The goal of the article is to present in short the history and character of the songs included in the so called „Prague collection“, the biggest preserved collection of ethnographic sources from the German language regions of the former Czechoslovak Republic. The collection contains scores of folk songs, texts of legends, theatrical plays, the ritual folklore, notes on various dialects, local names etc., and also a big set of old photographs and other iconographical material. In present - after the basic archival Processing - the collection contains 76 boxes and is preserved, under the label FNO („Fond německých oblastí“, i. e. Fund of German regions) in the Ethnological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The „Prague collection“ came to being infour timeperiods: 1894-1900, 1906-1918 (the biggest part), 1922-1938, and the last part during the World War II. Until the end of the 1980's it was practically inaccessible, primarily out of the political reasons. Only in the next decade it became the object of Scientific research and simultaneously, because of its damaged state, also object of the work of restoration. After its inventory was made, the subsequent processing, especially the cataloguing of songs, was realized within the framework of the Joint project of the Ethnological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Deutsches Volksarchiv in Freiburg im Freisgau. The project was financed by the foundation of the Volkswagen company. The result of the project was the preservation of the collection, restoration of the sources, the making of an inventory with the index of localities of origin and the names of collectors, making of copies of the sources and analysis of ali the scores. Precisely to the scores is dedicated the second part of the present article. In its final part the author outlines the fields of study that can use this collection as a unique source base. Even though the Scientific analysis o f the „Prague collection“ has not been completed yet and the majority of the sources waits for publication, it is obvious its extraordinary cultural value and cultural-political importance.
Malajsie jako tropická země patří mezi 12 biologicky nejbohatších a druhově nejrůznorodějších států světa. Její přírodní bohatství tak představuje jedno z vhodných míst k prvnímu seznámení se s faunou a flórou tropických lesů. Jedním z největších přírodních lákadel kontinentální Malajsie je světově nejstarší tropický nížinný les národního parku Taman Negara, jehož druhová diverzita obojživelníků a plazů je předmětem tohoto článku., Malaysia is one of the twelve biologically richest and the most species diverse states in the world. One of the biggest natural attractions of continental Malaysia is the world’s oldest lowland tropical forest in the Taman Negara National Park. The species diversity of amphibians and reptiles of the Taman Negara are presented., and Daniel Jablonski.
To explore the debated phylogenetic relationship of two Hesperiidae subfamilies, Pyrginae and Eudaminae, and contribute to the understanding of the evolution of mitogenomic architecture in butterflies, we sequenced the complete mitogenome of Tagiades vajuna. The mitogenome is a typical circular duplex molecule of 15,359 bp. Apart from the standard 22 tRNAs, it has a tandem duplication of trnS(AGN) and trnE, which is unique in lepidopteran insects. Comparison with Ctenoptilum vasava indicates that the trnS1 duplication is not an ancestral state shared with other species of Tagiadini. Independent origin of the trnS1 duplications was further confirmed by the reconstruction of the ancestral character state based on the topology of the phylogram. Furthermore, comparative analysis of mitogenomes with and without tRNA duplications indicates that tRNA duplication does not alter the codon usage pattern. The mitogenome has negative AT- and GC-skews, and it is highly A+T-biased (79.7%). The AT-rich (or control) region (283 bp) contains "ATAGA" and "ATTTA" motifs. Regarding the phylogenetic analysis, we found that removal of the third codon position (3CP) from datasets used for the mitochondrial phylogenomics of Hesperiidae is likely to produce results that are more consistent: Pyrginae were rendered paraphyletic by Eudaminae in both analyses of the dataset from which the 3CP was removed (13 PCGs + all RNAs), but inclusion of the 3CP resulted in a destabilized topology, resulting in both monophyly and polyphyly. We conclude that even shallow-phylogenies of insects should pay close attention to compositional and mutational biases in mitogenomes., Fang-Fang Liu, Yi-Ping Li, Ivan Jakovlić, Xiang-Qun Yuan., and Obsahuje bibliografii