Holger Zimmermann

Position post-doc
Direction fish reproductive strategies, brood parasitism

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Education

Ph.D. – 2020: Univerzity of Graz, Austria.

Employment

2020-2021: post-doc – Institute of Vertebrate Biology CAS.
2021 – present: Erwin Schroedinger fellowship (Institute of Vertebrate Biology CAS).

Publications

2023

Reichard M, Koblmüller S, Blažek R, Zimmermann H, Katongo C, Bryjová A, Bryja J (2023). Lack of host specialization despite selective host use in brood parasitic cuckoo catfish. Molecular Ecology, 32: 6070-6082.
Zimmermann H, Tolman D, Reichard M (2023). Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos. Behavioral Ecology, 34: 521-527.
Zimmermann H, Bose APH, Eisner H, Henshaw JM, Ziegelbecker A, Richter F, Bračun S, Katongo C, Fritzsche K, Sefc KM (2023). Seasonal variation in cuckoldry rates in the socially monogamous cichlid fish Variabilichromis moorii. Hydrobiologia, 850: 2371-2383.
Zimmermann H, Sefc KM, Bose APH (2023). Single fathers sacrifice their broods and re-mate quickly in a socially monogamous cichlid. Behavioral Ecology, 34: 881-890.

2022

Zimmermann H, Blažek R, Polačik M, Reichard M (2022). Individual experience as a key to success for the cuckoo catfish brood parasitism. Nature Communications, 13:1210 1723.

2021

Kmentová N, Hahn C, Koblmüller S, Zimmermann H, Vorel J, Artois T, Gelnar M, Vanhove MPM (2021). Contrasting host-parasite population structure: morphology and mitogenomics of a parasitic flatworm on pelagic deepwater cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika. Biology, 10:1205 797.
Zimmermann H, Bose APH, Ziegelbecker A, Richter F, Bračun S, Eisner H, Katongo C, Banda T, Makasa L, Henshaw JM, Fritzsche K, Sefc KM (2021). Is biparental defence driven by territory protection, offspring protection or both?. Animal Behaviour, 176: 43-56.