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Mgr. Alena Fornůsková, Ph.D.


Position: research assistant
Research topics: molecular ecology
Department: External research facility Studenec
Phone: +420 560 590 601
E-mail: fornuskovaivb.cz

Education

  • 2007-2009: undergraduate study - Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Systematic biology and ecology).
  • 2008-2009: undergraduate study - Ecologie Fonctionnelle, Comportementale et Evolutive (EFCE) (Master 2, Université de Rennes 1, France). Thesis: Population genetic structure of two cryptic species of the genus Pipistrellus in Central Europe, (supervisor J.Bryja and Dr. Eric Petit).
  • 2009,2010-present: Ph.D. study - Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science + Université Montpellier II, France). PhD thesis: The role of innate immunity genes in evolutionary ecology of rodents, (supervisors J.Bryja and Jean François Cosson).

Project

Connecting education and new approaches in zoological and ecological research

Publications

2014

Fornůsková A., Bryja J., Vinkler M., Macholán M., Piálek J.: Contrasting patterns of polymorphism and selection in bacterial-sensing toll-like receptor 4 in two house mouse subspecies, Ecology and Evolution 4 (2014) 2931-2944.

Fornůsková A., Petit E.J., Bartonička T., Kaňuch P., Butet A., Řehák Z., Bryja J.: Strong matrilineal structure in common pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) is associated with variability in echolocation calls, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113 (2014) 1115-1125.


2013

Fornůsková A., Vinkler M., Pages M., Galan M., Jousselin E., Cerqueira F., Morand S., Charbonnel N., Bryja J., Cosson J.-F.: Contrasted evolutionary histories of two Toll-like receptors (Tlr4 and Tlr7) in wild rodents (MURINAE), BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 (2013) 194.


2010

Hulva P., Fornůsková A., Chudárková A., Evin A., Allegrini B., Benda P., Bryja J.: Mechanisms of radiation in a bat group from the genus Pipistrellus inferred by phylogeography, demography and population genetics, Molecular Ecology 19 (2010) 5417-5431.

Kaňuch P., Fornůsková A., Bartonička T., Bryja J., Řehák Z.: 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.


2009

Bryja J., Kaňuch P., Fornůsková A., Bartonička T., Řehák Z.: 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.