Publications

Total found: 36 records
Dacks J. (2025) Summer 2025 Editor-In-Chief Message Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 72: e70042.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.70042

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Dacks_2025_JEM (pdf)
Grech J., Shinde A.P., Periz J., Singer M., Gras S., Forné I., Klingl A., Dacks J., Jimenez-Ruiz E., Meissner M. (2025) Tepsin and AP4 mediate transport from the trans-Golgi to the plant-like vacuole in toxoplasma. Journal of Cell Biology 224: e202312109.
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202312109

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Grech_2025_JCB (pdf)
Matsuo L., Novák Vanclová A.M.G., Pomiankowski A., Lane N., Dacks J. (2025) Eukaryotic recombinases duplicated after divergence from known Asgard archaeal RadA: implications for the evolution of sex during eukaryogenesis. Genome Biology and Evolution 17: evaf240.
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaf240
Novák Vanclová A.M.G., Jackson C.L., Dacks J. (2025) Eukaryote-wide distribution of a family of longin domain-containing GAP complexes for small GTPases. Traffic 26: e70016.
DOI: 10.1111/tra.70016

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Novak_Vanclov_2025_Traffic (pdf)
Roucheray S., Stastny D., Kaur H., Tahotna D., Dacks J., Griac P., Richard D. (2025) Characterization of a phosphoinositide-binding protein containing a PHOX homology domain in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Scientific Reports 15: 36867.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-20974-y

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Roucheray_2025_SciRep (pdf)
Vargová R., Chevreau R., Alves M., Courbin C., Terry K., Legrand P., Eliáš M., Ménétrey J., Dacks J., Jackson C.L. (2025) The Asgard archaeal origins of arf family GTPases involved in eukaryotic organelle dynamics Nature Microbiology 10: 495–508 .
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01904-6
Záhonová K., Kaur H., Furgason C.C., Smirnova A.V., Dunfield P.F., Dacks J. (2025) Comparative analysis of protist communities in oilsands tailings using amplicon sequencing and metagenomics Environmental Microbiology 27: e70029.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.70029

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Zahonova_2025_EnvMicrob (pdf)
Záhonová K., Lukeš J., Dacks J. (2025) Diplonemid protists possess exotic endomembrane machinery, impacting models of membrane trafficking in modern and ancient eukaryotes. Current Biology 35: 1508-1520.e2.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.032

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Zahonova_2025_CurrBiol (pdf)
Dacks J. (2024) Editor's message Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 71: e13054.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.13054

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Dacks_2024_EukMicrobJ (pdf)
Jerlström-Hultqvist J., Gallot-Lavallée L., Salas-Leiva D.E., Curtis B., Záhonová K., Čepička I., Stairs C.W., Pipaliya S., Dacks J., Archibald J., Roger A. (2024) A unique symbiosome in an anaerobic single-celled eukaryote Nature Communications 15: 9726.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54102-7

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Jerlstrom-Hultqvist_2024_NatComm (pdf)
Klinger C.M., Jimenez-Ruiz E., Mourier T., Klingl A., Lemgruber L., Pain A., Dacks J., Meissner M. (2024) Evolutionary analysis identifies a Golgi pathway and correlates lineage-specific factors with endomembrane organelle emergence in apicomplexans. Cell Reports 43: 113740.
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113740
More K., Kaur H., Simpson A., Spiegel F., Dacks J. (2024) Contractile vacuoles: a rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding European Journal of Protistology 126078: 94.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2024.126078
More K.J., Kaufman J.G.G., Dacks J., Manna P.T. (2024) Evolutionary origins of the lysosome-related organelle sorting machinery reveal ancient homology in post-endosome trafficking pathways Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 131: 2403601121.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2403601121
Richards T., Eme L., Archibald J., Leonard G., Coelho S.M., de Mendoza A., Dessimoz C., Doležal P., Fritz-Laylin L.K., Gabaldón T. , Hampl V., Kops G.J.P.L., Leger M.M., López-García P., McInerney J.O., Moreira D., Muñoz-Gómez S.A., Richter D.J., Ruiz-Trillo I., Santoro A., Sebé-Pedrós A., Snel B., Stairs C.W., Tromer E.C., van Hooff J.J.E., Wickstead B., Williams T.A., Roger A., Dacks J., Wideman J.G. (2024) Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes PLoS Biology 22: e3002917.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002917

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Richards_2024_PlosBiol (pdf)
Shinde A.P., Kučerová J., Dacks J., Tachezy J. (2024) The retromer and retriever systems are conserved and differentially expanded in parabasalids Journal of Cell Science 137: jcs261949.
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.261949
Black J.A., Klinger C.M., Lemgruber L., Dacks J., Mottram J., McCulloch R. (2023) AAK1-like: A putative pseudokinase with potential roles in cargo uptake in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei parasites. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 70: e12994.
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12994
Dacks J., Ginger M. (2023) Two decades taken at speed: genomics, cell biology, ecology, and evolution of protists BMC Biology 21: 283.
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01787-9
Faktorová D., Záhonová K., Benz C., Dacks J., Field M., Lukeš J. (2023) Functional differentiation of Sec13 paralog in the euglenozoan protists Open Biology 13: 220364.
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.220364

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Faktorova_2023_OpenBiol (pdf)
Kořený L., Mercado-Saavedra B.N., Klinger C.M., Barylyuk K., Butterworth S., Hirst J., Rivera-Cuevas Y., Zaccai N.R., Holzer V.J.C., Dacks J., Carruthers V.B., Robinson M.S., Gras S., Waller R. (2023) Stable endocytic structures navigate the complex pellicle of apicomplexan parasites Nature Communications 14: 2167.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37431-x
Maciejowski W., Gile G., Jerlström-Hultqvist J., Dacks J. (2023) Ancient and pervasive expansion of adaptin-related vesicle coat machinery across Parabasalia International Journal for Parasitology 53: 233–245.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2023.01.002

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