Martin Bens

Publications 2021:

• Increased longevity due to sexual activity in mole-rats is associated with transcriptional changes in HPA stress axis.
  Sahm* A, Platzer M, Koch P, Henning Y, Bens M, Groth M, Burda H, Begall S, Ting S, Goetz M, Van Daele P, Staniszewska M, Klose J, Costa PF, Hoffmann** S, Szafranski** K, Dammann** P
  Elife 2021, 10, e57843 ** co-senior authors, * corresponding author
  

Publications 2019:

• Analysis of the coding sequences of clownfish reveals molecular convergence in the evolution of lifespan.
  Sahm A, Almaida-Pagán P, Bens M, Mutalipassi M, Lucas-Sánchez A, de Costa Ruiz J, Görlach M, Cellerino A
  BMC Evol Biol 2019, 19(1), 89
  

Publications 2018:

• Naked mole-rat transcriptome signatures of socially suppressed sexual maturation and links of reproduction to aging.
  Bens* M, Szafranski* K, Holtze S, Sahm A, Groth M, Kestler HA, Hildebrandt** TB, Platzer** M
  BMC Biol 2018, 16(1), 77 * equal contribution, ** co-senior authors
  
• Species comparison of liver proteomes reveals links to naked mole-rat longevity and human aging.
  Heinze* I, Bens* M, Calzia* E, Holtze S, Dakhovnik O, Sahm A, Kirkpatrick JM, Szafranski K, Romanov N, Sama SN, Holzer K, Singer S, Ermolaeva M, Platzer** M, Hildebrandt** T, Ori** A
  BMC Biol 2018, 16(1), 82 * equal contribution, ** co-senior authors
  
• Higher gene expression stability during aging in long-lived giant mole-rats than in short-lived rats.
  Sahm A, Bens M, Henning Y, Vole C, Groth M, Schwab M, Hoffmann S, Platzer* M, Szafranski* K, Dammann* P
  Aging (Albany NY) 2018, 10(12), 3938-56 * equal contribution
  
• Long-lived rodents reveal signatures of positive selection in genes associated with lifespan.
  Sahm A, Bens M, Szafranski K, Holtze S, Groth M, Görlach M, Calkhoven C, Müller C, Schwab M, Kraus J, Kestler HA, Cellerino A, Burda H, Hildebrandt T, Dammann P, Platzer M
  PLoS Genet 2018, 14(3), e1007272
  

Publications 2017:

• Tissue-, sex- and age-specific DNA methylation of rat glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter and insulin like growth factor 2 imprinting control region.
  Agba OB, Lausser L, Huse K, Bergmeier C, Jahn N, Groth M, Bens M, Sahm A, Gall M, Witte OW, Kestler HA, Schwab M, Platzer M
  Physiol Genomics 2017, 49(11), 690-702 APSselect for distinction in scholarship in the Physiological Genomics
  
• Development and application of RNA-seq bioinformatic tools to explore non-model organisms in ageing research
  Bens M
  Dissertation 2017, Jena, Germany
  
• Parallel evolution of genes controlling mitonuclear balance in short-lived annual fishes.
  Sahm A, Bens M, Platzer M, Cellerino A
  Aging Cell 2017, 16(3), 488-96
  
• PosiGene: automated and easy-to-use pipeline for genome-wide detection of positively selected genes.
  Sahm A, Bens M, Platzer M, Szafranski K
  Nucleic Acids Res 2017, 45(11), e100
  

Publications 2016:

• FRAMA: from RNA-seq data to annotated mRNA assemblies.
  Bens M, Sahm A, Groth M, Jahn N, Morhart M, Holtze S, Hildebrandt TB, Platzer M, Szafranski K
  BMC Genomics 2016, 17(1), 54
  

Publications 2015:

• Insights into Sex Chromosome Evolution and Aging from the Genome of a Short-Lived Fish.
  Reichwald* K, Petzold* A, Koch* P, Downie* BR, Hartmann* N, Pietsch S, Baumgart M, Chalopin D, Felder M, Bens M, Sahm A, Szafranski K, Taudien S, Groth M, Arisi I, Weise A, Bhatt SS, Sharma V, Kraus JM, Schmid F, Priebe S, Liehr T, Görlach M, Than ME, Hiller M, Kestler HA, Volff JN, Schartl M, Cellerino** A, Englert** C, Platzer** M
  Cell 2015, 163(6), 1527-38 * equal contribution, ** co-senior authors, featured in Cell Preview by Vanisha Lakhina and Coleen T. Murphy: Genome Sequencing Fishes out Longevity Genes. Cell. 2015 163(6):1312-3,Nature News by Ewen Callaway: Short-lived fish may hold clues to human age
  

Publications 2014:

• Unusual Ratio between Free Thyroxine and Free Triiodothyronine in a Long-Lived Mole-Rat Species with Bimodal Ageing.
  Henning Y, Vole C, Begall S, Bens M, Broecker-Preuss M, Sahm A, Szafranski K, Burda H, Dammann P
  PLoS One 2014, 9(11), e113698