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List of works by Thomas U Berendonk

"Candidatus Fokinia solitaria", a Novel "Stand-Alone" Symbiotic Lineage of Midichloriaceae (Rickettsiales).

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

A PCR-based method to distinguish the sibling species Stylonychia mytilus and Stylonychia lemnae (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) using isocitrate dehydrogenase gene sequences

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A genome-wide scan of wastewater E. coli for genes under positive selection: focusing on mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

scientific article published on 16 May 2022

A global multinational survey of cefotaxime-resistant coliforms in urban wastewater treatment plants

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

A long-term conservation tool for cell characteristics: cryopreservation of Paramecium caudatum.

scientific article published on 09 May 2009

A phenomenological approach shows a high coherence of warming patterns in dimictic aquatic systems across latitude

scientific article published on 04 May 2012

A role for ColV plasmids in the evolution of pathogenic Escherichia coli ST58

scientific article published on 03 February 2022

Advancing biological hazards risk assessment

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

An R-package to boost fitness and life expectancy of environmental models

scientific article published in October 2017

Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants and their impact on the aquatic environment

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Antibiotic resistance gene distribution in agricultural fields and crops. A soil-to-food analysis

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Antibiotic resistance genes in treated wastewater and in the receiving water bodies: A pan-European survey of urban settings

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Antibiotic resistance in European wastewater treatment plants mirrors the pattern of clinical antibiotic resistance prevalence

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Antibiotic resistome in landfill leachate from different cities of China deciphered by metagenomic analysis

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Arctic-alpine distributions--metapopulations on a continental scale?

scientific article published in March 2009

Conjugative plasmids enable the maintenance of low cost non-transmissible plasmids

scientific article published on 28 April 2017

Convergent evolution of heat-inducibility during subfunctionalization of the Hsp70 gene family.

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Coping with Temperature at the Warm Edge – Patterns of Thermal Adaptation in the Microbial Eukaryote Paramecium caudatum

scientific article published on March 9, 2012

Cytochrome b sequence data suggest rapid speciation within the Paramecium aurelia species complex.

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Disentangling the Taxonomy of Rickettsiales and Description of Two Novel Symbionts ("Candidatus Bealeia paramacronuclearis" and "Candidatus Fokinia cryptica") Sharing the Cytoplasm of the Ciliate Protist Paramecium biaurelia

scientific article (publication date: 15 December 2016)

Divergence and diversity: lessons from an arctic-alpine distribution (Pardosa saltuaria group, Lycosidae).

scientific article published in September 2006

Ensemble of models shows coherent response of a reservoir’s stratification and ice cover to climate warming

scientific article published in 2022

Evaluation of chemical and biological contaminants of emerging concern in treated wastewater intended for agricultural reuse

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Every fifth published metagenome is not available to science

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria isolated from hospital wastewaters, rivers and aquaculture sources in Nigeria

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Female-specific flightless phenotype for mosquito control

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Fish predation can induce mesohabitat-specific differences in food web structures in small stream ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Fitness Impact of Obligate Intranuclear Bacterial Symbionts Depends on Host Growth Phase

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Grazing resistance of bacterial biofilms: a matter of predators' feeding trait

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Heavy metal driven co-selection of antibiotic resistance in soil and water bodies impacted by agriculture and aquaculture

scientific article published in 2012

High Throughput Analysis of Integron Gene Cassettes in Wastewater Environments

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High genomic diversity of multi-drug resistant wastewater Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

High mitochondrial haplotype diversity of Coleps sp. (Ciliophora: Prostomatida)

scientific article published on 07 January 2008

High prevalence of colistin resistance genes in German municipal wastewater

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

High variability of plasmid uptake rates in Escherichia coli isolated from sewage and river sediments

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Hot spots of antibiotic tolerant and resistant bacterial subpopulations in natural freshwater biofilm communities due to inevitable urban drainage system overflows

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

How to assess hydromorphology? A comparison of Ukrainian and German approaches

scientific article published in 2011

Inducible defense destabilizes predator-prey dynamics: the importance of multiple predators

scientific article published in 2018

Inter-laboratory calibration of quantitative analyses of antibiotic resistance genes

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Intraspecific genetic variation in Paramecium revealed by mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase I sequences.

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Large global effective population sizes in Paramecium

scientific article published on 20 September 2006

Long-term selection experiment produces breakdown of horizontal transmissibility in parasite with mixed transmission mode

scientific article published on 09 April 2015

Making waves: The NORMAN antibiotic resistant bacteria and resistance genes database (NORMAN ARB&ARG)–An invitation for collaboration to tackle antibiotic resistance

scientific chapter published on 15 June 2024

Massive colonization of protein-coding exons by selfish genetic elements in Paramecium germline genomes

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Mobile Compensatory Mutations Promote Plasmid Survival

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Movement response of Chaoborus to chemicals from a predator and prey

scientific article published in 1996

Multidrug-Resistant Lineage of Enterotoxigenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> ST182 With Serotype O169:H41 in Airline Waste

scientific article published on 07 September 2021

Multidrug-Resistant and Clinically Relevant Gram-Negative Bacteria Are Present in German Surface Waters

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

Mutations in bdcA and valS Correlate with Quinolone Resistance in Wastewater Escherichia coli

scientific article published in 2021

Nanoparticles in wastewater treatment plants: a novel acute toxicity test for ciliates and its implementation in risk assessment

scientific article published on 17 January 2015

New Paramecium (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) congeners shape our view on its biodiversity

scientific article published on 22 March 2015

Optimum positioning of wastewater treatment plants in a river network: A model-based approach to minimize microbial pollution

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Origin and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance: The Common Mechanisms of Emergence and Spread in Water Bodies

scientific article published on January 26, 2012

Paramecium sexaurelia--intra-specific polymorphism and relationships with other Paramecium aurelia spp., revealed by cytochrome b sequence data.

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Phylogenetics of pond and lake lifestyles in Chaoborus midge larvae

scientific article published on September 1, 2003

Phylogeography and cryptic variation within the Lacerta viridis complex (Lacertidae, Reptilia)

scientific article published in 2007

Population Genomics of Paramecium Species.

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

Rediscovering the genus Lyticum, multiflagellated symbionts of the order Rickettsiales

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Report of the 2017 meeting of the German Society for Protozoology.

scientific article published in October 2017

Seasonality of antibiotic prescriptions for outpatients and resistance genes in sewers and wastewater treatment plant outflow.

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Sewage from Airplanes Exhibits High Abundance and Diversity of Antibiotic Resistance Genes

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Shifts from cooperative to individual-based predation defense determine microbial predator-prey dynamics

scientific article published in 2023

Small edge populations at risk: genetic diversity of the green lizard (Lacerta viridis viridis) in Germany and implications for conservation management

scientific article published on 28 September 2006

Strong genetic differentiation and postglacial origin of populations in the marine midge Clunio marinus (Chironomidae, Diptera).

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Systematics and species-specific response to pH of Oxytricha acidotolerans sp. nov. and Urosomoida sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) from acid mining lakes

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Tackling antibiotic resistance: the environmental framework

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The Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Fokinia solitaria": Insights on Reductive Evolution in Rickettsiales.

scientific article published in April 2018

The Paramecium aurelia species complex, frequency and co-occurrence across Europe

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

The challenges of designing a benchmark strategy for bioinformatics pipelines in the identification of antimicrobial resistance determinants using next generation sequencing technologies

The effects of fish kairomones and food availability on the predator avoidance behaviour of Gammarus pulex

scientific article published in 2015

The mitochondrial genome sequence of the ciliate Paramecium caudatum reveals a shift in nucleotide composition and codon usage within the genus Paramecium

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Thermal Tolerance and Vulnerability to Climate Change of a Threatened Freshwater Mussel

scientific article published in 2024

Thermal performance curves of Paramecium caudatum: A model selection approach

scientific article published on January 31, 2011

They do not fear the unknown: Ancylus fluviatilis (Mollusca, Planorbidae) shows no predator avoidance behavior towards a novel invasive predator

scientific article published in 2022

Treated wastewater irrigation promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance into subsoil pore-water

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Wie zeigt sich der Klimawandel in den deutschen Talsperren?

scientific article published in May 2013

“Candidatus Intestinibacterium parameciiphilum”—member of the “Candidatus Paracaedibacteraceae” family (Alphaproteobacteria, Holosporales) inhabiting the ciliated protist Paramecium

scientific article published in 2023