Prestigious publications

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....

Hidden in plain sight-highly abundant and diverse planktonic freshwater Chloroflexi26. 11. 2018

Representatives of the phylum Chloroflexi, though reportedly highly abundant in the extensive deep water habitats of both marine (SAR202 up to 30% of total prokaryotes) and freshwater (CL500-11 up...

What controls Carbon storage in soils?17. 7. 2018

What controls Carbon (C) storage in soils? Only if we know the most relevant factors, we can sustainably manage soils to persistently store old and new C withdrawn from the atmosphere and reduce...

How food quality characteristics of bacterial prey modulate growth and community dynamics of bacterivorous flagellates?8. 2. 2018

Communities of heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF, cell sizes from 2-8 µm) represent a considerable part of plankton associations and are the most numerous predators of bacteria. However, different...

Metagenomic Recovery of phage genomes of uncultured freshwater actinobacteria21. 11. 2016

Studies on specific phages infecting dominant freshwater microbes remain scarce due to the obstacle of obtaining them in axenic culture. Only freshwater cyanophage genomes have been described, six...

Genus Limnohabitans - an important freshwater bacterial group serves as a model for testing responses of natural flagellate communities to different bacterial food quality2. 9. 2013

Interactions between bacterial prey and their predators in freshwater ecosystems are highly complex: For instance, prey-selective grazing of small heterotrophic flagellates on bacteria was found...

Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems11. 12. 2013

Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

Intensive land use reduces the diversity and abundance of many soil biota, with consequences...

Project title: Freshwater sport fish management and enhancement - Threadfin shad prey production in tropical reservoirs (IHB)17. 6. 2013

Results description: Our team FishEcU (Institute of Hydrobiology, BC AS CR, v.v.i.) had a three-year subcontract (2009-2011) within a five-year project of the Mississippi State University...

Patterns of Limnohabitans Microdiversity across a Large Set of Freshwater Habitats as Revealed by Reverse Line Blot Hybridization (IHB)18. 6. 2013

 

Among abundant freshwater Betaproteobacteria, only few groups are considered to be of central ecological importance. One of them is the well-studied genus

How plants defend against light stress?18. 6. 2013

Chloroplasts behave like solar powerplant of plant cell - the energy of Sun transform to “fuel” (sacharids) needed for plant to life. Likewise classiccal powerplant, there are also some...

Plant centromeres - how can they originate and evolve?18. 6. 2013

Centromere is place on the chromosome, which is crucial for the even distribution of genetic information during cell division. Usually it comprises a limited area visible by light-microscope as...

A novel method for characterisation of DNA in vivo18. 6. 2013

A novel variant of nucleic acid characterization (FRET) was developed by scientists from Biology centre. The main advantage over the other established techniques is that no extrinsic compounds...

How purple bacteria protect themselves against fotooxidative stress?18. 6. 2013

Šlouf V., Chábera P., Olsen J. D., Martin E. C., Qian P., Hunter C. N., Polívka T. (2012) Photoprotection in a purple phototrophic bacterium mediated by oxygen-dependent...

A beneficial effect of a toxic cyanobacterium on aquatic bacteria18. 6. 2013

Blooms of cyanobacteria producing toxic compounds usually negatively affect aquatic organisms including bacteria. However, our study revealed a beneficial effect of the filamentous...

Microbial diversity determines the invasion of soil by a bacterial pathogen18. 6. 2013

Control of protein diffusion within thylakoids18. 6. 2013

Miroslava Herbstová, PhD (IPMB) is co-author of paper, originated during her post-doctoral fellowship at Washington State University. Paper was published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National...

Freeze tolerance in a drosophilid fly – PNAS paper18. 6. 2013

 Košťál V., Zahradníčková H., Šimek P. (2011). Hyperprolinemic larvae of the drosophilid fly, Chymomyza costata, survive cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen....