prof. RNDr. Jan Zima, DrSc.

Position: full-time researcher
Research topics: cytogenetics and biodiversity
Department: Working place Brno
Phone: +420 543 422 553
E-mail: jzimabrno.cas.cz

Research interests

  • comparative and evolutionary cytogenetics,
  • systematics,
  • phylogeny of the mammals and biodiversity.

    Education

  • 1970-1975: undergraduate study - Charles University Prague, Faculty of Science.
  • 1976-1981: Ph.D. study - Institute of Vertebrate Zoology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno.
  • 1995: DrSc. (D.Sc.) Degree - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
  • 1996: habilitation (Assoc. Prof.) - Charles University Prague, Faculty of Science.
  • 2004: full professor - Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science.

    Employment

  • 1981-1993: Institute of Vertebrate Zoology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences - research fellow.
  • 1993-1998: Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - head of laboratory.
  • 1998-2006: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - chairman of the Scientific Board (1998-2000), director (2000-2006).
  • 2007-2009: Institute of Verterbrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i. (public research organization) - director.
  • 1996-present: Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology - associate professor, full professor since 2005.
  • 2009-present: member of the Academy Council of the Academy of Sciencies of the Czech republic.

    Project

    Bat adaptations to the fungal disease geomycosis (2012-2015)

    Recent books

  • Gaisler J. & Zima J., 2007: Zoologie obratlovců. 2. přepracované vydání. [Vertebrate Zoology. 2nd ed., in Czech] Academia, Praha, 692 s. ISBN 978-80-200-1484-9 (order here).
  • Aulagnier S., Haffner P., Mitchell-Jones A.J., Moutou F., Zima J., 2009: Mammals of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. A&C Black Publishers, London, 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-4081-1399-8 (order here).



    Publications

    2014

    A. ARSLAN, A. ARISOY, J. ZIMA: Comparison of the Chromosome Banding Pattern in the 2n = 5 6 Cytotypes of Nannospalax leucodon and N. xanthodon from Turkey, Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014) 121690.


    2013

    A. ARSLAN, J. ZIMA, T. YORULMAZ, S. GÖZÜTOK, K. TOYRAN: Chromosome banding pattern in fat dormouse and bank vole (Mammalia: Rodentia) from Turkey, Folia Biologica-Krakow 61 (2013) 47-51.

    A. ARSLAN, J. ZIMA, D. KOUBÍNOVÁ, T. YORULMAZ, K. TOYRAN, S. GÖZÜTOK: Karyotypes of three gerbil species of the genera Tatera and Gerbilliscus from Turkey and Senegal, North-Western Journal of Zoology 9 (2013) 57-62.

    A. ARSLAN, A. ARISOY, J. ZIMA: The chromosome banding pattern in two cytotypes (2n = 36 and 38) of blind mole rats from Turkey (Mammalia: Spalaxidae), Zoology in the Middle East 59 (2013) 95-100.

    A. ARSLAN, J. ZIMA: Distribution of C-heterochromatin and nucleolar organizer regions in the karyotype of marbled polecat, Vormela peregusna (Carnivora: Mustelidae), Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 65 (2013) 557-560.

    A. ARSLAN, J. ZIMA: The banded karyotype of the 2n=58 chromosomal race of mole rats from Erzincan, Turkey, Folia zoologica 62 (2013) 19-23.

    D. KOUBÍNOVÁ, N. IRWIN, P. HULVA, P. KOUBEK, J. ZIMA: Hidden diversity in Senegalese bats and associated findings in the systematics of the family Vespertilionidae, Frontiers in Zoology 10 (2013) 48.

    D. SADÍLEK, F. ŠŤÁHLAVSKÝ, J. VILÍMOVÁ, J. ZIMA: Extensive fragmentation of the X chromosome in the bed bug Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758 (Heteroptera, Cimicidae): a survey across Europe, Comparative Cytogenetics 7 (2013) 253-269.

    T. YORULMAZ, J. ZIMA, A. ARSLAN, T. KANKILIC: Variations in C-heterochromatin and AgNOR distribution in the common vole (Microtus arvalis sensu lato) (Mammalia: Rodentia), Archives of Biological Sciences 65 (2013) 989-995.

    J. ZIMA, A. ARSLAN, P. BENDA, M. MACHOLÁN, B. KRYŠTUFEK: Chromosomal variation in social voles: a Robertsonian fusion in Günther‘s vole, Acta Theriologica 58 (2013) 255-265.


    2012

    A. ARSLAN, T. YORULMAZ, K. TOYRAN, I. ALBAYRAK, J. ZIMA: C-banding and Ag-NOR distribution patterns in Euphrates jerboa, Allactaga euphratica (Mammalia: Rodentia), from Turkey, Mammalia 76 (2012) 435-439.

    A. ARSLAN, J. ZIMA: Cytogenetic investigations in Sciurus anomalus from Turkish Thrace (Rodentia: Sciuridae), Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 64 (2012) 421-426.

    A. HORN, P. BASSET, G. YANNIC, A. BANASZEK, P. M. BORODIN, N. S. BULATOVA, K. JADWISZCZAK, R. M. JONES, A. V. POLYAKOV, M. RATKIEWICZ, J. B. SEARLE, N. A. SHCHIPANOV, J. ZIMA, J. HAUSSER: Chromosomal rearrangements do not seem to affect the gene flow in hybrid zones between karyotypic races of the common shrew (Sorex araneus), Evolution 66 (2012) 882-889.

    J. PIKULA, H. BANDOUCHOVÁ, L. NOVOTNÝ, C. U. METEYER, J. ZUKAL, N. R. IRWIN, J. ZIMA, N. MARTÍNKOVÁ: Histopathology confirms White-Nose Syndrome in bats in Europe, Journal of Wildlife Diseases 48 (2012) 207-211.


    2011

    A. ARSLAN, A. SÜKRÜYE, J. ZIMA: Variation in C-heterochromatin and NOR distribution among chromosomal races of mole rats (Spalacidae) from Central Anatolia,Turkey, Mammalian Biology 76 (2011) 28-35.

    A. ARSLAN, T. YORULMAZ, K. TOYRAN, S. GÖZÜTOK, J. ZIMA: C-heterochromatin variation and NOR distribution in the Karyotype of water vole, Arvicola terrestris (Mammalia, Rodentia), Caryologia 64 (2011) 215-222.

    A. ARSLAN, J. ZIMA: Banded karyotype of the Konya wild sheep (Ovis orientalis anatolica Valenciennes, 1856) from Turkey, Comparative Cytogenetics 5 (2011) 81-89.

    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

    A. ARSLAN, J. ZIMA: Banded karyotypes of Allactaga williamsi from Central Anatolia, Turkish Journal of Zoology 34 (2010) 533-537.

    D. KOUBÍNOVÁ, K. S. SREEPADA, P. KOUBEK, J. ZIMA: Karyotypic variation in rhinolophid and hipposiderid bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae, Hipposideridae), Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2010) 393-400.

    B. KRYŠTUFEK, V. VOHRALÍK, J. ZIMA, D. KOUBÍNOVÁ, E. V. BUŽAN: A new subspecies of the Iranian Vole, Microtus irani Thomas, 1921, from Turkey, Zoology in the Middle East 50 (2010) 11-18.

    N. MARTÍNKOVÁ, P. BAČKOR, T. BARTONIČKA, P. BLAŽKOVÁ, J. ČERVENÝ, L. FALTEISEK, J. GAISLER, V. HANZAL, D. HORÁČEK, Z. HUBÁLEK, H. JAHELKOVÁ, M. KOLAŘÍK, Ľ. KORYTÁR, A. KUBÁTOVÁ, B. LEHOTSKÁ, R. LEHOTSKÝ, R. K. LUČAN, O. MÁJEK, J. MATĚJŮ, Z. ŘEHÁK, J. ŠAFÁŘ, P. TÁJEK, E. TKADLEC, M. UHRIN, J. WAGNER, D. WEINFURTOVÁ, J. ZIMA, J. ZUKAL, I. HORÁČEK: Increasing incidence of Geomyces destructans fungus in bats from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, PLoS ONE 5 (2010) .


    2009

    M. RUDÁ, D. ŽIAK, B. GAUFFRE, J. ZIMA, N. MARTÍNKOVÁ: Comprehensive cross-amplification of microsatellite multiplex sets across the rodent genus Microtus, Molecular Ecology Resources 9 (2009) 974-978.


    2008

    A. ARSLAN, J. ZIMA, H. ÖZPARLAK: C-heterochromatin variation in the karyotype reflects species level distinction between Erinaceus roumanicus and E. concolor (Eulipotyphla: Erinaceidae) in Turkey, Zootaxa 1961 (2008) 1-10.

    J. KROJEROVÁ-PROKEŠOVÁ, M. BARANČEKOVÁ, P. ŠÍMOVÁ, M. ŠÁLEK, M. ANDĚRA, V. BEJČEK, V. HANÁK, L. HANEL, S. LUSK, B. MIKÁTOVÁ, J. MORAVEC, K. ŠŤASTNÝ, J. ZIMA: Species richness of vertebrates in the Czech Republic, Folia zoologica 57 (2008) 452-464.

    B. KRYŠTUFEK, R. M. BAXTER, W. HABERL, J. ZIMA, E. V. BUŽAN: Systematics and biogeography of the Mozambique thicket rat, Grammomys cometes, in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, Journal of Mammalogy 89 (2008) 325-335.

    K. S. SREEPADA, D. KOUBÍNOVÁ, A. KONEČNÝ, P. KOUBEK, P. RÁB, M. RÁBOVÁ, J. ZIMA: Karyotypes of three species of molossid bats (Molossidae, Chiroptera) from India and western Africa, Folia zoologica 57 (2008) 347-357.


    2007

    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. MACHOLÁN, P. MUNCLINGER, M. ŠUGERKOVÁ, P. DUFKOVÁ, B. BÍMOVÁ, E. BOŽÍKOVÁ, J. ZIMA, J. PIÁLEK: Genetic analysis of autosomal and X-linked markers across a mouse hybrid zone, Evolution 61 (2007) 746-771.

    N. MARTÍNKOVÁ, J. ZIMA, M. JAAROLA, M. MACHOLÁN, F. SPITZENBERGER: The origin and phylogenetic relationships of Microtus bavaricus based on karyotype and mitochondrial DNA sequences, Folia zoologica 56 (2007) 39-49.

    J. B. SEARLE, J. HAUSSER, J. ZIMA, K. FREDGA, J. M. WÓJCIK, V. T. VOLOBOUEV, N. S. BULATOVA, R. NADJAFOVA: The ISACC heritage, Russian Journal of Theriology 6 (2007) 123-167.


    2006

    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. KOTLÍK, V. DEFFONTAINE, S. MASCHERETTI, J. ZIMA, J. R. MICHAUX, J. B. SEARLE: A northern glacial refugium for bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103 (2006) 14860-14864.


    2005

    Z. HUBÁLEK, H. BURDA, A. SCHARFF, G. HETH, E. NEVO, R. ŠUMBERA, J. PEŠKO, J. ZIMA: Emmonsiosis of subterranean rodents (Bathyergidae, Spalacidae) in Africa and Israel, Medical Mycology 43 (2005) 691-697.


    2004

    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. JAAROLA, N. MARTÍNKOVÁ, I. GÜNDÜZ, C. BRUNHOFF, J. ZIMA, A. NADACHOWSKI, G. AMORI, N. S. BULATOVA, B. CHONDROPOULOS, S. FRAGUEDAKIS-TSOLIS, J. GONZÁLEZ-ESTEBAN, M. J. LÓPEZ-FUSTER, A. S. KANDAUROV, H. KEFELIOGLU, M. LUZ MATHIAS, I. VILLATE, J. B. SEARLE: Molecular phylogeny of the speciose vole genus Microtus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) inferred from mitochondrialDNA sequences, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33 (2004) 647-663.

    B. KRYŠTUFEK, W. HABERL, R. M. BAXTER, J. ZIMA: Morphology and karyology of two populations of the woodland dormouse Graphiurus murinus in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, Folia zoologica 53 (2004) 339-350.

    N. MARTÍNKOVÁ, P. NOVÁ, O. V. SABLINA, A. S. GRAPHODATSKY, J. ZIMA: Karyotypic relationships of the Tatra vole (Microtus tatricus), Folia zoologica 53 (2004) 279-284.

    J. M. WÓJCIK, A. M. WÓJCIK, M. MACHOLÁN, J. PIÁLEK, J. ZIMA: The mammalian model for population studies of B chromosomes: the wood mouse (Apodemus), Cytogenetics and Genome Research 106 (2004) 264-270.