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  1. Extensive heterozygosity and genetic exchange among natural populations of Leishmania species

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Julius Lukes

  2. Evolutionary divergent kinetoplast genome structure and RNA editing patterns in the trypanosomatid Vickermania

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Julius Lukes

  3. Massive mitochondrial DNA content in diplonemid and kinetoplastid protists

    Article • IUBMB Life, October 2018, Wiley

    Professor Julius Lukes

  4. A Revised Taxonomy of Diplonemids Including the Eupelagonemidae n. fam. and a Type Species, Eupelagonema oceanica n. gen. & sp.

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, August 2018, Wiley

    Professor Julius Lukes

  5. Life Cycle, Ultrastructure, and Phylogeny of New Diplonemids and Their Endosymbiotic Bacteria

    Article • mBio, March 2018, ASM Journals

    Professor Julius Lukes

  6. Neobodonids are dominant kinetoplastids in the global ocean

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, February 2018, Wiley

    Professor Julius Lukes

  7. Leptomonas pyrrhocoris: Genomic insight into Parasite's Physiology

    Article • Current Genomics, January 2018, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Julius Lukes, Professor Fred R. Opperdoes

  8. Not in your usual Top 10: protists that infect plants and algae

    Article • Molecular Plant Pathology, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Julius Lukes

  9. Differential Binding of Mitochondrial Transcripts by MRB8170 and MRB4160 Regulates Distinct Editing Fates of Mitochondrial mRNA in Trypanosomes

    Article • mBio, January 2017, ASM Journals

    Professor Julius Lukes

  10. Comparative Metabolism of Free-livingBodo saltansand Parasitic Trypanosomatids

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Julius Lukes, Professor Fred R. Opperdoes

  11. From simple to supercomplex: mitochondrial genomes of euglenozoan protists

    Article • F1000Research, March 2016, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Professor Julius Lukes, Drahomíra Faktorová

  12. Novel Trypanosomatid-Bacterium Association: Evolution of Endosymbiosis in Action

    Article • mBio, March 2016, ASM Journals

    Professor Julius Lukes

  13. Gene Loss and Error-Prone RNA Editing in the Mitochondrion of Perkinsela, an Endosymbiotic Kinetoplastid

    Article • mBio, December 2015, ASM Journals

    Professor Julius Lukes

  14. The Organellar Genomes ofChromeraandVitrella, the Phototrophic Relatives of Apicomplexan Parasites

    Article • Annual Review of Microbiology, October 2015, Annual Reviews

    Professor Julius Lukes, Professor Miroslav Oborník

  15. Simultaneous depletion of Atm and Mdl rebalances cytosolic Fe-S cluster assembly but not heme import into the mitochondrion ofTrypanosoma brucei

    Article • European Journal of Biochemistry, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Julius Lukes

  16. Mitochondrial Heat Shock Protein Machinery Hsp70/Hsp40 Is Indispensable for Proper Mitochondrial DNA Maintenance and Replication

    Article • mBio, February 2015, ASM Journals

    Professor Julius Lukes

  17. Lineage-specific activities of a multipotent mitochondrion of trypanosomatid flagellates

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor Julius Lukes

  18. Dynamics of Mitochondrial RNA-Binding Protein Complex in Trypanosoma brucei and Its Petite Mutant under Optimized Immobilization Conditions

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, July 2014, ASM Journals

    Professor Julius Lukes

  19. Cytosolic iron-sulphur protein assembly is functionally conserved and essential in procyclic and bloodstreamTrypanosoma brucei

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor Julius Lukes

  20. Solanesyl Diphosphate Synthase, an Enzyme of the Ubiquinone Synthetic Pathway, Is Required throughout the Life Cycle of Trypanosoma brucei

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, December 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Alicia G Fuchs, Professor Julius Lukes

  21. Mitochondrial and Nucleolar Localization of Cysteine Desulfurase Nfs and the Scaffold Protein Isu in Trypanosoma brucei

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, November 2013, ASM Journals

    Professor Julius Lukes

  22. Characterization of Two Mitochondrial Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide-Dependent Glycerol-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases in Trypanosoma brucei

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, October 2013, ASM Journals

    Professor Julius Lukes

  23. Divergence of Erv1-Associated Mitochondrial Import and Export Pathways in Trypanosomes and Anaerobic Protists

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, December 2012, ASM Journals

    Professor Julius Lukes