Miroslav Capek

Overview

Best Publications

• Are blackcaps current winners in the evolutionary struggle against the common cuckoo

  Marcel Honza;Petr Procházka;Petr Procházka;Bård G. Stokke;Arne Moksnes

  114
  Citations

• How to hatch from an egg of great structural strength. A study of the Common Cuckoo

  Marcel Honza;Jaroslav Picman;Tomáš Grim;Vít Novák

  66
  Citations

• New feather mites of the subfamily Pterodectinae (Acari: Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

  Sergey V. Mironov;Ivan Literak;Miroslav Čapek

  59
  Citations

• Nest defence, enemy recognition and nest inspection behaviour of experimentally parasitized Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus

  Marcel Honza;Tomás Grim;Miroslav Capek;Arne Moksnes

  57
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• Feather mites of the subfamily Proctophyllodinae (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in Costa Rica

  Sergey V. Mironov;Ivan Literak;Oldrich Sychra;Miroslav Capek

  56
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• Bacteria of the genus Rickettsia in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from birds in Costa Rica.

  Maria Ogrzewalska;Ivan Literák;Miroslav Capek;Oldřich Sychra

  47
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• Usutu Virus in Blackbirds (Turdus merula), Czech Republic, 2011–2012

  Zdeněk Hubálek;Ivo Rudolf;Miroslav Čapek;Tamás Bakonyi;Tamás Bakonyi

  47
  Citations

• Do Nest Light Conditions Affect Rejection of Parasitic Eggs? A Test of the Light Environment Hypothesis

  Marcel Honza;Petr Procházka;Klára Morongová;Miroslav Čapek

  41
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• Eye trematode infection in small passerines in Peru caused by Philophthalmus lucipetus, an agent with a zoonotic potential spread by an invasive freshwater snail.

  Ivan Literák;Petr Heneberg;Jiljí Sitko;Eric J. Wetzel

  36
  Citations

• Rickettsia bellii in ticks Amblyomma varium Koch, 1844, from birds in Peru.

  Maria Ogrzewalska;Ivan Literak;Jorge M. Cardenas-Callirgos;Miroslav Capek

  32
  Citations

• A Rickettsia parkeri-like agent infecting Amblyomma calcaratum nymphs from wild birds in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

  Maria Ogrzewalska;Thiago Martins;Miroslav Capek;Ivan Literak

  31
  Citations

• Repeated Presentations of the Common Cuckoo Increase Nest Defense by the Eurasian Reed Warbler but Do Not Induce It to Make Recognition Errors

  Miroslav Čapek;Milica Požgayová;Petr Procházka;Marcel Honza

  31
  Citations

• Host generalists and specialists emerging side by side: an analysis of evolutionary patterns in the cosmopolitan chewing louse genus Menacanthus.

  Jana Martinů;Oldřich Sychra;Ivan Literák;Miroslav Čapek

  30
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• Mimicry cannot explain rejection type in a host–brood parasite system

  Michal Šulc;Jolyon Troscianko;Gabriela Štětková;Gabriela Štětková;Anna E. Hughes

  27
  Citations

• Fitting different visual models to behavioral patterns of parasitic egg rejection along a natural egg color gradient in a cavity-nesting host species.

  Thomas J. Manna;Daniel Hanley;Marcel Honza;Miroslav Capek

  27
  Citations

• New feather mites of the subfamily Pterodectinae (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines and woodpeckers (Aves: Passeriformes and Piciformes) in Vietnam

  Sergey Mironov;Ivan Literak;Nguyen Manh Hung;Miroslav Capek

  25
  Citations

• Birds use eggshell UV reflectance when recognizing non-mimetic parasitic eggs

  Michal Šulc;Michal Šulc;Petr Procházka;Miroslav Capek;Marcel Honza

  24
  Citations

• Common cuckoo females are not choosy when removing an egg during parasitism

  Michal Šulc;Michal Šulc;Petr Procházka;Miroslav Capek;Marcel Honza

  23
  Citations

• Blood parasites (Haemoproteus and microfilariae) in birds from the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica.

  Vaclav Benedikt;Vlastimil Barus;Miroslav Capek;Martin Havlicek

  21
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• Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from typical antbirds and ground ant- birds (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae, Formicariidae) from Costa Rica, with descriptions of three new species of the genera Formicaphagus and Myrsidea

  Oldřich Sychra;Ivan Literák;Miroslav Čapek;Martin Havlíček

  18
  Citations

• Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from wild birds in Senegal, with descriptions of three new species of the genera Brueelia and Philopteroides

  Tomáš Najer;Oldřich Sychra;Ivan Literák;Petr Procházka

  17
  Citations

• New species and new records of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) from bulbuls (Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae) in Vietnam

  Tomas Najer;Oldrich Sychra;Nguyen Manh Hung;Miroslav Capek

  16
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• Chewing lice of the genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from the Cardinalidae, Emberizidae, Fringillidae and Thraupidae (Aves: Passeriformes) from Costa Rica, with descriptions of four new species

  Filip Kounek;Oldrich Sychra;Miroslav Capek;Alexandra Lipkova

  14
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• Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from wild passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in northern Vietnam, with descriptions of three new species

  Tomas Najer;Oldrich Sychra;Nguyen Manh Hung;Miroslav Capek

  14
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• New species of the feather mite subfamily Pterodectinae (Astigmata, Proctophyllodidae) from passerines in Senegal

  Sergey V. Mironov;Ivan Literák;Miroslav Čapek;Petr Koubek

  12
  Citations

• Chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) from wild birds in Costa Rica, with a description of three new species.

  Alexandr A. Stekol'nikov;Ivan Literák;Miroslav Čapek;Martin Havlíček

  12
  Citations

• Chewing lice (Phthiraptera) on manakins (Passeriformes: Pipridae) from Costa Rica, with description of a new species of the genus Tyranniphilopterus (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae)

  Oldrich Sychra;Tomas Najer;Filip Kounek;Miroslav Capek

  11
  Citations

• The Chewing Lice (Phthiraptera) of Red-Billed Quelea (Quelea quelea) in Senegal, with a Description of a New Species

  Oldřich Sychra;E Barlev;Ivan Literák;M Capek

  11
  Citations

• Chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera et Ischnocera) from wrens (Passeriformes: Troglodytidae), with description of a new species of Myrsidea

  Oldřich Sychra;Filip Kounek;Ivo Papoušek;Miroslav Čapek

  9
  Citations

• Chewing lice of genus Myrsidea (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from Turdidae (Passeriformes) of Costa Rica, with descriptions of seven new species

  Filip Kounek;Oldrich Sychra;Miroslav Capek;Ivan Literak

  8
  Citations