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RNDr. PAVEL HULVA, Ph.D.


Phone: (00420) 22 195 1848; Fax: (00420) 22 195 1841; E-mail: hulva@natur.cuni.cz

Research interests:

Biology, evolution, molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of the Chiroptera.

Current projects:

Molecular phylogenetics of the superfamily Rhinolophoidea
Phylogeography of Pipistrellus pipistrellus / P. pygmaeus complex.

Lectures and courses:

Genetical methods in zoology, Biogeography, Principles and methods in systematic zoology, System and phylogeny of vertebrates (assistant), Field course of zoology.

Selected papers:

HULVA, P., BENDA, P., HANÁK, V., EVIN, A. & HORÁČEK, I. 2007: New mitochondrial lineages within the Pipistrellus pipistrellus complex from Mediterranean Europe. Folia Zoologica: 56(4): 378-388.

HULVA, P., HORÁČEK, I. & BENDA, P., 2007: Molecules, morphometric and new fossils provide an integrated view of the evolutionary history of Rhinopomatidae (Mammalia: Chiroptera). BMC Evolutionary Biology: 7: 165. (28pp).

HULVA, P. & HORÁČEK, I. 2006: Cryptic sympatric diversity in Emballonura alecto: further bat species? Acta Chiropterologica: 8(2): 537-542.

BENDA, P., HULVA, P. & GAISLER, J., 2004: Systematic status of African populations of Pipistrellus pipistrellus complex (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with a description of a new species from Cyrenaica, Libya. Acta Chiropterologica: 6(2): 193-217.

HULVA, P., HORÁČEK, I., STRELKOV, P.P. & BENDA, P., 2004: Molecular architecture of Pipistrellus pipistrellus/ Pipistrellus pygmaeus complex (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): further cryptic species and Mediterranean origin of the divergence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution: 32(3): 1023-1035.

BENDA, P., HULVA, P., ANDREAS, M. & UHRIN, M. 2003: Notes on the distribution of Pipistrellus pipistrellus complex in the Eastern Mediterranean: First records of P. pipistrellus for Syria and of P. pygmaeus for Turkey. Vespertilio 7: 87-95.

HULVA, P. & HORÁČEK, I. 2002: Craseonycteris thonglongyai (Chiroptera: Craseonycteridae) is a rhinolophoid: molecular evidence from cytochrome b. Acta Chiropterologica 4(2): 107-120.