Ongoing research<\/p>
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1. Examination of certain diseases of reptiles<\/p>
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. J\u00e1nos G\u00e1l DSc.<\/p>
Subprogram leader: Dr. \u00c1risz Ziszisz, PhD student, clinical veterinarian<\/p>
Brief summary of the research: Keeping and caring exotic reptiles is becoming more and more popular. Accordingly, more and more species are introduced into terraristic community every year. The new speciei make challenges for the terrarists. On the one hand, individuals from free habitats can introduce many new pathogens causing death, and on the other hand, housing and feeding errors can be lethal, too.<\/p>
A pathological and additional (histological, immunohistochemical, bacteriological, virological and parasitological) examination of such reptiles subjected to diagnostic dissection is carried out. In the case of newly recognized pathogens and diseases of non-infectious origin, the mechanism of the pathogenetics of the disease is published, thereby helping clinical work.<\/p>
Other participants:<\/p>
\u2022 Dr. D\u00f3ra Csat\u00e1ri, PhD student, clinical veterinarian<\/p>
\u2022 Dr. Anna N\u00f3gr\u00e1di PhD, assistant professor<\/p>
\u2022 Dr. Antal Papp, clinical veterinarian<\/p>
Funding: Non-tender<\/p>
2. Vertebrate-faunistic and invasion-biological investigation of the North Adriatic archipelago<\/p>
Supervisor: Dr. Tam\u00e1s T\u00f3th PhD., university assistant professor<\/p>
Brief summary of the research: The basic vertebrate-faunistic research of the northern Adriatic islands, including the Cres-Lo\u0161inj archipelago, has only been partially completed to date, as the vast majority of the 36 islands are uninhabited, so the access to them is difficult. The survey of amphibians and reptiles living on the archipelago began in 2002, which has resulted so far in more than a dozen occurrences new to science, the data of these has been published in numerous publications in English and German.<\/p>
According to our plans, in the future, in addition to the continuation of herpetofaunistic research, we will also expand our data collection to investigate the occurrences of birds and mammals living in the area, as well as possibly freshwater fish. In addition, in a separate announcement, we plan to present the highly variable color and pattern variability of the islands’ two dominant lizard species (Podarcis melisellensis and Podarcis siculus) at the population level, as well as the dynamics and direction of the expansion of the alien, invasive sharp-snouted rock lizard (Dalmatolacerta oxycephala) that we discovered in the southern part of the island of Cres.<\/p>
Other participants:<\/p>
\u2022 Dr. Mikl\u00f3s Maros\u00e1n PhD., habil, university associate professor<\/p>
\u2022 Prof. Dr. J\u00e1nos G\u00e1l DSc., university professor<\/p>
Funding: non-tender<\/p>
3. Historical zoological research of vertebrate species<\/p>
Supervisor: Dr. Tam\u00e1s T\u00f3th PhD., university assistant professor<\/p>
Brief summary of the research: Since the events of the present cannot be interpreted and the processes of the future cannot be modeled without knowledge of the past, we therefore feel it is important that a zoological analysis of as many as possible species of the Carpathian Basin based on historical data should be completed, as already done by the golden jackal, here we have already done so in the case of native vulture species or the European snake-eyed skink. During our data collection, in addition to searching for older literature data, we also take into account, evaluate and process information related to preparations found in various private and public collections, as well as photographic certificates and personal reports.<\/p>
In the future, we also planned the historical processing of the occurrence of the Mediterranean monk seal in the Adriatic, the history of domestic frog exports for consumption, the occurrence of mink in Hungary, and the domestic attempts to control the population of stray dogs and cats. In the more distant future, the research of the history and data of the brown bear and the gray wolf in the Carpathian basins also arose.<\/p>
Other participants:<\/p>
\u2022 Dr. Mikl\u00f3s Maros\u00e1n PhD., habil, university associate professor<\/p>
\u2022 Prof. Dr. J\u00e1nos G\u00e1l DSc., university professor<\/p>
Funding: non-tender<\/p>
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4. Investigation of game damage from hunting, agricultural and legal aspects<\/p>
Supervisor: Dr. Mikl\u00f3s Maros\u00e1n PhD., habil, university associate professor<\/p>
Brief summary of the research: In the course of the research, we examine the regeneration capacity of different plant stands depending on the different damages. First of all, we correlate the rate of damage with the degree of crop loss. We make professional recommendations for the clarification of<\/p>
wildlife damage estimation methods. We examine and evaluate current wildlife damage enforcement procedures, both from a theoretical and practical point of view.<\/p>
Other participants: Norbert Aba\u00faji, department engineer<\/p>
Funding: Non-tender<\/p>
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5. De novo development of molecular sex markers in amphibian and reptile species<\/p>
Supervisor: Dr. Szilvia K\u00f6v\u00e9r (Molecular Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology)<\/p>
Participants:<\/p>
Emese Balogh PhD student (Molecular Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology)<\/p>
Dr. Kriszti\u00e1n Szab\u00f3 (Molecular Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology)<\/p>
Dr. N\u00f3ra Vili (Molecular Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology)<\/p>
Dr. Veronika B\u00f3kony (ATK N\u00d6VI; \u00c1ODI)<\/p>
Dr. J\u00e1nos G\u00e1l (Department of Exotic Animal-, Wildlife-, Fish- and Honeybee Medicine)<\/p>
Dr. \u00c1risz Ziszisz (Department of Exotic Animal-, Wildlife-, Fish- and Honeybee Medicine)<\/p>
Brief summary of the research:<\/p>
Within the framework of the project, our goal is the de novo development of a set of markers enabling molecular gender determination using genomic and molecular techniques (RAD-Seq).<\/p>
In genetically sex-fixed reptile and amphibian species in which such markers are not yet known at all (e.g., Pyxicephalus adspersus and Theloderma sp. amphibians, certain Tiliqua sp. species, which have not been examined so far, and Morelia sp., Uromastyx sp. ).<\/p>
In those reptile species where markers that can be used with qPCR technique are already available, but sex markers developed based on RAD-Seq data, which can also be used with conventional PCR, can be a cheaper and simpler alternative (e.g. Varanidae, Agamidae and certain Scincidae species).<\/p>
Funding: University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest<\/p>
Framework amount: HUF 3,500,000<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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