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2024

Kołodziejczyk J, Fijarczyk A, Porth I, Robakowski P, Vella N, Vella A, Kloch A, Biedrzycka A. Genomic tools to discover successful invasions mechanisms: the picture emerging from lately published studies (under review

2023

Biedrzycka A, Konopiński M, Popiołek M, Bartoszewicz M. & Kloch A. (2023) Immunogenetics and invasion: non-MHC immunity genes do not affect parasite load in European populations of common raccoon. Scientific Reports 13:15696 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41721-1

Wymazał A, Nowak S, Mysłajek RW, Bajer A, Welc-Falęciak R, Szewczyk M, Kwiatkowska I, Stępniak KM, Figura M, Kloch A.* (2023) Blood parasites in wolves from an expanding population in Eastern Europe. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 5:102272. DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2023.102272

Alsarraf M, Carretón E, Ciuca L, Diakou A, Dwużnik-Szarek D, Fuehrer HP, Genchi M, Ionică AM, Kloch A, Kramer LH, Mihalca AD, Miterpáková M, Morchón R, Papadopoulos E, Pękacz M, Rinaldi L, Alsarraf M, Topolnytska M, Vismarra A, Zawistowska-Deniziak A & Bajer A. (2023). Diversity and geographic distribution of haplotypes of Dirofilaria immitis across European endemic countries. Parasites & Vectors 16: 325 https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-023-05945-4

L. Stevens, I. Martinez-Ugalde, E. King, M. Wagah, D. Absolon, R. Bancroft, P. Gonzalez de la Rosa, J.L. Hall, M. Kieninger, A. Kloch, S. Pelan, E. Robertson, A.B. Pedersen, C. Abreu-Goodger, A.H. Buck, M. Blaxter. Ancient diversity in host-parasite interaction genes in a model parasitic nematode. Nature Communications, 14: 777 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43556-w

M. Alsarraf, D. Dwużnik-Szarek, J. Hildebrand, E.J. Mierzejewska, A. Kloch, K. Kot, K. Kurek, S. Nowak, R.W. Mysłajek, I. Myśliwy, M. Popiołek, A. Rodo, M. Alsarraf, K. Tołkacz, M. Topolnytska, D. Wężyk & A. Bajer. Occurrence of Dirofilaria repens in wild carnivores in Poland. Parasitol Res . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-023-07823-5

A Kloch, EJ Mierzejewska, R Welc-Falęciak, A Bajer, A. Biedrzycka. Cytokine gene polymorphism and parasite susceptibility in free-living rodents: the importance of non-coding variants. PloS One https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258009

M Alsarraf, G Baneth, A Bogucka-Kocka, L Ciuca, D Dwużnik-Szarek, HP Fuehrer, A Kloch, P Kołodziej, V Levytska, EJ Mierzejewska, AD Mihalca, A Mushynskyi, Y Nachum-Biala, M Alsarraf, A Bajer. Haplotypes of Dirofilaria repens from Poland and selected countries of Central, North-Eastern Europe and the Middle East: an evaluation on the relation between the genetic diversity and the geographic distribution of the fast-spreading parasite. Veterinary Parasitology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304401723000134

2022

Biedrzycka A, Fijarczyk A, Kloch A, Porth IM. Editorial: Genomic Basis of Adaptations to New Environments in Expansive and Invasive Species Front. Ecol. Evol. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.974649/full

Formenti et al. The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics. Trends Ecol Evol 37, 197-202 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016953472100313X?via%3Dihub

2021

Kloch A, Biedrzycka A, Szewczyk M, Nowak S, Niedźwiedzka N, Kłodawska M, Hájková A, Hulva P, Jędrzejewska B, Mysłajek RW. High genetic diversity in immunity loci in an expanding population of a highly mobile carnivore, the grey wolf Canis lupus in Central Europe. Diversity and Distributions 27: 1680-1695 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.13360

2020

Kloch A, Biedrzycka A. 2020 Post-glacial phylogeography and variation in innate immunity loci in a sylvatic rodent, bank vole Myodes glareolus. Mammalian Biology, 100(2), 141-154.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42991-020-00016-y

2019

Dwużnik D, Mierzejewska EJ, Drabik P, Kloch A, Alsarraf M, Behnke JM, Bajer A. 2019. The role of juvenile ticks Dermacentor reticulatus ticks as vectors of microorganisms and the problem of ‘meal contamination’. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 78(2):181-202.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10493-019-00380-6

2018

Kloch A, Wenzel MA, Laetsch DR, Michalski O, Bajer A, Behnke J, Welc-Falęciak R, Piertney SB. 2018. Signatures of balancing selection in toll-like receptor (TLRs) genes – novel insights from a free-living rodent. Scientific Reports 8: 8361
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26672-2