Martinson EO, Werren JH, Egan SP. 2022 Tissue-specific gene expression shows a cynipid wasp repurposes oak host gene networks to create a complex and novel parasite-specific organ. Molecular Ecology doi.org/10.1111/mec.16159. Perspective on article: Schultz, JC, and Stone, GN. 2022 A Tale of Two Tissues: probing gene expression in a complex insect‐induced gall. Molecular Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/mec.16482.
Martinson EO, Chen K, Valzania L, Brown MR, Strand MR. 2022 Insulin-like peptide 3 stimulates hemocytes to proliferate in several species of obligately anautogenous and facultatively autogenous mosquitoes across Culicidae. Journal of Experimental Biology. 225, jeb243460.
Xiong X, Kelkar YD, Geden CJ, Zhang C, Wang Y, Jongepier E, Verhulst EC, Gadau J, Martinson EO, Werren JH, and Wang X. 2021. Long-read assembly and annotation of the parasitoid wasp Muscidifurax raptorellus, a biological control agent for filth flies. Frontiers in Genetics 2046. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.748135
Olafson PU, Aksoy S, Attardo GM, Buckmeier G, Chen X, Coates CJ, Davis M, Dykema J, Emrich SJ, Friedrich M, Holmes CJ, Ioannidis P, Jansen EN, Jennings EC, Lawson D, Martinson EO, Maslen GL, Meisel RP, Murphy TD, Nayduch D, Nelson DR, Oyen KJ, Raszick TJ, Ribeiro JMC, Robertson HM, Rosendale AJ, Sackton TB, Swiger SL, Sze SH, Tarone AM, Taylor DB, Warren WC, Waterhouse RM, Weirauch MT, Werren JH, Wilson RK, Zdobnov EM, JB. 2021 The genome of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, reveals potential mechanisms underlying reproduction, host interactions, and novel targets for pest control. BMC Biology 19 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00975-9
Wang X, Kelkar Y, Xiong X, Martinson EO, Lynch J, Zhang C, Werren JW, Wang X (2020) Whole genome sequence and annotation of the parasitoid jewel wasp Nasonia giraulti laboratory strain RV2X[u]. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 10 (8), 2565-2572
Scott MJ, Benoit JB, Davis RJ, Bailey ST, Varga,V, Martinson EO, Hickner PV, Syed Z, Cardoso GA, Torres TT Weirauch MT, Scholl EH, Phillippy AM, Sagel A, Vasquez M, Quintero G, Skoda SR (2020) Whole genome sequence and developmental gene expression analyses of the New World screwworm. Communications Biology 3 (1), 1-14
Zhang J, Lindsey ARI, Peters R, Heraty JM, Hopper KR, Werren JH, Martinson EO, Woolley JB, Yoder MJ. 2020. Conflicted signal in transcriptomic markers leads to a poorly resolved backbone phylogeny of Chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Systematic Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12427
Martinson EO*, Peyton J*, Kelkar YD, Jennings EC, Benoit JB, Werren JH, and Denlinger DL. 2019. Genome and ontogenetic-based transcriptomic analyses of the flesh fly, Sarcophaga bullata. G3: Genes, Genomes, and Genetics. 9:1313-1320.
Martinson EO, Siebert AL, He M, Kelkar YD, Doucette LA, Werren JH. (2018) Evaluating the evolution and function of the dynamic Venom Y protein in ectoparasitoid wasps. Insect Molecular Biology. Doi: 10.1111/imb.12565.
Egan SP, Hood GR, Martinson EO, and Ott JR. (2018) Quick guide: Cynipid gall wasps. Current Biology 28:PR1370-R1374. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.028.
Lindsey ARI, Kelkar YD, Wu X, Sun D, Martinson EO, Yan Z, Rugman-Jones PF, Hughes DST, Murali SC, Qu J, Dugan S, Lee SL, Hsu Chao H, Dinh H, Han Y, Doddapaneli HV, Worley KC, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Richards S, Yi SV, Stouthamer R, Werren JH (2018) Comparative genomics of the miniature wasp and pest control agent Trichogramma pretiosum. BMC Biology 16:54. doi: 10.1186/s12915-018-0520-9.
Martinson EO and Werren JH. (2017) Venom is beneficial but not essential for development and survival of Nasonia. Ecological Entomology, 43: 146-153. doi: 10.1111/een.12480.
Martinson EO*, Mrinalini*, Kelkar Y, Chang C, Werren JH. (2017) The evolution of venom proteins by co-option of single-copy genes. Current Biology 27: 2007-13. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.032. Dispatch: Nicholas R. Casewell (2017) Evolution: Gene Co-option Underpins Venom Protein Evolution. Current Biology, 27: R647-R649 Highlighted in: Science Magazine, Scientific American, Quanta Magazine, Futurity, Phys.org and ScienceDaily. Cover image selected.
Martinson EO*, Martinson VG*, Edwards R, Mrinalini, Werren JH. (2016) Laterally transferred gene recruited as a venom in parasitoid wasps. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33: 1042-1052. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv348.
Martinson EO, Hackett JD, Machado CA, Arnold AE. (2015) Metatranscriptome Analysis of Fig Flowers Provides Insights into Potential Mechanisms for Mutualism Stability and Gall Induction. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0130745. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130745
Martinson EO, Jander KC, Peng YQ, Chen HH, Machado CA, Arnold AE, Herre EA (2014) Relative investment in egg load and poison sac in fig wasps: implications for physiological mechanisms underlying seed and wasp production in figs. Acta Oecologica 57: 58-66.
Martinson, EO, Herre EA, Machado CA, and Arnold AE (2012) Culture-free survey reveals diverse and distinctive fungal communities associated with developing figs (Ficus spp.) in Panama. Microbial Ecology 64: 1073-84.
