Mechanisms of reproductive isolation between two hybridizing passerine species, the common nightingale and the thrush nightingale

• Thesis title in Czech: Mechanismy reprodukční izolace mezi dvěma hybridizujícími druhy pěvců, slavíkem obecným a slavíkem tmavým
• Thesis title in English: Mechanisms of reproductive isolation between two hybridizing passerine species, the common nightingale and the thrush nightingale
• Key words: speciace, hybridizace, karyotyp, postkopulační prezygotická, postzygotická, ptáci, slavíci
• English key words: speciation, hybridization, karyotype, postmating prezygotic, postzygotic, birds, nightingales
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2018/2019
• Thesis type: dissertation
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Zoology (31-170)
• Supervisor: RNDr. Radka Reifová, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 15.10.2018
• Date of assignment: 15.10.2018
• Date of electronic submission: 04.01.2023
• Date of proceeded defence: 08.03.2023
• Opponents: RNDr. Lukáš Choleva, Ph.D.
• Advisors: prof. Mgr. Tomáš Albrecht, Ph.D.

Preliminary scope of work in English

Understanding speciation (how species arise) is a crucial goal in evolutionary study. The reproductive isolation is a crucial step in the origin of new species and preserves a different evolutionary fate of species. My dissertation will focus on post-zygotic isolation in Munia species (Lonchura sp.) and two sister species of Nightingales (Luscinia sp.). Particularly, I will study mechanisms and genetic basis of hybrid female sterility, which are still not well understood in birds.