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doc. RNDr. Martin Reichard, Ph.D.


Position: full-time researcher
Research topics: ecology of fish
Department: Research facility Brno
Phone: +420 543 422 522
E-mail: reichardivb.cz

Personal webpage

  • mate choice evolution and alternative mating tactics,
  • coevolutionary dynamics in host-parasite associations,
  • the impact of invasive species on coevolved relationships,
  • evolutionary ecology of annual fish, especially ageing and its life history trade-offs.

    • Running Projects

    The effects of non-native species on host-parasite relationships

    The evolution and life-history consequences of rapid ageing

    Finished Projects

    Demography, metapopulation dynamics and ecology of Nothobranchius fishes in Mozambique

    Host specialization and host-race formation in the European bitterling

    Personalities, male mating tactics and role of females in sexual selection: studies on fish model systems

    Reproductive isolating mechanisms in Nothobranchius annual fishes - the roles of mate choice, ecological divergence and vicariance

    Reproductive isolating mechanisms in Nothobranchius fishes (Aplocheilidae)

    The European bitterling - endangered or non-native species in central Europe?

    The impact of mating tactics on individual reproductive success and population parameters in the European bitterling: behavioural and genetic approach

    Education

    • 1996: undergraduate study - Masaryk University Brno, Systematic Biology and Ecology. Thesis: A biometric study of the bitterling, Rhodeus sericeus from the lower stretch of the River Morava.
    • 1998: undergraduate study - Masaryk University Brno, Systematic Zoology and Ecology. Thesis: Biology of bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus) in atypical conditions in a regulated lowland river.
    • 2002: Ph.D. study - Masaryk University Brno, Zoology. Thesis: Downstream drift of young-of-the-year cyprinid fishes in lowland rivers, (supervisor P.Jurajda).
    • 2009: Doc. - Masaryk University Brno, Zoology - Reader/Associate Professor.

    Employment

    • 1999-2002: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - research assistant,
    • 2002-2003: Queen Mary College, University of London - postdoctoral fellow,
    • 2003-2005: Queen Mary, University of London - Postdoctoral Research Assistant,
    • 2002-2009: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep. - research scientist,
    • 2007-2009: University of Leicester, United Kingdom - research associate,
    • 2009-2010: University of St Andrews, United Kingdom - Research Associate,
    • 2010-present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep. - research scientist.

    Academic service

    • 2009-present: Evolutionary Ecology - associate editor,
    • Scientific Board of the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the CR - internal member,
    • Scientific Board of the Institute of Hydrobiology, Academy of Sciences of the CR -external member,
    • external examiner for Ph.D. students at universities in Helsinki, Prague and Brno,
    • regular reviewing manuscripts for scientific journals (39 journals/150+ reviews),
    • reviewing grant proposals for Research Councils in the Czech Republic (4 councils), Austria (FWF) and USA (NSF),
    • lectures in Biogeography at Masaryk University (since 2005),
    • Fish Biology practical classes: Queen Mary, London,
    • Field course on Biology of Marine Mammals, University of Leicester and four other UK universities,
    • member of several committees at Masaryk University responsible for BSc., MSc. and PhD. Biology programmes, including state examination boards.

    International experience

    • initiated and completed international collaborative projects (Germany, Italy, Austria, China, Turkey, Mozambique),
    • field research in many countries - Africa (Mozambique, Senegal), Asia (China, Japan, Turkey, Bangladesh), Southern America (Brazil, Uruguay) and Europe.

    Main current collaboraters

    • Carl Smith, University of St Andrews, Scotland –bitterling sexual selection and coevolution,
    • Alessandro Cellerino, SNS Pisa, Italy – ageing in annual fish,
    • Liu Huanzhang, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China – bitterling coevolution,
    • Miroslav Przybylski, University of Lodz, Poland – bitterling coevolution,
    • Ali Serhan Tarkan, University of Mugla, Turkey – bitterling coevolution,
    • Oana P. Popa – Grigore Antipa Museum, Bucharest, Romania – molecular genetics of invasive species,
    • Karel Douda, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic – mussel biology,
    • Osvaldo E. Chacate, Fisheries Research Institute, DARPPE, Maputo, Mozambique – African killifish,
    • Leonardo Maltchik, Unisinos, Brazil,
    • Bettina Tassino, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.

    Current Ph.D. students

    • Radomil Řežucha – Sexual selection, reproductive stratgies and personalities in fish model systems,
    • Milan Vrtílek – Evolutionary ecology of African annual fishes.

    Former PhD students

    • Markéta Konečná – Individual and population consequences of sexual selection in the bitterling fish.

    Publications

    2015

    Keppeler F. W., Lanés L. E. K., Rolon A. S., Stenert C., Lehmann P., Reichard M., Maltchik L.: The morphology–diet relationship and its role in the coexistence of two species of annual fishes, Ecology of Freshwater Fish 24 (2015) 77-90.

    Řežucha R., Reichard M.: Strategic exploitation of fluctuating asymmetry in male Endler’s guppy courtship displays is modulated by social environment, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28 (2015) 356-367.


    2014

    Chang H.-C., Li F., Shao K.-T., Lin Y.-S., Morosawa T., Kim S., Koo H., Kim W., Lee J.-S., He S., Smith C., Reichard M., Miya M., Sado T., Uehara K., Lavoué S., Chen W.-J., Mayden R. L.: Phylogenetic relationships of Acheilognathidae (Cypriniformes: Cyprinoidea) as revealed from evidence of both nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequence variation: Evidence for necessary taxonomic revision in the family and the identification of cryptic species, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 81 (2014) 182-194.

    Liao C., Yu D., Chen Y., Reichard M., Liu H.: Reproductive behaviour of female rosy bitterling Rhodeus ocellatus in response to a female-biased operational sex ratio, Behaviour 151 (2014) 755-768.

    Polačik M., Harrod C., Blažek R., Reichard M.: Trophic niche partitioning in communities of African annual fish: evidence from stable isotopes, Hydrobiologia 721 (2014) 99-106.

    Polačik M., Blažek R., Řežucha R., Vrtílek M., Terzibasi Tozzini E., Reichard M.: Alternative intrapopulation life-history strategies and their trade-offs in an African annual fish, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (2014) 854-865.

    Reichard M., Polačik M., Blažek R., Vrtílek M.: Female bias in the adult sex ratio of African annual fishes: interspecific differences, seasonal trends and environmental predictors, Evolutionary Ecology 28 (2014) 1105-1120.

    Reichenbacher B., Reichard M.: Otoliths of five extant species of the annual killifish Nothobranchius from the East African savannah, PLoS ONE 9 (2014) .

    Řežucha R., Reichard M.: The effect of social environment on alternative mating tactics in male Endler’s guppy, Poecilia wingei, Animal Behaviour 88 (2014) 195-202.

    Smith C., Warren M., Rouchet R., Reichard M.: The function of multiple ejaculations in bitterling, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (2014) 1819-1829.

    Smith C., Phillips A., Polačik M., Reichard M.: Male coloration signals direct benefits in the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), Environmental Biology of Fishes 97 (2014) 335-341.


    2013

    Bartáková V., Reichard M., Janko K., Polačik M., Blažek R., Reichwald K., Cellerino A., Bryja J.: Strong population genetic structuring in an annual fish, Nothobranchius furzeri, suggests multiple savannah refugia in southern Mozambique, BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 (2013) 196.

    Blažek R., Polačik M., Reichard M.: Rapid growth, early maturation and short generation time in African annual fishes, EvoDevo 4 (2013) 24.

    Casalini M., Reichard M., Phillips A., Smith C.: Male choice of mates and mating resources in the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus), Behavioral Ecology 24 (2013) 1199-1204.

    Ercan E., Gaygusuz Ö., Tarkan A. S., Reichard M., Smith C.: The ecology of freshwater bivalves in the Lake Sapanca basin, Turkey, Turkish Journal of Zoology 37 (2013) 730-738.

    Smith C., Reichard M.: A sperm competition model for the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), Behaviour 150 (2013) 1709-1730.

    Spence R., Reichard M., Smith C.: Strategic sperm allocation and a Coolidge effect in an externally fertilizing species, Behavioral Ecology 24 (2013) 82-88.

    Terzibasi Tozzini E., Dorn A., Ng’oma E., Polačik M., Blažek R., Reichwald K., Petzold A., Watters B. R., Reichard M., Cellerino A.: Parallel evolution of senescence in annual fishes in response to extrinsic mortality, BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 (2013) 77.


    2012

    Agbali M., Spence R., Reichard M., Smith C.: A comparison of the impact of direct and indirect benefits of mating decisions in the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus), Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 58 (2012) 279-288.

    Blažek R., Ondračková M., Vošlajerová Bímová B., Vetešník L., Petrášová I., Reichard M.: Fish diversity in the Niokolo Koba National Park, middle Gambia River basin, Senegal, Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 23 (2012) 263-272.

    Douda K., Vrtílek M., Slavík O., Reichard M.: The role of host specificity in explaining the invasion success of the freshwater mussel Anodonta woodiana in Europe, Biological Invasions 14 (2012) 127-137.

    Reichard M., Vrtílek M., Douda K., Smith C.: An invasive species reverses the roles in a host–parasite relationship between bitterling fish and unionid mussels, Biology Letters 8 (2012) 601-604.

    Reichard M., Spence R., Bryjová A., Bryja J., Smith C.: Female rose bitterling prefer MHC-dissimilar males: experimental evidence, PLoS ONE 7 (2012) .

    Řežucha R., Smith C., Reichard M.: Personality traits, reproductive behaviour and alternative mating tactics in male European bitterling, Rhodeus amarus, Behaviour 149 (2012) 531-553.

    Vrtílek M., Reichard M.: An indirect effect of biological invasions: the effect of zebra mussel fouling on parasitisation of unionid mussels by bitterling fish, Hydrobiologia 696 (2012) 205-214.

    White Seth M., Ondračková M., Reichard M.: Hydrologic connectivity affects fish assemblage structure, diversity, and ecological traits in the unregulated Gambia River, West Africa, Biotropica 44 (2012) 521-530.


    2011

    Dorn A., Ng'oma E., Janko K., Reichwald K., Polačik M., Platzer M., Cellerino A., Reichard M.: Phylogeny, genetic variability and colour polymorphism of an emerging animal model: the short-lived annual Nothobranchius fishes from southern Mozambique, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61 (2011) 739-749.

    Konečná M., Reichard M.: Seasonal dynamics in population characteristics of European bitterling Rhodeus amarus in a small lowland river, Journal of Fish Biology 78 (2011) 227-239.

    Mehner T., Freyhof J., Reichard M.: Summary and perspective on evolutionary ecology of fishes, Evolutionary Ecology 25 (2011) 547-556.

    Pateman-Jones C., Rasotto M. B., Reichard M., Liao C., Liu H., Zieba G., Smith C.: Variation in male reproductive traits among three bitterling fishes (Acheilognathinae: Cyprinidae) in relation to the mating system, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 103 (2011) 622-632.

    Polačik M., Reichard M.: Asymmetric reproductive isolation between two sympatric annual killifish with extremely short lifespans, PLoS ONE 6 (2011) .

    Polačik M., Donner M. T., Reichard M.: Age structure of annual Nothobranchius fishes in Mozambique: is there a hatching synchrony?, Journal of Fish Biology 78 (2011) 796-809.

    Reichard M., Bryja J., Polačik M., Smith C.: No evidence for host specialization or host-race formation in the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), a fish that parasitizes freshwater mussels, Molecular Ecology 20 (2011) 3631-3643.


    2010

    Agbali M., Reichard M., Bryjová A., Bryja J., Smith C.: Mate choice for nonadditive genetic benefits correlate with MHC dissimilarity in the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus), Evolution 64 (2010) 1683-1696.

    Bryja J., Smith C., Konečný A., Reichard M.: Range-wide population genetic structure of the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus) based on microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA analysis, Molecular Ecology 19 (2010) 4708-4722.

    Casalini M., Reichard M., Smith C.: The effect of crowding and density on male mating behaviour in the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus), Behaviour 147 (2010) 1035-1050.

    Janáč M., Ondračková M., Jurajda P., Valová Z., Reichard M.: Flood duration determines the reproduction success of fish in artificial oxbows in a floodplain of a potamal river, Ecology of Freshwater Fish 19 (2010) 644-655.

    Konečná M., Smith C., Reichard M.: Population and individual consequences of breeding resource availability in the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64 (2010) 1069-1079.

    Polačik M., Reichard M.: Diet overlap among three sympatric African annual killifish species (Nothobranchius spp.) from Mozambique, Journal of Fish Biology 77 (2010) 754-768.

    Reichard M.: Nothobranchius kadleci (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from central Mozambique, Zootaxa 2332 (2010) 49-60.

    Reichard M., Polačik M.: Reproductive isolating barriers between colour-differentiated populations of an African annual killifish, Nothobranchius korthausae (Cyprinodontiformes), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100 (2010) 62-72.

    Reichard M., Watters B. R., Wildekamp R. H., Sonnenberg R., Nagy B., Polačik M., Valdesalici S., Cellerino A., Cooper B. J., Hengstler H., Rosenstock J., Sainthouse I.: Potential negative impacts and low effectiveness in the use of African annual killifish in the biocontrol of aquatic mosquito larvae in temporary water bodies, Parasites Vectors 3 (2010) 89.

    Reichard M., Polačik M., Tarkan A. S., Spence R., Gaygusuz Ö., Ercan E., Ondračková M., Smith C.: The bitterling–mussel coevolutionary relationship in areas of recent and ancient sympatry, Evolution 64 (2010) 3047-3056.


    2009

    Casalini M., Agbali M., Reichard M., Konečná M., Bryjová A., Smith C.: Male dominance, female mate choice and intersexual conflict in the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus), Evolution 63 (2009) 366-376.

    Konečná M., Jurajda P., Reichard M.: River discharge drives recruitment success of the European bitterling Rhodeus amarus in a regulated river in central Europe, Journal of Fish Biology 74 (2009) 1642-1650.

    Polačik M., Reichard M.: Indirect fitness benefits are not related to male dominance in a killifish, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63 (2009) 1427-1435.

    Reichard M., Polačik M., Sedláček O.: Distribution, colour polymorphism and habitat use of the African killifish, Nothobranchius furzeri, the vertebrate with the shortest life span, Journal of Fish Biology 74 (2009) 198-212.

    Reichard M., Ondračková M., Bryjová A., Smith C., Bryja J.: Breeding resource distribution affects selection gradients on male phenotypic traits: experimental study on lifetime reproductive success in the bitterling fish (Rhodeus amarus), Evolution 63 (2009) 377-390.

    Smith C., Pateman-Jones C., Zieba G., Przybylski M., Reichard M.: Sperm depletion as a consequence of increased sperm competition risk in the European bitterling, Rhodeus amarus, Animal Behaviour 77 (2009) 1227-1233.


    2008

    Jurajda P., Peňáz M., Reichard M., Bernardová I.: Water quality improvements following political changes, enhanced fish communities, and fisheries in the Czech Republic, American Fisheries Society Symposium 49 (2008) 845-850.

    Reichard M., Smith C., Bryja J.: Seasonal change in the opportunity for sexual selection, Molecular Ecology 17 (2008) 642-651.

    Reichard M.: Microhabitat use by fishes in the middle course of the River Gambia in the Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal: a unique example of an undisturbed West African assemblage, Journal of Fish Biology 72 (2008) 1815-1824.

    Zaki S. A. H., Jordan W. C., Reichard M., Przybylski M., Smith C.: A morphological and genetic analysis of the European bitterling species complex, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95 (2008) 337-347.


    2007

    Przybylski M., Reichard M., Spence R., Smith C.: Spatial distribution of oviposition sites determines variance in the reproductive rate of European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), Behaviour 144 (2007) 1403-1417.

    Reichard M., Przybylski M., Kaniewska P., Liu H., Smith C.: A possible evolutionary lag in the relationship between freshwater mussels and European bitterling, Journal of Fish Biology 70 (2007) 709-725.

    Reichard M., Liu H., Smith C.: The co-evolutionary relationship between bitterling fishes and freshwater mussels: insights from interspecific comparisons, Evolutionary Ecology Research 9 (2007) 239-259.

    Reichard M., Le Comber S. C., Smith C.: Sneaking from a female perspective, Animal Behaviour 74 (2007) 679-688.

    Reichard M., Jurajda P.: Seasonal dynamics and age structure of drifting cyprinid fishes: an interspecific comparison, Ecology of Freshwater Fish 16 (2007) 482-492.

    Smith C., Zhu Y., Liu H., Reichard M.: Deceptive female oviposition behaviour elicits male ejaculation in the European bitterling, Journal of Fish Biology 71 (2007) 1841-1846.


    2006

    Jurajda P., Reichard M., Smith C.: Immediate impact of an extensive summer flood on the adult fish assemblage of a channelized lowland river, Journal of Freshwater Ecology 21 (2006) 493-502.

    Liu H.-Z., Zhu Y.-R., Smith C., Reichard M.: Evidence of host specificity and congruence between phylogenies of bitterling and freshwater mussels, Zoological Studies 45 (2006) 428-434.

    Reichard M., Ondračková M., Przybylski M., Liu H., Smith C.: The costs and benefits in an unusual symbiosis: experimental evidence that bitterling fish (Rhodeus sericeus) are parasites of unionid mussels in Europe, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19 (2006) 788-796.

    Smith C., Reichard M., Douglas A., Jurajda P.: Population consequences of behaviour in the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus Cyprinidae), Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15 (2006) 139-145.

    Spence R., Fatema M. K., Reichard M., Huq K. A., Wahab M. A., Ahmed Z. F., Smith C.: The distribution and habitat preferences of the zebrafish in Bangladesh, Journal of Fish Biology 69 (2006) 1435-1448.


    2005

    Dávidová M., Ondračková M., Baruš V., Reichard M., Koubková B.: Nematode infections of the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus Pallas, 1776: Cypriniformes), Helminthologia 42 (2005) 45-48.

    Reichard M., Bryja J., Ondračková M., Dávidová M., Kaniewska P., Smith C.: Sexual selection for male dominance reduces opportunities for female mate choice in the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus), Molecular Ecology 14 (2005) 1533-1542.

    Smith C., Reichard M.: Females solicit sneakers to improve fertilization success in the bitterling fish (Rhodeus sericeus), Proceedings of the Royal Society. B - Biological Sciences 272 (2005) 1683-1688.