Contacts
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Phone: +36 1 3918607
E-mail: herczeg.david@atk.hu
Research interests
– various aspects of herpetology including the ecology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, molecular taxonomy and behaviour of amphibians
– host-parasite interactions
– emerging infectious diseases of wildlife with a special focus on chytridiomycosis in amphibians
Biography
2012: MSc in Biology, Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
2012 – 2015: PhD student at the Juhász-Nagy Pál Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
2015 – 2016: Assistant lecturer at the MTA-DE Lendület Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
2016 – 2018: Assistant research fellow at the Fish Parasitology Research Team, Institute for Veterinary Medical Research, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2018: PhD in Biology, Juhász-Nagy Pál Doctorate School, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
2018 – 2022: Research fellow at the Lendület Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Since 2022: Research fellow at the HUN-REN-ELTE-MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary
Visiting research
2018: University of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Population Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Vienna, Austria (1 month)
2017: Biology Center, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology, Laboratory of Fish Protistology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic (1 month)
2015: Comenius University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Zoology, Bratislava, Slovakia (1 month)
2015: Comenius University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Zoology, Bratislava, Slovakia (2 months)
2014: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Biología, Colima, Mexico (3 months)
2012: University of Nebraska, Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, Lincoln, USA (2 months)
Publications
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Herczeg D., Palomar G., Zieliński P., van Riemsdijk I., Babik W., Dankovics R., Halpern B., Cvijanović M., Vörös J. 2023. Genomic analysis reveals complex population structure within the smooth newt, Lissotriton vulgaris, in Central Europe. Ecology and Evolution 13: e10478.
Herczeg D., Holly D., Kásler A., Bókony V., Papp T., Takács-Vágó H., Ujszegi J., Hettyey A. 2023. Amphibian larvae benefit from a warm environment under simultaneous threat from chytridiomycosis and ranavirosis. Oikos 11: e09953.
Kásler A., Holly D., Herczeg D., Ujszegi J., Hettyey A. 2023. Chytridiomycosis and climate change: exposure to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and mild winter conditions do not increase mortality in juvenile agile frogs during hibernation. Animal Conservation 26: 654-662.
Kásler A., Ujszegi J., Holly D., Üveges B., Móricz Á.M., Herczeg D., Hettyey A. 2022. Metamorphic common toads keep chytrid infection under control, but at a cost. Journal of Zoology 317: 159-169.
Ujszegi J., Bertalan R., Ujhegyi N., Verebélyi V., Nemesházi E., Mikó Z., Kásler A., Herczeg D., Szederkényi M., Vili N., Gál Z., Hoffmann O.I., Bókony V., Hettyey A. 2022. “Heat waves” experienced during larval life have species-specific consequences on life-history traits and sexual development in anuran amphibians. Science of the Total Environment 835: 155297.
Mikulíček P., Mešková M., Cyprich M., Jablonski D., Papežík P., Hamidi D., Pekşen C.A., Vörös J., Herczeg D., Benovics M. 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.
Herczeg D., Ujszegi J., Kásler A., Holly D., Hettyey A. 2021. Host–multiparasite interactions in amphibians: a review. Parasites & Vectors 14: 296.
Brooks D.R., Hoberg E.P., Boeger W.A., Gardner S.L., Araujo S.B.L., Bajer K., Botero-Cañola S., Byard B., Földvári G., Cook J.A., Dunnum J., Dursahinhan A.T., Garamszegi L.Z., Herczeg D., Juarrero A., Jakab F., Kemenesi G., Kurucz K., León-Règagnon V., Mejía-Madrid H.H., Molnár O., Nisbett R.A., Preiser W., Stuart M., Szathmáry E., Trivellone V. 2020. Before the pandemic ends: making sure this never happens again. World Complexity Science Academy Journal 1: 1-10.
Mahtani-Williams S., Fulton W., Desvars-Larrive A., Lado S., Elbers J.P., Halpern B., Herczeg D., Babocsay G., Lauš B., Nagy Z.T., Jablonski D., Kukushkin O., Orozco-terWengel P., Vörös J., Burger P.A. 2020. Landscape genomics of a widely distributed snake, Dolichophis caspius (Gmelin, 1789) across Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Genes 11: 1218.
Vörös J., Herczeg D., Papp T., Monsalve-Carcaño C., Bosch J.2020. First detection of Ranavirus infection in amphibians in Hungary. Herpetology Notes 13: 213-217.
Eszterbauer E., Sipos D., Szakály Á., Herczeg D. 2019. Distinctive site preference of fish-parasitic Myxobolus cerebralis (Cnidaria, Myxozoa) during host invasion. Acta Veterinaria Hungarica 67: 212-223.
Hettyey A., Ujszegi J., Herczeg D., Holly D., Vörös J., Schmidt B.R., Bosch J. 2019. Mitigating disease impacts in amphibian populations: capitalizing on the thermal optimum mismatch between a pathogen and its host. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:254.
Vörös J., Herczeg D., Fülöp A., Gál T.J., Dán Á., Harmos K., Bosch J. 2018. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Hungary: an overview of recent and historical occurrence. Acta Herpetologica 13: 125-140.
Sipos D., Ursu K., Dán Á., Herczeg D., Eszterbauer E. 2018. Susceptibility-related differences in the quantity of developmental stages of Myxobolus spp. (Myxozoa) in fish blood. PLoS ONE 13(9): e0204437.
Herczeg D., Rózsa L. 2018. Változó éghajlat változó járványokkal – Felgyorsult area-mozgások. Élet és Tudomány 73(4): 102-104. (in Hungarian)
Herczeg D., Sipos D., Dán Á., Loy C., Kallert D.M., Eszterbauer E. 2017. The effect of dietary immunostimulants on the susceptibility of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) to the white spot parasite, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis. Acta Veterinaria Hungarica 65(4): 517-530.
Herczeg D., Vörös J., Christiansen D.G., Benovics M., Mikulíček P. 2017. Taxonomic composition and ploidy level among European water frogs (Anura: Ranidae: Pelophylax) in eastern Hungary. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 55(2): 129-137.
Herczeg D., Vörös J., Végvári Zs., Kuzmin Y., Brooks D.R. 2016. Helminth parasites of the Pelophylax esculentus complex (Anura: Ranidae) in Hortobágy National Park (Hungary). Comparative Parasitology 83(1): 36-48.
Brooks D.R., Hoberg E.P., Boeger W.A., Gardner S.L., Galbreath K.E., Herczeg D., Mejía H.H., Rácz S.E., Tsogsaikhan A. 2014. Finding them before they find us: informatics, parasites and environments in accelerating climate change. Comparative Parasitology 81(2): 155-164.
Herczeg D., Gallé R., Molnár N. 2012. Effects of urbanization on the occurence of Anura assemblages in the city of Szeged (Hungary). Tiscia 39: 3-8.