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"Crown of thorns" of Daphnia: an exceptional inducible defense discovered by DNA barcoding

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A "crown of thorns" is an inducible defense that protects Daphnia against an ancient predator.

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A fast snail’s pace: colonization of Central Europe by Mediterranean gastropods

A naturally heterogeneous landscape can effectively slow down the dispersal of aquatic microcrustaceans

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

A review of the distribution of Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) dialects in Europe reveals the lack of a clear macrogeographic pattern

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A successful crayfish invader is capable of facultative parthenogenesis: a novel reproductive mode in decapod crustaceans

scientific article published in 2011

A taxonomic reappraisal of the EuropeanDaphnia longispinacomplex (Crustacea, Cladocera, Anomopoda)

scientific article published in 2008

Aphanomyces astaci genotypes involved in recent crayfish plague outbreaks in central Italy

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Aphanomyces astacipresence in Japan: a threat to the endemic and endangered crayfish speciesCambaroides japonicus?

Apparent interspecific transmission of Aphanomyces astaci from invasive signal to virile crayfish in a sympatric wild population.

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

At the edge and on the top: molecular identification and ecology of Daphnia dentifera and D. longispina in high-altitude Asian lakes

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Being angry, singing fast? Signalling of aggressive motivation by syllable rate in a songbird with slow song.

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Biomass production and nutrient accumulation in Sparganium emersum Rehm. after sediment treatment with mineral and organic fertilisers in three mesocosm experiments

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Black, Grey and Watch Lists of alien species in the Czech Republic based on environmental impacts and management strategy

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Blow fly Trypocalliphora braueri parasitism on Meadow Pipit and Bluethroat nestlings in Central Europe

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Community metabarcoding uncovers vast diversity and a lack of barcode references for aquatic invertebrates in Carpathian spring fens

scientific article published in 2021

Continental-wide distribution of crayfish species in Europe: update and maps

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Contribution of cyclic parthenogenesis and colonization history to population structure in Daphnia

scientific article published on 9 March 2009

Crayfish plague in Czechia: Outbreaks from novel sources and testing for chronic infections

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Crayfish plague pathogen detected in the Danube Delta – a potential threat to freshwater biodiversity in southeastern Europe

scientific article published in 2012

Crayfish plague pathogen in invasive North American crayfish species in Hungary.

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Cryptic diversity within the invasive virile crayfish Orconectes virilis (Hagen, 1870) species complex: new lineages recorded in both native and introduced ranges

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Cytonuclear diversity and shared mitochondrial haplotypes among Daphnia galeata populations separated by seven thousand kilometres

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe

scientific article (publication date: 29 November 2016)

Daphnia galeata in the deep hypolimnion: spatial differentiation of a “typical epilimnetic” species

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Daphnia hybridization along ecological gradients in pelagic environments: the potential for the presence of hybrid zones in plankton

scientific article published on September 2008

Daphnia in the Tatra Mountain lakes: multiple colonisation and hidden species diversity revealed by molecular markers

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Daphnia magna transcriptome by RNA-Seq across 12 environmental stressors

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Daphnia magna transcriptome by RNA-Seq across 12 environmental stressors

scientific article published on 31 January 2017

Daphnia parasite dynamics across multiple Caullerya epidemics indicate selection against common parasite genotypes.

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Defining what constitutes a reliable dataset to test for hybridization and introgression in marine zooplankton: Comment on Choquet et al. 2020 “No evidence for hybridization between <scp><i>Calanus finmarchicus</i></scp> and <scp><i>C. glacialis</i>

scientific article published in 2021

Detailed large-scale mapping of geographic variation of Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella song dialects in a citizen science project

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Dialects of an invasive songbird are preserved in its invaded but not native source range

scientific article published in 2017

Differential response of males of a subarctic population of Bluethroat Luscinina svecica svecica to playbacks of their own and foreign subspecies

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Distribution patterns at different spatial scales reveal reproductive isolation and frequent syntopy among divergent lineages of an amphipod species complex in Western Carpathian streams

scientific article published in 2022

Divergent clades or cryptic species? Mito-nuclear discordance in a Daphnia species complex

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Diversity and distribution of Aphanomyces astaci in a European hotspot of ornamental crayfish introductions

scientific article published in 2024

Diversity of Land Snail Tribe Helicini (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae): Where Do We Stand after 20 Years of Sequencing Mitochondrial Markers?

scientific article published in 2021

Diversity of the Daphnia longispina species complex in Chinese lakes: a DNA taxonomy approach

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Effect of experimental exposure to differently virulent Aphanomyces astaci strains on the immune response of the noble crayfish Astacus astacus.

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Epigean gammarids survived millions of years of severe climatic fluctuations in high latitude refugia throughout the Western Carpathians.

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

Establishment of a new microsporidian genus and species, Pseudoberwaldia daphniae (Microsporidia, Opisthosporidia), a common parasite of the Daphnia longispina complex in Europe

scientific article published on 10 February 2019

Expansion of the marbled crayfish in Slovakia: beginning of an invasion in the Danube catchment?

article by Boris Lipták et al published 26 January 2016 in Journal of Limnology

Experimental evaluation of the potential for crayfish plague transmission through the digestive system of warm-blooded predators

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Extensive variation in the morphological anti-predator defense mechanism of <i>Gammarus roeselii</i> Gervais, 1835 (Crustacea:Amphipoda)

scientific article published in 2020

Feeding habits of the alien brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis and the native brown trout Salmo trutta in Czech mountain streams

scholarly article by Petra Horká et al published 2017 in Knowledge and management of aquatic ecosystems

Fine-scale genetic analysis of Daphnia host populations infected by two virulent parasites - strong fluctuations in clonal structure at small temporal and spatial scales.

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Fine-scale temporal and spatial variation of taxon and clonal structure in the Daphnia longispina hybrid complex in heterogeneous environments

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First record of an introduced population of the southern lineage of white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius ‘italicus’) north of the Alps

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First results on the genetic diversity of the invasive signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852) in Europe using novel microsatellite loci

scientific article published on February 2015

Genetic diversity of two Daphnia-infecting microsporidian parasites, based on sequence variation in the internal transcribed spacer region

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Geographic isolation and human-assisted dispersal in land snails: a Mediterranean story of <i>Helix borealis</i> and its relatives (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae)

scientific article published in 2021

Geographic variation in songs of the Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis) at two spatial scales

article by Tereza Petrusková et al published April 2010 in The Auk

Glacial refugia and postglacial spread of an iconic large European land snail, Helix pomatia (Pulmonata: Helicidae)

Global diversity of cladocerans (Cladocera; Crustacea) in freshwater

Habitat preferences of tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) and meadow pipit (A. pratensis) at sympatric and allopatric localities

Haplotype variation in the spiny-cheek crayfish Orconectes limosus: colonization of Europe and genetic diversity of native stocks

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High genetic variation of invasive signal crayfish in Europe reflects multiple introductions and secondary translocations

Hosts and transmission of the crayfish plague pathogen Aphanomyces astaci: a review.

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

Identification of exotic North American crayfish in Europe by DNA barcoding

Identifying century-old long-spined Daphnia: species replacement in a mountain lake characterised by paleogenetic methods

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Identifying hybridizing taxa within the Daphnia longispina species complex: a comparison of genetic methods and phenotypic approaches

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Inferring the sources of postglacial range expansion in two large European land snails

scientific article published in 2020

Integrative taxonomy reveals a new Gammarus species (Crustacea, Amphipoda) surviving in a previously unknown southeast European glacial refugium

scholarly article by Denis Copilaș-Ciocianu published in September 2018

Interspecific territoriality in two songbird species: potential role of song convergence in male aggressive interactions

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Intra-specific rDNA-ITS restriction site variation and an improved protocol to distinguish species and hybrids in the Daphnia longispina complex

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Intraspecific spatial genetic differentiation of a Daphnia species within a long narrow reservoirtevdbvtysqebfjdgd

Invaders eating invaders: potential trophic interactions between the amphipodDikerogammarus villosusand juvenile crayfishOrconectes limosus

Invasive American crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus (Decapoda: Astacidae) in the Morava River (Slovakia)

Invasive crayfish and crayfish plague on the move: first detection of the plague agent Aphanomyces astaci in the Romanian Danube.

scientific article published on February 2012

Invasive zebra mussel colonisation of invasive crayfish: a case study

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Is subterranean lifestyle reversible? Independent and recent large-scale dispersal into surface waters by two species of the groundwater amphipod genus Niphargus

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Large Intercontinental Differentiation of Moina Micrura (Crustacea: Anomopoda): One Less Cosmopolitan Cladoceran?

article by Adam Petrusek et al published September 2004 in Hydrobiologia

Lineage diversity and reproductive modes of the Daphnia pulex group in Chinese lakes and reservoirs

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Local and regional founder effects in lake zooplankton persist after thousands of years despite high dispersal potential.

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Low intraspecific genetic divergence and weak niche differentiation despite wide ranges and extensive sympatry in two epigean Niphargus species (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

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May Cherax destructor contribute to Aphanomyces astaci spread in Central Europe?

scientific article published in 2016

May atyid shrimps act as potential vectors of crayfish plague?

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Microsatellite markers for direct genotyping of the crayfish plague pathogen Aphanomyces astaci (Oomycetes) from infected host tissues.

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Mitochondrial DNA provides evidence of a double origin for the stone crayfish Austropotamobius torrentium in the Elbe basin

Mitochondrial sequence variation suggests extensive cryptic diversity within the Western PalearcticDaphnia longispinacomplex

Molecular and structural assessment of microsporidia infecting daphnids: The “obtusa-like“ microsporidia, a branch of the monophyletic Agglomeratidae clade, with the establishment of a new genus Conglomerata

Molecular phylogeny of the genusHelix(Pulmonata: Helicidae)

scholarly article by Ondřej Korábek et al published 26 January 2015 in Zoologica Scripta

Multiple host switching events shape the evolution of symbiotic palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)

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Multiple origins and strong phenotypic convergence in fish-cleaning palaemonid shrimp lineages

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Natural distribution and co-infection patterns of microsporidia parasites in the Daphnia longispina complex

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

PCR detection of the crayfish plague pathogen in narrow-clawed crayfish inhabiting Lake Eğirdir in Turkey.

scientific article published on April 2012

Phylogeography of a freshwater crustacean species complex reflects a long-gone archipelago

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Population structure of a microparasite infecting Daphnia: spatio-temporal dynamics

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Predictions of marbled crayfish establishment in conurbations fulfilled: Evidences from the Czech Republic

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Preface: 10th International Symposium on Cladocera, Lednice, Czech Republic

scholarly article by Adam Petrusek published 26 June 2017 in Hydrobiologia

Prevalence of the crayfish plague pathogen Aphanomyces astaci in invasive American crayfishes in the Czech Republic.

scientific article published on 14 May 2009

Prevalence of the crayfish plague pathogen Aphanomyces astaci in populations of the signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus in France: evaluating the threat to native crayfish

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) and crayfish plague as new threats for biodiversity in Indonesia

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Re-examination of the prevalence of Aphanomyces astaci in North American crayfish populations in Central Europe by TaqMan MGB real-time PCR.

scientific article published in December 2011

Real-Time PCR Assays for Rapid Identification of Common Aphanomyces astaci Genotypes

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Recent acute crayfish mortality reveals Aphanomyces astaci presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Repertoire-based individual acoustic monitoring of a migratory passerine bird with complex song as an efficient tool for tracking territorial dynamics and annual return rates

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Reprint of: The diversity of oomycetes on crayfish: Morphological vs. molecular identification of cultures obtained while isolating the crayfish plague pathogen.

scientific article published on 21 June 2014

Resistance to the crayfish plague pathogen, Aphanomyces astaci, in two freshwater shrimps.

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Resting stage density and hatching of two cladoceran species from small ephemeral waters

Restoring Daphnia lacustris G.O. Sars, 1862 (Crustacea, Anomopoda): a cryptic species in the Daphnia longispina group

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ResurrectingHelix straminea, a forgotten escargot with trans-Adriatic distribution: first insights into the genetic variation within the genusHelix(Gastropoda: Pulmonata)

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Revision of the Old World Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) similis group Cladocera: Daphniidae)

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Sensitivity of Daphnia species to phosphorus-deficient diets

scientific article published on 19 September 2009

Short-term artificial incubation before hatching limits vertical transmission of Aphanomyces astaci from chronically infected females of a host species susceptible to crayfish plague

scientific article published in 2023

Simultaneous detection of native and invasive crayfish and Aphanomyces astaci from environmental DNA samples in a wide range of habitats in Central Europe

scientific article published in 2020

Slovak section of the Danube has its well-established breeding ground of marbled crayfish Procambarus fallax f. virginalis

Spatial distribution of the Daphnia longispina species complex and other planktonic crustaceans in the heterogeneous environment of canyon-shaped reservoirs

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Spatial insurance against a heatwave differs between trophic levels in experimental aquatic communities

scientific article published on 7 April 2023

Spatial variation of Daphnia parasite load within individual water bodies

Spiny-cheek crayfish Orconectes limosus carry a novel genotype of the crayfish plague pathogen Aphanomyces astaci

scientific article published on 12 August 2011

Splitting the Roman snailHelix pomatiaLinnaeus, 1758 (Stylommatophora: Helicidae) into two: redescription of the forgottenHelix thessalicaBoettger, 1886

scientific article published in 2015

Status of Daphnia Resting Egg Banks in Bohemian Forest Lakes Affected by Acidification

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Status of Pacifastacus leniusculus and its role in recent crayfish plague outbreaks in France: improving distribution and crayfish plague infection patterns

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Strong differences in the clonal variation of two Daphnia species from mountain lakes affected by overwintering strategy

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Survey of the crayfish plague pathogen presence in the Netherlands reveals a new Aphanomyces astaci carrier.

scientific article published on 13 June 2014

Survival in northern microrefugia in an endemic Carpathian gammarid (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

scientific article published in 2018

Temporal dynamics of spore release of the crayfish plague pathogen from its natural host, American spiny-cheek crayfish (Orconectes limosus), evaluated by transmission experiments

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

Territorial meadow pipit males (Anthus pratensis; Passeriformes) become more aggressive in female presence

scientific article published on 4 April 2007

The Quantification of Representative Sequences pipeline for amplicon sequencing: case study on within-population ITS1 sequence variation in a microparasite infecting Daphnia.

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

The causes and evolutionary consequences of mixed singing in two hybridizing songbird species (Luscinia spp.).

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The complete mitogenome of Helix pomatia and the basal phylogeny of Helicinae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Helicidae)

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

The contribution of ancient and modern anthropogenic introductions to the colonization of Europe by the land snail Helix lucorum Linnaeus, 1758 (Helicidae)

scholarly article in Contributions to Zoology, vol. 87 no. 2, July 2018

The crayfish plague pathogen can infect freshwater-inhabiting crabs

The diaptomid fauna of Israel (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae), with notes on the systematics of Arctodiaptomus similis (Baird, 1859) and Arctodiaptomus irregularis Dimentman & Por, 1985 stat. rev

scholarly article by Federico Marrone et al published December 2014 in Zoological Studies

The diversity of oomycetes on crayfish: morphological vs. molecular identification of cultures obtained while isolating the crayfish plague pathogen.

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The genetic legacy of polyploid Bolivian Daphnia: the tropical Andes as a source for the North and South American D. pulicaria complex

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The old menace is back: Recent crayfish plague outbreaks in the Czech Republic

scholarly article by E. Kozubíková et al published February 2008 in Aquaculture

The phenotypic plasticity in Chinese populations ofDaphnia similoides sinensis: recurvate helmeted forms are associated with the presence of predators

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The prevalence of Aphanomyces astaci in invasive signal crayfish from the UK and implications for native crayfish conservation

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

The scale of divergence: a phylogenetic appraisal of intercontinental allopatric speciation in a passively dispersed freshwater zooplankton genus

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The signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) in Lake Tahoe (USA) hosts multiple Aphanomyces species

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

The southwestern Carpathians as an ancient centre of diversity of freshwater gammarid amphipods: insights from the Gammarus fossarum species complex

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

The spatial distribution of Aphanomyces astaci genotypes across Europe: introducing the first data from Ukraine

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

The stabilizing effect of resting egg banks of the Daphnia longispina species complex for longitudinal taxon heterogeneity in long and narrow reservoirs

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These squatters are not innocent: the evidence of parasitism in sponge-inhabiting shrimps

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Trade of ornamental crayfish in Europe as a possible introduction pathway for important crustacean diseases: crayfish plague and white spot syndrome

article by A. Mrugała et al published 19 October 2014 in Biological Invasions

Transmission mode affects the population genetic structure of Daphnia parasites

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Variation in Trill Characteristics in Tree Pipit Songs: Different Trills for Different Use?

article by Tereza Petrusková et al published 18 March 2014 in Ethology

What can size distribution of spheroidal carbonaceous particles reveal about their source?

Zoogeography of epigean freshwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) in Romania: fragmented distributions and wide altitudinal variability

scientific article (publication date: 8 December 2014)

Long-term changes in the prevalence of the crayfish plague pathogen and its genotyping in invasive crayfish species in Czechia

scientific article published in 2022