Główne zainteresowania badawcze
Genetyka, antyczne DNA, filogenetyka molekularna.
Aktualne zadania badawcze
- Zróżnicowanie genetyczne zwierząt hodowlanych z młodszych epok historycznych z wykorzystaniem analiz antycznego DNA.
- Badania filogenetyczne owadów z kolekcji muzealnych z wykorzystaniem metod molekularnych.
- Badania filogenetyczne wybranych pluskwiaków (Hemiptera).
Lista publikacji
Gout JF., , Hao Y., Johri P., , Arnaiz O., Doak TG., , Bhullar S., Couloux A., Guérin F., Malinsky S, Potekhin A., Sawka N., Sperling L., Labadie K., Meyer E., Duharcourt S., Lynch M.
Dynamics of Gene Loss following Ancient Whole-Genome Duplication in the Cryptic Paramecium Complex.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(5): msad107.
Wieczorek K., Sawka-Gądek N.
DNA Barcoding and Molecular Phylogenetics Revealed a New Cryptic Bamboo Aphid Species of the Genus Takecallis (Hemiptera: Aphididae).
Applied Sciences, 13(13): 7798.
Walczak M., Gębicki C., Zmarzły M., Sawka-Gądek N.
Sabahia polypodii gen. et sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacantihinae) and its phylogenetic position within the Nirvanini tribe.
Folia Biologica (Kraków), 70: 151-162.
Sawka-Gądek N. , Potekhin A., Singh D.P., Grevtseva I., Arnaiz O., Penel S., Sperling L., Tarcz S., Duret L., Nekrasova I., Meyer E.
Evolutionary Plasticity of Mating-Type Determination Mechanisms in Paramecium aurelia Sibling Species.
Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(2): evaa258.
Sawka-Gądek N. , Potekhin A., Singh D.P., Grevtseva I., Arnaiz O., Penel S., Sperling L., Tarcz S. , Duret L., Nekrasova I., Meyer E.
Evolutionary plasticity of mating-type determination mechanisms in Paramecium aurelia sibling species.
Genome Biology and Evolution 13: evaa258 : doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa258
Bugaj-Nawrocka A., Sawka-Gądek N. , Chłond D.
Prediction of hybridisation zones of selected species of the genus Platymeris (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) supported by laboratory crossbreeding.
Austral Entomology, 59: 323-336.
Chłond D., Bugaj-Nawrocka A., Sawka-Gądek N.
Are we witnessing speciation? A case study of the species Sirthenea flavipes (Stål, 1855) (Heteroptera: Reduviidae).
Austral Entomology, 58: 96-110.
Chłond D, Sawka-Gądek N , Żyła D.
Genetic data of museum specimens allow for inferring evolutionary history of the cosmopolitan genus Sirthenea (Heteroptera: Reduviidae).
PeerJ 7:e6640.
Gosik R., Mazur M.A., Sawka-Gądek N.
First Destcriptions of larva and pupa of Bagous claudicans Boheman, 1845 (Curculionidae, Bagoinae) and systematic position of the species based on molecular and morphological data.
Insects, 10: 166.
Tarcz S. , Sawka-Gądek N. , Przyboś E.
Worldwide sampling reveals low genetic variability in populations of the freshwater ciliate Paramecium biaurelia (P. aurelia species complex, Ciliophora, Protozoa) .
Organisms Diversity & Evolution,18: 39–50.
Przyboś E , Tarcz S , Rautian M, Sawka N.
Delimiting Species Boundaries within a Paraphyletic Species Complex: Insights from Morphological, Genetic, and Molecular Data on Paramecium sonneborni (Paramecium aurelia species complex, Ciliophora, Protozoa).
Protist,166(4): 438-56.
Tarcz S. , Rautian M., Potekhin A., Sawka N., Beliavskaya A., Kiselev A, Nekrasova I, Przyboś E.
Paramecium putrinum (Ciliophora, Protozoa): The first insight into the variation of two DNA fragments – Molecular support for the existence of cryptic species.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 73:140-145.
Przyboś E , Tarcz S , Surmacz M, Sawka N, Fokin S.
Paramecium tredecaurelia, Unique non-polymorphic species among the P.aurelia spp. Complex (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora).
Acta Protozoologica, 52: 257-266.
Przyboś E , Tarcz S. , Prajer M., Surmacz M., Rautian M., Sawka N.
Does high intraspecific variability of two genome fragments indicate a recent speciation process of Paramecium dodecaurelia (P. aurelia species complex, Ciliophora, Protozoa)?
Systematics and Biodiversity, 10 (3): 289-304.
Sawka N.
Mating types in Paramecium and a molecular approach to their determination.
Folia biologica (Kraków), 60 (1-2): 3-9.