Institute of Parasitology

University Education:
2000 - graduated (BSc.) at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
BSc. thesis A comparative study of two sympatric species of the genus Eubothrium Nybelin, 1922 (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) – parasites of salmonid fish(supervisor T. Scholz)
2002 – graduated (MSc.) at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
MSc. Thesis Biology of freshwater species of the genus Eubothrium (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea), parasites of fish in Europe.(supervisor T. Scholz)
2003 – graduated (RNDr.) at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
RNDr. thesis Scholz T., Kuchta R., Salgado-Maldonado G. 2002: Cestodes of the family Dilepididae (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea) from fish-eating birds in Mexico: a survey of species. Systematic Parasitology 52: 171-182.
2007 – graduated (PhD.) at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
PhD. thesis: Revision of the paraphyletic “Pseudophyllidea“ (Eucestoda) with description of two new orders Bothriocpehalidea and Diphyllobothriidea. (supervisor T. Scholz)

Research Activities and Stays Abroad:
2000-2004 – five short stays at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Large-Scale-Facility Program (study of Eubothrium species and pseudophyllidean tapeworms from freshwater and marine fish from Scotland, UK) with two field trips to the North Atlantic
2003 and 2004 – two short stays at The Natural History Museum, Geneva (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland
2004-2006 – three one month stays in Amazonia, Peru
2004 – two-week-stay in Russia at the Instutute of Biology of Inland Waters, RAS, Borok, and Parasitological Institute, RAS (former GELAN), Moscow, Russia
2005 – visite of Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria
– three-weks-stay in British Natural History Museum (BNHM), London, UK, supported by programme of European Union ”Synthesys”
– three-week-stay in Norway at the University of Bergen and in University of Oslo, supported by The Norwegian Government Scholarship pool
2006-2007 – two short stays a the University of Connecticut, Storrs (laboratory of Prof. J. Caira)
2007 – one week stay at the Institute of Zoology, RAS, St. Petersburg in Russia
– two weeks stay at the Lake Biwa Museum and Meguro Parasitological Museum in Tokyo

Publications: 30 scientific papers (1999-2008).
Research Areas:
Helminth parasites of fish
Taxonomy and biology (life cycles) of “pseudophyllidean“ tapeworms (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidea and Diphyllobothriidea)

Other activities:
• Participant and coordinator of the Global Cestoda Database of orders “Pseudophyllidea“, Nippotaeniida and Spathebothriidea (odkaz)
• Teacher at practical course Field Course of Marine Invertebrate Zology at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia. (odkaz)
• Teacher at practical course Practical course of Invertebrate Zoology at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia.

Publications:

1. Scholz T., Aguirre-Macedo L., Salgado-Maldonado G., Vargas-Vázquez J., Vidal-Martínez V.M., Wolter J., Kuchta R., Körting W. 1999. Redescription of Pseudacanthostomum panamense Caballero, Bravo-Hollis, and Grocott, 1953 (Digenea: Acanthostomidae), with notes on its biology. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 66: 146-154. [IF=0.505]
2. Hanzelová V., Scholz T., Gerdeaux D., Kuchta R. 2002. A comparative study of Eubothrium crassum (Bloch, 1779) and E. salvelini (Schrank, 1790) (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea), parasites of salmonid fishes in Alpine lakes. Environmental Biology of Fish 64: 245-256. [IF=0.845]
3. Scholz T., Kuchta R., Salgado-Maldonado G. 2002. Cestodes of the family Dilepididae (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea) from fish-eating birds in Mexico: a survey of species. Systematic Parasitology 52: 171-182. [IF=0.640]
4. Scholz T., Kuchta R., Shinn A.P., Šnábel V., Hanzelová V. 2003. Host specificity and geographical distribution of Eubothrium tapeworms (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) in European salmonid fish. Journal of Helminthology 77: 255-262. [IF=0.796]
5. Kuchta R., Scholz T. 2004. Bathycestus brayi n. gen. and n. sp. (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) from the deep-sea fish Notacanthus bonaparte in the northeastern Atlantic. Journal of Parasitology 90: 316-321. [IF=1.137]
6. Scholz T., Bray R., Kuchta R., Řepová R. 2004. Larval gryporhynchid cestodes (Cyclophyllidea) from fish: a review. Folia Parasitologica 51: 131-152. [IF=0.469]
7. Hanzelová V., Kuchta R., Scholz T., Shinn A.P. 2005. Morphometric analysis of four species of Eubothrium (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) parasites of salmonid fish: An interspecific and intraspecific comparison. Parasitology International 54: 207-214. [IF=1.083]
8. Kuchta R., Hanzelová V., Shinn A.P., Poddubnaya L.G., Scholz T. 2005. Redescription of Eubothrium fragile (Rudolphi, 1802) and E. rugosum (Batsch, 1786) (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea), parasites of fish in the Holarctic Region. Folia Parasitologica 52: 251-260. [IF=0.837]
9. Kuchta R., Shinn A.P., Hanzelová V., Scholz T. 2006. A comparative study of the egg morphology of four species of Eubothrium (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) with comments on their subsequent development. Invertebrate Biology 125: 1-8. [IF=1.288]
10. Kuchta R., Scholz T. 2006. Australicola pectinatus n. gen. and n. sp. (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) from deep-sea fish Beryx splendens from Tasmania. Journal of Parasitology 92: 126-129. [IF=1.524]
11. Moravec F., Scholz T., Dyková I., Kuchta R., Fiala I., Kohn A. 2006. Redescription of Alinema amazonicum (Travassos, 1960) n. comb., a philometrid nematode with unusual morphology. Journal of Parasitology 92: 138-144. [IF=0.617]
12. de Chambrier A., Scholz T., Kuchta R., Posel P., Mortenthaler M., Guardia C.C. 2006. Tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea) of Fishes from the Amazon River in Peru. Comparative Parasitology 73: 111-120. [IF=0.615]
13. Bray R.A., Kuchta R. 2006. Digeneans from deep-sea marine teleosts off the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, including the description of Brachyenteron helicoleni sp. nov. (Zoogonidae). Acta Parasitologica 51: 169-175. [IF=0.617]
14. Škeříková A., Brabec J., Kuchta R., Jiménez J.A., García H.H., Scholz T. 2006. Is the human-infecting Diphyllobothrium pacificum a valid species or just a South American population of the Holarctic fish broad tapeworm, D. latum? American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 75: 307-310. [IF=2.482]
15. Poddubnaya L., Bruňanská M., Kuchta R., Scholz T. 2006. First evidence of the presence of microtriches in the Gyrocotylidea. Journal for Parasitology 92(4): 703-707. [IF=1.524]
16. Levron C., Bruňanská M., Kuchta R., Freeman M., Scholz T. 2006. Spermatozoon ultrastructure of the pseudophyllidean cestode Paraechinophallus japonicus, a parasite of deep-sea fish Psenopsis anomala (Perciformes, Centrolophidae). Parasitology Research 100: 115-121. [IF=1.226]
17. Moravec F., Scholz T., Kuchta R., Dyková I., Fiala I. 2006. New data on morphology of Nilonema senticosum (Nematoda: Philometridae), a parasite of Arapaima gigas (Pisces), with notes on another philometrid, Alinema amazonicum, in Peru. Acta Parasitologica 51: 279-285. [IF=0.617]
18. Brabec J., Kuchta R., Scholz T. 2006. Paraphyly of the Pseudophyllidea (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda): circumscription of monophyletic clades based on phylogenetic analysis of ribosomal RNA. International Journal for Parasitology 36: 1535-1541. [IF=3.346]
19. Kuchta R., Vlčková R., Poddubnaya L.G., Gustinelli A., Dzika E., Scholz T. 2007. Invalidity of three Palaearctic species of Triaenophorus tapeworms (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea): evidence from morphometric analysis of scolex hooks. Folia Parasitologica 54: 34-42. [IF=1.511]
20. Levron C., Poddubnaya L.G., Kuchta R., Freeman M., Scholz T. 2007. Vitellogenesis and vitelline system in the pseudophyllidean tapeworm Paraechinophallus japonicus: ultrastructural and cytochemical studies. Folia Parasitologica 54: 43-50. [IF=1.511]
21. Poddubnaya L., Scholz T., Kuchta R., Levron C., Bruňanská M. 2007. Ultrastructure of the proglottid tegument (neodermis) of the cestode Echinophallus wageneri (Pseudophyllidea: Echinophallidae), a parasite of the bathypelagic fish Centrolophus niger. Parasitology Research 101:373-383. [IF=1.140]
22. Kuchta R., Scholz T. 2007. Diversity and distribution of fish tapeworms of the “Bothriocephalidea” (Eucestoda). Parassitologia 49: 21-38. [without IF]
23. Poddubnaya L.G., Levron C., Kuchta R., Freeman M., Scholz T. 2007. Ultrastructure of the scolex glands of the cestode Paraechinophallus japonicus (Yamaguti, 1934) (Pseudophyllidea: Echinophallidae). Acta Parasitologica 52: 325-334.
24. Kuchta R., Scholz T., Brabec J., Bray R.A. 2008. Suppression of the tapeworm order Pseudophyllidea (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda) and the proposal of two new orders, Bothriocephalidea and Diphyllobothriidea. International Journal for Parasitology 38: 49-55.
25. Wicht B., Scholz T., Kuchta R. 2008. First record of human infection with the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense in North America. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 78: 235-238.
26. Scholz T., de Chambrier A., Kuchta R. 2008. Redescription of the tapeworm Monticellia amazonica de Chambrier and Vaucher, 1997 (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), a parasite of zamurito, Calophysus macropterus (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae), from the Amazon River in Brazil and Peru. Acta Parasitologica 53: 30-35.
27. Kuchta R., Scholz T. 2008. A new triaenophorid tapeworm from blackfish Centrolophus niger. Journal of Parasitology 94: 500-504.
28. Levron C., Poddubnay L.G., Kuchta R., Freeman M., Wang Y.-H., Scholz T. 2008. Ultrastructure of the tegument of the cestode Paraechinophallus japonicus (Bothriocephalidea: Echinophallidae), a parasite of the bathypelagic fish, Psenopsis anomala. Invertebrate Biology 127: 153-161.
29. Kuchta R. , Scholz T., Brabec J., Jirsová D., Gustinelli A. 2008. Bothriocephalidean tapeworms (Cestoda) from the blackfish, Centrolophus niger. Folia Parasitologica 55: 111-121. (submitted on 7.12. 2007; accepted 18.1.08).
30. Moravec F., Scholz T., Kuchta R., Grygier M.J. 2008. Female morphology of Philometra parasiluri (Nematoda, Philometridae), an ocular parasite of the Amur catfish Silurus asotus in Japan. Acta Parasitologica 53(2): 153–157.

Conferences:
1. Vth International Symposium on Fish Parasitology, Institute of Parasitology, AS CR, České Budějovice, 9-13 August 1999
2. VIth International Workshop on Cestode Systematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, 28 July – 2 August 2002
Presentation: Paraphyly of the Pseudophyllidea: task to resolve
3. Spring Meeting of the British Society for Parasitology, Chester, UK, 4-7 April 2004)
Presentation: Biology and host specificity of European species of Eubothrium (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea)
Poster: Paraphyly of pseudophyllidean cestodes (Cestoda): testing a phylogenetic hypothesis using sequence data (18S rDNA)
4. Vth International Workshop on Cestode Systematics and Phylogeny, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, 18-22 July 2005
Presentation: New classification of the Pseudophyllidea
5. VIIth International Symposium on Fish Parasitology, Viterbo, Italy, 24-28 September 2007
Presentation: Biology and diversity of echinophallids tapeworms (Bothriocephalidea)
Presentation: Diversity and distribution of fish tapeworms of the “Bothriocpehalidea“ (Eucestoda)
6. Vth International Workshop on Cestode Systematics and Phylogeny, Smolenice, Slovakia, 16-20 June 2008

Conferences:
1. Vth International Symposium on Fish Parasitology, Institute of Parasitology, AS CR, České Budějovice, 9-13 August 1999
2. VIth International Workshop on Cestode Systematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, 28 July – 2 August 2002
Presentation: Paraphyly of the Pseudophyllidea: task to resolve
3. Spring Meeting of the British Society for Parasitology, Chester, UK, 4-7 April 2004)
Presentation: Biology and host specificity of European species of Eubothrium (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea)
Poster: Paraphyly of pseudophyllidean cestodes (Cestoda): testing a phylogenetic hypothesis using sequence data (18S rDNA)
4. Vth International Workshop on Cestode Systematics and Phylogeny, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, 18-22 July 2005
Presentation: New classification of the Pseudophyllidea
5. VIIth International Symposium on Fish Parasitology, Viterbo, Italy, 24-28 September 2007
Presentation: Biology and diversity of echinophallids tapeworms (Bothriocephalidea)
Presentation: Diversity and distribution of fish tapeworms of the “Bothriocpehalidea“ (Eucestoda)
6. Vth International Workshop on Cestode Systematics and Phylogeny, Smolenice, Slovakia, 16-20 June 2008