Tomáš Obert

Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD thesis: Diversity and phylogeny of ciliates in digestive tract of oligochaetes

Research Interest: My research is focused on diversity and morphological as well as genetic variability of intestinal endosymbionts of earthworms in the surroundings of the capital city of Slovakia.
E-mail: tomas.obertuniba.sk

Publications:

Obert T., Vďačný P. (2019) Integrative taxonomy of five astome ciliates (Ciliophora, Astomatia) isolated from earthworms in Central Europe. European Journal of Taxonomy 559: 1-37.

Obert T., Vďačný P. (2020) Delimitation of five astome ciliate species isolated from the digestive tube of three ecologically different groups of lumbricid earthworms, using the internal transcribed spacer region and the hypervariable D1/D2 region of the 28S rRNA gene. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20: e37.

Obert T., Vďačný P. (2020) Evolutionary origin and host range of Plagiotoma lumbrici (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), an obligate gut symbiont of lumbricid earthworms. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 67: 176‒189.

Obert T., Vďačný P.(2021) Multi-gene phylogeny of the subclass Astomatia (Protista: Ciliophora) refreshed with two rare astome ciliates from the digestive tube of endogeic earthworms. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 21 (1): 59‒77.

Obert T., Rurik I., Vďačný P. (2021) Diversity and eco-evolutionary associations of endosymbiotic astome ciliates with their lumbricid earthworm hosts. Frontiers in Microbiology 12: e689987.

Obert T., Zhang T., Rurik I., Vďačný P. (2022) First molecular evidence of hybridization in endosymbiotic ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora). Frontiers in Microbiology 13: e1067315.

Obert T., Zhang T., Vďačný P. (2023) The search finds an end: the morphologically chimeric hysterocinetids belong to the subclass Hymenostomatia (Ciliophora: Oligohymenophorea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199 (1): 97–123.