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Irene L. G. Newton

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Insect symbiosis and bacterial influencesInsect and Pesticide ResearchInsect and Arachnid Ecology and BehaviorPlant and animal studiesHealth and Medical Research Impacts

Publications

129

Citations

3,873

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

36

Publishing since 1991

Research summary
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Irene L. G. Newton studies the microbes that live inside insects and how these bacterial partners shape their hosts. A major focus is the microbial communities of honey bees, including the bacteria, viruses (phages), and mobile pieces of DNA in the bee gut, as well as symbiotic bacteria such as Wolbachia in fruit flies. Recent work also touches on how bacteria can break down plastics.

Insect–bacterial symbiosisHoney bee gut microbiomeBacteriophages and mobile genetic elementsWolbachia in DrosophilaMicrobial genomics and metagenomics

Publication activity has been steady with periodic peaks, averaging about 10 papers per year over the last five years and a notable spike in 2025 (partly reflecting a widely co-signed multi-journal commentary).

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 10.2/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 9 publications182019: 7 publications192020: 25 publications202021: 6 publications212022: 5 publications222023: 10 publications232024: 4 publications242025: 30 publications30252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×24
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements×11
  • mBio×8
  • mSystems×6
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology×5

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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