Radka Storchová
CONTACT
INFORMATION.
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Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
333 Biosciences West
1041 E. Lowell
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: (520) 626-4747
FAX: (520) 621-9190
E-mail: radkas@natur.cuni.cz
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Genetics of speciation
My research focuses on understanding the genetic basis for the origin of new species. Particularly, I am interested in the role of sex chromosomes in reproductive isolation and adaptive evolution in organisms with heterogametic males (e.g. mammals) and heterogametic females (e.g. birds). Most of my work is done on two model organisms: house mouse (Mus musculus), which consists of several recently separated and partially reproductively isolated subspecies, and on the two European species of nightingales, Luscinia luscinia and Luscinia megarhynchos.
Sex chromosome evolution
The second area of interest includes evolution of sex chromosomes. Using bioinformatic approaches I study the gene content of sex chromosomes in mammals and birds. The aim of my research is to elucidate the mechanisms affecting the sex chromosome gene content and to understand the relation between the non-random gene composition on the sex chromosomes and their outstanding effect in several fundamental evolutionary processes such as sexual selection and speciation.
PUBLICATIONS
Storchová R. and Divina P., 2006. Nonrandom representation of sex-biased genes on chicken Z chromosome. Journal of Molecular Evolution 63: 676–681.
Storchová R., Gregorová S., Buckiová D., Kyselová V., Divina P. and Forejt J., 2004. Genetic analysis of X-linked hybrid sterility in the house mouse. Mammalian Genome 15(7): 515-24.
PRESENTATIONS
Storchová R. and Divina P., 2007. Nonranrandom gene content on chicken Z chromosome. 11th Congress of European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala, Sweden.
Storchová R. and Divina P., 2006. Evolution of sex chromosomes. FOBIA 2006, Telč, Czech Republic.
Gregorová S., Storchová R., Divina P., Jansa P., Matějka K., Landíková M., Paigen B. and Forejt J., 2005. Inter-subspecies chromosome substitution strains of mice. 19th International Mouse Genome Conference, Strasburg, France.
Divina P., Storchová R., Strnad P., Vlček Č., Pačes V., Forejt J., 2005. Evidence for nonrandom gene order in mouse testis SAGE transcriptomes. 19th International Mouse Genome Conference, Strasburg, France.
Aixnerová R., Gregorová S., Divina P., Buckiová D., Landíková M. and Forejt J., 2003. Genetic study on X-linked hybrid sterility in the B6-XPWD intersubspecies chromosome substitution strain. 17th International Mouse Genome Conference, Braunschweig, Germany.
Aixnerová R., Gregorová S., Divina P., Landíková M. and Forejt J., 2003. The role of the X chromosome in reproductive isolation between Mus musculus musculus and Mus musculus domesticus. 4the European Congress of Mammalogy, Brno, Czech Republic.
Fulbright fellowship to postdoctoral research stay at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, September 2007 – April 2008
2003 - 2006, Ph.D. in genetics and molecular biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Thesis: Evolution of sex chromosomes and their role in speciation. Supervisor: Prof. Jiří Forejt.
1998 - 2003, M.D. in biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. Thesis: Construction of consomic strains and their use in genetic mapping of hybrid sterility genes. Supervisor: Prof. Jiří Forejt.