Vertebrate Research Group

Articles

• Bat species tolerant and susceptible to fungal infection show transcriptomic differences in late hibernation and healing

  WHITING-FAWCETT Flora FIELD Kenneth A BARTONIČKA Tomáš LAINE Veronika N PIKULA Jiří REPKE Matthew E TALMAGE Sara TURNER Gregory ZUKAL Jan PATERSON Steve LILLEY Thomas M

  Peer-reviewed scientific article

  Journal of Experimental Biology, year: 2026, volume: 229, edition: 1, DOI

• Contrasting phagocyte respiratory burst responses in two European bat species during hibernation

  ZUKAL Jan NEMCOVA Monika BACHOREC Erik HEGER Tomas SEIDLOVA Veronika PAPEZIKOVA Ivana PIACEK Vladimir ZUKALOVA Katerina PIKULA Jiri

  Peer-reviewed scientific article

  FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY, year: 2026, volume: 17, edition: May, DOI

• Environmental Drivers of Temperate Bat Species Richness and Abundance: The Role of Hibernacula

  BARTONIČKA Tomáš RAFAEL da Rocha Fortes ZUKAL Jan

  Peer-reviewed scientific article

  Journal of Biogeography, year: 2026, volume: 53, edition: 4, DOI

• First attempt at using a synthetic diet in short-lived killifish, a vertebrate model of ageing

  ŽÁK Jakub VRTILEK Milan

  Peer-reviewed scientific article

  JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY, year: 2026, volume: 108, edition: 2, DOI

• Genome-Wide Association Reveals Signalling-Linked Infection Tolerance in Hibernating Bats

  HARAZIM Markéta PIALEK Lubomir BANDOUCHOVA Hana PIKULA Jiri SEIDLOVA Veronika ZUKAL Jan NEMCOVA Monika HEGER Tomas LINHART Petr PIACEK Vladimir KOKUREWICZ Tomasz ORLOV Oleg L. ZAHRADNIKOVA Alexandra MARTÍNKOVÁ Natália

  Peer-reviewed scientific article

  Pathogens, year: 2026, volume: 15, edition: 2, DOI

• Life at the Edge (of the Sahara): Evolutionary History of Two Understudied Genera of African Gerbils

  PAVLÍČKOVÁ Barbora TARROSO Pedro BORATYNSKI Zbyszek BRYJOVÁ Anna BRYJA Josef

  Peer-reviewed scientific article

  JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, year: 2026, volume: 53, edition: 1, DOI

• Neither caloric nor protein restriction increases the male lifespan of outbred short-lived fish

  ŽÁK Jakub REICHARD Martin

  Peer-reviewed scientific article

  JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES, year: 2026, volume: 81, edition: 2, DOI

• The ecological and developmental foundations of brood parasitism in a catfish

  REICHARD Martin BLAŽEK Radim POLACIK Matej SUCHANEK Tomas ENGLMAIER Gernot K. PYRZANOWSKI Kacper BARTAKOVA Veronika ŽÁK Jakub KOCH Lukas Tim DYKOVÁ Iva CERNY Robert KOBLMUELLER Stephan ZIMMERMANN Holger

  Peer-reviewed scientific article

  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, year: 2026, volume: 17, edition: 1, DOI