In preparation

Karageorgi M, Lappo E, Bitter MC, Greenblum SI, Tran CT#, Travier C#, Oken H, Schmidt P*, Petrov DA*. Robust and stable adaptive tracking in the face of multivariate selective pressures. *Equal contribution, #Undergraduate mentee co-author

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Weksler N#, Astourian M#, Verster K, Yip D#, Ordeman E#, Korablev B, Bernstein S, Agrawal A, Karageorgi M*, Whiteman NK*. Stepwise evolution of cardenolide-resistant forms of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase in milkweed butterflies is linked to host plant breadth. *Equal contribution, #Undergraduate mentee co-author

 

 

Peer-reviewed

Karageorgi M, Lyulina SA, Bitter MC, Lappo E, Greenblum SI, Mouza ZK#, Tran CT#, Huynh A#, Oken H, Schmidt P*, Petrov DA*. Beneficial reversal of dominance maintains a large-effect resistance polymorphism under fluctuating insecticide selection. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02853-x. *Equal contribution, #Undergraduate mentee co-author

 

Verster KI, Cinege G, Lipinszki Z, Magyar LB, Kurucz E, Tarnopol RL, Abraham E, Darula Z, Karageorgi M, Tamsil JA, Akalu SM, Andó I, Whiteman NK. Evolution of insect innate immunity through domestication of bacterial toxins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023; 120(16):e2218334120

 

Paris M, Boyer R, Jaenichen R, Wolf J, Karageorgi M, Green J, Cagnon M, Parinello H, Estoup A, Gautier M, Gompel N, Prud’homme B. Near-chromosome level genome assembly of the fruit pest Drosophila suzukii using long-read sequencing. Scientific Reports 2020; 10(1): 11227

 

Karageorgi M*, Groen SC*, Sumbul F, Pelaez JN, Verster KI, Aguilar JM, Hastings AP, Bernstein SL, Matsunaga T, Astourian M#, Guerra G, Dobler S, Agrawal AA, Whiteman NK. Genome evolution retraces the evolution of toxin resistance in the monarch butterfly. Nature 2019; 574 (7778): 409-412. *Equal contribution, #Undergraduate mentee co-author

 

Verster KI, Wisecaver JH, Duncan RP, Karageorgi M, Gloss AD, Armstrong E, Price DK, Melon AR, Ali ZM, Whiteman NK. Horizontal transfer of bacterial cytolethal distending toxin B genes to insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2019; 36 (10): 2105-2110

 

Karageorgi M, Bräcker LB, Lebreton S, Minervino C, Cavey M, Siju KP, Grunwald Kadow IC, Gompel N*, Prud'homme B*. Evolution of Multiple Sensory Systems Drives Novel Egg-Laying Behavior in the Fruit Pest Drosophila suzukii. Current Biology 2017; 27(6): 847-853

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Invited commentary

Karageorgi M*, Matsunaga T*, Whiteman NK. Drosophila: Where the wild flies are. Current Biology 2018; 28(24): R1382-R1384. *Equal contribution

 

 

Media Coverage

Carl Zimmer. How Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat Poison. The New York Times. Oct 7, 2019

Tim Vernimmen. How Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat a Poisonous Plant. Scientific American. Oct 2, 2019

Robert Sanders. CRISPRed flies mimic monarch butterfly – and could make you vomit. Berkeley News, Oct 2, 2019

 Maddie Bender. Scientists Edited Fruit Fly Genes to Give Them Butterflies’ Toxic Abilities. Vice, Oct 2, 2019

 

 

Scientific Coverage

 Koch L. An adaptive walk in the park. Nature Review Genetics 2019;20(12):704.

Maderspacher F, Stensmyr MC. Sensory Evolution: Trouble in the Cherry Orchard. Current Biology 2017;27(6)