prof. Mgr. et Mgr. Josef Bryja, Ph.D.

Professor, Vertebrate Research Group

Office: bldg. D32/309
Kamenice 753/5
625 00 Brno

Phone:	+420 549 49 8496
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Field of study: General and Molecular Genetics

Molecular biodiversity inventory of selected fish species from families Cyprinidae and Umbridae. – graduate 2016
Diversity and evolution of two MHC class II genes in wild populations of a model species, the house mouse – graduate 2015

Comparative phylogeography of the Somali-Maasai region in eastern Africa using selected rodent species as a model – graduate 2018
Population and population-genetic aspects of biological invasions and their impact on the co-evolutionary relationship between bitterling and their mussel hosts. – graduate 2018
Genetic variation of selected pathogens in the house mouse hybrid zone – graduate 2014
Genetic structure of chamois populations in Central Europe – graduate 2014
Genes of innate immunity and their significance in evolutionary ecology of free living rodents – graduate 2013
Bathyergid rodents of mesic tropical regions: phylogeography, kinship structure and mating systems – graduate 2013
Major histocompatibility complex genes: their variation and impact on fitness in a socially monogamous passerine – graduate 2011
The effect of genetic factors on reproductive success in a socially monogamous songbird – graduate 2011
Consequences of anthropogenic changes on rodent communities and populations: study cases on native and introduced species in Eastern Senegal – graduate 2009

Delimitation of Sudanian savanna phyloregions and description of geographical patterns of this phylogenetic structure using rodents as a model group – ongoing study
Evolution of Rodent Biodiversity in Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspots – ongoing study
Conservation genetics of Eurasian lynx in Central Europe – graduate 2023
Evolution at steep elevational gradients: assessing the role of genetic and ecological factors in speciation process – graduate 2023

Species diversification of African amphibians in spatial and ecological context – graduate 2022
Quantifying viral gene capture, and the host's response, during passage across a species barrier: Murine cytomegalovirus in a house mouse hybrid zone – graduate 2022