Eugene V. Kozminsky

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Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Eugene.Kozminsky@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 714-00-97
Educational background: Leningrad (St.Petersburg) State University, Biological and Soil Sciences Faculty, Invertebrate Zoology Department, 1991.
Dissertations: “Populational analysis of Bithynia tentaculata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) – trematodes community.” (PhD)
Research interests: Population biology, ecological parasitology, host-parasite interactions, viable populations, growth and age determination, development and inheritance of shell coloration, microevolutional process, ecological speciation, gastropods.
Field studies: White Sea, Karelia, Pechora Sea (South - Eastern Barents Sea), St.Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast.
Professional membership:
  • St.Petersburg Naturalist Society
  • Society of Parasitologists, Russian Academy of Sciences
Scientific projects and grants:
  • The monitoring of Littorina saxatilis (Olivi, 1792) and L.obtusata (Linnaeus, 1758) populations and structure of parasite invasions in these species in Yuzhnaya Inlet, Ryashkov Island (Kandalaksha Nature Reserve) (2001 – present);
  • The study of fishery melioration impact of the river Letnyaya (Loukhsky district, Karelia) on the state of zoobenthos community (2016-2017);
  • RFBR 05-04-48056 “The study of mechanisms of intraspecific diversity forming with shell coloration polymorphism of gastropods as an example” (2005-2007);
  • Basic Research Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Dynamics of Plant, Animal, and Human Gene Funds” (2005- 2014);
  • Basic research program of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Wildlife: current status and development problems” (2015);
  • Grant of the St. Petersburg Scientific Center “Complex application of molecular and morphological methods in the study of biodiversity and history of its formation on the example of model species complexes of Northwest region of Russia”.
Selected Publications:
  • Kozminsky E. V. 2021. Specification of polymorphism and classification of shell coloration in gastropods by the example of Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) // Marine Biological Journal. – V. 6, № 3. - P. 60–77. https://doi.org/10.21072/mbj.2021.06.3.07
  • Kozminsky E. V. 2021. Infection with trematodes of the snails Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) with different shell colour genotypes // Parazitologiya. - V. 55, № 4. - P. 287-304. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0031184721040025
  • Estévez, D., Kozminsky, E., Carvajal-Rodríguez, A., Caballero, A., Faria, R., Galindo, J., Rolán-Alvarez, E. 2020. Mate choice contributes to the maintenance of shell color polymorphism in a marine snail via frequency-dependent sexual selection // Frontiers in Marine Science. - V.7. - P. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.614237
  • Serbina E.A., Kozminsky E.V. Cercariae of trematodes from Bithynia tentaculata (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae) in the Chany lake basin (Western Siberia, Russia). // Proceedings of the International Conference “Science and innovations 2021: development directions and priorities” (Melbourne, Australia), September 29, 2021. - Infinity Publishing – С. 143-153. https://doi.org/10.34660/INF.2021.26.11.009
  • Kozminsky E.V., Serbina E.A. 2020. Mechanisms of sex determination in mollusks Littorina saxatilis and L.obtusata (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) // Science. Education. Practice: proceedings of the International University Science Forum (Canada, Toronto), August 19, 2020. - Infinity Publishing –p.160-164. https://doi.org/10.34660/INF.2020.94.31.004
  • Serbina E.A., Kozminsky E.V. 2020. Biology of trematodes of the subfamily Echinochasminae Odhner, 1910 in ecosystems of the South of Western Siberia // Science. Education. Practice: proceedings of the International University Science Forum (Canada, Toronto), August 19, 2020. - Infinity Publishing –p.165-173. https://doi.org/10.34660/INF.2020.49.30.020
  • Galaktionov K.V., Nikolaev K.E., Aristov D.A., Levakin I.A., Kozminsky E.V. 2019. Parasites on the edge: patterns of trematode transmission in the Arctic intertidal at the Pechora Sea (South- Eastern Barents Sea) // Polar Biology. – v.42, N9. – p. 1719-1737. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2413-3
  • Kozminsky E. V. 2018. Structure of the zoobenthos community in the lower reaches of the river Letnyaya (Loukhsky district, Karelia). Regional Ecology. - № 3(53). – p. 62-74. (In Russian)
  • Kozminsky E.V., Rolán-Alvarez E. 2017. Maintenance of a shell color polymorphism in natural populations of Littorina fabalis from the White Sea. / Exploration, Sustainable Use and Protection of Natural Resources of the White Sea. Proceedings of the XIII Conference on the White Sea, Saint Petersburg, Zoological Institute RAS, 2017. - p. 110-111.
  • Kozminsky E. V. 2017. Fluctuations of abundance of Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) // Proceedings of XХ scientific seminar “Readings in memory of K. M. Deryugin” (December 1, 2017). – Saint-Petersburg, 2017. – p. 21-27.
  • Kozminskiy E.V. 2016. Inheritance of longitudinal white stripes on the shell of mollusks Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Genetika, 52(8): 991-995. (In Russian)
  • Kozminsky E., Kraeva N., Ishemgulova A., Dobáková E., Lukes J., Kment P., Yurchenko V., Votypka J., Maslov D.A. 2015. Host-specificity of Monoxenous Trypanosomatids: Statistical Analysis of the Distribution and Transmission Patterns of the Parasites from Neotropical Heteroptera // Protist. -V.166. – pp. 551–568.
  • Kozminsky E. V. 2014. Inheritance of the Background Shell Color in the Snails Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda, Littorinidae) // Russian Journal of Genetics Vol. 50, No. 10. - p. 1177–1187.
  • Kozminsky, E.V. 2013. Effects of environmental and biotic factors on the fluctuations of abundance of Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) // Hydrobiologia. - v.706, №1. - p.81–90.
  • Kozminsky E.V. 2012. Effect of Trematode Invasion on the Fecundity of Bithynia tentaculata (Gastropoda: Bithyniidae) // Biological Sciences in Kazakhstan. –№4. - p. 45-53. (In Russian)
  • Kozminsky E. V. 2011 Inheritance of Longitudinal Shell Bands in the Snails Littorina obtusata and Littorina saxatilis (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) // Russian Journal of Genetics. – v.47. – p. 987-993.
  • Kozminskii E.V. 2010. Longevity of local hemipopulations of trematodes in mollusk Bithynia tentaculata (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) // Biological Sciences of Kazakhstan. - №3. - p. 54-62. (In Russian)
  • Kozminskii E.V., Lezin P.A., Fokin M.V. 2010. A Study of Inheritance of White Spots on the Shell of Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Russian Journal of Genetics. –v. 46 (12). – p. 1455-1461.
  • Kozminsky E.V. 2010. Dynamics of infection with trematodes Microphallus pygmaeus and distribution of invasion in populations of littoral snails Littorina saxatilis and L. obtusata (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) in Yuzhnaya Inlet, Ryashkov Island, 2001-2008 // Koryakin A.S. (ed.). The Chronicle of Nature by the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve for 2009 (Annual report). - Kandalaksha, Book 55, 2: 125-140. (In Russian)
  • Lezin P.A., Kozminskii E.V. 2008. Color characteristics of Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) shells and their use for distinguishing its phenotypic groups. Zoologicheskij Zhurnal (Russian Journal of Zoology). - v.87, №1. – p. 29-35. (In Russian)
  • Kozminsky E.V., Lezin P.A., Fokin M.V. 2008. A methodology of studying the inheritance of shell color in mollusks of the genus Littorina (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) // Zoologicheskij Zhurnal (Russian Journal of Zoology). – v.87(5). – p. 614-619. (In Russian)
  • Kozminsky E.V., Lezin P.A. 2007. Distribution of Pigments in the Shell of the Gastropod Littorina obtusata (Linnaeus, 1758) // Russian Journal of Marine Biology. - v. 33, № 4. - p. 284-290.
  • Kozminskii E.V., Lezin P.A. 2006. Method of color measurements of the elements of color in gastropod shell // Russian Journal of Marine Biology. - v. 32, № 5. - p. 371-373. (In Russian)
  • Kozminsky E. V. 2006. Determination of age in Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) // Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. –v.85, №2. – p.146-157. (In Russian with English summary)
  • Kozminsky E.V. 2005. Growth and the use of dimensions data for determination of individual age of Littorina obtusata (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) // Proceeding of the conference “The study, sustainable use and conservation of natural resources of the White Sea”, Petrozavodsk. - 146-150. (In Russian)
  • Skirnisson K., Galaktionov K.V., Kozminsky E.V. 2004. Factors influencing the distribution of digenetic trematodes infections in a mudsnail (Hydrobia ventrosa) population inhabiting salt marsh ponds in Iceland // J.Parasitol. - v.90, №1. - p.50 -59.
  • Kozminsky E.V. 2004 Determination of individual age of gastropods // Proceedings of All-Russian conference “Siberian zoological conference”, Novosibirsk, 15-22 September 2004г. – p. 268. (In Russian)
  • Kozminsky E.V. 2003. Seasonal dynamics of reproduction and reproductive parameters of Bithynia tentaculata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) // Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. - v.82, № 3. - p.325-331.
  • Kozminsky E.V. 2003. Growth, demographic structure of population and determination of Bithynia tentaculata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) age // Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. - v.82, № 5. - p.567-576.
  • Kozminsky E.V. 2002. The parasite capacity of the host population // Parazitologiya. –v. 36, 1. – p. 48-59. (In Russian with English summary)
  • Ataev G. L., Kozminsky E. V., Dobrovolskij A. A. 2002. Dynamics of infection of Bithynia tentaculata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) with trematodes // Parazitologiya. -36, 3. – p. 203-218. (In Russian with English summary)
  • Kozminsky E. V. 1999. Populational analysis of Bithynia tentaculata (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) – trematodes community / PhD Thesis - Sanct-Petersburg. - 314 P. (In Russian)
  • Slepjan E.I., Voloshko L.N., Dzyuba O.F., Krupkina L.I., Maulini I.A., Rivkina O.A., Smekalova T.N., Shavrina I.I., Gudkova I.J., Solnzeva M.P., Kozminsky E.V., Anakina R.P. 1997. Plant life of Nevsky avenue / Life and safety, Saint-Petersburg.2-3: 406-424. (In Russian)
  • Слепян Э.И., Волошко Л.Н., Дзюба О.Ф., Крупкина Л.И., Маулини И.А., Ривкина О.А., Смекалова Т.Н., Шаврина И.И., Гудкова И.Я., Солнцева М.П., Козминский Е.В., Анакина Р.П. Wildlife of the historical center of St. Petersburg. - 1997. - N2-3.- p.425-453.
  • Sergievsky S.O., Granovitch A.I., Kozminsky E.V. 1995. Shell colour polymorphism of Littorina saxatilis (Olivi): classification principles / Population studies of the White Sea molluscs. Saint-Petersburg. –p. 3-18. (In Russian with English summary)
  • Kozminsky E.V., Granovitch A.I., Sergievsky S.O. 1995. Inheritance of shell colour morphs of Littorina saxatilis (Olivi) / Populational studies of the White Sea molluscs. Saint-Petersburg. - p.19-34. (In Russian with English summary)