Institute of Vertebrate Biology - Staff

Mgr. Natália Martínková, Ph.D.

Position: full-time researcher
Research topics: phylogeny and phylogeography
Department: External research facility Studenec
Phone: +420 560 590 605
Mobile: +420 606 124 586
E-mail: martinkovaivb.cz

Research interests

phylogenetics, reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships in vertebrates and pathogens,
modelling changes of DNA sequences in time,
evolution of infectious diseases.

Finished Projects

An investigation and comparison of fluorescent activity among three classes of bast: naive, presumed survivors, and European (2012-2013)

Bat adaptations to the fungal disease geomycosis

Marie Curie intra-European fellowship PHYLOMICROTUS (2006-2008)

Phylogeography and evolutionary history of a semi-fossorial rodent Microtus subterraneus (2006-2008)

Education

1994-1999: undergraduate study - Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Science, specialization – Zoology.(MSc.=Mgr.)
1999-2004: Ph.D. study - Charles University Prague, Faculty of Science, specialization Zoology.(Ph.D.)

Employment

2001-present: Department of Population Biology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology AS CR, v.v.i., Studenec - research scientist,
2009–present: Masaryk Univeristy Brmo - Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses - teacher,
reviewer for Acta Theriologica, Biologia (Bratislava), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Belgian Journal of Zoology, Conservation Genetics, Ecography, Folia Zoologica, Heredity, Journal on Natural History, Journal of Zoology, Molecular Ecology,
supervising of MSc. and Ph.D. students.

International experience

2000: Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden - research stay.
2000: Forsuchungsinstitut für Wildtierkunde und Ökologie, Vienna, Austria - research stay.
2004: Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden - research stay.
2005: Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK - NERC Postdoctoral Fellow.
2007: CMPG, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland - research stay.
2006-2008: Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK - Marie-Currie Postdoctoral Fellow.

Current students

Ivana Králová: Spatially explicit phylogeography of the European pine vole.
Markéta Mádrová: Ebolavirus host prediction.
Aneta Kopecká: Relationship of fungal load with white-nose syndrome wing damage in bats.
Lucie Jakešová: Behavioural complexity of animals in wild and kept in captivity (consultant J.Zukal).

Former students

Kamil Jaroň: Simulating admixture of genomes using Fisher's junction model(consultant, supervisor S.E.J.Baird), Genomic islands in a fungus genome (Bc.thesis).
Markéta Nováková: Consequences of an infectious disease on genetic information in DNA sequences in bats.
Lucie Jakešová: Genetic variability of bat populations based on selected gene sequences (Bc.thesis).
Kristína Vozáriková: Signal for selection in coding DNA sequence (Bc.thesis).
Jan Závala: Pruning inconsistent fossil dates from dating divergence events in voles (Bc. thesis).
Zuzana Kozáková: Environmental characteristics of bat hibernacula with increased prevalence of geomycosis (Bc.thesis).
Jiří Moravec: Phylogeography of viruses causing rabies (Mgr.thesis).
Patrícia Pečnerová: Molecular and morphological signal of speciation explosion in tree squirrels (Mgr.thesis).
Zuzana Szolgayová: Phylogeny of selected water metabolism proteins in bats (Bc.thesis).
Matej Dolinay: Phylogenetic representation of white-nose syndrome in bats (Bc.thesis).
Michaela Bayerlová: Evolution of protein structure in calcium channels (Mgr.thesis), Co-evolution of arenaviruses and their hosts (Bc.thesis).
Petr Tříska: Assessing human history by investigating phylogeographies of associated animals (Mgr.thesis), Mammalian glacial refugia in Europe (Bc.thesis).
Miroslava Rudá: Population structure, spacial activity and population genetics of the Tatra vole (Microtus tatricus), (Mgr.thesis).
Peter Vallo: Molecular genetic studies in African leaf-nosed bats (Hipposideridae), (Ph.D.thesis).

Publications

2016

Lučan R. K., Bandouchová H., Bartonička T., Pikula J., Zahradníková Jr. A., Zukal J., Martínková N.: Ectoparasites may serve as vectors for the white-nose syndrome fungus, Parasites Vectors 9 (2016) 16.

Zukal J., Bandouchová H., Brichta J., Cmoková A., Jaron K. S., Kolařík M., Kováčová V., Kubátová A., Nováková A., Orlov O., Pikula J., Presetnik P., Šuba J., Zahradníková Jr. A., Martínková N.: White-nose syndrome without borders: Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection tolerated in Europe and Palearctic Asia but not in North America, Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 19829.

2015

Bandouchová H., Bartonička T., Berková H., Brichta J., Černý J., Kováčová V., Kolařík M., Köllner B., Kulich P., Martínková N., Řehák Z., Tumer G. G., Zukal J., Pikula J.: Pseudogymnoascus destructans: evidence of virulent skin invasion for bats under natural conditions, Europe, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 62 (2015) 1-5.

Pečnerová P., Moravec Jiří C., Martínková N.: A skull might lie: modelling ancestral ranges and diet from genes and shape of tree squirrels, Systematic Biology 64 (2015) 1074-1088.

Zemanová B., Hájková P., Hájek B., Martínková N., Mikulíček P., Zima J., Bryja J.: Extremely low genetic variation in endangered Tatra chamois and evidence for hybridization with an introduced Alpine population, Conservation Genetics 16 (2015) 729-741.

2014

Cucchi T., Barnett R., Martínková N., Renaud S., Renvoisé E., Evin A., Sheridan A., Mainland I., Wickham-Jones C., Tougard C., Quéré J.-P., Pascal M., Pascal M., Heckel G., O'Higgins P., Searle J. B., Dobney K. M.: The changing pace of insular life: 5000 years of microevolution in the orkney vole (Microtus arvalis orcadensis), Evolution 68 (2014) 2804-2820.

Jaron K. S., Moravec J. C., Martínková N.: SigHunt: horizontal gene transfer finder optimized for eukaryotic genomes, Bioinformatics 30 (2014) 1081-1086.

Turner G. G., Meteyer C. U., Barton H., Gumbs J. F., Reeder D. M., Overton B., Bandouchová H., Bartonička T., Martínková N., Pikula J., Zukal J., Blehert D. S.: Nonlethal screening of bat-wing skin with the use of ultraviolet fluorescence to detect lesions indicative of white-nose syndrome, Journal of Wildlife Diseases 50 (2014) 566-573.

Zukal J., Bandouchová H., Bartonička T., Berková H., Brack V., Brichta J., Dolinay M., Jaron K. S., Kováčová V., Kovařík M., Martínková N., Ondráček K., Řehák Z., Turner G. G., Pikula J.: White-nose syndrome fungus: a generalist pathogen of hibernating bats, PLoS ONE 9 (2014) .

2013

Martínková N., Barnett R., Cucchi T., Struchen R., Pascal M., Pascal M., Fischer M. C., Higham T., Brace S., Ho S. Y. W., Quéré J.-P., O'Higgins P., Excoffier L., Heckel G., Hoelzel A. R., Dobney K. M., Searle J. B.: Divergent evolutionary processes associated with colonization of offshore islands, Molecular Ecology 22 (2013) 5205-5220.

2012

Irwin N. R., Bayerlová M., Missa O., Martínková N.: Complex patterns of host switching in New World arenaviruses, Molecular Ecology 21 (2012) 4137-4150.

Kandemir I., Sozen M., Matur F., Kankilic T., Martínková N., Colak F., Ozkurt S. O., Colak E.: Phylogeny of species and cytotypes of mole rats (Spalacidae) in Turkey inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequencees, Folia zoologica 61 (2012) 25-33.

Martínková N., Zemanová B., Kranz A., Giménez M. D., Hájková P.: Chamois introductions to Central Europe and New Zealand, Folia zoologica 61 (2012) 239-245.

Martínková N., Moravec J.: Multilocus phylogeny of arvicoline voles (Arvicolini, Rodentia) shows small tree terrace size, Folia zoologica 61 (2012) 254-267.

Pečnerová P., Martínková N.: Evolutionary history of tree squirrels (Rodentia, Sciurini) based on multilocus phylogeny reconstruction, Zoologica Scripta 41 (2012) 211-219.

Pikula J., Bandouchová H., Novotný L., Meteyer C. U., Zukal J., Irwin N. R., Zima J., Martínková N.: Histopathology confirms White-Nose Syndrome in bats in Europe, Journal of Wildlife Diseases 48 (2012) 207-211.

Seifertová M., Bryja J., Vyskočilová M., Martínková N., Šimková A.: Multiple Pleistocene refugia and postglacial colonization in the European chub (Squalius cephalus) revealed by combined use of nuclear and mitochondrial markers, Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012) 1024-1040.

Wallace I. S., Shakesby A. J., Hwang J. H., Choi W. G., Martínková N., Douglas A. E., Roberts D. M.: Acyrthosiphon pisum AQP2: a multifunctional insect aquaglyceroporin, Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes 1818 (2012) 627-635.

2011

Vallo P., Benda P., Martínková N., Kaňuch P., Kalko E. K. V., Červený J., Koubek P.: Morphologically uniform bats Hipposideros aff. ruber (Hipposideridae) exhibit high mitochondrial genetic diversity in southeastern Senegal, Acta Chiropterologica 13 (2011) 79-88.

Višňovská Z., Martínková N.: Syndróm bieleho nosa – vážna hrozba pre zimujúce netopiere, Aragonit, časopis Správy slovenských jaskýň (2011) 26-31.

2010

Bryja J., Uhrin M., Kaňuch P., Bémová P., Martínková N., Zukal J.: Mitochondrial DNA confirms low genetic variation of the greater mouse-eared bats, Myotis myotis, in Central Europe, Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2010) 73-81.

Martínková N., Bačkor P., Bartonička T., Blažková P., Červený J., Falteisek L., Gaisler J., Hanzal V., Horáček D., Hubálek Z., Jahelková H., Kolařík M., Korytár Ľ., Kubátová A., Lehotská B., Lehotský R., Lučan R. K., Májek O., Matějů J., Řehák Z., Šafář J., Tájek P., Tkadlec E., Uhrin M., Wagner J., Weinfurtová D., Zima J., Zukal J., Horáček I.: Increasing incidence of Geomyces destructans fungus in bats from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, PLoS ONE 5 (2010) .

Rudá M., Kocian Ľ., Martínková N., Žiak D.: Population dynamics and spatial behaviour of Microtus tatricus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia), Acta Theriologica 55 (2010) 85-88.

Rudá M., Žiak D., Kocian Ľ., Martínková N.: Low genetic variability in a mountain rodent, the Tatra vole, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 118-124.

2009

Crestanello B., Pecchioli E., Vernesi C., Mona S., Martínková N., Janiga M., Hauffe H. C., Bertorelle G.: The genetic impact of translocations and habitat fragmentation in chamois (Rupicapra) spp, Journal of Heredity 100 (2009) 691-708.

Rodríguez F., Hammer S., Pérez T., Suchentrunk F., Lorenzini R., Michallet J., Martínková N., Albornoz J., Domínguez A.: Cytochrome b phylogeography of chamois (Rupicapra spp.). Population contractions, expansions and hybridizations governed the diversification of the genus, Journal of Heredity 100 (2009) 47-55.

Rudá M., Žiak D., Gauffre B., Zima J., Martínková N.: Comprehensive cross-amplification of microsatellite multiplex sets across the rodent genus Microtus, Molecular Ecology Resources 9 (2009) 974-978.

2008

Martínková N., Searle J. B.: Stoats and the Irish question, Planet Earth (2008) 37.

2007