Publications | Fish Evolution Research Group

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Musilova, Z., & Cortesi, F. (2023). The evolution of the green-light-sensitive visual opsin genes (RH2) in teleost fishes. Vision Research, 206, 108204.

Burguera, D., Dionigi, F., Kverková, K., Winkler, S., Brown, T., Pippel, M., … & Musilova, Z. (2022). Expanded olfactory system in fishes capable of terrestrial exploration. bioRxiv, 2022-12

Mukherjee, S., Hanak, P., Jilkova, D., Musilova, Z., Horka, P., Lerch, Z., … & Cermakova, E. (2023). Simultaneous detection and quantification of two European anglerfishes by novel genomic primer. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 115, 104992.

Lupše, N., Kłodawska, M., Truhlářová, V., Košátko, P., Kašpar, V., Nyom, A. R. B., & Musilova, Z. (2022). Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289(1986), 20221855.

Schedel, F. D., Musilova, Z., Indermaur, A., Bitja‐Nyom, A. R., Salzburger, W., & Schliewen, U. K. (2022). Towards the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic African genus Prolabeops Schultz 1941. Journal of Fish Biology.

Astudillo-Clavijo, V., Stiassny, M. L., Ilves, K. L., Musilova, Z., Salzburger, W., & López-Fernández, H. (2022). Exon-based phylogenomics and the relationships of African cichlid fishes: tackling the challenges of reconstructing phylogenies with repeated rapid radiations. Systematic Biology.

Ricci, V., Ronco, F., Musilova, Z., & Salzburger, W. (2022). Molecular evolution and depth-related adaptations of rhodopsin in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika. Molecular Ecology. 31(10), 2882-2897

Semerád, J., Horká, P., Filipová, A., Kukla, J., Holubová, K., Musilová, Z., … & Cajthaml, T. (2022). The driving factors of per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substance (PFAS) accumulation in selected fish species: The influence of position in river continuum, fish feed composition, and pollutant properties. Science of The Total Environment, 816, 151662.

Musilova, Z., & Cortesi, F. (2021). Multiple ancestral and a plethora of recent gene duplications during the evolution of the green sensitive opsin genes (RH2) in teleost fishes. bioRxiv.

Cortesi, F., Camacho, D. E., Luehrmann, M., Sommer, G. M., & Musilova, Z. (2021). Multiple ancestral duplications of the red-sensitive opsin gene (LWS) in teleost fishes and convergent spectral shifts to green vision in gobies. bioRxiv.

Mukherjee, S., Bartoš, O., Zdeňková, K., Hanák, P., Horká, P., & Musilova, Z. (2021). Evolution of the Parvalbumin Genes in Teleost Fishes after the Whole-Genome Duplication. Fishes, 6(4), 70.

Šlechtová, V., Musilova, Z., Tan, H. H., Kottelat, M., & Bohlen, J. (2021). One northward, one southward: Contrasting biogeographical history in two benthic freshwater fish genera across Southeast Asia (Teleostei: Cobitoidea: Nemacheilus, Pangio). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 161, 107139.

Lupše, N., Cortesi, F., Freese, M., Marohn, L., Pohlmann, J. D., Wysujack, K., … & Musilova, Z. (2021). Visual Gene Expression Reveals a cone-to-rod Developmental Progression in Deep-Sea Fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(12), 5664-5677.

Musilova, Z., Salzburger, W., & Cortesi, F. (2021). The Visual Opsin Gene Repertoires of Teleost Fishes: Evolution, Ecology, and Function. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 37.

Šlechtová, V., Musilova, Z., Tan, H. H., Kottelat, M., & Bohlen, J. (2021). One northward, one southward: Contrasting biogeographical history in two benthic freshwater fish genera across Southeast Asia (Teleostei: Cobitoidea: Nemacheilus, Pangio). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 161, 107139.

Adrian-Kalchhauser, I., Blomberg, A., Larsson, T., Musilova, Z., Peart, C. R., Pippel, M., Solbakken, M. H., Suurväli, J., Walser, JC, Wilson, J. Y., Rosenblad, M. A., Burguera, D., Gutnik, S., Michiels, N., Töpel, M., Pankov, K., Schloissnig, S. & Winkler, S. (2020). The round goby genome provides insights into mechanisms that may facilitate biological invasions. BMC Biology, 18(1), 1-33.

Majtánová, Z., Indermaur, A., Bitja Nyom, A. R., Ráb, P., & Musilova, Z. (2019). Adaptive radiation from a chromosomal perspective: Evidence of chromosome set stability in cichlid fishes (Cichlidae: Teleostei) from the Barombi Mbo Lake, Cameroon. International journal of molecular sciences, 20(20), 4994.

Musilova, Z., Cortesi, F., Matschiner, M., Davies, W. I., Patel, J. S., Stieb, S. M., … & Salzburger, W. (2019). Vision using multiple distinct rod opsins in deep-sea fishes. Science, 364(6440), 588-592.

Musilova, Z., Indermaur, A., Bitja-Nyom, A.R., Omelchenko, D., Kłodawska, M., Albergati, L., Remišová, K. & Salzburger, W. (2019). Evolution of Visual Sensory System in Cichlid Fishes from Crater Lake Barombi Mbo in Cameroon. Molecular Ecology, 28 (23), 5010-5031.

Schedel, F. D. B., Musilova, Z., & Schliewen, U. K. (2019). East African cichlid lineages (Teleostei: Cichlidae) might be older than their ancient host lakes: new divergence estimates for the east African cichlid radiation. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19(1), 94.

Matschiner, M., Musilova, Z., Barth, J. M. I., Starostova, Z., Salzburger, W., Steel, M., & Bouckaert, R. (2017). Bayesian phylogenetic estimation of clade ages supports trans-Atlantic dispersal of cichlid fishes. Systematic Biology, 66(1), 3–22. http://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw076

Baldo, L., Pretus, J. L., Riera, J. L., Musilova, Z., Bitja Nyom, A. R., & Salzburger, W. (2017). Convergence of gut microbiotas in the adaptive radiations of African cichlid fishes. The ISME Journal, 11(9), 1975–1987. http://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.62

Verheyen, E., & Cichlid Science Meeting concerned scientists (2016). Oil extraction imperils Africa’s Great Lakes, Science 354: 561-562. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal1722

Santos, M. E., Baldo, L., Gu, L., Boileau, N., Musilova, Z., & Salzburger, W. (2016). Comparative transcriptomics of anal fin pigmentation patterns in cichlid fishes. BMC Genomics, 17, 712. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-3046-y

Cortesi, F., Musilová, Z., Stieb, S. M., Hart, N. S., Siebeck, U. E., Cheney, K. L., … Marshall, N. J. (2016). From crypsis to mimicry: changes in colour and the configuration of the visual system during ontogenetic habitat transitions in a coral reef fish. The Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb.139501. http://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.139501

Musilová, Z., Říčan, O., Říčanová, Š., Janšta, P., Gahura, O., & Novák, J. (2015). Phylogeny and historical biogeography of trans-Andean cichlid fishes ( Teleostei : Cichlidae ). Vertebrate Zoology, 65(3), 333–350.

Cortesi, F., Musilová, Z., Stieb, S. M., Hart, N. S., Siebeck, U. E., Malmstrøm, M., … Salzburger, W. (2015). Ancestral duplications and highly dynamic opsin gene evolution in percomorph fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(5), 1493–1498. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1417803112

Tropek, R., Sedlacek, O., Beck, J., Keil, P., Musilova, Z., Simova, I., & Storch, D. (2014). Comment on “High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change.” Science, 344(6187), 981–981. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1248753

Musilová, Z., Indermaur, A., Nyom, A. R. B., Tropek, R., Martin, C., & Schliewen, U. K. (2014). Persistence of Stomatepia mongo , an Endemic Cichlid Fish of the Barombi Mbo Crater Lake, Southwestern Cameroon, with Notes on Its Life History and Behavior. Copeia, 2014(3), 556–560. http://doi.org/10.1643/CI-14-021

Hodaňová, L., Kalous, L., & Musilová, Z. (2014). Comparative cytogenetics of Neotropical cichlid fishes ( Nannacara , Ivanacara and Cleithracara ) indicates evolutionary reduction of diploid chromosome numbers, 8(3), 1–15. http://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v8i3.7279

Dorn, A., Musilová, Z., Platzer, M., Reichwald, K., & Cellerino, A. (2014). The strange case of East African annual fishes: aridification correlates with diversification for a savannah aquatic group? BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14, 210. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0210-3

Choleva, L., Musilova, Z., Kohoutova-Sediva, A., Paces, J., Rab, P., & Janko, K. (2014). Distinguishing between Incomplete Lineage Sorting and Genomic Introgressions: Complete Fixation of Allospecific Mitochondrial DNA in a Sexually Reproducing Fish (Cobitis; Teleostei), despite Clonal Reproduction of Hybrids. PloS One, 9(6), e80641. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080641

Musilová, Z., Kalous, L., Petrtýl, M., & Chaloupková, P. (2013). Cichlid fishes in the Angolan headwaters region: molecular evidence of the ichthyofaunal contact between the Cuanza and Okavango-Zambezi systems. PloS One, 8(5), e65047. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065047

Janko, K., Marshall, C., Musilová, Z., Van Houdt, J., Couloux, A., Cruaud, C., & Lecointre, G. (2011). Multilocus analyses of an Antarctic fish species flock (Teleostei, Notothenioidei, Trematominae): phylogenetic approach and test of the early-radiation event. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 60(3), 305–16. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.008

Kalous, L, Musilova, Z, Petrtyl, M, Chaloupkova, P. (2010). First record of African pike Hepsetus odoe (Bloch, 1794) from the river Kukemá (upper Kwanza River Basin) in Angola. Bulletin of Workshop on Animal Biodiversity, 61–64.

Musilová, Z., Schindler, I., & Staeck, W. (2009). Description of Andinoacara stalsbergi sp . n . ( Teleostei : Cichlidae : Cichlasomatini ) from Pacific coastal rivers in Peru , and annotations on the phylogeny of the genus. Vertebrate Zoology, 59(2), 131–141.

Musilová, Z., Říčan, O., & Novák, J. (2009). Phylogeny of the Neotropical cichlid fish tribe Cichlasomatini (Teleostei: Cichlidae) based on morphological and molecular data, with the description of a new genus. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 47(3), 234–247. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00528.x

Musilová, Z., Rícan, O., Janko, K., & Novák, J. (2008). Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Neotropical cichlid fish tribe Cichlasomatini (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlasomatinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46(2), 659–72. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.10.011

Říčan, O., Musilová, Z., Muska, M., & Novák, J. (2005). DEVELOPMENT OF COLORATION PATTERNS IN NEOTROPICAL CICHLIDS ( TELEOSTEI : CICHLIDAE : CICHLASOMATINAE ). Folia Zoologica, 54, 1–3.