Elena V. Platonova

ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/R-6750-2017
Scopus Author ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57190381989
RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=947982
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-8998
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=l1eTDv8AAAAJ
Academic degree: No degree
Academic title: No title
Position: Researcher
E-mail: Elena.Platonova@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (401) 504-12-51
Educational background: Baltic Federal University, 2009.
Saint-Petersburg State University, 2014.
Research interests: Zoology, Parasitology, Birds parasites, Haemosporidia.
Field studies: Curonian Spit, Russia.
Professional membership: Scandinavian-Baltic Society of Parasitology – SBSP, http://sbsp.eu
Scientific projects and grants: RFBR 15-04-00417-а. PI Mukhin A.L. “Avian malaria: how haemosporidian invasion affects behavior of infected bird”.
Selected Publications:
  • Mukhin A., Palinauskas V., Platonova E., Kobylkov D., Vakoliuk I., Valkiūnas G. 2016. The Strategy to Survive Primary Malaria Infection: An Experimental Study on Behavioural Changes in Parasitized Birds. PLoS ONE, 11(7): e0159216. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159216
  • Asghar M., Palinauskas V., Zaghdoudi-Allan N., Valkiūnas P., Mukhin A., Platonova E., Färnert A., Bensch S., Hasselquist D. 2016. Parallel telomere shortening in multiple body tissues owing to malaria infection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283(1836) https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1184
  • Ilgūnas, M., Bukauskaitė, D., Palinauskas, V., Iezhova, T., Fragner, K., Platonova, E., Weissenböck, H., Valkiūnas, G. 2019. Patterns of Plasmodium homocircumflexum virulence in experimentally infected passerine birds. Malaria Journal 18, 174. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2810-2
  • Ilgūnas, M., Palinauskas, V., Platonova, E., Iezhova, T., Valkiūnas, G. 2019. The experimental study on susceptibility of common European songbirds to Plasmodium elongatum (lineage pGRW6), a widespread avian malaria parasite. Malaria Journal 18, 290. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2926-4
  • Žiegytė, R., Platonova, E., Bernotienė, R., Valkiūnas, G., Palinauskas, V. 2020. Complete sporogony of the blood parasite Haemoproteus nucleocondensus in common biting midges: why is its transmission interrupted in Europe? Parasitology 14, 593–600. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182020000116
  • Palinauskas, V., Platonova, E., Žiegytė, R., Mukhin, A. 2020. Dynamics of blood stage and sporozoite-induced malarial infections in experimentally infected passerines. International Journal for Parasitology 50, 1057–1065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.05.015
  • Žiegytė, R., Platonova, E., Kinderis, E., Mukhin, A., Palinauskas, V., Bernotienė, R. 2021. Culicoides biting midges involved in transmission of haemoproteids. Parasites & Vectors 14, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04516-1
  • Platonova, E., Aželytė, J., Iezhova, T., Ilgūnas, M., Mukhin, A., Palinauskas, V. 2021. Experimental study of newly described avian malaria parasite Plasmodium (Novyella) collidatum n. sp., genetic lineage pFANTAIL01 obtained from South Asian migrant bird. Malaria Journal 20, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03588-3
  • Platonova, E., Palinauskas, V. 2021. The impact of temperature on the sporogonic development of tropical avian malaria parasites Plasmodium relictum (genetic lineage pGRW4) in Culex pipiens form molestus mosquitoes. Microorganisms 9, 2240. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112240
  • Aželytė, J., Platonova, E., Bensch, S., Hellgren, O., Palinauskas, V. A comparative analysis of the dynamics of Plasmodium relictum (GRW4) development in the blood during single and mixed infections. Acta Tropica 226, 106247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106247
  • Aželytė, J., Wu-Chuang, A., Žiegytė, R., Platonova, E., Mateos-Hernandez, L., Maye, J., Obregon, D., Palinauskas, V. and Cabezas-Cruz, A., 2022. Anti-microbiota vaccine reduces avian malaria infection within mosquito vectors. Frontiers in immunology 13, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.841835