Our laboratory is a co-investigator in the newly funded Czech Science Foundation project 26-22858S, led by MVDr. Oldřich Tomášek, Ph.D. from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences (IVB). The project team also includes collaborators from the Faculty of Science, Charles University.
The project, “Metabolic energy substrates in avian blood: sources of variation, impact on fitness, and role in life-history evolution,” investigates the ecological and evolutionary significance of circulating glucose and free fatty acids in wild birds. It aims to uncover the sources of variation in these key energetic substrates, evaluate their fitness consequences, and assess their role in the evolution of avian life-history strategies. The research combines long-term physiological and fitness data from barn swallow populations with a broad comparative dataset of tropical and temperate passerines.
The Laboratory of Analytical Biochemistry and Metabolomics (BC CAS) contributes to the project through biochemical and metabolomic analyses of collected samples.
