Contact information:
RNDr. Markéta Rozkošná Knitlová, Ph.D.
Phone: +420732348701
E-mail: knitlova@natur.cuni.cz
Room: 223
currently on maternity leave
Research interests:
Mammalogy, morphometrics, Quaternary fossil record of rodents in Central Europe.
Proposed Bachelor and Master student projects to be found here.
Lectures:
- Collections and their secrets (MBCPLUS005)
- Field course in zoology (MB170T24)
- Methods of Quaternary paleontology (MB170P19)
- Practicals in animal morphology (MB170C46A)
- Special zoology of vertebrates (MB170P37)
- Vertebrate zoology - practical part (MB170P13A)
Recent publications:
2020
Cerná-Bolfíková B, Evin A, Knitlova M, Loudová M, Sztencel-Jablonka A, Bogdanowicz W & Hulva P (2020) 3D geometric morphometrics reveals convergent character displacement in the Central European contact zone between two species of hedgehogs (genus Erinaceus). Animals 10.
2019
Sinitsa, M.V., Virág, A., Pazonyi, P. & Knitlová, M (2019) Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of Spermophilus citelloides (Rodentia: Scuiridae: Xerinae), a ground squirrel from the Middle Pleistocene - Holocene of Central Europe. Historical Biology 33, 1-21
2018
Newton, A., Špoutil, F., Procházka, J., Black, J., Medlock, K., Paddle, R., Hipsley, Ch., Knitlová, M., Pask, A. (2018): Letting the “cat” out of the bag: pouch young development of the extinct Tasmanian tiger revealed by X-ray computed tomography. Royal Society Open Science 5(2): 171914.
2017
Knitlová, M., Horáček, I. (2017): Genus Apodemus in the Pleistocene of Central Europe: when did the extant taxa appear? Fossil Imprint 74 (3-4): 460–481.
Knitlová, M., Horáček, I. (2017): Late Pleistocene-Holocene paleobiogeography of the genus Apodemus in Central Europe. PLoS ONE 12 (3): e0173668. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173668
