Hemiparasitic Orobanchaceae Research Team   
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia             

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   Jakub Těšitel

* 1st May 1983 v Pardubicích

Current position

• Researcher at Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia and postdoc with Vojtech Novotny, Laboratory of Tropical Ecology

• BSc. in biology - Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.
• RNDr. (~MSc) in botany - Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, thesis: Variation in the Melampyrum sylvaticum group
• Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, thesis: Biology of the Root-Parasitic Rhinanthoid Orobanchaceae

• Biology of (hemi)parasitic Orobanchaceae: ekology, evolution, physiology
• Fylogeography of Melampyrum sylvaticum across the European continent
• Biodiversity in the tropical rainforests
• Statistical analysis of biological and ecological data

2011
• Těšitel J, Lepš J, Vráblová M, Cameron DD (2011) The role of heterotrophic carbon acquisition by the hemiparasitic plant Rhinanthus alectorolophus in seedling establishment in natural communities: A physiological perspective. New Phytologist 192:188-199.
• Holá E, Kučera J, Těšitel J (2011) Comparison of gemma production among three lophozia species during the growing season. Flora 206: 763-768.
• Flajšhans M, Pšenička M, Rodina M, Těšitel J (2011) Image cytometric measurements of diploid, triploid and tetraploid fish erythrocytes in blood smears reflect the true dimensions of live cells. Cell Biology International, 35:67-71.
2010
• Těšitel J, Plavcová L, Cameron DD (2010): Heterotrophic carbon gain by the root-hemiparasites Rhinanthus minor and Euphrasia rostkoviana (Orobanchaceae). Planta 231:1137-1144.
• Těšitel J, Plavcová L, Cameron DD (2010) Interactions between hemiparasitic plants and their hosts: The importance of organic carbon transfer. Plant Signaling and Behavior 5:1072-1076.
• Těšitel J, Říha P, Svobodová Š, Malinová T, Štech M (2010) Phylogeny, life history evolution and biogeography of the Rhinanthoid Orobanchaceae. Folia Geobotanica. 45:347-367.
• Pšenička M, Tesařová M, Těšitel J, Nebesářová J (2010) Size determination of acipenser ruthenus spermatozoa in different types of electron microscopy. Micron 41:455-460.
• Bláha M, Hulák M, Slouková J, Těšitel J (2010) Molecular and morphological patterns across Acanthocyclops vernalis-robustus species complex (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). Zoologica Scripta 39: 259-268.
• Hulák M, Kašpar V, Kohlmann K, Coward K, Těšitel J, Rodina M, Gela D, Kocour M & Linhart O (2010) Microsatellite-based genetic diversity and differentiation of foreign common carp (Cyprinus carpio) strains farmed in the Czech Republic. Aquaculture 298: 194-201.
2009 and older
• Těšitel J, Malinová T, Štech M, Herbstová M (2009) Variation in the Melampyrum sylvaticum group in the Carpathian and Hercynian region: two lineages with different evolutionary histories. - Preslia 81: 1-22.

• Pšenička M, Vancová M, Koubek P, Těšitel J, Linhart O (2009) Fine structure and morphology of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L. 1758) spermatozoa and acrosin localization. - Anim. Reprod. Sci. 111:3-16.
• Těšitel J, Štech M (2007) Morphological variation in the Melampyrum sylvaticum group within the transitional zone between M. sylvaticum s. str. and M. herbichii.- Preslia 79: 83-99.
• Kolář F, Kubešová M, Těšitel J , Koutecký P (2007) Květena vesnic v CHKO Blanský les. - Zprávy České Botanické Společnosti/Bulletin of the Czech Botanical Society 42: 89-104.In Czech

• Evolution of ecological strategies and life history traits in relation to physiological adaptations in the Euphrasia group (Orobanchaceae)
  Grant agency of the Academy of Sciences of the CZech Republic, 2008-2011 (collaborator)
• Ecology, physiology and evolution of life histories of hemiparasitic plants in the Rhinanthus-Euphrasia-Melampyrum clade (Orobanchaceae)
  Grant Agency of The University of South Bohemia, 2008 (principal investigator)

• Biology of parasitic plants
• Biostatistics (practicals)