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July 2021 Artist’s vision of sex chromosomes in the vertebrate phylogeny on the cover of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Drawing was designed for the guest editors Lukáš Kratochvíl from our department & Matthias Stöck from z Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei in Berlin of this tematic issue. Drawing © Jörg Wachtel, Brachwitz, Germany |
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March 2021 The Genes cover illustrates a new paper from our department: Kousteni, V.; Mazzoleni, S.; Vasileiadou, K.; Rovatsos, M. Complete Mitochondrial DNA Genome of Nine Species of Sharks and Rays and Their Phylogenetic Placement among Modern Elasmobranchs. Genes 2021, 12, 324. DOI: 10.3390/genes12030324 |
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October 2020 Molecular Ecology cover illustrates paper Kratochvíl L., Vukić J., Červenka J., Kubička L., Johnson Pokorná M., Kukačková D., Rovatsos M. & L. Piálek (2020) Mixed‐sex offspring produced via cryptic parthenogenesis in a lizard. Molecular Ecology, 4118 - 4127. DOI: 10.1111/mec.15617 Image © Petr Jan Juračka |
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September 2020 Cover of BioEssays illustrates paper: Straková B., Rovatsos M., Kubička L. & L. Kratochvíl (2020) Evolution of Sex Determination in Amniotes: Did Stress and Sequential Hermaphroditism Produce Environmental Determination? BioEssays, 42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202000050 |
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August 2020 Image of Martin Hlubeň on cover of Evolutionary Ecology illustrates paper: Meter B., Starostová Z., Kubička L. & Kratochvíl L. (2020) The limits of the energetical perspective: life-history decisions in lizard growth. Evolutionary Ecology 34, 469–481. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-020-10054-0 |
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July 2020 Image of Johannes Rusch on the NeoBiota cover illustrates paper: Rusch J.C., Mojžišová M., Strand D.A., Svobodová J., Vrålstad T., Petrusek A. (2020): Simultaneous detection of native and invasive crayfish and Aphanomyces astaci from environmental DNA samples in a wide range of habitats in Central Europe. Neobiota, 58: 1–32. |
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November 2018 A red phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) returns to its nest in the Arctic tundra. This image on the cover of Science illustrates paper: Kubelka V., Šálek M., Tomkovich P., Végvári Z., Freckleton R.P. & Székely T. (2018) Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds. Science 362 680–683. DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.AAT8695 Image © Joel Sartore |
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March 2018 The Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis macularius) shot on the cover of Hormones and Behavior illustrates the paper: Schořálková T., Kratochvíl L. , Kubička L. (2018): Female sexual attractiveness and sex recognition in leopard gecko: Males are indiscriminate courters. Hormones and Behavior 99: 57-61. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2018.01.007 Snímek © Petr Jan Juračka |
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January 2018 Image of Petr Pokorný on the cover of Global Ecology and Biogeography illustrates paper Macháč A., Graham C.H., Storch D. (2018): Ecological controls of mammalian diversification vary with phylogenetic scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:32–46. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12642 |
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November 2017 (Micro)images of the algae on cover of Geophysical Research Letters illustrate paper "Algae Drive Enhanced Darkening of Bare Ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet" of the author team led by Marek Stibal. Stibal M., Box J.E., Cameron K.A., Langen P.L., Yallop M.L., Mottram R.H., Khan A.L., Molotch N.P., Chrismas N.A.M., Calì Quaglia F., Remias D., Smeets C.J.P.P., van den Broeke M.R., Ryan J.C., Hubbard A., Tranter M., van As D., Ahlstrøm A.P. (2017) Algae drive enhanced darkening of bare ice on the Greenland ice sheet. Geophysical Research Letters 44:11463–11471, doi: 10.1002/2017GL075958 |
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November 2017 Shot of the agama on the Zoologischer Anzeiger cover illustrates paper: Ehl J., Vukić J., Kratochvíl L. (2017): Hormonal and thermal induction of sex reversal in the bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps, Agamidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 271: 1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2017.11.002 |
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August 2017 Portrait of male-larger gecko on cover of theBiology Open illustrates the paper Czarnoleski M., Labecka A.M., Starostová Z., Sikorska A., Bonda-Ostaszewska A., Woch K., Kubička L., Kratochvı́l L., Kozlowski J. (2017): Not all cells are equal: effects of temperature and sex on the size of different cell types in the Madagascar ground gecko Paroedura Photo © Petr Jan Juračka |
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July 2017 A Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM) of Bosmina sp. (Cladocera) from South America on the cover of Hydrobiologia as illustration of special cladoceran issue. Petrusek A., Spaak P. (2017): Preface: 10th International Symposium on Cladocera, Lednice, Czech Republic. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3263-7 Photo © Petr Jan Juračka |
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March 2017 Portrait of male-larger gecko on cover of the Journal of Experimental Biology illustrates paper Kubička L., Schořálková T., Červenka J., Kratochvíl L. (2017): Ovarian control of growth and sexual size dimorphism in male-larger gecko, 220(5): 787-795. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.146597 Photo © Petr Jan Juračka |
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December 2015 Cover of Systematics and Biodiversity illustrates a paper Šmíd J., Moravec J., Kratochvíl L., Nasher A.K., Mazuch T., Gvoždík V., Carranza S. (2015): Multilocus phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the Hemidactylus robustus species group (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) with descriptions of three new species from Yemen and Ethiopia, 13(4): 346-368. Photo © Tomáš Mazuch |
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June 2015 Lichtenfelder's gecko on the cover of Hormones and Behaviour illustrates the paper of Lukáš Kratochvíl, Lukáš Kubička and their co-authors: Androgenic control of male-typical behavior, morphology and sex recognition is independent of the mode of sex determination: A case study on Lichtenfelder's gecko (Eublepharidae: Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi). Photo © Lukáš Kratochvíl |
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January 2015 Image of the mallards on the cover of Physiological nad Biochemical Zoology illustrates the paper of our student, Martina Koláčková, her supervisor David Hořák and their co-authors:Incubation temperature influences trade-off between structural size and energy reserves in mallard hatchlings? Photo © Martina Koláčková |
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January 2015 Yellowhammer image on the cover of journal Neobiota illustrates a paper of our student Pavel Pipek, profesor Petr Pyšek and Tim Blackburn How the Yellowhammer became a Kiwi: the history of an alien bird invasion revealed? Photo © Petr Jan Juračka |
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March 2014 Killifishes image on the cover of Zoologischer Anzeiger illustrates paper of thee authors from our department Evolution of body colouration in killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheilidae, Nothobranchiidae, Rivulidae): Is male ornamentation constrained by intersexual genetic correlation? Photo © Ondřej Sedláček |
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March 2014 Image of a juvenile serrated basilisk (Laemanctus serratus) on the cover of Biology Letters illustrates paper of four authors from our Department: Cretaceous park of sex determination: sex chromosomes are conserved across iguanas. Photo © Veronika Hřibalová |
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December 2012 Cover of Journal of Evolutionary Biology illustrates paper of our PhD student Antonin Macháč, his supervisor David Storch and their colleagues from České Budějovice Temperature dependence of evolutionary diversification: differences between two contrasting model taxa support the metabolic theory of ecology. Photo © Petr Pokorný |
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July 2012 Microphoto of Daphnia infected with microsporidia on the cover page of the journal Parasitology illustrates the paper Natural distribution and co-infection patterns of microsporidia parasites in the Daphnia longispina complex, co-authored by Adam Petrusek. Photo © Justyna Wolinska & Stefanie Weigl |
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June 2012 Cover page of the Journal Plant Ecology and Evolution illustrating the paper Benthic diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from seepages and streams on James Ross Island (NW Weddell sea, Antarctica) by Kateřina Kopalová, Linda Nedbalová and their colleagues. Photo © Kateřina Kopalová |
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January 2012 Microphoto of Daphnia parasite Caullerya mesnili on the cover page of International Journal of Parasitology illustrates the paper Fine-scale genetic analysis of Daphnia host populations infected by two virulent parasites – strong fluctuations in clonal structure at small temporal and spatial scales, co-authored by Adam Petrusek. Photo © Petr Jan Juračka |
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May 2010 Cover page of the May issue of the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography illustrates the paper of Petr Pyšek, Vojtěch Jarošík and their Czech and foreign collaborators entitled Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates. |
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April 2010 Illustration photo of the paper of Z. Starostová, L. Kubička and L. Kratochvíl: Macroevolutionary pattern of sexual size dimorphism in geckos corresponds to intraspecific temperature-induced variation on the title of the April issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Photo © Lukáš Kratochvíl |
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September 2009 Illustration to an addendum paper on inducible antipredator structures of cladocerans of the Daphnia atkinsoni complex by Christian Laforsch, Adam Petrusek and others on the title page of the journal Communicative & Integrative Biology. Photo © Christian Laforsch |
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February 2009 Photo of the “crown of thorns”, an antipredator structure formed by Daphnia atkinsoni against tadpole shrimps (Notostracans), accompanies the paper by Adam Petrusek and his German colleagues A “crown of thorns” is an inducible defense that protects Daphnia against an ancient predator in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Photo © Josef Reischig |
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July 2007 Ortophoto of the Římov reservoir with apparent gradient of phytoplankton concentration along the longitudinal reservoir axis on the title page of the Journal of Plankton Research accompanies the paper Spatial distribution of the Daphnia longispina species complex and other planktonic crustaceans in the heterogeneous environment of canyon-shaped reservoirs, co-authored by Adam Petrusek. Image © J. Žaloudík, prepared from the orthophotos 2004 of Gefos a.s., České Budějovice. |
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September 2006 Image on the title page of the journal Diversity and Distributions points to the paper Determinants of native and alien species richness in the urban flora of Rome, co-authored by Petr Pyšek and Vojtěch Jarošík. |
Popular journals
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June 2012 Pennate diatom Stauroneis jarensis on the cover page of the Czech popular science journal Vesmír illustrating the article Lakes of James Ross Island: vulnerable centres of Antarctic biodiversity by Linda Nedbalová, Daniel Nývlt a Josef Elster. Photo © Bart van de Vijver |
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April 2012 Microphoto of snow algae from the genus Chlamydomonas on the cover page of the Czech popular science journal Vesmír illustrating the article Where to find extremophile algae and cyanobacteria in the Czech Republic? by Hana Medová. Photo © Linda Nedbalová |
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June 2011 Pigmented scales of the European Peacock butterfly wing (Inachis io) on the title page of the Czech nature history journal Živa is an illustration to the article Stories from the Scanning Microscope. 4. The Beauty of Butterflies’ Wings. Photo © Petr Jan Juračka |
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January 2011 Portrait of Hypselodoris picta, one of the largest Mediterranean nudibranchs, on the cover of the Czech popular science journal Vesmír accompanies the article Nudibranchs - deceptively brigth jewels of the seas by Adam Petrusek. Photo © Adam Petrusek |
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July 2010 Photo of the mantis shrimp Neogonodactylus bredini on the cover of the special issue of the Czech popular science journal Vesmír, which contained a special section about the Faculty of Science of the Charles University in Prague, and in which most articles were authored by faculty members. Photo © Petr Jan Juračka |
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May 2010 Photo of a hermit crab taken by a scanning electron microscope on the title page of the Czech nature history journal Živa is an advertisement for the photographic exhibition "SEM! Crustaceana". Photo © Petr Jan Juračka |
| April 2010 Photo of two common Mediterranean nudibranch snails Crataena peregrina on the title page of the Czech educational journal Geografické rozhledy accompanies the photo gallery of living treasures of the Adriatic Sea by Adam Petrusek. Photo © Adam Petrusek |
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June 2009 Photo of zoëa, a larval stage of many marine decapods, on the title page of the Czech nature history journal Živa accompanies the article Stories from the electron microscope 1. Larvae with a haircut by Petr Jan Juračka and Adam Petrusek. Photo © Josef Reischig |
Books
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June 2012 Landscape photography of the Lake Baikal on the cover of Paulo Coelho book Aleph. Photo © Petr Jan Juračka |
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September 2010 Shot of the flying dragonfly on the cover of the Czech translation of textbook Essentials of Ecology by C. R. Townsend, M. Begon and J. L. Harper. Photo © Martin Černý |
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