Kerstin Wilhelm

Universität Ulm — Germany

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

20h-index1.5kcitations66works2.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Gut microbiota and health(20), Zoonotic diseases and public health(11), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(8), Vector-borne infectious diseases(6), Primate Behavior and Ecology(5)

Publications66 total

Gut microbial composition changes in an Astrovirus-infected Neotropical frugivorous bat – a one health perspective
2026Open Access
Natural variability of trace-amine associated receptors in wild meerkats
Frontiers in Zoology·2025Open Access
Impact of Fertilisation on the Bacterial Core Microbiome of Grassland Soils: Abundance in the Field and Growth In Vitro
Environmental Microbiology Reports·2025Open Access
Tequila bats (Phyllostomidae: <i>Leptonycteris yerbabuenae</i> ) and their associated bat flies: disentangling the effects of physical proximity and organism source as predictors of microbiota dissimilarities
Journal of Mammalogy·2025
Turtle egg microbiome modulates fusariosis fungal infection and hatching success
2025Open Access
Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Changes in biodiversity drive trypanosome infections of wildlife in Panama
One Health·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Delayed feeding disrupts diurnal oscillations in the gut microbiome of a neotropical bat in captivity
FEMS Microbiology Ecology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Fertilization impacts microbiomes along the grassland trophic chain
ISME Communications·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
<i>Hibecovirus</i> (genus <i>Betacoronavirus</i>) infection linked to gut microbial dysbiosis in bats
ISME Communications·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Fertilization impacts microbiomes along the grassland trophic chain
2024Open Access
Twenty-year co-evolutionary arms race between meerkat MHC and Tuberculosis
2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Author Correction: Immunogenetic-pathogen networks shrink in Tome’s spiny rat, a generalist rodent inhabiting disturbed landscapes
Communications Biology·2024Open Access
A taste of wilderness: supplementary feeding of red deer (Cervus elaphus) increases individual bacterial microbiota diversity but lowers abundance of important gut symbionts
Animal Microbiome·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Bat species assemblage predicts coronavirus prevalence
Nature Communications·2024· 21 citedOpen Access
MHC-I alleles mediate clearance and antibody response to the zoonotic Lassa virus in Mastomys rodent reservoirs
PLoS neglected tropical diseases·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Immunogenetic-pathogen networks shrink in Tome’s spiny rat, a generalist rodent inhabiting disturbed landscapes
Communications Biology·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Source data and code for Fig. 1a and Fig. 2
Figshare·2024Open Access
Immunogenetics, sylvatic plague and its vectors: insights from the pathogen reservoir Mastomys natalensis in Tanzania
Immunogenetics·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Climate change drives loss of bacterial gut mutualists at the expense of host survival in wild meerkats
Global Change Biology·2023· 34 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Simone Sommer(34), Alice Risely(12), D. Schmid(12), Tim Clutton‐Brock(10), Marta B. Manser(10), Marion L. East(9), Heribert Hofer(9), Nina Schwensow(9), Alexander Christoph Heni(8), Ramona Fleischer(8), Nadine Müller‐Klein(7), Terry Burke(6), Mark A. F. Gillingham(6), Victor M. Corman(6), Marco Tschapka(6), Christian Drosten(6), Georg Joachim Eibner(5), Magdalena Meyer(5), Dominik W Melville(5), Oliver P. Höner(4)