Peer-reviewed publications
Caesar L, Barksdale C., Valiati VH, Newton ILG. Spatial segregation and cross-kingdom interactions drive stingless bee hive microbiome assembly. Nat. Commun. (in press). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.642116v1
Ganote CL, Caesar L, Rice DW, Whitaker RJ, Newton ILG. Evolutionary trends in Bombella apis CRISPR-Cas systems. mSystems. 2025 Jul 22;10(7):e0016625. doi: 10.1128/msystems.00166-25. Epub 2025 Jun 18.
Techer MA, Chakrabarti P, Caesar L, Eynard SE, Farrell MC, Foster LJ, Gorrochategui-Ortega J, Henriques D, Li-Byarlay H, Morré JT, Newton ILG, Parejo M, Pinto MA, Vignal A, Zarraonaindia I, McAfee A. Standard methods and good practices in Apis honey bee omics research. J. Apic. Res. 2025 64(2), 307–402. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2025.2455852
Muniz VA, de Melo Katak R, Caesar L, de Oliveira JC, Rocha EM, de Oliveira MR, da Silva GF, Roque RA, Marinotti O, Terenius O, de Andrade EV. Genomic and morphological features of an Amazonian Bacillus thuringiensis with mosquito larvicidal activity. AMB Express. 2025 Mar 5;15(1):39. doi: 10.1186/s13568-025-01850-4.
Caesar L, Rice DW, McAfee A, Underwood R, Ganote C, Tarpy DR, Foster LJ, Newton ILG. Metagenomic analysis of the honey bee queen microbiome reveals low bacterial diversity and Caudoviricetes phages. mSystems. 2024 Feb 20;9(2):e0118223. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01182-23. Epub 2024 Jan 23.
Caesar L, Haag KL. Tailed bacteriophages (Caudoviricetes) dominate the microbiome of a diseased stingless bee. Genet Mol Biol. 2024 Jan 19;46(3 Suppl 1):e20230120. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2023-0120.
Haag KL, Caesar L, da Silveira Regueira-Neto M, de Sousa DR, Montenegro Marcelino V, de Queiroz Balbino V, Torres Carvalho A. Temporal Changes in Gut Microbiota Composition and Pollen Diet Associated with Colony Weakness of a Stingless Bee. Microb Ecol. 2023 May;85(4):1514-1526. doi: 10.1007/s00248-022-02027-3. Epub 2022 May 6.
Ellwanger JH, Fearnside PM, Ziliotto M, Valverde-Villegas JM, Veiga ABGD, Vieira GF, Bach E, Cardoso JC, Müller NFD, Lopes G, Caesar L, Kulmann-Leal B, Kaminski VL, Silveira ES, Spilki FR, Weber MN, Almeida SEM, Hora VPD, Chies JAB. Synthesizing the connections between environmental disturbances and zoonotic spillover. An Acad Bras Cienc. 2022 Sep 19;94(suppl 3):e20211530. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202220211530.
Caesar L, Lopes AMC, Konzen ER, Radaeski JN, Bauermann SG, Pombert JF, Sattler A, Blochtein B, Carvalho AT, Haag KL. Longitudinal survey reveals delayed effects of low gene expression on stingless bee colony health. J. Apic. Res. 2021 61(5), 654–663. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2021.1962123
Ellwanger JH, Kulmann-Leal B, Kaminski VL, Valverde-Villegas JM, Veiga ABGD, Spilki FR, Fearnside PM, Caesar L, Giatti LL, Wallau GL, Almeida SEM, Borba MR, Hora VPD, Chies JAB. Beyond diversity loss and climate change: Impacts of Amazon deforestation on infectious diseases and public health. An Acad Bras Cienc. 2020 Apr 17;92(1):e20191375. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202020191375. PMID: 32321030.
Caesar L, Cibulski SP, Canal CW, Blochtein B, Sattler A, Haag KL. The virome of an endangered stingless bee suffering from annual mortality in southern Brazil. J Gen Virol. 2019 Jul;100(7):1153-1164. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001273. Epub 2019 Jun 6.
Díaz S, de Souza Urbano S, Caesar L, Blochtein B, Sattler A, Zuge V, Haag KL. Report on the microbiota of Melipona quadrifasciata affected by a recurrent disease. J Invertebr Pathol. 2017 Feb;143:35-39. doi: 10.1016/j.jip.2016.11.012. Epub 2016 Nov 23.
Sassi FA, Caesar L, Jaeger M, Nör C, Abujamra AL, Schwartsmann G, de Farias CB, Brunetto AL, Lopez PL, Roesler R. Inhibitory activities of trichostatin a in U87 glioblastoma cells and tumorsphere-derived cells. J Mol Neurosci. 2014 Sep;54(1):27-40. doi: 10.1007/s12031-014-0241-7. Epub 2014 Jan 25.
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