Michalik A., Franco D.C., Deng J., Prus-Frankowska M., Stroiński A., Łukasik P. (2026): Convergent extreme reductive evolution in ancient planthopper symbioses. Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69238-x

 van Dijk, L.J.A.; Goodsell, R.M.; Andersson, A.F.; Fisher, B.L.; Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht, E.; Łukasik, P.; Miraldo, A.; Peña-Aguilera, P.; Ronquist, F.; Roslin, T.; Tack, A.J.M. (2026) Spatial overlap and temporal synchrony between guilds of insect hosts and parasitoids. Journal of Animal Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70228

  View ORCID ProfileSiedlecki I. , Kochanowski M., Bąk I., Kolasa M., Buczek M., Nowak K. H., Błocka Z., Płoszka Z.,  Pawłowska J., Łukasik P.,  Wrzosek M. (pre-print 2026) Whole forest in a pouch? Methods converge in uncovering wood ants’ fungal and bacterial microbiota. biorXiv https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.24.713951

  Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht E., Granqvist E., Nowak K. H., Valdivia C., Buczek M., Srivathsan A., Hartop E., Miraldo A,, Roslin T., Tack A. J. M., Łukasik P., Meier R., Ronquist F. (pre-print 2026) Accuracy of occurrence and abundance estimates from insect metabarcoding. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.20.707016

 Nowak K. H., Hartop E., Prus-Frankowska M., Buczek M., Kolasa M. R., Roslin T., Ovaskainen O., Łukasik P. (2025): What lurks in the dark? An innovative framework for studying diverse wild insect microbiota. Microbiome 13: 186. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-025-02169-9

  Deng J., Stroiński A., Szwedo J., Ghanavi H.R., Yapar E., Franco D.C., Prus-Frankowska M., Michalik A., Wahlberg N., Łukasik P. (2025): Phylogenomic insights into the relationship and the evolutionary history of planthoppers (Insecta:Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Systematic Entomology 50(3): 495-518 https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12666

 Płoszka Z., Nowak K.H., Tischer M., Michalik A., Kolasa M. R., Łukasik P. (2025): Dissecting multitrophic interactions: The relationships among Entomophthora, their dipteran hosts, and associated bacteria. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 213: 108425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2025.108425

 Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht E., Goodsell R. M., Bengsson B-Å., Mutanen M., Klinth M., van Dijk L.J.A., Łukasik P., Miraldo A., Andersson A., Tack A.J.M., Roslin T., Ronquist F. (2025): High-throughput biodiversity surveying sheds new light on the brightest of insect taxa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 292: 20242974.

 Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht E., Goodsell R.M., Bengsson B.A., Mutanen M., Klinth M., van Dijk L.J.A., Łukasik P., Miraldo A., Andresson A.F., Tack A.J.M., Roslin T., Ronquist F. (2025): High-throughput biodiversity surveying sheds new light on the brightest of insect taxa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 292: 20242974 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2974

 Klak K., Maciuszek M., Michalik A., Mazur M., Zawisza M., Pecio A., Nowak B., Chadzinska M. (2025): Fire in the belly: Stress and antibiotics induce dysbiosis and inflammation in the gut of common carp. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 161: 110301 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2025.110301

 Sundh J., Granqvist E., Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht E., Manoharan L., van Dijk L.J.A., Goodsell R., Godeiro N.N., Bellini B.C., Orsholm J., Łukasik P.,  Miraldo A., Roslin T., Tack A.J.M., Andersson A.F., Ronquist F. (2025): HAPP: High-Accuracy Pipeline for processing deep metabarcoding data. PLOS Computational Biology 21(11): e1013558, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013558

  Stroiński A., Łukasik P., Bartlett C.R., Pilet F., Rasolondalao H.H., Randretsiferana S.A., Razafindrakotomamonjy A., Bahder B.W. (2025) New planthoppers in the genus Fescennia (Hemiptera: Derbidae) from screw palms (Pandanus spp.) in eastern Madagascar, with redescription of F. bivittata and an updated key to the genus. Zootaxa 5729: 075-104 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.1.3

Michalik A., Castillo Franco D., Szklarzewicz T., Stroiński A., Łukasik P. (2024): Facultatively intrabacterial localization of a planthopper endosymbiont as an adaptation to its vertical transmission.  mSystems 9: e00634-24 https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00634-24

   

 

 

Łukasik P., Kolasa M. (2024): With a little help from my friends? The roles of microbial symbionts in insect populations and communities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 379: 20230123 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0122  

Åhlén Mulio S., Zwolińska A., Klejdysz K., Prus-Frankowska M., Michalik A., Kolasa M., Łukasik P. (2024): Limited variation in microbial communities across 2 populations of Macrosteles leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Environmental Microbiology Reports 16: e13279 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.13279

Surmacz B., Stec D., Prus-Frankowska M., Buczek M., Michalczyk Ł., Łukasik P. (2024): Pinpointing the microbiota of tardigrates: what is really there? Environmental Microbiology 26: e16659 https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16659

Parmentier T., Molero Baltanas R., Valdivia C., Gaju-Ricart M., Boeckx P., Łukasik P., Wybouw N. (2024): Co-habiting ants and silverfish display a converging feeding ecology. BMC Biology 22:123 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01914-0

Bahder B.W., Stroiński A., Łukasik P., Bartlett C.R., Pilet F., Rasolondalao H.H. (2024): A new species of planthopper in the genus Paraphenice (Hemiptera: Derbidae: Otiocerinae) from palms in eastern Madagascar. Zootaxa 5406 (3): 461–473 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5406.3.5

Bahder BW., Randretsiferana SA., Randretsiferana A., Stroiński A., Łukasik P., Bartlett CB., Pilet F., Harin'Hala Hasinjaka R. (2024): A new species of planthopper in the genus Eumyndus (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) from palms in eastern Madagascar and molecular evidence for the synonymy of Eumyndus kraussi and Eumyndus metcalfi. Zootoxa 5514 (4): 338-352 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5514.4.3

​van Dijk L.JA , Fisher B.L., Miraldo A., Goodsell R.M., Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht E., Raharinjanahary D., Tsiriniaina Rajoelison E., Łukasik P., Andersson A.F., Ronquist F., Roslin T., Tack A.JM (2024): Temperature and water availability drive insect seasonality across a temperate and a tropical region. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 291: 20240090 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0090

Andriienko V., Buczek M., Meier R., Srivathsan A., Łukasik P., Kolasa M.R. (2024): Implementing high-throughput insect barcoding in microbiome studies: impact of non-destructive DNA extraction on microbiome reconstruction. PeerJ 12:e18025 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18025

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van Dijk L.J.A , Miraldo A., Raharinjanahary D., Tsiriniaina Rajoelison E., Fisher B.L., Goodsell R.M., Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht E., Åhlén D., Högvall J., Lundberg E., Rova E., Łukasik P., Ronquist F., Roslin T., Tack A.J.M. (2024): Biotic and abiotic drivers of ecosystem functioning differ between a temperate and a tropical region. bioRxiv 2024.02.28.582312

Rojas-Guerrero D., Kolasa M., Buczek M., Prus-Frankowska M., Nowak K. H., Roslin T., Łukasik P. (preprint- 2024): Cold and lonely: low-abundance microbiota and no core microbiome across a broad geographic sampling of a mosquito species in Greenland. bioRxiv 2024.08.27.609970

Buczek M., Kolasa M.R., Prus-Frankowska M., Lipowska M., Nowak K.H., Azarbad H., Castillo Franco D., Marszałek M., Roslin T., Michalik A., Łukasik P. (preprint-2024): A new tool in a toolbox: Addressing challenges in high-throughput microbiota surveys across diverse wild insects. bioRxiv 2024.08.26.609764

Kolasa M.R., Molasy B., Strachecka A., Michalik A. (preprint-2024): Peasants at the queen’s table?: The microbiome’s dynamics throughout swarming preparation in honey bees (Apis mellifera). bioRxiv 10.1101/2024.09.22.614346

Stasiowska D., Kolasa M. R. (2024): Hypergravity impact on fertility of Apis mellifera carnica queens – case study. Microgravity Science and Technology 36: 25 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-024-10111-1

Valdivia C., Newton J.A., von Beeren C., O’Donnell S., Kronauer D.J.C., Russell J.A., Łukasik P. (2023): Microbial symbionts are shared between ants and their associated beetles. Environmental Microbiology 25(12): 3466-3483

Michalik A., Bauer E., Szklarzewicz T., Kaltenpoth M. (2023) Nutrient supplementation by genome-eroded Burkholderia symbionts of scale insects. The ISME Journal 17(12): 2221-2231

Kolasa M., Kajtoch Ł., Michalik A., Maryańska-Nadachowska A., Łukasik P. (2023): Till evolution do us part: The diversity of symbiotic associations across populations of Philaenus spittlebugs. Environmental Microbiology 25(11): 2431-2446

Deng J., Bennett G.M., Castillo Franco D., Prus-Frankowska M., Stroiński A., Michalik A., Łukasik P. (2023): Genome comparison reveals inversions and alternative evolutionary history of nutritional endosymbionts in planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). Genome Biology and Evolution 15(7): evad120

Spencer N., Łukasik P., Meyer M., Veloso C., McCutcheon J.P. (2023): No transcriptional compensation for extreme gene dosage imbalance in fragmented bacterial endosymbionts of cicadas. Genome Biology and Evolution 15(6): evad100

Michalik A., Castillo Franco D., Deng J., Szklarzewicz T., Stroiński A., Kobiałka M., Łukasik P. (2023): Variable organization of symbiont-containing tissue across planthoppers hosting different heritable endosymbionts. Frontiers in Physiology 14: 1135346

Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht E., Łukasik P., Buczek M., Deng J., Hartop E.A., Havnås H., Prus-Frankowska M., Ugarph C.R., Viteri P., Andersson A.F., Roslin T., Tack A.J.M., Ronquist F., Miraldo A. (2023): FAVIS: Fast And Versatile protocol for non-destructive metabarcoding of bulk Insect Samples. PLoS One 18(7): e0286272

Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht E., Granqvist E., Buczek M., Prus-Frankowska M., Roslin T., Tack A.J.M., Andersson A.F., Miraldo A., Ronquist F., Łukasik P.  (2023):  Optimizing insect metabarcoding using replicated mock communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14 (4): 1130-1146

Hu Y., D'Amelio C.L., Béchade B., Cabuslay C.S., Łukasik P., Sanders J.G., Price S., Fanwick E., Powell S., Moreau C.S., Russell J.A. (2023): Partner fidelity and environmental filtering preserve stage‐specific turtle ant gut symbioses for over 40 million years. Ecological Monographs e1560

Mendoza-Guido B., Rodríguez-Hernández H., Ivens A., von Beeren C., Murillo-Cruz C., Zuniga-Chaves I., Łukasik P., Sanchez E., Kronauer D.J.C., Pinto-Tomás A.A. (2023): Low diversity and host specificity in the gut microbiome community in species of Eciton army ants (Formicidae: Dorylinae) in a Costa Rican rainforest. Myrmecological News 33: 19-34.

Michalik A., Castillo Franco D., Szklarzewicz T., Stroiński A., Łukasik P. (preprint - 2023): Facultatively intra-bacterial localization of a planthopper endosymbiont as an adaptation to its vertical transmission. bioRxiv 2023.11.13.566800

 

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Béchade B., Hu Y., Sanders J.G. , Cabuslay C.S., Łukasik P., Williams B.R., Fiers V.J., Lu R., Wertz J.T., Russell J.A., Turtle ants harbor metabolically versatile microbiomes with conserved functions across development and phylogeny (2022). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 98(8): fiac068

Marquina D., Roslin T., Łukasik P., Ronquist F. Evaluation of non-destructive DNA extraction protocols for insect metabarcoding: gentler and shorter is better (2022). Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 6: 187–201

Marquina D., Buczek M., Ronquist F., Łukasik P. (2021). The effect of ethanol concentration in the morphological and molecular preservation of insects for biodiversity studies. PeerJ 9:e10799, doi:10.7717/peerj.10799

Michalik A., C. Franco D., Kobiałka M., Szklarzewicz T., Stroiński A., Łukasik P. (2021). Alternative transmission patterns in independently acquired nutritional co-symbionts of Dictyopharidae planthoppers. mBio 12 (4), e01228-21

Sanborn A. F., Cole J. A., Stukel M., Łukasik P., Veloso C., Gonzalez V.A., Karkar J.B., Simno C. (2021). Thirteen new species of Chilecicada Sanborn, 2014 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae: Tibicininae) expand the highly endemic cicada fauna of Chile. Zootaxa 5078 (1): 001-070

Macias A.M., Geiser D.M., Stajich J.E., Łukasik P., Veloso C., Bublitz D.C., Berger M.C., Boyce G.R., Hodge K. & Kasson, M.T. (2020). Evolutionary relationships among Massospora spp. (Entomophthorales), obligate pathogens of cicadas. - Mycologia, doi: 10.1080/00275514.2020.1742033

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