Pável Matos
@pavelmatosm.bsky.social
Research Scientist @ Czech Academy of Sciences | Biogeography | Evolution | Phylogeny | Butterflies | Ants | Peru
Huge congrats to Daniel and co-authors! 🤩
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Prey avoid predators through camouflage, chemical defences, or rapid escape. But what drives their co-existence?
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Prey avoid predators through camouflage, chemical defences, or rapid escape. But what drives their co-existence?
Quantifying the success of prey crypsis, aposematism, and evasiveness in avoiding predator attack
Antipredator defenses typically act at distinct stages of the predation sequence—encounter, identification, approach, and subjugation. However, their effectiveness has rarely been quantified and comp...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Huge congrats to Daniel and co-authors! 🤩
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
Prey avoid predators through camouflage, chemical defences, or rapid escape. But what drives their co-existence?
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
Prey avoid predators through camouflage, chemical defences, or rapid escape. But what drives their co-existence?
Had a great workshop on population and conservation genomics with Kay Lucek. We revisited key concepts and metrics, and streamlined our ongoing projects in Czechia 🦋
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Had a great workshop on population and conservation genomics with Kay Lucek. We revisited key concepts and metrics, and streamlined our ongoing projects in Czechia 🦋
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🚨PhD offer 👩🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇
September 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🚨PhD offer 👩🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇
It's been great hosting you, @marcinwiorek.bsky.social! Looking forward to more collaborations together 🦋🧬
(1/2)🚀 New successful STSM of CA23122 – 10kLepGenomes!
@marcinwiorek.bsky.social (Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals Polish Academy of Sciences) joined @pavelmatosm.bsky.social for a 2-week collaboration at the Institute of Entomology - Biology Centre CAS (České Budějovice) 👇🏼
@marcinwiorek.bsky.social (Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals Polish Academy of Sciences) joined @pavelmatosm.bsky.social for a 2-week collaboration at the Institute of Entomology - Biology Centre CAS (České Budějovice) 👇🏼
October 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It's been great hosting you, @marcinwiorek.bsky.social! Looking forward to more collaborations together 🦋🧬
Our lab is celebrating! 🥳 Pedro Ribeiro @pedrogribeiro.bsky.social has excellently defended his PhD thesis: theses.cz/id/9gnm91/
Pedro has used genome data to study the evolution of butterflies and their endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia.
We wish you all the best, Dr. Pedro! 🦋
Pedro has used genome data to study the evolution of butterflies and their endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia.
We wish you all the best, Dr. Pedro! 🦋
September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our lab is celebrating! 🥳 Pedro Ribeiro @pedrogribeiro.bsky.social has excellently defended his PhD thesis: theses.cz/id/9gnm91/
Pedro has used genome data to study the evolution of butterflies and their endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia.
We wish you all the best, Dr. Pedro! 🦋
Pedro has used genome data to study the evolution of butterflies and their endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia.
We wish you all the best, Dr. Pedro! 🦋
New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋
The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
Join us
Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. PhD position (full-time doctoral funding) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our team. The goal of the project is…
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August 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋
The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
In skipper butterflies, the evolution of iridescence and "wing tails" comes together with particular changes in the size and shape of their two wing pairs. This points to evolutionary trade-offs between flight performance and antipredator defences
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Convergent evolution of skipper wings assessed through anti-predator defences, flight proxies and geographical distribution
1. Phenotypic evolution is shaped by phylogenetic, ecological and biomechanical constraints. Butterfly wings offer an ideal system to explore these constraints as their evolution is strongly influence...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In skipper butterflies, the evolution of iridescence and "wing tails" comes together with particular changes in the size and shape of their two wing pairs. This points to evolutionary trade-offs between flight performance and antipredator defences
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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(1/3) Have you heard about #LepEU?
The European Lepidoptera Population Genomics Consortium is a group focused on unveiling patterns of differentiation and local adaptation in butterfly and moth populations across Europe 🦋🌍
The European Lepidoptera Population Genomics Consortium is a group focused on unveiling patterns of differentiation and local adaptation in butterfly and moth populations across Europe 🦋🌍
May 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
(1/3) Have you heard about #LepEU?
The European Lepidoptera Population Genomics Consortium is a group focused on unveiling patterns of differentiation and local adaptation in butterfly and moth populations across Europe 🦋🌍
The European Lepidoptera Population Genomics Consortium is a group focused on unveiling patterns of differentiation and local adaptation in butterfly and moth populations across Europe 🦋🌍
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(1/4) Exciting news 📣 Announcing the #COST10KLepGenomes initiative! 🦋🧬
We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.
We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.
May 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
(1/4) Exciting news 📣 Announcing the #COST10KLepGenomes initiative! 🦋🧬
We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.
We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.
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(1/4) 📣 Exciting news! 📣
The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs
Keep reading for all the details 👇
The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs
Keep reading for all the details 👇
May 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
(1/4) 📣 Exciting news! 📣
The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs
Keep reading for all the details 👇
The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs
Keep reading for all the details 👇
A milestone for our lab: Daniel Linke is our first PhD graduate! 🦋🥳
Over 4 years, he studied the evolution of antipredator defences in skipper butterflies, combining experiments in the lab and field in Peru.
All the best in what's coming next, Dani! 🎓
Thesis: theses.cz/id/tyfekz/?l...
Over 4 years, he studied the evolution of antipredator defences in skipper butterflies, combining experiments in the lab and field in Peru.
All the best in what's coming next, Dani! 🎓
Thesis: theses.cz/id/tyfekz/?l...
April 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
A milestone for our lab: Daniel Linke is our first PhD graduate! 🦋🥳
Over 4 years, he studied the evolution of antipredator defences in skipper butterflies, combining experiments in the lab and field in Peru.
All the best in what's coming next, Dani! 🎓
Thesis: theses.cz/id/tyfekz/?l...
Over 4 years, he studied the evolution of antipredator defences in skipper butterflies, combining experiments in the lab and field in Peru.
All the best in what's coming next, Dani! 🎓
Thesis: theses.cz/id/tyfekz/?l...
In this interview by the A-magazine (Czech Academy of Sciences), I highlighted our latest research on butterfly evolution, ecology, and conservation. Many thanks @akademievedcr.bsky.social
pdf.avcr.cz/A/2025-01/#p...
Foto: Jana Plavec, Akademie věd ČR
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Foto: Jana Plavec, Akademie věd ČR
March 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
In this interview by the A-magazine (Czech Academy of Sciences), I highlighted our latest research on butterfly evolution, ecology, and conservation. Many thanks @akademievedcr.bsky.social
pdf.avcr.cz/A/2025-01/#p...
Foto: Jana Plavec, Akademie věd ČR
pdf.avcr.cz/A/2025-01/#p...
Foto: Jana Plavec, Akademie věd ČR
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(1/4)🦋 Introducing Project Psyche! A groundbreaking initiative to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths in Europe. The goal is to analyse this data to understand global climate insecurity and threats to biodiversity on a genomic level🧬 #ProjectPsyche #Genomics
March 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
(1/4)🦋 Introducing Project Psyche! A groundbreaking initiative to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths in Europe. The goal is to analyse this data to understand global climate insecurity and threats to biodiversity on a genomic level🧬 #ProjectPsyche #Genomics
On our way to the COST 10kLepGenomes meeting in Lund!! A little stop in Copenhagen with Irena Klečková before the great discussions in the frame of Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
On our way to the COST 10kLepGenomes meeting in Lund!! A little stop in Copenhagen with Irena Klečková before the great discussions in the frame of Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social