2013 - 2025
Schalch-Schuler, M., Bassin, B., Andrei, AS., Dirren-Pitsch, G., Waller, K., Hofer, C., Pernthaler, J., and Posch, T. (2025). The planktonic freshwater ciliate Balanion planctonicum (Ciliophora, Prostomatea): A cryptic species complex or a "complex species"? J Eukaryot Microbiol. 72(1):e13084. doi:10.1111/jeu.13084 [Link]
Schalch-Schuler, M., Wüest, A., Dirren-Pitsch, G., Niedermann, R., Bassin, B., Köster, O., Pernthaler, J. and 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. doi: 10.3389/frpro.2024.1428985. [Link]
Knapp, D., and Posch, T (2023). Veränderung der N:P-Verhältnisse in Seen: Mögliche Konsequenzen auf die Nahrungsnetze. Aqua & Gas, 103(6):72-79. [Link]
Dirren-Pitsch, G., Bühler, D., Salcher, M.M., Bassin, B., Le Moigne, A., Schuler, M., Pernthaler, J., and Posch, T. (2022). FISHing for ciliates: Catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization for the detection of planktonic freshwater ciliates. Frontiers in Microbiology 13. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1070232 [Link]
Frantal, D., Agatha, S., Beisser, D., Boenigk, J., Darienko, T., Dirren-Pitsch, G., Filker, S., Gruber, M., Kammerlander, B., Nachbaur, L., Scheffel, U., Stoeck, T., Qian, K., Weißenbacher, B., Pröschold, T. and Sonntag, B. (2022). Molecular Data Reveal a Cryptic Diversity in the Genus Urotricha (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Prostomatida), a Key Player in Freshwater Lakes, With Remarks on Morphology, Food Preferences, and Distribution. Frontiers in Microbiology 12. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.787290 [Link]
Knapp, D., Fernández Castro, B., Marty, D., Loher, E., Köster, O., Wüest, A., and 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(2366). doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.705914 [Link]
Knapp, D., and Posch, T. (2021). Burgunderblutalge im Zürichsee. Populationsdynamik und Einfluss des Klimawandels. Aqua & Gas 4:14-21 [Link]
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., and 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(1):5916. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-84265-y [Link]
Fernández Castro, B., Sepúlveda Steiner, O., Knapp, D., Posch, T., Bouffard, D., and Wüest, A. (2021). Inhibited vertical mixing and seasonal persistence of a thin cyanobacterial layer in a stratified lake. Aquatic Sciences 83(2),38. [Link]
Forster, D., Qu, Z., Pitsch, G., Bruni, E.P., Kammerlander, B., Pröschold, T., Sonntag, B., Posch, T., and Stoeck, T. (2021) Lake ecosystem robustness and resilience inferred from a climate-stressed protistan plankton network. Microorganisms 9(3):549. [Link]
Qu, Z., Forster, D., Bruni, E.P., Frantal, D., Kammerlander, B., Nachbaur, L., Pitsch, G., Posch, T., Pröschold, T., Teubner, K., Sonntag, B., and Stoeck, T. (2021). Aquatic food webs in deep temperate lakes: key species establish through their autecological versatility. Molecular Ecology 30(4):1053-1071 [Link]
Posch, T., Pitsch, G., and Bruni, E.P. (2020). Protists: Ciliates. In: Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, 2nd edition. Elsevier Inc. [Link]
Šimek, K., Grujcic, V., Mukherjee, I., Kasalický, V., Nedoma, J., Posch, T., Mehrshad, M., and 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. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiaa121 [Link]
Pröschold, T., Pitsch, G., and Darienko, T. (2020). Micractinium tetrahymenae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta), a New Endosymbiont Isolated from Ciliates. Diversity 12(5), 200. [Link]
Piwosz, K., Shabarova, T., Pernthaler, J., Posch, T., Šimek, K., Porcal, P., and 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: e00052-00020. [Link]
Šimek K, Grujcic V, Nedoma J, Jezberová J, Šorf M, Matoušu A, Pechar L, Posch T, Bruni EP, Vrba J (2019). Microbial food webs in hypertrophic fishponds: Omnivorous ciliate taxa are major protistan bacterivores. Limnol Oceanogr 64,2295-2309. [Link]
Pitsch, G., Bruni, E.P., Forster, D., Qu, Z., Sonntag, B., Stoeck, T., and 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. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00248. [Link]
Sirová, D., Bárta, J., Šimek, K., Posch, T., Pech, J., Stone, J., Borovec, J., Adamec, L., and Vrba, J. (2018) Hunters or farmers? Microbiome characteristics help elucidate the diet composition in an aquatic carnivorous plant. Microbiome 6:225. doi:10.1186/s40168-018-0600-7 [Link]
Yankova, Y., Neuenschwander, S., Köster, O., and Posch, T. (2017). Abrupt stop of deep water turnover with lake warming: Drastic consequences for algal primary producers. Nature Scientific Reports 7, 13770. [Link]
Dirren, S., Pitsch, G., Silva, M.O.D., and Posch, T. (2017). Grazing of Nuclearia thermophila and Nuclearia delicatula (Nucleariidae, Opisthokonta) on the toxic cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens. Europ J Protistol, 60:87-101. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2017.05.009 [Link]
Alfreider, A., Baumer, A., Bogensperger, T., Posch, T., Salcher, M.M., and Summerer, M. (2017). CO2 assimilation strategies in stratified lakes: diversity and distribution patterns of chemolithoautotrophs. Environ Microbiol, 19:2754-2768. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13786 [Link]
Shabarova, T., Kasalický, V., Šimek, K., Nedoma, J., Znachor, P., Posch, T., Pernthaler, J., and Salcher, M.M. (2017) Distribution and ecological preferences of the freshwater lineage LimA (genus Limnohabitans) revealed by a new double hybridisation approach. Environ. Microbiol. 19:1296-1309. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13663 [Link]
Pitsch, G., Adamec, L., Dirren, S., Nitsche, F., Šimek, K., Sirová, D., and Posch, T. (2017). The Green Tetrahymena utriculariae n. sp. (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) with its Endosymbiotic Algae (Micractinium sp.), Living in Traps of a Carnivorous Aquatic Plant. J Eukaryot Microbiol, 64:322-335. doi: 10.1111/jeu.12369. [Link]
Šimek, K., Pitsch, G., Salcher, M.M., Sirová, D., Shabarová, T., Adamec, L., and Posch, T. (2017). Ecological Traits of the Algae-Bearing Tetrahymena utriculariae (Ciliophora) from Traps of the Aquatic Carnivorous Plant Utricularia reflexa. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 64:336-348. doi: 10.1111/jeu.12368. [Link]
Otto, S., Bruni, E.P., Harms, H., and Wick, L.Y. (2016) Catch me if you can: dispersal and foraging of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J along mycelia. ISME J. doi:10.1038/ismej.2016.135 [Link]
Pushkareva, E., Johansen, J., and Elster, J. (2016) A review of the ecology, ecophysiology and biodiversity of microalgae in Arctic soil crusts. Polar Biology. DOI 10.1007/s00300-016-1902-5 [Link]
Dirren, S. and Posch, T. (2016). Promiscuous and specific bacterial symbiont acquisition in the amoeboid genus Nuclearia (Opisthokonta). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 92,fiw105. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiw105 [Link]
Yankova, Y., Villiger, J., Pernthaler, J., Schanz, F., and Posch, T. (2016) Prolongation, deepening and warming of the metalimnion change habitat conditions of the harmful filamentous cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens in a prealpine lake. Hydrobiologia 776: 125-138 [Link]
Salcher, M.M., Ewert, C., Šimek, K., Kasalický, V., and Posch, T. (2016) Interspecific competition and protistan grazing affect the coexistence of freshwater betaproteobacterial strains. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 92,2,fiv156 [Link]
Pushkareva, E., Pessi, I.S., Wilmotte, A., and Elster, J. (2015). Cyanobacterial community composition in Arctic soil crusts at different stages of development. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 91:fiv143. [Link]
Garneau, M-È., Posch, T., and Pernthaler, J. (2015). Seasonal patterns of microcystin-producing and non-producing Planktothrix rubescens genotypes in a deep pre-alpine lake. Harmful Algae 50: 21-31 [Link]
Posch, T., Eugster, B., Pomati, F., Pernthaler, J., Pitsch, G., and Eckert, E.M. (2015). Network of interactions between ciliates and phytoplankton during spring. Front. Microbiol.6: 1289. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01289 [Link]
Dirren, S., Salcher, M.M., Blom, J.F., Schweikert, M., and Posch, T. (2014). Ménage-à-trois: The Amoeba Nuclearia sp. from Lake Zurich with its Ecto- and Endosymbiotic Bacteria. Protist 165, 745-758. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2014.08.004 [Link]
Pushkareva, E., and Elster, J. (2013). Biodiversity and ecological typification of cryptogamic soil crust in the vicinity of Petunia Bay, Svalbard. Czech Polar Reports 3(1),7-18. [Link]