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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News

Bats in Eurasia tolerate a disease deadly in North America
Czech White-Nose Syndrome Team together with international collaborators discovered that mechanisms of tolerance protect Palearctic bats from white-nose syndrome (WNS), the disease that caused mass die-off in North America. You can read more here.

Non-native Gobiid fishes in our waters
Non-native species can cause significant ecological and economic damage to native species and ecosystems. This study examines the consequences of non-native Gobiid fishes spreading into Central Europe.
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New Publications

Jablonski D., Jandzik D., Mikulíček P., Džukić G., Ljubisavljević K., Tzankov N., Jelić D., Thanou E., Moravec J., Gvoždík V.: Contrasting evolutionary histories of the legless lizards slow worms (Anguis) shaped by the topography of the Balkan Peninsula, BMC Evolutionary Biology 16 (2016) 99.

Kvach Y., Ondračková M., Janáč M., Jurajda P.: Methodological issues affecting the study of fish parasites. I. Duration of live fish storage prior to dissection, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 119 (2016) 107-115.

Adámek Z., Konečná J., Podhrázská J., Všetičková L., Jurajdová Z.: Response of small-stream biota to sudden flow pulses following extreme precipitation events, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 25 (2016) 495-501.

Koleček J., Procházka P., El-Arabany N., Tarka M., Ilieva M., Hahn S., Honza M., de la Puente J., Bermejo A., Gürsoy A., Bensch S., Zehtindjiev P., Hasselquist D., Hansson B.: Cross-continental migratory connectivity and spatiotemporal migratory patterns in the great reed warbler, Journal of avian biology 47 (2016) (2016) .

Doležalová J., Oborník M., Hajdušková E., Jirků M., Petrželková K., Bolechová P., Cutillas C., Callejon R., Jaroš J., Beránková Z., Modrý D.: How many species of whipworms do we share? Whipworms from man and other primates form two phylogenetic lineages, Folia Parasitologica 62 (2015) .

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Calendar of Events

Vertebratology seminar
26. 2. 2016 - 19. 5. 2016

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Life Sciences - seminar series
25. 2. 2016 - 19. 5. 2016
Attached there is the program for Life Scineces Seminars (spring 2016).
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Biological Thursdays in Viničná 7
25. 2. 2016 - 28. 4. 2016

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