Publications

Palaeoecological signals from floodplain and terrace peatlands decipher ancient land use in the Mid-Kama Valley (Cis-Ural, Russia)

Vlada Batalova, Pavel Sannikov, Sergey Kopytov, Ekaterina Novikova, Elizaveta Orlova, Mikhail Pereskokov, Vitaliy Mingalev, Leonid Viazov, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh

Year: 2026, ANTHROPOCENE

journal article

Adapting a country-specific Dragonfly Biotic Index: Framework for seven Central European countries and transboundary pattern analysis

Eva Bílková, Hana Šigutová, Petr Pyszko, Veronika PRIELOŽNÁ, Aleš Dolný

Year: 2025, ECOL INDIC

journal article

Ambrosia gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and their microbial symbionts as a neglected model of fungus-farming evolution

Petr Pyszko, Hana Šigutová, Jan Ševčík, Michaela Drgová, Denisa Hařovská, Pavel Drozd

Year: 2025, FEMS Microbiology Reviews

journal article

An expanded phylogenomic analysis of Heterolobosea reveals the deep relationships, non-canonical genetic codes, and cryptic flagellate stages in the group

Tomáš Pánek, Alexander K. Tice, Pia Corre, Pavla Hrubá, David ŽIHALA, Ryoma Kamikawa, Euki Yazaki, Takashi Shiratori, Keitaro Kume, Tetsuo Hashimoto, Ken-Ichiro Ishida, Miluše Hradilová, Jeffrey D. Silberman, Andrew Roger, Yuji Inagaki, Marek Eliáš, Matthew W. Brown, Ivan Cepicka

Year: 2025, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

journal article

An initial comparative study on the antennal morphology of Zoraptera (Insecta) with special reference to the sensilla

Michel J. Faucheux, Gabriela Pačková, Petr Kočárek, Robin Kundrata

Year: 2025, Scientific Reports

journal article

Analysis of Leishbuviridae from Trypanosomatids

Danyil Grybchuk, Aleksei Kostygov, Vyacheslav Yurchenko

Year: 2025, Humana

specialist book chapter

Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples

Tian Chen Zeng, Leonid Viazov, Alexander Kim, Pavel Flegontov, Kendra Sirak, Robert Maier, Iosif Lazaridis, Ali Akbari, Michael Frachetti, Alexey A. Tischkin, Natalia E. Ryabogina, Sergey A. Agapov, Danila S. Agapov, Anatoliy N. Alekseev, Gennady Boeskorov, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Viktor M. Dyakonov, Dmitry N. Enshin, Alexey V. Fribus, Yaroslav V. Frolov, Sergey P. Grushin, Alexander A. Khokhlov, Kirill Yu. Kiryushin, Yurii F. Kiryushin, Egor P. Kitov, Pavel Kosintsev, Igor V. Kovtun, Nikolai P. Makarov, Viktor V. Morozov, Egor N. Nikolaev, Marina P. Rykun, Tatyana M. Savenkova, Marina V. Shchelchkova, Vladimir N. Shirokov, Svetlana N. Skochina, Olga S. Sherstobitova, Sergey M. Slepchenko, Konstantin N. Solodovnikov, Elena N. Solovyova, Aleksandr D. Stepanov, Aleksei A. Timoshchenko, Aleksandr S. Vdovin, Anton V. Vybornov, Elena V. Balanovska, Stanislav Dryomov, Garrett Hellenthal, Kenneth Kidd, Johannes Krause, Elena Starikovskaya, Rem Sukernik, Tatiana Tatarinova, Mark G. Thomas, Maxat Zhabagin, Kim Callan, Olivia Cheronet, Daniel Fernandes, Denise Keating, Francesca Candilio, Lora Iliev, Aisling Kearns, Kadir Toykan Özdoğan, Matthew Mah, Adam Micco, Megan Michel, Iñigo Olalde, Fatma Zalzala, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Ron Pinhasi, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, David Reich

Year: 2025, Nature

journal article

Antibiotic Resistance in Wastewater: Detection, Quantification, and Risk Assessment

Tereza Stachurová, Zuzana Rybková, Kateřina Malachová

Year: 2025

presentations (congresses, symposia, conferences, workshops)

Antimicrobial effects of novel nanomaterials for medicine

Zuzana Rybková, Kateřina Malachová, Tereza Stachurová, Sylva Holešová, Karla Čech Barabaszová, Kateřina Škrlová, Jakub Zágora, Daniela Plachá

Year: 2025

presentations (congresses, symposia, conferences, workshops)

Author Correction: The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans

Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, David Anthony, Leonid Viazov, Romain Fournier, Harald Ringbauer, Iñigo Olalde, Alexander A. Khokhlov, Egor P. Kitov, Natalia I. Shishlina, Sorin C. Ailincăi, Sergey A. Agapov, Danila S. Agapov, Elena Batieva, Baitanayev Bauyrzhan, Zsolt Bereczki, Alexandra Buzhilova, Piya Changmai, Andrey A. Chizhevsky, Ion Ciobanu, Mihai Constantinescu, Marietta Csányi, János Dani, Peter K. Dashkovskiy, Sándor Évinger, Anatoly Faifert, Pavel Flegontov, Alin Frînculeasa, Mădălina N. Frînculeasa, Tamás Hajdu, Tom Higham, Paweł Jarosz, Pavol Jelínek, Valeri I. Khartanovich, Eduard N. Kirginekov, Viktória Kiss, Alexandera Kitova, Alexeiy V. Kiyashko, Jovan Koledin, Arkady Korolev, Pavel Kosintsev, Gabriella Kulcsár, Pavel Kuznetsov, Rabadan Magomedov, Aslan M. Mamedov, Eszter Melis, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Erika Molnár, Janet Monge, Octav Negrea, Nadezhda A. Nikolaeva, Mario Novak, Maria Ochir-Goryaeva, György Pálfi, Sergiu Popovici, Marina P. Rykun, Tatyana M. Savenkova, Vladimir P. Semibratov, Nikolai N. Seregin, Alena Šefčáková, Raikhan S. Mussayeva, Irina Shingiray, Vladimir N. Shirokov, Angela Simalcsik, Kendra Sirak, Konstantin N. Solodovnikov, Judit Tárnoki, Alexey A. Tishkin, Viktor Trifonov, Sergey Vasilyev, Ali Akbari, Esther S. Brielle, Kim Callan, Francesca Candilio, Olivia Cheronet, Elizabeth Curtis, Olga Flegontova, Lora Iliev, Aisling Kearns, Denise Keating, Ann Marie Lawson, Matthew Mah, Adam Micco, Megan Michel, Jonas Oppenheimer, Lijun Qiu, J. Noah Workman, Fatma Zalzala, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Pier Francesco Palamara, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Ron Pinhasi, David Reich

Year: 2025, Nature

journal article

Biodegradable polycaprolactone/clay nanocomposites for biotechnological applications

Sylva Holešová, Karla Čech Barabaszová, Zuzana Rybková, Kateřina Malachová

Year: 2025

presentations (congresses, symposia, conferences, workshops)

Biological pretreatment of anaerobic digestion solid by-product with white rot fungi: Assessment of digestate delignification and investigation of process parameters improving the biodegradation performance of sludge

Panagiotis Basinas, Kateřina Chamrádová, Zuzana Rybková, Jiří Rusín, Kateřina Malachová

Year: 2025, Chemical Engineering Journal

journal article

Blastocrithidia-A Genetic Alien from the Planet Earth

Julius Lukeš, Zuzana Čapková Pavlíková, Vyacheslav Yurchenko, Zdeněk Paris, Leoš Shivaya Valášek

Year: 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

journal article

Can nest design hinder brood parasitism success?

Angela Moreras, Jere Tolvanen, Michal Kysučan, Peter Samaš, Tomáš Grim, Robert Thomson

Year: 2025, Journal of Avian Biology

journal article

Characterization of Lercomonas mokradensis gen. et sp. nov. enriches the phylogenetic and taxonomic diversity of Chloromonadinia (Chlorophyceae)

Dovilé Barcyté, Marek Eliáš

Year: 2025, Phycologia

journal article

Chromosome-level genome assembly of trypanosomatid parasite Lotmaria passim links chromosome duplication and divergence with infection of honey bees

Anthony Nearman, Anzhelika Butenko, Jay D Evans, Evan C Palmer-Young

Year: 2025, BMC Genomics

journal article

Comparative Analysis of Protist Communities in Oilsands Tailings Using Amplicon Sequencing and Metagenomics

Kristína Záhonová, Harpreet Kaur, Chantel C. Furgason, Angela V. Smirnova, Peter F. Dunfield, Joel B. Dacks

Year: 2025, Environmental Microbiology

journal article

Comparative analysis of the mobilome yields new insights into its diversity, dynamics and evolution in parasites of the Trypanosomatidae family

Percy Omar Tullume-Vergara, Adriana Ludwig, Vyacheslav Yurchenko, Adriano Cappellazzo Coelho, Elizabeth Magiolo Coser, Marco Aurélio Krieger, Marta M.G. Teixeira, Jeffrey Jon Shaw, Joao M.P. Alves

Year: 2025, Parasitology

journal article

Comparative genomic analysis of trypanosomatid protists illuminates an extensive change in the nuclear genetic code

Kristína Záhonová, Zoltán Füssy, Amanda Tábita da Silva Albanaz, Anzhelika Butenko, Ambar Kachale, Natalia Kraeva, Arnau Galan Rigol, Alexandra Zakharova, Bojana Stojanova, Jan Votýpka, Aleksei Kostygov, Viktoriia Spodareva, Marina N. Malysheva, Alexander O. Frolov, Igor B. Rogozin, Zdeněk Paris, Leoš Shivaya Valášek, Vyacheslav Yurchenko, Lukeš Julius

Year: 2025, mBio

journal article

Congruent responses of epiphytic bryophyte communities to air pollution on two species of trees differing in bark chemistry

Jana Procházková, Tomáš Hájek, Eva Mikulášková, Vítězslav Plášek, Jakub Těšitel, Michal Hájek

Year: 2025, Preslia

journal article

Converting Blastocrithidia Nonstop, a Trypanosomatid With Non-Canonical Genetic Code, Into a Genetically-Tractable Model

Arnau Galan Rigol, Natalia Kraeva, Kristína Záhonová, Anzhelika Butenko, Aleksei Kostygov, Zdeněk Paris, Jiří Pergner, Claretta Bianchi, Fadel Fakih, Andreu Saura Rebollar, Julius Lukeš, Vyacheslav Yurchenko

Year: 2025, Molecular Microbiology

journal article

CpX Hunter web tool allows high-throughput identification of CpG, CpA, CpT, and CpC islands: A case study in Drosophila genome

Martin Bartas, Michal Petrovič, Václav Brázda, Oldřich Trenz, Aleš Ďurčanský, Jiří Šťastný

Year: 2025, Journal of Biological Chemistry

journal article

Cryptic diversity in endemic Canarilabis revealed by a multigene phylogeny (Dermaptera: Anisolabididae)

Vojtěch Bonczek, Ivona Kočárková, Pilar Jurado-Angulo, Petr Kočárek

Year: 2025, Contributions to Zoology

journal article

Curated global occurrence dataset of the insect order Zoraptera

Oto Kaláb, Johana Hoffmannova, Gabriela Pačková, Ivona Kočárková, Robin Kundrata, Petr Kočárek

Year: 2025, Scientific Data

journal article

Developing an integrative understanding of escape mode decisions

Mario Díaz, Anders Moller, Yanina Benedetti, Daniel Blumstein, Gábor Markó, Federico Morelli, Juan Ibáñez-Alamo, Jukka Jokimaki, Marja-Liisa Kaisanlahti-Jokimaki, Peter Mikula, Kunter Tatte, Piotr Tryjanowski, Tomáš Grim

Year: 2025, Animal Behaviour

journal article

Diplonemid protists possess exotic endomembrane machinery, impacting models of membrane trafficking in modern and ancient eukaryotes

Kristína Záhonová, Lukeš Julius, Joel B. Dacks

Year: 2025, Current Biology

journal article

Distribution and phylogenetic position of Spiralizoros hainanensis (Zoraptera: Spiralizoridae)

Petr Kočárek, Yoko Matsumura, Louis Deharveng, Ivona Kočárková, Robin Kundrata, André Nel

Year: 2025, JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY

journal article

Dragonfly larvae rearing: experimental insights and best practices

Eva Bílková, Veronika Kornová, Stanislav Ožana, Petr Pyszko, Hana Schindlerová, Radana Chytilová, Aleš Dolný

Year: 2025, Environmental Entomology

journal article

Ekologické strategie rostlin na odkališti Dolu Orlová-Lazy, okr. Karviná: analýza klonality a životních forem

Jakub Plachta, Šárka Cimalová

Year: 2025

presentations (congresses, symposia, conferences, workshops)

Evaluation of antimicrobial and biocompatible properties of nanocomposites

Zuzana Rybková, Kateřina Malachová, Tereza Stachurová, Daniela Plachá, Kateřina Škrlová, Jakub Zágora, Sylva Holešová, Karla Čech Barabaszová

Year: 2025

presentations (congresses, symposia, conferences, workshops)

Evaluation of antimicrobial and biocompatible properties of nanocomposites

Zuzana Rybková, Kateřina Malachová, Karla Čech Barabaszová, Sylva Holešová, Tereza Stachurová, Kateřina Škrlová, Jakub Zágora, Daniela Plachá

Year: 2025, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

journal article

Evolutionary divergent kinetoplast genome structure and RNA editing patterns in the trypanosomatid Vickermania

Evgeny S. Gerasimov, Dmitry A. Afonin, Ingrid Sveráková, Andreu Saura Rebollar, Natália Trusina, Ondřej Gahura, Alexandra Zakharova, Anzhelika Butenko, Peter Barath, Anton Horvath, Fred R. Opperdoes, David Pérez-Morga, Sara L. Zimmer, Lukeš Julius, Vyacheslav Yurchenko

Year: 2025, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

journal article

Evolutionary Insights into the Length Variation of DNA Damage Response Proteins Across Eukaryotes

Dominic Wiredu-Boakye, Laurence Higgins, Ondřej Gahura, Anzhelika Butenko, Guy Leonard, Mark A Freeman, Árni Kristmundsson, Karen Moore, Jamie W Harrison, Shani Mac Donald, Vyacheslav Yurchenko, Bryony A P Williams, Richard Chahwan

Year: 2025, Genome Biology and Evolution

journal article

Evropsky významná lokalita Cihelna Kunín – zajímavá bryologická lokalita na Novojičínsku

Vítězslav Plášek

Year: 2025, Poodří

journal article

Expanded diversity of pedinophytes provides a window into the evolution of the genetic code in organelles

Dovilé Barcyté, David ŽIHALA, Marek Eliáš

Year: 2025, PLOS Genetics

journal article

Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination

Robert B. Baird, Thomas J. Hitchcock, Jan Ševčík, Katy M. Monteith, Andy Gardner, Laura Ross, Andrew J. Mongue

Year: 2025, Nature Communications

journal article

From blow to DNA: citizen science advancing genetic research on southern right whales

Petra Neveceralova, Vladimir Soukup, Jan Stundl, Jason Keith Stafford, Pavel Hulva

Year: 2025, Conservation Genetics Resources

journal article

Genomic Analysis of Hair Sheep From West/Central Africa Reveals Unique Genetic Diversity and Ancestral Links to Breed Formation in the Caribbean

Pamela Wiener, Juliane Friedrich, Melissa M Marr, Gustave Simo, Vincent N Tanya, Keith T Ballingall, Pavel Flegontov, Benjamin D Rosen, Guillaume Salle, Gordon Spangler, Curtis P Van Tassell, Mazdak Salavati, Felix Meutchieye, Emily L Clark

Year: 2025, Molecular Ecology

journal article

Genotoxicity detection of nanoparticles and nanocomposite ZnO by the Comet assay

Kateřina Malachová, Zuzana Rybková, Ondřej Dlabaja, Sylva Holešová, Karla Čech Barabaszová

Year: 2025

presentations (congresses, symposia, conferences, workshops)

Highly accurate Batesian mimicry of wasps dates back to the Early Oligocene and was driven by non-passerine birds

Klára Daňková, Jiří Hadrava, Jakub Straka, Michael Mikát, Alice Exnerova, Pavel Hulva, Valentin Nidergas, Martina Pecharová, André Nel, Jakub Prokop

Year: 2025, CURRENT BIOLOGY

journal article

Highly Conserved Ecosystems Facing Climate Change: Rapid Shifts in Odonata Assemblages of Central European Bogs

Hana Šigutová, Petr Pyszko, Eva Bílková, Aleš Dolný

Year: 2025, Global Change Biology

journal article

Highly efficient antimicrobial coating based on polylactide prepared via supercritical fluid technology

Jakub Zágora, Zuzana Rybková, Kateřina Škrlová, Kateřina Malachová, Alexandra Munoz-Bonilla, Marta Fernández-Garcia, Daniela Plachá

Year: 2025

presentations (congresses, symposia, conferences, workshops)

High-Resolution Assembly of the Human Y Chromosome Identifies a Vast Landscape of Inverted Repeats Associated with Structural and Functional Genomic Features

Michaela Dobrovolná, Richard P. Bowater, Petr Pečinka, Václav Brázda, Martin Bartas

Year: 2025, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

journal article

Historical survivorship and demographic structure of zoo-housed hippopotamuses (Hippopotamidae)

João P. Meireles, Lara Scherer, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Beatrice Steck, Jan Pluháček, Marco Roller, Dennis W. H. Müller, Mads F. Bertelsen, Marcus Clauss

Year: 2025, Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

journal article

Improvement of the methane generation potential of the anaerobic digestion solid residue by implementing a biological posttreatment with the biomycete Irpex lacteus at various conditions

Kateřina Chamrádová, Panagiotis Basinas, Zuzana Rybková, Kateřina Malachová

Year: 2025, Detritus

journal article

Improvement of the methane generation potential of the anaerobic digestion solid residue by implementing a biological pretreatment with the basidiomycete I. lacteus at various conditions

Kateřina Chamrádová, Panagiotis Basinas, Zuzana Rybková, Kateřina Malachová

Year: 2025

presentations (congresses, symposia, conferences, workshops)

Inventarizační průzkum PP Kamenná – denní motýli bezlesí

Petr Pyszko, Adam Mikunda, Vojtěch Polák