Mgr. Pavlína Opatová


Position: PhD student
Research topics: ecological imunology
Department: External research facility Studenec
Phone: +420 560 590 612
E-mail: p.opatovagmail.com

Education

  • 2008-2011: undergraduate study - Masaryk university Brno, Faculty of Science, Systematic Biology - Zoology.
  • 2008-2010: undergraduate study - Masaryk university Brno, Faculty of Science, General Biology - Physiology of Animals, (Mgr.).
  • 2012-present: Ph.D. study - Masaryk university Brno, Faculty of Science, Zoology. Ph.D. thesis: Post-copulatory sexual selection and the physiology of sperm: within-population processes and interspecific patterns in passerine birds,(vedoucí doc. Mgr. Tomáš Albrecht, Ph.D.).

Publications

2017

Edme A., Zobač P., Opatová P., Šplíchalová P., Munclinger P., Albrecht T., Krist M.: Do ornaments, arrival date, and sperm size influence mating and paternity success in the collared flycatcher?, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71 (2017) .

Forstmeier W., Ihle M., Opatová P., Martin K., Knief U., Albrechtová J., Albrecht T., Kempenaers B.: Testing the phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis in the presence and absence of inbreeding, Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2017) .

Tomášek O., Albrechtová J., Němcová M., Opatová P., Albrecht T.: Trade-off between carotenoid-based sexual ornamentation and sperm resistance to oxidative challenge, Proceedings of the Royal Society. B - Biological Sciences 284 (2017) .


2016

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.