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

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New Publications

Lučan R. K., Bartonička T., Jedlička P., Řeřucha Š., Šálek M., Čížek M., Nicolaou H., Horáček I.: Spatial activity and feeding ecology of the endangered northern\npopulation of the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus), Journal of Mammalogy 97 (2016) 815-822.

Zimkus B. M., Lawson L. P., Barej M. F., Barratt C. D., Channing A., Dash K. M., Dehling J. M., Du Preez L., Gehring P.-S., Greenbaum E., Gvoždík V., Harvey J., Kielgast J., Kusamba C., Nagy Z. T., Pabijan M., Penner J., Rödel M.-O., Vences M., Lötters S.: Leapfrogging into new territory: How Mascarene ridged frogs diversified across Africa and Madagascar to maintain their ecological niche, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106 (2017) 254-269.

Procházka P., Hahn S., Rolland S., van der Jeugd H., Csörgő T., Jiguet F., Mokwa T., Liechti F., Vangeluwe D., Korner-Nievergelt F.: Delineating large-scale migratory connectivity of reed warblers using integrated multistate models, Diversity and Distributions (2016) .

Igic B., Hauber M. E., Moskát C., Grim T., Shawkey M. D., Procházka P., Honza M.: Brood parasite and host eggshells undergo similar levels of decalcification during embryonic development, Journal of Zoology (2016) .

Bryja J., Šumbera R., Kerbis Peterhans J. C., Aghová T., Bryjová A., Mikula O., Nicolas V., Denys C., Verheyen E.: Evolutionary history of the thicket rats (genus Grammomys) mirrors the evolution of African forests since late Miocene, Journal of Biogeography (2016) .

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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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