Education 
| 2010-2017 | Ph.D., Charles University in Prague, field: Zoology Ph.D. Thesis: Molecular cytogenetics of selected actinopterygian fishes: insight from repetitive sequences to whole genome analyses/td> |
| 2008-2010 | MSc., Charles University in Prague, field: Genetics of wild animals MSc. Thesis: Out of Asia Minor into Danube drainage: Phylogeography and colonisation pathways in the loach fish Cobitis strumicae . |
| 2005-2008 | BSc., University of Ostrava, field: Applied Ecology BSc. Thesis: Reproduction of Rana dalmatina in swimming holes in north-west part of the Suchdol forest, Poodří protected landscape area |
Major scientific interests
I am generally interested in genome dynamics and evolution of selected actinopterygian fishes (Lepisosteidae, Amidae, Cobitidae, Coregonidae).
Research fellowships and study visits
| 2014, 2013 | Research Institute for Limnology, Mondsee University of Innsbruck, Mondsee, Austria (three weeks in total) |
| 2013 | División Académica de Ciencias Biológicas de la Universidad Juarez Autónoma de Tabasco, México (four weeks) |
Scientific collaboration
- Josef Wanzenböck, Dunja Lamatsch - Research Institute for Limnology, Mondsee University of Innsbruck, Mondsee, Austria
- Lenin Arias Rodríguez, Jeane Rimber Indy - División Académica de Ciencias Biológicas de la Universidad Juarez Autónoma de Tabasco, México
- Jan Kotusz - Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
- Anne-Marie Dion-Côté - Department of Biology, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Grants
| 2012-2014 | member of research team of the project provided by AKTION Czech Republic - Austria project number: 68p6 „Molecular Cytogenetics in Teleost Fishes (Coregoninae and Cyprinidae).“ |
| 2012-2013 | member of research team of the project project between the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic and the CONACYT project number: 003MX2011 167686 „Molecular-cytogenetic analyses of genomes of sturgeons, paddlefishes and gars-living witnesses of ancient evolutionary experiments with the earliest vertebrate genome.“ |
| 2010-2012 | principal investigator of the project GAUK (Grant Agency of Charles University) project number: 158110 „Evolutionary cytogenetics of Cobitis taenia hybrid complex: from genotyping to genome typing.“ |
| 2010 | investigator of the project IGA (Internal grant of IAPG, AS CR v.v.i.) project number: 10/18 „Study of hybridization in cobitis fishes Cobitis strumicae and Cobitis punctilineata in Balkan Peninsula.“ |
Publications
| 2017 | Majtánová Z., Symonová R., Arias-Rodriguez L., Sallan L. & Ráb P. 2017. "Holostei versus Halecostomi" problem: insight from cytogenetics of ancient non-teleost actinopterygian fish, bowfin Amia calva. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Develomental Evolution. Invited manuscript to the special issue „Genome of the spotted gar“. IF2015: 2.083 |
| 2016 | Majtánová Z., Choleva L., Symonová R., Ráb P., Kotusz L., Pekárik & Janko P. 2016. Asexual reproduction does not apparently increase the rate of chromosomal evolution: karyotype stability in diploid and triploid clonal hybrid fish ( Cobitis , Cypriniformes, Teleostei). PLoS ONE. 11:e0146872. IF2015: 3.057 |
| Symonová R., Majtánová Z., Arias-Rodriguez L., Mořkovský L., Kořínková T., Cavin L., Johnson Pokorná M., Doležálková M., Flajšhans M., Normandeau E., Ráb P., Meyer A. & Bernatchez L. 2016. Unique genome organisation in gars (Lepisosteidae: Actinopterygii) shows more similarities to mammals than to any other ray-finned fishes. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Develomental Evolution. Invited manuscript to the special issue „Genome of the spotted gar“. IF2015: 2.083 |
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| Ráb P., Yano C., Lavoué S., Jegede O., Bertollo L., Ezaz T., Majtánová Z., Oliveira E. & Cioffi M. 2016. Karyotype and repetitive DNAs mapping in the African butterfly fish Pantodon buchholzi , the sole species of the family Pantodontidae. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. DOI: 10.1159/000450534. IF2015: 1.638 |
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| 2015 | Symonová, R., Sember, A., Majtánová, R., Ráb, P.: Characterization of fish genomes by GISH and CGH. In: Techniques of Fish Cytogenetics, Eds: C. Ozouf-Costaz F. Foresti L. Almeida Foresti, E. Pisano & B. G. Kapoor, Science Publisher, Inc., Enfield, NH 03748, USA (in press). |
| 2014 | Majtánová Z., Choleva L., Janko K., Symonová R., Bohlen J., Ráb P.: Vývoj, nebo stagnace? Analýza stability karyotypu u di- a triploidních hybridů sekavců rodu Cobitis na základě molekulárně cytogenetické identifikace parentálních genomů. Zoologické dny 2014, Brno, Česká Republika, Book of Abstracts. |
| 2013 | Symonová R., Majtánová Z., Sember A., Staaks GBO., Bohlen J., et al.: Genome differentiation in a species pair of coregonine fishes: an extremely rapid speciation driven by stress-activated retrotransposons mediating extensive ribosomal DNA multiplications. BMC Evol Biol 13:42 (2013). |
| Majtánová Z., Choleva L., Symonová R., Ráb P.: Molecular cytogenetic identification of parental genomes in triploid hybrid spined loaches (Cobitis, Cypriniformes). 20th ICACGM, Cordoba, Spain, Book of Abstracts. | |
| Arias-Rodriguez L., Symonová R., Indy J.R., Majtánová Z., Kořínková T., Rábová M., Ráb P.: A comparison of methods for fish chromosome preparation based on Atractosteus tropicus specimens. VIII Cuban Symposium of Zoology 2013, Havana, Cuba, Book of Abstracts. |