Mgr. Radka Poláková

Position: phd student
Research topics:
Department: Department of Population Biology
Phone: +420 568 423 121
E-mail: radkpolcentrum.cz

Research interests:

molecular ecology

ornithology

Education:

2006- to date: PhD study in zoology at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno. PhD thesis: The effect of genetic factors on reproductive success in the socially monogamous songbird.

2000-2006: Master’s Degree in Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno

2003-2005: Degree in Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno

1996-2000: Grammar school Vídeňská, Brno

Professional career:

2006 – to date: Department of Population Biology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,v. v. i.

2005-2006: Teacher of Biology, Ecology and Chemistry, Secondary medical school, Brno

Publications

2011

M. PROMEROVÁ, M. VINKLER, J. BRYJA, R. POLÁKOVÁ, J. SCHNITZER, P. MUNCLINGER, T. ALBRECHT: Occurrence of extra-pair paternity is connected to social male’s MHC-variability in the scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus, Journal of avian biology 42 (2011) 5-10.

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.

2007

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.