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Lukáš Pecina

Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD thesis: Diversity, morphology and phylogeny of endosymbiotic ciliates of the order Clevelandellida (Ciliophora: Armophorea) in cockroaches

Research Interest: My research interests are focused on cockroaches and microbial communities associated with their digestive tract. Specifically, I study evolution and distribution of endosymbiotic ciliates from the family Clevelandellidae, living in the wood-feeding cockroaches of the genus Panesthia. Phylogenetic relationships within the family Clevelandellidae also have come to my attention.
E-mail: lukas.pecinauniba.sk

Publications:

Pecina L., Vďačný P. (2020) Morphological versus molecular delimitation of ciliate species: A case study of the family Clevelandellidae (Protista, Ciliophora, Armophorea). European Journal of Taxonomy 697: 1-46.

Pecina L., Vďačný P. (2020) Two new endozoic ciliates, Clevelandella lynni sp. n. and Nyctotherus galerus sp. n., isolated from the hindgut of the wood-feeding cockroach Panesthia angustipennis (Illiger, 1801). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 67: 436-449.

Pecina L., Vďačný P. (2022) DNA barcoding and coalescent-based delimitation of endosymbiotic clevelandellid ciliates (Ciliophora: Clevelandellida): a shift to molecular taxonomy in the inventory of ciliate diversity in panesthiine cockroaches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (4): 1072‒1102.

Pecina L., Vďačný P. (2023) 2D approach to reconstruct the evolutionary history of clevelandellids (Ciliophora, Armophorea) inhabiting the hindgut of the Panesthiinae cockroaches. Zoologica Scripta 52 (6): 662‒687.

Pecina L., Rurik I., Vďačný P. (2024) Macroevolutionary trends and diversification dynamics in the hindgut order Clevelandellida (Ciliophora, Armophorea). Zoologica Scripta. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12701

Vďačný P., Érseková E., Šoltys K., Budiš J., Pecina L., Rurik I. (2018) Co-existence of multiple bacterivorous clevelandellid ciliate species in hindgut of wood-feeding cockroaches in light of their prokaryotic consortium. Scientific Reports 8: e17749.