A5022854055- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Building materials and conservation
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Silicone and Siloxane Chemistry
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Concrete and Cement Materials Research
- Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Drilling and Well Engineering
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Nuclear Physics and Applications
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics
2014-2024
Cornell University
2018
University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
1995-2016
Czech Technical University in Prague
2016
Czech Academy of Sciences
2003-2015
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Biology
2011
Charles University
1994-2008
University of York
2005-2006
Université de Montpellier
2001-2002
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2001-2002
This study details the phylogeographic pattern of bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus, a European rodent species strongly associated with forest habitat. We used sequences 1011 base pairs mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene from 207 voles collected in 62 localities spread throughout its distribution area. Our results reveal presence three Mediterranean (Spanish, Italian and Balkan) continental (western, eastern 'Ural') phylogroups. The endemic phylogroups did not contribute to post-glacial...
There is controversy and uncertainty on how far north there were glacial refugia for temperate species during the Pleistocene glaciations in extent of contribution such to present-day populations. We examined these issues using phylogeographic analysis a European woodland mammal, bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus). A Bayesian coalescence indicates that population survived height last glaciation (approximately 25,000-10,000 years B.P.) vicinity Carpathians, major central mountain chain well...
Abstract Using the phylogeographic framework, we assessed DNA sequence variation at mitochondrial cytochrome b gene across distribution range of barbel Barbus barbus , a widely distributed European cyprinid. Reciprocal monophyly non‐Mediterranean and Balkan/Anatolian populations is taken as evidence for long‐term barrier to flow, interpreted consequence survival species in two separate refugia during several later glacial cycles. Lack profound genealogical divergence Europe from western...
There is mounting evidence that some European temperate species did not respond to the last (Weichselian) glaciation by simply shifting their distributions Mediterranean region but also survived at higher latitudes previously considered inhospitable. However, it remains be determined what extent such high-latitude glacial refugia contributed post-glacial colonization of Europe. The bank vole Myodes glareolus apparently in a refugium Carpathian Mountains. Here, we used 144 new mitochondrial...
Recent genetic studies have challenged the traditional view that ancestors of British Celtic people spread from central Europe during Iron Age and suggested a much earlier origin for them as part human recolonization Britain at end last glaciation. Here we propose small mammals provide an analogue to help resolve this controversy. Previous shown common shrews ( Sorex araneus ) with particular chromosomal characteristics water voles Arvicola terrestris specific mitochondrial (mt) DNA lineage...
Abstract Evidence for divergent selection and adaptive variation across the landscape can provide insight into a species' ability to adapt different environments. However, despite recent advances in genomics, it remains difficult detect footprints of climate‐mediated natural populations. Here, we analysed ddRAD sequencing data (21,892 SNPs) conjunction with geographic climate search signatures differentiation twelve populations bank vole ( Clethrionomys glareolus ) distributed Europe. To...
Abstract Recent advances in population history reconstruction offered a powerful tool for comparisons of the abilities sexual and clonal forms to respond Quaternary climatic oscillations, ultimately leading inferences about advantages disadvantages given mode reproduction. We reconstructed historical biogeography parental species hybrid lineages within Europe‐wide complex Cobitis spiny loaches. elongatoides taenia recolonizing Europe from separated refuges met central Pontic region giving...
Abstract We used DNA sequence variation at the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (1141 bp) to assess phylogeography of Barbus fishes in Black Sea region. Our aim was test whether recent (≈ 22 000–7500 years ago) freshwater phase a conduit for flow among that today are found streams entering saltwater Sea. Deep phylogeographical breaks suggestive allopatric divergence were observed between four regional groups populations. Coalescent simulation distinguish this and an alternative scenario...
Abstract The Black and Caspian Seas have experienced alternating periods of isolation interconnection over many Milankovitch climate oscillations most recently became separated when the meltwater overflow from Sea ceased at end last glaciation. Climate‐induced habitat changes indisputably had profound impacts on distribution demography aquatic species, yet uncertainties remain about relative roles dispersal in response species shared between basins. We examined these issues using...
Abstract The history of repeated northern glacial cycling and southern climatic stability has long dominated explanations for how genetic diversity is distributed within temperate species in Eurasia North America. However, growing evidence indicates the importance cryptic refugia colonization dynamics. An important geographic region to assess this Fennoscandia, where recolonization at end last glaciation was restricted specific routes temporal windows. We used genomic data analyse bank vole...
Abstract Reconstruction of the evolutionary history asexual lineages undermines their suitability as models for studies consequences sexual reproduction. Using molecular tools we addressed origin, age and maternal ancestry diploid triploid arisen through hybridization between spiny loaches Cobitis elongatoides, C. taenia tanaitica. Reconstructions phylogenetic relationships among mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotypes, revealed by sequence analyses, suggest that both hybrid complexes (C....
The North American ecological species Daphniapulicaria and Daphniapulex are thought to have diverged from a common ancestor by adaptation sympatric but ecologically distinct lake pond habitats respectively. Based on mtDNA relationships, European D. pulicaria is considered different only distantly related its counterpart, both share lactate dehydrogenase (Ldh) allele F supposedly involved in America, the same also carried Holarctic Daphniatenebrosa. correct inference of species' ancestral...
Abstract Aim We used comparative phylogeography of two intestinal parasites freshwater fish to test whether similarity in life cycle translates into concordant phylogeographical history. The thorny‐headed worms Pomphorhynchus laevis and P. tereticollis (Acanthocephala) were formerly considered as a single species with broad geographical host range within the Western Palaearctic. Location Central eastern parts Northern Mediterranean area, Europe, Ponto‐Caspian Europe. Methods A mitochondrial...
Over the years, researchers have used presumptively neutral molecular variation to infer origins of current species' distributions in northern latitudes (especially Europe). However, several reported examples genic and chromosomal replacements suggest that end-glacial colonizations particular areas may involved genetic input from different source populations at times, coupled with competition selection. We investigate functional consequences differences between two bank vole (Clethrionomys...
The legacy of climatic changes during the Pleistocene glaciations allows inferences to be made about patterns and processes associated with range expansion/colonization, including evolutionary adaptation. With increasing availability population genomic data, we have opportunity examine these questions in detail a variety non-traditional model species. As an exemplar, here review more than two decades work by our group others that illustrate potential single “non-model model” mammal species -...
Abstract Despite increasing information about postglacial recolonization of European freshwater systems, very little is known pre‐Pleistocene history. We used data on the recent distribution and phylogenetic relationships stone loach mitochondrial lineages to reconstruct initial colonization pattern Danube river system, one most important refuges for ichthyofauna. Fine‐scale phylogeography Danubian populations revealed five highly divergent age suggested multiple origin loach. The mean...