Dr. Claudia Wylezich

Publications (peer-reviewed) 

Anderson R., Wylezich C., Glaubitz S., Labrenz M. & Jürgens K. (in press) Impact of protist
              grazing on a key bacterial group for biogeochemical cycling in Baltic Sea pelagic oxic /
              anoxic interfaces. Environ. Microbiol. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12078

Quintela-Alonso P., Nitsche F., Wylezich C., Reed C. Arndt H. & Foissner W. (2013): A new
              Tetrahymena (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) from groundwater of Cape Town, South
               Africa. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. doi:10.1111/jeu.12021

Wylezich  C., Karpov S.A., Mylnikov A.P., Anderson R. & Jürgens K. (2012) Ecologically relevant
               choanoflagellates collected from hypoxic water masses of the Baltic Sea have untypical
               mitochondrial cristae.  BMC Microbiology, 12:271, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-271 

Weber F., del Campo J., Wylezich C., Massana R. & Jürgens K. (2012) Unveiling trophic functions
               of uncultured protist taxa by incubation experiments in the brackish Baltic Sea. Plos ONE,
               7(7):e41970, DOI:10.1371/journal-pone.0041970

Wylezich C. & Jürgens K. (2011): Protist diversity in suboxic and sulfidic waters of the Black Sea
               as revealed by 18S rRNA clone libraries. Environ. Microbiol., 13(11): 2939–2956,
               doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02569.x

Kudryavtsev A., WylezichC. & Pawlowski J. (2011): Ovalopodium desertum n. sp. and the
               phylogenetic relationships of Cochliopodiidae (Amoebozoa). Protist, 162:571-589

Walochnik J., Wylezich C. and Michel R. (2010): Sappinia sp.: History, Phylogeny and Medical Relevance. Exp. Parasitol., doi:10.1016/j.exppara.2009.11.017 

Scheckenbach F., Hausmann K., Wylezich C., Weitere M. and Arndt H. (2010): Large-scale patterns in biodiversity of microbial eukaryotes from the abyssal sea floor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107:115-120,doi:10.1073/pnas.0908816106

Wylezich C., Walochnik J. and Michel R. (2009): High genetic diversity of Sappinia-like strains (Amoebozoa, Thecamoebidae) revealed by SSU rRNA investigations. Parasitol. Res. 105(3):869-873, DOI 10.1007/s00436-009-1482-1

Loquay N., Wylezich C. and Arndt H. (2009): Composition of groundwater nanoprotist communities in different aquifers based on aliquot cultivation and genotype assessment of cercomonads. Fund. Appl. Limnol. 174/3: 261–269.

Kudryavtsev A., Wylezich C., Schlegel M., Walochnik J. and Michel R. (2009):Ultrastructure, SSU rRNA gene sequences and phylogenetic relations of Flamella Schaeffer, 1926 (Amoebozoa), with description of three new species. Protist 160(1):21-40

Bass D., Chao E. E.-Y., Nikolaev S., Yabuki A., Ishida K., Berney C., Pakzad U., Wylezich C. and Cavalier-Smith T. (2009): Phylogeny of novel naked filose and reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea revised. Protist 160(1):75-109.

Wylezich C., Mylnikov A. P., Weitere M. and Arndt H. (2007): Freshwater thaumatomonads as common amoeboid heterotrophic flagellates: their phylogenetic relationships and description of the new species Thaumatomonas coloniensis n. sp. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 54:347-357.

Nitsche F., Weitere M., Scheckenbach F., Hausmann K., Wylezich C. and Arndt H. (2007): Deep sea records of choanoflagellates with a description of two new species. Acta Protozool. 46:99-106.

Koehsler M., Walochnik J., Michel R., Lugauer J. and Wylezich C. (2007): Molecular identification and classification of Cochlonema euryblastum, a zoopagalean parasite of Thecamoeba quadrilineata. Mycologia 99(2):215-221.

Michel R., Wylezich C., Hauröder B. and Smirnov A. V. (2006/2007): Phylogenetic position and notes on the ultrastructure of Sappinia diploidea (Thecamoebidae).Protistology 4(4): 319-325.

Scheckenbach F., Wylezich C., Weitere M., Mylnikov A. P. and Arndt H. (2006): Molecular comparisons of freshwater and marine isolates of the same morphospecies of heterotrophic flagellates. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72(10):6638-6643.

Scheckenbach F., Wylezich C., Weitere M., Hausmann K. & Arndt H. (2005): Molecular identity of strains of heterotrophic flagellates isolated from surface waters and deep-sea sediments of the South Atlantic based on SSU rDNA. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 38(3):239-247.

Wylezich C., Meisterfeld R., Meisterfeld S. and Schlegel M. (2002): Phylogenetic analyses of small subunit ribosomal RNA coding regions reveal a monophyletic lineage of euglyphid testate amoebae (order Euglyphida). J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 49:108- 118.

Further publications (not peer-reviewed)

Michel R. and Wylezich C. (2005): Beitrag zur Biologie und Morphologie von Cochlonema euryblastum, einem endoparasitischen Pilz von Thecamoeba quadrilineata. Mikrokosmos 94(2):75-79.

Wylezich C., Radek, R. and Schlegel M. (2004): Phylogenetische Analyse der 18S rRNA identifiziert den parasitischen Protisten Nephridiophaga blattellae  (Nephridiophagidae) als Vertreter der Zygomycota (Fungi). Denisia 13:435-442

Wylezich C. (2004): Amöben – Einzeller mit rätselhafter Stammesgeschichte. Ein molekularbiologischer Ansatz zur phylogenetischen Rekonstruktion und Neubewertung morphologischer Merkmale. Dissertation, Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-8325-0511-3

Short publications

Wylezich C., Meisterfeld R., Michel R., Schlegel M. (2006): Die Stammesgeschichte der Lobosa – auch mit 18S rRNA Sequenzvergleichen nur bedingt aufzulösen. Endocytobiosis Cell Res. 17:33.

Wylezich C., Meisterfeld R., Michel R., Schlegel M. (2001): Molecular phylogeny of amoebae. Zoology 104 Suppl. IV:72.

Wylezich C., Meisterfeld R., Schlegel M. (1999): Phylogeny of testate amoebae – a comparison of morphological and molecular characters. Zoology 102 Suppl. II:12.

Wylezich C., Stechmann A., Schlegel M. (1998): SSU-rDNA sequence analysis of Myxobolus diversicapsularis, Neoactinomyxon eiseniellae und Raabeia sp. A contribution to thereconstruction of myxozoan phylogenetic relationships. Zoology 101 Suppl. I:76.