Key publications highlighted
Natural selection directing molecular evolution in vertebrate viral sensors
Authors: Balraj Melepat, Tao Li, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2024 in Developmental and Comparative Immunology
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2024.105147
Varying conjunctival immune response adaptations of house finch populations to a rapidly evolving bacterial pathogen
Authors: Nithya Kuttiyarthu Veetil, Amberleigh E. Henschen, Dana M. Hawley, Balraj Melepat, Rami A. Dalloul, Vladimír Beneš, James S. Adelman, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2024 in Frontiers in Immunology
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1250818
Nearly (?) sterile avian egg in a passerine bird
Authors: Martin Těšický, Lucie Schmiedová, Tereza Krajzingrová, Mercedes Gomez Samblas, Petra Bauerová, Jakub Kreisinger, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2024 in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad164
Bacterial communities along parrot digestive and respiratory tracts: the effects of sample type, species and time
Authors: Lucie Schmiedová, Kateřina Černá, Tao Li, Martin Těšický, Jakub Kreisinger, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2024 in International Microbiology
DOI: 10.1007/s10123-023-00372-y
Peripheral inflammation-induced changes in songbird brain gene expression: 3’ mRNA transcriptomic approach
Authors: Nithya Kuttiyarthu Veetil, Haniel Cedraz de Oliveira, Mercedes Gomez-Samblas, Daniel Divín, Balraj Melepat, Eleni Voukali, Zuzana Świderská, Tereza Krajzingrová, Martin Těšický, Ferris Jung, Vladimír Beneš, Ole Madsen, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2024 in Developmental and Comparative Immunology
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2023.105106
Genome sequence of novel Parvovirus from Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)
Authors: Dominika Kadlečková, Michal Vinkler, Ruth Tachezy, Martina Saláková
Published: 2023 in Microbiology Resource Announcements
DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00453-23
Rapid adaptation to a novel pathogen through disease tolerance in a wild songbird
Authors: Amberleigh E. Henschen, Michal Vinkler, Marissa M. Langager, Allison A. Rowley, Rami A. Dalloul, Dana M. Hawley, James S. Adelman
Published: 2023 in PLoS Pathogens
DOI: 0.1371/journal.ppat.1011408
Understanding the evolution of immune genes in jawed vertebrates
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Steven R. Fiddaman, Martin Těšický, Emily A. O’Connor, Anna E. Savage, Tobias L. Lenz, Adrian L. Smith, Jim Kaufman, Daniel I. Bolnick, Charli S. Davies, Neira Dedić, Andrew S. Flies, M. Mercedes Gómez Samblás, Amberleigh E. Henschen, Karel Novák, Gemma Palomar, Nynke Raven, Kalifa Samaké, Joel Slade, Nithya Kuttiyarthu Veetil, Eleni Voukali, Jacob Höglund, David S. Richardson, Helena Westerdahl
Published: 2023 in Journal of Evolutionary Biology
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14181
Divergent evolution drives high diversity of toll-like receptors (TLRs) in passerine birds: Buntings and finches
Authors: Radosław Włodarczyk, Martin Těšický, Michal Vinkler, Marian Novotný, Magdalena Remisiewicz, Tomasz Janiszewski, Piotr Minias
Published: 2023 in Developmental and Comparative Immunology
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2023.104704
Dynamic evolution of avian RNA virus sensors: Repeated loss of RIG-I and RIPLET
Authors: Veronika Krchlíková, Tomáš Hron, Martin Těšický, Tao Li, Lenka Ungrová, Jiří Hejnar, Michal Vinkler, Daniel Elleder
Published: 2023 in Viruses
DOI: 10.3390/v15010003
Effect of population size and selection on Toll-like receptor diversity in populations of Galápagos mockingbirds
Authors: Jakub Vlček, Matěj Miláček, Michal Vinkler & Jan Štefka
Published: 2023 in Journal of Evolutionary Biology
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14121
Cannabinoid receptor 2 evolutionary gene loss makes parrots more susceptible to neuroinflammation
Authors: Daniel Divín, Mercedes Goméz Samblas, Nithya Kuttiyarthu Veetil, Eleni Voukali, Zuzana Świderská, Tereza Krajzingrová, Martin Těšický, Vladimír Beneš, Daniel Elleder, Oldřich Bartoš, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2022 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1941
Proteomic-based evidence for adult neurogenesis in birds and mammals as indicated from cerebrospinal fluid
Authors: Eleni Voukali, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2022 in Neural Regeneration Research
DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.329002
Selection balancing at innate immune genes: Adaptive polymorphism maintenance in Toll-like receptors
Authors: Piotr Minias, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2022 in Molecular Biology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac102
Adaptation and cryptic pseudogenization in penguin Toll-like receptors
Authors: Steven R Fiddaman, Michal Vinkler, Simon G Spiro, Hila Levy, Christopher A Emerling, Amy C Boyd, Evangelos A Dimopoulos, Juliana A Vianna, Theresa L Cole, Hailin Pan, Miaoquan Fang, Guojie Zhang, Tom Hart, Laurent A F Frantz, Adrian L Smith
Published: 2022 in Molecular Biology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab354
Inter-annual repeatability and age-dependent changes in plasma testosterone levels in a longitudinally monitored free-living passerine bird
Authors: Martin Těšický, Tereza Krajzingrová, Jiří Eliáš, Hana Velová, Jana Svobodová, Petra Bauerová, Tomáš Albrecht, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2022 in Oecologia
DOI: 10.1007/S00442-021-05077-5
Repeated MDA5 gene loss in birds: An evolutionary perspective
Authors: Veronika Krchlíková, Tomáš Hron, Martin Těšický, Tao Li, Jiří Hejnar, Michal Vinkler, Daniel Elleder
Published: 2021 in Viruses
DOI: 10.3390/V1311213
Longitudinal evidence for immunosenescence and inflammaging in free-living great tits
Authors: Martin Těšický, Tereza Krajzingrová, Zuzana Świderská, Kamila Syslová, Barbora Bílková, Jiří Eliáš, Hana Velová, Jana Svobodová, Petra Bauerová, Tomáš Albrecht, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2021 in Experimental Gerontology
DOI: 10.1016/J.EXGER.2021.111527
Comparison of plasma and cerebrospinal fluid proteomes identifies gene products guiding adult neurogenesis and neural differentiation in birds
Authors: Eleni Voukali, Nithya Kuttiyarthu Veetil, Pavel Němec, Pavel Stopka, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2021 in Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-021-84274-X
Molecular evolution of antigen processing genes in salamanders: do they coevolve with MHC class I genes?
Authors: Gemma Palomar, Katarzyna Dudek, Ben Wielstra, Elizabeth L Jockusch, Michal Vinkler, Jan W Arntzen, Gentile F Ficetola, Masatoshi Matsunami, Bruce Waldman, Martin Těšický, Piotr Zieliński, Wiesław Babik
Published: 2021 in Genome Biology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa259
Positive selection and convergent evolution shape molecular phenotypic traits of innate immunity receptors in tits (Paridae)
Authors: Martin Těšický, Hana Velová, Marian Novotný, Jakub Kreisinger, Vladimír Beneš, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2020 in Molecular Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15547
Longitudinally monitored lifetime changes in blood heavy metal concentrations and their health effects in urban birds
Authors: Petra Bauerová, Tereza Krajzingrová, Martin Těšický, Hana Velová, Jakub Hraníček, Stanislav Musil, Jana Svobodová, Tomáš Albrecht, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2020 in Science of the Total Environment
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2020.138002
Comparative analysis of the chicken IFITM locus by targeted genome sequencing reveals evolution of the locus and positive selection in IFITM1 and IFITM3
Authors: Irene Bassano, Swee Hoe Ong, Maximo Sanz-Hernandez, Michal Vinkler, Adebabay Kebede, Olivier Hanotte, Ebele Onuigbo, Mark Fife, Paul Kellam
Published: 2019 in BMC Genomics
DOI: 10.1186/S12864-019-5621-5
Avian Toll-like receptor allelic diversity far exceeds human polymorphism: an insight from domestic chicken breeds
Authors: Zuzana Świderská, Adéla Šmídová, Lucie Buchtová, Anna Bryjová, Anežka Fabiánová, Pavel Munclinger, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2018 in Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-36226-1
Differing house finch cytokine expression responses to original and evolved isolates of Mycoplasma gallisepticum
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Ariel E. Leon, Laila Kirkpatrick, Rami A. Dalloul, Dana M. Hawley
Published: 2018 in Frontiers in Immunology
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00013
Domestic fowl breed variation in egg white protein expression: application of proteomics and transcriptomics
Authors: Barbora Bílková, Zuzana Świderská, Lukáš Zita, Denis Laloë, Mathieu Charles, Vladimír Beneš, Pavel Stopka, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2018 in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b03099
Signatures of diversifying selection and convergence acting on passerine Toll-like receptor 4 in an evolutionary context
Authors: Tereza Králová, Tomáš Albrecht, Josef Bryja, David Hořák, Arild Johnsen, Jan T. Lifjeld, Marian Novotný, Ondřej Sedláček, Hana Velová, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2018 in Molecular Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/mec.14724
Sperm variation in Great Tit males (Parus major) is linked to a haematological health-related trait, but not ornamentation
Authors: Jana Svobodová, Petra Bauerová, Jiří Eliáš, Hana Velová, Michal Vinkler, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2018 in Journal of Ornithology
DOI: 10.1007/S10336-018-1559-7
Toll-like receptor evolution in birds: gene duplication, pseudogenization and diversifying selection
Authors: Hana Velová, Maria W Gutowska-Ding, David W Burt, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2018 in Molecular Biology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/MOLBEV/MSY119
Associations of urban environmental pollution with health-related physiological traits in a free-living bird species
Authors: Petra Bauerová, Jitka Vinklerová, Jakub Hraníček, Vojtěch Čorba, Libor Vojtek, Jana Svobodová, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2017 in Science of The Total Environment
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.276
Codiversification of gastrointestinal microbiota and phylogeny in passerines is not explained by ecological divergence
Authors: Lucie Kropáčková, Martin Těšický, Tomáš Albrecht, Jan Kubovčiak, Dagmar Čížková, Oldřich Tomášek, Jean‐François Martin, Lukáš Bobek, Tereza Králová, Petr Procházka, Jakub Kreisinger
Published: 2017 in Molecular Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/MEC.14144
Different breeds, different blood: Cytometric analysis of whole blood cellular composition in chicken breeds
Authors: Barbora Bílková, Zuzana Bainová, Jozef Janda, Lukáš Zita, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2017 in Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2017.05.001
Variation between the oral and faecal microbiota in a free-living passerine bird, the great tit (Parus major)
Authors: Lucie Kropáčková, Hana Pechmanová, Michal Vinkler, Jana Svobodová, Hana Velová, Martin Těšičký, Jean-François Martin, Jakub Kreisinger
Published: 2017 in Plos One
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179945
Application of Concanavalin A during immune responsiveness skin-swelling tests facilitates measurement interpretation in mammalian ecology
Authors: Barbora Bílková, Tomáš Albrecht, Milada Chudíčková, Vladimír Holáň, Jaroslav Piálek, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2016 in Ecology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2211
Genetic diversity of NHE1, receptor for subgroup J avian leukosis virus, in domestic chicken and wild anseriform species
Authors: Markéta Reinišová, Jiří Plachý, Dana Kučerová, Filip Šenigl, Michal Vinkler, Jiří Hejnar
Published: 2016 in Plos One
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150589
Melanin and carotenoid ornaments are related to the individual condition in free-living grey partridges (Perdix perdix)
Authors: Jana Svobodová, Barbora Gabrielová, Pavel Hyršl, Tomáš Albrecht, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2016 in Journal of Ornithology
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-016-1349-z
Opposing effects of oxidative challenge and carotenoids on antioxidant status and condition-dependent sexual signalling
Authors: Oldřich Tomášek, Barbora Gabrielová, Petr Kačer, Petr Maršík, Jana Svobodová, Kamila Syslová, Michal Vinkler, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2016 in Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.1038/srep23546
Characterisation of Toll-like receptors 4, 5 and 7 and their genetic variation in the grey partridge
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Hana Bainová, Anna Bryjová, Oldřich Tomášek, Tomáš Albrecht, Josef Bryja
Published: 2015 in Genetica
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-015-9819-4
Effects of heterozygosity and MHC diversity on patterns of extra-pair paternity in the socially monogamous scarlet rosefinch
Authors: Jamie C. Winternitz, Marta Promerová, Radka Poláková, Michal Vinkler, Jan Schnitzer, Pavel Munclinger, Wiesław Babik, Jacek Radwan, Josef Bryja, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2015 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-014-1858-9
The relationship between health and cell-mediated immunity measured in ecology: phytohaemagglutinin skin-swelling test mirrors blood cellular composition
Authors: Barbora Bílková, Jitka Vinklerová, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2015 in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part a-Ecological Genetics and Physiology
DOI: 10.1002/jez.1990
Trans-species polymorphism in immune genes: general pattern or MHC-restricted phenomenon?
Authors: Martin Těšický, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2015 in Journal of Immunology Research
DOI: 10.1155/2015/838035
Contrasting patterns of polymorphism and selection in bacterial-sensing Toll-like receptor 4 in two house mouse subspecies
Authors: Alena Fornuskova, Josef Bryja, Michal Vinkler, Miloš Macholán, Jaroslav Piálek
Published: 2014 in Ecology and Evolution
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1137
Cytokine expression in phytohaemagglutinin-induced skin inflammation in a galliform bird
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Jana Svobodová, Barbora Gabrielová, Hana Bainová, Anna Bryjová
Published: 2014 in Journal of Avian Biology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2011.05860.x
First evidence of independent pseudogenization of Toll-like receptor 5 in passerine birds
Authors: Hana Bainová, Tereza Králová, Anna Bryjová, Tomáš Albrecht, Josef Bryja, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2014 in Developmental and Comparative Immunology
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2014.02.010
Male ornamentation and within-pair paternity are not associated with male provisioning rates in scarlet rosefinches Carpodacus erythrinus
Authors: Jan Schnitzer, Alice Exnerová, Radka Poláková, Michal Vinkler, Oldřich Tomášek, Pavel Munclinger, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2014 in Acta Ethologica
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-013-0167-z
Protein evolution of Toll-like receptors 4, 5 and 7 within Galloanserae birds
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Hana Bainová, Josef Bryja
Published: 2014 in Genetics Selection Evolution
DOI: 10.1186/s12711-014-0072-6
Contrasted evolutionary histories of two Toll-like receptors (Tlr4 and Tlr7) in wild rodents (MURINAE)
Authors: Alena Fornůsková, Michal Vinkler, Marie Pagès, Maxime Galan, Emmanuelle Jousselin, Frederique Cerqueira, Serge Morand, Nathalie Charbonnel, Josef Bryja, Jean-François Cosson
Published: 2013 in Bmc Evolutionary Biology
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-194
Haemosporidian parasites of a European passerine wintering in South Asia: diversity, mixed infections and effect on host condition
Authors: Petr Synek, Tomáš Albrecht, Michal Vinkler, Jan Schnitzer, Jan Votýpka, Pavel Munclinger
Published: 2013 in Parasitology Research
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-013-3323-5
The health signalling of ornamental traits in the Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix)
Authors: Jana Svobodová, Barbora Gabrielová, Petr Synek, Petr Marsik, Tomáš Vaněk, Tomáš Albrecht, Michal Vinkler
Published: 2013 in Journal of Ornithology
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-013-0936-5
Effect of extra-pair paternity and parental quality on brood sex ratio in the scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
Authors: Radka Poláková, Jan Schnitzer, Michal Vinkler, Josef Bryja, Pavel Munclinger, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2012 in Folia Zoologica
DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v61.i3.a6.2012
Phytohaemagglutinin skin-swelling test in scarlet rosefinch males: low-quality birds respond more strongly
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Jan Schnitzer, Pavel Munclinger, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2012 in Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.10.001
Handling ‚immunocompetence‘ in ecological studies: do we operate with confused terms?
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2011 in Journal of Avian Biology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2011.05499.x
Occurrence of extra-pair paternity is connected to social male’s MHC-variability in the scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
Authors: Marta Promerová, Michal Vinkler, Josef Bryja, Radka Poláková, Jan Schnitzer, Pavel Munclinger, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2011 in Journal of Avian Biology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05221.x
Phylogeny, longevity and evolution of adaptive immunity
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2011 in Folia Zoologica
DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v60.i3.a1.2011
Carotenoid maintenance handicap and the physiology of carotenoid-based signalisation of health
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2010 in Naturwissenschaften
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-009-0595-9
Functional analysis of the skin-swelling response to phytohaemagglutinin
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Hana Bainová, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2010 in Functional Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01711.x
Haematological health assessment in a passerine with extremely high proportion of basophils in peripheral blood
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Jan Schnitzer, Pavel Munclinger, Jan Votýpka, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2010 in Journal of Ornithology
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-010-0521-0
Extra-pair fertilizations contribute to selection on secondary male ornamentation in a socially monogamous passerine
Authors: Tomáš Albrecht, Michal Vinkler, Jan Schnitzer, Radka Poláková, Pavel Munclinger, Josef Bryja
Published: 2009 in Journal of Evolutionary Biology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01815.x
Identification of the first Toll-like receptor gene in passerine birds: TLR4 orthologue in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Anna Bryjová, Tomáš Albrecht, Josef Bryja
Published: 2009 in Tissue Antigens
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2009.01273.x
The question waiting to be asked: Innate immunity receptors in the perspective of zoological research
Authors: Michal Vinkler, Tomáš Albrecht
Published: 2009 in Folia Zoologica
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