• Fancy a gene? A surprisingly complex evolutionary history of peroxiredoxins. 

      Zíková, Alena; Oborník, Miroslav; Lukeš, Julius (Shared Science Publishers, 2015)
      While the phylum Apicomplexa includes “only” several thousand described species of obligatory parasites of animals, it may in fact be the most specious group of parasitic protists with over a million species [1]. The best ...
    • How many species of whipworms do we share? Whipworms from man and other primates form two phylogenetic lineages 

      Doležalová, Jana; Oborník, Miroslav; Hajdušková, Eva; Jirků, Milan; Petrželková, Klára J.; Bolechová, Petra; Cutillas, Cristina; Callejón, Rocio; Jaroš, Jozef; Beránková, Zuzana; Modrý, David (Akademie věd ČR, 2015)
      The whipworms, i.e. parasitic nematodes of the genus Trichuris Roederer, 1761, infect a variety of mammals. Apparently low diversity of primate-infecting species of Trichuris strongly contrasts with the high number of ...
    • Life cycles of chromerids resemble those of colpodellids and apicomplexan parasites 

      Oborník, Miroslav; Kručinská, Jitka; Esson, Heather (Schweizerbart Science Publishers, 2016)
      Chromerids are alveolate algae with secondary plastids surrounded by four membranes, and with evolutionary positions close to the root of apicomplexan parasites. As both described chromerid species, Chromera velia and ...