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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Fish aging

Variation in life span and functional decline among fish natural populations are linked, genetically underpinned, and can evolve relatively rapidly.


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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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Stories of the Biological Collections of the Czech Academy of Sciences – new brochure for the public
Eight different biological collections from three institutes of Czech Academy of Sciences joined together to tell their stories. More here.

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New Publications

Šálek M., Zeman V., Václav R.: Habitat selection of an endangered European farmland bird, the Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana, in two contrasting landscapes: implications for management, Bird Conservation International (2018) .

Kvach Y., Ondračková M., Janáč M., Jurajda P.: Methodological issues affecting the study of fish parasites. III. Effect of fish preservation method, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 127 (2018) 213-224.

Hubálek Z.: How sunrise and weather affect timing of rooks’ (Corvus frugilegus) morning departure from the winter communal roost, Folia zoologica 66 (2017) 227-230.

Pakosta T., Vetešník L., Šimková A.: A Long temporal study of parasitism in asexual-sexual populations of Carassius gibelio: Does the parasite infection support coevolutionary Red Queen dynamics?, BioMed Research International 2018 (2018) (2018) .

Kvach Y., Ondračková M., Kutsokon Y., Dzyziuk N.: New record of monogenean parasites on non-indigenous fishes in the Ukrainian Danube Delta, BioInvasions Records 7 (2018) 65-72.

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