1969 - 1974

Agricultural University in Prague, specialization fishery and fishery biology

1974 - 1981

PhD study, Institute of physiology and genetics of farm animals ,ČSAV, PhD. Thesis: „Cytogenetic study fishes of the family Cyprinidae“

1981 - 1986

Research assistant

1986 - 1991

Resarcher

1991 - 1994

Senior researcher and Head of the Laboratory of fish genetics,IAPG AS CR

1994 – 2002

Director of IAPG, AS CR

1995

DsC. Thesis :“Cytogenetic studies in some Holarctic freshwater fish groups“

2002 - recent

Senior researcher and Head of the Laboratory of fish genetics,IAPG AS CR

2004

Assistant Professor in zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague, thesis:“ Karyotype evolution in fishes of the order Esociformes“

2005 - 2013

member of Academy Council responsible for evaluations and institutional financing of institutes, scientific databases, since 2009 member of Presidium of Academy Council

2009

Professor in fishery, fakulty of Fishery and Water Protection, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice

1997

 Purkyně´s Award for best publication in ŽIVA in 1996

Main award of Academy of Scinces of the Czech Republic 2012:

"Clonal vertebrates: discovery, mechanisms, biodiversity and reconstruction in model cobitoid loaches"

Purkyně Award of the ZIVA journal for best paper 2013 (with prof. M. Flajšhans)

1994 - recent

European Ichthyological Society (1997- 2004 Board member), - 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).

Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil (phylogenomic studies of osteoglossiform fishes)

 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

Völker, M, Ráb, P.: Direct chromosome preparation from regenerating fin tissue. Chapter 6, pp: 37- 41. In: Fish Cytogenetic Techniques (Chondrichthyans and Teleosts), Eds: Catherine Ozouf-Costaz, Eva Pisano, Fausto Foresti, Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo, CRC Press, Inc., Enfield, NH 03748, USA

Völker, M, Ráb, P.: Direct chromosome preparations from embryos and larvae. Chapter 7, pp: 42 – 48. In: Fish Cytogenetic Techniques (Chondrichthyans and Teleosts), Eds: Catherine Ozouf-Costaz, Eva Pisano, Fausto Foresti, Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo CRC Press, Inc., Enfield, NH 03748, USA

Rábová, M. Volker, M., Pelikánová, Š, Ráb, P.: Sequential chromosome bandings in fishes. Chapter 10, pp: 66 – 73. In: Fish Cytogenetic Techniques (Chondrichthyans and Teleosts), Eds: C Catherine Ozouf-Costaz, Eva Pisano, Fausto Foresti, Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo, CRC Press, Inc., Enfield, NH 03748, USA

Rábová, M., Monteiro, R., Collares-Pereira, M.J., Ráb, P.: Fin fibroblast culture for fish karyotyping. Chapter 14, pp: 92 – 102. In: Fish Cytogenetic Techniques (Chondrichthyans and Teleosts), Eds: Catherine Ozouf-Costaz, Eva Pisano, Fausto Foresti, Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo, CRC Press, Inc., Enfield, NH 03748, USA

Symonová, R., Sember, A., Majtánová, R., Ráb, P.: Characterization of fish genomes by GISH and CGH. Chapter 16, pp:118 – 131. In: Fish Cytogenetic Techniques (Chondrichthyans and Teleosts), Eds: Catherine Ozouf-Costaz, Eva Pisano, Fausto Foresti, Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo CRC Press, Inc., Enfield, NH 03748, USA

Havelka, M., Bytyutskyy, D., Symonová, R., Ráb, P., Flajšhans,M.: The Second Highest Chromosome Count among Vertebrates is Observed in Cultured Sturgeon, and is Associated with Genome Plasticity. Genetics Selection Evolution. DOI 10.1186/s12711-016-0194-0

Doležálková, M., Sember, A., Marec, F., Ráb, P., Plötner, J., Choleva L.: Is premeiotic genome elimination essential for hemiclonal reproduction in water frog hybrids of the genus Pelophylax? BMC Genetics (2016) 17:100 DOI 10.1186/s12863-016-0408-z

Bohlen, J., Bohlen Šlechtová, V, Šlecta V, Šlechtová V., Sember, A., Ráb, P.: A ploidy difference represents an impassable barrier for hybridisation in animals. Is there an exception among botiid loaches (Teleostei: Botiidae)? PLoS ONE, July 21, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159311

Dion-Cote, A. - M.; Symonová, R.; Lamaze, F.; Pelikánová, Š.; Ráb, P.; Bernatchez, L.: Standing chromosomal variation in Lake Whitefish species pairs: the role of historical contingency and relevance for speciation. Molecular Ecology DOI: 10.1111/mec.13816

Ráb, P., Yano, C. F., Lavoué, S., Jegede, O. I., Bertollo, L. A. C., Ezaz, T., Majtanova, Z., de Oliveira, E. A., Cioffi, M. B.: Karyotype and mapping of repetitive DNAs in the African butterfly fish Pantodon buchholzi, the sole species of the family Pantodontidae. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 149:312-320 (DOI: 10.1159/000450534) 

Symonová, R., Majtánová, Z., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Mořkovský, L., Kořínková, T., Cavin, L., Johnson Pokorná, M., Doležálková, Flajšhans, M., Ráb, P, Bernatchez, L.: Genome Organisation in Gars Shows More Similarities to Mammals than to Any Other Ray-Finned Fish. Systematic Biology (rejected), Molecular Biology and Evolution (rejected), Genome Biology and Evolution (rejected), Evolution (rejected), Journal of Evolutionary Biology (rejected), Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22719

Majtanová, Z., Symonová, R., Rodrigues, L.A., Sallan, L., Ráb, P.: "Holostei versus Halecostomi" problem: insight from cytogenetics of ancient non-teleost actinopterygian fish, bowfin Amia calva. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution doi: 10.1002/jez.b. 22720

R Symonová, M Havelka, CT Amemiya, WM Howell, T Kořínková, M Flajšhans, D Gela, P Ráb: Molecular cytogenetic differentiation of paralogs of Hox paralogs in duplicated and re-diploidized genome of the North American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula). BMC Genetics 18:19 DOI 10.1186/s12863-017-0484-8