Description: Our research is focused on ageing & its life history consequences, sexual selection & mate choice and coevolutionary dynamics in a host-parasite relationship
fish (2919) ageing (136) sexual selection (5) mate choice (3) coevolutionary dynamics (1) host-parasite relationship (1)
Prof. RNDr. Martin Reichard, Ph.D. Institute of Vertebrate Biology Czech Academy of Sciences Kvetna 8, 603 65 Brno Czech Republic
Phone +420 543 422 522 Email reichard (at) ivb.cz
We are interested in evolutionary ecology – to learn how ecological factors shape evolutionary trajectories and how evolutionary adaptations and constraints modify species ecology. We combine fieldwork with controlled experiments in captivity using behavioural, genetic, histological and physiological approaches. Using freshwater fish as our study models, we investigate: 1. evolution of ageing and its life history consequences 2. coevolution in brood parasites 3. the role of invasive species in rapid evoluti