Tengyue Zhang
PhD Thesis: Diversity and phylogeny of ciliates associated with mollusks
Publications:
Zhang T., Vďačný P. (2021) Re-discovery and novel contributions to morphology and multi-gene phylogeny of Myxophyllum steenstrupi (Ciliophora: Pleuronematida), an obligate symbiont of terrestrial pulmonates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192 (1): 1‒23.
Zhang T., Vďačný P. (2021) A discovery of two new Tetrahymena species parasitizing slugs and mussels: morphology and multi-gene phylogeny of T. foissneri sp. n. and T. unionis sp. n. Parasitology Research 120 (7): 2595‒2616.
Zhang T., Vďačný P. (2022) Multiple independent losses of cell mouth in phylogenetically distant endosymbiotic lineages of oligohymenophorean ciliates: A lesson from Clausilocola. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 166: e107310.
Zhang T., Vďačný P. (2023) Morphological and molecular characterization of the ciliate parasite Tetrahymena rostrata infecting the renal organ of the dusky slug (Arion fuscus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 101 (1): 32–45.
Zhang T., Vďačný P. (2023). Re-discovery and novel contributions to morphology and multigene phylogeny of Protospirella mazurica (Raabe, 1968) Aescht, 2001 (Ciliophora: Pleuronematida), an obligate symbiont of the river nerite Theodoxus fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758 (Mollusca: Gastropoda). European Journal of Protistology 88: e125956.
Zhang T., Vďačný P. (2024). Deciphering phylogenetic relationships of and delimiting species boundaries within the controversial ciliate genus Conchophthirus using an integrative morpho-evo approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 190: e107931.
Zhang T., Rurik I., Vďačný P. (2023). A holistic approach to inventory the diversity of mobilid ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Peritrichia). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 23 (3): 425–454.
Zhang T., Wang Y., Cheng T., Ma J., Vďačný P., Song W., Shao C. (2020) Systematics and multi-gene phylogeny of the subfamily Nothoholostichinae (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with integrative description of a new marine species Nothoholosticha luporinii n. sp. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: e610886.
Zhang T., Shao C., Song W., Vďačný P., Al-Farraj S.A., Wang Y. (2022) Multi-gene phylogeny of the ciliate genus Trachelostyla (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with integrative description of two species, Trachelostyla multinucleata spec. nov. and T. pediculiformis (Cohn, 1866). Frontiers in Microbiology 12: e775570.