Dipl.-Biol. Dr. Veronika E. Mayer
Vertragsassistentin (halbbeschäftigt)
4. Stock, Zimmer 411
t: +43 (0)1 4277-540 81
m: veronika.mayer@univie.ac.at
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)
- 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
2021
Quan, Y., Ahmed, S. A., Menezes da Silva, N., Al-Hatmi, A. M. S., Mayer, V., Deng, S., Kang, Y., Sybren de Hoog, G., & Shi, D. (2021). Novel black yeast-like species in chaetothyriales with ant-associated life styles. Fungal Biology, 125(4), 276-284. doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2020.11.006
Singh, A., Mayer, V., Zytynska, S. E., Hesse, B., & Weisser, W. W. (2021). The Efficiency of Plant Defense: Aphid Pest Pressure Does Not Alter Production of Food Rewards by Okra Plants in Ant Presence. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 1-13. [627570]. doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.627570
Mayer, V. E., de Hoog, S., Cristescu, S. M., Vera, L., & Prenafeta-Boldú, F. X. (2021). Volatile Organic Compounds in the Azteca/Cecropia Ant-Plant Symbiosis and the Role of Black Fungi. Journal of Fungi, 7(10), [836]. doi.org/10.3390/jof7100836
2019
Moreno, L. F., Mayer, V., Voglmayr, H., Blatrix, R., Stielow, J. B., Teixeira, M. M., Vicente, V. A., & de Hoog, S. (2019). Genomic analysis of ant domatia-associated melanized fungi (Chaetothyriales, Ascomycota). Mycological Progress, 18(4), 541-552. doi.org/10.1007/s11557-018-01467-x
Svoma, E., Mayer, V., Stuessy, T. F., & Urtubey, E. (2019). Staminal features in Barnadesioideae (Asteraceae): description, evolution and function. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 192(3), 474-497. doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boz091
Busch, J. S., & Mayer, V. (2019). Surface structures of Cecropia plants as landmarks for orientation of ant foundress queens? Acta ZooBot Austria , 156, 135-144.
2018
Mayer, V., Nepel, M., Richter, A., Kaiser, C., & Voglmayr, H. (2018). Fungal patches in ant-plant associations: initiation and metabolic activity. in Workshop Black Fungi post-ISHAM: Abstract Book (S. 24)
Nepel, M., Richter, A., Kaiser, C., Wöbken, D., & Mayer, V. (2018). Microorganisms putatively involved in nutrient recycling of ant-plant associations by degrading chitin and cellulose. in 17th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology: Abstract book (S. 66)
Mayer, V., Nepel, M., Blatrix, R., Oberhauser, F. B., Fiedler, K., Schönenberger, J., & Voglmayr, H. (2018). Transmission of fungal partners to incipient Cecropia-tree ant colonies. PLoS ONE, 13(2), [e0192207]. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192207
2017
Vasse, M., Voglmayr, H., Mayer, V., Gueidan, C., Nepel, M., Moreno, L., de Hoog, S., Selosse, M-A., Mckey, D., & Blatrix, R. (2017). A phylogenetic perspective on the association between ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and black yeasts (Ascomycota: Chaetothyriales). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 284(1850), [20162519]. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2519
Mayer, V. E., Lauth, J., & Orivel, J. (2017). Convergent structure and function of mycelial galleries in two unrelated Neotropical plant-ants. Insectes Sociaux, 64(3), 365-371. doi.org/10.1007/s00040-017-0554-y
Mayer, V., Blatrix, R., & Voglmayr, H. (2017). Evolutionary and functional ecology of ant-plant-fungus symbioses. in 16th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships: Abstractbook (S. 105). [Poster 21]
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. 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 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]. 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]. 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. 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
Lauth, J., Malé, P-J. G., Voglmayr, H., Mayer, V., Dejean, A., & Orivel, J. (2013). Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the ant-associated fungus Trimmatostroma sp. (Ascomycota: Chaetothyriales) using pyrosequencing technology. Molecular Ecology Resources. tomato.bio.trinity.edu/manuscripts/13-3/mer-12-0449.pdf