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Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesInstitute of Zoology

Publications

  • Muñoz-Gómez S. A., Hess S. (2023): Purple photosymbioses. Current Biology (Quick Guide): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.015
  • Moye J., Schenk T., Hess S* (2022): Experimental evidence for enzymatic cell wall dissolution in a microbial protoplast feeder (Orciraptor agilis, Viridiraptoridae). BMC Biology. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01478-x
  • Hess S.*, Williams S. K., Busch A., Irisarri I., Delwiche C. F., de Vries S., Darienko T., Roger A. J., Archibald J. M., Buschmann H., von Schwartzenberg K., de Vries J.*: A phylogenomically informed five-order system for the closest relatives of land plants. Current Biology: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.022
  • Busch A., Hess S.* (2022): A diverse group of underappreciated zygnematophytes deserves in-depth exploration. Applied Phycology: https://doi.org/10.1080/26388081.2022.2081819
  • Gerbracht J. V., Harding T., Simpson A. G. B., Roger A. J., Hess S.* (2022): Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation. Current Biology: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.05.049
  • Hess S.*, Suthaus A. (2022): The Vampyrellid Amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria). Protist: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2021.125854
  • Hess S. (2021): The amoebae of Idionectes vortex (Cutosea, Amoebozoa): motility, cytoskeleton architecture and extracellular scales. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12869
  • More K., Simpson A. G. B., Hess S.* (2021): Description of the marine predator Sericomyxa perlucida gen. et sp. nov., a cultivated representative of the deepest branching lineage of vampyrellid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12864
  • Muñoz-Gómez S. A.*, Kreutz M., Hess S.* (2021): A microbial eukaryote with a unique combination of purple bacteria and green algae as endosymbionts. Science Advances 7: 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg4102 
  • Busch A., Hess S.* (2021): Sunscreen mucilage: a photoprotective adaptation found in terrestrial green algae (Zygnematophyceae). European Journal of Phycology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670262.2021.1898677
  • Hess S.*, Eme L., Roger A. J., Simpson A. G. B. (2019): A natural toroidal microswimmer with a rotary eukaryotic flagellum. Nature Microbiology: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0478-6
  • Kashiyama Y.*, Yokoyama A., Shiratori T., Hess S., Not F., et al. (2019): Taming chlorophylls by early eukaryotes underpinned algal interactions and the diversification of the eukaryotes on the oxygenated Earth. The ISME Journal: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0377-0
  • Muñoz-Gómez S. A., Hess S., Burger G., Lang B., Susko E., Slamovits C. H., Roger A. J.* (2019): An updated phylogeny of the Alphaproteobacteria reveals that the Rickettsiales and Holosporales have independent origins. eLife 8: e42535.
  • More K., Simpson A. G. B., Hess S.* (2018): Two new marine species of Placopus (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) that perforate the theca of Tetraselmis (Chlorodendrales, Viridiplantae). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology: https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12698
  • Hess S. (2017b): Hunting for agile prey: trophic specialisation in leptophryid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) revealed by two novel predators of planktonic algae. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93: 1–12.
  • Hess S. (2017a): Description of Hyalodiscus flabellus sp. nov. (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) and identification of its bacterial endosymbiont, “Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila” (Rickettsiales, Alphaproteobacteria). Protist 168: 109–133.
  • Busch A., Hess S.* (2017): The cytoskeleton architecture of algivorous protoplast feeders (Viridiraptoridae, Rhizaria) indicates actin–guided perforation of prey cell walls. Protist 168: 12–31.
  • Hess S.*, Suthaus A., Melkonian M. (2016): “Candidatus Finniella” (Rickettsiales, Alphaproteobacteria), novel endosymbionts of viridiraptorid amoeboflagellates (Cercozoa, Rhizaria). Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82: 659–670.
  • Hess S.*, Melkonian M. (2014): Ultrastructure of the algivorous amoeboflagellate Viridiraptor invadens (Glissomonadida, Cercozoa). Protist 165: 605–635.
  • Hess S.*, Melkonian M. (2013): The mystery of clade X: Orciraptor gen. nov. and Viridiraptor gen. nov. are highly specialised, algivorous amoeboflagellates (Glissomonadida, Cercozoa). Protist 164: 706–747.
  • Hess S.*, Sausen N., Melkonian M. (2012): Shedding light on vampires: the phylogeny of vampyrellid amoebae revisited. PloS one 7: e31165.
  • Foissner W.*, Hess S., Al-Rasheid K. (2009): Two vicariant Semispathidium species from tropical Africa and central Europe: S. fraterculum nov. spec. and S. pulchrum nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Haptorida). European Journal of Protistology 46: 61–73.
  • Hess S., Frahm J.-P.*, Theisen I. (2005): Evidence of zoophagy in a second liverwort species, Pleurozia purpurea. The Bryologist 108: 212–218.