Mgr. Peter Vallo, Ph.D.
Position: full-time researcher
Research topics:
Department: Research facility Brno
Phone: +420 543 422 551
E-mail: vallo
ivb.cz
Finished Projects
Genetic diversity and phylogeography of the genus Scotophilus
Publications
2015Doležalová J., Vallo P., Petrželková K., Foitová I., Nurcahyo W., Mudakikwa A., Hashimoto C., Jirků M., Lukeš J., Scholz T., Modrý D.: Molecular phylogeny of anoplocephalid tapeworms (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) infecting humans and non-human primates, Parasitology 142 (2015) 1278-1289.
Vallo P., Benda P., Červený J., Koubek P.: Phylogenetic position of the giant house bat Scotophilus nigrita (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), Mammalia 79 (2015) 225-231.
2014Baldwin H. J., Vallo P., Gardner M. G., Drosten C., Tschapka M., Stow A. J.: Isolation and characterization of 11 novel microsatellite loci in a West African leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros aff. ruber, BMC Research Notes 7 (2014) 607.
Maganga G. D., Bourgarel M., Vallo P., Dallo T. D., Ngoagouni C., Drexler J. F., Drosten C., Nakouné E. R., Leroy E. M., Morand S.: Bat distribution size or shape as determinant of viral richness in African bats, PLoS ONE 9 (2014) .
2013Annan A., Baldwin H. J., Corman V. M., Klose S. M., Owusu M., Nkrumah E. E., Badu E. K., Anti P., Agbenyega O., Meyer B., Oppong S., Sarkodie Y. A., Kalko E. K. V., Lina P. H. C., Godlevska E. V., Reusken C., Seebens A., Gloza-Rausch F., Vallo P., Tschapka M., Drosten C., Drexler J. F.: Human betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012–related viruses in bats, Ghana and Europe, Emerging Infectious Diseases 19 (2013) 456-459.
Drexler J. F., Geipel A., König A., Corman V. M., Van Riel D., Leijten L. M., Bremer C. M., Rasche A., Cottontail V. M., Maganga G. D., Schlegel M., Müller M. A., Adam A., Klose S. M., Borges Carneiro A. J., Stöcker A., Franke C. R., Gloza-Rausch F., Geyer J., Annan A., Adu-Sarkodie Y., Oppong S., Binger T., Vallo P., Tschapka M., Ulrich R. G., Gerlich W. H., Leroy E., Kuiken T., Glebe D., Drosten C.: Bats carry pathogenic hepadnaviruses antigenically related to hepatitis B virus and capable of infecting human hepatocytes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (2013) 16151-16156.
Vallo P., Benda P., Červený J., Koubek P.: Conflicting mitochondrial and nuclear paraphyly in small-sized West African house bats (Vespertilionidae), Zoologica Scripta 42 (2013) 1-12.
2012Benda P., Vallo P., Hulva P., Horáček I.: The Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in the Palaearctic: Geographical variation and taxonomic status, Biologia 67 (2012) 1230-1244.
Benda P., Faizolahi K., Andreas M., Obuch J., Reiter A., Ševčík M., Uhrin M., Vallo P., Ashrafi S.: Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 10. Bat fauna of Iran, Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 76 (2012) 163-562.
Benda P., Vallo P.: New look on the geographical variation in Rhinolophus clivosus with description of a new horseshoe bat species from Cyrenaica, Libya, Vespertilio 16 (2012) 69-96.
Drexler J. F., Corman V. M., Müller M. A., Maganga G. D., Vallo P., Binger T., Gloza-Rausch F., Rasche A., Yordanov S., Seebens A., Oppong S., Sarkodie Y. A., Pongombo C., Lukashev A. N., Schmidt-Chanasit J., Stöcker A., Carneiro A. J. B., Erbar S., Maisner A., Fronhoffs F., Buettner R., Kalko E. K. V., Kruppa T., Franke C. R., Kallies R., Yandoko E. R. N., Herrler G., Reusken C., Hassanin A., Krüger D. H., Matthee S., Ulrich R. G., Leroy E. M., Drosten C.: Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses, Nature Communications 3 (2012) 796.
Vallo P., Petrželková K., Profousová I., Petrášová J., Pomajbíková K., Leendertz F., Hashimoto C., Simmons N., Babweteera F., Machanda Z., Piel A., Robbins M. M., Boesch Ch., Sanz C., Morgan D., Sommer V., Furuichi T., Fujita S., Matsuzawa T., Kaur T., Huffman M. A., Modrý D.: Molecular diversity of entodiniomorphid ciliate Troglodytella abrassarti and its coevolution with chimpanzees, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148 (2012) 525-533.
2011Benda P., Vallo P., Reiter A.: Taxonomic revision of the genus Asellia (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with description of a new species from southern Arabia, Acta Chiropterologica 13 (2011) 245-270.
Vallo P., Benda P., Martínková N., Kaňuch P., Kalko E. K. V., Červený J., Koubek P.: Morphologically uniform bats Hipposideros aff. ruber (Hipposideridae) exhibit high mitochondrial genetic diversity in southeastern Senegal, Acta Chiropterologica 13 (2011) 79-88.
Vallo P., Benda P., Reiter A.: Yellow-bellied or white-bellied? Identity of Arabian house bats (Vespertilionidae: Scotophilus) revealed from mitochondrial DNA and morphology, African Zoology 46 (2011) 350-361.
2010Benda P., Červený J., Konečný A., Reiter A., Ševčík M., Uhrin M., Vallo P.: Some new records of bats from Morocco (Chiroptera), Lynx 41 (2010) 151-166.
Benda P., Lučan R. K., Obuch J., Reiter A., Andreas M., Bačkor P., Bohnenstengel T., Eid E. K., Ševčík M., Vallo P., Amr Z. S.: Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 8. Bats of Jordan: fauna, ecology, echolocation, ectoparasites, Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 74 (2010) 185-353.
Drexler J. F., Gloza-Rausch F., Glende J., Corman V. M., Muth D., Goettsche M., Seebens A., Niedrig M., Pfefferle S., Yordanov S., Zhelyazkov L., Hermanns U., Vallo P., Lukashev A., Müller M. A., Deng H., Herrler G., Drosten C.: Genomic characterization of severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus in European bats and classification of coronaviruses based on partial RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene sequences, Journal of Virology 84 (2010) 11336-11349.
2009Benda P., Vallo P.: Taxonomic revision of the genus Triaenops (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with description of a new species from southern Arabia and definitions of a new genus and tribe, Folia zoologica 58 (2009) 1-45.
Modrý D., Petrželková K., Pomajbíková K., Tokiwa T., Křížek J., Imai S., Vallo P., Profousová I., Šlapeta J.: The occurrence and an ape-to-ape transmission of entodiniomorphid ciliate Troglodytella abrassarti in captive gorillas, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 56 (2009) 83-87.
Pfefferle S., Oppong S., Drexler J. F., Gloza-Rausch F., Ipsen A., Seebens A., Müller M. A., Annan A., Vallo P., Adu-Sarkodie Y., Kruppa T. F., Drosten C.: Distant relatives of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and close relatives of human coronavirus 229E in bats, Ghana, Emerging Infectious Diseases 15 (2009) 1377-1384.
2008Benda P., Dietz C., Andreas M., Hotový J., Lučan R. K., Maltby A., Meakin K., Truscott J., Vallo P.: Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 6. Bats of Sinai (Egypt) with some taxonomic, ecological and echolocation data on that fauna, Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 72 (2008) 1-103.
Vallo P., Guillén-Servent A., Benda P., Pires D. B., Koubek P.: Variation of mitochondrial DNA in the Hipposideros caffer complex (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) and its taxonomic implications, Acta Chiropterologica 10 (2008) 193-206.
