Selecting Cuckoos

Interspecific brood parasitism represents a prime example of the coevolutionary arms race where each party has evolved strategies in response to the other.


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Host-parasite reversal

An invasive species reverses the roles in a host–parasite relationship between bitterling fish and unionid mussels.


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Avian promiscuity

Sperm competition represents an important component of post-copulatory sexual selection. It has been argued that the level of sperm competition declines in birds towards the equator.


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Diversity of afromontane forests

Montane forests in Eastern Africa represent one of the most important centres of world biodiversity. Studies of genetic variability of model species can shed light on the processes that have influenced their evolution.


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About the Institute

The Institute of Vertebrate Biology performs basic research of vertebrates to achieve original data about free-living animals concerning their genetic, population and species diversity, phylogeny, population dynamics, interactions with environment, and association with human and animal microbial pathogens.

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Živá příroda údolí Oslavy a Chvojnice
8. 10. 2015 - 30. 10. 2015

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National Animal Genetic Bank
Ústav biologie obratlovců spolu se svými partnery pracují na vytvoření sbírky genetických vzorků volně žijících obratlovců nejen naší fauny, která v České republice dosud chyběla…

Skorec vodní patří mezi věrné ptačí druhy
Vědci odchytávali skorce vodní hnízdící u říčky Fryšávky. Zkoumali hladinu stresových hormonů, cukrovku i ptačí nevěru.
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New Publications

Kičinjaová M. L., Blažek R., Gelnar M., Řehulková E.: Annulotrema (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from the gills of African tetras (Characiformes: Alestidae) in Lake Turkana, Kenya, with descriptions of four new species and a redescription of A-elongata Paperna and Thurston, 1969, Parasitology Research 114 (2015) 4107-4120.

Flousek J., Telenský T., Hanzelka J., Reif J.: Population trends of central European montane birds provide evidence for adverse impacts of climate change on high-altitude species, PLoS ONE 10 (2015) .

Rudolf I., Bakonyi T., Šebesta O., Mendel J., Peško J., Betášová L., Blažejová H., Venclíková K., Straková P., Nowotny N., Hubálek Z.: Co-circulation of Usutu virus and West Nile virus in a reed bed ecosystem, Parasites Vectors 8 (2015) 520.

Hubálek Z.: The North Atlantic Oscillation system and plant phenology, International Journal of Biometeorology (2015) .

Hiadlovská Z., Mikula O., Macholán M., Hamplová P., Vošlajerová Bímová B., Daniszová K.: Shaking the myth: body mass, aggression, steroid hormones, and social dominance, General and Comparative Endocrinology (2015) .

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Life Sciences - seminar series
24. 9. 2015 - 17. 12. 2015
Find attached a program of Life Sciences seminars in the University Campus Bohunice.
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Program zoologického semináře
24. 9. 2015 - 17. 12. 2015

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