Ľubomír Rajter

Publications:

Rajter Ľ., Vďačný P. (2016) Rapid radiation, gradual extinction and parallel evolution challenge generic classification of spathidiid ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora). Zoologica Scripta 45 (2): 200-223.

Rajter Ľ., Vďačný P. (2017) Constraints on phylogenetic interrelationships among four free-living litostomatean lineages inferred from 18S rRNA gene-ITS region sequences and secondary structure of the ITS2 molecule. Acta Protozoologica 56 (4): 255-281.

Rajter Ľ., Vďačný P. (2018) Selection and paucity of phylogenetic signal challenge the utility of alpha-tubulin in reconstruction of evolutionary history of free-living litostomateans (Protista, Ciliophora). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 534-544.

Vďačný P., Rajter Ľ. (2014) An annotated and revised checklist of pleurostome ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) from Slovakia, Central Europe. Zootaxa 3760 (4): 501-521.

Vďačný P., Rajter Ľ. (2015) Reconciling morphological and molecular classification of predatory ciliates: Evolutionary taxonomy of dileptids (Ciliophora, Litostomatea, Rhynchostomatia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 90: 112–128.

Rajter Ľ., Bourland W., Vďačný P. (2019) Morpho-molecular characterization of the litostomatean predatory ciliate Phialina pupula (Müller, 1773) Foissner, 1983 (Haptoria, Lacrymariidae). Acta Protozoologica 58 (2): 53-68.

Vďačný P., Rajter Ľ., Shazib S.U.A., Jang S.W., Kim J.H., Shin M.K. (2015) Reconstruction of evolutionary history of pleurostomatid ciliates (Ciliophora, Litostomatea, Haptoria): interplay of morphology and molecules. Acta Protozoologica 54 (1): 9-29.

Vďačný P., Rajter Ľ., Shazib S.U.A., Jang S.W., Shin M.K. (2017) Diversification dynamics of rhynchostomatian ciliates: the impact of seven intrinsic traits on speciation and extinction in a microbial group. Scientific Reports 7 (1): e9918.