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

Position: head
Research topics: Molecular ecology
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 – Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Science, 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.)

Employment:

Institute of Vertebrate Biology, ASCR, Brno

1997-1998 - research assistant

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

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

since 2011 - scientific secretary of Institute of Vertebrate Biology AS CR

since 2012 - head of the Institute´s Board

Department of Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno

2003-2009 - research assistant (part-time)

since 2009 - Associate Professor (part-time); Lectures: Molecular Ecology, Genetic Methods in Zoology, Advances in Zoology of Vertebrates), supervising of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students

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, phylogeography and systematics of small mammals (rodents and bats) in Europe and Africa

International experience:

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

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).

short visits at European research institutes (e.g. France - CBGP, Université Montpellier, Musée National d´Histoire Naturelle, Université de Rennes; Denmark - University of Aarhus; Belgium - University of Antwerps; Italy - Centre for Research and Innovation, S. Michele all’Adige)

fieldwork in Africa (Senegal, Mozambique, Kenya) - collaboration with numerous African and European colleagues

since 2009: member of consortium CONGRESS (Conservation of Genetic Resources for Effective Species Survival), 7th Framework Programme of EC; 2012 - organization of two international workshops on conservation genetics

Actual PhD students:

Barbora Zemanová: Conservation genetics of chamois in Central Europe

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

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)

Former PhD students:

Hájková Petra, 2008: Conservation genetics of the Eurasian otter. Masaryk University, Brno. (co-superviser, supervised by P. Jurajda)

Konečný Adam, 2009: Consequences of anthropogenic changes on rodent communities and populations: study cases on native and introduced species in Eastern Senegal. Masaryk University, Brno and Université Montpellier II. (supervised together with J.M. Duplantier and J.F. Cosson - Centre de Biologie pour Gestion des Populations, Montpellier, France)

Promerová Marta, 2011: Major histocompatibility complex genes: their variation and impact on fitness in a socially monogamous passerine. Masaryk University, Brno. (superviser, co-supervised by T. Albrecht)

Poláková Radka, 2011: The effect of genetic factors on reproductive success in a socially monogamous songbird. Masaryk University, Brno. (superviser, co-supervised by T. Albrecht)

Říčanová Štěpánka, 2011: Phylogeography and conservation genetics of the European ground squirrel. South Bohemian University, České Budějovice. (co-superviser, supervised by F. Sedláček))

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)

Genetic structure of the freshwater pearl mussel in the Czech Republic (2009-2010)

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

Molekulární epidemmiologie emergentních nákaz

PROVAZ: PROpojení Vzdělávání A nových přístupů v Zoologicko-ekologickém výzkumu - od teorie k praxi

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)

Utilization of genetic resources for effective corservation of endangered species

Publications

2012

M. HEROLDOVÁ, J. BRYJA, E. JÁNOVÁ, J. SUCHOMEL, M. HOMOLKA: Rodent damage to natural and replanted mountain forest regeneration, TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2012 (2012) 872536.

P.-J, G. MALÉ, J.-F. MARTIN, M. GALAN, V. DEFFONTAINE, J. BRYJA, J.-F. COSSON, J. MICHAUX, N. CHARBONNEL: Discongruence of Mhc and cytochrome b phylogeographical patterns in Myodes glareolus (Rodentia: Cricetidae), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105 (2012) 881-899.

M. PROMEROVÁ, W. BABIK, J. BRYJA, T. ALBRECHT, M. STUGLIK, J. RADWAN: Evaluation of two approaches to genotyping major histocompatibility complex class I in a passerine—CE-SSCP and 454 pyrosequencing, Molecular Ecology Resources 12 (2012) 285-292.

M. REICHARD, R. SPENCE, A. BRYJOVÁ, J. BRYJA, C. SMITH: Female rose bitterling prefer MHC-dissimilar males: experimental evidence, PLoS ONE 7 (2012) .

M. SEIFERTOVÁ, J. BRYJA, M. VYSKOČILOVÁ, N. MARTÍNKOVÁ, A. ŠIMKOVÁ: Multiple Pleistocene refugia and postglacial colonization in the European chub (Squalius cephalus) revealed by combined use of nuclear and mitochondrial markers, Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012) 1024-1040.

R. ŠUMBERA, V. MAZOCH, H. PATZENHAUEROVÁ, M. LÖVY, J. ŠKLÍBA, J. BRYJA, H. BURDA: Burrow architecture, family composition and habitat characteristics of the largest social African mole-rat: the giant mole-rat constructs really giant burrow systems, Acta Theriologica 57 (2012) 121-130.

-. WASIMUDDIN, D. ČÍŽKOVÁ, A. RIBAS, J. PIÁLEK, J. GOÜY DE BELLOCQ, J. BRYJA: Development and characterization of multiplex panels of microsatellite markers for Syphacia obvelata, a parasite of the house mouse (Mus musculus), using a high throughput DNA sequencing approach, Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology (2012) .

2011

D. ČÍŽKOVÁ, J. GOÜY DE BELLOCQ, S. J. E. BAIRD, J. PIÁLEK, J. BRYJA: Genetic structure and contrasting selection pattern at two major histocompatibility complex genes in wild house mouse populations, Heredity 106 (2011) 727-740.

D. DEMONTIS, S. D. CZARNOMSKA, P. HÁJKOVÁ, B. ZEMANOVÁ, J. BRYJA, V. LOESCHCKE, C. PERTOLDI: Characterization of 151 SNPs for population structure analysis of the endangered Tatra chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra tatrica) and its relative, the Alpine chamois (R. r. rupicapra), Mammalian Biology 76 (2011) 644-645.

E. JÁNOVÁ, M. HEROLDOVÁ, A. KONEČNÝ, J. BRYJA: Traditional and diversified crops in South Moravia (Czech Republic): Habitat preferences of common vole and mice species, Mammalian Biology 76 (2011) 570-576.

P. PROCHÁZKA, B. G. STOKKE, H. JENSEN, D. FAINOVÁ, E. BELLINVIA, F. FOSSOY, J. R. VIKAN, J. BRYJA, M. SOLER: Low genetic differentiation among reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus populations across Europe, Journal of avian biology 42 (2011) 103-113.

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.

M. REICHARD, J. BRYJA, M. POLAČIK, C. SMITH: No evidence for host specialization or host-race formation in the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), a fish that parasitizes freshwater mussels, Molecular Ecology 20 (2011) 3631-3643.

Š. ŘÍČANOVÁ, J. BRYJA, J.-F. COSSON, C. GEDEON, L. CHOLEVA, M. AMBROS, F. SEDLÁČEK: Depleted genetic variation of the European ground squirrel in Central Europe in both microsatellites and the major histocompatibility complex gene: implications for conservation, Conservation Genetics 12 (2011) 1115-1129.

B. ZEMANOVÁ, P. HÁJKOVÁ, J. BRYJA, J. ZIMA JR., A. HÁJKOVÁ, J. ZIMA: Development of multiplex microsatellite sets for noninvasive population genetic study of the endangered Tatra chamois, Folia zoologica 60 (2011) 70-80.

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.

T. BARTONIČKA, P. KAŇUCH, B. BÍMOVÁ, J. BRYJA: Olfactory discrimination between two cryptic species of bats Pipistrellus pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus, Folia zoologica 59 (2010) 175-182.

J. BRYJA, C. SMITH, A. KONEČNÝ, M. REICHARD: Range-wide population genetic structure of the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus) based on microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA analysis, Molecular Ecology 19 (2010) 4708-4722.

J. BRYJA, L. GRANJON, G. DOBIGNY, H. PATZENHAUEROVÁ, A. KONEČNÝ, J.-M. DUPLANTIER, P. GAUTHIER, M. COLYN, L. DURNEZ, A. LALIS, V. NICOLAS: Plio-Pleistocene history of West African Sudanian savanna and the phylogeography of the Praomys daltoni complex (Rodentia): the environment/geography/genetic interplay, Molecular Ecology 19 (2010) 4783-4799.

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 11 (2010) 1783-1794.

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 10 (2010) 599-603.

P. HULVA, A. FORNŮSKOVÁ, A. CHUDÁRKOVÁ, A. EVIN, B. ALLEGRINI, P. BENDA, J. BRYJA: Mechanisms of radiation in a bat group from the genus Pipistrellus inferred by phylogeography, demography and population genetics, Molecular Ecology 19 (2010) 5417-5431.

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.

E. JÁNOVÁ, J. NESVADBOVÁ, M. HEROLDOVÁ, J. BRYJA: Effectiveness of two trapping protocols for studying the demography of common voles, Hystrix 21 (2010) 189-193.

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 48 (2010) 718-726.

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.