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Elena A. Kotikova
ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/R-1938-2017
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7570-821X
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=6RlAUiQAAAAJ
Academic degree: Doctor of Biological Sciences
Academic title: Senior Researcher
Position: Leading Researcher
E-mail: Elena.Kotikova@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 328-06-12, ext. 213
Educational background: Leningrad State University, 1966
Dissertations:
  • “A comparative anatomical study of the nervous system of flatworms (Plathelminthes).” (PhD)
  • “Nervous system of Acoela, Plathelminthes and Rotifera: morphological aspect.” (PhD habilitation)
Research interests: Morphology, histochemistry, immunohistochemistry, systematics, phylogeny of lower flatworms and rotifers, confocal microscopy.
Field studies: White Sea, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea of Japan, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Lake Ladoga, Lake Seliger, Lake Baikal, Lake Azabache, a cave in West Georgia, Rybinsk Reservoir.
Professional membership: Member of the Saint-Petersburg Society of Naturalists
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 02-04-48583-а. “Comparative investigation of the neuromuscular systems in the lower protostomes by immunofluorescence method”.
  • RFBR 06-04-48053-а. “Revision of phylogeny and systematics within the basal bilaterian group - Acoela, based on new morphological and molecular characters”.
  • RFBR 09-04-01309-а. “Comparative investigation of phylogenetically important morphological characters in lower bilaterians and spiralians using immunohistochemical methods, phalloidin fluorescence, confocal and electron microscopy”.
  • RFBR 13-04-02002-а. “Morphology and phylogeny of turbellarians and rotifers: apomorphies, parallellisms and morpho-functional adaptations”. Head of the project.
  • RFBR 16-04-00593-а. “Evolutionary pathways of turbellarian neuromuscular systems and the origin of the parasitic Plathelminthes”.
Selected Publications:
  • Kotikova E.A. 1986. Comparative characterization of the nervous system of turbellaria. Hydrobiologia, 132: 89-92.
  • Котикова Е.А., Иоффе Б.И. 1988. Катехоламины и холинэстеразы в нервной системе Provortex karlingi (Turbellaria, Neorhabdocoela). Журнал эволюционной биохимии и физиологии, 24(2): 142-148.
  • Kotikova E.A., Joffe B.I. 1988. On the nervous system of the dalyelloid turbellarians. Fortschritte der Zoologie/Progress in Zoology, 36: 191-194.
  • Котикова Е.А. 1991. Ортогон плоских червей и основные пути его эволюции. Сб.: Морфологические основы филогенетики плоских червей”. Труды ЗИН АН СССР, 241: 88-112.
  • Joffe B.I., Kotikova E.A. 1991. Distribution of catecholamines in turbellarians (with a discussions of neuronal homologies in the Platyhelminthes. In ”Simpler nervous systems” Eds: Sakharov D.A., Winlow W. Manchester University Press, 13: 77-112.
  • Kotikova E.A. 1995. Glyoxylic acid induced fluorescence in the nervous system of Gyratrix hermaphroditus (Kalyptorhynchia, Polycystidadae). Hydrobiologia, 305: 135-139.
  • Kotikova E.A. 1995. Localization and neuroanatomy of catecholaminergic neurons in some rotifer species. Hydrobiologia, 313/314: 123-127.
  • Котикова Е.А. 1997a. Распределение холинэстераз и катехоламинов в нервной системе тифлопланид. Журнал эволюционной биохимии и физиологии, 33(2): 135-141.
  • Котикова Е.А. 1997б. Распределение катехоламинэргических элементов в нервной системе коловраток (Rotifera). Зоологический журнал, 76(11): 1277-1282.
  • Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Kotikova E.A. , Gustafsson M.K.S. 1998. A commissural brain! The pattern of 5-HT immunoreactivity in Acoela (Plathelminthes). Zoomorphology, 118: 69-77.
  • Kotikova E.A. 1998. Catecholaminergic neurons in the brain of rotifers. Hydrobiologia, 387/388: 135-140.
  • Kotikova E.A., Raikova O.I., Flyatchinskaya L.P., Reuter M., Gustafsson M.K.S. 2001. Rotifer muscles as revealed by phalloidin-TRITC staining and confocal scanning laser microscopy. Acta Zoologica, 8: 1-9.
  • Котикова Е.А. 2001. Катехоламинэргические нейроны в нервной системе Neorhabdocoela (Turbellaria). Журнал эволюционной биохимии и физиологии, 37(4): 323-328.
  • Kotikova E.A., Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Gustafsson M.K.S. 2002. The nervous and muscular systems in the free-living flatworm Castrella truncata (Rhabdocoela): an immunocytochemical and phalloidin fluorescence study. Tissue & Cell, 34(5): 365-374. https://doi.org/10.1016/S004081660200037X
  • Kotikova E.A., Raikova O.I., ReuterM., Gustafsson M.K.S. 2004. Musculature of an illoricate predatory rotifer Asplanchnamulticeps as revealed by phalloidin fluorescence and confocal microscopy. Tissue & Cell, 36 : 189-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tice.2004.01.005
  • Kotikova E.A., Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Gustafsson M.K.S. 2005. Rotifer nervous system vizualized by FMRFamide and 5-HT immunocytochemistry and confocal laser scanning microscopy. Hydrobiologia, 546: 239-248. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4408-9_24
  • Kotikova E.A., Raikova O.I., Flyatchinskaya L.P. 2006. Study of architectonics of rotifer musculature by the method of fluorescence with use of confocal microscopy. Journal of evolutionary biochemistry and physiology, 42(1): 89-97. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093006010121
  • Kotikova E.A., Raikova O.I. 2008. Architectonics of the central nervous system of Acoela, Platyhelminthes and Rotifera. Journal of evolutionary biochemistry and physiology, 44(1): 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1134/S002209300801012X
  • Котикова Е.А., Райкова О.И. 2012. Мускулатура двух видов коловраток семейства Brachionidae. ТрудыЗоологическогоинститутаРАН , 316 (4): 369-379.
  • Kotikova E.A. 2013. The somatic musculature of the rotifer Trichotria posillum (Rotifera : Transversiramida). Doklady Biologacal Sciences, 451(1): 225-227. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496613040030
  • Котикова Е.А., Райкова О.И. 2014. Мускулатура панцирных коловраток Mytilina ventralis и Lecane luna (Rotifera, Transversiramida). Зоологический журнал, 93(3): 479-488. https://doi.org/10.7868/S0044513414030088
  • Kotikova E.A., Raikova O.I., Korgina E.M. 2016. Somatic musculature of rotifers Asplanchna girodi Guerne, 1888 and Trichotria posillum (Muller, 1776) (Rotifera, Pseudotrocha, Ploima): comparative aspect. Inland Water Biology, 9(1): 53-61. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082915040100
  • Raikova O.I., Kotikova E.A., Frolova T.A. 2017. Nervous system and musculature of the parasitic turbellarian Notentera ivanovi (Plathelminthes, Fecampiida). Doklady Biological Sciences, 475(1): 169-171. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496617040111
  • Raikova O.I., Kotikova E.A.,Korgina E.M., Drobysheva I.M. 2019. Time to re-assess pharynx evolution in flatworms. Homology of pharynx rosulatus in rhabdocoel flatworms Dalytyphloplanida and Kalyptorhynchia. Invertebrate Zoology, 16(1): 57–70. https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.16.1.07

 

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