Anatoly A. Petrov

ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/R-1242-2017
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=95852
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-8341
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=3r9JRXUAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Anatoly.Petrov@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 328-06-12, ext. 213
Educational background: Saint-Petersburg State University, 1996
Dissertations: “Ultrastructural and histochemical characteristics of the reproductive system of acoels and its phylogenetic implications.” (PhD)
Research interests: Comparative morphology, phylogenetics, confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, flatworms, acoels, molluscs.
Field studies: Atlantic Ocean, White Sea, Black Sea, Gulf of Finland, freshwater waterbodies of European Russia.
Editorial activity:
  • Deputy Editor-in-Chief of “Proceedings of the Zoological Institute”, http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/
  • Editor of collected papers:
    1. Zaitseva O.V., Petrov A.A. (Eds). Modern problems of evolutionary morphology of invertebrates. (Materials of the 2nd All-Russian conference with international participation commemorating the 105th anniversary of academician A.V. Ivanov, 17–19 October 2011). Saint-Petersburg, ZIN RAS. 2011. 382 pp.
    2. Zaitseva O.V., Petrov A.A. (Eds). Modern problems of evolutionary morphology of invertebrates. (Materials of a workshop for young specialists and students commemorating the 105th anniversary of academician A.V. Ivanov, 20–22 October 2011). Saint Petersburg, ZIN RAS. 2011. 146 pp.
    3. Zaitseva O.V., Petrov A.A. (Eds). Modern problems of evolutionary morphology of invertebrates. (Materials of the “Modern problems of evolutionary morphology of animals”, a workshop with international participation for young specialists and students commemorating the 110th anniversary of academician A.V. Ivanov, 29 September–1 October 2016). Saint Petersburg, ZIN RAS. 2016. 80 pp.
    4. Zaitseva O.V., Petrov A.A. (Eds). Modern problems of evolutionary morphology of invertebrates. (Materials of the 3rd All-Russian conference with international participation commemorating the 110th anniversary of academician A.V. Ivanov, 26–28 September 2016). Saint Petersburg, ZIN RAS. 130 pp.
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 09-04-01309. PI Yu.V. Mamkaev. “A comparative study of phylogenetically significant morphological characters in lower bilaterians and spiralieans by immunohistochemistry, phalloidin fluorescence, and confocal and electron microscopy”
  • RFBR 10-04-01033. PI O.V. Zaitseva “A study of evolutionary patterns in the formation of first nerve nets as exemplified by nerve nets and neuromuscular interactions of nemerteans, gastropods, enteropneusts and ascidians”
  • RFBR 13-04-97514-r_tsentr_a. PI E.V. Soldatenko. “Мorphological and functional aspects of reproduction in freshwater snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Basommatophora) of the European part of Russia”
  • RFBR 14-04-90411-ukr-a. PI P.I. Gerasev. “Confocal microscopy of the nervous and muscular systems of the haptor of monogeneas (Monogenea, Plathelmintes) as a new approach to knowledge of the functional morphology, their taxonomy and phylogeny”
  • RFBR 15-04-05278-a. PI E.V. Soldatenko. “Reconstruction of phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the family Planorbidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)”
Selected Publications:
  • Petrov A., Hooge M., Tyler S. 2004. Ultrastructure of sperms in Acoela (Acoelomorpha) and its concordance with molecular systematics. Invertebrate Biology, 123(3): 183-197. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2004.tb00154.x
  • Petrov A., Hooge M., Tyler S. 2006. Comparative morphology of the bursal nozzles in acoels (Acoela, Acoelomorpha). Journal of Morphology, 267(5): 634-648. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.10428
  • Petrov A. 2007. Features of the male copulatory organs in acoels (Acoelomorpha) and their taxonomic implications. Doklady Biological Sciences, 413(1): 125-127. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496607020093
  • Petrov A.A., Zaitseva O.V. 2012. Muscle fibers in the central nervous system of nemerteans: Spatial organization and functional role. Journal of Morphology, 273(8): 870-882. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20026
  • Soldatenko E., Petrov A. 2012. Mating behaviour and copulatory mechanics in six species of Planorbidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 78(2): 185-196. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyr056
  • Petrov A.A., Popyuk M.P., Dmitrieva E.V., Gerasev P.I. 2015. Architecture of haptoral musculature in three species of Ligophorus (Monogenea, Ancyrocephalidae). Trudy Zoologicheskogo instituta RAN, 319(2): 244-256. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19833
  • Soldatenko E.V., Petrov A.A. 2016. A comparative study of mating and copulatory mechanics in Hippeutis complanatus and Segmentina oelandica (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Zoosystematica Rossica, 25(2): 189-203.
  • Petrov A., Gerasev P., Popyuk M., Dmitrieva E. 2016. Haptoral neuromusculature in two species of Dactylogyrus Diesing, 1850 (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae). Systematic Рarasitology, 93(4): 337-354.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-015-9620-x
  • Petrov A., Podvyaznaya I. 2016. Muscle architecture during the course of development of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum Niewiadomska, 1984 (Trematoda, Diplostomidae) from cercariae to metacercariae. Journal of Helminthology, 90(3): 321-336. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X15000310
  • Soldatenko E.V., Shatrov A.B., Petrov A.A. 2016. Sperm ultrastructure in two species of Gyraulus (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Planorbidae). Journal of Natural History, 50(47-48): 2985-3002. http://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1219781
  • Petrov A.A., Dmitrieva E.V., Popyuk M.P., Gerasev P.I., Petrov S.A. 2017. Musculoskeletal and nervous systems of the attachment organ in three species of Diplectanum (Monogenea: Dactylogyroidea). Folia Parasitologica, 64: 1-22.https://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2017.022
  • Soldatenko E.V., Shatrov A.B., Petrov A.A. 2018. Sperm packaging in the seminal vesicles of Hygrophila (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Zoomorphology, 137(3): 367-376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-018-0408-9
  • Petrov A.A., Podvyaznaya I.M., Zaitseva O.V. 2019. Architecture of the nervous system in metacercariae of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum Niewiadomska, 1984 (Digenea). Parasitology Research, 118(4): 1193-1203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06231-y
  • Petrov A.A., Gerasev P.I. 2019. Muscular arrangement and sclerite morphology in the haptor of Tetraonchus monenteron (Monogenea, Dactylogyridea). Acta Parasitologica, 64(1): 138-147. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11686-018-00015-7
  • Soldatenko E.V., Petrov A.A. 2019. Musculature of the penial complex: A new criterion in unravelling the phylogeny of Hygrophila (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Journal of Morphology, 280(4): 508-525. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20960
  • Podvyaznaya I.M., Petrov A.A., Galaktionov K.V. 2020. The fine structure of the germinal mass, brood cavity and birth canal of the rediae of the monoxenous hemiuroid digenean Bunocotyle progenetica Chabaud & Buttner, 1959. Journal of Helminthology, 94: e85. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X19000816
  • Zaitseva O.V., Petrov S.A., Petrov A.A. 2020. Sensory systems of Lineus ruber (Nemertea, Pilidiophora). Zoomorphology, 139(4): 447–459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-020-00502-4
  • Ryss A., Petrov A.A. 2022. Muscles of the male and female copulatory organs of Bursaphelenchus mucronatus and Chiloplacus sp. (Nematoda: Rhabditida). Journal of Nematology, 53: e2021-107. https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2021-107
  • Soldatenko E.V., Shatrov A.B., Petrov A.A., Prozorova L.A. 2022. Sperm ultrastructure in Segmentinini (Hygrophila, Planorbidae): Phylogenetic implications and diagnostic utility. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 298: 55-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2022.03.002
  • Soldatenko E.V., Shatrov A.B., Petrov A.A., Shirokaya A.A. 2022. Sperm ultrastructure in Acroloxus lacustris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Gastropoda: Panpulmonata). Acta Zoologica, 103(2): 192-205. https://doi.org/10.1111/azo.12364