List of works by Bettina Sonntag

A morphogenetic survey on ciliate plankton from a mountain lake pinpoints the necessity of lineage-specific barcode markers in microbial ecology.

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

An experimental test of the symbiosis specificity between the ciliate Paramecium bursaria and strains of the unicellular green alga Chlorella

scientific article

Aquatic food webs in deep temperate lakes: key species establish through their autecological versatility

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Are freshwater mixotrophic ciliates less sensitive to solar ultraviolet radiation than heterotrophic ones?

scientific article published on 17 March 2011

Bioaccumulation of ultraviolet sunscreen compounds (mycosporine-like amino acids) by the heterotrophic freshwater ciliate Bursaridium living in alpine lakes.

scientific article

CILIATE-SYMBIONT SPECIFICITY OF FRESHWATER ENDOSYMBIOTIC CHLORELLA (TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE, CHLOROPHYTA)(1).

scientific article published in February 2008

Ciliate community structure and interactions within the planktonic food web in two alpine lakes of contrasting transparency.

scientific article

Ciliates in Planktonic Food Webs: Communication and Adaptive Response

scholarly article published 2016

Ciliates — Protists with complex morphologies and ambiguous early fossil record

scholarly article by Micah Dunthorn published in September 2015

Ecology and community structure of ciliated protists in two alkaline–saline Rift Valley lakes in Kenya with special emphasis on Frontonia

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Factors involved in the distribution pattern of ciliates in the water column of a transparent alpine lake

scientific article published on March 2011

First Limnological Characterization of Crater Lake Billy Mitchell (Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea)

article

High diversity of protistan plankton communities in remote high mountain lakes in the European Alps and the Himalayan mountains

scientific article

Lake Ecosystem Robustness and Resilience Inferred from a Climate-Stressed Protistan Plankton Network

scientific article published in 2021

Limnological Characterization of Volcanic Crater Lakes on Uvea Island (Wallis and Futuna, South Pacific)

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Limnological Characterization of the Largest Freshwater Lake in Remote Oceania (Lake Letas, Gaua Island, Vanuatu)

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Modulation of microbial predatorâ prey dynamics by phosphorus availability: Growth patterns and survival strategies of bacterial phylogenetic clades

scientific article published on 24 January 2007

Mycosporines from freshwater yeasts: a trophic cul-de-sac?

scientific article

Seasonality of Planktonic Freshwater Ciliates: Are Analyses Based on V9 Regions of the 18S rRNA Gene Correlated With Morphospecies Counts?

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Size Selective Feeding in Cyclidium glaucoma (Ciliophora, Scuticociliatida) and Its Effects on Bacterial Community Structure: A Study from a Continuous Cultivation System.

scientific article published in October 2001

Sources of mycosporine-like amino acids in planktonic Chlorella-bearing ciliates (Ciliophora)

scientific article

Stress and Protists: No life without stress

scientific article

Symbiotic ciliates receive protection against UV damage from their algae: a test with Paramecium bursaria and Chlorella.

scientific article published on 4 February 2009

The Impact of UV Radiation on Paramecium Populations from Alpine Lakes.

scientific article

Uroleptus willii nov. sp., a euplanktonic freshwater ciliate (Dorsomarginalia, Spirotrichea, Ciliophora) with algal symbionts: morphological description including phylogenetic data of the small subunit rRNA gene sequence and ecological notes

scientific article published in 2008

Urotricha psenneri n. sp. and Amphileptus piger (Vuxanovici, 1962) n. comb., two planktonic ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from an oligotrophic lake in Austria.

scientific article published on November 2004

Widespread Occurrence of Two Planktonic Ciliate Species (Urotricha, Prostomatida) Originating from High Mountain Lakes

scientific article published in 2022