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Ales Bucek portraitAleš Buček (Group leader)
CV (11/2022)
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I am interested in evolution of adaptations that allowed insect to become such a diverse and abundant group of organisms. I use combination of phylogenetic, transcriptomic, genomic, and X-ray microtomographic imaging methods to improve our understanding of evolutionary processes that generated one particularly ecologically successful group of insects: termites. From the termites' evolutionary success benefited also diverse groups of their symbionts - from microbes to flies and beetles living in relationships with termites spanning from mutualism to parasitism. Many complex adaptations in termites and their symbionts evolved apparently repeatedly and my long-term goal is to uncover genetic and ecological drivers of convergent evolution using these organisms as a model system.

 

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