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RNDr. Martin Reichard, Ph.D.

Tel: +420 543 422 522

Fax: +420 543 211 346

Email: reichard (at) ivb.cz

Address

Department of Fish Ecology

Institute of Vertebrate Biology

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Kvetna 8

Brno 

603 65

Czech Republic

Research interest

I use fishes as model systems to study general processes in population, behavioural and evolutionary biology. My principal interests are sexual selection, evolution of mating systems, and their roles in speciation.

My current research involves:

(1) sexual selection, mating tactics and their population consequences in the bitterling fishes
(2) the coevolutionary dynamics between bitterling and their mussel hosts
(3) ecology, life history evolution and speciation in Nothobranchius killifishes
(4) general ecology of European and African fishes

Fieldwork for ongoing projects is conducted in Europe, Turkey, Mozambique and Senegal.

For more information see my research interest page with following content:

• Bitterling-mussels coevolution
• Bitterling mating tactics
• Evolutionary biology of African annual fishes (Nothobranchius)
• Fish ecology in Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal, West Africa
• Downstream drift of larval and juvenile European cyprinids

Representative publications

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REVIEW

Reichard, M. - Le Comber, S.C.  -  Smith, C. (2007) Sneaking from a female perspective. Animal Behaviour, 74, 679-688.

BITTERLING SEXUAL SELECTION

Reichard, M. - Ondračková, M. - Bryjová, A. - Bryja, J. - Smith, C. (2009) Breeding resource distribution affects selection gradients on male phenotypic traits via sexual selection: experimental study on lifetime reproductive success in the bitterling fish (Rhodeus amarus). Evolution, 63, 377-390.

Reichard, M. - Smith, C. - Jordan, W.C. (2004) Genetic evidence reveals density-dependent success of alternative mating behaviours in the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus). Molecular Ecology, 13: 1569-1578.

BITTERLING-MUSSEL COEVOLUTION

Reichard, M. - Liu, H. - Smith, C. (2007) The coevolutionary relationship between bitterling fishes and freshwater mussels: insights from interspecific comparisons. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 9, 239-259.

Reichard, M. - Ondračková, M. - Przybylski, M.- Liu, H. - Smith, C. (2006) The costs and benefits in an unusual symbiosis: experimental evidence that bitterling fish (Rhodeus sericeus) are parasites of unionid mussels in Europe. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 19, 788-796.

AFRICAN FISH ECOLOGY

Reichard, M. - Polačik, M. - Sedláček, O. (2009) Distribution, colour polymorphism and habitat use of the African killifish, Nothobranchius furzeri, the vertebrate with the shortest lifespan. Journal of Fish Biology, 74, 198-212.