Ing. Věra Šlechtová, CSc.

Education

1976-1980 Ph.D. student IAPG AS CR Liběchov
Ph.D. Thesis: Study of polymorphic protein systems in freshwater fishes
1971-1975 Study residence IAPG AS CR Liběchov
1965-1970 Agriculture University Praha
Diploma Thesis: Polymorphism of transferrins in blood serum of Coregonus lavaretus maraena and Salvelinus fontinalis

 

Professional experience

1985-dosud Research scientist IAPG AS CR Liběchov
1979-1985 Research assistant IAPG AS CR Liběchov

 

Major scientific interests

  • biochemical genetics of fish:
    • polymorphic protein markers
    • their application in population studies
    • interspecific hybridization
    • outputs for species identification
    • biodiversity conservation
    • fish improvement
    • top-crossing and genome manipulations

 

Fellowships, prizes

2012 Prize of CAS (Team of LFG: Clonal vertebrates: finding, mechanisms, biodiversity ands reconstruction – cobitoid fishes as model)
1986 Prize of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences "Biochemical-genetic and cytogenetic markers in fish and their utilization in breeding"

 

Membership in academic councils and editorial boards

  • Czech zoological society- ichthyologic section

 

Research fellowships and study visits

1995 Institute of Inland Ecology nad Fisheres, Berlin, Germany
  Institute of Ichthyobiology nad Fisheries, Polish Academy of Sciences, Golysz, Poland
1993 Faculty of Biology nad Anthropology, University of Lisbon, Portugal
1989 Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzębiec, Poland
1980-1981 Institute of Chemistry and Experimental Biology, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Habana, Cuba

 

Publications

2012 Choleva L., Janko K., De Gelas K., Bohlen J., Šlechtová V., Rábová M. and Ráb P. Synthesis of clonality and polyploidy in vertebrate animals by hybridization between two sexual species. Evolution. Accepted manuscript online.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01589.x
  Janko K., Kotusz J., De Gelas K., Šlechtová V., Opoldusová Z., Drozd P., Choleva L., Popiołek M., Baláž M. Dynamic Formation of Asexual Diploid and Polyploid Lineages: Multilocus Analysis of Cobitis Reveals the Mechanisms Maintaining the Diversity of Clones. PLoS ONE 7(9): e45384.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045384
2009 Lajbner, Z; Slechtova, V; Slechta, V; Svatora, M; Berrebi, P; Kotlik, P: Rare and asymmetrical hybridization of the endemic Barbus carpathicus with its widespread congener Barbus barbus. J Fish Biol 74 (2):418-436
2008 Buj, I; Podnar, M; Mrakovcic, M; Choleva, L; Slechtova, V; Tvrtkovic, N; Caleta, M; Mustafic, P; Marcic, Z; Zanella, D; Brigic, A: Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of spined loaches (genus Cobitis) in Croatia based on mtDNA and allozyme analyses. Folia Zool 57 (1-2):71-82
2007 Janko, K; Bohlen, J; Lamatsch, D; Flajshans, M; Epplen, JT; Rab, P; Kotlik, P; Slechtova, V: 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 (2):185-194
  Janko, K; Flajshans, M; Choleva, L; Bohlen, J; Slechtova, V; Rabova, M; Lajbner, Z; Slechta, V; Ivanova, P; Dobrovolov, I; Culling, M; Persat, H; Kotusz, J; Rab, P: Diversity of European spined loaches (genus Cobitis L.): an update of the geographic distribution of the Cobitis taenia hybrid complex with a description of new molecular tools for species and hybrid determination. J Fish Biol 71387-408