Sergei A. Karpov

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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1509-1908
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Academic degree: Doctor of Biological Sciences
Academic title: Professor
Position: Principal Researcher
E-mail: Sergei.Karpov@zin.ru
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Educational background: Leningrad State University, 1978
Dissertations:
  • “Biology and ultrastructure of the choanoflagellates (Fam. Monosigidae).” (PhD)
  • “Ultrastructure and systematics of the flagellates.” (PhD habilitation)
Research interests: Morphology, ultrastructure, taxonomy, molecular phylogeny of the protists and sponges.
Editorial activity: Editorial Board Member of “Protistology”, https://www.zin.ru/journals/protistology/
Pedagogical activity: Lecture courses: Basic protistology, General protistology, Particular protistology
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 18-04-01314 -а. PI. “Kinetid structure in flagellated cells as a phylogenetic marker of Porifera”.
  • RFBR 15-29-02734 ofi_m. PI. “Culture collection as a basis of the study of parasitic protists biodiversity of Russia”.
  • RFBR 16-34-50010 mol_nr. PI. “Study of choanocyte kinetid of sponges as a phylogenetic marker”.
  • RSF 16-14-10302. PI. “Genetic and morphological diversity of opisthosporidians and chytridiomycetes as a key to the ancestor of Fungi”.
  • RFBR 17-304-50015 mol_nr. PI. “Study of the ultrastructure of kinetid in the larvae cells of sponges as a phylogenetic marker”.
Selected Publications:
  • Карпов С.А., Воронин В.Н. 1985. Ультратонкое строение зооспор хитридиевого гриба Callimastix cyclopis. Цитология, 27(7): 828-830.
  • Жуков Б.Ф., Карпов С.А. 1985. Пресноводные воротничковые жгутиконосцы. Л.: Наука. 120с.
  • Karpov S.A., Zhukov B.F. 1986. Ultrastructure and taxonomic position of Apusomonas proboscidea Alexeieff. Arch. Protistenk., 131(1-2): 13-26.
  • Карпов С.А. 1986. Строение покровов жгутиконосцев. Цитология, 28(2): 139-150.
  • Карпов С.А. 1987. Строение аксонемы и наружных элементов жгутика у водорослей и бесцветных жгутиконосцев. Ботан. журн., 72(1): 3-14.
  • Карпов С.А. 1988. Строение жгутиковых корешков у подвижных клеток водорослей, грибов и бесцветных жгутиконосцев. Цитология, 30(4): 371-389.
  • Карпов С.А., Мыльников А.П. 1989. Биология и ультраструктура бесцветных жгутиконосцев Apusomonadida ord. n. Зоол. журн., 68(8): 5-17.
  • Карпов С.А. 1990. Анализ отрядов Phalansteriida, Spongomonadida и Thaumatomonadida. Зоол. журн., 69(3): 5-12.
  • Карпов С.А. 1990. Система протистов. Омск: Межвузовская тип. ОмПИ. 195с.
  • Karpov S.A., Mylnikov A.P. 1993. Preliminary observations on the ultrastructure of mitosis in choanoflagellates. Europ. J. Protistol., 29: 19-23.
  • Карпов С.А., Ефремова С.М. 1994. Ультратонкое строение жгутикового аппарата хоаноцита губки Ephydatia fluviatilis. Цитология, 36(5): 403-408.
  • Karpov S.A., Fokin S.I. 1995. The structural diversity of flagellar transitional zone in heterotrophic flagellates and other protists. In: The biology of free-living heterotrophic flagellates (ed. S.A. Karpov), Cytology, 37: 1038-1052.
  • Fokin S.I., Karpov S.A. 1995. Bacterial endocytobionts inhabiting the perinuclear space of Protista. Endocytob. Cell Res., 11: 81-94.
  • Ossipov D.V., Karpov, S.A., Smirnov A.V., Rautian M.S. 1997. Peculiarities of the Symbiotic Systems of Protists with Diverse Patterns of Cellular Organisation. Acta Protozoologica, 36: 3-21.
  • Karpov S.A. 1997. Cercomonads and Their Relationship to the Myxomycetes. Arch. Protistenk., 148: 297-307.
  • Karpov S.A., Leadbeater B.S.C. 1997. Cell and nuclear division in freshwater choanoflagellate Monosiga ovata. Europ. J. Protistol., 33: 323-334.
  • Karpov S.A., Leadbeater B.S.C. 1998. The cytoskeleton structure and composition in choanoflagellates. J. Euk. Microbiol., 45(3): 361-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1998.tb04550.x
  • Karpov S. A., Kersanach R., Williams D.M. 1998. Ultrastructure and 18S rRNA gene sequence of a small heterotrophic flagellate Siluania monomastiga gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida). Europ. J. Protistol., 34: 415-425.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0932-4739(98)80010-2
  • Karpov S.A. 2000. Flagellate phylogeny: ultrastructural approach // In: The Flagellates. Leadbeater, B.S.C. & Green, J.C. (eds). Systematics Association Special Publications. pp.336-360. London: Taylor & Francis.
  • Карпов С.А. 2000. Система протистов и проблемы их мегасистематики. В кн: Протисты. Т.1. С-Петербург, Наука. С.123-145.
  • Карпов С.А., Жуков Б.Ф. 2000. Тип Choanomonada. В кн: Протисты. Т.1. С-Петербург, Наука. С. 321-336.
  • Karpov S.A. 2000. Ultrastructure of the aloricate bicosoecid Pseudobodo tremulans,with revision of the order Bicosoecida. Protistology, 1(3): 100-108.
  • Karpov S.A., Sogin M.L., Silberman J.D. 2001. Rootlet homology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of bicosoecids based on 18S rRNA gene sequences. Protistology, 2(1): 34-48.
  • Карпов С.А. 2001. Строение клетки протистов. С-Петербург: Тесса, 384 с.
  • Karpov S.A., Ekelund F., Moestrup Ø. 2003. Katabia gromovi nov. gen. novsp. – a new soil flagellate with affinities to Heteromita (Cercomonadida). Protistology, 3(1): 30-41.
  • Karpov S.A., Novozhilov Yu.K., Chistiakova L.E. 2003. The comparative study of zoospore cytoskeleton in Symphytocarpus impexus, Arcyria cinerea and Lycogala epidendrum (Eumycetozoa). Protistology, 3(1): 15-29.
  • Карпов С.А. 2005. Система простейших: история и современность (Учебно-методическое пособие). С-Петербург: Тесса. 364 c.
  • Adl S.M., Simpson A.G.B., Farmer M.A., Andersen R.A., Anderson R.A., Barta J., Bowser S., Brugerolle G., Fensome R., Fredericq S., James T.Y., Karpov S., Kugrens P., Krug J., Lane C., Lewis L.A., Lodge J., Lynn D.H., Mann D., McCourt R.M., Mendoza L., Moestrup Ø., Mozley-Standridge S.E., Nerad T.A., Shearer C., Smirnov A.V., Spiegel F., Taylor F.J.R. 2005. The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 52(5): 399–432. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x
  • Karpov S.A., Bass D., Mylnikov A.P., Cavalier-Smith T. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of Cercomonadidae and kinetid patterns of Cercomonas and Eocercomonas gen. nov. (Cercomonadida, Cercozoa). Protist, 157: 125-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2006.01.001
  • Adl S.M., Leander B.S., Simpson A.G.B., Andersen R.A., Archibald J.M., Anderson O. R., Bass D., Bowser S.S., Brugerolle G., Farmer M.A., Fensome R.A., James T.Y., Karpov S., Kolisko M., Lane C., Lewis L.A., Lodge J., Mann D.G., McCourt R.M., Meisterfeld R., Mendoza L., Merinfeld G., Moestrup Ø., Mozley-Standridge S.E., Smirnov A.V., Spiegel F. 2007. Diversity and Classification of Protists. Systematic Biology, 56(4): 684-689. https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150701494127
  • Karpov S.A. 2007/8. The flagellar apparatus structure of Apusomonasproboscidea and apusomonad relationships. Protistology, 5(2/3): 146-155.
  • Chambouvet A., Alves-de-Souza C., Cueff V., Marie D., Karpov S., Guillou L. 2011. Interplay between the parasite Amoebophrya sp. (Alveolata) and the cyst formation of the red tide dinoflagellate Scrippsiella trochoidea. Protist. 162(4): 637-649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2010.12.001
  • Cavalier-Smith T., Karpov S.A. 2012. Paracercomonas Kinetid Ultrastructure, Origins of the Body Plan of Cercomonadida, and Cytoskeleton Evolution in Cercozoa. Protist, 163(1): 47-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2011.06.004
  • Skovgaard A., Karpov S.A., Guillou L. 2012 The parasitic dinoflagellates Blastodinium spp. inhabiting the gut of marine, planktonic copepods: morphology, ecology, and unrecognized species diversity. Front. Microbio. 3:305. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00305
  • Wylezich C., Karpov S.A., Mylnikov A.P., Anderson R., Jurgens K. 2012. Ecologically relevant choanoflagellates collected from hypoxic water masses of the Baltic Sea have untypical mitochondrial cristae. BMC Microbiology. 12: 271.https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-12-271
  • Karpov S.A., Mikhailov K.V., Mirzaeva G.S., Mirabdullaev I.M., Mamkaeva K.A., Titova N.N., Aleoshin V.V. 2013. Obligately Phagotrophic Aphelids Turned out to Branch with the Earliest-diverging Fungi. Protist, 164: 195-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2012.08.001
  • Lepelletier F., Karpov S.A., Le Panse S., Bigeard E., Skovgaard A., Jeanthon C., Guillou L. 2014. Parvilucifera rostrata sp. nov. (Perkinsozoa), a Novel Parasitoid that Infects Planktonic Dinoflagellates. Protist, 165(1): 31-49 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2013.09.005
  • Karpov S.A., Kobzeva A.A., Mamkaeva M.A., Mamkaeva K.A., Mikhailov K.V., Mirzaeva G.S., Aeoshin V.V. 2014. Gromochytrium mamkaevae gen. et sp. nov. and two new orders: Gromochytriales and Mesochytriales (Chytridiomycetes). Persoonia, 32:115–126. https://doi.org/10.3767/003158514X680234
  • Karpov S.A., Mamkaeva M.A., Aleoshin V.V., Nassonova E., Lilje O. and Gleason F.H. 2014. Morphology, phylogeny, and ecology of the aphelids (Aphelidea, Opisthokonta) and proposal for the new superphylum Opisthosporidia. Front. Microbiol. 5:112. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00112
  • Harder C.B., Ekelund F., Karpov S.A. 2014. Ultrastructure and phylogenetic position of Regin rotiferus and Otto terricolus genera et species novae (Bicosoecida, Heterokonta/Stramenopiles). Protist, 165(2): 144-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2014.01.004
  • Lepelletier F., Karpov S.A., Alacid E., Le Panse S., Bigeard E., Garcès E., Jeanthon C., Guillou L. 2014. Dinomyces arenysensis gen. sp. nov. (Rhizophydiales), the first chytrid infecting marine dinoflagellates. Protist, 165: 230–244. https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2014.02.004
  • Gleason F.H., Karpov S.A., Lilje O., Macarthur D.J., van Otgen F.F., Sime-Ngando T. 2014. Chapter 13. Zoosporic parasites of phytoplankton. In: Jones, E.B.G., Hyde, K.D. and Pang, K.L. eds. Freshwater Fungi and Fungal-like organisms. De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp.273-298.
  • Gleason F.H., Jephcott T.G., Küpper F.C., Gerphagnon M., Sime-Ngando T., Karpov S., Guillou L., Ogtrop F.F. 2015. Potential roles for recently discovered chytrid parasites in the dynamics of harmful algal blooms. Fungal Biology Reviews, 29(1): 20-33 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbr.2015.03.002
  • Jephcott T.G., Alves-de-Souza C., Gleason F.H., Ogtrop F.F. Sime-Ngando T., Karpov S., Guillou L.2016. Ecological impacts of parasitic chytrids, syndinales and perkinsids on populations of marine photosynthetic dinoflagellates. Fungal Ecology, 19: 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2015.03.007
  • Karpov S.A. 2016. Flagellar apparatus structure of choanoflagellates. Cilia, 5: 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13630-016-0033-5
  • Aleoshin V.V., Mylnikov A.P., Mirzaeva G.S., Mikhailov K.V., Karpov S.A. 2016. Heterokont Predator Develorapax marinus gen. et sp. nov. – A Model of the Ochrophyte Ancestor. Front. Microbiol., 7:1194. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01194
  • Karpov S.A., Tcvetkova V.S., Mamkaeva M.A., Torruella G., Timpano H., Moreira D., Mamanazarova K.S., López-García P. 2017. Morphological and Genetic Diversity of Opisthosporidia: New Aphelid Paraphelidium tribonemae Gen. et Sp. Nov. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 64:204–212. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12352
  • Karpov SA, López-García P, Mamkaeva MA, Tcvetkova VS, Vishnyakov AE, Klimov VI, Moreira D. 2018. The Chytrid-like Parasites of Algae Amoeboradix gromovi gen. et sp. nov. and Sanchytrium tribonematis Belong to a New Fungal Lineage. Protist. 169: 122-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2017.11.002
  • Adl SM, Bass D, Lane CL, Lukeš J, Schoch CL, Smirnov A, Agatha S, Berney B, Brown MW, Burki F, Cárdenas P, Čepička I, Chistyakova L, Campo J, Dunthorn M, Edvardsen B, Eglit Y, Guillou L, Hampl W, Heiss AA, Hoppenrath M, James TY, Karpov S, Kim E, Kolisko M, Kudryavtsev A, Lahr DJG, Lara E, Le Gall L, Lynn DH, Mann DG, Massana R, Mitchell EAD, Morrow C, Park JS, Pawlowski JW, Powell MJ, Richter DJ, Rueckert S, Shadwick L, Shimano S, Spiegel FW, Torruella G, Youssef N, Zlatogursky V, Zhang Q. 2019. Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes. JEM, 66, 4–119. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12691
  • Torruella G.,Grau-Bove X., Moreira D., Karpov S.A., Burns A., Sebe-Pedros A., Volcker E., Lopez-Garcia P. 2018. Global transcriptome analysis of the aphelid Paraphelidium tribonemae supports the phagotrophic origin of fungi. Communications Biology, 1:231. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0235-z
  • Karpov S.A., Moreira D., Mamkaeva M.A., Popova O.V., Aleoshin V.V. and López-García P. 2019. New member of Gromochytriales (Chytridiomycetes) – Apiochytrium granulosporum nov. gen. et sp. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 66, 582–591. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12702
  • Karpov SA., Vishnyakov AE., Moreira D., López-García P. 2019. The ultrastructure of Sanchytrium tribonematis (Sanchytriaceae, Fungi incertae sedis) confirms its close relationship to Amoeboradix. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 66, 892–898. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12740
  • Karpov SA., Cvetkova VS., Annenkova NV., Vishnyakov AE. 2019. Kinetid structure of Aphelidium and Paraphelidium (Aphelida) suggests the features of the common ancestor of Fungi and Opisthosporidia. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 66, 911–924. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12742
  • Mylnikov AP., Tikhonenkov DV., Karpov SA., Wylezich C. 2019. Microscopical studies on picoplanctonic Ministeria vibrans Tong, 1997 (Filasterea) highlights the cytoskeletal structure of the common ancestor of Filasterea, Metazoa and Choanoflagellata. Protist, Vol. 170, 385–396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2019.07.001
  • Tikhonenkov D.V., Mikhailov K.V., Hehenberger E., Karpov S.A., Prokina K.I., Esaulov A.S., Belyakova O.I., Mazei Y.A., Mylnikov A.P., Aleoshin V.V., Keeling P.J. 2020. New lineage of microbial predators adds complexity to reconstructing the evolutionary origin of animals Current Biology 30, 22: 4500-4509.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.061
  • Karpov SA, Vishnyakov A, López-García P, Zorina N, Ciobanu M, Tcvetkova VS, and Moreira D. Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Aphelidium insulamus sp. nov. (Aphelida, Opisthosporidia). Protistology 14 (4), 191–203 https://doi.org/10.21685/1680-0826-2020-14-4-3
  • Karpov S.A., Reñé A., Vishnyakov A.E., Seto K., Alacid E., Paloheimo A., Kagami M., Kremp A., Garcés E. 2021. Parasitoid chytridiomycete Ericiomyces syringoforeus gen. et sp. nov. has unique cellular structures to infect the host. Mycol Progress 20, 95–109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-020-01652-x
  • Galindo L.J., López-García P., Torruella G., Karpov S., Moreira D. 2021. Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota. Nature Communications 12, 4973. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25308-w
  • Avdeenko Yu.L., Vishnyakov A. E., Ivanova A.N., Taraskina A.E., Chilina G.A., Bosak I.A., Bogomolova T.S., Karpov S.A. 2021. An ultrastructural study of opportunistic fungal pathogen Rhizomucor pusillus (Mucoromycetes). Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya, 55, (6), 387–395. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0026364821060040
  • Tikhonenkov D.V., Jamy M., Borodina A.S., Belyaev A.O., Zagumyonnyi D.G., Prokina K.I., Mylnikov A.P., Burki F.  and  Karpov S.A. 2022. On the origin of TSAR: morphology, diversity and phylogeny of Telonemia. Open Biol. 12:210325.