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
• 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
• Yankova, Y., Neuenschwander, S., Köster, O., & Posch, T. (2017). Abrupt stop of deep water turnover with lake warming: Drastic consequences for algal primary producers Scientific Reports, 7, 13770. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13159-9
• Salcher, Michaela M; Hofer, Julia; Horňák, Karel; Jezbera, Jan; Sonntag, Bettina; Vrba, Jaroslav; Šimek, Karel; Posch, Thomas (2007). Modulation of microbial predator-prey dynamics by phosphorus availability: growth patterns and survival strategies of bacterial phylogenetic clades FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 60(1):40-50.