Our research group is focused on a different aspects of animal biology using genetic tools. We study population genetics usually of mammalian species (insectivores, carnivores, ungulates, etc.) and we are highly interested in interspecies interactions including wildlife and their domestic forms (hedgehogs, spiral horned antelopes, wolves-dogs, etc.). We participate in several conservation projects and we try to apply our results into conservation practice (elands). We also study evolutionary processes that formed domestic animals and we search for candidate genes of specific diseases (dogs).
People
Team members: 
- Mgr. Barbora Černá Bolfíková, Ph.D (group leader)
- Mgr. Kristýna Eliášová
- Ing. Alžběta Báčová
- Ing. Iva Bernáthová
- Ing. Milena Jindřichová
- Ing. Petr Matějů
- Ing. Silvie Neradilová
- Ema Cetkovská
- Vojtěch Zeman
- Divyadharshini Shanthakrishnan
Alumni: Ing. et Ing. Anna Kubátová, Ph. D.
Projects
- State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic – Genetic monitoring of large carnivores
- Analýza genetických vzorků velkých šelem v České republice
Publications
- Gankhuyag G, Ceacero F, Yansanjav A., Hejcmanová P, Davaa L, Namkhaidorj S, Černá Bolfíková B (2021). Long-term trends in livestock and wildlife interactions: do livestock numbers predict recent trends of wolves, foxes, and rodents’ populations in Mongolian rangelands? Journal for Nature Conservation, 60, 125969.
- Juránková J, Hulva P, Černá Bolfíková B, Hrazdilová K, Frgelecová L, Daněk O, Modrý D (2021). Identification of Tapeworm Species in Genetically Characterised Grey Wolves Recolonising Central Europe. Acta Parasitologica, 1-5.
- Ploi K, Curto M, Černá Bolfíková B, Loudová M, Hulva P, Seiter A, Fuhrmann M, Winter S, Meimberg H (2020). Evaluating the Impact of Wildlife Shelter Management on the Genetic Diversity of Erinaceus europaeus and E. roumanicus in Their Contact Zone. Animals, 9(10): 1452.
- Černá Bolfíková B, Evin A, Rozkošná Knitlová M, Loudová M, Sztencel-Jablonka A, Bogdanowicz W, Hulva P (2020). 3D Geometric Morphometrics Reveals Convergent Character Displacement in the Central European Contact Zone between Two Species of Hedgehogs (Genus Erinaceus). Animals, 10(10): 1803.
- Majerová K, Hönig V, Houda M, Papežík P, Fonville M, Sprong H, Rudenko N, Golovchenko M, Černá Bolfiková B, Hulva P, Růžek D, Hofmannová L, Votýpka J, Modrý D (2020). Hedgehogs, Squirrels, and Blackbirds as Sentinel Hosts for Active Surveillance of Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia burgdorferi Complex in Urban and Rural Environments. Microorganisms, 12(8): 1908.
- Čekovská K, Šanda R, Eliášová K, Kovačić M, Zogaris S, Pappalardo AM, Soukupová T, Vukić J (2020). Population Genetic Diversity of Two Marine Gobies (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) from the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(10), 792.
- Kubátová, A., Štochlová, K., Brandlová, K., Černá Bolfíková, B. (2020). Comparison of divergent breeding management strategies in two species of semi-captive eland in Senegal. Scientific Reports 10, 8841.
- Pipek, P., Pysek, P., Bacher, S., Černá Bolfíková, B., Hulme, P.E. (2020): Independent introductions of hedgehogs to the North and South Island of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 4:3396.
- Neradilová, S., Connell, L., Hulva, P., Černá Bolfíková, B. (2019) Tracing genetic resurrection of pointing dog breeds: Cesky Fousek as both survivor and rescuer. PLoS ONE 14(8): e0221418.
- Szewczyk, M., Nowak, S., Niedzwiecka, N., Hulva, P., Spinkyte-Backaitiene, R., Demjanovicova, K., Černá Bolfíková, B., Antal, V., Fenchuk, V., Figura, M., Tomczak, P., Stachyra, P., Stepniak, K., Zwijacz-Kozica, T., Myslajek, R. (2019) Dynamic range expansion leads to establishment of a new, genetically distinct wolf population in Central Europe. Scientific Reports 9, 19003.
- Caniglia R, Fabbri E, Hulva P, Černá Bolfíková B, Jindřichová M, Vik Stronen A, Dykyy I, Camatta A, Carnier P, Randi E, Galaverni M. 2018. Wolf outside, dog inside? The genomic make-up of the Czechoslovakian Wolfdog. BMC Genomics, 19:533.
- Hulva P, Černá Bolfíková B, Woznicová V, Jindřichová M, Benešová M, Myslajek RW, Nowak S, Szewczyk M, Niedzwiecka N, Figura M, Hájková A, Sándor AD, Zyka V, Romportl D, Kutal M, Finďo V, Antal V. 2018. Wolves at the crossroad: fission-fusion range biogeography in the Western Carpathians and Central Europe. Diversity and Distributions, 24, 179-192.
- Montana, L., Caniglia, R., Galaverni, M., Fabbri, E., Ahmed, A., Černá Bolfíková, B., Czarnomska, S.D., Galov, A., Godinho, R., Hindrikson, M., Hulva, P., Jędrzejewska, B., Jelenčič, M., Kutal, M., Saarma, U., Skrbinšek, T., Randi, E. (2017). Combining phylogenetic and demographic inferences to assess the origin of the genetic diversity in an isolated wolf population. PloS one, 12(5), e0176560.
- Černá Bolfíková, B., Eliášová, K., Loudová, M., Kryštufek, B., Lymberakis, P., Sándor, A.D., Hulva, P. (2017) Glacial allopatry vs. postglacial parapatry and peripatry: the case of hedgehogs. PeerJ 5, e3163
- Starcová, M., Vohralík, V., Kryštufek, B., Černá Bolfíková, B., Hulva, P. (2016) Phylogeography of the Alpine shrew, Sorex alpinus (Soricidae, Mammalia). Folia Zoologica, 65, 107-116.
- Schneiderová, I., Zouhar, J., Štefanská, L., Černá Bolfíková, B., Lhota, S., Brandl, P. (2016) Vocal activity of lesser galagos (Galago spp.) at zoos. Zoo Biology, 35, 147-156.
- Smetanová, M., Černá Bolfíková, B., Randi, E., Caniglia, R., Fabbri, E., Galaverni, M., Kutal, M., Hulva, P. (2015) From Wolves to Dogs, and Back: Genetic Composition of the Czechoslovakian Wolfdog. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0143807. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143807
- Zemanová, H., Černá Bolfíková, B., Brandlová, K., Hejcmanová, P., Hulva, P. (2015) Conservation genetics of the Western Derby eland (Taurotragus derbianus derbianus) in Senegal: integration of pedigree and microsatellite data. Mammalian Biology, 80, 328-332.
- Černý, J., Černá Bolfíková, B., de A. Zanotto, P.M., Grubhoffer, L., Růžek, D. (2015) A deep phylogeny of viral and cellular right-hand polymerases. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 36, 275-286.
- Bogdanowicz, W., Hulva, P., Černá Bolfíková, B., Bus, M.M., Rychlicka, E., Sztencel-Jablonka, A., Cistrone, L., Ruuso, D. (2015) Cryptic diversity of Italian bats and the role of the Adriatic-Mediterranean refugium in the phylogeography of the Western Palaearctic. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174, 635-648.
- Formanová, P., Černý, J., Černá Bolfíková, B., Valdés, J.J., Kozlova, I., Dzhioev, Y., Růžek, D. (2015) Full genome sequences and molecular characterization of tick-borne encephalitis virus strains isolated from human patients, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 6, 38-46. (IF=2.7)
- Pfäffle, M., Černá Bolfíková, B., Petney, T., Hulva, P. (2014) Different parasite faunas in sympatric populations of sister hedgehog species in secondary contact zone. PLoS ONE 9(12): e114030. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114030
- Černý, J., Černá Bolfíková, B., Valdés, J. J., Grubhoffer, L., Růžek, D. (2014) Evolution of Tertiary Structure of Viral RNA Dependent Polymerases. PLoS ONE 9(5): e96070. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096070
- Randi, E., Hulva, P., Fabbri, E., Galaverni, M., Galov, A., Kusak, J., Bigi, D., Černá Bolfíková, B., Smetanová, M., Caniglia, R. (2014) Multilocus detection of wolf x dog hybridization in Italy, and guidelines for marker Selection. PLoS ONE 9(1): e86409. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086409
- Bolfíková, B., Konečný,A., Pfäffle, M., Skuballa, J., Hulva, P. (2013). Population biology of establishment in New Zealand hedgehogs inferred from genetic and historical data: conflict or compromise? Molecular Ecology, 22, 3709–3720, doi: 10.1111/mec.12331
- Bolfíková, B., Hulva, P. (2012). Microevolution of sympatry: Landscape genetics of hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus and E. roumanicus in Central Europe. Heredity, 108, 248-255, doi:10.1038/hdy.2011.67
Cooperation
- Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science
- Ostrava University, Faculty of Science
- University of Valencia
- Natural History Museum in Berlin
- Central European Wolf Consortium
- University of Edinbourgh
- Cornell University
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
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Team news
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FTZ Dean's Award
The following author has been selected and rewarded by the Dean Prof. Patrick Van Damme and the members of Dean´s College as the best publication of 2021. Dr. Černá Bolfíková for her article in the scientific journal Nature.