McPherson AE, Abram PK, Curtis CI, Wannop ER, Dudzic JP, Perlman SJ. 2023. Dynamic changes in Wolbachia infection over a single generation of Drosophila suzukii, across a wide range of resource availability. Ecology and Evolution. 13: e10722
Dudzic JP, Curtis CI, Gowen BE, Perlman SJ. 2022. A highly divergent Wolbachia with a tiny genome in an insect-parasitic tylenchid nematode. Proc. R. Soc. B. 289: 20221518.
Pollmann M, Moore LD, Krimmer E, D'Alvise P, Hasselmann M, Perlman SJ, Ballinger MJ, Steidle JLM, Gottlieb Y. 2022. Highly transmissible cytoplasmic incompatibility by the extracellular insect symbiont Spiroplasma. iScience. 25(5):104335.
Martinson VG, Gawryluk RMR, Gowen BE, Curtis CI, Jaenike J, Perlman SJ. 2020. Multiple origins of obligate nematode and insect symbionts by a clade of bacteria closely related to plant pathogens. Proc. Nat. Acad. USA. 117(50):31979-31986.
Oliver KM, Perlman SJ. 2020. Toxin-mediated protection against natural enemies by insect defensive symbionts. Advances in Insect Physiology. 58: 277-315.
Abram PK, McPherson AE, Kula R, Hueppelsheuser T, Thiessen J, Perlman SJ, Curtis CI, Fraser JL, Tam J, Carrillo J, Gates M, Scheffer S, Lewis M, Buffington M. 2020. New records of Leptopilina, Ganaspis, and Asobara species associated with Drosophila suzukii in North America, including detections of L. japonica and G. brasiliensis. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 78: 1-17.
Keais GL, Liu S, Perlman SJ. 2020. Autosomal suppression and fitness costs of an old driving X chromosome in Drosophila testacea. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33: 619-628.
Hodson CN, Perlman SJ. 2019. Population biology of a selfish sex ratio distorting element in
a booklouse (Psocodea: Liposcelis). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32: 825-832.
Ballinger MJ, Gawryluk RMR, Perlman SJ. 2019. Toxin and genome evolution in a Drosophila defensive symbiosis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11: 253-262.
Ballinger MJ, Perlman SP. 2019. The defensive Spiroplasma. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 32: 36-41.
Hamilton PT, Hodson CN, Curtis CI, Perlman SJ. 2018. Genetics and genomics of an unusual selfish sex ratio distortion in an insect. Current Biology. 28: 3864–3870.
Wertman DL, Bleiker KP, Perlman SJ. 2018. The light at the end of the tunnel: photosensitivity in larvae of the mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Canadian Entomologist. 150: 622-631. doi: 10.4039/tce.2018.38
Vorburger C, Perlman SJ. 2018. The role of defensive symbionts in host-parasite coevolution.
Biological Reviews. 93: 1747-1764.
Ballinger MJ, Moore LD, Perlman SJ. 2018. Evolution and diversity of inherited Spiroplasma in Myrmica ants. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84: e02299-172017.doi: 10.1128/AEM.02299-17.
Gomez-Polo P, Ballinger MJ, Lalzar M, Malik A, Ben-Dov Y, Mozes-Daube N, Perlman SJ, Iasur-Kruh L, Chiel E. 2017. An exceptional family: Ophiocordyceps-allied fungus dominates the microbiome of soft scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccidae). Molecular Ecology. 26: 5855-5868.
Ballinger MJ, Perlman SJ. 2017. Generality of toxins in defensive symbiosis: Ribosome-inactivating proteins and defense against parasitic wasps in Drosophila. PLoS Pathogens, 13(6): e1006431.
Cevallos JA, RP Okubo RP, SJ Perlman SJ, Hallem EA. 2017. Olfactory preferences of the parasitic nematode Howardula aoronymphium and its insect host Drosophila falleni. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 43: 362–373.
Keais GL, Hanson MA, Gowen BE and Perlman SJ. 2017. X chromosome drive in a widespread Palearctic woodland fly, Drosophila testacea. J Evolutionary Biology. 30: 1185–1194. doi:10.1111/jeb.13089
Hodson CN, Hamilton PT, Dilworth D, Nelson CJ, Curtis CI and Perlman SJ. 2017. Paternal genome elimination in Liposcelis booklice (Insecta: Psocodea). Genetics. 206:1091-1100. doi:10.1534/genetics.117.199786
Kruh L, Naor V, Zahavi T, Ballinger MJ, Sharon R, Robinson WE, Perlman SJ, Zchori-Fein E. 2017. Bacterial associates of Hyalesthes obsoletus (Hemiptera: Cixiidae), the insect vector of bois noir disease, with a focus on cultivable bacteria. Research in Microbiology. 168: 94-101.
Hanson MA, Hamilton PT, Perlman SJ. 2016. Immune genes and divergent antimicrobial peptides in flies of the subgenus Drosophila. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16:228. doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0805-y
Paulson A, Le C, Dickson J, Ehlting J, von Aderkas P, Perlman SJ. 2016. Transcriptome analysis provides insight into venom evolution in a seed-parasitic wasp, Megastigmus spermotrophus. Insect Molecular Biology. 25: 604-616. DOI: 10.1111/imb.12247
Tai V, Carpenter C, Weber P, Nalepa C, Perlman SJ, Keeling P. 2016. Genome evolution and nitrogen-fixation in bacterial ectosymbionts of a protist inhabiting wood-feeding cockroaches. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 82:4682-4695. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00611-16
Hamilton PT, Peng F, Boulanger MJ, Perlman SJ. 2016. A ribosome-inactivating protein in a Drosophila defensive symbiont. PNAS. 113:350-355. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1518648113
Parker ML, Penarete-Vargas DM, Hamilton PT, Guérin A, Dubey JP, Perlman SJ, Spano F, Lebrun M, Boulanger MJ. 2016. Dissecting the interface between apicomplexan parasite and host cell: Insights from a divergent AMA–RON2 pair. PNAS. 113:398-403. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515898113
Gebiola M, White JA, Cass BN, Kozuch A, Harris LR, Kelly SE, Karimi J, Giorgini M, Perlman SJ, Hunter MS. 2016. Cryptic diversity, reproductive isolation and cytoplasmic incompatibility in a classic biological control success story. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 117:217-230.
Hamilton PT, Votýpka J, Dostálová A, Yurchenko V, Bird NH, Lukeš J, Lemaitre B, Perlman SJ. 2015. Infection Dynamics and Immune Response in a Newly Described Drosophila-Trypanosomatid Association. mBio. 6: e01356-15.
Yang Q, Kučerová K, Perlman SJ, Opit GP, Mockford EL, Behar A, Robinson WE, Stejskal V, Zhihong L, Shao R. 2015. Morphological and molecular characterization of a sexually reproducing colony of the booklouse Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocodea: Liposcelididae) found in Arizona. Scientific Reports. 5:10429 doi:10.1038/srep10429
Perlman SJ, Hodson CN, Hamilton PT, Opit GP, Gowen BE. 2015. Maternal transmission, sex ratio distortion, and mitochondria. PNAS. 112:10162-10168 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1421391112
Tai V, James E, Nalepa C, Scheffrahn R, Perlman SJ, Keeling P. 2015. The role of host phylogeny varies in shaping microbial diversity in the hindguts of lower termites. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81:1059-1070.
Iasur-Kruh L, Taha-Salaime L, Robinson WE, Sharon R, Droby S, Perlman SJ, Zchori-Fein E. 2015. Microbial associates of the vine mealybug Planococcus ficus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) under different rearing conditions. Microbial Ecology. 69:204-214.
Paulson AR, von Aderkas P, Perlman SJ. 2014. Bacterial associates of seed-parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Megastigmus). BMC Microbiology 14:224.
Hamilton PT, Leong JS, Koop BF, Perlman SJ. 2014. Transcriptional responses in a Drosophila defensive symbiosis. Molecular Ecology. 23:1558-1570.
Perlman SJ, Dowdy NJ, Harris LR, Khalid M, Kelly SE, Hunter MS. 2014. Factors affecting the strength of Cardinium-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitic wasp Encarsia pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Microbial Ecology. 67:671-8.
Hamilton PT, Perlman SJ. 2013. Host defense via symbiosis in Drosophila. PLoS Pathogens. 9:e1003808.
Iasur-Kruh L, Weintraub PG, Mozes-Daube N, Robinson WE, Perlman SJ, Zchori-Fein E. 2013. Novel Rickettsiella Bacterium in the leafhopper Orosius albicinctus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79:4246-4252. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00721-13.
Cockburn SN, Haselkorn TS, Hamilton PT, Landzberg E, Jaenike J, Perlman SJ. 2013. Dynamics of the continent-wide spread of a Drosophila defensive symbiont. Ecology Letters. 16:609-16. doi:10.1111/ele.12087.
Haselkorn TS, Cockburn SN, Hamilton PT, Perlman SJ , Jaenike J. 2013. Infectious adaptation: potential host range of a defensive endosymbiont in Drosophila. Evolution. 67:934-945. doi: 10.1111/evo.12020.
Tai V, James ER, Perlman SJ, Keeling PJ. 2013. Single-Cell DNA Barcoding Using Sequences from the Small Subunit rRNA and Internal Transcribed Spacer Region Identifies New Species of Trichonympha and Trichomitopsis from the Hindgut of the Termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. PLoS ONE 8(3):e58728.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058728.
Taylor GP, Coghlin PC, Floate KD, and Perlman SJ. 2011. The host range of the male-killing symbiont Arsenophonus nasoniae in filth fly parasitioids. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 106: 371-379.
White JA, Kelly SE, Cockburn SN, Perlman SJ, and Hunter MS. 2011. Endosymbiont costs and benefits in a parasitoid infected with both Wolbachia and Cardinium. Heredity. 106:585-591.
Jaenike J, Unckless R, Cockburn SN, Boelio LM, and Perlman SJ. 2010. Adaptation via symbiosis: recent spread of a Drosophila defensive symbiont. Science. 329: 212-215.
Behar A, McCormick LJ, and Perlman SJ. 2010. Rickettsia felis infection in a common household insect pest, Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocoptera: Liposcelidae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76: 2280-2285.
Perlman SJ, Magnus SA, and Copley CR. 2010. Pervasive associations between Cybaeus spiders and the bacterial symbiont Cardinium. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 103: 150-155.
Harris LR, Kelly SE, Hunter MS, and Perlman SJ. 2010. Population dynamics and rapid spread of Cardinium, a bacterial symbiont causing cytoplasmic incompatibility in Encarsia pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Heredity. 104: 239-246.
Copley CR, Bennett R, and Perlman SJ. 2009. Systematics of Nearctic Cybaeus(Araneae: Cybaeidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 23: 367-401
White JA, Kelly SE, Perlman SJ, and Hunter MS. 2009. Cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitic wasp Encarsia inaron: disentangling the roles of Cardinium and Wolbachiasymbionts. Heredity. 102: 483-489.
Perlman SJ, Kelly SE, and Hunter MS. 2008. Population biology of cytoplasmic incompatibility: maintenance and spread of Cardinium symbionts in a parasitic wasp. Genetics 178: 1003-1011.
Perlman SJ, Kelly SE, Zchori-Fein E, and Hunter MS. 2006. Cytoplasmic incompatibility and multiple symbiont infection in the ash whitefly parasitoid, Encarsia inaron. Biological Control. 39: 474-480.
Perlman SJ, Zchori-Fein E, and Hunter MS. 2006. The emerging diversity of Rickettsia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 273: 2097-2106.
Zchori-Fein E and Perlman SJ. 2004. Distribution of the bacterial symbiont Cardinium in arthropods. Molecular Ecology. 13: 2009-2016.
Zchori-Fein E, Perlman SJ, Kelly SE, Katzir N, and Hunter MS. 2004. Characterization of a Bacteroidetes symbiont in Encarsia wasps (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae): Proposal of 'Candidatus Cardinium hertigii'. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54: 961-968.
Hunter MS, Perlman SJ, and Kelly SE. 2003. A bacterial symbiont in the Bacteroidetes induces cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitoid wasp Encarsia pergandiella. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 270: 2185-2190.
Perlman SJ and Jaenike J. 2003. Infection success in novel hosts: an experimental and phylogenetic analysis of Drosophila-parasitic nematodes. Evolution 57: 544-557.
Perlman SJ and Jaenike J. 2003. Evolution of multiple components of virulence in Drosophila-parasitic nematode associations. Evolution 57: 1543-1551.
Perlman SJ, Spicer GS, Shoemaker DD, and Jaenike J. 2003. Associations between mycophagous Drosophila and their parasitic nematodes: a worldwide phylogenetic shuffle. Molecular Ecology. 12: 237-249.
Jaenike J and Perlman SJ. 2002. Evolution and ecology of a host-parasite association: mycophagous Drosophila and their parasitic nematodes. American Naturalist. 160: S23-S39.
Perlman SJ and Jaenike J. 2001. Competitive interactions and persistence of two nematodes parasitizing Drosophila recens. Ecology Letters. 4: 277-284.
Dudzic JP, Curtis CI, Gowen BE, Perlman SJ. 2022. A highly divergent Wolbachia with a tiny genome in an insect-parasitic tylenchid nematode. Proc. R. Soc. B. 289: 20221518.
Pollmann M, Moore LD, Krimmer E, D'Alvise P, Hasselmann M, Perlman SJ, Ballinger MJ, Steidle JLM, Gottlieb Y. 2022. Highly transmissible cytoplasmic incompatibility by the extracellular insect symbiont Spiroplasma. iScience. 25(5):104335.
Martinson VG, Gawryluk RMR, Gowen BE, Curtis CI, Jaenike J, Perlman SJ. 2020. Multiple origins of obligate nematode and insect symbionts by a clade of bacteria closely related to plant pathogens. Proc. Nat. Acad. USA. 117(50):31979-31986.
Oliver KM, Perlman SJ. 2020. Toxin-mediated protection against natural enemies by insect defensive symbionts. Advances in Insect Physiology. 58: 277-315.
Abram PK, McPherson AE, Kula R, Hueppelsheuser T, Thiessen J, Perlman SJ, Curtis CI, Fraser JL, Tam J, Carrillo J, Gates M, Scheffer S, Lewis M, Buffington M. 2020. New records of Leptopilina, Ganaspis, and Asobara species associated with Drosophila suzukii in North America, including detections of L. japonica and G. brasiliensis. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 78: 1-17.
Keais GL, Liu S, Perlman SJ. 2020. Autosomal suppression and fitness costs of an old driving X chromosome in Drosophila testacea. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33: 619-628.
Hodson CN, Perlman SJ. 2019. Population biology of a selfish sex ratio distorting element in
a booklouse (Psocodea: Liposcelis). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32: 825-832.
Ballinger MJ, Gawryluk RMR, Perlman SJ. 2019. Toxin and genome evolution in a Drosophila defensive symbiosis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11: 253-262.
Ballinger MJ, Perlman SP. 2019. The defensive Spiroplasma. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 32: 36-41.
Hamilton PT, Hodson CN, Curtis CI, Perlman SJ. 2018. Genetics and genomics of an unusual selfish sex ratio distortion in an insect. Current Biology. 28: 3864–3870.
Wertman DL, Bleiker KP, Perlman SJ. 2018. The light at the end of the tunnel: photosensitivity in larvae of the mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Canadian Entomologist. 150: 622-631. doi: 10.4039/tce.2018.38
Vorburger C, Perlman SJ. 2018. The role of defensive symbionts in host-parasite coevolution.
Biological Reviews. 93: 1747-1764.
Ballinger MJ, Moore LD, Perlman SJ. 2018. Evolution and diversity of inherited Spiroplasma in Myrmica ants. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84: e02299-172017.doi: 10.1128/AEM.02299-17.
Gomez-Polo P, Ballinger MJ, Lalzar M, Malik A, Ben-Dov Y, Mozes-Daube N, Perlman SJ, Iasur-Kruh L, Chiel E. 2017. An exceptional family: Ophiocordyceps-allied fungus dominates the microbiome of soft scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccidae). Molecular Ecology. 26: 5855-5868.
Ballinger MJ, Perlman SJ. 2017. Generality of toxins in defensive symbiosis: Ribosome-inactivating proteins and defense against parasitic wasps in Drosophila. PLoS Pathogens, 13(6): e1006431.
Cevallos JA, RP Okubo RP, SJ Perlman SJ, Hallem EA. 2017. Olfactory preferences of the parasitic nematode Howardula aoronymphium and its insect host Drosophila falleni. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 43: 362–373.
Keais GL, Hanson MA, Gowen BE and Perlman SJ. 2017. X chromosome drive in a widespread Palearctic woodland fly, Drosophila testacea. J Evolutionary Biology. 30: 1185–1194. doi:10.1111/jeb.13089
Hodson CN, Hamilton PT, Dilworth D, Nelson CJ, Curtis CI and Perlman SJ. 2017. Paternal genome elimination in Liposcelis booklice (Insecta: Psocodea). Genetics. 206:1091-1100. doi:10.1534/genetics.117.199786
Kruh L, Naor V, Zahavi T, Ballinger MJ, Sharon R, Robinson WE, Perlman SJ, Zchori-Fein E. 2017. Bacterial associates of Hyalesthes obsoletus (Hemiptera: Cixiidae), the insect vector of bois noir disease, with a focus on cultivable bacteria. Research in Microbiology. 168: 94-101.
Hanson MA, Hamilton PT, Perlman SJ. 2016. Immune genes and divergent antimicrobial peptides in flies of the subgenus Drosophila. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16:228. doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0805-y
Paulson A, Le C, Dickson J, Ehlting J, von Aderkas P, Perlman SJ. 2016. Transcriptome analysis provides insight into venom evolution in a seed-parasitic wasp, Megastigmus spermotrophus. Insect Molecular Biology. 25: 604-616. DOI: 10.1111/imb.12247
Tai V, Carpenter C, Weber P, Nalepa C, Perlman SJ, Keeling P. 2016. Genome evolution and nitrogen-fixation in bacterial ectosymbionts of a protist inhabiting wood-feeding cockroaches. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 82:4682-4695. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00611-16
Hamilton PT, Peng F, Boulanger MJ, Perlman SJ. 2016. A ribosome-inactivating protein in a Drosophila defensive symbiont. PNAS. 113:350-355. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1518648113
Parker ML, Penarete-Vargas DM, Hamilton PT, Guérin A, Dubey JP, Perlman SJ, Spano F, Lebrun M, Boulanger MJ. 2016. Dissecting the interface between apicomplexan parasite and host cell: Insights from a divergent AMA–RON2 pair. PNAS. 113:398-403. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515898113
Gebiola M, White JA, Cass BN, Kozuch A, Harris LR, Kelly SE, Karimi J, Giorgini M, Perlman SJ, Hunter MS. 2016. Cryptic diversity, reproductive isolation and cytoplasmic incompatibility in a classic biological control success story. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 117:217-230.
Hamilton PT, Votýpka J, Dostálová A, Yurchenko V, Bird NH, Lukeš J, Lemaitre B, Perlman SJ. 2015. Infection Dynamics and Immune Response in a Newly Described Drosophila-Trypanosomatid Association. mBio. 6: e01356-15.
Yang Q, Kučerová K, Perlman SJ, Opit GP, Mockford EL, Behar A, Robinson WE, Stejskal V, Zhihong L, Shao R. 2015. Morphological and molecular characterization of a sexually reproducing colony of the booklouse Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocodea: Liposcelididae) found in Arizona. Scientific Reports. 5:10429 doi:10.1038/srep10429
Perlman SJ, Hodson CN, Hamilton PT, Opit GP, Gowen BE. 2015. Maternal transmission, sex ratio distortion, and mitochondria. PNAS. 112:10162-10168 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1421391112
Tai V, James E, Nalepa C, Scheffrahn R, Perlman SJ, Keeling P. 2015. The role of host phylogeny varies in shaping microbial diversity in the hindguts of lower termites. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81:1059-1070.
Iasur-Kruh L, Taha-Salaime L, Robinson WE, Sharon R, Droby S, Perlman SJ, Zchori-Fein E. 2015. Microbial associates of the vine mealybug Planococcus ficus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) under different rearing conditions. Microbial Ecology. 69:204-214.
Paulson AR, von Aderkas P, Perlman SJ. 2014. Bacterial associates of seed-parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Megastigmus). BMC Microbiology 14:224.
Hamilton PT, Leong JS, Koop BF, Perlman SJ. 2014. Transcriptional responses in a Drosophila defensive symbiosis. Molecular Ecology. 23:1558-1570.
Perlman SJ, Dowdy NJ, Harris LR, Khalid M, Kelly SE, Hunter MS. 2014. Factors affecting the strength of Cardinium-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitic wasp Encarsia pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Microbial Ecology. 67:671-8.
Hamilton PT, Perlman SJ. 2013. Host defense via symbiosis in Drosophila. PLoS Pathogens. 9:e1003808.
Iasur-Kruh L, Weintraub PG, Mozes-Daube N, Robinson WE, Perlman SJ, Zchori-Fein E. 2013. Novel Rickettsiella Bacterium in the leafhopper Orosius albicinctus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79:4246-4252. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00721-13.
Cockburn SN, Haselkorn TS, Hamilton PT, Landzberg E, Jaenike J, Perlman SJ. 2013. Dynamics of the continent-wide spread of a Drosophila defensive symbiont. Ecology Letters. 16:609-16. doi:10.1111/ele.12087.
Haselkorn TS, Cockburn SN, Hamilton PT, Perlman SJ , Jaenike J. 2013. Infectious adaptation: potential host range of a defensive endosymbiont in Drosophila. Evolution. 67:934-945. doi: 10.1111/evo.12020.
Tai V, James ER, Perlman SJ, Keeling PJ. 2013. Single-Cell DNA Barcoding Using Sequences from the Small Subunit rRNA and Internal Transcribed Spacer Region Identifies New Species of Trichonympha and Trichomitopsis from the Hindgut of the Termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. PLoS ONE 8(3):e58728.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058728.
Taylor GP, Coghlin PC, Floate KD, and Perlman SJ. 2011. The host range of the male-killing symbiont Arsenophonus nasoniae in filth fly parasitioids. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 106: 371-379.
White JA, Kelly SE, Cockburn SN, Perlman SJ, and Hunter MS. 2011. Endosymbiont costs and benefits in a parasitoid infected with both Wolbachia and Cardinium. Heredity. 106:585-591.
Jaenike J, Unckless R, Cockburn SN, Boelio LM, and Perlman SJ. 2010. Adaptation via symbiosis: recent spread of a Drosophila defensive symbiont. Science. 329: 212-215.
Behar A, McCormick LJ, and Perlman SJ. 2010. Rickettsia felis infection in a common household insect pest, Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocoptera: Liposcelidae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76: 2280-2285.
Perlman SJ, Magnus SA, and Copley CR. 2010. Pervasive associations between Cybaeus spiders and the bacterial symbiont Cardinium. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 103: 150-155.
Harris LR, Kelly SE, Hunter MS, and Perlman SJ. 2010. Population dynamics and rapid spread of Cardinium, a bacterial symbiont causing cytoplasmic incompatibility in Encarsia pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Heredity. 104: 239-246.
Copley CR, Bennett R, and Perlman SJ. 2009. Systematics of Nearctic Cybaeus(Araneae: Cybaeidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 23: 367-401
White JA, Kelly SE, Perlman SJ, and Hunter MS. 2009. Cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitic wasp Encarsia inaron: disentangling the roles of Cardinium and Wolbachiasymbionts. Heredity. 102: 483-489.
Perlman SJ, Kelly SE, and Hunter MS. 2008. Population biology of cytoplasmic incompatibility: maintenance and spread of Cardinium symbionts in a parasitic wasp. Genetics 178: 1003-1011.
Perlman SJ, Kelly SE, Zchori-Fein E, and Hunter MS. 2006. Cytoplasmic incompatibility and multiple symbiont infection in the ash whitefly parasitoid, Encarsia inaron. Biological Control. 39: 474-480.
Perlman SJ, Zchori-Fein E, and Hunter MS. 2006. The emerging diversity of Rickettsia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 273: 2097-2106.
Zchori-Fein E and Perlman SJ. 2004. Distribution of the bacterial symbiont Cardinium in arthropods. Molecular Ecology. 13: 2009-2016.
Zchori-Fein E, Perlman SJ, Kelly SE, Katzir N, and Hunter MS. 2004. Characterization of a Bacteroidetes symbiont in Encarsia wasps (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae): Proposal of 'Candidatus Cardinium hertigii'. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54: 961-968.
Hunter MS, Perlman SJ, and Kelly SE. 2003. A bacterial symbiont in the Bacteroidetes induces cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitoid wasp Encarsia pergandiella. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 270: 2185-2190.
Perlman SJ and Jaenike J. 2003. Infection success in novel hosts: an experimental and phylogenetic analysis of Drosophila-parasitic nematodes. Evolution 57: 544-557.
Perlman SJ and Jaenike J. 2003. Evolution of multiple components of virulence in Drosophila-parasitic nematode associations. Evolution 57: 1543-1551.
Perlman SJ, Spicer GS, Shoemaker DD, and Jaenike J. 2003. Associations between mycophagous Drosophila and their parasitic nematodes: a worldwide phylogenetic shuffle. Molecular Ecology. 12: 237-249.
Jaenike J and Perlman SJ. 2002. Evolution and ecology of a host-parasite association: mycophagous Drosophila and their parasitic nematodes. American Naturalist. 160: S23-S39.
Perlman SJ and Jaenike J. 2001. Competitive interactions and persistence of two nematodes parasitizing Drosophila recens. Ecology Letters. 4: 277-284.