Biosystematics I - MB120P167E
Title: Biosystematics I
Czech title: Biosystematika I
Guaranteed by: Department of Botany (31-120)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Karol Marhold, DrSc.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Tomáš Fér, Ph.D.
Mgr. Zdeněk Kaplan, Ph.D.
RNDr. Filip Kolář, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. František Krahulec, CSc.
RNDr. Terezie Mandáková, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Karol Marhold, DrSc.
doc. Mgr. Patrik Mráz, Ph.D.
RNDr. Gabriela Šrámková, Ph.D.
Class: Digestoř pro karyologii/palynologii s odtahem
Incompatibility : MB120P58
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Annotation -
The course comprises lectures of the members of Department of Botany, Department of Zoology, Department of Ecology and external scientists and teachers. Lectures focus on the advanced methods currently in use in the biosystematics, evolution and botanical and zoological systematics and taxonomy. The course is convenient particularly for the Magister and PhD students.

Last update: Marhold Karol, prof. RNDr., DrSc. (07.10.2025)
Literature -

Briggs D. et Walters S. M. (2016): Plant Variation and Evolution. Ed. 4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Last update: Gáliková Kristýna, Mgr. et Mgr., DiS. (30.10.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Oral exam.

Last update: Štefánek Michal, Mgr. (04.05.2022)
Syllabus -

Examples of topics (lectures vary from year to year, and are given by different experts):


Z. Kaplan: Taxonomic evaluation of diversity on the example of the family Potamogetonaceae
F. Krahulec: Importance of residual sexuality in the genus Pilosella

M. Slovák: Glacial refugia and diversification of forest species in central Europe. The case study on Cyclamen purpurascens Mill.
P. Mráz: Polyploidy, hybridization and apomixis in the Pilosella alpicola group (Asteraceae)
T. Fér: Phylogenomics: gene trees/species tree
F. Kolář: Survival in glacial refugia

Last update: Gáliková Kristýna, Mgr. et Mgr., DiS. (30.10.2025)
Learning outcomes

After completing the course, students will be able to:

  1. Explain the fundamental principles and modern approaches used in biosystematics, taxonomy, and evolutionary biology.

  2. Evaluate results of specific studies applying advanced biosystematic research in plants or animals.

  3. Apply critical thinking to assess the relevance and limitations of different taxonomic and evolutionary methods in systematics.
Last update: Gáliková Kristýna, Mgr. et Mgr., DiS. (21.10.2025)