects and biological control: What do we know?. W4185 Regional Project: Biological Control in the West. Borrego Springs Resort, Anza Borrego.