Mgr. Veronika Bartáková Ph.D.

Position post-doc
Direction molecular ecology
+420 560 590 607

Master thesis

Genetic structure of annual Nothobranchius fishes from southern Mozambique, (supervisor J.Bryja and M.Reichard).

Publications and Applied outputs

2025

Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Polačik M, Alila DO, Nagy B, Watters B, Bellstedt D, Blažek R, Žák J, Reichard M (2025). Phylogenomics and population genomics of Nothobranchius in lowland Tanzania: species delimitation and comparative genetic structure. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 108357.
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.
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.
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.
Zimmermann H, Sefc KM, Blažek R, Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Katongo C, Koblmüller S, Reichard M (2025). Mixed parentage broods indicate group spawning in the brood parasitic cuckoo catfish. Molecular Ecology, e17692.

2024

Dyková I, Žák J, Blažek R, Zimmermann H, Polačik M, Bartáková V, Reichard M (2024). Oogenesis, spermatogenesis and spermiation structures in Lake Tanganyika Synodontis species (Mochokidae, Telostei: Siluriformes). Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 24023.
Englmaier GK, Blažek R, Zimmermann H, Bartáková V, Polačik M, Žák J, Mulokozi DP, Katongo C, Büscher HH, Mabo L, Koblmüller S, Palandačić A, Reichard M (2024). Revised taxonomy of Synodontis catfishes (Siluriformes: Mochokidae) from the Lake Tanganyika basin reveals lower species diversity than expected. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae130.
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

Goüy de Bellocq J, Fornůsková A, Ďureje Ľ, Bartáková V, Daniszová K, Dianat M, Janča M, Šabata P, Šeneklová N, Stodůlka T, Vošlajerová Bímová B, Macholán M (2023). First record of the greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula, in the Czech Republic. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 23047.
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, 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.

2021

Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Nicolas V, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2021). Mitogenomics of the endemic Ethiopian rats: looking for footprints of adaptive evolution in sky islands. Mitochondrion.
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.
Nicolas V, Mikula O, Lavrenchenko LA, Šumbera R, Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Meheretu Y, Verheyen E, Missoup AD, Lemmon AR, Moriarty Lemmon E, Bryja J (2021). Phylogenomics of African radiation of Praomyini (Muridae: Murinae) rodents: First fully resolved phylogeny, evolutionary history and delimitation of extant genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107263.
Ondračková M, Bartáková V, Kvach Y, Bryjová A, Trichkova T, Ribeiro F, Carassou L, Martens A, Masson G, Zechmeister T, Jurajda P (2021). Parasite infection reflects host genetic diversity among non-native populations of pumpkinseed sunfish in Europe. Hydrobiologia.
Ondračková M, Bartáková V, Kvach Y (2021). Ophiotaenia europaea Odening, 1963 (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) adopts a North American brown bullhead catfish Ameiurus nebulosus Lesueur, 1819 as intermediate/paratenic host in Europe. BioInvasions Records.
Ondračková M, Janáč M, Borcherding J, Grabowska J, Bartáková V, Jurajda P (2021). Non-native gobies share predominantly immature parasites with local fish hosts. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 21050.
Pravdová M, Ondračková M, Palíková M, Papežíková I, Kvach Y, Jurajda P, Bartáková V, Seidlová V, Němcová M, Mareš J (2021). Low-level pathogen transmission from wild to farmed salmonids in a flow-through fish farm. Acta Veterinaria Hungarica.

2020

Bartáková V, Nagy B, Polačik M, Blažek R, Lamtane H, Reichard M (2020). Genetic diversity of a widespread annual killifish from coastal Tanzania. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 1.
Jurajda P, Bednařík A, Bartáková V, Mendel J, Jurajdová Z, Mikl L (2020). The genetic structure of brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations at selected localities in the Krkonoše Mts National Park (Czech Republic). Opera Corcontica, 57: 95-106.
Mizerovská D, Mikula O, Meheretu Y, Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Kostin DS, Šumbera R, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2020). Integrative taxonomic revision of the Ethiopian endemic rodent genus Stenocephalemys (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini) with the description of two new species. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 20031.

2019

Bartáková V, Bryja J, Šanda R, Bektas Y, Stefanov T, Choleva L, Smith C, Reichard M (2019). High cryptic diversity of bitterling fish in the southern West Palearctic. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

2018

Bartáková V, Bryja J, Reichard M (2018). Fine-scale genetic structure of the European bitterling at the intersection of three major European watersheds. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 105.
Konečný A, Popa O, Bartáková V, Douda K, Bryja J, Smith C, Popa LO, Reichard M (2018). Modelling the invasion history of Sinanodonta woodiana in Europe: tracking the routes of a sedentary aquatic invader with mobile parasitic larvae. Evolutionary Applications.
Methling C, Douda K, Liu H, Rouchet R, Bartáková V, Yu D, Smith C, Reichard M (2018). Energetic costs in the relationship between bitterling and mussels in East Asia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

2017

Bartáková V, Reichard M (2017). No effect of recent sympatry with invasive zebra mussel on the oviposition decisions and reproductive success of the bitterling fish, a brood parasite of unionid mussels. Hydrobiologia.

2015

Bartáková V, Reichard M, Blažek R, Polačik M, Bryja J (2015). Terrestrial fishes: rivers are barriers to gene flow in annual fishes from the African savanna. Journal of Biogeography.
Popa OP, Bartáková V, Bryja J, Reichard M, Popa LO (2015). Characterization of nine microsatellite markers and development of multiplex PCRs for the Chinese huge musel Anodonta (Sinanodonta) woodiana Lea, 1834 (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology.

2013

Bartáková V, Reichard M, Janko K, Polačik M, Blažek R, Reichwald K, Cellerino A, Bryja J (2013). Strong population genetic structuring in an annual fish, Nothobranchius furzeri, suggests multiple savannah refugia in southern Mozambique. BMC Evolutionary Biology.