Due to the GDPR guidelines, the names of the respective students are not listed here, only the individual supervisors (past and present members of the Laboratory) and titles of the respective theses (along with links to them - if available - in the Charles University Digital Repository). The theses are listed according to their their defense date (in descending order). Some of them are written in Czech but all have at least an English abstract.


Martin Forman, M.Sc.

Evolution of telomeric motif in arthropods

Karyotype evolution of cobweb spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae)

Robertsonian translocations and their involvement into genome evolution


Assoc. Prof. Jiří Král, Ph.D.

Molecular composition and ultrastructure of holokinetic chromosomes

* Neo-sex chromosomes and their evolutionary significance

Polyploidy with specific view to paleopolyploidy and its detection

Molecular composition of constitutive heterochromatin

Origin, degeneration and detection of sex chromosomes

Karyotype study on primitive spiders of the infraorder Mygalomorphae

Karyotype study of selected species of whip spiders (Amblypygi; Arachnida)

Introduction to studies of social spider´s karyotype


* thesis defended at the Department of Zoology