Mgr. Jan Zukal, Dr., MBA
Position: full-time researcher
Research topics: ecology of bats
Department: Research facility Brno
Phone: +420 543 422 544
E-mail: zukalivb.cz
Publications
2016Lučan R. K., Bandouchová H., Bartonička T., Pikula J., Zahradníková Jr. A., Zukal J., Martínková N.: Ectoparasites may serve as vectors for the white-nose syndrome fungus, Parasites Vectors 9 (2016) 16.
Zukal J., Bandouchová H., Brichta J., Cmoková A., Jaron K. S., Kolařík M., Kováčová V., Kubátová A., Nováková A., Orlov O., Pikula J., Presetnik P., Šuba J., Zahradníková Jr. A., Martínková N.: White-nose syndrome without borders: Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection tolerated in Europe and Palearctic Asia but not in North America, Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 19829.
Zukal J., Berková H., Madaraszová J.: Flying or sleeping: flight activity of bats in natural cave with confirmed WNS, Folia zoologica 65 (2016) 46-51.
2015Bandouchová H., Bartonička T., Berková H., Brichta J., Černý J., Kováčová V., Kolařík M., Köllner B., Kulich P., Martínková N., Řehák Z., Tumer G. G., Zukal J., Pikula J.: Pseudogymnoascus destructans: evidence of virulent skin invasion for bats under natural conditions, Europe, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 62 (2015) 1-5.
Zukal J., Pikula J., Bandouchová H.: Bats as bioindicators of heavy metal pollution: history and prospect, Mammalian Biology 80 (2015) 220-227.
2014Berková H., Pokorný M., Zukal J.: Selection of buildings as maternity roosts by greater mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis), Journal of Mammalogy 95 (2014) 1011-1017.
He X., Korytář T., Zhu Y., Pikula J., Bandouchová H., Zukal J., Köllner B.: Establishment of Myotis myotis cell lines - model for investigation of host-pathogen interaction in a natural host for emerging viruses, PLoS ONE 9 (2014) .
Řehák Z., Zukal J.: Professor Jiří Gaisler, 3 July 1934 – 17 July 2014, Vespertilio 17 (2014) 5-14.
Turner G. G., Meteyer C. U., Barton H., Gumbs J. F., Reeder D. M., Overton B., Bandouchová H., Bartonička T., Martínková N., Pikula J., Zukal J., Blehert D. S.: Nonlethal screening of bat-wing skin with the use of ultraviolet fluorescence to detect lesions indicative of white-nose syndrome, Journal of Wildlife Diseases 50 (2014) 566-573.
Zukal J., Šafář J., Berková H., Kovařík M., Koudelka M., Wagner J.: Rhinolophus ferrumequinum in Moravia – an irregular migrant in the Czech bat fauna, Vespertilio 17 (2014) 223-229.
Zukal J., Bandouchová H., Bartonička T., Berková H., Brack V., Brichta J., Dolinay M., Jaron K. S., Kováčová V., Kovařík M., Martínková N., Ondráček K., Řehák Z., Turner G. G., Pikula J.: White-nose syndrome fungus: a generalist pathogen of hibernating bats, PLoS ONE 9 (2014) .
2012Pikula J., Bandouchová H., Novotný L., Meteyer C. U., Zukal J., Irwin N. R., Zima J., Martínková N.: Histopathology confirms White-Nose Syndrome in bats in Europe, Journal of Wildlife Diseases 48 (2012) 207-211.
Zukal J., Gajdošík M.: Diet of Eptesicus serotinus in an agricultural landscape, Vespertilio 16 (2012) 357-363.
2010Berková H., Zukal J.: Cave visitation by temperate zone bats: effects of climatic factors, Journal of Zoology 280 (2010) 387-395.
Bryja J., Uhrin M., Kaňuch P., Bémová P., Martínková N., Zukal J.: Mitochondrial DNA confirms low genetic variation of the greater mouse-eared bats, Myotis myotis, in Central Europe, Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2010) 73-81.
Martínková N., Bačkor P., Bartonička T., Blažková P., Červený J., Falteisek L., Gaisler J., Hanzal V., Horáček D., Hubálek Z., Jahelková H., Kolařík M., Korytár Ľ., Kubátová A., Lehotská B., Lehotský R., Lučan R. K., Májek O., Matějů J., Řehák Z., Šafář J., Tájek P., Tkadlec E., Uhrin M., Wagner J., Weinfurtová D., Zima J., Zukal J., Horáček I.: Increasing incidence of Geomyces destructans fungus in bats from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, PLoS ONE 5 (2010) .
Pikula J., Zukal J., Adam V., Bandouchová H., Beklová M., Hájková P., Horáková J., Kizek R., Valentíková L.: Heavy metals and metallothionein in vespertilionid bats foraging over aquatic habitats in the Czech Republic, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 29 (2010) 501-506.
2006Bednářová J., Zukal J., Řehák Z.: Rozšíření netopýra velkouchého (Myotis bechsteinii) v České republice, Vespertilio (2006) 9-26.
Berková H., Zukal J.: Flight activity of bats at the entrance of a natural cave, Acta Chiropterologica 8 (2006) 187-195.
Gaisler J., Řehák Z., Zukal J.: Výzkum netopýrů v Moravském krasu: historie a současný stav, Vespertilio (2006) 75-85.
Petrželková K., Downs N. C., Zukal J., Racey P. A.: A comparison between emergence and return activity in pipistrelle bats Pipistrellus pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus, Acta Chiropterologica 8 (2006) 381-390.
Zukal J., Řehák Z.: Flight activity and habitat preference of bats in a karstic area, as revealed by bat detectors, Folia zoologica 55 (2006) 273-281.