Project information
The European bitterling - endangered or non-native species in Central Europe?
- Project Identification
- KJB600930802
- Project Period
- 1/2008 - 12/2010
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- The research grant projects for juniors
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Science
- Keywords
- Rhodeus amarus; non-native species; biological invasion; coevolution; host-parasite relationship; fishes; unionid mussels
- Cooperating Organization
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Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the ASCR, v. v. i.
- Responsible person RNDr. Martin Reichard, PhD.
The project will use European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), a small cyprinid fish that lays its eggs into the gills of freshwater mussel, as a model system for coevolutionary relationships with their hosts (mussels) and parasites (including larvae of their mussel hosts). Recent findings indicate that R. amarus has expanded into Central and Western Europe within last few centuries. First, a phylogeographic and population-genetic analyses of R. amarus populations within its European range will be completed. Then, we will use bitterling populations from areas of recent (Western and Central Europe) and ancient (Pontic region) sympatry with mussel hosts and with contrasting current and historic demographies (analysed by population genetic methods) to investigate coevolutionary dynamics between R. amarus and their parasites and mussel hosts. Finally, we will review the status of R. amarus populations over its European range, identify their history and propose further conservation measures.
Publications
Total number of publications: 12
2011
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Host-parasite interactions in sympatric and allopatric populations of European bitterling
Parasitology Research, year: 2011, volume: 109, edition: Neuveden.
2010
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Host-parasite interactions in sympatric and allopatric population of European bitterling - field experiment
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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Koevoluční dynamika ve vztahu hořavek a sladkovodních mlžů: srovnání oblasti střední Evropy a Malé Asie
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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May natural parasite infection affect the reproduction success of European bitterling?
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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Relationship between the bitterling fish and freshwater mussels in recent and ancient sympatric populations
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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Susceptibility to parasite infection in sympatric and allopatric population of European bitterling - field experiment
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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The bitterling–mussel coevolutionary relationship in areas of recent and ancient sympatry
Evolution, year: 2010, volume: 64, edition: 10
2009
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Breeding resource distribution affects selection gradients on male phenotypic traits: experimental study on lifetime reproductive success in the bitterling fish (Rhodeus amarus)
Evolution, year: 2009, volume: 63, edition: 2
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Coevolutionary dynamics between the European bitterling and freshwater mussels in Central Europe and Pontic region
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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Overwinter body condition and parasite infection in 0+ European bitterling with respect to fish size
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract