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

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

Flieger M., Bandouchová H., Černý J., Chudíčková M., Kolařík M., Kováčová V., Martínková N., Novák P., Šebesta O., Stodůlková E., Pikula J.: Vitamin B2 as a virulence factor in Pseudogymnoascus destructans skin infection, Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 33200.

Kvach Y., Ondračková M., Jurajda P.: First report of metacercariae of Cyathocotyle prussica parasitising a fish host in the Czech Republic, Central Europe, Helminthologia 53 (2016) 257-261.

Kvach Y., Kutsokon Y., Stepien C. A., Markovych M.: Role of the invasive Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii (Actinopterygii: Odontobutidae) in the distribution of fish parasites in Europe: New data and a review, Biologia 71 (2016) 941-951.

Wilkins M. R., Karaardic H., Vortman Y., Parchman T. L., Albrecht T., Petrželková A., Özkan L., Pap P. L., Hubbard J. K., Hund A. K., Safran R. J.: Phenotypic differentiation is associated with divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations, Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2016) .

Goüy de Bellocq J., Těšíková J., Meheretu Y., Čížková D., Bryjová A., Leirs H., Bryja J.: Complete genome characterisation and phylogenetic position of Tigray hantavirus from the Ethiopian white-footed mouse, Stenocephalemys albipes, Infection, Genetics and Evolution (2016) 242-245.

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Calendar of Events

Life Sciences - seminar series
22. 9. 2016 - 15. 12. 2016
Find attached a program of Life Sciences seminars for autumn 2016.
MU LSS – Thursday, 16:00, A11/132, University campus Bohunice
Mendel Lectures – Thursday, 17:00, Refectory of the
Augustinian Abbey, Mendel Museum
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Vertebratology seminar
22. 9. 2016 - 15. 12. 2016
Attached below there is the programme of Vertebratology seminar (Thursdays 15:00-16:50; hall A11/235, campus Bohunice).
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Zoology seminar
22. 9. 2016 - 15. 12. 2016

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