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Biodiversity, Evolutionary ecology, General ecology

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5. 11. 2024
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IVB Researchers Lead Parasitology Workshop in Lao PDR

Bethan Mason and Jana Kačmaříková have just returned from leading a workshop in Lao People's Democratic Republic, in Southeast Asia. The ‘Introduction to Parasitology…
16. 10. 2024
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Collaboration in the Heart of Africa: The Dean and Her Colleague from Bangui Visit the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Dr. Lucie Aba-Toumnou, the Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Bangui in the Central African Republic (CAR), and her colleague…
20. 5. 2024

Standardized metadata for biological samples could unlock the potential of collections

Vojtěch Brlík from the Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University and the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences calls on…
2. 4. 2024
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Postdoc: Fish brood parasitism: Origin and evolution of host specificity

A full-time postdoctoral position for 1.5 years (funding until 31 Dec 2025) is available at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy…
6. 3. 2024

Front-flip: children learn it at school, parasitic fish embryos must learn it when they are only two days old

4. 3. 2024 All animals undergo embryogenesis, the development of the embryo. Until recently, it was thought that the main goal of early embryogenesis…
24. 1. 2024

New Study Identifies Ethiopian Highlands as the Cradle of Eastern Afromontane Shrew Diversity

[Brno, 24th of January 2023] - The breakthrough study, led by Czech scientists, has revealed how biological diversity originated in one of the world's…
30. 12. 2023
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JOB OFFER: Postdoc Researcher in Avian Ecology and Conservation

The project funded by Horizon Europe (HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01) aims to gain crucial insights into the conservation of breeding, stopover and non-breeding habitats of 14 species…
18. 4. 2023
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Mammarenaviruses and where to find them: why subspecific rodent taxa matter

A recent study led by researchers from the University of Antwerp, the Institute of Vertebrate Biology (IVB) of the Czech Academy of Sciences and…

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Bats in Eurasia tolerate a disease deadly in North America

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Šálek M, Bažant M, Vrána J, Grill S, Václav R (2025). Urban refuges in winter: the role of habitat characteristics and supplementary feeding in shaping bird occupancy and abundance. Urban Ecosystems, 28: 1-10.
Labecka A, Reichard M (2025). The reproductive costs of bitterling fish and zebra mussel parasitism to a unionid mussel. Aquaculture, 595: 741515.
Šálek M, Monoki Á, Madhavan M, Sailas SS, Lalonde Z, Linhart P (2024). In Owl’s paradise: Little Owl population densities in traditional human settlements represent one of the highest densities reported among owls. Journal of Raptor Research, 59: 1-11.
Denys C, Bryjová A, Bryja J (2024). Phylogenetic position of Leimacomys, an enigmatic African rodent genus, reconsidered in the light of morphological and its first genetic data. Mammalia, :.
Šikutová S, Graña-Miraglia L, Vancová M, Bílý T, Sing A, Castillo-Ramirez S, Rudolf I, Margos G, Fingerle V (2024). Description of genome sequences of arthropod-associated spirochetes of the genus Entomospira. Microbiology Resource Announcements, :.
Oliveira T, Mattisson J, Vogt K, Linnell J, Odden J, Oeser J, Premier J, Rodríguez-Recio M, Belotti E, Bufka L, Černe R, Duľa M, Fležar U, Gonev A, Herdtfelder M, Heurich M, Hočevar L, Hvala T, Iľko T, Kont R, Koubek P, Krojerová-Prokešová J, Kubala J, Kübarsepp M, Kusak J, Kutal M, Machciník B, Männil P, Melovski D, Molinari P, Ornicans A, Pavlov A, Prostor M, Slijepčević V, Smolko P, Tám B, Krofel M (2024). Ecological and intrinsic drivers of foraging parameters of Eurasian lynx at a continental scale. Journal of Animal Ecology, :.

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