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Competition – project support specialist
The Director of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Evolution at the Polish Academy of Sciences is announcing a competition for the position of project support...
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However, the history of the Institute dates back to 1865, when the Physiographic Commission founded by the Krakow Scientific Society was established. At the same time, the Natural Museum was created, under the original name of the Physiographic Museum, which is today an integral part of our Institute.
The mission of the Institute is to conduct scientific research (taxonomic, phylogenetic, genetic, paleontological, biogeographical and related) on the evolution and biodiversity of the animal world and to collect, store and share zoological scientific collections and promote science according to the best standards.
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Thermal carry-over: lasting impacts of early life heat stress on morphology and flight performance in solitary bee Osmia bicornis.
Gudowska A., Tofilski A., Moroń D.
Learn moreOdorous and monophyletic – systematic revision of the endemic Madagascan genus Tritonaclia with the first record of wing scent scales in Syntomini Polka Dot Moths (Noctuoidea: Erebidae: Arctiinae).
Wiorek M., Lees D.C., Wahlberg N., Przybyłowicz Ł.
Learn moreFragmentation of long reads enables reliable mitogenome assembly from whole-genome amplification data with pervasive palindromic reads.
Vecchi M., Surmacz B., Jönsson I.K., Stec D.
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Doctoral School of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
The Doctoral School has functioned since 2019 as an interinstitutional unit created by four Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences: the W. Szafer Institute of Botany, the Franciszek Górski Institute of Physiology of Plants, the Institute of Nature Protection, the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals and the State Research Institute - Institute of Zootechnics.
In the School, doctoral students are trained in three disciplines: biological sciences, agriculture and horticulture, zootechnical sciences and fisheries.
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The Institute is the publisher of two scientific journals:
Folia Biologica (Kraków) and Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia.