Research

Symbiosis

Recent projects

• Absence of the symbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii in the mitochondria of the Australian paralysis tick Ixodes holocyclus
• Parasitism and mutualism in Wolbachia: What the phylogenomic trees can and can not say
• Genome size estimation of the cockroach endosymbiont Blattabacterium cuenoti (Bacteriodetes, Flavobacteria)
• Midichloria endosymbionts bloom after blood meal of the host, the hard tick Ixodes ricinus
• Midichloria mitochondrii is widespread in hard ticks (Ixodidae) and resides in the mitochondria of phylogenetically diverse species