Matej Rataj
PhD Thesis: Reconstruction of phylogeny of ciliates of the class Oligohymenophorea associated with triclad planarians
Publications:
Rataj M., Vďačný P. (2018) Dawn of astome ciliates in light of morphology and time-calibrated phylogeny of Haptophrya planariarum, an obligate endosymbiont of freshwater turbellarians. European Journal of Protistology 64: 54-71.
Rataj M., Vďačný P. (2019) Living morphology and molecular phylogeny of oligohymenophorean ciliates associated with freshwater turbellarians. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 134 (2): 147-166.
Rataj M., Vďačný P. (2020): Multi-gene phylogeny of Tetrahymena refreshed with three new histophagous species invading freshwater planarians. Parasitology Research 119: 1523-1545.
Rataj M., Vďačný P. (2021) Cryptic host-driven speciation of mobilid ciliates epibiotic on freshwater planarians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 161: e107174.
Rataj M., Vďačný P. (2022) Putative ITS2 secondary structure model and multi‐gene phylogenies of tetrahymenids (Ciliophora, Hymenostomatia) parasitizing planarians and crayfish worms. Zoologica Scripta 51 (2): 246‒265.
Rataj M., Zhang T., Vďačný P. (2022) Nuclear and mitochondrial SSU rRNA genes reveal hidden diversity of Haptophrya endosymbionts in freshwater planarians and challenge their traditional classification in Astomatia. Frontiers in Microbiology 13: e830951.
Vďačný P., Rataj M. (2017): Evaluation of systematic position of helicoprorodontids and chaeneids (Ciliophora, Litostomatea): An attempt to break long branches in 18S rRNA gene phylogenies. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 64 (5): 608-621.