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Research Evolution of sexual dimorphism and behaviour in lizards Life-history evolution and reproductive biology in lizards Evolution of body size and growth rates Taxonomy and phylogeography of Mediterranean reptiles and amphibians
Evolution of sexual dimorphism and behaviour in lizards Publications: Kratochvíl L., Frynta D. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of sexual dimorphism and its potential evolutionary correlates in eye-lid geckos (Squamata: Eublepharidae): the effects of male combat, courtship behavior, egg size, and body size. In: Fairbairn D., Blanckenhorn W., Székely T. (Eds.). Sex, Size and Gender Roles. Oxford University Press. Kratochvíl L., Fokt M., Rehák I., Frynta D. 2003. Misinterpretation of character scaling: A tale of sexual dimorphism in body shape of common lizards. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81: 1112-1117. Kratochvíl L., Frynta D. 2002. Body size, male combat and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in eublepharid geckos (Squamata: Eublepharidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76: 303-314.
Life-history evolution and reproductive biology in lizards Publications: Kratochvíl L., Kubička L., Landová E. 2008. Does mechanism of sex determination constrain the potential for sex manipulation? A test in geckos with contrasting sex-determining systems. Naturwissenschaften 95: 209-215. Pokorná M., Kratochvíl L. Phylogeny of sex-determining mechanisms in squamate reptiles: are sex chromosomes an evolutionary trap? Subm. ms. Kratochvíl L., Kubička L. 2007. Why reduce clutch size to one or two eggs? Reproductive allometries reveal different evolutionary causes of invariant clutch size in lizards. Functional Ecology, 21: 171-177. Kratochvíl L., Kubička L., Landová E. 2006. Yolk hormone levels in the synchronously developing eggs of Paroedura picta, a gecko with genetic sex determination. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84: 1683-1687. Kratochvíl L., Frynta D. 2006a. Body size effect on egg size in eublepharid geckos (Squamata: Eublepharidae), lizards with invariant clutch size: the negative allometry for egg size in ectotherms is not universal. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88: 527-532. Kratochvíl L., Frynta D. 2006b. Egg shape and size allometry in geckos (Squamata: Gekkota), lizards with contrasting eggshell structure: Why to lay spherical eggs? Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 44: 217-222.
Evolution of body size and growth rates Publications: Starostová Z., Kratochvíl L., Flajšhans M. 2008. Cell size does not always correspond to genome size: Phylogenetic analysis in geckos questions optimal DNA theories of genome size evolution. Zoology, in press Starostová Z., Kratochvíl L., Frynta D. 2005. Dwarf and giant geckos from the cellular perspective: The bigger the animal, the bigger its erythrocytes? Functional Ecology 19: 744-749. Jarošík V., Kratochvíl L., Honěk A., Dixon A.F.G. 2004. A general rule for the dependence of developmental rate on temperature in ectothermic animals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B – Biological Sciences (Suppl.) 271: S219-S221. Kratochvíl L., Frynta D. 2003. Production-growth model applied in eublepharid lizards (Eublepharidae, Squamata): accordance between growth and metabolic rates. Folia Zoologica 52: 317-322.
Taxonomy and phylogeography of Mediterranean reptiles and amphibians We focused mainly on the gecko genera Ptyodactylus, Stenodactylus, Hemidactylus, Cyrtopodion and Tropiocolotes. Publications: Červenka J., Kratochvíl L., Frynta D. Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion and their selected relatives. Subm. ms Gvoždík V., Moravec J., Kratochvíl L. 2008. Geographic morphological variation in parapatric Western Palearctic tree frogs, Hyla arborea and Hyla savignyi: Are related species similarly affected by environmental conditions? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, in press Kratochvíl L., Frynta D., Moravec J. 2001. A third Stenodactylus in Africa: Return of the forgotten form Stenodactylus stenurus. Israel Journal of Zoology 47: 99-109. Frynta D., Kratochvíl L., Moravec J., Benda P., Dandová R., Kaftan M., Klosová K., Mikulová P., Nová P., Schwarzová L. 2000. Amphibians and reptiles recently recorded in Libya. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 64: 17-26. |
