Projects & Grants
| Diversity of native and invasive crayfish in Central Europe: from population genetic structure and reproductive modes to conservation and systematics | |
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| Project Id | GP505/12/0545 |
| Main solver | prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Ďuriš, CSc. |
| Period | 1/2012 - 12/2015 |
| Provider | Standardní projekt GA ČR |
| State | finished |
| Anotation | In the proposed project, we will focus on several interrelated issues dealing with diversity of European crayfish taxa and populations at different scales: 1) analysis of genetic diversity of invasive crayfish species that may serve as models of impacts of bottleneck effects, colonization history, and reproductive mode variation; 2) experimental work on reproductive strategy of O. limosus, the only so-far known decapod capable of facultative parthenogenesis, and in other invasive cambarid species; 3) analysis of genetic diversity of selected populations of native crayfish species Austropotamobius torrentium and Astacus astacus in Central Europe and identification of their conservation management units; 4) analysis of systematic status and diversity of the economically important Astacus leptodactylus complex, and evaluation of its suspected interspecific hybridization with A. astacus at their secondary contact; 5) application of novel approaches for studying systematically relevant morphological characters in crayfish by transferring know-how from studies on other crustacean groups. |
