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Kirill E. Nicolaev
ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/AAG-1836-2020
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=117927
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0005-6333
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=lQcvTGIAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Kirill.Nicolaev@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 714-00-97
Educational background: Leningrad State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, 2002.
Dissertations: “Patterns in transmission of the life cycles of trematodes of the families Echinostomatidae and Renicolidae in intertidal ecosystems of the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea.” (PhD)
Research interests: role of the parasites in the marine ecosystems, host-parasite interactions, trematodes in marine.
Field studies: White sea, Barents sea, Pechora sea.
Professional membership: Society of Parasitologists RAS, https://www.zin.ru/societies/parsoc/eng/
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 01-04-49646-а – “The main directions of the biological irradiation of the parasitic flatworms of the class Trematoda” (2001-2003)
  • RFBR 04-04-49342-а – “Comparative analysis of defense reactions of Metazoa inner medium: invertebrates and lower chordates” (2004-2006)
  • RFBR 04-04-49439-а – “The ways of colonization of intermediate hosts by trematodes - comparative evolutionary analysis” (2004-2006)
  • RFBR 07-04-00095-а – “Comparative analysis of efficiency of innate immunity mechanisms in different taxons of invertebrates” (2007-2009)
  • RFBR 07-04-01675-а – “Evolution of interrelationships in host-parasite systems “intermediate hosts-trematodes” (2007-2009)
  • RFBR 08-04-01385-а – “The source of the clone variability in the couse of parthenogenesis of trematodes (Plathelminthes, Trematoda)” (2008-2010)
  • RFBR 10-04-00430-а – “Patterns in trematode transmission in coastal communities - an ecological-evolutionary analysis” (2010-2012)
  • RFBR 11-04-98545-р_восток_а – “Biodiversity and transmission patterns of helminth parasites in coastal and freshwater ecosystems of the Okhotsko-Kolymsky region (northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Upper Kolyma Basin)” (2011-2013)
  • RFBR 13-04-00875-a –“Trade-offs of the trematode life histories – an experimental and theoretic study” (2013-2015)
  • RFBR 14-04-00466-a – “Maximal longevity and ageing in infinitely growing animals: effects of age and body size on stress resistance” (2014-2016)
  • RFBR 16-04-00753-a – “How is trematode transmission regulated at the polar sea coasts? Testing ecological factors relevant to climate oscillations” (2016-2018)
  • RFBR 16-04-00820-a – “Physiological-biochemical mechanisms of interaction of trematods Himasthla elongata Dietz, 1909 (Echinostomatidae) и Cercaria parvicaudata Stunkard and Shaw, 1931 (Renicolidae) with Gastropoda Littorina littorea (Linnaeus) and blue mussel Mytilus edulis Linnaeus” (2016-2018)
  • RFBR 17-04-02161-a – “Investigation of transposable elements impact in trematode clonal variability” (2017-2019)
  • RNF -14-14-00621 “Evolution of parasites under natural and anthropogenically induced transformation of ecosystems: analysis and prediction” (2014-2016)
Selected Publications:
  • Bakhmet I., Aristov D., Marchenko J., Nikolaev K. 2022 Handling the heat: Changes in the heart rate of two congeneric blue mussel species and their hybrids in response to water temperature. Journal of Sea Research. 185, 102218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2022.102218
  • Nikolaev K. E., Levakin I. A., Galaktionov K.V. 2021. A month for the mission: using a sentinel approach to determine the transmission window of digenean cercariae in the subarctic White Sea. Sea Journal of Helminthology. 95, e50. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X21000456
  • Прокофьев В. В., Галактионов К. В., Левакин И. А., Николаев К. Е. 2020 Свет или температура? Что и как регулирует эмиссию церкарий трематод из моллюсков-хозяев. Паразитология. 54 (3), 179-197. https://doi.org/10.31857/S1234567806030013
  • Nikolaev K. E., Levakin I. A., Galaktionov K.V. 2020. Seasonal dynamics of trematode infection in the first and the second intermediate hosts: A long-term study at the subarctic marine intertidal. Journal of Sea Research. 164, 10193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2020.101931
  • Solovyeva A, Nikolaev K, Lebedev E, Potolytsina E, Galaktionov N, Levakin I (2020). Reduced infectivity in Himasthla elongata (Trematoda, Himasthlidae) cercariae with deviant photoreaction. Journal of Helminthology 94, e129, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X20000103
  • 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, 42, 9: 1719-1737
  • Bakhmet I., Nikolaev K., Levakin I, Ekimov D. 2019. Influence of Himasthla elongata (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) metacercariae on heart rate in blue mussels (Mytilus edulis). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 166, 107220.
  • Fokina N.N., Sukhovskaya I.V., Ruokolainen T.R., Kochneva A.A., Bakhmet I.N., Nikolaev K.E., Levakin I.A. 2018 Assessment of the lipid composition and some components of the antioxidant system in blue mussels Mytilus edulis experimentally infected with Himasthla elongata metacercariae. Transactions of Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Science. No 6. Experimental biology: 81-94
  • Prokofiev V.V., Levakin I.A., Nikolaev K.E., Galaktionov K.V. 2018. Light and temperature — interaction of factors determined the intensity of emergence of cercariae of Himasthla elongata (Digenea, Himasthlidae). Parazitologia, 52(6): 433-441 (In Russian)
  • Nikolaev K.E., Prokofiev V.V., Levakin I.A., Galaktionov K.V. 2017. How the position of mussels at the intertidal lagoon affects their infection with the larvae of parasitic flatworms (Trematoda: Digenea): A combined laboratory and field experimental study. Journal of Sea Research, 128: 32-40.
  • Prokofiev V.V., Levakin I.A., Nikolaev K.E., Galaktionov K.V. 2017. Light and temperature — interaction of factors determining the intensity of emergence of cercariae of Himasthla elongata (Digenea, Himasthlidae). Parazitologia, 51 (6), 457-465. (In Russian).
  • Bakhmet I., Nikolaev K., Levakin I. 2017. Effect of infection with Metacercariae of Himasthla elongata (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) on cardiac activity and growth rate in blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) in situ. Journal of Sea Research, 123: 51–54.
  • Exploration, sustainable use and protection of natural resources of the White Sea. Proceedings of the XIII conference, Saint Petersburg, Zoological Institute RAS, 2017, 290 p. (In Russian).
  • Bakhmet I. N., Nikolaev K. E., Ekimov D. A., Ipatov A. A. 2017. The characteristics of gastropod Littorina littorea L. 1758 cardiac activity under effect of Himasthla elongata (Mehlis, 1831) (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) infestation. Parazitologia, 51 (5), 404-411. (In Russian).
  • Galaktionov K.V., Podvyaznaya I.M, Nikolaev K.E., Levakin I.A. 2015. Self-sustaining infrapopulation or colony? Redial clonal groups of Himasthla elongata (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) in Littorina littorea (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) do not support the concept of eusocial colonies in trematodes. Folia Parasitologica 62:067 (open access).
  • Galaktionov, K. V., Bustnes, J. O., Bårdsen B. –J., Wilson, J. G., Nikolaev, K. E., Sukhotin, A. A., Skirnisson, K., Saville, D. H., Ivanov, M. V., Regel, K.V. 2015. Factors influencing the distribution of trematode larvae in blue mussels Mytilus edulis in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Marine Biology 162: 193-206.
  • Levakin I.A., K.E. Nikolaev, K.V. Galaktionov. 2013. Long-term variation in trematode (Trematoda, Digenea) component communities associated with intertidal gastropods is linked to abundance of final hosts. Hydrobiologia, 706: 103-118.
  • Levakin I.A., Nikolaev K.E., Galaktionov K.V. 2013. Use of singular spectrum analysis in parasitology: the dynamics of infestation of mollusks Hydrobia ventrosa by parthenites of trematodes Cryptocotyle concavum and Bunocotyle progenetica in the White Sea. Parazitologia, 47, 1: 23-37. (In Russian).
  • Levakin I. A., Losev E. A., Nikolaev K. E., Galaktionov K. V. 2013. In vitro encystment of Himasthla elongata cercariae (Digenea, Echinostomatidae) in the hemolymph of blue mussels Mytilus edulis as a tool for assessing cercarial infectivity and molluscan susceptibility. Journal of Helminthology, 87 (2): 180-188. 
  • Wilson, J.G., Galaktionov, K.V., Sukhotin, A.A., Skirnisson, K., Nikolaev, K.E., Ivanov, M.I., Bustnes, J.O., Saville, D.H., Regel, K.V. 2013. Factors influencing trematode parasite burdens in mussels (Mytilus spp) from the North Atlantic Ocean across to the North Pacific. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 132: 87-93.
  • Nikolaev K.E., Galaktionov K.V. Transmission patterns of trematodes family Echinostomatide and Renicolae in costal communities of Kandalaksha Bay, the White Sea. In: Proceedings of the V Al-Russian conference with International participation on theoretical and marine parasitology. (23-27 April 2012, Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad district). Nigmatullin Ch.M. (ed.). Kaliningrad: AtlantNIRO Publishing. 2012: 150-153. (In Russian).
  • Sukhachev A.N., Kudryavtsev I.V., Dyachkov I.S., Nikolaev K.E., Polevschikov A. V., Kharazova A. D. 2007. Characterization of Mytulis edulis innate immunity reactions. Vestnik SPbGU Vol. 4. P. 80-85. (In Russian).
  • Nikolaev K.E., Sukhotin A.A., Galaktionov K.V. 2006. Infection patterns in White Sea blue mussels Mytilus edulis L. of different age and size with metacercariae of Himasthla elongata (Mehlis, 1831) (Echinostomatidae) and Cercaria parvicaudata Stunkard & Shaw, 1931 (Renicolidae). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 71: 51-58.
  • Galaktionov K.V., Irwin S.W.B., Prokofiev V.V., Saville D.H., Nikolaev K.E., Levakin I.A. 2006. Trematode transmission in coastal communities - temperature dependence and climate change perspectives. 11th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA XI). Glasgow (Scotland, United Kingdom), August 6-11, 2006. Medimond International Proceedings: 85-90.
  • Levakin I. A., Nikolaev K. E. 2003. Usage of probablistic model for an estimation of an infection rate of mussels (Mytilus edulis) by metacercariae Himasthla elongata (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) Parasitologia Vol. 37, №5. P. 402-410. (In Russian).
  • Nikolaev K.E. 2002. Spatial structure and seasonal dynamics of cercarian hemipopulations of Himasthla elongata, a parasite of the White sea mussels (Mytilus edulis). Vestnik SPbGU, Ser. 3, 4: 30-33. (In Russian).

 

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