Mgr. Markéta Ondračková, Ph.D.
Position: full-time researcher
Research topics: fish parasitology
Department: Research facility Brno
Phone: +420 543 422 522
E-mail: audrey
sci.muni.cz
Research interests
- biology and ecology of freshwater fish metazoan parasites,
- invasive biology; parasites and life history traits of non-native fish species,
- fish ecology; community ecology, diversity and population dynamics of freshwater fishes.
Finished Projects
Parasitism and invasive species: effect of parasite infection on the biology of Neogobius kessleri in its native and introduced range
The role of parasites during the invasion process of Ponto-Caspian gobies
Education
- 1996-2000: undergraduate study - Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Systematic zoology and ecology.
- 200-2004: PhD study - Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, Parasitology.
Employment
- 2001-2004: IVB ASCR, research assistant,
- 2005-present: IVB ASCR, research scientist,
- 2003-present: IBZ, Faculty of Science MU, research assistant,
- 2011-2016: maternity leave.
International experience and current cooperation
- Field research in Europe, Asia and Africa; Lab research in France, UK.
- Dr. T. Trichkova; Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Dr. J. Borcherding; University of Cologne, Grietherbusch Ecology Research Station, Germany.
Current PhD students
- Veronika Nezhybová (Michálková): Parasite-associated changes in fish host physiology and behaviour.
- Markéta Pravdová: Relationship between parasite infection and fish host personality.
Former PhD student
- Kateřina Francová: Host-parasite interactions in 0+ juvenile fishes: effect of host, parasite and environmental characteristics.
Publications
2016Kvach Y., Ondračková M., Janáč M., Jurajda P.: Methodological issues affecting the study of fish parasites. I. Duration of live fish storage prior to dissection, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 119 (2016) 107-115.
2015Havlátová L., Ondračková M., Přikrylová I.: Monogenean parasites of Lepomis gibbosus Linnaeus introduced into the River Durance, France, Helminthologia 52 (2015) 323-330.
Ondračková M., Hudcová I., Dávidová M., Adámek Z., Kašný M., Jurajda P.: Non-native gobies facilitate the transmission of Bucephalus polymorphus (Trematoda), Parasites Vectors 8 (2015) 382.
Ondračková M., Valová Z., Hudcová I., Michálková V., Šimková A., Borcherding J., Jurajda P.: Temporal effects on host-parasite associations in four naturalized goby species living in sympatry, Hydrobiologia 746 (2015) 233-243.
2014Francová K., Ondračková M.: Effect of habitat conditions on parasite infection in 0+juvenile perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) in two Czech reservoirs, Hydrobiologia 721 (2014) 57-66.
Michálková V., Ondračková M.: Experimental evidence for parasite-induced over-winter mortality in juvenile Rhodeus amarus, Journal of Fish Biology 84 (2014) 1377-1388.
2013Francová K., Ondračková M.: Overwinter body condition, mortality and parasite infection in two size classes of 0+ year juvenile European bitterling Rhodeus amarus, Journal of Fish Biology 82 (2013) 555-568.
2012Blažek 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.
Ondračková M., Matějusová I., Grabowska J.: Introduction of Gyrodactylus perccotti (Monogenea) into Europe on its invasive fish host, Amur sleeper (Perccottus glenii, Dybowski 1877), Helminthologia 49 (2012) 21-26.
Ondračková M., Valová Z., Kortan J., Vojtek L., Adámek Z.: Consequent effects of the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) predation on parasite infection and body condition of common carp (Cyprinus carpio), Parasitology Research 110 (2012) 1487-1493.
Ondračková M., Šimková A., Civáňová K., Vyskočilová M., Jurajda P.: Parasite diversity and microsatellite variability in native and introduced populations of four Neogobius species (Gobiidae), Parasitology 139 (2012) 1493-1505.
Ondračková M., Slováčková I., Trichkova T., Polačik M., Jurajda P.: Shoreline distribution and parasite infection of black-striped pipefish Syngnathus abaster Risso, 1827 in the lower River Danube, Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28 (2012) 590-596.
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.
2011Borcherding J., Staas S., Krüger S., Ondračková M., Šlapanský L., Jurajda P.: Non-native Gobiid species in the lower River Rhine (Germany): recent range extensions and densities, Journal of Applied Ichthyology 27 (2011) 153-155.
Červenka R., Bednařík A., Komárek J., Ondračková M., Jurajda P., Vítek T., Spurný P.: The relationship between the mercury concentration in fish muscles and scales/fins and its significance, Central European Journal of Chemistry 9 (2011) 1109-1116.
Dávidová M., Blažek R., Trichkova T., Koutrakis E., Gaygusuz Ö., Ercan E., Ondračková M.: The role of the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus, Cyprinidae) in parasite accumulation and transmission in riverine ecosystems, Aquatic Ecology 45 (2011) 377-387.
Francová K., Ondračková M.: Host-parasite interactions in sympatric and allopatric populations of European bitterling, Parasitology Research 109 (2011) 801-808.
Francová K., Ondračková M., Polačik M., Jurajda P.: Parasite fauna of native and non-native populations of Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1814) (Gobiidae) in the longitudinal profile of the Danube River, Journal of Applied Ichthyology 27 (2011) 879-886.
Ondračková M., Dávidová M., Přikrylová I., Pečínková M.: Monogenean parasites of introduced pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus (Centrarchidae) in the Danube River Basin, Journal of Helminthology 85 (2011) 435-441.
Smith C., Ondračková M., Spence R., Adams S., Betts D. S., Mallon E.: Pathogen-mediated selection for MHC variability in wild zebrafish, Evolutionary Ecology Research 13 (2011) 589-605.
2010Janáč 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.
Ondračková M., Francová K., Dávidová M., Polačik M., Jurajda P.: Condition status and parasite infection of Neogobius kessleri and N. melanostomus (Gobiidae) in their native and non-native area of distribution of the Danube River, Ecological Research 25 (2010) 857-866.
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.
Wenger M., Ondračková M., Machala M., Neča J., Hyršl P., Šimková A., Jurajda P., von der Ohe P., Segner H.: Assessing relationships between chemical exposure, parasite infection, fish health, and fish ecological status: a case study using chub (Leuciscus cephalus) in the Bílina River, Czech Republic, Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry 29 (2010) 453-466.
2009Jurajda P., Janáč M., White S.M., Ondračková M.: Small – but not easy: evaluation of sampling methods in floodplain lakes including whole-lake sampling, Fisheries Research 96 (2009) 102-108.
Ondračková M., Dávidová M., Blažek R., Gelnar M., Jurajda P.: The interaction between an introduced fish host and local parasite fauna: Neogobius kessleri in the middle Danube River, Parasitology Research 105 (2009) 201-208.
Polačik M., Janáč M., Jurajda P., Adámek Z., Ondračková M., Trichkova T., Vassilev M.: Invasive gobies in the Danube: invasion success facilitated by availability and selection of superior food resources, Ecology of Freshwater Fish 18 (2009) 640-649.
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.
Ryšavá-Nováková M., Ondračková M., Jurajda P.: The importance of surrogate habitats in lowland river floodplains for fish community composition, Fisheries Management and Ecology 16 (2009) 468-477.
2008Dávidová M., Ondračková M., Jurajda P., Gelnar M.: Parasite assemblages of European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), composition and effects of habitat type and host body size, Parasitology Research 102 (2008) 1001-1011.
Grabowska J., Pietraszewski D., Ondračková M.: Tubenose goby Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas, 1814) has joined three other Ponto-Caspian gobies in the Vistula River (Poland), Aquatic Invasions 3 (2008) 261-265.
Šimková A., Lafond T., Ondračková M., Jurajda P., Ottová E., Morand S.: Parasitism, life history traits and immune defence in cyprinid fish from Central Europe, BMC Evolutionary Biology 8 (2008) 1-11.
2007Šimková A., Pečínková M., Řehulková E., Vyskočilová M., Ondračková M.: Dactylogyrus species parasitizing European Barbus species: morphometric and molecular variability, Parasitology 134 (2007) 1751-1765.
Vyskočilová M., Ondračková M., Šimková A., Martin J.-F.: Isolation and characterization of microsatellites in Neogobius kessleri (Perciformes, Gobiidae) and cross-species amplification within the family Gobiidae, Molecular Ecology Notes 7 (2007) 701-704.
2006Moravec F., Šimková A., Pečínková M., Ondračková M.: Morphology of Philometroides barbi (Nematoda: Philometridae), a rare tissue parasite of the Mediterranean barbel Barbus meridionalis (Osteichthyes), Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 69 (2006) 265-268.
Ondračková M., Trichkova T., Jurajda P.: Present and historical occurrence of metazoan parasites in Neogobius kessleri (Pisces: Gobiidae) in the Bulgarian section of the Danube River, Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 58 (2006) 401-408.
Ondračková M., Dávidová M., Gelnar M., Jurajda P.: Susceptibility of Prussian carp infected by metacercariae of Posthodiplostomum cuticola (v. Nordmann, 1832) to fish predation, Ecological Research 21 (2006) 526-529.
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.
