Researchers from several disciplines, many of whom are based at the Institute of Entomology, collaborate on projects combining evolutionary history and plant chemistry to understand and predict the occurrence of herbivorous across rainforest plants. Their recent work has been published in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The article in G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics focuses on the ability of circadian clock to adapt to various temperatures and describes conserved and unique features of circadian clock genes of two fly species and.
Researchers from the Institute of Entomology collaborate on studies of pollination systems in tropical Cameroonian mountains bringing many interesting results on rather unknown Afrotropical communities. Recently, our study on function of long nectar spur was published in a prestigious journal New Phytologist.
The paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA helps to justify our previously suggested conceptual framework of insect diapause as a dynamic succession of endogenously and exogenously driven changes in physiology.
Body size reductions of ectotherms–such as insects, fish and bacteria–are among the main responses of organisms to climate change. However, the ecological consequences of this phenomenon are little explored. An international tem lead by researchers at the Institute of Entomology of the Biology Centre CAS and University of South Bohemia has simulated long-term consequences of changes in body...
Trophic and non-trophic species interactions determine energy flow in ecosystems and their strength underlies the stability of food webs. However, their dependence on environmental conditions is poorly understood.
Libor Grubhoffer will be a new Director of the largest scientific institution in South Bohemia - Biology Centre (BC) CAS. On Monday, June 26, he was appointed by the president of the Czech Academy of Sciences Eva Zažímalová. His term of office is five years and begins on July 1, 2017. Libor Grubhoffer replaces Miloslav Šimek, who has been in charge of the institution since 2012.
It is well known that the tropical regions near the equator have many more species than those near the poles. The publication of a prestigious journal Science addresses the question whether the interrelationships between animal species are stronger towards the equator.
The review article in Frontiers of Molecular Neuroscience turns the spotlight on the defects in tRNA modifications as the proximal cause of a range of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders in humans.
In the tropics, many plant species benefit from hosting ant “partners” which protect them from herbivores in return for food and shelter.
