Vladimı́r Košťál

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Vladimı́r Košťál is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Vladimı́r Košťál has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Ecology, 44 papers in Genetics and 41 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Vladimı́r Košťál's work include Physiological and biochemical adaptations (69 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (41 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (37 papers). Vladimı́r Košťál is often cited by papers focused on Physiological and biochemical adaptations (69 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (41 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (37 papers). Vladimı́r Košťál collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, Japan and United States. Vladimı́r Košťál's co-authors include Petr Šimek, Helena Zahradníčková, Jan Rozsypal, Tomáš Štětina, Jaroslava Korbelová, David L. Denlinger, J. Bastl, Kimio Shimada, Richard Lee and David Renault and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Vladimı́r Košťál

98 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Eco-physiological phases of insect diapause

2005 745 citations Vladimı́r Košťál Journal of Insect Physiology profile →
Low Temperature Biology of Insects

2010 468 citations David L. Denlinger, David L. Denlinger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vladimı́r Košťál Czechia	35	3.1k	2.0k	1.9k	1.8k	1.1k	100	4.9k
Daniel A. Hahn United States	30	1.7k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	124	3.8k
Hideharu Numata Japan	33	1.1k 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.5×	226	4.1k
Paul Schmidt United States	37	1.6k 0.5×	643 0.3×	705 0.4×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	79	4.0k
Jean R. David France	48	2.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	2.5k 1.3×	3.0k 1.6×	2.9k 2.7×	159	6.8k
Alexander W. Shingleton United States	30	913 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	61	3.6k
Adam K. Chippindale Canada	34	1.4k 0.5×	710 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	2.6k 1.4×	2.7k 2.5×	49	4.9k
Hervé Colinet France	34	1.9k 0.6×	949 0.5×	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	860 0.8×	98	3.9k
Christen K. Mirth Australia	28	790 0.3×	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	987 0.5×	907 0.8×	72	3.2k
Joseph P. Rinehart United States	28	1.8k 0.6×	852 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	704 0.6×	96	2.9k
Heath A. MacMillan Canada	30	2.0k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	836 0.8×	82	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Vladimı́r Košťál

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vladimı́r Košťál

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Štětina, Tomáš, et al.. (2025). Pitfalls in insect cryoprotectant functional studies: A case study of myo-inositol in Drosopila lummei. Journal of Insect Physiology. 165. 104864–104864.

Rozsypal, Jan, et al.. (2024). Physiology of Overwintering in a Microhabitat Fully Exposed to Adverse Weather Conditions: Lime Seed Bugs on Tree Trunks and Branches. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 42(1).

Štětina, Tomáš & Vladimı́r Košťál. (2024). Extracellular freezing induces a permeability transition in the inner membrane of muscle mitochondria of freeze-sensitive but not freeze-tolerant Chymomyza costata larvae. Frontiers in Physiology. 15. 1358190–1358190. 1 indexed citations

Moos, Martin, et al.. (2022). Insect cross-tolerance to freezing and drought stress: role of metabolic rearrangement. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1976). 20220308–20220308. 15 indexed citations

Moos, Martin, Tomáš Štětina, Jaroslava Korbelová, et al.. (2022). A mixture of innate cryoprotectants is key for freeze tolerance and cryopreservation of a drosophilid fly larva. Journal of Experimental Biology. 225(8). 13 indexed citations

Rozsypal, Jan, Martin Moos, Ivo Rudolf, & Vladimı́r Košťál. (2021). Do energy reserves and cold hardiness limit winter survival of Culex pipiens?. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 255. 110912–110912. 18 indexed citations

Popović, Željko D., et al.. (2021). Acclimations to Cold and Warm Conditions Differently Affect the Energy Metabolism of Diapausing Larvae of the European Corn Borer Ostrinia nubilalis (Hbn.). Frontiers in Physiology. 12. 768593–768593. 12 indexed citations

Štětina, Tomáš, Lauren E. Des Marteaux, & Vladimı́r Košťál. (2020). Insect mitochondria as targets of freezing-induced injury. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1931). 20201273–20201273. 10 indexed citations

Toxopeus, Jantina, Vladimı́r Košťál, & Brent J. Sinclair. (2019). Evidence for non-colligative function of small cryoprotectants in a freeze-tolerant insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1899). 20190050–20190050. 53 indexed citations

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Colinet, Hervé, David Renault, Marion Javal, et al.. (2016). Uncovering the benefits of fluctuating thermal regimes on cold tolerance of drosophila flies by combined metabolomic and lipidomic approach. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1861(11). 1736–1745. 53 indexed citations

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Katagiri, Chihiro, et al.. (2014). Heat coma temperature, relative contents of saturated/unsaturated fatty acids and reproductive maturation in the oceanic sea skaters Halobates micans. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 17(3). 633–637. 3 indexed citations

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Košťál, Vladimı́r. (2013). Oogenesis and oviposition in the cabbage root fly, Delia radicum (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), influenced by food quality, mating and host plant availability. European Journal of Entomology. 90(2). 137–147. 7 indexed citations

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Košťál, Vladimı́r, Jan Rozsypal, Pavel Pech, Helena Zahradníčková, & Petr Šimek. (2013). Physiological and biochemical responses to cold and drought in the rock-dwelling pulmonate snail, Chondrina avenacea. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 183(6). 749–761. 9 indexed citations

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Košťál, Vladimı́r, David Renault, & Jan Rozsypal. (2011). Seasonal changes of free amino acids and thermal hysteresis in overwintering heteropteran insect, Pyrrhocoris apterus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 160(2). 245–251. 25 indexed citations

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Košťál, Vladimı́r, Radka Závodská, & David L. Denlinger. (2009). Clock genes period and timeless are rhythmically expressed in brains of newly hatched, photosensitive larvae of the fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis. Journal of Insect Physiology. 55(5). 408–414. 22 indexed citations

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Košťál, Vladimı́r, et al.. (2009). Cell cycle arrest as a hallmark of insect diapause: Changes in gene transcription during diapause induction in the drosophilid fly, Chymomyza costata. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 39(12). 875–883. 47 indexed citations

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Košťál, Vladimı́r, et al.. (2009). The 70 kDa Heat Shock Protein Assists during the Repair of Chilling Injury in the Insect, Pyrrhocoris apterus. PLoS ONE. 4(2). e4546–e4546. 130 indexed citations

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Košťál, Vladimı́r, Kimio Shimada, & Yoichi Hayakawa. (2000). Induction and development of winter larval diapause in a drosophilid fly, Chymomyza costata. Journal of Insect Physiology. 46(4). 417–428. 45 indexed citations

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Košťál, Vladimı́r & Petr Šimek. (2000). Overwintering strategy in Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera): the relations between life-cycle, chill tolerance and physiological adjustments. Journal of Insect Physiology. 46(9). 1321–1329. 64 indexed citations

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Košťál, Vladimı́r, J Šula, & Petr Šimek. (1998). Physiology of drought tolerance and cold hardiness of the Mediterranean tiger moth Cymbalophora pudica during summer diapause.. Journal of Insect Physiology. 44(2). 165–173. 55 indexed citations

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