Publications
Schwarzenberger, A., Sadler, T. & Von Elert, E. (2013) Effect of nutrient limitation of cyanobacteria on protease inhibitor production and fitness of Daphnia magna. Journal of Experimental Biology in press (doi: ).
Fink, P. & Harrod, C. (2013) Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes reveal use of pelagic resources by the invasive Ponto-Caspian Mysid Limnomysis benedeni. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies in press (doi: ).
Fink, P. (2013) Invasion of quality: high amounts of essential fatty acids in the invasive Ponto-Caspian mysid Limnomysis benedeni. Journal of Plankton Research 35 (4): 907-913 (doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbt029).
Schwarzenberger, A., d'Hondt, Sofie, Wyverman, W. & Von Elert, E. (2013) Seasonal succession of cyanobacterial protease inhibitors and Daphnia magna genotypes in a eutrophic Swedish lake. Aquatic Sciences 75: 433-445 (doi: 10.1007/s00027-013-0290-y).
Kuster, C.J., Schwarzenberger, A. & Von Elert, E. (2013) Seasonal dynamics of sestonic protease inhibition: Impact on Daphnia populations. Hydrobiologia in press (doi: 10.1007/s10750-012-1303-x).
Kuster, C.J. & Von Elert, E. (2013) Interspecific differences between D. pulex and D. magna in tolerance to cyanobacteria with protease inhibitors. PLoS One 8(5): e62658 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062658).
Schwarzenberger, A., & Von Elert, E. (2013) Cyanobacterial protease inhibitors lead to maternal transfer of increased protease gene expression in Daphnia. Oecologia 172 (1): 11-20 (doi: 10.1007/s00442-012-2479-5).
Fink, P., Reichwaldt, E.S., Harrod, C. & Rossberg, A. (2012) Determining trophic niche width: An experimental test of the stable isotope approach. Oikos 121 (12): 1985–1994 (doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20185.x).
Ghomi, M. R., Shahriari, R., Langroudi, H. F., Nikoo, M. & Von Elert, E. (2012) Effects of exogenous dietary enzyme on growth, body composition, and fatty acid profiles of cultured great sturgeon Huso huso fingerlings. Aquaculture International 20: 249-254. (doi: 10.1007/s10499-011-9453-9).
Kuster, C.J. & Von Elert, E. (2012) High Resolution Melting Analysis (HRMA): A genotyping tool for population studies on Daphnia. Molecular Ecology Resources 12: 1048-1057 (doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2012.03177.x).
Von Berlepsch, S., Kunz, H.H., Brodesser, S., Fink, P., Marin, K., Flügge, U.I. & Gierth, M. (2012) The acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase from Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 mediates fatty acid import. Plant Physiology 159 (2): 606-617 (doi: 10.1104/pp.112.195263).
Schwarzenberger, A., Kuster, C.J. & Von Elert, E. (2012) Molecular mechanisms of tolerance to cyanobacterial protease inhibitors revealed by clonal differences in Daphnia magna. Molecular Ecology 21 (19): 4898-4911 (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05753.x).
Brzezinski, T., Fronk, J., Trzcinska-Danielewicz, J. & Dawidowicz, P. (2012) Interspecific hybridization in sympatric species of Daphnia inhabiting lakes in northeastern Poland. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies 41 (2): 1-6 (doi: 10.2478/s13545-012-0011-5).
Fink, P., Kottsieper, A., Heynen, M. & Borcherding, J. (2012) Selective zooplanktivory of an invasive Ponto-Caspian mysid and possible consequences for the zooplankton community structure of invaded habitats. Aquatic Sciences 74: 191-202 (doi: 10.1007/s00027-011-0210-y).
Pajk, F., Von Elert, E. & Fink, P. (2012) Interaction of changes in food quality and temperature reveals maternal effects on fitness parameters of a keystone aquatic herbivore. Limnology and Oceanography 57 (1): 281-292 (doi: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.1.0281).
Von Elert, E. (2012) Information conveyed by chemical cues. Chapter 2 (pp 19-38) in: Chemical Ecology in Aquatic Systems. Brönmark, C. and Hansson, L.-A.. (eds.). Oxford University Press.
Von Elert, E., Zitt, A. & Schwarzenberger, A. (2012) Inducible tolerance to dietary protease inhibitors in Daphnia magna. Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 2051-2059 (doi: 10.1242/jeb.068742).
Deines, P., & Fink, P. (2011) The potential of methanotrophic bacteria to compensate for food quantity or food quality limitations in Daphnia. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 65 (2): 197-206 (doi: 10.3354/ame01542).
Fink, P., Pflitsch, C., & Marin, K. (2011) Dietary essential amino acids affect the reproduction of the keystone herbivore Daphnia pulex. PLoS ONE 6 (12): e28498 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028498).
Assmann, C., Rinke, K., Nechwatal, J. & Von Elert, E.(2011) Consequences of the colonisation of leaves by fungi and oomycetes for leaf consumption by a gammarid shredder. Freshwater Biology 56: 839-852 (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02530.x).
Jüttner, F., Watson, S. B., von Elert, E. & Köster, O. (2010) beta-Cyclocitral, a grazer defence signal unique to the cyanobacterium Microcystis. Journal of Chemical Ecology 36:1387-1397 (doi: 10.1007/s10886-010-9877-0).
Brzezinski, T., Dawidowicz, P. & von Elert, E. (2010) The role of food quality in clonal succession in Daphnia: an experimental test. Oecologia 164 (2): 379-388 (doi: 10.1007/s00442-010-1662-9).
Assmann, C., Nechwatal, J. Rinke, K. & Von Elert, E.. (2010) The impact of axenic strains of fungi and oomycetes on the preference of Gammarus roeselii for leaf litter. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 176/3: 235-248 (doi: 10.1127/1863-9135/2010/0176-0235).
Schwarzenberger, A., Zitt, A., Kroth, P., Mueller, S. & Von Elert, E.. (2010) Gene expression and activity of digestive proteases in Daphnia: effects of cyanobacterial protease inhibitors. BMC Physiology 10:6 (doi: 10.1186/1472-6793-10-6).
Bec, A., Martin-Creuzburg, D. & Von Elert, E.. (2010) Fatty acid composition of the heterotrophic nanoflagellate Paraphysomonas sp.: Influence of diet and de novo biosynthesis. Aquatic Biology 9: 107-112 (doi: 10.3354/ab00244).
Persson, J., Fink, P., Goto, A., Hood, J.M., Jonas, J. & Kato, S. (2010) To be or not to be what you eat: Regulation of stoichiometric homeostasis among autotrophs and heterotrophs. Oikos 119 (5):741-751; all authors contributed equally to this publication (doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18545.x).
Martin-Creuzburg, D. & Von Elert, E. (2009) Good food versus bad food: the role of sterols and polyunsaturated fatty acids in determining growth and reproduction of Daphnia magna. Aquatic Ecology 43: 943–950.
Schwarzenberger, A., Courts, C. & Von Elert, E.. (2009) Target gene approaches: Gene expression in Daphnia magna exposed topredator-borne kairomones or to microcystin-producing and microcystin-free Microcystis aeruginosa. BMC Genomics 10: 527.
Assmann, C., Von Elert, E. & Gergs, R. (2009) Effects of leaf litter and its fungal colonization on the diet of Limnomysis benedeni (Crustacea: Mysida). Hydrobiologia 636: 439–447.
Bischoff, A.A., Fink, P. & Waller, U. (2009) The fatty acid composition of Nereis diversicolor cultured in an integrated recirculated system: possible implications for aquaculture. Aquaculture 296 : 271-276.
Assmann, C. & Von Elert, E.(2009) The impact of fungal extracts on leaf litter on the food preference of Gammarus roeselii. International Review of Hydrobiology 94 (4): 484-496.
Martin-Creuzburg, D. & Von Elert, E. (2009) Ecological significance of sterols in aquatic food webs.
In: Lipids in Aquatic Ecosystems. Arts, M. T., Brett, M., and Kainz, M. (eds.). Springer, New York. pp 43-64.
Koch, U., Von Elert, E. & Straile, D. (2009) Food quality triggers the reproductive mode in the cyclical parthenogen Daphnia (Cladocera). Oecologia 159: 317-324.
Wacker, A. & Von Elert, E. (2008) Body size and food thresholds for zero growth in Dreissena polymorpha: a mechanism underlying intraspecific competition. Freshwater Biology: 53 (12) 2356-2363.
Kreuter, K., Baier, B. Assmann, C. and Steidle, J.L.M. (2008). Prey location and prey choice by the freshwater leech Erpobdella octoculata using foraging kairomones. Freshwater Biology 53 (8): 1524-1530.
Fink, P. (2008) Algal food quality affects growth of a benthic herbivore. Proc. Int. Soc. Limnol. 30 (4): 531-533.
Martin-Creuzburg, D., Von Elert, E. & Hoffmann, K.H. (2008) Nutritional constraints at the cyanobacteria - Daphnia magna interface: The role of sterols. Limnology
and Oceanography 53 (2): 456-468.
Segelbacher, G., Sacher, T. Schwarzenberger, A., Woitsch, S., Bairlein, F. & Coppack, T. (2008) Eight microsatellite loci characterised in the European blackbird, Turdus merula. Journal of Ornithology 149 (1): 131-133.
Fink, P. (2007) Ecological functions of volatile organic compounds in aquatic systems. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology: 40 (3): 155-168.
(among the 20 most read articles of Mar. Freshw. Behav. Physiol., see the journal's website!)
Brzezinski, T. & von Elert, E. (2007) Biochemical food quality effects on a Daphnia hybrid complex. Limnology
and Oceanography 52 (6): 2350-2357.
Abrusan, G., Fink, P. & Lampert, W. (2007) Biochemical limitation of resting egg production in Daphnia. Limnology
and Oceanography 52 (4): 1724-1728 (doi: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.4.1724).
Kagami, M., Von Elert, E., Ibelings, B.W., De Bruin, A. & Van Donk, E. (2007) The parasitic chytrid Zygorhizidium facilitates the growth of the cladoceran zooplankter Daphnia in cultures of the inedible alga Asterionella. Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences 274: 1561-1566.
Flöder, S., Combüchen, A., Pasternak, A. & Hillebrand, H. (2006). Competition between pelagic and benthic microalgae for phosphorus and light. Aquatic Sciences 68 (4): 425-433.
Fink, P.
& Von Elert, E. (2006) Physiological responses to stoichiometric
constraints: nutrient limitation and compensatory feeding in a freshwater
snail. Oikos: 115 (3): 484-494.
Martin-Creuzburg, D., Bec,
A. & Von Elert, E. (2006) Supplementation with sterols improves
food quality of a ciliate for Daphnia magna. Protist 157: 477-486.
Fink, P., Von Elert,
E. & Jüttner, F. (2006) Volatile foraging kairomones in the
littoral zone: attraction of an herbivorous freshwater gastropod to
algal odors. Journal of Chemical Ecology 32: 1867-1881.
Von Elert, E. &
Stibor, H. (2006) Predator-mediated life history shifts in Daphnia:
enrichment and preliminary chemical characterisation of a kairomone
exuded by fish. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 167: 21-35.
Fink,
P., Von Elert, E. & Jüttner, F. (2006) Oxylipins from
freshwater diatoms act as attractants for a benthic herbivore. Archiv
für Hydrobiologie 167: 561-574.
Fink, P., Peters, L.
& Von Elert, E. (2006) Stoichiometric mismatch between littoral
invertebrates and their periphyton food. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 165:
145-165.
Fink, P., & Von
Elert, E. (2006) Food quality of algae and cyanobacteria for the
freshwater gastropod Bithynia tentaculata (Prosobranchia, Bithyniidae):
the role of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Proc. Int. Soc. Limnol.
29: 1235-1240.
Bec, A., Martin-Creuzburg,
D. & Von Elert, E. (2006) Trophic upgrading of autotrophic
picoplankton by the heterotrophic nanoflagellate Paraphysomonas sp.. Limnology and Oceanography 51: 1699-1707.
Martin-Creuzburg, D., Bec,A.
& Von Elert, E (2005) Trophic upgrading of picocyanobacterial
carbon by ciliates for nutrition of Daphnia magna. Aquatic Microbial
Ecology 41: 271-280.
Martin-Creuzburg, D., Wacker,
A. & Von Elert, E (2005) Life history consequences of sterol
availability in the aquatic keystone species Daphnia. Oecologia
144: 362-372.
Von Elert, E., Oberer,
L., Merkel, P., Huhn, T. & Blom, J.F. (2005) Cyanopeptolin 954,
a chlorine-containing chymotrypsin inhibitor of Microcystis aeruginosa NIVA Cya 43. Journal of Natural Products 68: 1324-1327.
Agrawal, M.K., Zitt, A., Bagchi,
D., Weckesser, J., Bagchi, S.N. & Von Elert, E. (2005) Characterization
of proteases in guts of Daphnia magna and their inhibition by Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806. Environmental Toxicology 20: 314-322.
Wacker, A. & Von Elert,
E. (2004) Food quality controls egg quality of the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha: The role of fatty acids. Limnology and Oceanography
49: 1794-1801.
Von Elert, E. (2004)
Food quality constraints in Daphnia: interspecific differences
in the response to the absence of a long chain polyunsaturated fatty
acid in the food source. Hydrobiologia 526: 187-196.
Von Elert; E., Agrawal,
M.K., Gebauer, C., Jaensch, H., Bauer, U. & Zitt, A. (2004) Protease
activity in gut of Daphnia magna: evidence for trypsin and chymotrypsin
enzymes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B 137: 287-296.
Martin-Creuburg, D. & Von Elert, E. (2004) Impact of 10 dietary sterols on growth and
reproduction of Daphnia galeata. Journal of Chemical Ecology
30: 483-499.
Wacker, A. & Von Elert,
E. (2003) Settlement pattern of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha,
as a function of depth in Lake Constance. Archiv für Hydrobiologie
158: 289-301.
Von Elert, E., Martin-Creuburg,
D. & Le Coz, J. (2003) Absence of sterols constrains carbon transfer
between cyanobacteria and a freshwater herbivore (Daphnia galeata).
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London – Series B: Biological
Sciences 270 (1520): 1209-1214.
Wacker, A. & Von Elert,
E. (2003) Food quality controls reproduction of the zebra mussel
(Dreissena polymorpha). Oecologia 135: 332-338.
Van Hannen, E.J., Fink,
P. and Lürling, M. (2002). A revised secondary structure model
for the internal transcribed spacer 2 of the green algae Scenedesmus and Desmodesmus and its implications for the phylogeny of these
algae. European Journal of Phycology 37: 203-208.
Baumgärtner, D., Jungbluth,
A. D., Koch, U. & Von Elert, E. (2002) Effects of infochemicals
on microhabitat choice by the freshwater amphipod Gammarus roeseli.
Archiv für Hydrobiologie 155(3): 353-367.
Wacker, A. & Von Elert,
E. (2002) Strong influences of larval diet history on subsequent
post-settlement growth in the freshwater mollusc Dreissena polymorpha.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London – Series B: Biological
Sciences 269: 2113-2119.
Von Elert, E. (2002)
Determination of limiting polyunsaturated fatty acids in Daphnia
galeata using a new method to enrich food algae with single fatty
acids. Limnology and Oceanography: 47 (6): 1764-1773.
Wacker, A., Becher, P. & Von Elert, E. (2002) Food quality effects of unsaturated fatty acids
on larvae of the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha. Limnology
and Oceanography 47 (4): 1242-1248.
Wacker, A. & Von Elert,
E. (2001) Polyunsaturated fatty acids: evidence for non-substitutable
biochemical resources in Daphnia galeata. Ecology 82 (9): 2507-2520.
Von Elert, E. &
Wolffrom, T. (2001) Supplementation of cyanobacterial food with polyunsaturated
fatty acids does not improve growth of Daphnia. Limnology and
Oceanography 46 (6): 1552-1558.
Lürling, M. & Von Elert,
E. (2001) Colony formation in Scenedesmus: No contribution
of urea in induction by a lipophylic Daphnia exudate. Limnology
and Oceanography 46 (7): 1809-1813.
Von Elert, E. &
Pohnert, G. (2000) Predator specificity of kairomones in diel vertical
migration of Daphnia: a chemical approach. Oikos 88 (1): 119-128.
Von Elert, E. &
Stampfl, P. (2000) Food quality for Eudiaptomus gracilis:
the importance of particular highly unsaturated fatty acids. Freshwater
Biology 45 (2): 189-200.
Pohnert, G. & Von Elert,
E. (2000) No ecological relevance of trimethylamine in fish – Daphnia interactions. Limnology and Oceanography 45 (5): 1153-1156.
Von Elert, E. (2000)
Fatty acids released by Daphnia: Do they induce colony formation
in Scenedesmus acutus? Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 27: 2128-2131.
Von Elert, E. &
Franck, A. (1999) Colony formation in Scenedesmus: Grazer-mediated
release and chemical features of the infochemical. Journal of Plankton
Research 21(4): 789-804.
De Nobel, W.T.; Matthijs, H.C.P.; von Elert, E. & Mur, L.R. (1998). Comparison of the light-limited
growth of the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria Anabaena and Aphanizomenon.
New Phytologist 138: 579-587.
Von Elert, E. &
Jüttner, F. (1997). Phosphorus limitation not light controls the exudation
of allelopathic compounds by Trichormus doliolum. Limnology and
Oceanography 42(8): 1796-1802.
Von Elert, E. &
Loose, C.J. (1996). Predator-induced diel vertical migration in Daphnia:
enrichment and preliminary chemical characterization of a kairomone
exuded by fish. Journal of Chemical Ecology 22(5): 885-895.
Von Elert, E. &
Jüttner, F. (1996). Factors influencing the allelopathic activity of
the planktonic cyanobacterium Trichormus doliolum. Phycologia
35(6): 68-73.
Lampert, W.; Rothhaupt, K.O.
& von Elert, E. (1994). Chemical induction of colony formation
in a green alga (Scenedesmus acutus) by grazers (Daphnia).
Limnology and Oceanography 39: 1543-1550.
Tollrian, R. & von Elert,
E. (1994). Enrichment and purification of Chaoborus kairomone
from water: Further steps toward ist chemical characterization. Limnology
and Oceanography 39(4): 788-796.
Gross, E.; von Elert, E. & Jüttner,F. (1994). Production of allelochemicals in Fischerella
muscola under different environmental conditions. Verh. Internat.
Verein. Limnol. 25: 2231-2233.
von Elert, E. (1994).
Analytische Untersuchung allelopathischer Reaktionen von Cyanobakterien
und des Phytoplanktons eutropher ostholsteinischer Seen. Dissertation.
Universität Tübingen.
Loose, C.J.; von Elert,
E. & Dawidowicz,P. (1993). Chemically induced diel vertical
migration in Daphnia: a new bioassay for kairomones exuded by
fish. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 126: 329-337.
Wegmann, K.; von Elert,
E.; Harloff, H.; Stadler, M. (1991). Tolerance and resistance to Orobanche. In: Wegmann, K. and Musselman, M. (eds.) Progress
in Orobanche research, p. 318-321. Eberhard-Karls- Universität,
Tübingen.