Maria Tkachenko Ph.D.

Position post-doc
Direction fish ecology and parasitology
Maria Tkachenko

Publications and Applied outputs

2025

Hnilička M, Janáč M, Palupová E, Tkachenko M, Horká P, Jandová K, Holubová K, Jurajda P, Ondračková M (2025). Stable isotope analysis reveals fish juveniles as a temporal main resource consumed by invasive pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus). Hydrobiologia.
Ondračková M, Valigurová A, Hodová I, Bartáková V, Tkachenko M, Janáč M, Vetešník L (2025). Diplostomum-induced sac formation in lenses of Ameiurus bullheads: A host defence response?. Journal of Fish Diseases, e14137.
Ondračková M, Tkachenko M, Vetešník L, Hronek J, Janáč M (2025). Distribution and host range of a highly invasive parasitic copepod. Hydrobiologia.
Ondračková M, Kvach Y, Tkachenko M, Pravdová M, Seifertová M, Bartáková V, Jurajda P (2025). The role of North American bullhead catfish as parasite reservoirs in central European fishing grounds. Aquaculture, 742100.
Tkachenko M, Bartáková V, Hnilička M, Kvach Y, Jurajda P, Dudliv I, Ondračková M (2025). Historical and genetic perspectives on the spread of non-native bullheads, Ameiurus spp. (Actinopterygii: Ictaluridae), in Central Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 25062.
Tkachenko M, Hnilička M, Janáč M, Kvach Y, Vetešník L, Ondračková M (2025). Shift in parasite load in native and non-native Eupercarian fish species living in sympatry. Neobiota.

2024

Dudliv I, Kvach Y, Tkachenko M, Nazaruk K, Ondračková M (2024). Comparative analysis of parasite load on recently established invasive pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus (Actinopterygii: Centrarchidae) in Europe. Acta Parasitologica.
Kvach Y, Tkachenko M, Giannetto D, Míč R, Bartáková V, Ağdamar S, Saç G, Özuluğ M, Tarkan AS, Ondračková M (2024). Low genetic and parasite diversity of invasive pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus (Centrarchidae) expanding in Türkiye. Diversity, 16: 272.

2023

Jurajdová Z, Grmela J, Šlapanský L, Hnilička M, Janáč M, Adámek Z, Tkachenko M, Jurajda P (2023). Fish community of a heavily modified urban stretch of the River Svratka: fish rescue transfer prior to the initiation of flood protection constructions. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis.
Kvach Y, Tkachenko M, Bartáková V, Kutsokon Y, Janáč M, Demchenko V, Ondračková M (2023). Parasite communities and genetic structure of non-native pumpkinseed, Lepomis gibbosus, in different Black Sea drainages of Ukraine. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 1.
Ondračková M, Seifertová M, Tkachenko M, Vetešník L, Liu H, Demchenko V, Kvach Y (2023). The parasites of a successful invader: monogeneans of the Asian topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva, with description of a new species of Gyrodactylus. Parasite, 22.
Ondračková M, Tkachenko M, Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Janáč M, Zięba G, Pyrzanowski K, Kvach Y (2023). Population genetic structure, parasite infection and somatic condition of pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus (Actinopterygii: Centrarchidae) in the Oder river basin. Journal of Fish Biology.
Tkachenko M, Dudliv I, Kvach Y, Dykyi I, Nazaruk K, Ondračková M (2023). First data on parasites of the invasive brown bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae) in Ukraine. Helminthologia.

2021

Kvach Y, Tkachenko M, Bartáková V, Zięba G, Ondračková M (2021). The role of the non-indigenous pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus (Actinopterygii: Centrarchidae) in the life cycle of Bothriocephalus claviceps (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidae) in Europe. Parasitology Research.
Kvach Y, Tkachenko M, Seifertová M, Ondračková M (2021). Insights into the diversity, distribution and phylogeny of three ergasilid copepods (Hexanauplia: Ergasilidae) in lentic water bodies of the Morava river basin, Czech Republic. Limnologica, 125922.