Rainer Wirth

Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

Frédéric Mahé, Colomban de Vargas, David Bass et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2017 · 325 citations · Full text

Biodiversity, Terrestrial Biota, Hyperparasite +3

Candicidin-producing <i>Streptomyces</i> support leaf-cutting ants to protect their fungus garden against the pathogenic fungus <i>Escovopsis</i>

Susanne Haeder, Rainer Wirth, Hubert Herz et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 281 citations · Full text

Pathogenic Microbiology, Engineering, Microbial Pathogens +17

Chemical basis of the synergism and antagonism in microbial communities in the nests of leaf-cutting ants

Ilka Schoenian, Michael Spiteller, Manoj Ghaste et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 186 citations · Full text

Why South-east Asia should be the world’s priority for averting imminent species extinctions, and a call to join a developing cross-institutional programme to tackle this urgent issue

J. W. Duckworth, G. Batters, Jerrold L. Belant et al. · British Journal of Cancer · 2012 · 162 citations · Full text

Biodiversity Loss, Engineering, Sustainable Development +16

Seed Dispersal by Ants in the Semi-arid Caatinga of North-east Brazil

Inara R. Leal, Rainer Wirth, Marcelo Tabarelli · Annals of Botany · 2007 · 155 citations · Full text