RNDr. Radka Reifová, Ph.D.


Position

Researcher/Lecturer, Head of the Division of Animal Evolutionary Biology

Contact Information

Division of Animal Evolutionary Biology, Department of Zoology
Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
Viničná 7, 128 44 Praha, Czech Republic
Room No.: 225
Phone: +420–22195 1852
E-mail: radkas[a]natur.cuni.cz

Personal webpage

http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~radkas

Research Group

Population and Evolutionary Genetics

Research Interests

Genetics; evolutionary biology; ecology; speciation; sex chromosome evolution; birds

Grants

Czech Science Foundation (15-10884Y) Evolution of reproductive isolation in two songbird species, The Common Nightingale and the Thrush nightingale: genomic and ecological perspective (2015-2017, PI – R. Reifová)

Students and Postdocs

Richard Ian Bailey (Postdoc)
Václav Janoušek (Postdoc)
Libor Mořkovský (PhD student)
Camille Sottas (PhD student)
Kamila Opletalová (Master student)
Hana Kohoutová (Master student)

Teaching

Evolutionary Genetics (MB170P24)
Principles of Genetics (MB140P16)
Genetic Methods in Zoology (MB170P66)
Molecular phylogenetics and systematics (MB160P21)

Selected Publications

Reifová R, Majerová V, Reif J, Ahola M, Lindholm A, Procházka P (2016). Patterns of gene flow and selection across multiple species of Acrocephalus warblers: footprints of parallel selection on the Z chromosome. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16(1):130.
Bhattacharyya T, Reifova R, Gregorova S, Simecek P, Gergelits V, Mistrik M, Martincova I, Pialek J and Forejt J (2014). X Chromosome Control of Meiotic Chromosome Synapsis in Mouse Inter-Subspecific Hybrids. PLoS Genetics 10(2): e1004088.
Reifová R, Reif J, Antczak M and Nachman MW (2011). Ecological character displacement in the face of gene flow: Evidence from two species of nightingales. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:138.
Storchová R, Reif J and Nachman MW (2010). Female heterogamety and speciation: Reduced introgression of the Z chromosome between two species of nightingales. Evolution 64(2):456-71.
Gregorová S, Divina P, Storchová R, Trachtulec Z, Fotopulosová V, Svenson KL, Donahue LR, Paigen B and Forejt J (2008). Mouse consomic strains: exploiting genetic divergence between Mus m. musculus and Mus m. domesticus subspecies. Genome Research 18(3):509-15.
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