2025

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Klara Scharnagl, Neha Sahu, Xia Yan, Angus Bucknell, Adam R. Bentham, Clara Jégousse, Sandra Lorena Ament-Velásquez, Ioana Onuț-Brännström, Hanna Johannesson, Dan MacLean, Nicholas J. Talbot. Complexity of the lichen symbiosis revealed by metagenome and transcriptome analysis of Xanthoria parietina. Current Biology, Volume 35, Issue 4, 24 February 2025, Pages 799-817.e5. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224017093

2024

Hiltunen Thorén, M., Onuț-Brännström, I., Alfjorden, A. et al. Comparative genomics of Ascetosporea gives new insight into the evolutionary basis for animal parasitism in Rhizaria. BMC Biol 22, 103 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01898-x

Anders Alfjorden, Ioana Onut Brännström, Niklas Wengström, Arni Kristmundsson, Mahwash Jamy, David Persson, Fabien Burki. (2024, accepted) ‘Identification of a new gregarine parasite in mass mortality events of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) in Sweden’. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeu.13021

Peona, V., Martelossi, J., Almojil, D. … Onuț-Brännström I  …et al. Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation – a tardigrade perspective. Mobile DNA 15, 10 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-024-00319-8

2023

Hensen N, Bonometti L, Westerberg I, Onut-Brännström I, Guillou S, Cros-Aarteil S, Calhoun S, Haridas S, Kuo A, Mondo S, Pangilinan J, Riley R, LaButti K, Andreopoulos B, Lipzen A, Chen C, Yan M, Daum C, Ng V, Clum A, Steindorff A, Ohm RA, Martin F, Silar P, Natvig DO, Lalanne C, Gautier V, Ament-Velásquez SL, Kruys Å, Hutchinson MI, Powell AJ, Barry K, Miller AN, Grigoriev IV, Debuchy R, Gladieux P, Hiltunen Thorén M, Johannesson H. (2023, October). Genome-scale phylogeny and comparative genomics of the fungal order Sordariales. Mol Phylogenet Evol. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.ympev.2023.107938

Megan ES Sørensen, Vasily V Zlatogursky, Ioana Onuţ-Brännström, Anne Walraven, Rachel A Foster, Fabien Burki. (2023, September) ‘A novel kleptoplastidic symbiosis revealed in the marine centrohelid Meringosphaera with evidence of genetic integration’. Current Biology 33 (17), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.017

Vojtečh Žárský, Anna Karnkowska, Vittorio Boscaro, Morelia Trznadel , Thomas A

Whelan , Markus Hiltunen-Thorén, Ioana Onuţ-Brännström, Cathryn L Abbott , Naomi M Fast, Fabien Burki, Patrick J Keeling. (2023, June). ‘Contrasting outcomes of genome reduction in mikrocytids and microsporidians’. BMC Biol 21(1):137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01635-w

Onuț-Brännström I, Stairs CW, Campos KIA, Thorén MH, Ettema TJG, Keeling PJ, Bass D, Burki F. (2023, March). ‘A Mitosome with Distinct Metabolism in the Uncultured Protist Parasite Paramikrocytos canceri (Rhizaria, Ascetosporea)’. Genome Biol Evol. 15(3):evad022. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad022

2018

Onuț-Brännström I., Benjamin M., Scofield D.G., Heiðmarsson S., Andersson M. G. I., Lindström E. S., Johannesson H. (2018, March). ’Sharing of photobionts in sympatric populations of Thamnolia and Cetraria lichens: evidence from high-throughput sequencing. Scientific Reports, 8 (1):4406, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22470-y.

Onuţ-Brännström I, Johannesson H., Tibell L. ’Thamnolia tundrae n. sp., a cryptic species and putative glacial relict. (2018, January). The Lichenologist 50 (1): 59-75, doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282917000615

2017

Onuţ-Brännström I, Tibell L, Johannesson H. (2017, April). ’A worldwide phylogeography of the whiteworm lichens Thamnolia reveals three lineages with distinct habitats and evolutionary histories’. Ecology and Evolution. 7:3602–3615. Doi: https:// doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2917

2015

Shafer A, Wolf JBW, Alves PC, Bergström L, Bruford MW, Brännström I, Colling G, Dalen L, De Meester L, Ekblom R, Fawcett KD, Fior S, Hajibabaei M, Hill JA, Hoelzel AR, Hoglund J, Jensen EL, Krause J, Kristensen TN, Krützen M, McKay JK, Norman AJ, Ogden R, Österling EM, Ouborg NJ, Piccolo J, Popovic D, Primmer CR, Reed FA, Roumet M, Salmona J, Scheneker T, Schwartz MK, Segelbacher G, Senn H, Thaulow J, Valtonen M, Veale A, Vergeer P,Vijay N, Vila C, Weissensteiner M, Wennerström L, Wheat C, Zielinski P. (2015, February). ‘Genomics and the challenging translation into conservation practice’. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30(2):78-87. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.tree.2014.11.009

2013

Kotrschal A, Rogell B, Bundsen A, Svensson B, Zajitschek S, Brännström I, Immler S, Maklakov AA, Kolm N. (2013, October). ’The benefit of evolving a larger brain: big-brained guppies perform better in a cognitive task’. Animal Behaviour 86(4): e4–e6. doi: https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.07.011

Kotrschal A, Rogell B, Bundsen A, Svensson B, Brännström I, Immler S, Maklakov AA, Kolm N. (2013, January). Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain. Current Biology. Jan 21; 23(2): 168–171. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.058.

OTHER ACADEMIC WORKS

2017

Onuț-Brännström I. The puzzle of lichen symbiosis : Pieces from Thamnolia PhD dissertation. [Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis; 2017. (Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology). Available from: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-319639