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Leszek Rychlik (Department of Systematic Zoology) and co-authors (mainly from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS in Warsaw) published, in the International Journal of Molecular Science, the results of a study in which they checked whether the numbers of new generated cells in shrew brains (namely in the subventricular zone of the lateral ventricle, [...]

Leszek Rychlik (Department of Systematic Zoology) and Krzysztof Kowalski (currently the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) published a review in the journal Toxins (Q1 in Zoology) on the evolution and ecological functions of venomousness in insectivorous mammals (order Eulipotyphla), to which most of the currently known venomous mammals belong. The authors provide an overview of [...]

The research conducted by a team of 18 researchers from 13 European institutions, including Dr. Przemysław Kurek from our Institute, aimed to identify the network of relationships between a group of birds eating fleshy-fruits and plants in the context of transferring their seeds between different types of environments. The research was carried out on a [...]

Since the 1990s, the Department of Water Protection  has conducted research on the bioindicative role of Unio mussels. Initially, the surveys supported by the US Environmental Protection Agency grant, focused on the sensitivity of the swan mussel Anodonta cygnea to various pollutants occurring in surface waters. This research resulted in the implementation of a system for the detection [...]

To understand the dynamics of host-pathogens coevolution and its epidemiological consequences, we need to know how new races of invasive parasites emerge. In our recent work, published in Molecular Ecology (Konczal et al. 2020, link), we shed some light on this process by analyzing whole genomes of Gyrodactylus turnbulli, ectoparasitic flukes infecting guppies. Mateusz Konczal [...]