1969 - 1974

Studium Vysoká škola zemědělská v Praze, specializace rybářství a rybářská biologie

1974 - 1981

Interní aspirantura, Ústav fyziologie a genetiky hospodářských zvířat ČSAV, disertační práce: „Cytogenetické studium některých druhů ryb čeledi Cyprinidae“

1981 - 1986

vědecký asistent

1986 - 1991

Samostatný vědecký pracovník

1991 - 1994

Vedoucí vědecký pracovník a vedoucí Laboratoře genetiky ryb Ústavu živočišné fyziologie a genetiky AV ČR

1994 – 2002

Ředitel ÚŽFG AV ČR

1995

Doktorská disertační práce „Cytogenetické studie vybraných skupin Holarktických sladkovodních ryb“

2002 – dosud

Vedoucí vědecký pracovník a vedoucí Laboratoře genetiky ryb Ústavu živočišné fyziologie a genetiky AV ČR

2004

Habilitace v oboru zoologie, Přírodovědecká fakulta UK v Praze, Habilitační práce: Karyotypová evoluce ryb řádu Esociformes“

2005 - 2013

Člen Akademické rady AV ČR, od r. 2009 člen Předsednictva Akademicé rady AV ČR pověřený řešením koncepčních otázek podpory vědy z veřejných prostředků, institucionální podporou, metodikou a organizací hodnocení pracovišť, správou databází vědeckých informací

2009

Jmenování profesorem v oboru rybářství na Fakultě rybářství a ochrany vod, Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích, profesorská přednáška: Cytogenetika ryb“

1997

Purkyňova cena za nejlepší článek v ŽIVĚ v roce 1996

Cena AV ČR za dosažené vynikající výsledky velkého vědeckého významu.

„Klonální obratlovci: objev, mechanismy, biodiversita a rekonstrukce na modelu sekavcovitých ryb“ –  člen autorského kolektivu

Purkyňova cena za nejlepší článek v ŽIVĚ v roce 2013 (spoluautor prof. M. Flajšhans)

1994 - dosud

Evropská Ichthyologická Společnost (1997-2004 člen výboru EIS)

1980, 1986

Veterinary University, Vienna, Austria (training in special chromosome banding techniques);

1989, 1991, 1992, 1993

Academy of Technology and Agriculture, Olsztyn, Poland (genetics of coregonid fishes);

1992, 1993, 1994, 1995

Museum of Natural History, Laboratory of General and Applied Ichthyology, Paris, (chromosome studies of silurid catfishes, chromosome banding techniques);

1993, 1994, 2003

University of Lisboa, Department of Zoology and Antropology (chromosome study of European cyprinids and problem of cyprinid polyploidy, hybrid asexual complexes in fishes);

1994, 1995

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (chromosome studies of coregonids from Great Lakes using molecular methods).

 1981

Ráb, P. 1981: Karyotype of European Mudminnow, Umbra  krameri. Copeia,4: 911-913

 1985

Mayr, B., Ráb, P., Kalat, M. 1985: Localization of NORs and counterstain-enhanced fluorescence studies in Perca fluviatilis (Pisces, Percidae). Genetica, 67: 51-56.

 1986

Mayr, B., Ráb, P., Kalat, M. 1986: Localisation of NORs and counterstain-enhanced fluorescence studies in Salmo gairdneri and Salmo trutta (Pisces,Salmonidae). Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 71(5):703-707.

 1988

Mayr, B., Kalat, M., Ráb, P.1988: Heterochromatins and band karyotypes in three species of salmonids. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 76(1): 45-53.

 1991

Ráb, P., Mayr, B., Roth, P. 1991: Chromosome banding study of European catfish, Silurus glanis (Pisces, Siluridae). Genetica, 83: 153 - 157.

 1992

Flajšhans, M., Ráb, P., Dobosz, S. 1992: Frequency analyses of active NORs in nuclei of artificially induced triploid fishes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics,85: 68 - 72.

 1993

Flajšhans, M., Kvasnička, P., Ráb, P. 1993: Genetic studies in tench (Tinca tinca): High incidence of spontaneous triploidy. Aquaculture 110: 243 - 248.

 1994

Ráb, P., Crossman, E. J. 1994: Chromosomal NOR phenotypes in North American pikes and pickerels, genus Esox with notes on Umbridae (Euteleostei: Esocae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 72: 1951 - 1956.

 1995

Ráb, P., Collares-Pereira, M. J. 1995: Chromosomes of European cyprinid fishes (Cyprinidae, Cypriniformes). A review. Folia Zoologica 44(3): 193 - 214.

 1996

Crossman, E. J., Ráb, P. 1996 Chromosome-banding study of the Alaska blackfish, Dallia pectoralis (Euteleostei: Esocae) with implications for karyotype evolution and relationships of esocoid fishes. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 74 (1): 147 - 156.

Phillips, R.B., Reed, K.M., Ráb, P. 1996: Revised karyotypes and chromosome banding of coregonid fishes from the Laurentian Great Lakes. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 74 (2): 323 - 329.

Ráb, P., Slavík, O. 1996: Diploid-triploid-tetraploid complex of the spined loach, genus Cobitis in Pšovka Creek: the first evidence of new species of Cobitis in the ichthyofauna of Czech Republic. Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Biologica (O. Oliva memorial issue), 1996, 39: 201 - 214.

 1998

Kvasnička, P., Flajšhans, M., Ráb, P., Linhart, O.1998: Inheritance studies of blue and golden varieties of tench (Pisces: Tinca tinca). Journal of Heredity, 89(6): 553 - 556.

 1999

Ráb, P., Rábová, M., Reed, K.M., Phillips, R.B. 1999: Chromosomal characteristics of ribosomal DNA in the primitive semionotiform fish, longnose gar Lepisosteus osseus. Chromosome Research, 7(6): 475-480.

 2001

Phillips, R.B., Ráb, P. 2001: Chromosome evolution in the Salmonidae (Pisces): an update. Biological Reviews. 76 (1): 1 – 25.

Rábová, M., Ráb, P., Ozouf-Costaz, C. 2001: Extensive polymorphism and chromosomal characteristics of ribosomal DNA in a loach fish, Cobitis vardarensis (Ostariophysi, Cobitidae) detected by different banding techniques and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Genetica 111, 1-3: 413-422.

90. Bohlen, J., Ráb, P. 2001: Species and hybrid richness in spined loaches of genus Cobitis  (Teleostei: Cobitidae) with a checklist of European forms and suggestions for conservation. Journal of Fish Biology 59(A): 75 – 89.

 2002

Ráb, P., Crossman, E.J., Reed, K.M., Rábová, M. 2002: Chromosomal characteristics of ribosomal DNA in two extant species of North American mudminows Umbra pygmaea and U. limi (Euteleostei: Umbridae). Cytogenetics and Genome Research, 98 (2-3): 194 – 198.

 2003

Janko, K., Kotlík, P., Ráb, P., 2003: Evolutionary history of asexual hybrid loaches (Cobitis: Teleostei) inferred from phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA variation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 16: 1280 – 1287.

 2005

Janko K, Kotlík P, Culling M. A., Ráb P.2005: Ice age cloning - comparison of the Quaternary evolutionary histories of sexual and clonal forms of spiny loaches (Cobitis; Teleostei) using the analysis of mitochondrial DNA variation. Molecular Ecology. 14: 2991-3004.

 2006

Šlechtová, V., Bohlen, J., Freyhof, J., Ráb, P.2006: Molecular phylogeny of the Southeast Asian freshwater fish family Botiidae (Teleostei: Cobitoidea) and the origin of polyploidy in their evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39(2): 529 – 541.

 2007

Janko, K., Bohlen, J., Lamatsch, D.,  Flajšhans, M., Epplen, J.T., Ráb, P., Kotlík, P., Šlechtová, V. 2007: The gynogenetic reproduction of diploid and triploid hybrid spined loaches (Cobitis: Teleostei), and their ability to establish successful clonal lineages  – on the evolution of polyploidy in asexual vetrebrates. Genetica 131(2): 185-194

Janko, K., Flajšhans, M., Choleva, L., Bohlen, J., Šlechtová, V., Rábová, M., Lajbner, Z., Šlechta, V., Ivanova. P., Dobrovolov, I., Culling, M., Persat, H., Kotusz, J. & Ráb, P. 2007: Diversity of European spined loaches (genus Cobitis L.): an update of the geographic distribution of the Cobitis taenia hybrid complex with a description of new molecular tools for species determination. Journal of Fish. Biology, 71: 387- 408

 2008

Völker, M., Ráb, P., Kullmann, H.2008,:Karyotype differentiation in Chromaphyosemion killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes, Nothobranchiidae): Patterns, mechanisms and evolutionary implications. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 94: 143 – 153.

Choleva, L., Apostolos, A. Ráb, P., Janko, K. 2008: Making it on their own: sperm-dependent hybrid loaches  (Cobitis; Teleostei) switch the sexual hosts and expand beyond the ranges of their original sperm-donors. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society B 363, 2911 – 2919

Ráb, P. Rábová, M Carla Sofia Pereira, C.S., Collares-Pereira, Pelikánová, Š. 2008: Chromosome studies of European cyprinid fishes: interspecific homology of leuciscine cytotaxonomic marker – the largest subtelocentric chromosome pair as revelaed by cross-species painting. Chromosome Research 16(6): 863- 873

 2010

Drozd, B., Flajšhans, M., Ráb, P .2010: Sympatric Occurrence of Triploid, Intermediate Aneuploid and Tetraploid Weatherfish Misgurnus fossilis (Cypriniformes, Cobitidae). Journal of Fish. Biology, 77: 2163 – 2170.

Zaleśna, A., Choleva, L., Ogielska, M., Rábová, M., Marec, F., Ráb, P., 2011: Evidence for integrity of parental genomes in diploid hybridogenetic water frogs Pelophylax esculentus by genomic in situ hybridization. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 134: 206–212.

Choleva, L., Janko, K., De Gelas,K., Bohlen, J., Šlechtová, V., Rábová, M., Ráb, P., 2012: Synthesis of clonality and polyploidy in vertebrate animals by hybridization between two sexual species. Evolution. 66(7): 2191-2203. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01589.x

Symonová, R., Majtánová, Z., Sember, A., Staaks, G. B. O., Bohlen, J., Freyhof, J., Rábová, M., Ráb, P. 2013: Genome differentiation in a species pair of coregonine fishes: an extremely rapid speciation driven by stress activated retrotransposons mediating extensive ribosomal DNA multiplications. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13:42 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-42

Knytl, M., Kalous, L., Symonová, R., Rylková, K., Ráb, P. 2013: Chromosome Studies of European Cyprinid Fishes: cross-species painting reveals natural allotetraploid origin of Carassius female with 206 chromosomes. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 139: 276 - 283 DOI: 10.1159/000350689

Knytl, M., Kalous, L., Ráb, P. 2013: Karyotype and chromosome banding of endangered crucian carp (Carassius carassius). Comparative Cytogenetics 7(3): 205 – 213

Symonová R, Flajšhans M, Sember A, Kořínková T, Gela D, Rodina M, Rábová M, Ráb P. 2013:  Molecular cytogenetics in artificial hybrid and highly polyploid sturgeons: an evolutionary story narrated by repetitive sequences. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 141:153 -162 (DOI:10.1159/000354882)

Havelka, M., Hulák, M., Ráb, P., Rábová, M., Lieckfeldt, D. Arne Ludwig, A., Rodina, M., Gela, D., Pšenička, M., Bytyutskyy, D., Flajšhans, M.: Fertility of a Spontaneous Triploid Male Siberian Sturgeon, Acipenser baerii. BMC Genetics 2014 15:5. doi:10.1186/1471-2156-15-5 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/15/5

Pereira, C.A., Aboim, M. A., Ráb, P., Collares-Pereira, M.J.: Introgressive hybridization as promoter of genome shuffling in homoploid fish hybrids (Cyprinidae, Leuciscinae). Heredity112: 343 - 350. doi:10.1038/hdy.2013.110

Choleva, L., Musilová, Z., Šedivá, A., Pačes, J., Ráb, P., Janko, K.: Distingushing between incomplete lineage sorting and genomic introgressions: complete fixation of allospecific mitochondrial DNA in a sexually reproducing fish (Cobitis; Teleostei) despite clonal reproduction of hybrids. PLoS ONE 9(6): e80641. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080641, June 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 6 | e80641