Current research highlights

Czech scientists helped to clarify the mysterious deaths of eagles in the United States24. 1. 2022

For more than 25 years, the American public in the southeastern United States has been plagued by the mysterious deaths of bald eagles dying of a neurological disease of unknown origin. A team of...

Monitoring of the post-mining lakes in the North Bohemia. New study focused on microorganisms and phosphorus.24. 1. 2022

Crystal-clear water and dense algal mats covering the lakebed – that is how the littoral zones of newly emerged post-mining lakes in the North Bohemia look like. Water quality and development of...

Editors´ Choice of Science recommended paper in Nature Microbiology by Tanja Shabarova23. 2. 2021

The unique survey made by authors from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre CAS, and published in Nature Microbiology in January 2021, which characterized the response of an entire pond...

Microbial drama in four acts: How small waterbodies defy the storms and help the landscapes to overcome consequences24. 1. 2022

An international research team led by the Institute of Hydrobiology recorded and characterized the response of an entire pond plankton community to heavy rain events. This unique and very detailed...

Fluorescence tracer technique reveals novel energy pathways in aquatic systems23. 1. 2021

Šimek, K. and Sirová, D. 2019: Fluorescently Labeled Bacteria as a Tracer to Reveal Novel Pathways of Organic Carbon Flow in Aquatic Ecosystems.  J. Vis. Exp. (151), e59903,...

Microbial food webs in hypertrophic fishponds: omnivorous ciliate taxa are major protistan bacterivores 22. 11. 2019

Small bacterivorous protists play a fundamental role in aquatic food webs and their taxonomic classification and ecological traits currently belong to core topics in aquatic microbial ecology....

Evolution in action: habitat transition from sediment to the pelagial leads to genome streamlining in Methylophilaceae16. 10. 2019

Freshwater lakes are numerically dominated by very small microbes that appear perfectly...

Hidden in plain sight-highly abundant and diverse planktonic freshwater Chloroflexi26. 11. 2018

Representatives of the phylum Chloroflexi, though reportedly highly abundant in the extensive deep water habitats of both marine (SAR202 up to 30% of total prokaryotes) and freshwater (CL500-11 up...

How food quality characteristics of bacterial prey modulate growth and community dynamics of bacterivorous flagellates?8. 2. 2018

Communities of heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF, cell sizes from 2-8 µm) represent a considerable part of plankton associations and are the most numerous predators of bacteria. However, different...

Metagenomic Recovery of phage genomes of uncultured freshwater actinobacteria21. 11. 2016

Studies on specific phages infecting dominant freshwater microbes remain scarce due to the obstacle of obtaining them in axenic culture. Only freshwater cyanophage genomes have been described, six...

Hunting the eagle killer: A cyanobacterial neurotoxin causes vacuolar myelinopathy3. 2. 2022

International team contributed to elucidation of mysterious bald eagle deaths (USA), confirming that the birds have been killed...