Dipl.-Biol. Dr. Veronika E. Mayer
Vertragsassistentin (halbbeschäftigt)
4. Stock, Zimmer 411
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m: veronika.mayer@univie.ac.at
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Forschungsinteressen
Im Zentrum meines Forschungsinteresses liegt die komplexe und dynamische Vernetzung von Pflanzen mit ihrer Umwelt. Ganz besonders interessieren mich mutualistische Verbindungen zwischen Pflanzen und Insekten, die funktionellen Aspekte von Pflanzenstrukturen, die Evolution dieser Strukturen und ihre Bedeutung für die Etablierung von Mutualismen. Als mein Forschungsschwerpunkt haben sich Pflanzen herauskristallisiert, die mit Ameisen zusammenleben (sog. Myrmekophyten). Derzeit arbeite ich (a) an der Rolle von Schlauchpilzen als weitere Partner in tropischen Ameisen-Pflanzen Beziehungen, und (b) an den funktionellen Voraussetzungen für die ausgeklügelte "Kommunikation" zwischen Pflanzen und Pflanzenameisen.
Projekte
- Species interactions and their impact on nutrient recycling in ant-made fungal patches (FWF-Projekt P 31990-B) - beendet
- Phylogeny and evolution of ant-cultivated Chaetothyriales (Ascomycota)
- Microbial community analysis in the neotropical ant-plant association: Azteca spp. – Cecropia spp.
- Ecological processes in the fungal patches cultivated by arboreal ants
- Food sources in the Cecropia-Azteca ant-plant association
- Volatiles in myrmecophytic host-plants and their impact on ant-behaviour
Kooperationen
- Rumsais Blatrix, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, Montpellier, France
- Stefan Dötterl, Organismic Biology, Department of Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants, University of Salzburg, Austria
- Lena Fragner, Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
- Sybren de Hoog, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institut, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Christina Kaiser, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Adrián Pinto Tomas, Centro de Investigación en Estructuras Microscópicas (CIEMIC), Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
- Andreas Richter, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Hermann Voglmayr, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Austria
- Dagmar Woebken, Research network CMM, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria
Curriculum Vitae
Derzeitige Anstellung
- 1997– Vertragsassistentin (halbbeschäftigt)
Ausbildung und wissenschaftliche Laufbahn
- 1999–2005 Associate Editor der Zeitschrift TAXON und Regnum Vegetabile (IAPT)
- 1993–1996 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in Projekten zur Systematik und Morphologie von Dipsacaceae und Gesneriaceae an der Universität Wien
- 1988–1993 Dissertation an der Universität Wien
- 1989–1991 Doktorandenstipendium der "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes"
- 1981–1987 Biologiestudium an der LMU München und FU Berlin, Diplom an der FU Berlin (Germany)
- 1986/87 DAAD Stipendiatin an der UC Berkeley (USA)
Publikationen
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2016
Nepel, M., Voglmayr, H., Blatrix, R., Longino, J. T., Fiedler, K., Schönenberger, J., & Mayer, V. (2016). Ant-cultivated Chaetothyriales in hollow stems of myrmecophytic Cecropia sp. trees – diversity and patterns. Fungal Ecology, 23, 131-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2016.07.007
Mayer, V. (2016). Dipsacaceae (inclusive Triplostegia). in J. W. Kadereit, & V. Bittrich (Hrsg.), Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales, Solanales (except Convolvulaceae), Icacinaceae, Metteniusaceae, Vahliaceae (Band 14, S. 145-164). Springer International Publishing. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28534-4_11
2014
Nepel, M., Voglmayr, H., Schönenberger, J., & Mayer, V. (2014). High diversity and low specificity of chaetothyrialean fungi in carton galleries in a Neotropical ant–plant association. PLoS ONE, 9(11), [e112756]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112756
2013
Nakamura, Y., Reichelt, M., Mayer, V., & Mithoefer, A. (2013). Jasmonates trigger prey-induced formation of 'outer stomach' in carnivorous sundew plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 280(1759), [20130228]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0228
Arranz, S. E., Avarre, J-C., Balasundaram, C., Bouza, C., Calcaterra, N. B., Cezilly, F., Chen, S-L., Cipriani, G., Cruz, V. P., D'Esposito, D., Daniel, C., Dejean, A., Dharaneedharan, S., Diaz, J., Du, M., Durand, J-D., Dziadek, J., Foresti, F., Fu Peng-Cheng, N. V., ... Mol Ecology Resources Primer Dev (2013). Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 December 2012 - 31 January 2013. Molecular Ecology Resources, 13(3), 546-549. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12095
Mayer, V., & Ehrendorfer, F. (2013). The phylogenetic position of Pterocephalidium and the new African genus Pterothamnus within an improved classification of Dipsacaceae. Taxon: international journal of plant taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution, 62(1), 112-126.
Mayer, V., & Ehrendorfer, F. (2013). An improved classification of Dipsacaceae based on morphological and molecular data. in Abstract book
Nepel, M., Mayer, V., Voglmayr, H., & Schönenberger, J. (2013). Specifity of the fungi used in carton runway galleries in the Azteca brevis/Tetrathylacium macrophyllum association. in Abstract Book [116]
Nepel, M., Voglmayr, H., Schönenberger, J., & Mayer, V. (2013). Specifity of the fungi used in carton runway galleries in the Azteca brevis/Tetrathylacium macrophyllum association. ATBC 2013, San José, Costa Rica. https://atbc.confex.com/atbc/2013/webprogram/Paper2103.html
Gegenbauer, C., Mayer, V., Zotz, G., & Richter, A. (2013). Uptake of ant-derived nitrogen in the myrmecophytic orchid Caularthron bilamellatum. in Abstracts online: Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation https://atbc.confex.com/atbc/2013/webprogram/Paper1982.html
Mayer, V. (2013). Von Pflanzen, Ameisen und Ameisen-Pflanzen-Forschern im Regenwald der Österreicher. in R. Albert, W. Huber, S. Pamperl, W. Wanek, A. Weber, & A. Weissenhofer (Hrsg.), 20 Jahre Tropenstation La Gamba, Costa Rica (S. 74-79). Verein zur Förderung der Tropenstation La Gamba, Costa Rica..
2012
Gegenbauer, C., Mayer, V., Zotz, G., & Richter, A. (2012). Uptake of ant-derived nitrogen in the myrmecophytic orchid Caularthron bilamellatum. Annals of Botany, 110(4), 757-765. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcs140
2011
Weber, A., Wei, Y-G., Puglisi, C., Wen, F., Mayer, V., & Möller, M. (2011). A new definition of the genus Petrocodon (Gesneriaceae). Phytotaxa, 23.
Mayer, V., Gegenbauer, C., Voglmayr, H., Städler, Y., Zotz, G., & Richter, A. (2011). Fungi as third partner in the association of an epiphytic orchid and its inhabiting ants. in Botanikertagung 2011. 18.-21. September 2011, Berlin, Deutschland Unknown publisher.
Mayer, V., Voglmayr, H., & Blatrix, R. (2011). Fungi in ant-plant interactions: Insights into an overlooked world of symbiotic associations. in 14th Symposium on Insect-Plant Interactions. 13.-18. August 2011, Wageningen, Niederlande Unknown publisher.
Voglmayr, H., Mayer, V., Maschwitz, U., Moog, J., Djieto-Lordon, C., & Blatrix, R. (2011). The diversity of ant-associated black yeasts: insights into a newly discovered world of symbiotic interactions. Fungal Biology, 115(10), 1077-1091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2010.11.006
2010
Voglmayr, H., Mayer, V., & Blatrix, R. (2010). Biodiversity of Chaetothyriales in recently discovered symbiotic tropical ant-fungus association. in ISHAM workshop "Emerging Potential of Black Yeasts", 14.-16.05.2010, Ljubljana, Slovenia Unknown publisher. http://blackyeast2010.bf.uni-lj.si/fileadmin/userfiles/BlackYeast2010Abstracts.pdf
Blatrix, R., & Mayer, V. (2010). Communication in ant-plant symbioses. in Plant communication from an ecological perspective - Signaling and communication in plants (S. 127-158). Unknown publisher.
2009
Möller, M., Pfosser, M., Jang, C-G., Mayer, V., Clark, A., Hollingsworth, M. L., Barfuss, M. H. J., Wang, Y-Z., Kiehn, M., & Weber, A. (2009). A preliminary phylogeny of the 'Didymocarpoid Gesneriaceae' based on three molecular data sets: incongruence with available tribal classifications. American Journal of Botany: the journal for all plant biologists, 96(5), 989-1010. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800291
Mayer, V., & Voglmayr, H. (2009). Mycelial carton galleries of Azteca brevis (Formicidae) as a multi-species network. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 276(1671), 3265-3273. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0768
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