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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National Animal Genetic Bank
Ústav biologie obratlovců spolu se svými partnery pracují na vytvoření sbírky genetických vzorků volně žijících obratlovců nejen naší fauny, která v České republice dosud chyběla…

Studio 6: První genetická banka živočichů v Čechách
Rozhovor s profesorem Janem Zimou o založení genetické banky můžete shlédnout v archívu ČT1 (18. 1. 2015, Studio 6, 173.minuta)
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New Publications

Jurajda P., Roche K., Sedláček I., Všetičková L.: Assemblage characteristics and diet of fish in the shallow coastal waters of James Ross Island, Antarctica, Polar Biology (2016) .

Pavluvčík P., Poprach K., Machar I., Losík J., Gouveia A., Tkadlec E.: Barn owl productivity response to variability of vole populations, PLoS ONE 10 (2015) .

Opatová P., Ihle M., Albrechtová J., Tomášek O., Kempenaers B., Forstmeier W., Albrecht T.: Inbreeding depression of sperm traits in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata, Ecology and Evolution 6 (2016) 295-304.

Kašparová E., Van de Putte A. P., Marshall C., Janko K.: Lifestyle and ice: the relationship between ecological specialization and response to Pleistocene climate change, PLoS ONE 10 (2015) .

Jelínek V., Požgayová M., Honza M., Procházka P.: Nest as an extended phenotype signal of female quality in the great reed warbler, Journal of avian biology 47 (2016) (2016) .

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Life Sciences - seminar series
25. 2. 2016 - 19. 5. 2016
Attached there is the program for Life Scineces Seminars (spring 2016).
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