Mgr. Tadeáš Nečas

Position PhD student
Direction herpetology

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Research interests

  • herpetology,
  • phylogenetics,
  • phylogeography,
  • morphology,
  • systematics.

Education

  • 2019 – present: Doctoral degree studies – Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Botany and Zoology, Brno. PhD thesis: Diversity and systematics of Central African anurans (Phrynobatrachus and Afrobatrachia). (supervisor V. Gvoždík)
  • 2017–2019: Master‘s degree studies – Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Botany and Zoology, Brno. Master‘s thesis: Morphological diversification of African anurans from different taxonomic ranks. (supervisor V. Gvoždík)
  • 2014–2017: Bachelor’s degree studies – Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Botany and Zoology, Brno. Bachelor’s thesis: Cryptic diversity of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachus) from the Cameroon Volcanic Line. (supervisor V. Gvoždík)

Publications

2024

Nečas T, Kielgast J, Chinemerem IG, Rödel M, Dolinay M, Gvoždík V (2024). The phylogenetic position of Hyperolius sankuruensis (Anura: Hyperoliidae) reveals biogeographical affinity between the central Congo and West Africa, and illuminates the taxonomy of Hyperolius concolor. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, :.
Nečas T, Mazuch T, Czurda J, Elmi HSA, Rödel M, Gvoždík V (2024). Evolutionary relationships in the African frog family Ptychadenidae, including the first molecular analysis, range extension, and distribution modelling of the monotypic genus Lanzarana. African Journal of Herpetology, 73: 236-260.

2023

Gvoždík V, Nečas T, Jablonski D, Moriarty Lemmon E, Lemmon AR, Jandzik D, Moravec J (2023). Phylogenomics of Anguis and Pseudopus (Squamata, Anguidae) indicates Balkan-Apennine mitochondrial capture associated with the Messinian event. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 180: 107674.

2022

Nečas T, Kielgast J, Nagy ZT, Kusamba Chifundera Z, Gvoždík V (2022). Systematic position of the Clicking Frog (Kassinula Laurent, 1940), the problem of chimeric sequences and the revised classification of the family Hyperoliidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 174: 107514.

2021

Dolinay M, Nečas T, Zimkus BM, Schmitz A, Fokam EB, Lemmon EM, Lemmon AR, Gvoždík V (2021). Gene flow in phylogenomics: Sequence capture resolves species limits and biogeography of Afromontane forest endemic frogs from the Cameroon Highlands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 163: 107258.
Nečas T, Badjedjea G, Vopálenský M, Gvoždík V (2021). Congolius, a new genus of African reed frog endemic to the central Congo: A potential case of convergent evolution. Scientific Reports, 11: 8338.

2020

Gvoždík V, Nečas T, Dolinay M, Zimkus BM, Schmitz A, Fokam EB (2020). Evolutionary history of the Cameroon radiation of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus), with descriptions of two critically endangered new species from the northern Cameroon Volcanic Line. PeerJ, 8: e8393.