Mgr. Tatiana Aghová


Position: PhD student
Research topics: phylogeography of African rodents
Department: External research facility Studenec
Phone: +420 560 590 607
Mobile: +420 722 671 936
E-mail: tatiana.aghovagmail.com

Research interests

  • phylogeography of African rodents.

Education

  • 2007-2012: undergraduate study - Constantine the Philosopher University Nitra, Faculty of Natural Sciences. Mgr. thesis:
  • 2010-2011: The University of Innsbruck - study stay.
  • 2012-present: Ph.D. study - Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Sciences, Institute of Botany and Zoology. Ph.D. thesis: Comparative phylogeography of the Somali-Maasai region in eastern Africa using selected rodent species as a model, (supervisor J. Bryja).

Publications

2018

Aghová T., Kimura Y., Bryja J., Dobigny G., Granjon L., Kergoat G. J.: Fossils know it best: Using a new set of fossil calibrations to improve the temporal phylogenetic framework of murid rodents (Rodentia: Muridae), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 128 (2018) 98-111.

Petružela J., Šumbera R., Aghová T., Bryjová A., Katakweba A. S., Sabuni C. A., Chitaukali W. N., Bryja J.: Spiny mice of the Zambezian bioregion – phylogeny, biogeography and ecological differentiation within the Acomys spinosissimus complex, Mammalian Biology 91 (2018) 79-90.

Sabuni C., Aghová T., Bryjová A., Šumbera R., Bryja J.: Biogeographic implications of small mammals from Northern Highlands in Tanzania with first data from the volcanic Mount Kitumbeine, Mammalia 82 (2018) 360-372.


2017

Aghová T., Šumbera R., Piálek L., Mikula O., McDonough M. M., Lavrenchenko L. A., Meheretu Y., Mbau J. S., Bryja J.: Multilocus phylogeny of East African gerbils (Rodentia, Gerbilliscus) illuminates the history of the Somali-Masai savanna, Journal of Biogeography 44 (2017) 2295-2307.

Bryja J., Šumbera R., Kerbis Peterhans J. C., Aghová T., Bryjová A., Mikula O., Nicolas V., Denys C., Verheyen E.: Evolutionary history of the thicket rats (genus Grammomys) mirrors the evolution of African forests since late Miocene, Journal of Biogeography 44 (2017) 182-194.


2016

Mikula O., Šumbera R., Aghová T., Mbau J. S., Katakweba A. S., Sabuni C. A., Bryja J.: Evolutionary history and species diversity of African pouched mice (Rodentia: Nesomyidae: Saccostomus), Zoologica Scripta 45 (2016) 595-617.


2015

Kaňuch P., Aghová T., Meheretu Y., Šumbera R., Bryja J.: New discoveries on the ecology and echolocation of the heart-nosed bat Cardioderma cor with a contribution to the phylogeny of Megadermatidae, African Zoology 50 (2015) 53-57.

Kassahun A., Sádlová J., Dvořák V., Košťálová T., Rohoušová I., Frynta D., Aghová T., Yasur-Landau D., Lemma W., Hailu A., Baneth G., Warburg A., Volf P., Votýpka J.: Detection of Leishmania donovani and L. tropica in ethiopian wild rodents, Acta Tropica 145 (2015) 39-44.


2014

Bryja J., Mikula O., Šumbera R., Meheretu Y., Aghová T., Lavrenchenko L. A., Mazoch V., Oguge N., Mbau J. S., Welegerima K., Amundala N., Colyn M., Leirs H., Verheyen E.: Pan-African phylogeny of Mus (subgenus Nannomys) reveals one of the most successful mammal radiations in Africa, BMC Evolutionary Biology 14 (2014) 256.