doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Josef Bryja, Ph.D.

Position: head
Research topics: Head of Molecular ecology group
Department: Department of Population Biology
Phone: +420 568 422 387
E-mail: bryjabrno.cas.cz

Education:

1992-1997 – Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Science - undergraduate studies, specialization - systematic zoology and ecology (aimed at zoology and ecology of mammals). Diploma thesis: Structure of communities of small terrestrial mammals in various habitats of the Protected Landscape Area of Poodří. (MSc.=Mgr.)

1993-1998 - Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Science – undergraduate studies, specialization - molecular biology and genetics (aimed at cancer research and effect of oncogenes on differentiation and proliferation of cells). Diploma thesis: Preparation of truncated variant of gene coding for RXR alpha and its transfer to monoblast cell line BM2. (MSc.=Mgr.)

1997-2000 – PhD. study in zoology (aimed at population ecology of microtine rodents). PhD thesis: Demographic characteristics of the common vole (Microtus arvalis) population in southern Moravia. (PhD.)

Professional career:

1997-1998 - research assistant, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (IVB AS CR), Brno

since 1998 - research scientist, Department of Population Biology, IVB AS CR, Brno

2004-2006 – postdoctoral fellow, Centre de Biologie et Gestion des Populations, Montferriez sur Lez, France (projects on wildlife immunogenetics).

2003-2009 - research assistant (part-time), Department of Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno

since 2009 - Associate Professor, Department of Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno (Lectures: Molecular Ecology, Genetic Methods in Zoology, Advances in Zoology of Vertebrates), supervising of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students

2002-2010 - Department of Population Biology IVB AS CR – responsible for the running of the Laboratory of molecular genetics in Studenec

since 2010 - head of the Department of Population Biology IVB AS CR

Research interests:

Molecular ecology of vertebrates (population genetic structure, interactions between neutral and adaptive genetic variation, factors affecting reproductive success, conservation genetics, immunogenetics)

Behavioural and population ecology (sex ratio and population dynamics of microtines, sexual selection)

Ecology of communities of small terrestrial mammals in Europe and Africa.

reviewer of manuscripts in scientific journals, e.g. Acta Chiropterologica, Acta Theriologica, African Journal of Ecology, Annales Zoologici Fennici, Biologia (Bratislava), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Biology Direct, Biology Letters, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Conservation Genetics, Entomologica Fennica, Folia Zoologica, Genes and Immunity, Heredity, Immunogenetics, Journal of Zoology, Klapalekiana, Mammalia, Mammalian Biology, Molecular Ecology, Oikos, Sylvia.

Member of the International steering committee for the European Science Foundation scientific program "Integrating population genetics and conservation biology: Merging theoretical, experimental and applied approaches" (2004-2009).

since 2009: member of consortium CONGRESS (Conservation of Genetic Resources for Effective Species Survival), 7th Framework Programme of EC

PhD students:

Barbora Zemanová: Conservation genetics of chamois in Central Europe

Radka Poláková: Genetic factors affecting mate choice and reproductive factors in the Scarlet Rosefinch (co-supervised by T. Albrecht)

Dagmar Čížková: Major histocompatibility complex variation in the house mice hybrid zone

Marta Promerová: MHC-based mate choice in the Scarlet Rosefinch (co-supervised by T. Albrecht)

Štěpánka Hulová: Conservation genetics and phylogeography of ground squirrels (advisor; supervised by F. Sedláček)

Hana Patzenhauerová: Factors affecting genetic structure of selected rodents in eastern Africa

Alena Fornůsková: The role of innate immunity genes in evolutionary ecology of rodents

Wasimuddin: Genetic variation of pathogens in the house mice hybrid zone (co-supervised by J. Gouy de Bellocq and J. Piálek)

Projects

Biology of African mole-rats from mesic tropic areas (2008-2011)

Comparative phylogeography of Zambezian region in Southeastern Africa using small mammals as a model (2010-2014)

Conservation genetics of selected vertebrates in the Western Balkans (2008-2009)

Intraspecific variability of populations of two cryptic bat species of genus Pipistrellus in Central Europe (2006-2008)

The role of MHC in sexual selection - observational and experimental study in three model vertebrate species (2006-2008)

Toll-like receptors in passerine birds: description, characterization of polymorphism and evolutionary consequences of allelic variation (2010-2014)

Publications

2010

M. AGBALI, M. REICHARD, A. BRYJOVÁ, J. BRYJA, C. SMITH: Mate choice for nonadditive genetic benefits correlate with MHC dissimilarity in the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus), Evolution 64 (2010) 1683-1696.

J. BRYJA, M. UHRIN, P. KAŇUCH, P. BÉMOVÁ, N. MARTÍNKOVÁ, J. ZUKAL: Mitochondrial DNA confirms low genetic variation of the greater mouse-eared bats, Myotis myotis, in Central Europe, Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2010) 73-81.

E. V. BUŽAN, B. KRYŠTUFEK, J. BRYJA: Microsatellite markers confirm extensive population fragmentation of the endangered Balkan palaeoendemic Martino’s vole (Dinaromys bogdanovi), Conservation Genetics (2010) .

M. HEROLDOVÁ, M. PEJČOCH, J. BRYJA, E. JÁNOVÁ, J. SUCHOMEL, E. TKADLEC: Tula virus in populations of small terrestrial mammals in a rural landscape, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (2010) .

N. CHARBONNEL, J. BRYJA, M. GALAN, J. DETER, C. TOLLENAERE, Y. CHAVAL, S. MORAND, J.-F. COSSON: Negative relationships between cellular immune response, Mhc class II heterozygosity and secondary sexual trait in the montane water vole, Evolutionary Applications 3 (2010) 279-290.

P. KAŇUCH, A. FORNŮSKOVÁ, T. BARTONIČKA, J. BRYJA, Z. ŘEHÁK: Do two cryptic pipistrelle bat species differ in their autumn and winter roosting strategies within the range of sympatry?, Folia zoologica 59 (2010) 102-107.

A. KONEČNÝ, P. KOUBEK, J. BRYJA: Indications of higher diversity and abundance of small rodents in human-influenced Sudanian savannah than in the Niokolo Koba National Park (Senegal), African Journal of Ecology (2010) .

H. PATZENHAUEROVÁ, J. BRYJA, R. ŠUMBERA: Kinship structure and mating system in a solitary subterranean rodent, the silvery mole-rat, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64 (2010) 757-767.

2009

T. ALBRECHT, M. VINKLER, J. SCHNITZER, R. POLÁKOVÁ, P. MUNCLINGER, J. BRYJA: Extra-pair fertilizations contribute to selection on secondary male ornamentation in a socially monogamous passerine, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22 (2009) 2020-2030.

J. BRYJA, P. KAŇUCH, A. FORNŮSKOVÁ, T. BARTONIČKA, Z. ŘEHÁK: Low population genetic structuring of two cryptic bat species suggests their migratory behaviour in continental Europe, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96 (2009) 103-114.

L. E. CLIFT, P. ANDRLÍKOVÁ, M. FROLÍKOVÁ, P. STOPKA, J. BRYJA, B. F. FLANAGAN, P. M. JOHNSON, K. DVOŘÁKOVÁ-HORTOVÁ: Absence of spermatozoal CD46 protein expression and associated rapid acrosome reaction rate in striped field mice (Apodemus agrarius), Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 7 (2009) 1-9.

B. KRYŠTUFEK, J. BRYJA, E. V. BUŽAN: Mitochondrial phylogeography of the European ground squirrel, Spermophilus citellus, yields evidence on refugia for steppic taxa in the southern Balkans, Heredity 103 (2009) 129-135.

M. PROMEROVÁ, T. ALBRECHT, J. BRYJA: Extremely high MHC class I variation in a population of a long-distance migrant, the Scarlet Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus), Immunogenetics 61 (2009) 451-461.

M. REICHARD, M. ONDRAČKOVÁ, A. BRYJOVÁ, C. SMITH, J. BRYJA: Breeding resource distribution affects selection gradients on male phenotypic traits: experimental study on lifetime reproductive success in the bitterling fish (Rhodeus amarus), Evolution 63 (2009) 377-390.

M. VINKLER, A. BRYJOVÁ, T. ALBRECHT, J. BRYJA: Identification of the first toll-like receptor gene in passerine birds: TLR4 orthologue in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), Tissue Antigens 74 (2009) 32-41.

2008

J. BRYJA, H. PATZENHAUEROVÁ, T. ALBRECHT, L. MOŠANSKÝ, M. STANKO, P. STOPKA: Varying levels of female promiscuity in four Apodemus mice species, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63 (2008) 251-260.

J. DETER, J. BRYJA, Y. CHAVAL, M. GALAN, H. HENTTONEN, J. LAAKKONEN, L. VOUTILAINEN, O. VAPALAHTI, A. VAHERI, A. R. SALVADOR, S. MORAND, J.-F. COSSON, N. CHARBONNEL: Association between the DQA MHC class II gene and Puumala virus infection in Myodes glareolus, the bank vole, Infection, Genetics and Evolution (2008) 450-458.

M. HEROLDOVÁ, E. TKADLEC, J. BRYJA, J. ZEJDA: Wheat or barley? Feeding preferences affect distribution of three rodent species in agricultural landscape, Applied Animal Behaviour Science 110 (2008) 354-362.

E. JÁNOVÁ, M. HEROLDOVÁ, J. BRYJA: Conspicuous demographic and individual changes in a population of the common vole in a set-aside alfalfa field, Annales Zoologici Fennici 45 (2008) 39-54.

V. NICOLAS, J. BRYJA, B. AKPATOU, A. KONEČNÝ, E. LECOMPTE, M. COLYN, A. LALIS, A. COULOUX, C. DENYS, L. GRANJON: Comparative phylogeography of two sibling species of forest-dwelling rodent (Praomys rostratus and P. tullbergi) in West Africa: different reactions to past forest fragmentation, Molecular Ecology 17 (2008) 5118-5134.

M. REICHARD, C. SMITH, J. BRYJA: Seasonal change in the opportunity for sexual selection, Molecular Ecology 17 (2008) 642-651.

Z. ŘEHÁK, T. BARTONIČKA, J. BRYJA, J. GAISLER: New records of the Alcathoe bat, Myotis alcathoe in Moravia (Czech Republic), Folia zoologica 57 (2008) 465-469.

C. TOLLENAERE, J. BRYJA, M. GALAN, P. CADET, J. DETER, Y. CHAVAL, K. BERTHIER, A. RIBAS SALVADOR, L. VOUTILAINEN, J. LAAKKONEN, H. HENTTONEN, J.-F. COSSON, N. CHARBONNEL: Multiple parasites mediate balancing selection at two MHC class II genes in the fossorial water vole: insights from multivariate analyses and population genetics, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21 (2008) 1307-1320.

A. TÓTHOVÁ, J. KNOZ, R. SONNEK, J. BRYJA, J. VAŇHARA: Taxonomic problems in the subgenus Meloehelea Wirth of the genus Atrichopogon Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) inferred from both morphological and molecular characters, Entomologica Fennica 19 (2008) 1-12.

2007

T. ALBRECHT, J. SCHNITZER, J. KREISINGER, A. EXNEROVÁ, J. BRYJA, P. MUNCLINGER: Extrapair paternity and the opportunity for sexual selection in long-distant migratory passerines, Behavioral Ecology 18 (2007) 477-486.

J. BRYJA, P. KMENT: True bugs (Heteroptera) of the Bukovské vrchy Hills (Poloniny National Park, Slovakia), Acta Musei Moraviae. Scientiae biologicae = Časopis Moravského muzea. Vědy biologické - Scientiae biologicae 92 (2007) 1-51.

J. BRYJA, N. CHARBONNEL, K. BERTHIER, M. GALAN, J.-F. COSSON: Density-related changes in selection pattern for major histocompatibility complex genes in fluctuating populations of voles, Molecular Ecology 16 (2007) 5084-5097.

P. HÁJKOVÁ, C. PERTOLDI, B. ZEMANOVÁ, K. ROCHE, B. HÁJEK, J. BRYJA, J. ZIMA: Genetic structure and evidence for recent population decline in Eurasian otter populations in the Czech and Slovak Republics: implications for conservation, Journal of Zoology 272 (2007) 1-9.

M. HEROLDOVÁ, J. BRYJA, J. ZEJDA, E. TKADLEC: Structure and diversity of small mammal communities in agriculture landscape, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (2007) 206-210.

P. KAŇUCH, A. FORNŮSKOVÁ, T. BARTONIČKA, J. BRYJA: Multiplex panels of polymorphic microsatellite loci for two cryptic bat species of the genus cross-species amplification within the family Vespertilionidae, Molecular Ecology Notes 7 (2007) 871-873.

P. KAŇUCH, P. HÁJKOVÁ, Z. ŘEHÁK, J. BRYJA: A rapid PCR-based test for species identification of two cryptic bats Pipistrellus pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus and its application on museum and dropping samples, Acta Chiropterologica 9 (2007) 277-282.

P. KMENT, J. BRYJA: Description of Nasocoris lautereri sp. nov. from the Balkan peninsula, with a review of the genus Nasocoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), Zootaxa 1633 (2007) 39-61.

A. LOISEAU, A. KONEČNÝ, M. GALAN, J. BRYJA, J.-F. COSSON, C. BROUAT: New polymorphic microsatellite loci for rodents of the genus Mastomys using PCR multiplexing, and cross-species amplification in Myomys and Praomys, Molecular Ecology Notes 7 (2007) 684-687.

R. POLÁKOVÁ, M. VYSKOČILOVÁ, J.-F. MARTIN, H. L. MAYS JR., G. E. HILL, J. BRYJA, T. ALBRECHT: A multiplex set of microsatellite markers for the scarlet rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus), Molecular Ecology Notes 7 (2007) 1375-1378.

2006

V. BENCOVÁ, T. KAŠPAR, J. BRYJA: Sezónní a meziroční změny skladby potravy kalouse ušatého (Asio otus) na jižní Moravě, Tichodroma 18 (2006) 65-71.

J. BRYJA, P. KMENT: Ploštice (Heteroptera) Chráněné krajinné oblasti Kokořínsko, Bohemia centralis 27 (2006) 267-294.

J. BRYJA, M. GALAN, N. CHARBONNEL, J.-F. COSSON: Duplication, balancing selection and trans-species evolution explain the high levels of polymorphism of the DQA MHC class II gene in voles (Arvicolinae), Immunogenetics 58 (2006) 191-202.

P. HÁJKOVÁ, B. ZEMANOVÁ, J. BRYJA, B. HÁJEK, K. ROCHE, E. TKADLEC, J. ZIMA: Factors affecting success of PCR amplification of microsatellite loci from otter faeces, Molecular Ecology Notes 6 (2006) 559-562.

P. KMENT, J. BRYJA: Revised occurrence of Heterotoma species (Heteroptera: Miridae) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia with remarks on nomenclature, diagnostic characters and ecology, Acta Musei Moraviae. Scientiae biologicae = Časopis Moravského muzea. Vědy biologické - Scientiae biologicae 91 (2006) 7-52.

A. TÓTHOVÁ, J. BRYJA, P. BEJDÁK, J. VAŇHARA: Molecular markers used in phylogenetic studies of Diptera with a methodological overview, Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Biologica (2006) 125-133.

2005

J. BRYJA, P. STOPKA: Facultative promiscuity in a presumably monogamous mouse Apodemus microps, Acta Theriologica 50 (2005) 189-196.

J. BRYJA, J. NESVADBOVÁ, M. HEROLDOVÁ, E. JÁNOVÁ, J. LOSÍK, L. TREBATICKÁ, E. TKADLEC: Common vole (Microtus arvalis) population sex ratio: biases and process variation, Canadian Journal of Zoology - Revue Canadienne de Zoologie 83 (2005) 1391-1399.

J. BRYJA, M. GALAN, N. CHARBONNEL, J.-F. COSSON: Analysis of major histocompatibility complex class II gene in water voles using capillary electrophoresis-single stranded conformation polymorphism, Molecular Ecology Notes 5 (2005) 173-176.

M. HEROLDOVÁ, E. JÁNOVÁ, J. BRYJA, E. TKADLEC: Set-aside plots - source of small mammal pests?, Folia zoologica 54 (2005) 337-350.

P. KMENT, J. BRYJA, K. HRADIL, Z. JINDRA: New and interesting records of true bugs (Heteroptera) from the Czech Republic and Slovakia 3, Klapalekiana 41 (2005) 157-213.

P. KMENT, J. BRYJA, Z. JINDRA: New records of true bugs (Heteroptera) of the Balkan peninsula, Acta entomologica slovenica 13 (2005) 9-20.

M. REICHARD, J. BRYJA, M. ONDRAČKOVÁ, M. DÁVIDOVÁ, P. KANIEWSKA, C. SMITH: Sexual selection for male dominance reduces opportunities for female mate choice in the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus), Molecular Ecology 14 (2005) 1533-1542.

2004

J. BRYJA, P. KMENT: Ploštice (Heteroptera) Bukovských vrchů (NP Poloniny), Folia faunistica Slovaca 9 (2004) 31-41.

P. HÁJKOVÁ, B. HÁJEK, B. ZEMANOVÁ, K. ROCHE, A. TOMAN, J. BRYJA: Genetická variabilita a populačno-genetická štruktúra subpopulácií vydry riečnej (Lutra lutra) v výskumnom projekte Českej a Slovenskej republike, Bulletin Vydra (2004) 19-23.

P. HÁJKOVÁ, B. ZEMANOVÁ, B. HÁJEK, K. ROCHE, M. KUČEROVÁ, J. BRYJA, J. ZIMA: Stanovenie početnosti a štruktúry populácie vydry riečnej (Lutra lutra) neinvazívnou genetickou metódou - správa o prebiehajúcom výskumnom projekte, Bulletin Vydra (2004) 15-18.

M. HEROLDOVÁ, J. ZEJDA, M. ZAPLETAL, D. OBDRŽÁLKOVÁ, E. JÁNOVÁ, J. BRYJA, E. TKADLEC: Importance of winter rape for small rodents, Rostlinná výroba 50 (2004) 175-181.

2003

J. BRYJA, A. KONEČNÝ: Fast sex identification in wild mammals using PCR amplification of the Sry gene, Folia zoologica 52 (2003) 269-274.

E. JÁNOVÁ, M. HEROLDOVÁ, J. NESVADBOVÁ, J. BRYJA, E. TKADLEC: Age variation in a fluctuating population of the common vole, Oecologia 137 (2003) 527-532.

E. JÁNOVÁ, M. HEROLDOVÁ, J. BRYJA, E. TKADLEC: Metodické problémy při určování stáří hlodavců na základě hmotnosti očních čoček, Lynx 34 (2003) 29-38.

P. KMENT, J. BRYJA, Z. JINDRA, K. HRADIL, P. BAŇAŘ: New and interesting records of true bugs (Heteroptera) from the Czech Republic and Slovakia 2, Klapalekiana 39 (2003) 257-306.

2002

T. BARTONIČKA, Z. ŘEHÁK, P. WOLF, J. BRYJA: Drobní savci CHKO Litovelské Pomoraví. Část 1. Netopýři - Chiroptera, Lynx 33 (2002) 35-46.

J. BRYJA, P. KMENT, K. HRADIL: Ploštice (Heteroptera) Rokytenských slepenců, Přírodovědný sborník Západomoravského muzea v Třebíči=Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Musei Moraviae Occidentalis 40 (2002) 33-60.

J. BRYJA, Z. ŘEHÁK, Z. VERMOUZEK, P. WOLF, T. BARTONIČKA: Drobní savci CHKO Litovelské Pomoraví. Část 2. Hmyzožravci a hlodavci - Insectivora et Rodentia, Lynx 33 (2002) 79-87.

J. BRYJA, Z. ŘEHÁK: Další doklady současné expanze areálu myšice temnopásé (Apodemus agrarius) na Moravě, Lynx 33 (2002) 69-77.

J. BRYJA, P. KMENT: New and interesting records of plant bugs (Heteroptera: Miridae) from the Czech and Slovak Republics, Klapalekiana 38 (2002) 1-10.

J. BRYJA, M. HEROLDOVÁ, J. ZEJDA: Effects of deforestation on structure and diversity of small mammal communities in the Moravskoslezské Beskydy Mts (Czech Republic), Acta Theriologica 47 (2002) 295-306.

A. KONEČNÝ, J. BRYJA: Hmyzožravci a hlodavci v ČR - souhrn nepublikovaných faunistických dat z diplomových prací obhájených na Přírodovědecké fakultě MU v Brně, Lynx 33 (2002) 133-140.

E. KULA, J. BRYJA: Comparison of various sampling methods for evaluation of biodiversity of true bugs (Heteroptera) in a birch forest, Ekológia 21 (2002) 137-147.

2001

J. BRYJA, P. KMENT: The present state of knowledge of true bugs (Heteroptera) in the Protected Landscape Area of Poodří (Czech Republic), Klapalekiana 37 (2001) 1-36.

J. BRYJA, B. BENEŠ: The harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) in the mountains of the Czech Republic, Časopis Slezského zemského muzea. - Série A: Vědy přírodní 50 (2001) 113-116.

J. BRYJA, M. HEROLDOVÁ, J. ZEJDA: Drobní zemní savci (Insectivora, Rodentia) vrcholových partií Moravskoslezských Beskyd, Časopis Slezského zemského muzea. - Série A: Vědy přírodní 50 (2001) 105-112.

J. BRYJA, E. TKADLEC, J. NESVADBOVÁ, J. GAISLER, J. ZEJDA: Comparison of enumeration and Jolly-Seber estimation of population size in the common vole Microtus arvalis, Acta Theriologica 46 (2001) 279-285.

P. KMENT, J. BRYJA: New and interesting records of true bugs (Heteroptera) from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Klapalekiana 37 (2001) 231-248.

Z. LOSOSOVÁ, J. DANIHELKA, M. CHYTRÝ, M. HLUCHÝ, P. VÍTEK, J. MAREK, M. ŠKORPÍK, J. BEZDĚK, P. PRŮDEK, J. POISEL, P. LAUTERER, M. BAGAR, P. KMENT, J. BRYJA, P. JANŠTA: Předběžné výsledky monitoringu biodiverzity vinic a přilehlých lesostepních lokalit CHKO Pálava a NP Podyjí, Thayensia 4 (2001) 205-208.

2000

J. BRYJA, E. KULA: A novel multiple approach to the biodiversity evaluation - example of the fractionated community of bugs Heteroptera), Ekológia 19 (2000) 225-244.

J. BRYJA, J. ZUKAL: Small mammal communities in newly planted biocorridors and their surroundings in southern Moravia (Czech Republic), Folia zoologica 49 (2000) 191-197.