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 [...]
20.01.2021 We would like to invite everybody to participate in next SEEB seminar on Teams platform. The lecture entitled 'Evolution with two sexes' will be given by Aneil Agrawal (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Canada). When: 20.01.2021, 14:30 Where: Online MS Teams meeting
13.01.2021 We would like to invite everybody to participate in next SEEB seminar on Teams platform. The lecture entitled 'Bird brain: not so social after all' will be given by Szymon Drobniak (Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; School of Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). When: [...]
02.12.2020 We would like to invite everybody to participate in next SEEB seminar on Teams platform. The lecture entitled 'The Yellow Breasted Barbet (Trachyphonus margaritatus) uses specific calls to introduce duets and choruses' will be given by Mathieu Mahamoud-Issa (Department of Behavioural Ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland). When: 02.12.2020, 12:00 Where: Online MS Teams [...]
25.11.2020 We would like to invite everybody to participate in next SEEB seminar on Teams platform. The lecture entitled 'Genetic basis of carotenoid coloration in birds' will be given by Małgorzata Gazda (Institut de Biologie de l’École normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France). When: 25.11.2020, 12:00 Where: Online MS Teams meeting
18.11.2020 We would like to invite everybody to participate in next SEEB seminar. The lecture entitled 'Host behaviour drivers parasite transmission and evolution in Wild Guppy population' will be given by Jessica Stephenson (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh). Please notice that because of the difference in time zones, we plan to meet [...]
The prestigious Behavioral Ecology has just published an article (online for now) by Leszek Rychlik and colleagues from Portugal (University of Lisbon) on the differences in metabolism and behavior of greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula) from urban and rural populations. Wild-trapped shrews were brought to lab where their RMR, boldness, and exploration rate were measured. [...]
