DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
Laboratory of Fish Genetics

Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, v.v.i.

Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic

Rumburska 89

277 21 Libechov

Czech Republic



Phone: +420 315 697 024
Fax: +420 315 639 510
E-mail: bohlen@iapg.cas.cz
WWW: www.joerg-bohlen.de

1991 – 1993	technical assistant, Museum of Natural History and Prehistorics, Oldenburg care for public aquarium section; organisation of exhibition; guiding of public groups
1993 – 1994	diploma student, Max-Planck-Institute of Limnology, Plon (Diploma Thesis "in-situ grazing rates of Daphnia during spring in Lake Schohsee near Plon")
1996 – 1999	PhD study, Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Department Biology and Ecology of Fishes, (PhD Thesis "The autecology of spined loach, Cobitis taenia" with special emphasis on the reproductive biology and ecology of early stages”)
1999 – present	researcher, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, v.v.i., AS CR, Libechov

My major interests are the autecology, phylogeny and zoogeography of small freshwater fishes. The study objects are either European species or come from the big group of loaches (superfamily Cobitoidea).

• Slechtova, V. jr., J. Bohlen, A. Perdices (2008): Molecular phylogeny of the freshwater fish family Cobitidae (Cypriniformes: Teleostei): delimitation of genera, mitochondrial introgression and evolution of sexual dimorphism. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Online release January 2008
• Bohlen, J., M. Volker, M. Rabova & P. Rab (2008): Note on the banded karyotype of the enigmatic South Asian loach fish Vaillantella maassi (Cypriniformes). Ichthyological Research. Online release January 2008
• Perdices, A., Bohlen, J. & I. Doadrio (2008): The molecular diversity of adriatic spined loaches (Teleostei, Cobitidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 382-390.
• Bohlen, J. (2008): First report on the spawning behaviour of a golden spined loach, Sabanejewia vallachica (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Folia Zoologica (in press).
• Bohlen, J., Freyhof, J., Nolte, A. (2008): Sex ratio and body size in Cobitis elongatoides and Sabanejewia balcanica (Cypriniformes; Cobitidae) from a thermal spring. Folia Zoologica (in press).
• Bohlen, J. (2008): Spawning marks in spined loaches (Cobitis taenia): indication of communication between spawning partners and useful tool to estimate the start of spawning period on individual level. Folia Zoologica (in press).
• Janko, K., Flajshans, M., Choleva, L., Bohlen, J., Slechtova, V., Rabova, M., Rab, P., Lajbner, Z., Slechta, V., Ivanova, P., Dobrovolov, I., Culling, M., Persat, H. & J. Kotusz (2007): Diversity of European spined loaches (genus Cobitis L.): an update of the geographic distribution of the Cobitis taenia hybrid complex with the description of new molecular tools for species determination. Journal of Fish Biology 71 (Supplement C): 387-408.
• Bohlen J., Slechtova V. jr., I. Doadrio, P. Rab (2007): Low mitochondrial divergence indicates a rapid expansion across Europe in the weather loach, Misgurnus fossilis (L.). Journal of Fish Biology 71 (Supplement B): 186-194.
• Janko, K, J. Bohlen, D. Lamatsch, M. Flajshans, J.T. Epplen, P. RAB, P. Kotlik & V. Slechtova (2007): The gynogenetic reproduction of diploid and triploid hybrid spined loaches (Cobitis: Teleostei), and their ability to establish successful clonal lineages ­ on the evolution of polyploidy in asexual vertebrates. Genetica 131: 185-194.
• Slechtova, V. jr., J. Bohlen, H.H. Tan (2007): Families of Cobitoidea (Teleostei; Cypriniformes) as revealed from nuclear genetic data and the position of the mysterious genera Barbucca, Psilorhynchus, Serpenticobitis and Vaillantella. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 1358-1365.
• Kalous, L., Slechtova, V., Bohlen, J., Petrtyl, M. & M. Svatora (2007): First European record of Carassius langsdorfii from the Elbe basin. Journal of Fish Biology 70 Suppl.: 132-138.
• Bohlen, J., Slechtova, V., Bogutskaya, N. & J. Freyhof (2006): Across Siberia and over Europe: Phylogenetic relationships of the freshwater fish genus Rhodeus in Europe and the phylogenetic position of R. sericeus from the River Amur. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 856-865.
• Bohlen, J., Perdices, A., Doadrio, I. & P. Economides (2006): Vicariance, colonisation and fast local speciation in Asia Minor and the Balkan as revealed from the phylogeny of spined loaches (Osteichthyes; Cobitidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 552-561.
• Slechtova, V., J. Bohlen, J. Freyhof & P. Rab (2006): Molecular phylogeny of the Southeast Asian freshwater fish family Botiidae (Teleostei: Cobitoidea) and the origin of polyploidy in their evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 529-541.
• Rab, P., J. Bohlen, M. Rabova, M. Flajshans, L. Kalous (2006): Cytogenetics as a tool set in fish conservation: the present situation in Europe. In: Pisano et al (eds.): Fish Cytogenetics. Science Publishers, Enfield (USA), Chapter 2.1: 215-241.
• Bohlen, J., J. Freyhof & C. Wolter (2005): First records of Cobitis elongatoides and Sabanejewia balcanica (Cobitidae) for Germany. Cybium 29: 104-105.
• Slechtova, V., J. Bohlen, J. Freyhof, H. Persat, G.B. Delmastro 2004: The Alps as barrier to dispersal in cold-adapted freshwater fishes? Phylogeographic history and taxonomic status of the bullhead in the Adriatic freshwater drainage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 225-239.
• Rabova M., P. Rab, A. Boron, J. Bohlen, K. Janko, V. Slechtova, M. Flajshans 2004: Cytogenetics of bisexual species and their asexual hybrid clones in European spined loaches, genus Cobitis. I. Karyotypes and extensive polymorphism of major ribosomal sites in four parental species. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 106: 16 (meeting abstract)
• Kalous, L., D. Memis & J. Bohlen 2004: Finding of triploid Carassius gibelio (Bloch, 1780) (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) in Turkey. Cybium 28: 77-79.
• Bohlen, J., V. Slechtova, R. Sanda, L. Kalous, J. Freyhof, J. Vukic & D. Mrdak 2003: Cobitis ohridana and Barbatula zetensis in the River Moraca basin, Montenegro: Distribution, habitat, population structure and conservation needs. Folia Biologica (Krakow) 51 Suppl.: 147-153.
• Bohlen, J. 2003: Temperature and oxygen requirements of the endangered spined loach, Cobitis taenia L. (Teleostei, Cobitidae) and implications for the management of natural populations. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 157: 195-212.
• Bohlen, J. 2003: Spawning habitat in the spined loach, Cobitis taenia (Cypriniformes; Cobitidae). Ichthyological Research 50: 98-101.
• Perdices, A., I. Doadrio, P.S. Economidis, J. Bohlen & P. Banarescu 2003: Pleistocene effects on the European freshwater fish fauna: double origin of the cobitid genus Sabanejewia in the Danube basin (Osteichthyes: Cobitidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26: 289-299.
• Bohlen, J. 2003: Untersuchungen zur Autokologie des Steinbeissers, Cobitis taenia. Dissertation . Fachbereich Biologie, Humboldt-Universitat Berlin: 155 pp.

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