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

Pozice vědecký pracovník kmenový
Zaměření molekulární ekologie
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Výzkumné směry

  • fylogeografie, speciace, adaptace, taxonomie a fylogenetika drobných savců,
  • biogeografie a distribuce biologické rozmanitosti v Africe,
  • molekulární ekologie obratlovců (vztah neutrální a adaptivní variability, imunogenetika, ochranářská genetika, pohlavní výběr),
  • ekologie savců, zejména hlodavců (poměr pohlaví, populační dynamika, struktura společenstev).

Vzdělání

  • 1992-2000: Masarykova univerzita Brno, Přírodovědecká fakulta.
  • 1992-1997: magisterské studium - Systematická biologie a ekologie. Diplomová práce: Struktura synuzií drobných zemních savců v různých biotopech CHKO Poodří, (Mgr.; vedoucí Z. Řehák).
  • 1993-1998: magisterské studium - Molekulární biologie a genetika. Diplomová práce: Příprava zkrácené varianty genu pro retinoidový receptor RXR alpha a jeho přenos do monoblastové linie BM2, (Mgr.; vedoucí J. Šmarda).
  • 1997-2000: postgraduální studium - Zoologie (zaměřeno na populační dynamiku hrabošovitých hlodavců). Doktorská práce: Demografická charakteristika populace hraboše polního (Microtus arvalis) na jižní Moravě, (Ph.D.; školitel J. Gaisler).

Zaměstnání

Ústav biologie obratlovců AV ČR, v.v.i.:

  • 1997-2000: odborný VŠ pracovník
  • 2001-2010: vědecký pracovník, zodpovědný za provoz laboratoře molekulární genetiky na oddělení populační biologie ve Studenci
  • 2010-současnost: vedoucí vědecký pracovník, vedoucí detašovaného pracoviště ÚBO AV ČR, v.v.i., ve Studenci
  • 2011-2019: vědecký tajemník ÚBO AV ČR, v.v.i.
  • 2012-současnost: předseda Rady ÚBO AV ČR, v.v.i.

Ústav botaniky a zoologie, Přírodovědecká fakulta MU, Brno:

  • 2003-2009: odborný pracovník (částečný úvazek)
  • 2009-současnost: docent (částečný úvazek)
  • výuka: Molekulární ekologie (od r. 2015 s M. Macholánem a A. Konečným), Genetické metody v zoologii (s M. Macholánem), Pokroky ve výzkumu obratlovců (s T. Bartoničkou)
  • školitel bakalářských, magisterských a postgraduálních studentů

Vědecká a organizační činnost

  • pravidelný hlavní organizátor největší česko-slovenské zoologické konference Zoologické dny,
  • recenzent článků v odborných časopisech a oponent grantových návrhů v ČR i EU,
  • editor odborných časopisů Frontiers in Zoology, Mammalia, Journal of Vertebrate Biology
  • oponent závěrečných studentských prací a člen zkušebních komisí v České republice, na Slovensku, ve Francii a v Belgii,
  • školitel nebo konzultant 21 bakalářských, 27 magisterských a 17 PhD studentů na PřF MU Brno, PřF JU České Budějovice, PřF UK Praha a Université Montpellier II,
  • hlavní organizátor mezinárodní konference 13th African Small Mammal Symposium v Mekele (Etiopie), září 2019

Vybrané mezinárodní zkušenosti a spolupráce

  • 2004-2006: Centre de Biologie et Gestion des Populations, INRA, Montferriez-le-Lez, France (J.F. Cosson, N. Charbonnel).
  • 2004-2009: zástupce České republiky v mezinárodním řídícím výboru vědeckého programu European Science Foundation "Integrating population genetics and conservation biology: Merging theoretical, experimental and applied approaches".
  • září 2008: organizace Letní školy ochranářské genetiky v Liblicích (podporováno European Science Foundation) za účasti studentů a školitelů z 19 evropských zemí.
  • 2004-současnost: organizace či účast na 11 terénních expedicích v Africe (Senegal, Mosambik, Keňa, Etiopie, Tanzánie, Madagaskar), spolupráce s africkými, evropskými a americkými kolegy na výzkumu afrických savců.
  • 2005-2013: školitel dvou doktorandů pod dvojím vedením na Université Motpellier II, Francie.
  • krátké pracovní pobyty a zvané přednášky na evropských výzkumných institucích (Francie - CBGP, Université Montpellier, Muséum national d´Histoire naturelle, Université de Rennes; Dánsko - University of Aarhus; Belgie - University of Antwerp, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels; Itálie - Centre for Research and Innovation, S. Michele all’Adige; Slovinsko - University of Koper aj.).
  • 2009-2013: zástupce České republiky v konsorciu CONGRESS (Conservation of Genetic Resources for Effective Species Survival), projekt 7RP EU; 2012 - hlavní organizátor dvou mezinárodních workshopů zaměřených na ochranářskou genetiku (Slovensko, Maďarsko).
  • 2018: CIBIO – Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Porto, Portugal - hostující vědecký pracovník, 6 měsíců
  • 2019-2023: člen mezinárodního řídícího výboru programu COST - CA18134 Genomic BIodiversity Knowledge for Resilient Ecosystems

Současní Ph.D. studenti

  • Brosseau-Acquaviva Laura: Delimitation of Sudanian savanna phyloregions using rodents as a model group. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (školitel)
  • Mulualem Getachew: Evolution of rodent biodiversity in Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspots. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (školitel)
  • Králová Tereza: The effect of life histories on the variation of immune genes in passerines - a comparative approach, ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (školitel, konzultanti T. Albrecht, M. Vinkler)
  • Dianat Malahatosadat: Evolution of old placental lineages: insectivorous mammals in the Afrotropics. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (konzultant, školitel: A. Konečný)

Bývalí Ph.D. studenti

  • Mizerovská Daniela, 2023: Evolution at steep elevational gradients: assessing the role of genetic and ecological factors in speciation process. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (školitel)
  • Turbaková Barbora, 2023: Conservation genetics of European lynx in Central Europe. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (školitel)
  • Krásová Jarmila, 2023: Diversity and phylogeny of East African montane rodents/. KZ PřF JU, České Budějovice. (školitel-specialista, školitel R. Šumbera)
  • Těšíková Jana, 2022: Diversity and evolutionary history of selected rodent-borne viruses/. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (konzultant, školitelka J. Göuy de Bellocq)
  • Hánová Alexandra, 2021: Factors affecting population genetic structure of rodents in savannahs. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (konzultant, školitel A. Konečný)
  • Mazoch Vladimír , 2019: Diversity, evolution, and distribution of selected African rodents, with focus on East African savannahs. KZ PřF JU, České Budějovice. (školitel specialista, školitel R. Šumbera)
  • Aghová Tatiana, 2018: Comparative phylogeography of the Somali-Maasai region in eastern Africa using selected rodent species as a model, ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno (školitel, konzultant R. Šumbera)
  • Bartáková Veronika, 2018: The effects of non-native species on host-parasite relationships, ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno (školitel, konzultant M. Reichard)
  • Čížková Dagmar, 2015: Major histocompatibility complex variation in the house mice hybrid zone. ÚEB PřF MU, Brno. (školitel)
  • Wasimuddin, 2014: Genetic variation of selected pathogens in the house mouse hybrid zone. (školitel, konzultanti J. Gouy de Bellocq and J. Piálek)
  • Zemanová Barbora, 2014: Genetic structure of chamois populations in Central Europe. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (školitel)
  • Fornůsková Alena, 2013: Genes of innate immunity and their significance in evolutionary ecology of free living rodents. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno a Université Montpellier II. (školitel, spolu s J. F. Cosson, doktorát pod dvojím vedením)
  • Patzenhauerová-Konvičková Hana, 2013: Bathyergid rodents of mesic tropical regions: Phylogeography, kinship structure and mating systems. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (školitel)
  • Poláková Radka, 2011: The effect of genetic factors on reproductive success in a socially monogamous songbird. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (školitel, konzultant T. Albrecht)
  • Říčanová Štěpánka, 2011: Phylogeography and conservation genetics of the European ground squirrel. KZ PřF JU, České Budějovice. (školitel specialista, školitel F. Sedláček)
  • Promerová Marta, 2011: Major histocompatibility complex genes: their variation and impact on fitness in a socially monogamous passerine. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (školitel, konzultant T. Albrecht)
  • Konečný Adam, 2009: Consequences of anthropogenic changes on rodent communities and populations: study cases on native and introduced species in Eastern Senegal. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno a Université Montpellier II. (školitel, spolu s J. M. Duplantier a J. F. Cosson; doktorát pod dvojím vedením)
  • Hájková Petra, 2008: Conservation genetics of the Eurasian otter. ÚBZ PřF MU, Brno. (konzultant, školitel P. Jurajda)

Publications and Applied outputs

2026

Kostin DS, Martynov AA, Cherepanova EV, Yihune M, Wale M, Pavlíčková B, Bryja J, Lavrenchenko LA (2026). High evolutionary and taxonomic diversity of Gerbils (Gerbillus) in the Horn of Africa. Zoologica Scripta.
Kubáčková L, Mulualem G, Tomass Z, Bibo T, Meheretu Y, Bryja J (2026). Small terrestrial mammals of southern Ethiopia: DNA barcoding sheds light on a neglected centre of montane endemism. Mammalia.
Onditi KO, Demos TC, Peterhans JCK, Nicolas V, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Hounmavo A, Monadjem A, Bryja J (2026). Diversification and biogeographic history of African dormice (genus Graphiurus) revealed by ultraconserved elements and mitochondrial data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 108549.
Pavlíčková B, Tarroso P, Boratyński Z, Bryjová A, Bryja J (2026). Life at the Edge (of the Sahara): Evolutionary history of two understudied genera of African gerbils. Journal of Biogeography, e70144.
Uhrová M, Mikula O, Bryja J, Frýdlová P, Zemlemerova ED, Elmi HSA, Štolhoferová I, Tymlová V, Maštera V, Frynta D, Lavrenchenko LA, Šumbera R (2026). More than one species of the naked molerat, a new biomedical model. Communications Biology, 9: 70.

2025

Babyesiza WS, Fornůsková A, Katakweba A, Kigai E, Hadová K, Kaguendo JLN, Bonaventure LDS, Tabiti P, Aebischer T, Goüy de Bellocq J, Bryja J, Votýpka J (2025). Hidden diversity and host specificity of bat trypanosomes in East and Central Africa. Parasitology Research, 101.
Bryja J, Peterhans JCK, Lavrenchenko LA, Nicolas V, Denys C, Bryjová A, Šumbera R, Mikula O (2025). Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae057.
Craig EW, Bryjová A, Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Lavrenchenko LA, Peterhans JCK (2025). Integrative taxonomic revision of endemic dwarf shrews from the Ethiopian Highlands. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 25031.
Denys C, Bryjová A, Bryja J (2025). Phylogenetic position of Leimacomys, an enigmatic African rodent genus, reconsidered in the light of morphological and its first genetic data. Mammalia.
Dovičicová L, Lövy M, Bryja J, Nevo E, Šumbera R (2025). Evaluating soil type as a barrier: spatial genetic structure and ecological speciation in the Upper Galilee Mountains blind mole rat (Nannospalax galili). Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 24078.
Pavlíčková B, Bryjová A, Žák J, Boratyński Z, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2025). Inter- and intraspecific variability in the copy number of mitochondria in rodents from different elevations of the Ethiopian Highlands. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 25063.
Zemlemerova ED, Komarova VA, Bryja J, Lavrenchenko LA (2025). The complete mitochondrial genomes of the Ethiopian endemic shrew Crocidura yaldeni s.l. (Mammalia: Soricidae). Russian Journal of Theriology, 24: 17-21.

2024

Babyesiza WS, Katakweba A, Fornůsková A, Ssuunaf J, Akoth S, Mpagi J, Goüy de Bellocq J, Bryja J, Votýpka J (2024). Trypanosome diversity in small mammals in Uganda and the spread of Trypanosoma lewisi to native species. Parasitology Research, 54.
Clements H, Do Linh San E, Hempson G, Linden B, Maritz B, Monadjem A, Reynolds C, Siebert F, Stevens N, Biggs R, De Vos A, Blanchard R, Child M, Esler K, Hamann M, Loft T, Reyers B, Selomane O, Skowno A, Tshoke T, Abdoulaye D, Aebischer T, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Alexander GJ, Ali AH, Allan DG, Amoako E, Angedakin S, Aruna E, Avenant NL, Badjedjea G, Bakayoko A, Bamba-Kaya A, Bates MF, Bates PJJ, Belmain SR, Bennitt E, Bradley J, Brewster CA, Brown MB, Brown M, Bryja J, Butynski TM, Carvalho F, Channing A, Chapman CA, Cohen C, Cords M, Cramer JD, Cronk N, Cunneyworth PMK, Dalerum F, Danquah E, Davies-Mostert HT, de Blocq AD, De Jong YA, Demos TC, Denys C, Djagoun CAMS, Doherty-Bone TM, Drouilly M, du Toit JT, Ehlers Smith DA, Ehlers Smith YC, Eiseb SJ, Fashing PJ, Ferguson AW, Fernández-García JM, Finckh H, Fischer C, Gandiwa E, Gaubert P, Gaugris JY, Gibbs DJ, Gilchrist JS, Gil-Sánchez JM, Githitho AN, Goodman PS, Granjon L, Grobler JP, Gumbi BC, Gvoždík V, Harvey J, Hauptfleisch M, Hayder F, Hema EM, Herbst M, Houngbédji M, Huntley BJ, Hutterer R, Ivande ST, Jackson K, Jongsma GFM, Juste J, Kadjo B, Kaleme PK, Kamugisha E, Kaplin BA, Kato HN, Kiffner C, Kimuyu DM, Kityo RM, Kouamé NG, Kouete T M, le Roux A, Lee ATK, Lötter MC, Lykke AM, MacFadyen DN, Macharia GP, Madikiza ZJK, Mahlaba TAM, Mallon D, Mamba ML, Mande C, Marchant RA, Maritz RA, Markotter W, McIntyre T, Measey J, Mekonnen A, Meller P, Melville HI, Mganga KZ, Mills MGL, Minnie L, Missoup AD, Mohammad A, Moinde NN, Moise BFE, Monterosso P, Moore JF, Musila S, Nago SGA, Namoto MW, Niang F, Nicolas V, Nkenku JB, Nkrumah EE, Nono GL, Norbert MM, Nowak K, Obitte BC, Okoni-Williams AD, Onongo J, O'Riain MJ, Osinubi ST, Parker DM, Parrini F, Peel MJS, Penner J, Pietersen DW, Plumptre AJ, Ponsonby DW, Porembski S, Power RJ, Radloff FGT, Rambau RV, Ramesh T, Richards LR, Rödel M, Rollinson DP, Rovero F, Saleh MA, Schmiedel U, Schoeman MC, Scholte P, Serfass TL, Shapiro JT, Shema S, Siebert SJ, Slingsby JA, Sliwa A, Smit-Robinson HA, Sogbohossou EA, Somers MJ, Spawls S, Streicher JP, Swanepoel L, Tanshi I, Taylor PJ, Taylor WA, te Beest M, Telfer PT, Thompson DI, Tobi E, Tolley KA, Turner AA, Twine W, Van Cakenberghe V, Van de Perre F, Van der Merve H, Van Niekerk CJG, Van Wyk PCV, Venter JA, Verburgt L, Veron G, Vetter S, Vorontsova MS, Wagner TC, Webala PW, Weber N, Weier SM, White PA, Whitecross MA, Wigley BJ, Willems FJ, Winterbach CW, Woodhouse GM (2024). The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa's major land uses. Scientific Data, 191.
Dianat M, Konečný A, Lavrenchenko LA, Peterhans JCK, Demos TC, Nicolas V, Ortiz D, Bryja J (2024). How to cross the desert if you are small and need mountains? Out-of-Ethiopia dispersal in Afromontane shrews. Journal of Biogeography.
Lövy M, Šumbera R, Konopová B, Svačinová L, Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Mikula O (2024). Ecomorphological characteristics of Afroalpine rodent communities. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 24027.
Meheretu Y, Mikula O, Frynta D, Frýdlová P, Mulualem G, Lavrenchenko LA, Kostin DS, Elmi HSA, Šumbera R, Bryja J (2024). Phylogeny, biogeography, and integrative taxonomic revision of the Afro-Arabian rodent genus Ochromyscus (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlad158.
Mulualem G, Lavrenchenko LA, Peterhans JCK, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Meheretu Y, Bryja J (2024). Taxonomic revision and evolutionary history of the climbing mice in eastern Africa (Dendromus mystacalis clade): the role of elevation and geographical barriers in the speciation process. Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
Welegerima K, Meheretu Y, Bryja J, Mulualem G, Hayelom W, Kedir F, Massawe AW, Mbije NE, Makundi RH (2024). Afromontane mosaic vegetation acts as a barrier between small mammals from two savannah biomes in northern Ethiopia. Biodiversity and Conservation.

2023

Cuypers LN, Gryseels S, Van Houtte N, Baird SJE, Sabuni CA, Katakweba AS, van den Burg SRM, Bryja J, Leirs H, Goüy de Bellocq J (2023). Subspecific rodent taxa as the relevant host taxonomic level for mammarenavirus host specificity. Virology.
Dianat M, Voet I, Ortiz D, Goüy de Bellocq J, Cuypers LN, Kryštufek B, Bureš M, Čížková D, Bryjová A, Bryja J, Nicolas V, Konečný A (2023). Cryptic diversity of Crocidura shrews in the savannahs of Eastern and Southern Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107708.
Gajdárová B, Belotti E, Bufka L, Volfová J, Wölfl S, Mináriková T, Hollerbach L, Duľa M, Kleven O, Kutal M, Nowak C, Ozoliņš J, Tám B, Bryja J, Koubek P, Krojerová-Prokešová J (2023). Long-term genetic monitoring of a reintroduced Eurasian lynx population does not indicate an ongoing loss of genetic diversity. Global Ecology and Conservation, e02399.
Hánová A, Bryja J, Goüy de Bellocq J, Baird SJE, Cuypers L, Konečný A, Mikula O (2023). Historical demography and climatic niches of the Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) in the Zambezian region. Mammalian Biology.
Martynov AA, Zemlemerova ED, Kostin DS, Komarova VA, Gromov AR, Yihune M, Tsegaye A, Alexandrov DY, Bekele A, Bryja J, Lavrenchenko LA (2023). Uncovering the diversity of rodents and shrews in the Chebera Churchura National Park, Ethiopia. Mammalia.
Mizerovská D, Martynov AA, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Meheretu Y, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2023). Genomic diversity, evolutionary history, and species limits of the endemic Ethiopian laminate-toothed rats (genus Otomys, Rodentia: Muridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Mizerovská D, Špoutil F, Claude J, Lavrenchenko LA, Procházka J, Bryja J, Mikula O (2023). Parallel evolution of skull form in three rodent genera inhabiting steep elevational gradients of Ethiopian highlands. Evolutionary Biology.
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.

2022

Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Boratyński Z, Zeynu A, Denys C, Mulualem G, Welegerima K, Bryjová A, Kasso M, Kostin DS, Martynov AA, Lavrenchenko LA (2022). Rodents of the Afar Triangle (Ethiopia): geographical isolation causes high level of endemism. Biodiversity and Conservation.
Cuypers LN, Sabuni C, Šumbera R, Aghová T, Lišková E, Leirs H, Baird SJE, Goüy de Bellocq J, Bryja J (2022). Biogeographical importance of the Livingstone Mountains in southern Tanzania: comparative genetic structure of small non-volant mammals. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 742851.
Krásová J, Mikula O, Lavrenchenko LA, Šumbera R, Meheretu Y, Bryja J (2022). A new rodent species of the genus Mus (Rodentia: Muridae) confirms the biogeographical uniqueness of the isolated forests of southern Ethiopia. Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
Mapaco L, Crespin L, Rodrigues D, Goüy de Bellocq J, Bryja J, Bourgarel M, Missé D, Caron A, Fafetine J, Cappelle J, Liégeois F (2022). Detection and genetic diversity of Mopeia virus in Mastomys natalensis from different habitats in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 105204.
Meheretu Y, Meinig H, Mikula O, Hermes N, Wale M, Tadele A, Kaipf I, Bryja J (2022). Small- and medium-sized mammals of the Kafa Biosphere Reserve, Ethiopia. African Journal of Ecology.
Meheretu Y, Tilahun T, Engdayehu G, Bosma L, Mulualem G, Craig EW, Bryja J, van Steenbergen F (2022). A snapshot of rodents and shrews of agroecosystems in Ethiopian highlands using camera traps. Mammalia.
Mikula O, Krásová J, Šumbera R, Bryja J (2022). Taxonomic position and biogeography of Mus callewaerti, the largest species of the subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia: Muridae). Lynx.
Uhrová M, Mikula O, Bennett NC, Van Daele P, Piálek L, Bryja J, Visser JH, Jansen van Vuuren B, Šumbera R (2022). Species limits and phylogeographic structure in two genera of solitary African mole-rats Georychus and Heliophobius. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107337.
Votýpka J, Stříbrná E, Modrý D, Bryja J, Bryjová A, Lukeš J (2022). Unexpectedly high diversity of trypanosomes in small sub-Saharan mammals. International Journal for Parasitology.

2021

Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Nicolas V, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2021). Mitogenomics of the endemic Ethiopian rats: looking for footprints of adaptive evolution in sky islands. Mitochondrion.
Bletsa M, Vrancken B, Gryseels S, Boonen I, Fikatas A, Li Y, Laudisoit A, Lequime S, Bryja J, Makundi R, Meheretu Y, Akaibe BD, Mbalitini SG, Van de Perre F, Van Houtte N, Těšíková J, Wollants E, Van Ranst M, Pybus OG, Drexler JF, Verheyen E, Leirs H, Goüy de Bellocq J, Lemey P (2021). Molecular detection and genomic characterization of diverse hepaciviruses in African rodents. Virus Evolution, 7: veab036.
Hánová A, Konečný A, Nicolas V, Denys C, Granjon L, Lavrenchenko LA, Šumbera A, Mikula O, Bryja J (2021). Multilocus phylogeny of African striped grass mice (Lemniscomys): Stripe pattern only partly reflects evolutionary relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107007.
Hánová A, Konečný A, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Šumbera R, Bryja J (2021). Diversity, distribution, and evolutionary history of the most studied African rodents, multimammate mice of the genus Mastomys: An overview after a quarter of century of using DNA sequencing. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.
Komarova VA, Kostin DS, Bryja J, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Čížková D, Šumbera R, Meheretu Y, Lavrenchenko LA (2021). Complex reticulate evolution of speckled brush‐furred rats (Lophuromys) in the Ethiopian centre of endemism. Molecular Ecology.
Krásová J, Mikula O, Šumbera R, Horáková S, Robovský J, Kostin DS, Martynov AA, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2021). The Rufous Sengi is not Elephantulus—Multilocus reconstruction of evolutionary history of sengis from the subfamily Macroscelidinae. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.
Krásová J, Mikula O, Bryja J, Baptista NL, Antonio T, Aghová T, Šumbera R (2021). Biogeography of Angolan rodents: the first glimpse based on phylogenetic evidence. Diversity and Distributions.
Meheretu Y, Granberg Å, Berhane G, Khalil H, Lwande OW, Mitiku M, Welegerima K, Goüy de Bellocq J, Bryja J, Abreha H, Leirs H, Ecke F, Evander M (2021). Prevalence of orthohantavirus-reactive antibodies in humans and peri-domestic rodents in Northern Ethiopia. Viruses, 1054.
Mikula O, Nicolas V, Šumbera R, Konečný A, Denys C, Verheyen E, Bryjová A, Lemmon AR, Lemmon EM, Bryja J (2021). Nuclear phylogenomics, but not mitogenomics, resolves the most successful Late Miocene radiation of African mammals (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicanthini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107069.
Nicolas V, Mikula O, Lavrenchenko LA, Šumbera R, Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Meheretu Y, Verheyen E, Missoup AD, Lemmon AR, Moriarty Lemmon E, Bryja J (2021). Phylogenomics of African radiation of Praomyini (Muridae: Murinae) rodents: First fully resolved phylogeny, evolutionary history and delimitation of extant genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107263.
Onditi KO, Demos TC, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Chen ZZ, Bryja J, Lavrenchenko LA, Musila S, Verheyen E, Van de Perre F, Akaibe BD, de la Sancha NU, Jiang XL (2021). Historical biogeography, systematics, and integrative taxonomy of the non-Ethiopian speckled pelage brush-furred rats (Lophuromys flavopunctatus group). BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21: 89.
Voelker G, Huntley JW, Bryja J, Denys C, Šumbera R, Demos TC, Lavrenchenko L, Nicolas V, Gnoske TP, Kerbis Peterhans JC (2021). Molecular systematics and biogeographic history of the African climbing-mouse complex (Dendromus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107166.

2020

Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Denys C, Taylor P, Leirs H (2020). The 13th African Small Mammal Symposium in Mekelle, Ethiopia, and the evolution of these meetings. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, E2002.
Craig EW, Stanley WT, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Bryja J, Meheretu Y (2020). Small terrestrial mammal distributions in Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia: a reassessment after 88 years. Journal of Mammalogy.
Cuypers LN, Baird SJE, Hánová A, Locus T, Katakweba AS, Gryseels S, Bryja J, Leirs H, Goüy de Bellocq J (2020). Three arenaviruses in three subspecific natal multimammate mouse taxa in Tanzania: same host specificity, but different spatial genetic structure?. Virus Evolution, 6: veaa039.
Kerbis Peterhans JC, Hutterer R, Doty JB, Malekani JM, Moyer DC, Krásová J, Bryja J, Banasiak RA, Demos TC (2020). Four new species of the Hylomyscus anselli group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae) from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania. Bonn Zoological Bulletin, 69: 55-83.
Konečný A, Hutterer R, Meheretu Y, Bryja J (2020). Two new species of Crocidura (Mammalia: Soricidae) from Ethiopia and updates on the Ethiopian shrew fauna. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 20064.
Kostin DS, Martynov AA, Komarova VA, Alexandrov DY, Yihune M, Kasso M, Bryja J, Lavrenchenko LA (2020). Rodents of Choke Mountain and surrounding areas (Ethiopia): the Blue Nile gorge as a strong biogeographic barrier. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 20016.
Lövy M, Lavrenchenko LA, Kostin DS, Martynov AA, Šumbera R, Bryja J, Okrouhlík J (2020). The effect of elevation on haematocrit in Ethiopian rodents. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 20011.
Martynov AA, Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Lavrenchenko LA (2020). Multimammate mice of the genus Mastomys (Rodentia: Muridae) in Ethiopia – diversity and distribution assessed by genetic approaches and environmental niche modelling. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 20006.
Mikula O, Nicolas V, Boratyński Z, Denys C, Dobigny G, Fichet-Calvet E, Gagaré S, Hutterer R, Nimo-Paintsil SC, Olayemi A, Bryja J (2020). Commensalism outweighs phylogeographical structure in its effect on phenotype of a Sudanian savanna rodent. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Mizerovská D, Mikula O, Meheretu Y, Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Kostin DS, Šumbera R, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2020). Integrative taxonomic revision of the Ethiopian endemic rodent genus Stenocephalemys (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini) with the description of two new species. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 20031.
Nicolas V, Fabre P, Bryja J, Denys C, Verheyen E, Missoup AD, Olayemi A, Katuala P, Dudu A, Colyn M, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Demos T (2020). The phylogeny of the African wood mice (Muridae, Hylomyscus) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and five nuclear genes reveals their evolutionary history and undescribed diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 106703.

2019

Aghová T, Palupčíková K, Šumbera R, Frynta D, Lavrenchenko LA, Meheretu Y, Sádlová J, Votýpka J, Mbau JS, Modrý D, Bryja J (2019). Multiple radiations of spiny mice (Rodentia: Acomys) in dry open habitats of Afro-Arabia: evidence from a multi-locus phylogeny. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 69.
Bartáková V, Bryja J, Šanda R, Bektas Y, Stefanov T, Choleva L, Smith C, Reichard M (2019). High cryptic diversity of bitterling fish in the southern West Palearctic. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Bryja J, Colangelo P, Lavrenchenko LA, Meheretu Y, Šumbera R, Bryjová A, Verheyen E, Leirs H, Castiglia R (2019). Diversity and evolution of African Grass Rats (Muridae: Arvicanthis)—From radiation in East Africa to repeated colonization of northwestern and southeastern savannas. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.
Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Šumbera R, Lavrenchenko LA (2019). Annotated checklist, taxonomy and distribution of rodents in Ethiopia. Folia zoologica.
Kostin DS, Kasso M, Komarova VA, Martynov AA, Gromov AR, Alexandrov DY, Bekele A, Zewdie C, Bryja J, Lavrenchenko LA (2019). Taxonomic and genetic diversity of rodents from the Arsi Mountains (Ethiopia). Mammalia.
Krásová J, Mikula O, Mazoch V, Bryja J, Říčan O, Šumbera R (2019). Evolution of the Grey-bellied pygmy mouse group: highly structured molecular diversity with predictable geographic ranges but morphological crypsis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Krojerová-Prokešová J, Turbaková B, Jelenčič M, Bojda M, Kutal M, Skrbinšek T, Koubek P, Bryja J (2019). Genetic constraints of population expansion of the Carpathian lynx at the western edge of its native distribution range in Central Europe. Heredity.
Meheretu Y, Stanley WT, Craig EW, Goüy de Bellocq J, Bryja J, Leirs H, Pahlmann M, Günther S (2019). Tigray orthohantavirus infects two related rodent species adapted to different elevations in Ethiopia. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.
Mizerovská D, Nicolas V, Demos TC, Akaibe D, Colyn M, Denys C, Kaleme PK, Katuala P, Kennis J, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Laudisoit A, Missoup AD, Šumbera R, Verheyen E, Bryja J (2019). Genetic variation of the most abundant forest‐dwelling rodents in Central Africa (Praomys jacksoni complex): Evidence for Pleistocene refugia in both montane and lowland forests. Journal of Biogeography.
Petružela J, Bryja J, Bryjová A, Katakweba A, Sabuni C, Baird SJE, Goüy de Bellocq J (2019). Evolutionary history of Pneumocystis fungi in their African rodent hosts. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 103934.

2018

Aghová T, Kimura Y, Bryja J, Dobigny G, Granjon L, Kergoat GJ (2018). Fossils know it best: Using a new set of fossil calibrations to improve the temporal phylogenetic framework of murid rodents (Rodentia: Muridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Bartáková V, Bryja J, Reichard M (2018). Fine-scale genetic structure of the European bitterling at the intersection of three major European watersheds. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 105.
Bryja J, Kostin D, Meheretu Y, Šumbera R, Bryjová A, Kasso M, Mikula O, Lavrenchenko LA (2018). Reticulate Pleistocene evolution of Ethiopian rodent genus along remarkable altitudinal gradient. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Bryja J, Konvičková H, Bryjová A, Mikula O, Makundi R, Chitaukali WN, Šumbera R (2018). Differentiation underground: range-wide multilocus genetic structure of the silvery mole-rat does not support current taxonomy based on mitochondrial sequences. Mammalian Biology.
Goüy de Bellocq J, Wasimuddin W, Ribas A, Bryja J, Piálek J, Baird SJE (2018). Holobiont suture zones: Parasite evidence across the European house mouse hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology.
Konečný A, Popa O, Bartáková V, Douda K, Bryja J, Smith C, Popa LO, Reichard M (2018). Modelling the invasion history of Sinanodonta woodiana in Europe: tracking the routes of a sedentary aquatic invader with mobile parasitic larvae. Evolutionary Applications.
Králová T, Albrecht T, Bryja J, Hořák D, Johnsen A, Lifjeld JT, Novotný M, Sedláček O, Velová H, Vinkler M (2018). Signatures of diversifying selection and convergence acting on passerine Toll‐like receptor 4 in an evolutionary context. Molecular Ecology.
Mazoch V, Mikula O, Bryja J, Konvičková H, Russo I, Verheyen E, Šumbera R (2018). Phylogeography of a widespread sub-Saharan murid rodent Aethomys chrysophilus: the role of geographic barriers and paleoclimate in the Zambezian bioregion. Mammalia.
Petružela J, Šumbera R, Aghová T, Bryjová A, Katakweba AS, Sabuni CA, Chitaukali WN, Bryja J (2018). Spiny mice of the Zambezian bioregion – phylogeny, biogeography and ecological differentiation within the Acomys spinosissimus complex. Mammalian Biology.
Sabuni C, Aghová T, Bryjová A, Šumbera R, Bryja J (2018). Biogeographic implications of small mammals from Northern Highlands in Tanzania with first data from the volcanic Mount Kitumbeine. Mammalia.
Šumbera R, Krásová J, Lavrenchenko LA, Mengistu S, Bekele A, Mikula O, Bryja J (2018). Ethiopian highlands as a cradle of the African fossorial root-rats (genus Tachyoryctes), the genetic evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

2017

Aghová T, Šumbera R, Piálek L, Mikula O, McDonough MM, Lavrenchenko LA, Meheretu Y, Mbau JS, Bryja J (2017). Multilocus phylogeny of East African gerbils (Rodentia, Gerbilliscus) illuminates the history of the Somali-Masai savanna. Journal of Biogeography.
Bryja J, Šumbera R, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Aghová T, Bryjová A, Mikula O, Nicolas V, Denys C, Verheyen E (2017). Evolutionary history of the thicket rats (genus Grammomys) mirrors the evolution of African forests since late Miocene. Journal of Biogeography.
Horníček J, Menclová P, Popelková A, Rymešová D, Zárybnická M, Bryja J, Svobodová J (2017). Microsatellite analysis detects low rate of extra-pair paternity in Tengmalm’s owl, Aegolius funereus. Folia zoologica.
Janáč M, Bryja J, Ondračková M, Mendel J, Jurajda P (2017). Genetic structure of three invasive gobiid species along the Danube-Rhine invasion corridor: similar distributions, different histories. Aquatic Invasions.
Lavrenchenko LA, Nadjafova RS, Bekele A, Mironova TA, Bryja J (2017). Phylogenetic position of a monotypic Ethiopian endemic rodent genus Megadendromus (Rodentia, Nesomyidae). Mammalia.
Rymešová D, Králová T, Promerová M, Bryja J, Tomášek O, Svobodová J, Šmilauer P, Šálek M, Albrecht T (2017). Mate choice for major histocompatibility complex complementarity in a strictly monogamous bird, the grey partridge (Perdix perdix). Frontiers in Zoology, 9.
Těšíková J, Bryjová A, Bryja J, Lavrenchenko LA, Goüy de Bellocq J (2017). Hantavirus strains in East Africa related to Western African hantaviruses. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.

2016

Goüy de Bellocq J, Těšíková J, Meheretu Y, Čížková D, Bryjová A, Leirs H, Bryja J (2016). Complete genome characterisation and phylogenetic position of Tigray hantavirus from the Ethiopian white-footed mouse, Stenocephalemys albipes. Infection, Genetics and Evolution.
Mikula O, Šumbera R, Aghová T, Mbau JS, Katakweba AS, Sabuni CA, Bryja J (2016). Evolutionary history and species diversity of African pouched mice (Rodentia: Nesomyidae: Saccostomus). Zoologica Scripta.
Wasimuddin W, Bryja J, Ribas A, Baird SJE, Piálek J, Goüy de Bellocq J (2016). Testing parasite "intimacy": the whipworm Trichuris muris in the European house mouse hybrid zone. Ecology and Evolution.

2015

Bartáková V, Reichard M, Blažek R, Polačik M, Bryja J (2015). Terrestrial fishes: rivers are barriers to gene flow in annual fishes from the African savanna. Journal of Biogeography.
Jacquet F, Denys C, Verheyen E, Bryja J, Hutterer R, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Stanley WT, Goodman SM, Couloux A, Colyn M, Nicolas V (2015). Phylogeography and evolutionary history of the Crocidura olivieri complex (Mammalia, Soricomorpha): from a forest origin to broad ecological expansion across Africa. BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Jánová E, Bryja J, Čižmár D, Čepelka L, Heroldová M (2015). A new method for assessing food quality in common vole (Microtus arvalis) populations. European Journal of Wildlife Research.
Kaňuch P, Aghová T, Meheretu Y, Šumbera R, Bryja J (2015). New discoveries on the ecology and echolocation of the heart-nosed bat Cardioderma cor with a contribution to the phylogeny of Megadermatidae. African Zoology.
McDonough MM, Šumbera R, Mazoch V, Ferguson AW, Phillips CD, Bryja J (2015). Multilocus phylogeography of a widespread savanna-woodland adapted rodent reveals the influence of Pleistocene geomorphology and climate change in Africa's Zambezi region. Molecular Ecology.
Meheretu Y, Šumbera R, Bryja J (2015). Enigmatic Ethiopian endemic rodent Muriculus imberbis (Rüppell 1842) represents a separate lineage within genus Mus. Mammalia.
Popa OP, Bartáková V, Bryja J, Reichard M, Popa LO (2015). Characterization of nine microsatellite markers and development of multiplex PCRs for the Chinese huge musel Anodonta (Sinanodonta) woodiana Lea, 1834 (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology.
Vinkler M, Bainová H, Bryjová A, Tomášek O, Albrecht T, Bryja J (2015). Characterisation of Toll-like receptors 4, 5 and 7 and their genetic variation in the grey partridge. Genetica.
Winternitz JC, Promerová M, Poláková R, Vinkler M, Schnitzer J, Munclinger P, Babik W, Radwan J, Bryja J, Albrecht T (2015). Effects of heterozygosity and MHC diversity on patterns of extra-pair paternity in the socially monogamous scarlet rosefinch. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
Zemanová B, Hájková P, Hájek B, Martínková N, Mikulíček P, Zima J, Bryja J (2015). Extremely low genetic variation in endangered Tatra chamois and evidence for hybridization with an introduced Alpine population. Conservation Genetics.

2014

Bainová H, Králová T, Bryjová A, Albrecht T, Bryja J, Vinkler M (2014). First evidence of independent pseudogenization of Toll-like receptor 5 in passerine birds. Developmental and Comparative Immunology.
Bryja J, Mikula O, Šumbera R, Meheretu Y, Aghová T, Lavrenchenko LA, Mazoch V, Oguge N, Mbau JS, Welegerima K, Amundala N, Colyn M, Leirs H, Verheyen E (2014). Pan-African phylogeny of Mus (subgenus Nannomys) reveals one of the most successful mammal radiations in Africa. BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Bryja J, Mikula O, Patzenhauerová H, Oguge NO, Šumbera R, Verheyen E (2014). The role of dispersal and vicariance in the Pleistocene history of an East African mountain rodent, Praomys delectorum. Journal of Biogeography.
Fornůsková A, Bryja J, Vinkler M, Macholán M, Piálek J (2014). Contrasting patterns of polymorphism and selection in bacterial-sensing toll-like receptor 4 in two house mouse subspecies. Ecology and Evolution.
Fornůsková A, Petit E, Bartonička T, Kaňuch P, Butet A, Řehák Z, Bryja J (2014). Strong matrilineal structure in common pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) is associated with variability in echolocation calls. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Vinkler M, Bainová H, Bryja J (2014). Protein evolution of Toll-like receptors 4, 5 and 7 within Galloanserae birds. Genetics Selection Evolution.

2013

Bartáková V, Reichard M, Janko K, Polačik M, Blažek R, Reichwald K, Cellerino A, Bryja J (2013). Strong population genetic structuring in an annual fish, Nothobranchius furzeri, suggests multiple savannah refugia in southern Mozambique. BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Buzan EV, Bryja J, Zemanová B, Kryštufek B (2013). Population genetics of chamois in the contact zone between the Alps and the Dinaric Mountains: uncovering the role of habitat fragmentation and past management. Conservation Genetics.
Ćosić N, Říčanová Š, Bryja J, Penezić A, Ćirović D (2013). Do rivers and human-induced habitat fragmentation affect genetic diversity and population structure of the European ground squirrel at the edge of its Pannonian range?. Conservation Genetics.
Fornůsková A, Vinkler M, Pages M, Galan M, Jousselin E, Cerqueira F, Morand S, Charbonnel N, Bryja J, Cosson J (2013). Contrasted evolutionary histories of two Toll-like receptors (Tlr4 and Tlr7) in wild rodents (MURINAE). BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Hoban S, Gaggiotti O, Bertorelle G, Arntzen P, Bryja J, Fernandes M, Frith K, Galbusera P, Godoy JA, Hauffe HC, Hoelzel R, Nichols R, Perez-Espona S, Primmer C, Russo IM, Segelbacher G, Siegismund HR, Sihvonen M, Sjoegren-Gulve P, Vernesi C, Vila C, Bruford MW (2013). Sample Planning Optimization Tool for conservation and population Genetics (SPOTG): a software for choosing the appropriate number of markers and samples. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Hoban SM, Hauffe HC, Pérez-Espona S, Arntzen JW, Bertorelle G, Bryja J, Frith K, Gaggiotti OE, Galbusera P, Godoy JA, Hoelzel AR, Nichols RA, Primmer CR, Russo I, Segelbacher G, Siegismund HR, Sihvonen M, Vernesi C, Vila C, Bruford MW (2013). Bringing genetic diversity to the forefront of conservation policy and management. Conservation genetics resources.
Hoban SM, Arntzen JW, Bertorelle G, Bryja J, Fernandes M, Frith K, Gaggiotti OE, Galbusera P, Godoy JA, Hauffe HC, Hoelzel AR, Nichols RA, Pérez-Espona S, Primmer CR, Russo I, Segelbacher G, Siegismund HR, Sihvonen M, Sjögren-Gulve P, Vernesi C, Vila C, Bruford MW (2013). Conservation Genetic Resources for Effective Species Survival (ConGRESS): Bridging the divide between conservation research and practice. Journal for Nature Conservation.
Konečný A, Estoup A, Duplantier J, Bryja J, Ba K, Galan M, Tatard C, Cosson J (2013). Invasion genetics of the introduced black rat (Rattus rattus) in Senegal, West Africa. Molecular Ecology.
Patzenhauerová H, Šklíba J, Bryja J, Šumbera R (2013). Parentage analysis of Ansell’s mole-rat family groups indicates a high reproductive skew despite relatively relaxed ecological constraints on dispersal. Molecular Ecology.
Promerová M, Králová T, Bryjová A, Albrecht T, Bryja J (2013). MHC class IIB Exon 2 Polymorphism in the Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) is shaped by selection, recombination and gene conversion. PLoS ONE.
Říčanová Š, Koshev Y, Říčan O, Ćosić N, Ćirović D, Sedláček F, Bryja J (2013). Multilocus phylogeography of the European ground squirrel: cryptic interglacial refugia of continental climate in Europe. Molecular Ecology.

2012

Bryja J, Mazoch V, Patzenhauerová H, Mateke C, Zima Jr. J, Šklíba J, Šumbera R (2012). Revised occurrence of rodents from the tribe Praomyini (Muridae) in Zambia based on mitochondrial DNA analyses: implications for biogeography and conservation. Folia zoologica.
Heroldová M, Bryja J, Jánová E, Suchomel J, Homolka M (2012). Rodent damage to natural and replanted mountain forest regeneration. Scientific World Journal, 2012: 872536.
Malé PG, Martin J, Galan M, Deffontaine V, Bryja J, Cosson J, Michaux J, Charbonnel N (2012). Discongruence of Mhc and cytochrome b phylogeographical patterns in Myodes glareolus (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Meheretu Y, Čížková D, Těšíková J, Welegerima K, Tomas Z, Kidane D, Girmay K, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Bryja J, Günther S, Bryjová A, Leirs H, Goüy de Bellocq J (2012). High diversity of RNA viruses in rodents, Ethiopia. Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Poláková R, Schnitzer J, Vinkler M, Bryja J, Munclinger P, Albrecht T (2012). Effect of extra-pair paternity and parental quality on brood sex ratio in the scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus. Folia zoologica.
Promerová M, Babik W, Bryja J, Albrecht T, Stuglik M, Radwan J (2012). Evaluation of two approaches to genotyping major histocompatibility complex class I in a passerine—CE-SSCP and 454 pyrosequencing. Molecular Ecology Resources.
Reichard M, Spence R, Bryjová A, Bryja J, Smith C (2012). Female rose bitterling prefer MHC-dissimilar males: experimental evidence. PLoS ONE.
Seifertová M, Bryja J, Vyskočilová M, Martínková N, Šimková A (2012). Multiple Pleistocene refugia and postglacial colonization in the European chub (Squalius cephalus) revealed by combined use of nuclear and mitochondrial markers. Journal of Biogeography.
Šumbera R, Mazoch V, Patzenhauerová H, Lövy M, Šklíba J, Bryja J, Burda H (2012). Burrow architecture, family composition and habitat characteristics of the largest social African mole-rat: the giant mole-rat constructs really giant burrow systems. Acta Theriologica.
Wasimuddin W, Čížková D, Bryja J, Albrechtová J, Hauffe HC, Piálek J (2012). High prevalence and species diversity of Helicobacter spp. detected in wild house mice. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Wasimuddin W, Čížková D, Ribas A, Piálek J, Goüy de Bellocq J, Bryja J (2012). Development and characterization of multiplex panels of microsatellite markers for Syphacia obvelata, a parasite of the house mouse (Mus musculus), using a high throughput DNA sequencing approach. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology.

2011

Čížková D, Goüy de Bellocq J, Baird SJE, Piálek J, Bryja J (2011). Genetic structure and contrasting selection pattern at two major histocompatibility complex genes in wild house mouse populations. Heredity.
Demontis D, Czarnomska SD, Hájková P, Zemanová B, Bryja J, Loeschcke V, Pertoldi C (2011). Characterization of 151 SNPs for population structure analysis of the endangered Tatra chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra tatrica) and its relative, the Alpine chamois (R. r. rupicapra). Mammalian Biology.
Jánová E, Heroldová M, Konečný A, Bryja J (2011). Traditional and diversified crops in South Moravia (Czech Republic): Habitat preferences of common vole and mice species. Mammalian Biology.
Procházka P, Stokke BG, Jensen H, Fainová D, Bellinvia E, Fossoy F, Vikan JR, Bryja J, Soler M (2011). Low genetic differentiation among reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus populations across Europe. Journal of Avian Biology.
Promerová M, Vinkler M, Bryja J, Poláková R, Schnitzer J, Munclinger P, Albrecht T (2011). Occurrence of extra-pair paternity is connected to social male’s MHC-variability in the scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus. Journal of Avian Biology.
Reichard M, Bryja J, Polačik M, Smith C (2011). No evidence for host specialization or host-race formation in the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), a fish that parasitizes freshwater mussels. Molecular Ecology.
Říčanová Š, Bryja J, Cosson J, Gedeon C, Choleva L, Ambros M, Sedláček F (2011). Depleted genetic variation of the European ground squirrel in Central Europe in both microsatellites and the major histocompatibility complex gene: implications for conservation. Conservation Genetics.
Zemanová B, Hájková P, Bryja J, Zima Jr. J, Hájková A, Zima J (2011). Development of multiplex microsatellite sets for noninvasive population genetic study of the endangered Tatra chamois. Folia zoologica.

2010

Agbali M, Reichard M, Bryjová A, Bryja J, Smith C (2010). Mate choice for nonadditive genetic benefits correlate with MHC dissimilarity in the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus). Evolution.
Bartonička T, Kaňuch P, Bímová B, Bryja J (2010). Olfactory discrimination between two cryptic species of bats Pipistrellus pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus. Folia zoologica.
Bryja J, Uhrin M, Kaňuch P, Bémová P, Martínková N, Zukal J (2010). Mitochondrial DNA confirms low genetic variation of the greater mouse-eared bats, Myotis myotis, in Central Europe. Acta Chiropterologica.
Bryja J, Granjon L, Dobigny G, Patzenhauerová H, Konečný A, Duplantier J, Gauthier P, Colyn M, Durnez L, Lalis A, Nicolas V (2010). Plio-Pleistocene history of West African Sudanian savanna and the phylogeography of the Praomys daltoni complex (Rodentia): the environment/geography/genetic interplay. Molecular Ecology.
Bryja J, Smith C, Konečný A, Reichard M (2010). Range-wide population genetic structure of the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus) based on microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA analysis. Molecular Ecology.
Bužan EV, Kryštufek B, Bryja J (2010). Microsatellite markers confirm extensive population fragmentation of the endangered Balkan palaeoendemic Martino’s vole (Dinaromys bogdanovi). Conservation Genetics.
Heroldová M, Pejčoch M, Bryja J, Jánová E, Suchomel J, Tkadlec E (2010). Tula virus in populations of small terrestrial mammals in a rural landscape. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.
Hulva P, Fornůsková A, Chudárková A, Evin A, Allegrini B, Benda P, Bryja J (2010). Mechanisms of radiation in a bat group from the genus Pipistrellus inferred by phylogeography, demography and population genetics. Molecular Ecology.
Charbonnel N, Bryja J, Galan M, Deter J, Tollenaere C, Chaval Y, Morand S, Cosson J (2010). Negative relationships between cellular immune response, Mhc class II heterozygosity and secondary sexual trait in the montane water vole. Evolutionary Applications.
Jánová E, Nesvadbová J, Heroldová M, Bryja J (2010). Effectiveness of two trapping protocols for studying the demography of common voles. Hystrix.
Kaňuch P, Fornůsková A, Bartonička T, Bryja J, Řehák Z (2010). Do two cryptic pipistrelle bat species differ in their autumn and winter roosting strategies within the range of sympatry?. Folia zoologica.
Konečný A, Koubek P, Bryja J (2010). Indications of higher diversity and abundance of small rodents in human-influenced Sudanian savannah than in the Niokolo Koba National Park (Senegal). African Journal of Ecology.
Patzenhauerová H, Bryja J, Šumbera R (2010). Kinship structure and mating system in a solitary subterranean rodent, the silvery mole-rat. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

2009

Albrecht T, Vinkler M, Schnitzer J, Poláková R, Munclinger P, Bryja J (2009). Extra-pair fertilizations contribute to selection on secondary male ornamentation in a socially monogamous passerine. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Bryja J, Kaňuch P, Fornůsková A, Bartonička T, Řehák Z (2009). Nízká populačně-genetická struktura dvou kryptických druhů netopýrů ve střední Evropě naznačuje jejich migrační chování. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Clift LE, Andrlíková P, Frolíková M, Stopka P, Bryja J, Flanagan BF, Johnson PM, Dvořáková-Hortová K (2009). Absence exprese spermatozoálního CD46 proteinu je spojena s rychlou akrozomální reakcí u myšice temnopásé (Apodemus agrarius). Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology.
Kryštufek B, Bryja J, Bužan EV (2009). Mitochondriální fylogeografie sysla obecného (Spermophilus citellus) dokazuje přítomnost refugií pro stepní druhy na jižním Balkáně. Heredity.
Promerová M, Albrecht T, Bryja J (2009). Extremely high MHC class I variation in a population of a long-distance migrant, the Scarlet Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus). Immunogenetics.
Reichard M, Ondračková M, Bryjová A, Smith C, Bryja J (2009). Rozmístění zdrojů ovlivňuje selekční gradienty samčích fenotypových znaků: experimentální studie celoživotní reprodukční úspěšnosti hořavky duhové (Rhodeus amarus). Evolution.
Vinkler M, Bryjová A, Albrecht T, Bryja J (2009). Identifikace prvního Toll-like receptoru u pěvce: TLR4 ortolog u zebřičky (Taeniopygia guttata). Tissue Antigens.

2008

Bryja J, Patzenhauerová H, Albrecht T, Mošanský L, Stanko M, Stopka P (2008). Proměnlivá úroveň samičí promiskuity u čtyř druhů myšic rodu Apodemus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
Deter J, Bryja J, Chaval Y, Galan M, Henttonen H, Laakkonen J, Voutilainen L, Vapalahti O, Vaheri A, Salvador AR, Morand S, Cosson J, Charbonnel N (2008). Asociace mezi DQA geny MHC třídy II a infekcí Puumala virem u norníka rudého (Myodes glareolus). Infection, Genetics and Evolution.
Heroldová M, Tkadlec E, Bryja J, Zejda J (2008). Pšenice nebo ječmen? Potravní preference ovlivňují rozmístění tří druhů hlodavců v zemědělské krajině. Applied Animal Behaviour Science.
Jánová E, Heroldová M, Bryja J (2008). Demografické a individuální změny populace hraboše polního v poli ponechaném ladem. Annales Zoologici Fennici.
Nicolas V, Bryja J, Akpatou B, Konečný A, Lecompte E, Colyn M, Lalis A, Couloux A, Denys C, Granjon L (2008). Srovnávací fylogeografie dvou sesterských druhů lesních hlodavců (Praomys rostratus a P. tullbergi) v západní Africe: rozdílné reakce na historickou fragmentaci lesa. Molecular Ecology.
Reichard M, Smith C, Bryja J (2008). Sezónní změny v potenciálu pohlavního výběru. Molecular Ecology.
Řehák Z, Bartonička T, Bryja J, Gaisler J (2008). Nové nálezy netopýra Myotis alcathoe na Moravě (Česká republika). Folia zoologica.
Tollenaere C, Bryja J, Galan M, Cadet P, Deter J, Chaval Y, Berthier K, Ribas Salvador A, Voutilainen L, Laakkonen J, Henttonen H, Cosson J, Charbonnel N (2008). Balancujici selekce na dvou MHC Class II genech je zprostředkována více druhy parazitů: výsledky vícerozměrných analýz a populační genetiky. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Tóthová A, Knoz J, Sonnek R, Bryja J, Vaňhara J (2008). Taxonomické problémy v podrodu Meloehelea Wirth genu Atrichopogon Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) na základě analýzy morfologických i molekulárních znaků. Entomologica Fennica, 19: 1-12.

2007

Albrecht T, Schnitzer J, Kreisinger J, Exnerová A, Bryja J, Munclinger P (2007). Mimopárové paternity a potenciál k sexuální selekci u dálkově migrujících pěvců. Behavioral Ecology.
Bryja J, Charbonnel N, Berthier K, Galan M, Cosson J (2007). Typ selekce působící na geny hlavního histokompatibilního systému u hrabošů závisí na hustotě. Molecular Ecology.
Bryja J, Kment P (2007). Ploštice (Heteroptera) Bukovských vrchů (Národní park Poloniny, Slovensko). Acta Musei Moraviae. Scientiae biologicae = Časopis Moravského muzea. Vědy biologické, iScientiae biologicae.
Hájková P, Pertoldi C, Zemanová B, Roche K, Hájek B, Bryja J, Zima J (2007). Genetická struktura a recentní pokles početnosti populací vydry říční v České a Slovenské republice: důsledky pro ochranu. Journal of Zoology.
Heroldová M, Bryja J, Zejda J, Tkadlec E (2007). Struktura a diverzita společenstev drobných savců v zemědělské krajině. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.
Kaňuch P, Hájková P, Řehák Z, Bryja J (2007). Rychlý PCR-test na druhovou identifikaci dvou kryptických druhů netopýrů Pipistrellus pipistrellus a P. pygmaeus a jeho aplikace na muzejní vzorky a vzorky trusu. Acta Chiropterologica.
Kaňuch P, Fornůsková A, Bartonička T, Bryja J (2007). Panel variabilních mikrosatelitů pro dva kryptické druhy netopýrů rodu Pipistrellus vyvinutý metodou cross-amplifikace v rámci čeledi Vespertilionidae. Molecular Ecology Notes, 7: 871-873.
Kment P, Bryja J (2007). Popis Nasocoris lautereri sp. nov. z balkánského poloostrova a revize rodu Nasocoris (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae). Zootaxa.
Loiseau A, Konečný A, Galan M, Bryja J, Cosson J, Brouat C (2007). Nové polymorfní mikrosatelity pro hlodavce rodu Mastomys a mezidruhová amplifikace u Myomys a Praomys. Molecular Ecology Notes, 7: 684-687.
Poláková R, Vyskočilová M, Martin J, Mays Jr. HL, Hill GE, Bryja J, Albrecht T (2007). Multiplex sada mikrosatelitových markerů pro hýla rudého (Carpodacus erythrinus). Molecular Ecology Notes, 7: 1375-1378.

2006

Bencová V, Kašpar T, Bryja J (2006). Seasonal and interannual changes in diet composition of the Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) in Southern Moravia. Tichodroma, 18: 65-71.
Bryja J, Galan M, Charbonnel N, Cosson J (2006). Duplikace, balancující selekce a trans-species evoluce vysvětlují vysoký stupeň polymorfismu genu DQA (MHC Class II) u hrabošů (Arvicolinae). Immunogenetics.
Bryja J, Kment P (2006). True bugs (Heteroptera) of Kokořínsko Protected Landscape Area. Bohemia centralis, 27: 267-294.
Hájková P, Zemanová B, Bryja J, Hájek B, Roche K, Tkadlec E, Zima J (2006). Faktory ovlivňující úspěšnost PCR amplifikace mikrosatelitových lokusů z vydřího trusu. Molecular Ecology Notes, 6: 559-562.
Kment P, Bryja J (2006). Revize výskytu druhů rodu Heterotoma (Heteroptera: Miridae) v České a Slovenské republice s poznámkami k nomenklatuře, diagnostickým znakům a ekologii. Acta Musei Moraviae. Scientiae biologicae = Časopis Moravského muzea. Vědy biologické, iScientiae biologicae.
Tóthová A, Bryja J, Bejdák P, Vaňhara J (2006). Molekulární markery používané ve fylogenetických studiích řádu Diptera a přehled používaných metod. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Biologica, 50: 125-133.

2005

Bryja J, Nesvadbová J, Heroldová M, Jánová E, Losík J, Trebatická L, Tkadlec E (2005). Populační poměr pohlaví u hraboše polního: odchylky a skutečná variabilita. Canadian Journal of Zoology - Revue Canadienne de Zoologie.
Bryja J, Stopka P (2005). Fakultativní promiskuita u předpokládaného monogamního druhu myšice malooké (Apodemus microps). Acta Theriologica.
Bryja J, Galan M, Charbonnel N, Cosson J (2005). Analýza genu hlavního histokompatibilního komplexu třídy II u hryzce vodního použitím analýzy SSCP v kapiláře. Molecular Ecology Notes, 5: 173-176.
Heroldová M, Jánová E, Bryja J, Tkadlec E (2005). Jsou pole nechaná ladem zdrojem škodlivých druhů drobných savců?. Folia zoologica.
Kment P, Bryja J, Jindra Z (2005). Nové nálezy ploštic na Balkánském poloostrově. Acta entomologica slovenica, 13: 9-20.
Kment P, Bryja J, Hradil K, Jindra Z (2005). Nové a zajímavé nálezy ploštic (Heteroptera) z České republiky a ze Slovenska 3. Klapalekiana, 41: 157-213.
Reichard M, Bryja J, Ondračková M, Dávidová M, Kaniewska P, Smith C (2005). Pohlavní výběr hořavky duhové preferuje samčí dominantní chování a snižuje pravděpodobnost úspěšné samičí volby. Molecular Ecology.

2004

Bryja J, Kment P (2004). True bugs (Heteroptera) of the Bukovské vrchy Hills (National park Poloniny). Folia faunistica Slovaca, 9: 31-41.
Hájková P, Zemanová B, Hájek B, Roche K, Kučerová M, Bryja J, Zima J (2004). Stanovení početnosti a struktury populace vydry říční (Lutra lutra) neinvazivní genetickou metodou - zpráva o probíhajícím výzkumném projektu. Bulletin Vydra, 12001.
Hájková P, Hájek B, Zemanová B, Roche K, Toman A, Bryja J (2004). Genetická variabilita a populačně-genetická struktura subpopulací vydry říční (Lutra lutra) v České a Slovenské republice. Bulletin Vydra, 12001.
Heroldová M, Zejda J, Zapletal M, Obdržálková D, Jánová E, Bryja J, Tkadlec E (2004). Význam ozimé řepky pro drobné hlodavce. Rostlinná  výroba, 50: 175-181.

2003

Bryja J, Konečný A (2003). Fast sex identification in wild mammals using PCR amplification of the Sry gene. Folia zoologica.
Jánová E, Heroldová M, Bryja J, Tkadlec E (2003). Methodical problems in the age identification of rodents on the base of the eye lens weight. Lynx.
Jánová E, Heroldová M, Nesvadbová J, Bryja J, Tkadlec E (2003). Age variation in a fluctuating population of the common vole. Oecologia.
Kment P, Bryja J, Jindra Z, Hradil K, Baňař P (2003). Nové a zajímavé nálezy ploštic (Heteroptera) z České republiky a ze Slovenska 2. Klapalekiana, 39: 257-306.

2002

Bartonička T, Řehák Z, Wolf P, Bryja J (2002). Small mammals of the Litovelské Pomoraví Protected Landscape Area (Czech Rep.). Part 1. Bats - Chiroptera. Lynx.
Bryja J, Heroldová M, Zejda J (2002). Effects of deforestation on structure and diversity of small mammal communities in the Moravskoslezské Beskydy Mts (Czech Republic). Acta Theriologica.
Bryja J, Kment P (2002). New and interesting records of plant bugs (Heteroptera: Miridae) from the Czech and Slovak Republics. Klapalekiana, 38: 1-10.
Bryja J, Řehák Z (2002). Further evidence of recent expansion of distribution range of the striped-field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) in Moravia (Czech Republic). Lynx.
Bryja J, Řehák Z, Vermouzek Z, Wolf P, Bartonička T (2002). Small mammals of the Litovelské Pomoraví Protected Landscape Area (Czech Rep.). Part 2. Insectivores and rodents - Insectivora et Rodentia. Lynx.
Bryja J, Kment P, Hradil K (2002). True bugs (Heteroptera) of Rokytenské slepence conglomerate rocky valley. Přírodovědný sborník Západomoravského muzea v Třebíči=Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Musei Moraviae Occidentalis, 40: 33-60.
Konečný A, Bryja J (2002). Insectivores and rodents in the Czech Republic - summary of unpublished faunistic data from diploma (M.Sc.) theses defended at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno. Lynx.
Kula E, Bryja J (2002). Comparison of various sampling methods for evaluation of biodiversity of true bugs (Heteroptera) in a birch forest. Ekológia, 21: 137-147.

2001

Bryja J, Tkadlec E, Nesvadbová J, Gaisler J, Zejda J (2001). Comparison of enumeration and Jolly-Seber estimation of population size in the common vole Microtus arvalis. Acta Theriologica.
Bryja J, Heroldová M, Zejda J (2001). Small terrestrial mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia) in the peak parts of Moravskoslezské Beskydy Mts. Časopis Slezského zemského muzea., iSérie A: Vědy přírodní.
Bryja J, Beneš B (2001). The harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) in the mountains of the Czech Republic. Časopis Slezského zemského muzea., iSérie A: Vědy přírodní.
Bryja J, Kment P (2001). The present state of knowledge of true bugs (Heteroptera) in the Protected Landscape Area of Poodří (Czech Republic). Klapalekiana, 37: 1-36.
Kment P, Bryja J (2001). New and interesting records of true bugs (Heteroptera) from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Klapalekiana, 37: 231-248.
Lososová Z, Danihelka J, Chytrý M, Hluchý M, Vítek P, Marek J, Škorpík M, Bezděk J, Průdek P, Poisel J, Lauterer P, Bagar M, Kment P, Bryja J, Janšta P (2001). Preliminary results of the biodiversity monitoring at vineyards and adjacent forest-steppe localities in the Protected Landscape Area of Pálava and the National Park of Podyjí. Thayensia, 4: 205-208.

2000

Bryja J, Zukal J (2000). Small mammal communities in newly planted biocorridors and their surroundings in southern Moravia (Czech Republic). Folia zoologica.
Bryja J, Kula E (2000). A novel multiple approach to the biodiversity evaluation - example of the fractionated community of bugs Heteroptera). Ekológia, 19: 225-244.

1999

Bryja J, Zemanová K, Šmarda J (1999). Anti-leucemic effects of retinoid X receptor. Klinická biochemie a metabolismus, 7: 17.
Bryja J (1999). The highest altitudinal record of the striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius Pallas, 1771) in the area of the Czech Republic. Časopis Slezského zemského muzea., iSérie A: Vědy přírodní.
Šmarda J, Zemanová K, Bryja J, Šmardová J, Kozubík A, Hofmanová J, Nemajerová A, Ševčíková S, Kohoutek J, Vodička P (1999). Retinoid X receptor suppresses transformation by the v-myb oncogene. Journal of Leukocyte Biology.

1998

Bryja J, Řehák Z (1998). Community of small terrestrial mammals (Insectivora, Rodentia) in dominant habitats of the Protected Landscape Area of Poodří (Czech Republic). Folia zoologica.
Bryja J, Řehák Z (1998). Small mammals in the Protected Landscape Area of Poodří and its vicinity: 1. Insectivora, Rodentia. Časopis Slezského zemského muzea., iSérie A: Vědy přírodní.
Bryja J, Řehák Z (1998). Diet composition of two owl species in the Odra river floodplain (Czech Republic). Buteo, 10: 97-102.
Řehák Z, Bryja J (1998). Small mammals in the Protected Landscape Area of Poodří and its vicinity: 2. Chiroptera. Časopis Slezského zemského muzea., iSérie A: Vědy přírodní.