The articles (sometimes only abstracts) can be read by pressing the arrows. Titles of my favorable papers are printed in red bold.

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• Berenreiterová M., Flegr J., Kuběna A.A., Němec P. 2011: The distribution of Toxoplasma gondii cysts in the brain of a mouse with latent toxoplasmosis: Implications for the behavioral manipulation hypothesis. PLoS ONE, accepted.   ←click
• Holub D., Bankovská M., Dragomirecká E., Rodriguez M., Preiss M., Novák T., Čermák J., Horáček J., Libiger J., Flegr J. 2011: Possible protective function of Rh factor in schizophrenia. Psychiatrie, 15: 37-42.   ←click
• Flegr J., Stříz I. 2011: Potential immunomodulatory effects of latent toxoplasmosis in humans. BMC Infectious Diseases, 11:274.   ←click
• Flegr J., Lenochová P., Hodný Z, Vondrová M. 2011: Fatal attraction phenomenon in humans – cat odour attractiveness increased for toxoplasma-infected men while decreased for infected women. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5:e1389.   ←click
• Kulich T., Flegr J. 2011: Effects of multiple gene control on the spread of altruism by group selection. J. Theor. Biol. 284, 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.05.017.   ←click
• Lindová J., Příplatová L., Flegr J. 2011: Higher extraversion and lower conscientiousness in humans infected with Toxoplasma. European Journal of Personality, DOI: 10.1002/per.838.   ←click
• Kaňková S, Kodym P., Flegr J. 2011: Direct evidence of Toxoplasma-induced changes in serum testosterone in mice. Experimental Parasitology, 128, 181-183.   ←click
• Horacek J., Flegr J., Tintera J., Verebova K., Spaniel F., Novak T., Brunovsky M., Bubenikova-Valesova V., Palenicek T., Höschl C. 2011: Latent toxoplasmosis reduces gray matter density in schizophrenia but not in controls. Voxel-based-morphometry (VBM) study. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, accepted.   ←click
• Kanková S, Holán V., Zajícová A., Kodym P., Flegr J. 2010: Modulation of immunity in mice with latent toxoplasmosis – the experimental support for the immunosupression hypothesis of Toxoplasma-induced changes in reproduction of mice and humans. Parasitology Research, 107: 1421-1427..  ←click
• Flegr J., Príplatová L. 2010: Testosterone and cortisol levels in university students reflect actual rather than estimated number of wrong answers on written exam. Neuroendocrinology Letters, 31: 577-581.  ←click
• Flegr J. 2010: Influence of latent toxoplasmosis on the phenotype of intermediate hosts. Folia Parasitologica 57: 81-87.  ←click
• Lindová J., Kubena A.A., Sturcová H., Krivohlavá R., Novotná M., Rubesová A., Havlícek J., Kodym P. and Flegr J. 2010: Pattern of money allocation in experimental games supports the stress hypothesis of gender differences in Toxoplasma gondii-induced behavioural changes. Folia Parasitologica, 57: 136-142.  ←click
• Flegr J., Novotná M., Fialová A., Kolbeková P., Gasová Z. 2010: The influence of RhD phenotype on toxoplasmosis- andage-associated changes in personality profile of blood donors. Folia Parasitologica, 57: 143-150.   ←click
• Kanková S., Sulc J., Flegr J. 2010: . Increased pregnancy weight gain in women with latent toxoplasmosis and RhD-positivity protection against this effect. Parasitology, 137: 1773-1779.   ←click
• Kleisner K., Kocnar T., Rubesová A., Flegr J. 2010: Eye color predicts but does not directly influence perceived dominance in men. Personality and Individual Differences, 49: 59-64.   ←click
• Flegr J. 2010: Elastic, not plastic species: Frozen plasticity theory and the origin of adaptive evolution in sexually reproducing organisms. Biology Direct, 5:2.   ←click
• Kleisner K., Ivell R., Flegr J. 2010: The evolutionary history of testicular externalization and the origin of the scrotum. Journal of Biosciences, 35: 27-37.   ←click
• Flegr J. 2009: A possible role of intracellular isoelectric focusing in the evolution of eukaryotic cells and multicellular organisms. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 69: 445-451.   ←click
• Kratochvíl L. Flegr J. 2009: Differences in the 2nd to 4th digit length ratio in humans reflect shifts along the common allometric line. Biology Letters, 5: 643-646.   ←click
• Flegr J., Klose J., Novotna M., Berenreitterová M. & Havlicek J. 2009: Increased incidence of traffic accidents in Toxoplasma-infected military drivers and protective effect RhD molecule revealed by a large-scale prospective cohort study.. BMC Infect. Dis. 9:72.   ←click
• Holub D., Motlová L., Dragomirecká E., Novák T., Cermák J., Rodriguez M., Preiss M., Ungrmanová M., Panochová A., Flegr J. 2008: Vigilance/sustained attention abnormalities in subjects with latent toxoplaxmosis. Psychiatrie 12, Supl. 3.   ←click
• Kostka M., Uzlikova M., Cepicka I., Flegr J. 2008: SlowFaster, a user-friendly program for slow-fast analysis and its application on phylogeny of Blastocystis. BMC Bioinformatics, 9:341.   ←click
• Flegr J., Novotná M., Lindová J. & Havlícek J. 2008: Neurophysiological effect of the Rh factor. Protective role of the RhD molecule against Toxoplasma-induced impairment of reaction times in women. Neuroendocrinology Letters, 29(4): 475-481.   ←click
• Novotná M., Havlícek J., Smith A.P., Kolbeková P., Skallová A., Klose J, Gasová Z., Písacka M., Sechovská M. & Flegr J. 2008 Toxoplasma and reaction time: Role of toxoplasmosis in the origin, preservation and geographical distribution of Rh blood group polymorphism. Parasitology, 135: 1253-1261.   ←click
• Havlicek J., Saxton T.K., Roberts C., Jozifkova E., Lhota S., Valentova J. & Flegr J. 2008: He sees, she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate-choice contexts. Personality and Individual Differences, 45: 565-570.   ←click
• Janko K., Drozd P., Flegr J. and Pannell J. 2008: Clonal decay: a null model for observed patterns of asexual longevity, diversity and distribution. Evolution, 62:1264-1270.   ←click
• Flegr J, Lindová J., Pivonkova V. and Havlicek J. 2008: Latent toxoplasmosis and salivary testosterone concentration – important confounding factors in second to fourth digit ratio studies. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 20: 487-489. ←click
• Kolisko M., Cepicka I., Hampl V., Leigh J., Roger A.J., Kulda J., Simpson A.G.B. & Flegr J. 2008: Molecular phylogeny of diplomonads and enteromonads based on SSU rRNA, a-tubulin and HSP90 genes: implications for the evolutionary history of the double karyomastigont of diplomonads BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8:205. ←click
• Cepicka I., Kostka M., Uzlíková M., Kulda J., Flegr J. 2008 : Non-monophyly of Retortamonadida and high genetic diversity of the genus Chilomastix suggested by analysis of SSU rDNA. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 48:770-775. ←click
• Lindová J., Hrusková M., Pivoňková V., Kuběna A. and Flegr J. 2008: Digit ratio (2D:4D) and Cattell’s personality traits. Eur. J. Personality, 22, 347-356.   ←click
• Flegr J., Lindova J., Kodym P. 2008: Sex-dependent toxoplasmosis-associated differences in testosterone concentration in humans. Parasitology, 135:427-431. ←click
• Kanková Š., Flegr J. 2007: Longer pregnancy and slower fetal development in women with latent "asymptomatic" toxoplasmosis. BMC Infectious Diseases, BMC 7:114 ←click
• Kanková S., Kodym P., Frynta D., Vavrinová R., Kubena A., Flegr J. 2007: Influence of latent toxoplasmosis on the secondary sex ratio in mice. Parasitology, 134: 1709-1717 ←click
• Kolbekova P., Kourbatova E., Novotna M., Kodym P., Flegr J. 2007: New and old risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii infection – Prospective cross-sectional study among military personnel in Czech Republic. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 13: 1012-1017.  ←click
• Hodková H, Kolbeková P, Skallová A, Lindová J. and Flegr J. 2007: Higher perceived dominance in Toxoplasma infected men – a new evidence for role of increased level of testosterone in toxoplasmosis-associated changes in human behavior Neuroendocrinology Letters, 28: 110-114. ←click
• Hodkova H., Kodym P., Flegr J. 2007: Poorer results of mice with latent toxoplasmosis in learning tests: impaired learning processes or the novelty discrimination mechanism? Parasitology, 134: 1329-1337. ←click
• Hampl V., Cepicka I., Flegr J., Tachezy J., Kulda J. 2007: Morphological and molecular diversity of the monocercomonadid genera Monocercomonas, Hexamastix and Honigbergiella gen. nov. Protist, 158: 365-383. ←click
• Flegr J. 2007: Effects of Toxoplasma on human behaviour. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2007: 33, 757-760. ←click
• Flegr J. 2007: Where is modern evolutionary biology heading - the theory of frozen plasticity and biological psychiatry. Psychiatrie 11, Suppl. 2, 11-13. ←click
• Kostka M., Cepicka I., Hampl V. and Flegr J. 2007: Phylogenetic position of Karotomorpha and paraphyly of Proteromonadidae, Mol. Phyl. Evol. 43: 1167-1170.  ←click
• Kanková S., Sulc J. ,Nouzová K., Fajfrlík K., Frynta D., Flegr J. 2007: Women infected with parasite Toxoplasma have more sons. Naturwissenschaften 94: 122-127 ←click
• Flegr J. Evolutionary parasitology: the development of invasion, evasion, and survival mechanisms. 2006: in: Food consumption and disease risk - consumer pathogen interactions, Ed. M Potter, 251-270, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Abington Hall, Abington, Cambridge ←click
• Jozifkova E. & Flegr J. 2006: Dominance, submissivity (and homosexuality) in general population. Testing of evolutionary hypothesis of sadomasochism by internet-trap-method. Neuroendocrinology Letters, 27: 711-718. ←click
• Lindová J., Novotná M., Havlícek J., Smídová E., Skallová A., Kolbeková P., Hodný Z., Kodym P. and Flegr J. 2006: Gender differences in behavioural changes induced by latent toxoplasmosis. International Journal for Parasitology,  36: 1485-1492 ←click
• Havlíček J., Dvořáková R, Bartos L, Flegr J. 2006: Non-advertised does not mean concealed. Body odour changes across the human menstrual cycle. Ethology, 112: 81-90. ←click
• Skallová A., Kodym P., Frynta D., Flegr J. 2006: The role of dopamine in Toxoplasma-induced behavioural alterations in mice: an ethological and ethopharmacological study. Parasitology, 133, 525-535. ←click
• Cepicka I., Hampl V., Kulda J., Flegr J. 2006: New evolutionary lineages, unexpected diversity and host specificity in the parabasalid genus Tetratrichomonas. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 39 (2): 542-551. ←click
• Havlicek J., Roberts S.C. and Flegr J. 2005: Women's preference for dominant male odour: effects of menstrual cycle and relationship status. Biology Letters, 1: 256-259. ←click
• Skallová A., Novotná M., Kolbeková P., Gasová Z., Veselý V., Sechovská M, Flegr J 2005: Decreased level of novelty seeking in blood donors infected with Toxoplasma. Neuroendocrinology Letters, 26: 480-486. ←click
• Hampl V., Horner D.S., Dyal P., Kulda J., Flegr J., Foster P., Embley T.M. 2005: Inference of phylogenetic position of oxymonads based on 9 genes: Support for monophyly of Metamonada and Excavata. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22: 2508-2518. ←click
• Novotná M., Hanusova J, Klose J., Preiss M., Havlicek J., Roubalová K., Flegr J. 2005: Probable neuroimmunological link between Toxoplasma> and cytomegalovirus infections and personality changes in the human host. BMC Infectious Diseases, 5:54. ←click
• Kutisova K., Kulda J., Cepicka I., Flegr J., Koudela B. , Teras J., Tachezy J. 2005: Tetratrichomonads from oral cavity and respiratory tract of humans. Parasitology 131: 309-319. ←click
• Kolisko M., Cepicka I., Hampl V., Kulda J. Flegr J. 2005: The phylogenetic position of enteromonads: a challenge for the present models of diplomonad evolution. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 55: 1729-1733. click
• Flegr, J. Hrusková M.., Hodný Z., Hanusová J. 2005: Body height, body mass index, waist-hip ratio, fluctuating asymmetry and second to fourth digit ratio in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis. Parasitology, 130: 621-628. ←click
• Cepicka I., Kutisová K.,Tachezy J., Kulda J., Flegr J. 2005:Cryptic species within the Tetratrichomonas gallinarum species complex revealed by molecular polymorphism. Veterinary Parasitology, 128: 11-21. ←click
• Flegr J. 2005: Evolucní biologie. 1-559, Academia, Praha. ←click
• Flegr J., Hrdá S., Kodym P. 2005: Influence of latent 'symptomatic' toxoplasmosis on body weight of pregnant women. Folia Parasitologica 52: 199-204 ←click
• Kostka M, Hampl V., Cepicka I, Flegr J. 2004: Phylogenetic position of Protoopalina intestinalis based on SSU rRNA gene sequence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 220-224. click
• Hampl V, Cepicka I, Flegr J, Tachezy J, Kulda J 2004: Critical analysis of the topology and rooting of the parabasalian 16S rRNA tree. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32: 711-723 click
• Roberts S.C., Havlicek J., Flegr J., Hruskova M., Little A.C., Jones B.C., Perrett D.I., Petrie M. 2004: Female facial attractiveness increases during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Proceeding of the Royal Society London B, Biology Letters 271: S270-S272 Suppl. 5 ←click
• Sedinová J., Flegr, J. Ey, P.L. & Kulda J. 2003: Use of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis for the identification of Giardia intestinalis subtypes and phylogenetic tree construction. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 50: 198-203. ←click
• Flegr J., Preiss M., Klose J., Havlíček J., Vitáková M, Kodym P.  2003: Decreased level of psychobiological factor novelty seeking and lower intelligence in men latently infected with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Dopamine, a missing link between schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis. Biological Psychology, 63: 253-268. ←click
• Flegr J., Havlícek J.,  Kodym P.,  Malý M.,  Smahel Z. 2002: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis: a retrospective case-control study. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2: 11 (1-13).←click
• Tachezy J., Tachezy R., Hampl V., Sedinová M., Vanácová S., Vrlík M., Van Ranst, M., Flegr J. and Kulda J. 2002: Cattle pathogen Ttritrichomonas foetus (Riedmüller, 1928) and pig commensal Tritrichomonas suis (Gruby & Delafond, 1843) belong to the same species. J Eukaryot Microbiol., 49: 154-63 ←click
• Flegr J. 2002: Was Lysenko (partly) right? Michurinist biology in the view of modern plant physiology and genetics. Riv.Biol./B. Forum, 95, 259-272. ←click  facsimile ←click
• Dvorák J., Vanácová S., Hampl V., Flegr J. and Horák P. 2002: Comparison of European Trichobilharzia species based on ITS1 and ITS2 sequences. Parasitology, 124: 307-313. ←click
• Hampl V., Vanácová S, Kulda J., Flegr J. 2001: Concordance between genetic relatedness and phenotypic similarities of Trichomonas vaginalis strains. BMC Evolutionary Biology 1: 11. ←click
• Hampl V., Pavlícek A., Flegr J. 2001: Construction and bootstrap analysis of DNA fingerprinting-based phylogenetic trees with a freeware program FreeTree: Application to trichomonad parasites. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 51: 731-735. ←click
• Havlícek J., Gasová Z., Smith A. P. , Zvára K, J. Flegr J. 2001: Decrease of psychomotor performance in subjects with latent "asymptomatic" toxoplasmosis. Parasitology, 122: 515-520.←click
• Flegr J., Kodym P., and Tolarová V. 2000: Correlation of duration of latent Toxoplasma gondii infection with personality changes in women. Biological Psychology, 53: 57-68. ←click
• Hrdá S., Votýpka J., Kodym P., and Flegr J. 2000: Transient nature of Toxoplasma gondii-induced behavioral changes in mice. Journal of Parasitology, 86: 657-663. ←click
• Flegr J. 1999: Evolutionary mechanisms and processes. In: Encyclopedia of life support systems, Al Gobaisi D. a Badran A. (eds), UNESCO, Paris. ←click
• Flegr J., Hrdá S., Havlícek J. 1999: Rozdíly v osobnostním profilu biologů nakazených a nenakazených T. gondii Remedia - Klinická mikrobiologie 3: 268-273. ←click
• Pavlícek A., Hrdá S., Flegr J. 1999: FreeTree - freeware program for construction of phylogenetic trees on the basis of distance data and for bootstrap/jackknife analysis of the trees robustness. Application in the RAPD analysis of genus Frenkelia. Folia Biologica (Praha) 45: 97-99. ←click facsimile ←click
• Flegr J., Havlícek J. 1999: Changes in personality profile of young women with latent toxoplasmosis. Folia Parasitologica, 46: 22-28. ←click
• Votypka J., Hypsa V., Jirku M., Flegr J., Vávra J. and Lukes J. 1998: Molecular phylogeny of the genus Frenkelia (Protozoa, Apicomplexa): Relatedness of Frenkelia spp. to Sarcocystis falcatula Siles 1893. Is the genus Sarcocystis Paraphyletic? J.Eukaryot.Microbiol. 45: 137-141. ←click
• Flegr J. 1998: Mechanismy mikroevoluce Karolinun Press, Prague, 382-029-98, pp. 139.
• Flegr J. 1998: On the "Origin" of natural selection by means of speciation.  Riv.Biol./B. Forum 91: 291-304. The most important paper. It suggests a new genetic mechanism of evolutionary stasis and evolutionary plasticity. ←click facsimile ←click
• Flegr J. Zitková Š., Tachezy J. 1998: The role of psychological factors in questionnaire-based studies on routes of human toxoplasmosis transmission: The raw meat consumption but not the contact with cats is the major risk factor. Centr.Europ.J.Publ. Healt 6: 45-50. ←click
• Flegr J., Záboj P. and Vanácová S. 1998: Correlation between aerobic and anaerobic resistance to metronidazole in trichomonads: Application of a new computer program for permutation tests. Parasitology Research, 84: 590-592. ←click
• Flegr J. 1997: Two distinct types of natural selection in turbidostat-like and chemostat-like ecosystems.  J.theor.Biol. 188: 121-126.←click
• Flegr J. and Záboj P. 1997: PTPT, the freeware program for permutation testing concordance between phylogeny and the distribution of phenetic traits.  Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 61: 91-95. ←click facsimile ←click
• Vanácová S., Tachezy J., Kulda J. and Flegr J. 1997: Characterization of trichomonad species and strains by PC fingerprinting. J.Eukar.Microbiol. 44: 545-552. ←click
• Flegr J., Zitková Š., Kodym P., Frynta D. 1996: Induction of changes in human behaviour by the parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. Parasitology, Vol 113, p. 49 - 54. ←click facsimile ←click
• Flegr J. 1996: Corrigendum to Does a cell perform isoelectric focusing? BioSystems 37 253. 0303-2647 ←click facsimile ←click
• Flegr J. 1996: Environmental selection, the missing term in Darwinism. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 60: 95-96, 1996 ISSN 0862-5247 ←click facsimile ←click
• Flegr J., Hrdy I. 1994: Influence chronic toxoplasmosis on some personality factors. Folia Parasitol. 41: 122-126. ←click
• Flegr J., Tsukamoto T. 1994: Sequence mitochondrial D-loop in laboratory and wild strains of genus mus. Acta Soc.Zool.Bohem. 58: 33-38.←click facsimile ←click
• Flegr J. 1994: Mechanismy mikroevoluce. s. 1-116, Karolinum, Praha
• Flegr J. 1990: Does a cell perform isoelectric focusing? BioSystems 24 127-133.←click facsimile ←click
• Flegr J., Cerkasov J., Stokrová J. 1988: Multiple populations of double-stranded RNA in two virus-harbouring strains of Trichomonas vaginalis. Folia Microbiologica 33, 462-465. ←click facsimile ←click
• Flegr J. 1987: A rapid method for isolation of double stranded RNA. Preparative Biochemistry, 17: 423-433. ←click
• Flegr J., Cerkasov J., Kulda J., Tachezy J., Stokrová J. 1987: The dsRNA of Trichomonas vaginalis is associated with virus-like particles and does not correlate with metronidazole rezistance. Folia Microbiologica 32: 345-348. ←click facsimile ←click
• Flegr J., Cerkasov J., Kulda J., Tachezy J.,Stokrová J. 1986: Double stranded RNA in Trichomonas vaginalis. Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Biologica 30, : 281-286. ←click facsimile ←click