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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Otevření národní genetické banky živočichů
9. 6. 2016

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New Publications

Lopes A. F., Morais P., Pimentel M., Rosa R.: Behavioural lateralization and shoaling cohesion of fish larvae altered under ocean acidification, Marine Biology 163 (2016) .

Kvach Y., Janáč M., Nehring S., Ondračková M., Jurajda P.: Parasite communities and infection levels of the invasive Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii (Actinopterygii: Odontobutidae) from the Naab river basin, Germany, Journal of Helminthology (2016) .

Bartonička T., Bandouchová H., Berková H., Blažek J., Lučan R., Horáček I., Martínková N., Pikula J., Řehák Z., Zukal J.: Deeply torpid bats can change position without elevation of body temperature, Journal of Thermal Biology 63 (2017) 119-123.

Blažek R., Polačik M., Kačer P., Cellerino A., Řežucha R., Methling C., Tomášek O., Syslová K., Terzibasi Tozzini E., Albrecht T., Vrtílek M., Reichard M.: Repeated intraspecific divergence in life span and aging of African annual fishes along an aridity gradient, Evolution (2017) .

Janáč M., Konečná M., Roche K., Jurajda P.: Novelty versus environment: two viewpoints on the same phenomenon?, Ecology of Freshwater Fish 25 (2016) 678-681.

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Zoological Days 2017
9. 2. 2017 - 10. 2. 2017

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