DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
Laboratory of Fish Genetics
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, v.v.i.
Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic
Rumburska 89
277 21 Libechov
Czech Republic


Telefon: +420 315 639 516
Fax: +420 315 639 510
E-mail: markova@iapg.cas.cz

1996 - 2001	Master degree in biology, specialization ecology and zoology- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of P.J. Safarika, Kosice, Slovakia
2001 - now	PhD student at Department of Ecology, Charles University , Prague. Title of PhD work: Population genetic and phylogenetic of European waterflea Daphnia pulicaria (expected time of defence: September 2006)

2000	Research work with prof. M. Lazaridou-Dimitriadou on project “Monitoring of running waters in Europe, Axios river” at Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2003 - now	Research work and PhD training (residency) with Dr. F. Dufresne at University of Quebec at Rimouski, Canada

Molecular population genetic, phylogenetic and postglacial history of Arctic water fleas (Daphnia pulex complex)

• Kotlik P., Markova S., Choleva L., Bogutskaya N. G.., Ekmekci F. G., Ivanova P.P., 2008: Divergence with gene flow between Ponto-Caspian refugia in an anadromous cyprinid Rutilus frisii revealed by multiple gene phylogeography. Molecular Ecology, In Press.
• Markova S., Dufresne F., Rees J. D., Cerny M., Kotlik P., 2007: Cryptic intercontinental colonization in water fleas Daphnia pulicaria inferred from phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA variation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44 (1): 42-52.
• Markova, S., Haponiuk-Winiczenko, K., Zeliankevich, N., Berniakovich, I., Hocevar, A., Kershaw, G. P., 2006: Summary reports: Wetland in Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Slovenia and Canada. In Krecek, J. Haigh, M: Environmental Role of Wetlands in Headwaters, Springer, pp. 283-296.
• Markova S, Cerny M, Rees DJ, Stuchlik E (2006) Are they still viable? Physical conditions and abundance of Daphnia pulicaria resting eggs in sediment cores from lakes in the Tatra Mountains. Biologia, 61: S135-S146.
• Markova S., 2001: Sietovy zooplankton troch nadrzi v oblasti Horneho Ponitria (Stredne Slovensko). Natura Carpatica 42: 65- 74.

All publications via PubMed

• 2003
  Markova S., Cerny M., Genetic variability of populations of “Daphnia wierzejskii” (CLADOCERA) from alpine lakes in the high Tatra mountains, 13th Congress of Limnology, June 23 – 27 2003, Banska Stiavnica, Slovak Republic
• 2003
  Markova S., Recovery in the moutains lakes of High Tatras. NATO Advanced Research Workshop, December 6- 11, 2003, Marianske Lazne
• 2005
  Markova S., Cerny M., Rees D. and Dufresne F., From the Tatras to the Pyrenees: postglacial colonization of European Daphnia pulicaria. 7 th International Symposium on Cladocera “CLADOCERA 2005”, September 4- 8, 2005, Hezberg, Switzerland.