Julius Lukeš

Research interests

Publications

• Bacterial and archaeal symbioses with protists

  Current Biology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.049

• Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses

  Open Biology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.200407

• Transcriptome, proteome and draft genome of Euglena gracilis

  BMC Biology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0626-8

• Recent advances in trypanosomatid research: genome organization, expression, metabolism, taxonomy and evolution

  Parasitology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182018000951

• Trypanosomatids Are Much More than Just Trypanosomes: Clues from the Expanded Family Tree

  Trends in Parasitology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2018.03.002

• Leishmania infections: Molecular targets and diagnosis

  Molecular Aspects of Medicine · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mam.2016.11.012

• Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

  Science · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261605

• Chromerid genomes reveal the evolutionary path from photosynthetic algae to obligate intracellular parasites

  eLife · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.06974

• Sex is a ubiquitous, ancient, and inherent attribute of eukaryotic life

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1501725112

• Are Human Intestinal Eukaryotes Beneficial or Commensals?

  PLoS Pathogens · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005039

• Evolution of parasitism in kinetoplastid flagellates

  Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molbiopara.2014.05.007

• Microsporidia and ‘The Art of Living Together’

  Advances in Parasitology/Advances in parasitology · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-407706-5.00004-6

• Diversity and phylogeny of insect trypanosomatids: all that is hidden shall be revealed

  Trends in Parasitology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2012.11.001

• The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

  Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x

• CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

  PLoS Biology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001419

• How a neutral evolutionary ratchet can build cellular complexity

  IUBMB Life · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1002/iub.489

• A common red algal origin of the apicomplexan, dinoflagellate, and heterokont plastids

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1003335107

• Irremediable Complexity?

  Science · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1198594

• Adaptations of Trypanosoma brucei to gradual loss of kinetoplast DNA: Trypanosoma equiperdum and Trypanosoma evansi are petite mutants of T. brucei

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0711799105

• Evolutionary and geographical history of the Leishmania donovani complex with a revision of current taxonomy

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0703678104

• The evolution and diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates

  Trends in Parasitology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2006.02.006

• Unexplained complexity of the mitochondrial genome and transcriptome in kinetoplastid flagellates

  Current Genetics · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00294-005-0027-0

• Kinetoplast DNA Network: Evolution of an Improbable Structure

  Eukaryotic Cell · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1128/ec.1.4.495-502.2002

• Phylogeny of trypanosomes as inferred from the small and large subunit rRNAs: implications for the evolution of parasitism in the trypanosomatid protozoa

  Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-6851(95)02526-x

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