A geneticist Lenka Bittová won a prestigious European reintegration fellowship for scientists returning after a long stay abroad. Last year she came back to the Czech Republic after twenty years in the US, where she worked as a scientist in biochemistry at several prestigious universities - University of Illinois, Stanford University, University of Wisconsin and the last five years she was a...
In this study, by combining behavioral and genetic approaches, we provide the first unambiguous evidence to our knowledge of a Cry-dependent sensitivity to the direction of GMF in two cockroach species.
The cryopreservation techniques proposed for embryos of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are not yet ready for practical use. Alternative methods for long-term storage of D. melanogaster strains, although urgently needed, do not exist.
Publication in Chromosoma supports the hypothesis that the enormous longevity of honeybee queens is associated with high activity of telomerase
Species diversity changes with elevation, but differently for each plant and animal taxon. New model combining environmental preferences of organisms, changing with the environment and with physical limitations of habitable areas, caused by the fact that the mountains tend to be spiky, can predict the actual distribution of species remarkably well.
Publication in Biomacromolecules describes five sericin genes from a wild silkmoth, A. yamamai; provides whole gene structures and assigns them to major sericin proteins extracted from A. yamamai cocoon.
The debate between two conflicting hypotheses on the origin of tropical species may no longer be reasonable. Tropical hyperdiversity is likely the result of complex evolutionary history, and no single age nor single event seem alone to be important ...
The Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently concluded the most detailed and demanding evaluation of the the Biology Centre’s (BC) research and professional activities. International evaluators checked the results of 19 teams from BC for the years 2010 to 2014. The result? All teams have succeeded and six of these are rated excellent, world-class teams.
Biodiversity and the threats to its persistence are not uniformly distributed across the globe and therefore some areas demand comparatively greater scientific attention. If research is biased away from the most biodiverse areas, then this will accentuate the impacts of the global biodiversity crisis and reduce our capacity to protect and manage the natural ecosystems that underpin human...
A new book, Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae) of Central Europe, has been published in the series Zoological keys in the publishing house Academia belonging to the Czech Academy of Sciences. It has been written by Oldřich Nedvěd and contributed by many photographers of nature.
