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Ladislav Bocak is affiliated with Palacký University, Olomouc in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily focuses on the taxonomy, distribution, and evolution of Coleoptera, with significant work on bioluminescent beetles and various beetle families.

The main fields of study for Bocak encompass Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Paleontology, Ecology, and Insect Science are prominently represented in their body of work.

Bocak's research topics cover multiple aspects of entomology and beetle systematics, including:

  • Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
  • Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
  • Fossil Insects in Amber

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Bocak are:

  • "Phylogenomic relationships of bioluminescent elateroids define the 'lampyroid' clade with clicking Sinopyrophoridae as its earliest member" (2020), published in Systematic Entomology
  • "Conspicuousness, phylogenetic structure, and origins of Müllerian mimicry in 4000 lycid beetles from all zoogeographic regions" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Mitogenomic data elucidate the phylogeny and evolution of life strategies in Dermestidae (Coleoptera)" (2021), published in Systematic Entomology
  • "Beetle bioluminescence outshines extant aerial predators" (2022), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Untangling the evolution of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) and the evaluation of the morphological phylogenetic signal in a soft-bodied elateroid lineage" (2023), published in Cladistics

Bocak collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Dominik Kusy
  • Michal Motyka
  • Renata Bílková
  • Seth Bybee
  • С. В. Казанцев

The scientist's work has been published notably in several venues with multiple contributions, such as:

  • Systematic Entomology
  • Insects
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zootaxa
  • Insect Systematics and Diversity

Best Publications

  • A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation

    Toby Hunt;Johannes Bergsten;Zuzana Levkanicova;Anna Papadopoulou

  • Building the Coleoptera tree-of-life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with Linnaean classification

    Ladislav Bocak;Christopher Barton;Alex Crampton-Platt;Douglas Chesters

  • Why barcode? High-throughput multiplex sequencing of mitochondrial genomes for molecular systematics

    M. J. T. N. Timmermans;S. Dodsworth;C. L. Culverwell;L. Bocak

  • Family-level sampling of mitochondrial genomes in coleoptera: compositional heterogeneity and phylogenetics

    Martijn J. T. N. Timmermans;Martijn J. T. N. Timmermans;Martijn J. T. N. Timmermans;Christopher Barton;Julien Haran;Julien Haran;Dirk Ahrens

  • Molecular phylogenetics of Elateriformia (Coleoptera): evolution of bioluminescence and neoteny

    Milada Bocakova;Ladislav Bocak;Toby Hunt;Toby Hunt;Marianna Teraväinen;Marianna Teraväinen

  • The comprehensive phylogeny of the superfamily Elateroidea (Coleoptera: Elateriformia)

    Robin Kundrata;Milada Bocakova;Ladislav Bocak

  • The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft-bodiedness and neoteny?

    Robin Kundrata;Ladislav Bocak

  • Multiple ancient origins of neoteny in Lycidae (Coleoptera): consequences for ecology and macroevolution

    Ladislav Bocak;Milada Bocakova;Toby Hunt;Alfried P Vogler

  • If Dung Beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) Arose in Association with Dinosaurs, Did They Also Suffer a Mass Co-Extinction at the K-Pg Boundary?

    Nicole L. Gunter;Tom A. Weir;Adam Slipinksi;Ladislav Bocak

  • PHYLOGENY AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY LYCIDAE (INSECTA: COLEOPTERA)

    Ladislav Bocak;Milada Bocakova

  • The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing.

    L Bocak;R Kundrata;CA Fernandez;AP Vogler;AP Vogler

  • Molecular phylogenetics of the melyrid lineage (Coleoptera: Cleroidea)

    M. Bocakova;R. Constantin;L. Bocak

  • EVOLUTION OF MIMICRY PATTERNS IN METRIORRHYNCHUS (COLEOPTERA: LYCIDAE): THE HISTORY OF DISPERSAL AND SPECIATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

    Ladislav Bocak;Takashi Yagi

  • Phylogeography of Poorly Dispersing Net-Winged Beetles: A Role of Drifting India in the Origin of Afrotropical and Oriental Fauna.

    Katerina Sklenarova;Douglas Chesters;Ladislav Bocak

  • Towards a phylogeny of the Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera).

    Nicole L. Gunter;Nicole L. Gunter;Zuzana Levkaničová;Tom H. Weir;Adam Ślipiński

  • The contribution of mitochondrial metagenomics to large-scale data mining and phylogenetic analysis of Coleoptera.

    Benjamin Linard;Benjamin Linard;Alex Crampton-Platt;Jerome Moriniere;Martijn J.T.N. Timmermans

  • Phylogenomic analysis resolves the relationships among net‐winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and reveals the parallel evolution of morphological traits

    Dominik Kusy;Michal Motyka;Matej Bocek;Michal Masek

  • Phylogenomic relationships of bioluminescent elateroids define the ‘lampyroid’ clade with clicking Sinopyrophoridae as its earliest member

    Dominik Kusy;Jin‐Wu He;Seth M. Bybee;Michal Motyka

  • High diversity and endemism in the genus Cautires Waterhouse, 1879 (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from the Malay mountain forests, with the descriptions of fourteen new species

    Alice Jiruskova;Michal Motyka;Ladislav Bocak

  • Next step toward a molecular phylogeny of click‐beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): redefinition of Pityobiinae, with a description of a new subfamily Parablacinae from the Australasian Region

    Robin Kundrata;Nicole L Gunter;Nicole L Gunter;Hume Douglas;Ladislav Bocak

  • Genome sequences identify three families of Coleoptera as morphologically derived click beetles (Elateridae).

    Dominik Kusy;Michal Motyka;Matej Bocek;Alfried P. Vogler

  • Identification of net‐winged beetle larvae (Coleoptera: Lycidae) using three mtDNA fragments: a comparison of their utility

    Zuzana Levkanicova;Ladislav Bocak

  • Phylogeny and evolution of phytophagous ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Epilachnini), with recognition of new genera

    Karol Szawaryn;Ladislav Bocak;Adam Ślipiński;Hermes E. Escalona

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Paula Arribas
Paula Arribas Spanish National Research Council
Stephen L. Cameron
Stephen L. Cameron Purdue University West Lafayette
Menno Schilthuizen
Menno Schilthuizen Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Timothy G. Barraclough
Timothy G. Barraclough University of Oxford
Michael Balke
Michael Balke Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Johannes Bergsten
Johannes Bergsten Swedish Museum of Natural History
Ignacio Ribera
Ignacio Ribera Spanish National Research Council
Richard A. B. Leschen
Richard A. B. Leschen Landcare Research

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