Mgr. Aleš Buček, Ph.D.

Job Position: Head of Laboratory - Laboratory of Insect Symbiosis

Contact details

Phone: +420 38 777 5223
E-mail: ales.bucek@entu.cas.cz

Description

Evolution of termites and their symbionts; phylogenetics; comparative genomics; microtomography

 

 

Publications
Total found: 6 records
Beránková T., Arora J., Arias J.R., Buček A., Tokuda G., Šobotník J., Hellemans S., Bourguignon T. (2024) Termites and subsocial roaches inherited many bacterial-borne carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) from their common ancestor. Communications Biology 7 : article number: 1449.
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-07146-w
Hellemans S., Rocha M.M., Wang M., Arias J.R., Aanen D.K., Bagneres A.-G., Buček A., Carrijo T.F., Chouvenc T., Cuezzo C., Constantini J.P., Constantino R., Dedeine F., Daligne J., et al., Vargo E.L., Ware J.L., Šobotník J., Scheffrahn R., Cancello E., Roisin Y., Engel M.S., Bourguignon T. (2024) Genomic data provide insights into the classification of extant termites. Nature Communications 15 : article number: 6724.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51028-y
Mizumoto N., Hellemans S., Engel M.S., Bourguignon T., Buček A. (2024) Extinct and extant termites reveal the fidelity of behavior fossilization in amber. PNAS 121 : article number: e2308922121.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308922121
Najer T., Doña J., Buček A., Sweet A.D., Sychra O., Johnson K.P. (2024) Mitochondrial genome fragmentation is correlated with increased rates of molecular evolution. PLoS Genetics 20 : article number: e1011266.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011266
Thakur H., Agarwal S., Buček A., Hradecký J., Sehadová H., Mathur V., Togaev U., van de Kamp T., Hamann E., Liu R.-H., Verma K.S., Li H.-F., Sillam-Dusses D., Engel M.S., Šobotník J. (2024) Defensive glands in Stylotermitidae (Blattodea, Isoptera). Arthropod Structure & Development 79 : article number: 101346.
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2024.101346
Carrijo T.F., Engel M.S., Chouvenc T., Gile G., Mikaelyan A., Dedeine F., Ware J.L., Haifig I., Arab A., Constantini J.P., Souza J.P., Lee S.B., Buček A., Roisin Y., Cancello E.M., Santos C.M.D. (2023) A call to termitologists: it is time to abandon the use of "lower" and "higher" termites. Insectes Sociaux 70 : 295-299.
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-023-00929-0

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Biology Centre CAS
Institute of Entomology
Branišovská 1160/31
370 05 České Budějovice

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