Markus Riegler

8.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
128 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Markus Riegler is a scholar working on Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Riegler has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Insect Science, 39 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 31 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Markus Riegler's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (74 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (45 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (38 papers). Markus Riegler is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (74 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (45 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (38 papers). Markus Riegler collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Austria. Markus Riegler's co-authors include Scott L. O’Neill, Christian Stauffer, Iñaki Iturbe‐Ormaetxe, Elizabeth A. McGraw, Jennifer L. Morrow, Wolfgang J. Miller, Scott N. Johnson, James M. Cook, Andrew F. van den Hurk and Alyssa T. Pyke and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Markus Riegler

121 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Wolbachia Symbiont in Aedes aegypti Limits Infection with Dengue, Chikungunya, and Plasmodium

2009 1.2k citations Iñaki Iturbe‐Ormaetxe, Markus Riegler et al. profile →
Gut symbiont enhances insecticide resistance in a significant pest, the oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel)

2017 297 citations Daifeng Cheng, Markus Riegler et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Riegler Australia	34	4.5k	1.1k	911	697	608	128	5.2k
Laura Baldo United States	20	3.9k 0.9×	570 0.5×	437 0.5×	623 0.9×	784 1.3×	28	4.5k
Fabrice Vavre France	40	4.4k 1.0×	371 0.3×	907 1.0×	701 1.0×	713 1.2×	88	5.1k
Johannes A. J. Breeuwer Netherlands	35	4.3k 1.0×	255 0.2×	621 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.8×	70	5.4k
Naruo Nikoh Japan	44	4.2k 0.9×	213 0.2×	1.4k 1.5×	1.0k 1.5×	896 1.5×	82	5.5k
Martha S. Hunter United States	33	5.5k 1.2×	199 0.2×	1.2k 1.4×	1.5k 2.2×	910 1.5×	93	6.0k
Steve J. Perlman Canada	29	2.4k 0.5×	178 0.2×	517 0.6×	652 0.9×	646 1.1×	62	3.0k
Richard Stouthamer United States	52	8.7k 2.0×	440 0.4×	3.0k 3.2×	2.4k 3.5×	1.3k 2.2×	212	10.2k
Jennifer J. Wernegreen United States	35	2.6k 0.6×	128 0.1×	1.0k 1.1×	641 0.9×	1.1k 1.8×	54	4.1k
Irene L. G. Newton United States	29	1.7k 0.4×	259 0.2×	241 0.3×	674 1.0×	658 1.1×	67	2.5k
Jacob A. Russell United States	33	4.5k 1.0×	130 0.1×	790 0.9×	1.3k 1.9×	1.4k 2.4×	62	5.9k

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Morrow, Jennifer L., et al.. (2025). Injection but not ingestion of a mixed virus suspension in Queensland fruit fly ( Bactrocera tryoni ) shifts persistent covert infection to acute pathology. Pest Management Science. 82(1). 114–124.

House, Clarissa M., et al.. (2025). Virulence and biocontrol potential of entomopathogenic nematodes against soil‐dwelling stages of the small hive beetle under laboratory and semi‐field conditions. Pest Management Science. 81(7). 4004–4015.

Riegler, Markus, et al.. (2024). Testing the potential of entomopathogenic nematodes in attract‐and‐kill and autodissemination approaches in the control of Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni. Pest Management Science. 81(1). 160–169. 3 indexed citations

Morrow, Jennifer L., et al.. (2024). RNA virus diversity and prevalence in field and laboratory populations of melon fly throughout its distribution. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 204. 108117–108117. 4 indexed citations

Jordal, Bjarte H., et al.. (2023). Two sympatric lineages of Australian Cnestus solidus share Ambrosiella symbionts but not Wolbachia. Heredity. 132(1). 43–53. 3 indexed citations

Cook, James M., et al.. (2023). Effect of oviposition delay on early reproductive effort and offspring fitness in a thrips species. Animal Behaviour. 200. 199–207. 4 indexed citations

Nguyen, Duong T., et al.. (2022). Endosymbionts moderate constrained sex allocation in a haplodiploid thrips species in a temperature-sensitive way. Heredity. 128(3). 169–177. 8 indexed citations

Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza, et al.. (2022). Two New Phoretic Species of Heterostigmatic Mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Neopygmephoridae and Scutacaridae) on Australian Hydrophilid Beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Insects. 13(5). 483–483. 1 indexed citations

Hall, Mark, et al.. (2022). Cucurbit crops in temperate Australia are visited more by native solitary bees than by stingless bees. Journal of Apicultural Research. 61(5). 675–687. 4 indexed citations

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Cook, James M., et al.. (2022). Common endosymbionts affect host fitness and sex allocation via egg size provisioning. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1971). 20212582–20212582. 14 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Uffe N., et al.. (2021). Isolation and molecular characterization of five entomopathogenic nematode species and their bacterial symbionts from eastern Australia. BioControl. 67(1). 63–74. 12 indexed citations

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Riegler, Markus, et al.. (2020). Tiny hitchhikers and parasites: a review of Australian heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Prostigmata) associated with insects, with description of three new species. Austral Entomology. 59(3). 401–421. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, Shannon M., et al.. (2020). A review of the distribution and host plant associations of the platypodine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) of Australia, with an electronic species identification key. Zootaxa. 4894(1). zootaxa.4894.1.3–zootaxa.4894.1.3. 1 indexed citations

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Hall, Mark, Laura E. Brettell, Hongwei Liu, et al.. (2020). Temporal changes in the microbiome of stingless bee foragers following colony relocation. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97(1). 21 indexed citations

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Cook, James M., et al.. (2020). Egg size‐mediated sex allocation and mating‐regulated reproductive investment in a haplodiploid thrips species. Functional Ecology. 35(2). 485–498. 12 indexed citations

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Morrow, Jennifer L., Daniela Schneider, Lisa Klasson, et al.. (2020). Parallel Sequencing of Wolbachia wCer2 from Donor and Novel Hosts Reveals Multiple Incompatibility Factors and Genome Stability after Host Transfers. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(5). 720–735. 10 indexed citations

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Cheng, Daifeng, Siqi Chen, Naomi E. Pierce, et al.. (2019). Symbiotic microbiota may reflect host adaptation by resident to invasive ant species. PLoS Pathogens. 15(7). e1007942–e1007942. 32 indexed citations

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Kageyama, Daisuke, Mizuki Ohno, Atsuo Yoshido, et al.. (2017). Feminizing Wolbachia endosymbiont disrupts maternal sex chromosome inheritance in a butterfly species. Evolution Letters. 1(5). 232–244. 37 indexed citations

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Iturbe‐Ormaetxe, Iñaki, Gaelen R. Burke, Markus Riegler, & Scott L. O’Neill. (2005). Distribution, Expression, and Motif Variability of Ankyrin Domain Genes in Wolbachia pipientis. Journal of Bacteriology. 187(15). 5136–5145. 111 indexed citations

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Riegler, Markus, Sylvain Charlat, Christian Stauffer, & Hervé Merçot. (2002). Wolbachia transfer from a true fruit fly into the real fruit fly: Investigating the outcomes of host/symbiont co-evolution. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 2(4). 114–114. 2 indexed citations

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