Treitli SC, Hanousková P, Beneš V, Brune A, Čepička I, Hampl V. Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is the key process in the obligately syntrophic consortium of the anaerobic ameba Pelomyxa schiedti. ISME J. 2023 Aug 26. doi: 10.1038/s41396-023-01499-6. (full text)
Zítek J, King MS, Peña-Diaz P, Pyrihová E, King AC, Kunji ERS, Hampl V. The free-living flagellate Paratrimastix pyriformis uses a distinct mitochondrial carrier to balance adenine nucleotide pools. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2023 Jul 1;742:109638. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2023.109638. Epub 2023 May 14. PMID: 37192692; PMCID: PMC10251735. (full text)
Karnkowska A, Yubuki N, Maruyama M, Yamaguchi A, Kashiyama Y, Suzaki T, Keeling PJ, Hampl V, Leander BS. Euglenozoan kleptoplasty illuminates the early evolution of photoendosymbiosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Mar 21;120(12):e2220100120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2220100120. Epub 2023 Mar 16. PMID: 36927158; PMCID: PMC10041101. (full text)
Fang YK, Vaitová Z, Hampl V. A mitochondrion-free eukaryote contains proteins capable of import into an exogenous mitochondrion-related organelle. Open Biol. 2023 Jan;13(1):220238. doi: 10.1098/rsob.220238. Epub 2023 Jan 11. PMID: 36629021; PMCID: PMC9832562. (full text)
Ebenezer TE, Low RS, O'Neill EC, Huang I, DeSimone A, Farrow SC, Field RA, Ginger ML, Guerrero SA, Hammond M, Hampl V, Horst G, Ishikawa T, Karnkowska A, Linton EW, Myler P, Nakazawa M, Cardol P, Sánchez-Thomas R, Saville BJ, Shah MR, Simpson AGB, Sur A, Suzuki K, Tyler KM, Zimba PV, Hall N, Field MC. Euglena International Network (EIN): Driving euglenoid biotechnology for the benefit of a challenged world. Biol Open. 2022 Nov 1;11(11):bio059561. doi: 10.1242/bio.059561. (full text)
Zítek J, Füssy Z, Treitli SC, Peña-Diaz P, Vaitová Z, Zavadska D, Harant K, Hampl V Reduced mitochondria provide an essential function for the cytosolic methionine cycle. Curr Biol. 2022 Dec 5;32(23):5057-5068.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.028. (full text)
Kornalíková M, Hampl V, Treitli SC. Investigation of the genome sizes and ploidy within the genus Monocercomonoides. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2022 Jul;69(4):e12925. doi: 10.1111/jeu.12925. (full text)
Záhonová K, Treitli SC, Le T, Škodová-Sveráková I, Hanousková P, Čepička I, Tachezy J, Hampl V. Anaerobic derivates of mitochondria and peroxisomes in the free-living amoeba Pelomyxa schiedti revealed by single-cell genomics. BMC Biol. 2022 Mar 1;20(1):56. doi: 10.1186/s12915-022-01247-w. (full text)
Malych R, Füssy Z, Ženíšková K, Arbon D, Hampl V, Hrdý I, Sutak R. The response of Naegleria gruberi to oxidative stress. Metallomics. 2022 Mar 21;14(3):mfac009. doi: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfac009. (full text)
Treitli SC, Peña-Diaz P, Hałakuc P, Karnkowska A, Hampl V. High quality genome assembly of the amitochondriate eukaryote Monocercomonoides exilis.Microb Genom. 2021 Dec;7(12):000745. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000745. (full text)
Soukal P, Hrdá Š, Karnkowska A, Milanowski R, Szabová J, Hradilová M, Strnad H, Vlček Č, Čepička I, Hampl V. Heterotrophic euglenid Rhabdomonas costata resembles its phototrophic relatives in many aspects of molecular and cell biology. Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 22;11(1):13070. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92174-3. (full text)
Füssy Z, Vinopalová M, Treitli SC, Pánek T, Smejkalová P, Čepička I, Doležal P, Hampl V. Retortamonads from vertebrate hosts share features of anaerobic metabolism and pre-adaptations to parasitism with diplomonads. Parasitol Int. 2021 Jun;82:102308. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2021.102308. (full text)
Tomečková L, Tomčala A, Oborník M, Hampl V. The Lipid Composition of Euglena gracilis Middle Plastid Membrane Resembles That of Primary Plastid Envelopes. Plant Physiol. 2020 Dec;184(4):2052-2063. doi: 10.1104/pp.20.00505. (full text)
Faktorová D. et al. Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology. Nat Methods. 2020 May;17(5):481-494. doi: 10.1038/s41592-020-0796-x. (full text)
Harada R, Hirakawa Y, Yabuki A, Kashiyama Y, Maruyama M, Onuma R, Soukal P, Miyagishima S, Hampl V, Tanifuji G, Inagaki Y. Inventory and Evolution of Mitochondrion-localized Family A DNA Polymerases in Euglenozoa. Pathogens. 2020 Apr 1;9(4):257. doi: 10.3390/pathogens9040257. (full text)
Butenko A, Opperdoes FR, Flegontova O, Horák A, Hampl V, Keeling P, Gawryluk RMR, Tikhonenkov D, Flegontov P, Lukeš J. Evolution of metabolic capabilities and molecular features of diplonemids, kinetoplastids, and euglenids. BMC Biol. 2020 Mar 2;18(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s12915-020-0754-1. (full text)
Lukešová S, Karlicki M, Tomečková Hadariová L, Szabová J, Karnkowska A, Hampl V. Analyses of environmental sequences and two regions of chloroplast genomes revealed the presence of new clades of photosynthetic euglenids in marine environments. Environ Microbiol Rep. 2019 Dec 16. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12817. (full text)
Novák Vanclová AMG, Zoltner M, Kelly S, Soukal P, Záhonová K, Füssy Z, Ebenezer TE, Lacová Dobáková E, Eliáš M, Lukeš J, Field MC, Hampl V. Metabolic quirks and the colourful history of the Euglena gracilis secondary plastid. New Phytol. 2020 Feb;225(4):1578-1592. doi: 10.1111/nph.16237. (full text)
Treitli SC, Kolisko M, Husník F, Keeling PJ, Hampl V. Revealing the metabolic capacity of Streblomastix strix and its bacterial symbionts using single-cell metagenomics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Sep 24;116(39):19675-19684. doi:10.1073/pnas.1910793116. (full text)
Karnkowska A, Treitli SC, Brzoň O, Novák L, Vacek V, Soukal P, Barlow LD, Herman EK, Pipaliya SV, Pánek T, Žihala D, Petrželková R, Butenko A, Eme L, Stairs CW, Roger AJ, Eliáš M, Dacks JB, Hampl V. The Oxymonad Genome Displays Canonical Eukaryotic Complexity in the Absence of a Mitochondrion. Mol Biol Evol. 2019 Oct 1;36(10):2292-2312. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msz147. (full text)
Vesteg M, Hadariová L, Horváth A, Estraño CE, Schwartzbach SD, Krajčovič J. Comparative molecular cell biology of phototrophic euglenids and parasitic trypanosomatids sheds light on the ancestor of Euglenozoa. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2019 Oct;94(5):1701-1721. doi: 10.1111/brv.12523. (full text)
Ebenezer TE, Zoltner M, Burrell A, Nenarokova A, Novák Vanclová AMG, Prasad B, Soukal P, Santana-Molina C, O’Neill E, Nankissoor NN, Vadakedath N, Daiker V, Obado S, Silva-Pereira S, Jackson AP, Devos DP, Lukeš J, Lebert M, Vaughan S, Hampl V, Carrington M, Ginger ML, Dacks JB, Kelly S, Field MC. Transcriptome, proteome and draft genome of Euglena gracilis. BMC Biol. 2019 Feb 12. doi:10.1186/s12915-019-0626-8. (full text)
Záhonová K, Füssy Z, Birčák E, Novák Vanclová AMG, Klimeš V, Vesteg M, Krajčovič J, Oborník M, Eliáš M. Peculiar features of the plastids of the colourless alga Euglena longa and photosynthetic euglenophytes unveiled by transcriptome analyses. Sci Rep. 2018 Dec 5. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-35389-1. (full text)
Hampl V, Čepička I, Eliáš M. Was the Mitochondrion Necessary to Start Eukaryogenesis? Trends Microbiol. 2018 Nov 19. pii: S0966-842X(18)30214-2. doi:10.1016/j.tim.2018.10.005. (full text)
Adl SM, Bass D, Lane CE, Lukeš J, Schoch CL, Smirnov A, Agatha S, Berney C, Brown MW, Burki F, Cárdenas P, Čepička I, Chistyakova L, Del Campo J, Dunthorn M, Edvardsen B, Eglit Y, Guillou L, Hampl V, Heiss AA, Hoppenrath M, James TY, Karpov S, Kim E, Kolisko M, Kudryavtsev A, Lahr DJG, Lara E, Le Gall L, Lynn DH, Mann DG, Massana I Molera R, Mitchell EAD, Morrow C, Park JS, Pawlowski JW, Powell MJ, Richter DJ, Rueckert S, Shadwick L, Shimano S, Spiegel FW, Torruella I, Cortes G, Youssef N, Zlatogursky V, Zhang Q. Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2018 Sep 26. doi: 10.1111/jeu.12691. (full text)
Vacek V, Novák LVF, Treitli SC, Táborský P, Cepicka I, Kolísko M, Keeling PJ, Hampl V. Fe-S Cluster Assembly in Oxymonads and Related Protists. Mol Biol Evol. 2018 Sep 1. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msy168. (full text)
Treitli SC, Kotyk M, Yubuki N, Jirounková E, Vlasáková J, Smejkalová P, Šípek P, Čepička I, Hampl V. Molecular and Morphological Diversity of the Oxymonad Genera Monocercomonoides and Blattamonas gen. nov. Protist. 2018 Jun 30;169(5):744-783. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2018.06.005. (full text)
Záhonová K, Petrželková R, Valach M, Yazaki E, Tikhonenkov DV, Butenko A, Janouškovec J, Hrdá Š, Klimeš V, Burger G, Inagaki Y, Keeling PJ, Hampl V, Flegontov P, Yurchenko V, Eliáš M. Extensive molecular tinkering in the evolution of the membrane attachment mode of the Rheb GTPase. Sci Rep. 2018 Mar 27;8(1):5239. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23575-0. (full text)
Hadariová L, Vesteg M, Hampl V, Krajčovič J. Reductive evolution of chloroplasts in non-photosynthetic plants, algae and protists. Curr Genet. 2017 doi: 10.1007/s00294-017-0761-0 (full text)
Vanclová, AMG, Hadariová L, Hrdá Š, Hampl V. Secondary Plastids of Euglenophytes. In: Y. Hirakawa (ed.), Advances in Botanical Research, Academic Press 2017. doi: 10.1016/bs.abr.2017.06.008 (full text)
Hampl V. Preaxostyla. In: J.M. Archibald et al. (eds.), Handbook of the Protists, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-32669-6_8-1. Springer 2016. (full text)
Klinger CM, Karnkowska A, Herman EK, Hampl V, Dacks JB. In the Light of Free-Living Relatives: Understanding the Phylogeny and Evolutionary Cell Biology of Parasites. In: Walochnik J and Duchêne M (eds.), Molecular Parasitology – Protozoan Parasites and their Molecules. Springer 2016. (full text)
Hrdá Š, Hroudová M, Vlček Č, Hampl V. Mitochondrial Genome of Prasinophyte Alga Pyramimonas parkeae. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2016 Sep 28. doi: 10.1111/jeu.12371. (full text)
Novák L, Zubáčová Z, Karnkowska A, Kolisko M, Hroudová M, Stairs CW, Simpson AGB, Keeling PJ, Roger AJ, Čepička I, Hampl V. Arginine deiminase pathway enzymes: evolutionary history in metamonads and other eukaryotes. BMC Evol Biol. 2016 Oct 6;16(1):197. (full text)
Karnkowska A and Hampl V. The curious case of vanishing mitochondria. Microbial Cell 2016, 3, pp.361-364. (full text)
Karnkowska A, Vacek V, Zubáčová Z, Treitli SC, Petrželková R, Eme L, Novák L, Žárský V, Barlow LD, Herman EK, Soukal P, Hroudová M, Doležal P, Stairs CW, Roger AJ, Eliáš M, Dacks JB, Vlček Č, Hampl V. A Eukaryote without a Mitochondrial Organelle. Curr Biol. 2016 May 11. pii: S0960-9822(16)30263-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.053. (full text)
Zíková A, Hampl V, Paris Z, Týč J, Lukeš J. Aerobic mitochondria of parasitic protists: Diverse genomes and complex functions. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2016 Feb 22. pii: S0166-6851(16)30015-9. doi: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2016.02.007. (full text)
Rada P, Makki AR, Zimorski V, Garg S, Hampl V, Hrdý I, Gould SB, Tachezy J. N-Terminal Presequence-Independent Import of Phosphofructokinase into Hydrogenosomes of Trichomonas vaginalis. Eukaryot Cell. 2015 Dec;14(12):1264-75. doi: 10.1128/EC.00104-15. (full text)
Pánek T, Simpson AG, Hampl V, Cepička I. Creneis carolina gen. et sp. nov. (Heterolobosea), a novel marine anaerobic protist with strikingly derived morphology and life cycle. Protist. 2014 Aug;165(4):542-67. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2014.05.005. (full text)
Szabová J, Yubuki N, Leander BS, Triemer RE, Hampl V. The evolution of paralogous enzymes MAT and MATX within the Euglenida and beyond. BMC Evol Biol. 2014 Feb 11;14:25 (full text)
Zubáčová Z, Novák L, Bublíková J, Vacek V, Fousek J, Rídl J, Tachezy J, Doležal P, Vlček Č, Hampl V. The mitochondrion-like organelle of Trimastix pyriformis contains the complete glycine cleavage system. PLoS One. 2013;8(3):e55417. (full text)
Krnáčová K, Vesteg M, Hampl V, Vlček Č, Horváth A. Euglena gracilis and Trypanosomatids Possess Common Patterns in Predicted Mitochondrial Targeting Presequences. J Mol Evol. 2012 Oct;75(3-4):119-29. doi: 10.1007/s00239-012-9523-2. Epub 2012 Oct 12. (full text)
Adl SM, Simpson AG, Lane CE, Lukeš J, Bass D, Bowser SS, Brown MW, Burki F, Dunthorn M, Hampl V, Heiss A, Hoppenrath M, Lara E, Le Gall L, Lynn DH, McManus H, Mitchell EA, Mozley-Stanridge SE, Parfrey LW, Pawlowski J, Rueckert S, Shadwick L, Schoch CL, Smirnov A, Spiegel FW. The revised classification of eukaryotes. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2012 Sep;59(5):429-93. doi: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x. (full text)
Huňová K, Kašný M, Hampl V, Leontovyč R, Kuběna A, Mikeš L, Horák P. Radix spp.: Identification of trematode intermediate hosts in the Czech Republic. Acta Parasitol. 2012 Sep;57(3):273-84. Epub 2012 Aug 9. (full text)
Hampl V. Kontroverzní a nebojácná dáma. Vesmír 91, 103, 2012/2.
Hrdá Š, Fousek J, Szabová J, Hampl V, Vlček Č. The plastid genome of Eutreptiella provides a window into the process of secondary endosymbiosis of plastid in euglenids. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33746. (full text) Please note that there is a mistake in Figure 3, the correct figure can be downloaded here
Hampl V, Stairs CW, Roger AJ. The Tangled Past Of Eukaryotic Enzymes Involved In Anaerobic Metabolism. Mobile Genetic Elements Volume 1 Issue 1. (full text)
Szabová J, Růžička P, Verner Z, Hampl V, Lukeš J. Experimental examination of EFL and MATX eukaryotic horizontal gene transfers: co-existence of mutually exclusive transcripts predates functional rescue. Mol Biol Evol. 2011 Mar 8. (full text)
Stairs CW, Roger AJ, Hampl V. Eukaryotic pyruvate formate lyase and its activating enzyme were acquired laterally from a firmicute. Mol Biol Evol. 2011 28(7):2087-2099. (full text)
Morada M, Šmíd O, Hampl V, Šuťák R, Lam B, Rappelli P, Dessi D, Fiori PL, Tachezy J, Yarlett N. Hydrogenosome-localization of arginine deiminase in Trichomonas vaginalis. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2011; 176(1): 51-54. (full text)
Kašný M, Mikeš L, Dolečková K, Hampl V, Dvořák J, Novotný M, Horák P. Chapter. Cathepsins B1 and B2 of Trichobilharzia spp., bird schistosomes causing cercarial dermatitis. In Cysteine Proteases of Pathogenic Organisms (Robinson MW, Dalton JP, Eds), Landes Bioscience and Springer Science+Business Media, 2010.Hampl V. Diverzita parazitů. Živa 5/2010. (abstract)
Čepička I, Eliáš M, Hampl V. Řád z Chaosu. Vesmír 89, 464, 2010/7. (full text)
Čepička I, Hampl V, Kulda J. Critical Taxonomic Revision of Parabasalids with Description of one new Genus and three new Species. Protist. 2010 Jan 19. (full text)
Kašný M, Mikeš L, Hampl V, Dvořák J, Caffrey CR, Dalton JP, Horák P. Chapter 4. Peptidases of trematodes. Adv Parasitol. 2009;69:205-97. Review. (full text)
Hampl V, Hug L, Leigh JW, Dacks JB, Lang BF, Simpson AGB and Roger AJ: Phylogenomic Analyses Support the Monophyly of Excavata and Resolve Relationships among Eukaryotic "Supergroups". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2009 Mar 10;106(10):3859-64. (full text)
Kolísko M, Čepička I, Hampl V, Leigh J, Roger AJ, Kulda J, Simpson AG, Flegr J: Molecular phylogeny of diplomonads and enteromonads based on SSU rRNA, alpha-tubulin and HSP90 genes: implications for the evolutionary history of the double karyomastigont of diplomonads. BMC Evol Biol. 2008 Jul 15;8:205. (full text)
Sanchez-Perez G, Hampl V, Simpson AGB, Roger AJ: A new divergent type of eukaryotic methionine adenosyltransferase that has spread by gene transfer between secondary algae. J Euk Microbiol 2008 55(5):374-81. (full text)
Hampl V, Simpson AGB: Possible mitochondria-related organelles in poorly-studied 'amitochondriate' eukaryotes. In Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes of the Amitochondrial Protists (Tachezy J, Ed.), Series: Microbiology Monographs, Springer, Heidelberg, 2008Hampl V, Silberman JD, Stechmann A, Diaz-Trivino S, Johnson PJ, Roger AJ: Genetic Evidence for a Mitochondriate Ancestry in the 'Amitochondriate' Flagellate Trimastix pyriformis. PLoS ONE 2008 3(1):e1383. (full text)
Hampl V, Čepička I, Flegr J, Tachezy J, Kulda J: Morphological and molecular diversity of monocercomonadid genera Monocercomonas, Hexamastix and Honigbergiella gen. nov. Protist 2007 158(3):365-83. (full text)
Kostka M, Čepička I, Hampl V, Flegr J: Phylogenetic position of Karotomorpha and paraphyly of Proteromonadidae. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 2007 43(3):1167-70. (full text)
Liapounova NA, Hampl V, Gordon PM, Sensen CW, Gedamu L, Dacks JB: Reconstructing the mosaic glycolytic pathway of the anaerobic eukaryote Monocercomonoides. Eukaryot Cell. 2006 5:2138-46. (full text)
Kolářová L, Rudolfová J, Hampl V, Skirnisson K: Allobilharzia visceralis gen. nov., sp. nov. (Schistosomatidae-Trematoda) from Cygnus cygnus (L.) (Anatidae). Parasitol Int, 2006 55:179-86. (full text)
Čepička I, Hampl V, Kulda J, Flegr J: New evolutionary lineages, unexpected diversity, and host specificity in the parabasalid genus Tetratrichomonas. Mol Phylogenet Evol, 2006 May;39(2):542-51. (full text)
Hampl V, Vrlík M, Pecka Z, Kulda J, Tachezy J: Affiliation of Cochlosoma to trichomonads confirmed by phylogenetic analysis of small subunit rRNA gene. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 2006 56:305-12. (full text)
Hampl V, Horner DS, Dyal P, Kulda J, Flegr J, Foster PG, Embley TM: Inference of phylogenetic position of oxymonads based on 9 genes: Support for monophyly of Metamonada and Excavata. Mol Biol Evol, 2005 22:2508-18. (full text)
Kolísko M, Čepička I, Hampl V, Kulda J, Flegr J: Molecular phylogeny of enteromonads based on SSU rDNA of Trimitus sp.: the challenge for the present models of diplomonad evolution. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55:1729-1733. (full text)
Rudolfová J, Hampl V, Bayssade-Dufour C, Lockyer AE, Littlewood DTJ, Horák P: Validity reassessment of Trichobilharzia spp. developing in Lymnaea stagnalis. Parasitol res 2005 95(2):79-89. (full text)
Kostka M, Hampl V, Čepička I, Flegr J: The phylogenetic position of Protoopalina intestinalis based on 18S rRNA gene. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2004 33: 220-224. (full text)
Hampl V, Čepička I, Flegr J, Tachezy J, Kulda J: Critical analysis of the topology and rooting of the parabasalian 16S rRNA tree. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2004 32:711-723. (full text)
Tachezy J, Tachezy R, Hampl V, Šedinová M, Vaňáčová Š, Vrlík M, vanRanst M, Flegr J, Kulda J: Cattle Pathogen Tritrichomonas foetus (Riedmüller, 1928) and Pig Comensal Tritrichomonas suis (Gruby & Delafond, 1843) Belong to the Same Species. J Euk Microbiol 2002 49:(2)154-163.
Silberman JD, Simpson AGB, Kulda J, Čepička I, Hampl V, Johnson PJ, Roger AJ: Retortamonad flagellates are closely related to diplomonads - implications for the history of mitochondrial function in eukaryote evolution. Mol Biol Evol 2002 19(5):777-786. (full text)
Dvořák J, Vaňáčová Š, Hampl V, Flegr J, Horák P: Comparison of European Trichobilharzia species based on ITS1 and ITS2 sequences. Parasitology 2002 124: 307-313. (full text)
Hampl V, Vaňáčová Š, Kulda J, Flegr J: Concordance between genetic and phenotypic similarities of Trichomonas vaginalis strains. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2001 1:11. (full text)
Hampl V, Pavlíček A, Flegr J: Construction and bootstrap analysis of DNA fingerprinting-based phylogenetic trees with a freeware program FreeTree: Application to trichomonad parasites. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001 51: 731-735. (full text)