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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Fish aging

Variation in life span and functional decline among fish natural populations are linked, genetically underpinned, and can evolve relatively rapidly.


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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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Barriers to virus transmission
11. 1. 2017
Intraspecific genetic barriers influecne spatial spread of arenavirus. Read more here.

More beautiful not mean better
3. 1. 2017
Trade-off between ornament expression and sperm resistance to oxidative challenge.

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Rymešová D., Králová T., Promerová M., Bryja J., Tomášek O., Svobodová J., Šmilauer P., Šálek M., Albrecht T.: Mate choice for major histocompatibility complex complementarity in a strictly monogamous bird, the grey partridge (Perdix perdix), Frontiers in Zoology 14 (2017) .

Joó K., Bakonyi T., Szenci O., Ferenczi E., Barna M., Malik P., Hubálek Z., Fehér O., Kutasi O.: Comparison of assays for the detection of West Nile virus antibodies in equine serum after natural infection or vaccination, Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 183 (2017) 1-6.

Nkrumah E. E., Vallo P., Klose S. M., Ripperger S., Badu E. K., Gloza-Rausch F., Drosten C., Kalko E. K. V., Tschapka M., Oppong S. K.: Foraging behavior and habitat selection of Noack’s round-leaf bat (Hipposideros aff. ruber) and conservation implications, Tropical Conservation Science 2016 (2016) 1-11.

Starostová Z., Gvoždík L., Kratochvíl L.: An energetic perspective on tissue regeneration: the costs of tail autotomy in growing geckos, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology 206 (2017) 82-86.

Kreisinger J., Kropáčková L., Petrželková A., Adámková M., Tomášek O., Martin J.-F., Michálková R., Albrecht T.: Temporal stability and the effect of transgenerational transfer on fecal microbiota structure in a long distance migratory bird, Frontiers in Microbiology 8 (2017) .

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