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2019
Pitsch G, Bruni EP, Forster D, Qu Z, Sonntag B, Stoeck T, Posch T (2019) Seasonality of planktonic freshwater ciliates: are analyses based on V9 regions of the 18S rRNA gene correlated with morphospecies counts? Frontiers in Microbiology: Aquatic Microbiology 10:248. PDF
2018
Kammerlander B, Tartarotti B, Sonntag B (2017) The impact of UV radiation on Paramecium populations from alpine lakes. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. doi:10.1111/jeu.12463. PDF
2017
Pitsch G, Adamec L, Dirren S, Nitsche F, Šimek K, Sirová D, Posch T (2017) The Green Tetrahymena utriculariae n. sp. (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) with its Endosymbiotic Algae (Micractinium sp.), Living in Traps of a Carnivorous Aquatic Plant. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 64: 322-335. doi: 10.1111/jeu.12369. PDF
Shabarova T, Kasalický V, Šimek K, Nedoma J, Znachor P, Posch T, Pernthaler J, Salcher MM (2017) Distribution and ecological preferences of the freshwater lineage LimA (genus Limnohabitans) revealed by a new double hybridisation approach. Environmental Microbiology 19: 1296-1309. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13663. PDF
Šimek K, Pitsch G, Salcher M M, Sirová D, Shabarová T, Adamec L, Posch T (2017) Ecological Traits of the Algae-Bearing Tetrahymena utriculariae (Ciliophora) from Traps of the Aquatic Carnivorous Plant Utricularia reflexa. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 64: 336-348. doi: 10.1111/jeu.12368. PDF
Sonntag B, Kammerlander B, Summerer M (2017) Bioaccumulation of ultraviolet sunscreen compounds (mycosporine-like amino acids) by the heterotrophic freshwater ciliate Bursaridium living in alpine lakes. Inland Waters 7: 55-64. PDF
2016
Kammerlander B, Koinig KA, Rott E, Sommaruga R, Tartarotti B, Trattner F, Sonntag B (2016) Ciliate community structure and interactions within the planktonic food web in two alpine lakes of contrasting transparency. Freshwater Biology 61:1950-1965. PDF
Slaveykova V, Sonntag B, Gutiérrez JC (2016) Stress and protists: no life without stress. European Journal of Protistology 55:39-49. PDF
Sonntag B. (2016). Unseen worlds: microscopic lake plankton fuel food chains and befriend algae. Scientia. PDF
Yankova Y, Villiger J, Pernthaler J, Schanz F, Posch T (2016) Prolongation, deepening and warming of the metalimnion change habitat conditions of the harmful filamentous cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens in a prealpine lake. Hydrobiologia 776: 125-138. PDF
2015
Kammerlander B, Breiner H-W, Filker S, Sommaruga R, Sonntag B, Stoeck T (2015) High diversity of protistan plankton communities in remote high mountain lakes in the European Alps and the Himalaya mountains. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91:fiv010. PDF
Posch T, Eugster B, Pomati F, Pernthaler J, Pitsch G, Eckert E.M. (2015) Network of interactions between ciliates and phytoplankton during spring. Frontiers in Microbiology 6: 1289. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01289. PDF