Dr. Malin Ah-King
Biological and related sciences , Evolutionary biology, Animal behaviour, Gender studies, Science studies
Biological and related sciences
Evolutionary ecology
Insect immunity
Host-pathogen interactions
Ecological immunology
DFG Heisenberg fellowship, 2017 – 2020
Volkswagen Foundation advanced post-doctoral fellowship, 2012 – 2014
Volkswagen Foundation post-doctoral fellowship, 2008 – 2012
Marie Curie Intra-European individual fellowship, 2005 – 2007
Carlsberg Foundation individual post-doctoral grant, 2005
English, German
Armitage SAO, Kurtz J, Brites D, Dong Y, Du Pasquier L, Wang HC (2017) Dscam1 in pancrustacean immunity: Current status and a look to the future. Frontiers in Immunology. 8.
Armitage SAO, Fernández-Marín H, Boomsma JJ, Wcislo WT (2016) Slowing them down will make them lose: A role for attine ant crop fungus in defending immatures against infections? Journal of Animal Ecology, 85:1210-1221.
Armitage SAO, Broch J, Fernández Marín H, Nash DR, Boomsma JJ (2011) Immune defence in leaf-cutting ants: a cross-fostering approach. Evolution, 65: 1791-1799.
Baer BC*, Armitage SAO* & Boomsma JJ (2006) Sperm storage induces an immunity cost in ants. Nature, 441:872-875. *Both authors contributed equally.
Cremer S, Armitage SAO & Schmid-Hempel P (2007) Social immune systems. Current Biology, 17:R693-R702.
Kutzer MAM, Kurtz J, Armitage SAO (2018) Genotype and diet affect resistance, survival, and fecundity but not fecundity tolerance. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31:159-171.
Kutzer MAM, Armitage SAO (2016) Maximising fitness in the face of parasites: a review of host tolerance. Zoology, 119: 281-289.
Peuß R, Wensing KU, Woestmann L, Eggert H, Milutinović B, Sroka MGU, Scharsack, JPS, Kurtz J, Armitage SAO (2016) Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1: testing for a role in insect immunity, behaviour and reproduction. Royal Society Open Science, 3:160138.
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