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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: 2021 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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