Microbial food webs in hypertrophic fishponds: omnivorous ciliate taxa are major protistan bacterivores 22. 11. 2019 Small bacterivorous protists play a fundamental role in aquatic food webs and their taxonomic classification and ecological traits currently belong to core topics in aquatic microbial ecology....
Evolution in action: habitat transition from sediment to the pelagial leads to genome streamlining in Methylophilaceae 15. 11. 2019 Freshwater lakes are numerically dominated by very small microbes that appear perfectly adapted to nutrient poor (oligotrophic) conditions because of efficient resource exploitation in nM...
Experimental catchment – a unique research area will enable to study processes in the landscape18. 10. 2019 Scientists from the SoWa Research Infrastructure of the The Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences ceremonially opened a unique research area near the village Vintířov in the Sokolov...
Czech scientists helped to “read” the genome of pea4. 9. 2019 International team including the scientist from Czech Republic has assembled – after six years of research – the first complete genome of field pea. The results has been published on 2nd September...
Magical wildlife of Borneo experienced by actress Judi Dench, Bond's M28. 8. 2019 Explore the lush rainforests, magical wildlife and spectacular coastlines of Malaysian Borneo, where our researchers also work. The British documentary JUDI DENCH'S: 2019 Wild Borneo Adventure,...
Conversion of tropical forests to oil palm plantation decreases the bioturbator diversity, but not the total amounts of translocated soil.21. 8. 2019 The article in Applied Soil Ecology shows that although diversity of bioturbating organisms varies greatly among differently degraded tropical forests, the amount of soil brought by them to surface...
Scientists ask the EU to enable the use of new methods of plant genome editing25. 7. 2019 Today marks one year since the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that organisms treated with precision breeding techniques (CRISPR) are genetically modified organisms (GMO). However, it also...
Biparental care recorded for the first time in bees7. 7. 2019 The article in PNAS provides the first evidence of biparental care for offspring in bees.
Biology Center researcher leads the first survey of insects on a remote South Pacific island6. 7. 2019 During the last three months, Dr. Milan Janda (Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, www.antlab.mx) together with Jacob Yombai and Ali Posman from the research and conservation NGO,...
Indigenous soil microorganisms are essential to prevent dissemination of risky genes in soil from animal manure24. 6. 2019 The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotic drugs is one of the major challenges facing human and veterinary medicine in the 21st century. Both research and practice recognize that...