Mgr. Anna Bryjová

Position research assistant
Direction molecular genetics

+420 560 590 621

Finished projects

Science for all senses (2012–2014)

Education

  • 1993-1998: undergraduate study – Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Sciences, molecular biology and genetics.

Employment

  • 1998-2000: Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, department of molecular embryology – research assistant,
  • 2006-present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, External research facility Studenec – research assistant.

Publications

2024

Bryja J, Peterhans JCK, Lavrenchenko LA, Nicolas V, Denys C, Bryjová A, Šumbera R, Mikula O (2024). Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, :.
Čížková D, Payne P, Bryjová A, Ďureje Ľ, Piálek J, Kreisinger J (2024). Convergence of gut phage communities but not bacterial communities following wild mouse bacteriophage transplantation into captive house mice. The ISME Journal, 18: wrae178.
Mulualem G, Lavrenchenko LA, Peterhans JCK, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Meheretu Y, Bryja J (2024). Taxonomic revision and evolutionary history of the climbing mice in eastern Africa (Dendromus mystacalis clade): the role of elevation and geographical barriers in the speciation process. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, :.
Šumbera R, Uhrová M, Montoya-Sanhueza G, Bryjová A, Bennett NC, Mikula O (2024). Genetic diversity of the largest African mole-rat genus, Bathyergus. one, two or four species?. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 199: 108157.

2023

Dianat M, Voet I, Ortiz D, Goüy de Bellocq J, Cuypers LN, Kryštufek B, Bureš M, Čížková D, Bryjová A, Bryja J, Nicolas V, Konečný A (2023). Cryptic diversity of Crocidura shrews in the savannahs of Eastern and Southern Africa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 180: 107708.
Mizerovská D, Martynov AA, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Meheretu Y, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2023). Genomic diversity, evolutionary history, and species limits of the endemic Ethiopian laminate-toothed rats (genus Otomys, Rodentia: Muridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 199: 1059-1077.
Ondračková M, Tkachenko M, Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Janáč M, Zięba G, Pyrzanowski K, Kvach Y (2023). Population genetic structure, parasite infection and somatic condition of pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus (Actinopterygii: Centrarchidae) in the Oder river basin. Journal of Fish Biology, 102: 426-442.
Ortiz D, Pekár S, Bryjová A (2023). Gene flow assessment helps to distinguish strong genomic structure from speciation in an Iberian ant-eating spider. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 180: 107682.
Reichard M, Koblmüller S, Blažek R, Zimmermann H, Katongo C, Bryjová A, Bryja J (2023). Lack of host specialization despite selective host use in brood parasitic cuckoo catfish. Molecular Ecology, 32: 6070-6082.

2022

Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Boratyński Z, Zeynu A, Denys C, Mulualem G, Welegerima K, Bryjová A, Kasso M, Kostin DS, Martynov AA, Lavrenchenko LA (2022). Rodents of the Afar Triangle (Ethiopia): geographical isolation causes high level of endemism. Biodiversity and Conservation, 31: 629-650.
Talarico L, Bryjová A, Čížková D, Douda K, Reichard M (2022). Individual copy number variation and extensive diversity between major MHC-DAB1 allelic lineages in the European bitterling. Immunogenetics, 74: 497-505.
Votýpka J, Stříbrná E, Modrý D, Bryja J, Bryjová A, Lukeš J (2022). Unexpectedly high diversity of trypanosomes in small sub-Saharan mammals. International Journal for Parasitology, 52: 647-658.

2021

Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Nicolas V, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2021). Mitogenomics of the endemic Ethiopian rats: looking for footprints of adaptive evolution in sky islands. Mitochondrion, 57: 182-191.
Hánová A, Konečný A, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Šumbera R, Bryja J (2021). Diversity, distribution, and evolutionary history of the most studied African rodents, multimammate mice of the genus Mastomys: An overview after a quarter of century of using DNA sequencing. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59: 2500-2518.
Komarova VA, Kostin DS, Bryja J, Mikula O, Bryjová A, Čížková D, Šumbera R, Meheretu Y, Lavrenchenko LA (2021). Complex reticulate evolution of speckled brush‐furred rats (Lophuromys) in the Ethiopian centre of endemism. Molecular Ecology, 30: 2349-2365.
Mikula O, Nicolas V, Šumbera R, Konečný A, Denys C, Verheyen E, Bryjová A, Lemmon AR, Lemmon EM, Bryja J (2021). Nuclear phylogenomics, but not mitogenomics, resolves the most successful Late Miocene radiation of African mammals (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicanthini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 157: 107069.
Nicolas V, Mikula O, Lavrenchenko LA, Šumbera R, Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Meheretu Y, Verheyen E, Missoup AD, Lemmon AR, Moriarty Lemmon E, Bryja J (2021). Phylogenomics of African radiation of Praomyini (Muridae: Murinae) rodents: First fully resolved phylogeny, evolutionary history and delimitation of extant genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 163: 107263.
Nürnberger B, Baird SJE, Čížková D, Bryjová A, Mudd AB, Blaxter ML, Szymura JM (2021). A dense linkage map for a large repetitive genome: discovery of the sex-determining region in hybridizing fire-bellied toads (Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata). G3-Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 11: jkab286.
Ondračková M, Bartáková V, Kvach Y, Bryjová A, Trichkova T, Ribeiro F, Carassou L, Martens A, Masson G, Zechmeister T, Jurajda P (2021). Parasite infection reflects host genetic diversity among non-native populations of pumpkinseed sunfish in Europe. Hydrobiologia, 848: 2169-2187.

2020

Goüy de Bellocq J, Bryjová A, Martynov AA, Lavrenchenko LA (2020). Dhati Welel virus, the missing mammarenavirus of the widespread Mastomys natalensis. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 69: 20018.
Hampl M, Dumková J, Kavková M, Dosedělová H, Bryjová A, Zahradníček O, Pyszko M, Macholán M, Zikmund T, Kaiser J, Buchtová M (2020). Polarized Sonic Hedgehog Protein Localization and a Shift in the Expression of Region-Specific Molecules Is Associated With the Secondary Palate Development in the Veiled Chameleon. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 8: 572.
Mizerovská D, Mikula O, Meheretu Y, Bartáková V, Bryjová A, Kostin DS, Šumbera R, Lavrenchenko LA, Bryja J (2020). Integrative taxonomic revision of the Ethiopian endemic rodent genus Stenocephalemys (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini) with the description of two new species. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 69: 20031.
Ondračková M, Seifertová M, Bryjová A, Leis E, Jurajda P (2020). Morphometric and genetic evidence for cryptic diversity of Gyrodactylus nebulosus (Monogenea) in non-native European populations of Ameiurus nebulosus and A. melas. Parasitology, 147: 1700-1711.

2019

Bryja J, Colangelo P, Lavrenchenko LA, Meheretu Y, Šumbera R, Bryjová A, Verheyen E, Leirs H, Castiglia R (2019). Diversity and evolution of African Grass Rats (Muridae: Arvicanthis)—From radiation in East Africa to repeated colonization of northwestern and southeastern savannas. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 57: 970-988.
Petružela J, Bryja J, Bryjová A, Katakweba A, Sabuni C, Baird SJE, Goüy de Bellocq J (2019). Evolutionary history of Pneumocystis fungi in their African rodent hosts. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 75: 103934.

2018

Bryja J, Konvičková H, Bryjová A, Mikula O, Makundi R, Chitaukali WN, Šumbera R (2018). Differentiation underground: range-wide multilocus genetic structure of the silvery mole-rat does not support current taxonomy based on mitochondrial sequences. Mammalian Biology, 93: 82-92.
Bryja J, Kostin D, Meheretu Y, Šumbera R, Bryjová A, Kasso M, Mikula O, Lavrenchenko LA (2018). Reticulate Pleistocene evolution of Ethiopian rodent genus along remarkable altitudinal gradient. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 118: 75-87.
Kvach Y, Matvienko N, Bryjová A, Ondračková M (2018). Aquaculture as a possible vector in the spread of Posthodiplostomum centrarchi (Hoffman, 1958) (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in Europe. BioInvasions Records, 7: 427-432.
Kvach Y, Bryjová A, Sasal P, Winkler HM (2018). The taxonomic and phylogenetic status of digeneans from the genus Timoniella (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) in the Black and Baltic seas. Journal of Helminthology, 92: 596-603.
Petružela J, Šumbera R, Aghová T, Bryjová A, Katakweba AS, Sabuni CA, Chitaukali WN, Bryja J (2018). Spiny mice of the Zambezian bioregion – phylogeny, biogeography and ecological differentiation within the Acomys spinosissimus complex. Mammalian Biology, 91: 79-90.
Sabuni C, Aghová T, Bryjová A, Šumbera R, Bryja J (2018). Biogeographic implications of small mammals from Northern Highlands in Tanzania with first data from the volcanic Mount Kitumbeine. Mammalia, 82: 360-372.
Świderská Z, Šmídová A, Buchtová L, Bryjová A, Fabiánová A, Munclinger P, Vinkler M (2018). Avian Toll-like receptor allelic diversity far exceeds human polymorphism: an insight from domestic chicken breeds. Scientific Reports, 8: 17878.

2017

Bryja J, Šumbera R, Kerbis Peterhans JC, Aghová T, Bryjová A, Mikula O, Nicolas V, Denys C, Verheyen E (2017). Evolutionary history of the thicket rats (genus Grammomys) mirrors the evolution of African forests since late Miocene. Journal of Biogeography, 44: 182-194.
Kvach Y, Bryjová A, Sasal P, Winkler HM (2017). A revision of the genus Aphalloides (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae), parasites of European brackish water fishes. Parasitology Research, 116: 1973-1980.
Kvach Y, Ondračková M, Bryjová A, Jurajda P (2017). Parasites as biological tags of divergence in Central European gudgeon populations (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae: Gobioninae). Biologia, 72: 671-679.
Kvach Y, Jurajda P, Bryjová A, Trichkova T, Ribeiro F, Přikrylová I, Ondračková M (2017). European distribution for metacercariae of the North American digenean Posthodiplostomum cf. minimum centrarchi (Strigeiformes: Diplostomidae). Parasitology International, 66: 635-642.
Těšíková J, Bryjová A, Bryja J, Lavrenchenko LA, Goüy de Bellocq J (2017). Hantavirus strains in East Africa related to Western African hantaviruses. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 17: 278-280.

2016

Goüy de Bellocq J, Těšíková J, Meheretu Y, Čížková D, Bryjová A, Leirs H, Bryja J (2016). Complete genome characterisation and phylogenetic position of Tigray hantavirus from the Ethiopian white-footed mouse, Stenocephalemys albipes. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 45: 242-245.

2015

Vinkler M, Bainová H, Bryjová A, Tomášek O, Albrecht T, Bryja J (2015). Characterisation of Toll-like receptors 4, 5 and 7 and their genetic variation in the grey partridge. Genetica, 143: 101-112.

2014

Bainová H, Králová T, Bryjová A, Albrecht T, Bryja J, Vinkler M (2014). First evidence of independent pseudogenization of Toll-like receptor 5 in passerine birds. Developmental and Comparative Immunology, 45: 151-155.
Vinkler M, Svobodová J, Gabrielová B, Bainová H, Bryjová A (2014). Cytokine expression in phytohaemagglutinin-induced skin inflammation in a galliform bird. Journal of Avian Biology, 45: 43-50.

2013

Celá P, Moravcová Balková S, Bryjová A, Horáková D, Míšek I, Richman JM, Buchtová M (2013). Expression, function and regulation of Evi-1 during embryonic avian development. Gene Expression Patterns, 13: 343-353.
Promerová M, Králová T, Bryjová A, Albrecht T, Bryja J (2013). MHC class IIB Exon 2 Polymorphism in the Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) is shaped by selection, recombination and gene conversion. PLoS ONE, 8: e69135.

2012

Meheretu Y, Čížková D, Těšíková J, Welegerima K, Tomas Z, Kidane D, Girmay K, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Bryja J, Günther S, Bryjová A, Leirs H, Goüy de Bellocq J (2012). High diversity of RNA viruses in rodents, Ethiopia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 18: 2047-2050.
Reichard M, Spence R, Bryjová A, Bryja J, Smith C (2012). Female rose bitterling prefer MHC-dissimilar males: experimental evidence. PLoS ONE, 7: e40780.

2010

Agbali M, Reichard M, Bryjová A, Bryja J, Smith C (2010). Mate choice for nonadditive genetic benefits correlate with MHC dissimilarity in the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus). Evolution, 64: 1683-1696.

2009

Casalini M, Agbali M, Reichard M, Konečná M, Bryjová A, Smith C (2009). Male dominance, female mate choice and intersexual conflict in the rose bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus). Evolution, 63: 366-376.
Reichard M, Ondračková M, Bryjová A, Smith C, Bryja J (2009). Breeding resource distribution affects selection gradients on male phenotypic traits: experimental study on lifetime reproductive success in the bitterling fish (Rhodeus amarus). Evolution, 63: 377-390.
Vinkler M, Bryjová A, Albrecht T, Bryja J (2009). Identification of the first toll-like receptor gene in passerine birds: TLR4 orthologue in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Tissue Antigens, 74: 32-41.