Prof. RNDr. Jan Zima, DrSc.
Position
Professor
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.: 239
Phone: +420–22195 1856
E-mail: jzima[a]brno.cas.cz
Personal webpage
Research Group
Population and Evolutionary Genetics
Research Interests
Comparative and evolutionary cytogenetics; systematics and phylogeny of mammals
Teaching
Vertebrate zoology (MB170P13A)
Genetic Methods in Zoology (MB170P66)
Biological diversity (MB170P89)
Selected Publications
Zima J, Arslan A, Benda P, Macholán M and Kryštufek B (2013). Chromosomal variation in social voles: a Robertsonian fusion in Günther‘s vole. Acta Theriologica (doi 10.1007/s13364-012-0113-x)
Arslan A, Yorulmaz T, Toyran K, Albayrak I and Zima J (2012). Chromosome banding paterns in Euphrates jerboa, Allactaga euphratica (Mammalia: Rodentia) from Turkey. Mammalia 76(4): 435-439.
Horn A, Basset P, Yannic G, Banaszek A, Borodin PM, Bulatova NS, Jadwiszczak K, Jones RM, Polyakov AV, Ratkiewicz M, Searle JB, Shchipanov NA, Zima J, Hausser J (2012). Chromosomal rearrangements do not seem to affect the gene flow in hybrid zones between karyotypic races of the common shrew (Sorex araneus). Evolution 66(3): 882-889.
Pikula J, Banouchova H, Novotný L, Metermeyer CU, Zukal J, Irwin NR, Zima J and Martínková N (2012). Histopathology confirms white-nose syndrome in bats in Europe. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 48(1): 207-211.
Arslan A, Şükrüye A and Zima J (2011). Variation in C-heterochromatin and NORs distribution among chromosomal races of mole rats (Spalacidae) from Central Anatolia, Turkey. Mammalian Biology 76: 28-35.
Books
Gaisler J & Zima J (2007). Zoologie obratlovců. 2. přepracované vydání. Academia, Praha, 692 s. ISBN 978-80-200-1484-9.
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Aulagnier S, Haffner P, Mitchell-Jones AJ, Moutou F and Zima J (2009). Mammals of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. A&C Black Publishers, London, 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-4081-1399-8.
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