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List of works by Piotr Łukasik

Alternative Transmission Patterns in Independently Acquired Nutritional Cosymbionts of Dictyopharidae Planthoppers

scientific article published on 31 August 2021

Arthropod communities and succession in baobab, Adansonia rubrostipa, fruits in a dry deciduous forest in Kirindy Forest Reserve, Madagascar

Author Correction: Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome.

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By their own devices: invasive Argentine ants have shifted diet without clear aid from symbiotic microbes

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Changes in Endosymbiont Complexity Drive Host-Level Compensatory Adaptations in Cicadas

scientific article published in 2018

Correlates of gut community composition across an ant species (Cephalotes varians) elucidate causes and consequences of symbiotic variability

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Dramatic Differences in Gut Bacterial Densities Correlate with Diet and Habitat in Rainforest Ants

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Dramatic differences in gut bacterial densities help to explain the relationship between diet and habitat in rainforest ants

scholarly article published 7 March 2017

Evolutionary relationships among Massospora spp. (Entomophthorales), obligate pathogens of cicadas

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Evolutionary relationships among Massospora spp. (Entomophthorales), obligate pathogens of cicadas

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Genome Evolution of Bartonellaceae Symbionts of Ants at the Opposite Ends of the Trophic Scale

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Grain aphid clones vary in frost resistance, but this trait is not influenced by facultative endosymbionts

scientific article published in 2011

Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome.

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Horizontal transfer of facultative endosymbionts is limited by host relatedness

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

Idiosyncratic Genome Degradation in a Bacterial Endosymbiont of Periodical Cicadas

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Idiosyncratic genome degradation in a bacterial endosymbiont of periodical cicadas

In their sister’s footsteps: Taxonomic divergence obscures substantial functional overlap among the metabolically diverse symbiotic gut communities of adult and larval turtle ants

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

Multiple origins of interdependent endosymbiotic complexes in a genus of cicadas

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

Off-target capture data, endosymbiont genes and morphology reveal a relict lineage that is sister to all other singing cicadas

One Hundred Mitochondrial Genomes of Cicadas

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Optimizing insect metabarcoding using replicated mock communities

scientific article published on 13 February 2023

Partner fidelity and environmental filtering preserve stage‐specific turtle ant gut symbioses for over 40 million years

scientific article published in 2023

Patterns, causes and consequences of defensive microbiome dynamics across multiple scales.

scientific article published on 17 February 2015

Protection against a fungal pathogen conferred by the aphid facultative endosymbionts Rickettsia and Spiroplasma is expressed in multiple host genotypes and species and is not influenced by co-infection with another symbiont

scientific article published on 7 October 2013

Recurrent symbiont recruitment from fungal parasites in cicadas.

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AFFECTS THE SURVIVAL OF ALTERNATIVE MALE REPRODUCTIVE TACTICS

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

The diversity and fitness effects of infection with facultative endosymbionts in the grain aphid, Sitobion avenae

scientific article published on 27 April 2013

The effect of a phosphogluconate dehydrogenase genotype on sperm competitiveness in the bulb mite,Rhizoglyphus robini

The effect of ethanol concentration on the morphological and molecular preservation of insects for biodiversity studies

scientific article published on 6 March 2020

The structured diversity of specialized gut symbionts of the New World army ants

The structured diversity of specialized gut symbionts of the New World army ants.

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Thirteen new species of Chilecicada Sanborn, 2014 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae: Tibicininae) expand the highly endemic cicada fauna of Chile

scientific article published on 8 December 2021

Trophic dimorphism in alternative male reproductive morphs of the acarid mite Sancassania berlesei

scientific article published in 2010

Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

scientific article published on 4 February 2013

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

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