Jaroslav Flegr
Charles University in Prague
213 Papers
814 Citations
Jaroslav Flegr is an academic researcher from Charles University in Prague. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Toxoplasmosis. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 198 publications. Previous affiliations of Jaroslav Flegr include National Institutes of Health & Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
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Papers
Toxoplasmosis – A Global Threat. Correlation of Latent Toxoplasmosis with Specific Disease Burden in a Set of 88 Countries
TL;DR: The precautionary principle suggests that possible role of toxoplasmosis as a triggering factor responsible for development of several clinical entities deserves much more attention and financial support both in everyday medical practice and future clinical research.
Construction and bootstrap analysis of DNA fingerprinting-based phylogenetic trees with the freeware program FreeTree : application to trichomonad parasites
TL;DR: The low bootstrap values and the star-like topology of the whole Trichomonadidae tree confirm that the RAPD method is not suitable for phylogenetic analysis of protozoa at the level of higher taxa and it is proposed that the repeated bootstrap analysis should be an obligatory part of any RAPD study.
Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior
TL;DR: Although latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii is among the most prevalent of human infections, it has been generally assumed that, except for congenital transmission, it is asymptomatic.
Female facial attractiveness increases during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle
S. Craig Roberts,Jan Havlíček,Jaroslav Flegr,Martina Hruskova,Anthony C. Little,Benedict C. Jones,David I. Perrett,Marion Petrie +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown here that both men and women judge photographs of women's faces that were taken in the fertile window of the menstrual cycle as more attractive than photographs taken during the luteal phase, indicating the existence of visible cues to ovulation in the human face.
Women's preference for dominant male odour: effects of menstrual cycle and relationship status
TL;DR: It is shown that women in the fertile phase of their cycle prefer body odour of males who score high on a questionnaire-based dominance scale (international personality items pool), and this preference varies with relationship status, being much stronger in fertile women in stable relationships than in fertile single women.