doc. Mgr. Natália Martínková Ph.D.

Position full-time researcher
Direction statistical modelling of biotic interactions

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Research interests

  • phylogenetics, reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships in vertebrates and pathogens,
  • modelling changes of DNA sequences in time,
  • evolution of infectious diseases,
  • development of analytical tools for analyses of genomic and ecological data.

Finished projects

Physiology of bat hibernation with respect to multistressor impacts (2017–2019)
Bat adaptations to the fungal disease geomycosis (2012–2015)
An investigation and comparison of fluorescent activity among three classes of bast: naive, presumed survivors, and European (2012–2013)
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

  • Shubhra Sau: Persistence of colour polymorphism in lizards (PhD thesis).
  • Michaela Havlíčková: Signal for natural selection in genetic markers used for phylogenetic reconstruction in vertebrates.
  • Jan Kocanda: Locomotor performance in sand lizard (Lacerta agilis).
  • Zuzana Nováková: Covariates of sand lizard (Lacerta agilis, Linnaeus 1758) body weight changes.
  • Vladimír Šimánek: Body temperature range of active sand lizards (Lacerta agilis, Linnaeus 1758).

Former students

  • Nina Haladová: Multi-core analysis of multi-locus clines.
  • Michal Škrobánek: The colour variation and change of colouring in Sand lizard populations, (Lacerta agilis), in two selected localities of Opava region.
  • Kateřina Brestovská: Color change in sand lizard during reproductive season in 2 localities in Vysocina region.
  • Jan Vlha: Vertical gene flow as a proxy for reproductive fitness (Bc.thesis).
  • Michaela Havlíčková: Influence of reference genome on phylogenetic reconstruction from ddRAD data (Bc.thesis, consultant: Markéta Harazim).
  • Dagmar Mimrová: Evolutionary rate in coronaviruses (Bc.thesis).
  • Ivo Adam: Predation of Lacertidae lizards by omnivorous birds (Bc.thesis, supervisor: Radovan Smolinský).
  • Tami Bočková: Detecting gene flow between Ethiopian rodents (Bc.thesis, supervisor: Josef Bryja, consultant: Stuart Baird, Natália Martínková).
  • Hana Davidová: Genealogical divergence of African small mammal species (Bc.thesis, supervisor: Ondřej Mikula)
  • Rostislav Mahel: Effect of ionising radiation on intermediary metabolism: metabolomic study on an avian model species (Bc.thesis, supervisor: Oldřich Tomášek)
  • Karel Riebel: Distribution and habitat preferences of sand lizard colour morphs in Czechia (Master thesis).
  • Vít Skalník: Wolf migration corridors in the Czech Republic (Master thesis).
  • Magdalena Chvostová: Intraspecific variability in comparative phylogenetics (Bc.thesis).
  • Markéta Harazim: Physiology and pathology of infections in bats (PhD thesis) – https://evolutionarygenomicsgroup.weebly.com/people.html
  • Vít Skalník: Predicting wolf distribution (Bc. thesis).
  • Tereza Dračková: Color change in sand lizard during reproductive season (consultant R. Smolinský).
  • Renata Zajíčková: Prediction of bat survival under different WNS risk  (supervisor J. Zukal).
  • Martina Ježková: Potential impact of white-nose syndrome to naive bat species.
  • Viktória Seňová: Spatial distribution of longevity and factors influencing its interspecific variability in North American birds.
  • Jana Maternová: Coevolution of Filoviridae viruses with their hosts.
  • Markéta Mádrová: Ebolavirus host prediction.
  • Lucie Jakešová: Behavioural complexity of animals in wild and kept in captivity (consultant J.Zukal).
  • Ivana Králová: Spatially explicit phylogeography of the European pine vole.
  • 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.
  • 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

2024

Martínková N, Škrobánek M (2024). Carnivore interactions shape leopard presence. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 73: 23084.

2023

Baird SJE, Petružela J, Jaroň I, Škrabánek P, Martínková N (2023). Genome polarisation for detecting barriers to geneflow. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14: 512-528.
Harazim M, Perrot J, Varet H, Bourhy H, Lannoy J, Pikula J, Seidlová V, Dacheux L, Martínková N (2023). Transcriptomic responses of bat cells to European bat lyssavirus 1 infection under conditions simulating euthermia and hibernation. BMC Immunology, 24: 7.
Sau S, Smolinský R, Martínková N (2023). Environment drives color pattern polymorphism in sand lizards beyond the Gloger's rule. Journal of Zoology, 321: 142-155.

2022

Smolinský R, Hiadlovská Z, Maršala Š, Škrabánek P, Škrobánek M, Martínková N (2022). High predation risk decimates survival during the reproduction season. Ecology and Evolution, 12: e9407.
Škrabánek P, Martínková N (2022). Tuning of grayscale computer vision systems. Displays, 74: 102286.

2021

Harazim M, Piálek L, Pikula J, Seidlová V, Zukal J, Bachorec E, Bartonička T, Kokurewicz T, Martínková N (2021). Associating physiological functions with genomic variability in hibernating bats. Evolutionary Ecology, 35: 291-308.
Smolinský R, Hiadlovská Z, Martínková N (2021). Ectoparasite load increase in reproductively active sand lizards. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 70: 20128.
Škrabánek P, Martínková N (2021). Algorithm 1017: fuzzyreg: an R package for fitting fuzzy regression models. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 47: 29.
Vozdová M, Kubíčková S, Martínková N, Galindo DJ, Bernegossi AM, Černohorská H, Kadlčíková D, Musilová P, Duarte JM, Rubeš J (2021). Satellite DNA in neotropical deer species. Genes, 12: 123.

2020

Davy CM, Donaldson ME, Banďouchová H, Breit AM, Dorville NAS, Dzal YA, Kováčová V, Kunkel EL, Martínková N, Norquay KJO, Paterson JE, Zukal J, Pikula J, Willis CKR, Kyle CJ (2020). Transcriptional host-pathogen responses of Pseudogymnoascus destructans and three species of bats with white-nose syndrome. Virulence, 11: 781-794.
Dračková T, Smolinský R, Hiadlovská Z, Dolinay M, Martínková N (2020). Quantifying colour difference in animals with variable patterning. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 69: 20029.
Martínková N, Baird SJE, Káňa V, Zima J (2020). Bat population recoveries give insight into clustering strategies during hibernation. Frontiers in Zoology, 17: 26.
Ren P, Rajkumar SS, Zhang T, Sui H, Masters PS, Martínková N, Kubátová A, Pikula J, Chaturvedi S, Chaturvedi V (2020). A common partitivirus infection in United States and Czech Republic isolates of bat white-nose syndrome fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans. Scientific Reports, 10: 13893.
Veselská T, Homutová K, García Fraile P, Kubátová A, Martínková N, Pikula J, Kolařík M (2020). Comparative eco-physiology revealed extensive enzymatic curtailment, lipases production and strong conidial resilience of the bat pathogenic fungus. Scientific Reports, 10: 16530.
Vozdová M, Kubíčková S, Černohorská H, Fröhlich J, Martínková N, Rubeš J (2020). Sequence analysis and FISH mapping of four satellite DNA families among Cervidae. Genes, 11: 584.

2019

Blažek J, Zukal J, Banďouchová H, Berková H, Kováčová V, Martínková N, Pikula J, Řehák Z, Škrabánek P, Bartonička T (2019). Numerous cold arousals and rare arousal cascades as a hibernation strategy in European Myotis bats. Journal of Thermal Biology, 82: 150-156.
Martínková N, Škrabánek P, Pikula J (2019). Modelling invasive pathogen load from non-destructive sampling data. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 464: 98-103.

2018

Harazim M, Horáček I, Jakešová L, Luermann K, Moravec JC, Morgan S, Pikula J, Sosík P, Vavrušová Z, Zahradníková Jr. A, Zukal J, Martínková N (2018). Natural selection in bats with historical exposure to white-nose syndrome. BMC Zoology, 3:1205 8.
Kováčová V, Kolařík M, Banďouchová H, Bartonička T, Berková H, Havelková B, Hrudová E, Kohoutová L, Martínková N, Zukal J, Pikula J (2018). Recovery of a phytopathogenic bacterium Lonsdalea quercina from a lesser horseshoe bat in Moravian karst, Czech Republic. Forest Pathology, 48: e12379.
Kováčová V, Zukal J, Banďouchová H, Botvinkin AD, Harazim M, Martínková N, Orlov OL, Piaček V, Shumkina AP, Tiunov MP, Pikula J (2018). White-nose syndrome detected in bats over an extensive area of Russia. BMC Veterinary Research, 14: 192.
Martínková N, Pikula J, Zukal J, Kováčová V, Banďouchová H, Bartonička T, Botvinkin AD, Brichta J, Dundarova H, Kokurewicz T, Irwin NR, Linhart P, Orlov OL, Piaček V, Škrabánek P, Tiunov MP, Zahradníková Jr. A (2018). Hibernation temperature-dependent Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection intensity in Palearctic bats. Virulence, 9: 1734-1750.
Zahradníková Jr. A, Kováčová V, Martínková N, Orlova MV, Orlov OL, Piaček V, Zukal J, Pikula J (2018). Historic and geographic surveillance of Pseudogymnoascus destructans possible from collections of bat parasites. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 65: 303-308.

2017

Bartonička T, Banďouchová H, Berková H, Blažek J, Lučan R, Horáček I, Martínková N, Pikula J, Řehák Z, Zukal J (2017). Deeply torpid bats can change position without elevation of body temperature. Journal of Thermal Biology, 63: 119-123.
Pikula J, Amelon SK, Banďouchová H, Bartonička T, Berková H, Brichta J, Hooper S, Kokurewicz T, Kolařík M, Köllner B, Kováčová V, Linhart P, Piaček V, Turner GG, Zukal J, Martínková N (2017). White-nose syndrome pathology grading in Nearctic and Palearctic bats. PLoS ONE, 12: e0180435.

2016

Flieger M, Banďouchová H, Černý J, Chudíčková M, Kolařík M, Kováčová V, Martínková N, Novák P, Šebesta O, Stodůlková E, Pikula J (2016). Vitamin B2 as a virulence factor in Pseudogymnoascus destructans skin infection. Scientific Reports, 6: 33200.
Lučan RK, Banďouchová H, Bartonička T, Pikula J, Zahradníková Jr. A, Zukal J, Martínková N (2016). Ectoparasites may serve as vectors for the white-nose syndrome fungus. Parasites & Vectors, 9: 1302.
Zukal J, Banďouchová H, Brichta J, Cmoková A, Jaron KS, Kolařík M, Kováčová V, Kubátová A, Nováková A, Orlov O, Pikula J, Presetnik P, Šuba J, Zahradníková Jr. A, Martínková N (2016). White-nose syndrome without borders: Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection tolerated in Europe and Palearctic Asia but not in North America. Scientific Reports, 6: 19829.

2015

Banďouchová H, Bartonička T, Berková H, Brichta J, Černý J, Kováčová V, Kolařík M, Köllner B, Kulich P, Martínková N, Řehák Z, Tumer GG, Zukal J, Pikula J (2015). Pseudogymnoascus destructans: evidence of virulent skin invasion for bats under natural conditions, Europe. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 62: 1-5.
Pečnerová P, Moravec JC, Martínková N (2015). A skull might lie: modelling ancestral ranges and diet from genes and shape of tree squirrels. Systematic Biology, 64: 1074-1088.
Zemanová B, Hájková P, Hájek B, Martínková N, Mikulíček P, Zima J, Bryja J (2015). Extremely low genetic variation in endangered Tatra chamois and evidence for hybridization with an introduced Alpine population. Conservation Genetics, 16: 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, Pascal M, Pascal M, Heckel G, O'Higgins P, Searle JB, Dobney KM (2014). The changing pace of insular life: 5000 years of microevolution in the orkney vole (Microtus arvalis orcadensis). Evolution, 68: 2804-2820.
Jaron KS, Moravec JC, Martínková N (2014). SigHunt: horizontal gene transfer finder optimized for eukaryotic genomes. Bioinformatics, 30: 1081-1086.
Turner GG, Meteyer CU, Barton H, Gumbs JF, Reeder DM, Overton B, Banďouchová H, Bartonička T, Martínková N, Pikula J, Zukal J, Blehert DS (2014). 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: 566-573.
Zukal J, Banďouchová H, Bartonička T, Berková H, Brack V, Brichta J, Dolinay M, Jaron KS, Kováčová V, Kovařík M, Martínková N, Ondráček K, Řehák Z, Turner GG, Pikula J (2014). White-nose syndrome fungus: a generalist pathogen of hibernating bats. PLoS ONE, 9: e97224.

2013

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

2012

Irwin NR, Bayerlová M, Missa O, Martínková N (2012). Complex patterns of host switching in New World arenaviruses. Molecular Ecology, 21: 4137-4150.
Kandemir I, Sozen M, Matur F, Kankilic T, Martínková N, Colak F, Ozkurt SO, Colak E (2012). Phylogeny of species and cytotypes of mole rats (Spalacidae) in Turkey inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequencees. Folia zoologica, 61: 25-33.
Martínková N, Zemanová B, Kranz A, Giménez MD, Hájková P (2012). Chamois introductions to Central Europe and New Zealand. Folia zoologica, 61: 239-245.
Martínková N, Moravec J (2012). Multilocus phylogeny of arvicoline voles (Arvicolini, Rodentia) shows small tree terrace size. Folia zoologica, 61: 254-267.
Pečnerová P, Martínková N (2012). Evolutionary history of tree squirrels (Rodentia, Sciurini) based on multilocus phylogeny reconstruction. Zoologica Scripta, 41: 211-219.
Pikula J, Banďouchová H, Novotný L, Meteyer CU, Zukal J, Irwin NR, Zima J, Martínková N (2012). Histopathology confirms White-Nose Syndrome in bats in Europe. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 48: 207-211.
Seifertová M, Bryja J, Vyskočilová M, Martínková N, Šimková A (2012). 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: 1024-1040.
Wallace IS, Shakesby AJ, Hwang JH, Choi WG, Martínková N, Douglas AE, Roberts DM (2012). Acyrthosiphon pisum AQP2: a multifunctional insect aquaglyceroporin. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta-Biomembranes, 1818: 627-635.

2011

Vallo P, Benda P, Martínková N, Kaňuch P, Kalko EKV, Červený J, Koubek P (2011). Morphologically uniform bats Hipposideros aff. ruber (Hipposideridae) exhibit high mitochondrial genetic diversity in southeastern Senegal. Acta Chiropterologica, 13: 79-88.
Višňovská Z, Martínková N (2011). Syndróm bieleho nosa – vážna hrozba pre zimujúce netopiere. Aragonit, časopis Správy slovenských jaskýň, 16: 26-31.

2010

Bryja J, Uhrin M, Kaňuch P, Bémová P, Martínková N, Zukal J (2010). Mitochondrial DNA confirms low genetic variation of the greater mouse-eared bats, Myotis myotis, in Central Europe. Acta Chiropterologica, 12: 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 RK, Májek O, Matějů J, Řehák Z, Šafář J, Tájek P, Tkadlec E, Uhrin M, Wagner J, Weinfurtová D, Zima J, Zukal J, Horáček I (2010). Increasing incidence of Geomyces destructans fungus in bats from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. PLoS ONE, 5: e13853.
Rudá M, Kocian Ľ, Martínková N, Žiak D (2010). Population dynamics and spatial behaviour of Microtus tatricus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia). Acta Theriologica, 55: 85-88.
Rudá M, Žiak D, Kocian Ľ, Martínková N (2010). Low genetic variability in a mountain rodent, the Tatra vole. Journal of Zoology, 281: 118-124.

2009

Crestanello B, Pecchioli E, Vernesi C, Mona S, Martínková N, Janiga M, Hauffe HC, Bertorelle G (2009). The genetic impact of translocations and habitat fragmentation in chamois (Rupicapra) spp. Journal of Heredity, 100: 691-708.
Rodríguez F, Hammer S, Pérez T, Suchentrunk F, Lorenzini R, Michallet J, Martínková N, Albornoz J, Domínguez A (2009). Cytochrome b phylogeography of chamois (Rupicapra spp.). Population contractions, expansions and hybridizations governed the diversification of the genus. Journal of Heredity, 100: 47-55.
Rudá M, Žiak D, Gauffre B, Zima J, Martínková N (2009). Comprehensive cross-amplification of microsatellite multiplex sets across the rodent genus Microtus. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9: 974-978.

2008

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

2007

Martínková N, Zima J, Jaarola M, Macholán M, Spitzenberger F (2007). The origin and phylogenetic relationships of Microtus bavaricus based on karyotype and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Folia zoologica, 56: 39-49.
Martínková N, McDonald RA, Searle JB (2007). Stoats (Mustela erminea) provide evidence of natural overland colonization of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 274: 1387-1393.

2006

Martínková N, Searle JB (2006). Amplification success rate of DNA from museum skin collections: a case study of stoats from 18 museums. Molecular Ecology Notes, 6: 1014-1017.

2004

Jaarola M, Martínková N, Gündüz I, Brunhoff C, Zima J, Nadachowski A, Amori G, Bulatova NS, Chondropoulos B, Fraguedakis-Tsolis S, González-Esteban J, López-Fuster MJ, Kandaurov AS, Kefelioglu H, Luz Mathias M, Villate I, Searle JB (2004). Molecular phylogeny of the speciose vole genus Microtus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) inferred from mitochondrialDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 33: 647-663.
Kocian Ľ, Žiak D, Martínková N, Kocianová-Adamcová M, Miklós P (2004). Prehľad výskumov vtáčích spoločenstiev a drobných zemných cicavcov v Západných Tatrách - Roháčoch od r. 1990. vRoč. 7.
Martínková N, Nová P, Sablina OV, Graphodatsky AS, Zima J (2004). Karyotypic relationships of the Tatra vole (Microtus tatricus). Folia zoologica, 53: 279-284.

2003

Martínková N (2003). Ad: Sporné otázky ochrany vzácnych druhov zveri. Správy Slovenskej zoologickej spoločnosti.
Martínková N, Dudich A (2003). The fragmented distribution range of Microtus tatricus and its evolutionary implications. Folia zoologica, 52: 11-22.

2001

Martínková N (2001). Genetické metódy v zoológii: fylogenéza cicavcov. Správy Slovenskej zoologickej spoločnosti.