Monika Hilker
Applied Zoology / Animal Ecology
Free University of Berlin
Germany
Biography
Academic degrees: 1977: beginning to study biology and chemistry at the University of Göttingen, Germany 1983: Diploma Biology at the University of Göttingen (Forest Zoology) Topic: Bark Beetles: Visual and Olfactory Orientation 1983: Teacher Examination Chemistry at the University of Göttingen (Organic Chemistry) 1986: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Göttingen (Biology) Topic: Oviposition Deterring Pheromones in Moths 1993: Habilitation (Dr. habil.) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (Zoology, Animal Ecology) Topic: Chemical Ecology of Juvenile Stages of Chrysomelidae
Research Interest
special interests focus on the “origin of insect life”, i.e., insect eggs. These highly vulnerable, immobile life stages need to cope with pathogens, predators and parasitoids. Chemoecological aspects of the intimate interactions between plants, eggs of herbivorous insects, and their enemies
Publications
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Mäntylä, E., Kleier, S., Kipper, S. & Hilker, M. (2017). The attraction of insectivorous tit species to herbivore-damaged Scots pines. J. Ornithol. 158: 479-491.
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Griese, E., Dicke, M., Hilker, M. & Fatouros, N.E. (2017). Plant response to butterfly eggs: inducibility, severity and success of egg-killing leaf necrosis depends on plant genotype and egg clustering. Sci. Rep. 7: 7316, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06704-z
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Bittner, N., Trauer-Kizilelma, U. & Hilker, M. (2017). Early plant defece against insect attack: involvement of reactive oxygen species in plant responses to insect egg deposition. Planta 245: 993-1007
