I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Mikulíček

I.2 - Name

Peter

I.3 - Degrees

Doc., Mgr., Phd.

I.4 - Year of birth

1975

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava

I.7 - Position

associate professor

I.8 - E-mail address

peter.mikulicek@uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4364

I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university

Biology

I.11 - ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4927-493X

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava

II.b - Year

1999

II.c - Study field and programme

Biology, Zoology

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava

II.b - Year

1999

II.c - Study field and programme

Biology, Zoology

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava

II.b - Year

2005

II.c - Study field and programme

Zoology

II.4 - Associate professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava

II.b - Year

2020

II.c - Study field and programme

Zoology

II.5 - Professor

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
laboratory assistant	Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno	2003 - 2005
postdoc, part-time job	Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno	2006 - 2008
assistant professor	Comenius University in Bratislava	2005 - 2020
associate professor	Comenius University in Bratislava	2020 - recent

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.1.a - Name of the profile course	V.1.b - Study programme	V.1.c - Degree	V.1.d - Field of study
Phylogeny and systematics of the chordates 1 and 2	Systematic biology	I.	Biology
Zoology 2	Teacher Training for Biology in Combination	I.	Teacher Training and Education Science
Zoology	Biology	I.	Biology
Evolutionary Biology	Biology, Systematic biology, Medical Biology	I.	Biológia / Biology
Phylogeny of animals	Zoology	II.	Biology
Comparative morphology of chardates	Zoology	II.	Biology
Molecular ecology	Biology	II.	Biology
Current problems in biology 2	Biology	II.	Biology

V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year

V.2.a - Name of the study programme	V.2.b - Degree	V.2.c - Field of study
Systematic biology	I.	Biology

V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year

V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses

V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.5.a - Name of the course	V.5.b - Study programme	V.5.c - Degree	V.5.d - Field of study
Field course in vertebrate zoology	Systematic biology	I.	Biology
Bachelor thesis from Zoology 1 and 2	Systematic biology	I.	Biology
Introduction to Animal Ecology	Systematic biology	I.	Biology
Zoology	Environmental Studies	I.	Ecological and Environmental Sciences
Diploma thesis seminar 1	Zoology	II.	Biology
Methods in Zoology 2	Zoology	II.	Biology
Diploma thesis practice	Zoology	II.	Biology
Diploma thesis 1, 2, 3, 4	Zoology	II.	Biology
Molecular ecology	Zoology	II.	Biology
Seminar from Zoology for PhD students 2	Zoology	III.	Biology
Evolutionary biology for teachers	Teacher Training for Biology in Combination	I.	Teacher Training and Education Science
Field course in zoology	Teacher Training for Biology in Combination	I.	Teacher Training and Education Science
Genetic methods in zoology	Systematic Biology	I.	Biology

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations

VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

454

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Mikulíček P, Kautman M, Demovič B, Janko K (2014) When a clonal genome finds its way back to a sexual species: evidence from ongoing but rare introgression in the hybridogenetic water frog complex. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27: 628-642.

Hoffmann A, Ploetner J, Pruvost NBM, Christiansen DG, Rothlisberger S, Choleva L, Mikulíček P, Cogalniceanu D, Sas-Kovacs I, Shabanov D, Morozov-Leonov S, Reyer H-U (2015) Genetic diversity and distribution patterns of diploid and polyploid hybrid frog populations (Pelophylax esculentus complex) across Europe. Molecular Ecology 24: 4371-4391.

Mikulíček P, Kautman M, Kautman J, Pruvost NBM (2015) Mode of hybridogenesis and habitat preferences influence population composition of water frogs (Pelophylax esculentus complex, Anura: Ranidae) in a region of sympatric occurrence (western Slovakia). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 53: 124-132.

Pruvost NBM, Mikulíček P, Choleva L, Reyer H-U (2015) Contrasting reproductive strategies of triploid hybrid males in vertebrate mating system. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 189-204.

Mikulíček P, Mešková M, Cyprich M et al. (2021) Weak population-genetic structure of a widely distributed nematode parasite of frogs in the western Palearctic. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59: 1689-1702.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

Mačát Z, Rulik M, Jablonski D, Reiter A, Jeřábková L, Rada S, Mikulíček P (2019) Species-specific habitat preferences do not shape the structure of a crested newt hybrid zone (Triturus cristatus x T. carnifex. Ecology and Evolution 9: 12446-12458.

Janko K, Eisner J, Mikulíček P (2019) Sperm-dependent asexual hybrids determine competition among sexual species. Scientific Reports 9, article number 722.

Papežík P, Sciberas A, Benovics M, Sciberras J, Deidun A, Mikulíček P (2024) Far from home: tracing the origin of non-native water frogs (genus Pelophylax) in Malta by molecular markers. Biological Invasions 26: 1045-1059.

Janko K, Mikulíček P, Hobza J, Schlupp I (2023) Sperm-dependent asexual species and their role in ecology and evolution. Ecology and Evolution 13, article number e10522.

Papežík P, Mikulíček P, Benovics M et al. (2023) Comparative mitochondrial phylogeography of water frogs (Ranidae: Pelophylax spp.) from the southwestern Balkans. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 525-544.

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

Betto-Colliard C, Hofman S, Sermier R, Perrin N, Stock M (2018) Profound genetic divergence and asymmetric parental genome contributions as hallmarks of hybrid speciation in polyploid toads. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 285: Article Number: 20172667.

Dedukh D, Litvinchuk S, Rosanov J, Shabanov D, Krasikova A (2017) Mutual maintenance of di- and triploid Pelophylax esculentus hybrids in R-E systems: results from artificial crossings experiments. BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 17: Article Number: 220.

Biriuk OV, Shabanov DA, Korshunov AV, Borkin LJ, Lada GA, Pasynkova RA, Rosanov JM, Litvinchuk SN (2016) Gamete production patterns and mating systems in water frogs of the hybridogenetic Pelophylax esculentus complex in north-eastern Ukraine. JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH 54: 215-225.

Christiansen DG, Reyer H-U (2009) From clonal to sexual hybrids: Genetic recombination via triploids in all hybrid populations of water frogs. Evolution 63: 1754-1768.

Laggis A, Baxevanis AD, Charalampidou A, Maniatsi S, Triantafyllidis A, Abatzopoulos TJ (2017) BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: Art. No. 122.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

VEGA 1/0014/24 (2024-2027) Species delimitation based on interspecific gene flow and hybrid zone analysis: a case study of Western

Palearctic water frogs (genus Pelophylax). Principal investigator.

VEGA 1/0286/19 (2019-2022) Hybridization, genetic variability and parasitism in a sexual-asexual complex of amphibians (Pelophylax, Ranidae). Principal investigator.

APVV-0147 (2020-2024) Phylogeny reconstruction and species delimitation in Protozoa and animals. Scientific co-author.

German Research Foundation (DFG) (2020-2022) Comparative transcriptome analysis in hemiclonal water frog hybrids and their parental species. Scientific co-author.

APVV DS-FR-22-0006 (2023-2025) Beneath the water surface: a study on host-parasite-microbes associations in aquatic environments. Principal investigator

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position	VII.b - Name of the institution, board	VII.c - Duration
subject editor	Herpetozoa, journal of the Austrian Herpetological Society	2019 - recent

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update

2024-05-13

Name and surname:	doc. Mgr. Peter Mikulíček, PhD.
Document type:	Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:	Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:	Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava