Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Alfreider, A., Posch, T., & Summerer, M. (2025). Depth-dependent distribution patterns of ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizing microorganisms in the water column of stratified lakes Scientific Reports, 15(1), 42232. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-26324-2
• Kamal, M. M., Cheng, Y.-H., Chu, L.-W., Nguyen, P., Liu, C.-F. J., Liao, C.-W., Posch, T., & Leu, J.-Y. (2025). Environment-dependent mutualism–parasitism transitions in the incipient symbiosis between Tetrahymena utriculariae and Micractinium tetrahymenae The ISME Journal, 19, wraf203. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wraf203
• Salcher, M., Layoun, P., Fernandes, C., Chiriac, M.-C., Bulzu, P.-A., Ghai, R., Shabarova, T., Lanta, V., Callieri, C., Sonntag, B., Posch, T., Lepori, F., Znachor, P., & Haber, M. (2025). Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture Nature Communications, 16, 7971. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63266-9
• Schalch-Schuler, M., Bassin, B., Dirren, G., Waller, K., Hofer, C., Pernthaler, J., Andrei, A.-S., & Posch, T. (2024). The planktonic freshwater ciliate Balanion planctonicum (Ciliophora, Prostomatea): A cryptic species complex or a “complex species”? Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 72, e13084. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13084
• Schalch-Schuler, M., Wüest, A., Dirren-Pitsch, G., Niedermann, R., Bassin, B., Köster, O., Pernthaler, J., & Posch, T. (2024). Variability of winter cooling affects intensity of phytoplankton spring blooms – how resilient is the ciliate assemblage composition to changes in food availability? Frontiers in Protistology, 2, 1428985. https://doi.org/10.3389/frpro.2024.1428985
• Boukheloua, R., Mukherjee, I., Park, H., Šimek, K., Kasalický, V., Ngochera, M., Grossart, H.-P., Picazo-Mozo, A., Camacho, A., Cabello-Yeves, P. J., Rodriguez-Valera, F., Callieri, C., Andrei, A.-S., Pernthaler, J., Posch, T., Alfreider, A., Sommaruga, R., Hahn, M. W., Sonntag, B., … et al. (2024). Global freshwater distribution of Telonemia protists The ISME Journal, 18, wrae177. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae177
• Knapp, D., & Posch, T. (2023). Veränderung der N:P-Verhältnisse in Seen: Mögliche Konsequenzen auf die Nahrungsnetze Aqua & Gas, 103, 72–79.
• Dirren-Pitsch, G., Bühler, D., Salcher, M. M., Bassin, B., Le Moigne, A., Schuler, M., Pernthaler, J., & Posch, T. (2022). FISHing for ciliates: Catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization for the detection of planktonic freshwater ciliates Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 1070232. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1070232
• Posch, T., Pitsch, G., & Bruni, E. P. (2022). Protists: Ciliates In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences (pp. 639–649). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-819166-8.00001-3
• Pröschold, T., Rieser, D., Darienko, T., Nachbaur, L., Kammerlander, B., Qian, K., Pitsch, G., Bruni, E. P., Qu, Z., Forster, D., Rad-Menendez, C., Posch, T., Stoeck, T., & Sonntag, B. (2021). An integrative approach sheds new light onto the systematics and ecology of the widespread ciliate genus Coleps (Ciliophora, Prostomatea) Scientific Reports, 11, 5916. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84265-y
• Knapp, D., Fernández Castro, B., Marty, D., Loher, E., Köster, O., Wüest, A., & Posch, T. (2021). The Red Harmful Plague in Times of Climate Change: Blooms of the Cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens Triggered by Stratification Dynamics and Irradiance Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, 705914. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.705914
• Fernández Castro, B., Sepúlveda Steiner, O., Knapp, D., Posch, T., Bouffard, D., & Wüest, A. (2021). Inhibited vertical mixing and seasonal persistence of a thin cyanobacterial layer in a stratified lake Aquatic Sciences, 83, 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-021-00785-9
• Forster, D., Qu, Z., Pitsch, G., Bruni, E. P., Kammerlander, B., Pröschold, T., Sonntag, B., Posch, T., & Stoeck, T. (2021). Lake ecosystem robustness and resilience inferred from a climate-stressed protistan plankton network Microorganisms, 9, 549. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9030549
• Qu, Z., Forster, D., Bruni, E. P., Frantal, D., Kammerlander, B., Nachbaur, L., Pitsch, G., Posch, T., Pröschold, T., Teubner, K., Sonntag, B., & Stoeck, T. (2021). Aquatic food webs in deep temperate lakes: Key species establish through their autecological versatility Molecular Ecology, 30, 1053–1071. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15776
• Knapp, D., & Posch, T. (2021). Burgunderblutalge im Zürichsee Aqua & Gas, 101, 14–21.
• Šimek, K., Grujčić, V., Mukherjee, I., Kasalický, V., Nedoma, J., Posch, T., Mehrshad, M., & Salcher, M. M. (2020). Cascading effects in freshwater microbial food webs by predatory Cercozoa, Katablepharidacea and ciliates feeding on aplastidic bacterivorous cryptophytes FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 96, fiaa121. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa121
• Piwosz, K., Shabarova, T., Pernthaler, J., Posch, T., Šimek, K., Porcal, P., & Salcher, M. M. (2020). Bacterial and eukaryotic small-subunit amplicon data do not provide a quantitative picture of microbial communities, but they are reliable in the context of ecological interpretations MSphere, 5, 00052–20. https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00052-20
• Šimek, K., Grujčić, V., Nedoma, J., Jezberová, J., Šorf, M., Matoušů, A., Pechar, L., Posch, T., Bruni, E. P., & Vrba, J. (2019). Microbial food webs in hypertrophic fishponds: Omnivorous ciliate taxa are major protistan bacterivores Limnology and Oceanography, 64, 2295–2309. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11260
• Pitsch, G., Bruni, E. P., Forster, D., Qu, Z., Sonntag, B., Stoeck, T., & Posch, T. (2019). Seasonality of Planktonic Freshwater Ciliates: Are Analyses Based on V9 Regions of the 18S rRNA Gene Correlated With Morphospecies Counts? Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 248–248. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00248
• Sirová, D., Bárta, J., Šimek, K., Posch, T., Pech, J., Stone, J., Borovec, J., Adamec, L., & Vrba, J. (2018). Hunters or farmers? Microbiome characteristics help elucidate the diet composition in an aquatic carnivorous plant Microbiome, 6, 225. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0600-7

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