Piotr Łukasik

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

Piotr Łukasik, Margriet van Asch, Huifang Guo et al. · Ecology Letters · 2012 · 349 citations

Recurrent symbiont recruitment from fungal parasites in cicadas

Yu Matsuura, Minoru Moriyama, Piotr Łukasik et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · 207 citations · Full text

Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome

Yi Hu, Jon G. Sanders, Piotr Łukasik et al. · Nature Communications · 2018 · 196 citations · Full text

Uncovering symbiont‐driven genetic diversity across <scp>N</scp>orth <scp>A</scp>merican pea aphids

Jacob A. Russell, Stephanie R. Weldon, Andrew Smith et al. · Molecular Ecology · 2013 · 189 citations

Protection against a fungal pathogen conferred by the aphid facultative endosymbionts <i><scp>R</scp>ickettsia</i> and <i><scp>S</scp>piroplasma</i> is expressed in multiple host genotypes and species and is not influenced by co‐infection with another symbiont

Piotr Łukasik, Huifang Guo, Margriet van Asch et al. · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · 2013 · 152 citations · Full text