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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Otevření národní genetické banky živočichů
9. 6. 2016 - 9. 6. 2016

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.

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New Publications

Safran R. J., Scordato E. S. C., Wilkins M. R., Hubbard J. K., Jenkins B. R., Albrecht T., Flaxman S. M., Karaardic H., Vortman Y., Lotem A., Nosil P., Pap P., Shen S., Chan S.-F., Parchman T. L., Kane N. C.: Genome-wide differentiation in closely related populations: the roles of selection and geographic isolation, Molecular Ecology 25 (2016) 3865-3883.

Petrželková A., Pöysä H., Klvaňa P., Albrecht T., Hořák D.: Egg morphology fails to identify nests parasitized by conspecifics in common pochard: a test based on protein fingerprinting and including female relatedness, Journal of avian biology 47 (2016) (2016) .

Smolinský R.: A case of partial melanism in Lacerta agilis (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Czech Republic, Herpetozoa 29 (2016) 110-112.

Janoušek V., Laukaitis C. M., Yanchukov A., Karn R. C.: The role of retrotransposons in gene family expansions in the human and mouse genomes, Genome Biology and Evolution (2016) .

Liedtke H. C., Müller H., Rödel M.-O., Menegon M., Gonwouo L. N., Barej M. F., Gvoždík V., Schmitz A., Channing A., Nagel P., Loader S. P.: No ecological opportunity signal on a continental scale? Diversification and life-history evolution of African true toads (Anura: Bufonidae), Evolution 70 (2016) 1717-1733.

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Calendar of Events

International Colloquium – Biology of the Soricidae IV
12. 9. 2016 - 14. 9. 2016
Poznań, Poland, 12-14 September 2016

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