Nazar A. Shapoval

ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/P-4411-2015
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=180844
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4735-2209
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=raJjtOwAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Nazar.Shapoval@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 651-71-95
Educational background: Saint-Petersburg State University, 2008
Dissertations: “Interspecific hybridization and hybrid speciation in Agrodiaetus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae).” (PhD)
Research interests: Lepidoptera, molecular biology, evolution and speciation.
Field studies: Russia, South Europe, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia.
Professional membership: Russian Entomological Society, https://www.zin.ru/societies/res/
Editorial activity: “Comparative Cytogenetics” (Subject Editor), https://compcytogen.pensoft.net
Pedagogical activity: “Basics of Cladistic Analysis” A series of lectures for students of Saint-Petersburg State University
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RSCF 14-04-00541 “Genetic structure and mechanisms of biological diversity formation in insects”
  • RFBR 17-04-00828 “Analysis of holokinetic chromosomes and their changes in evolution of insects”
  • RFBR 17-04-00754 “Biodiversity of the Lepidoptera of Russia: a review of the fauna based on the generalization of modern taxonomical, molecular and faunistic data”
  • RFBR 15-04-01581 “Experimental approach to analysis of mechanisms of homoploid hybrid speciation in butterflies”
  • RFBR 14-04-01051 “The regularities of genome evolution in insects with holokinetic chromosomes: the analysis of cytogenetic and molecular markers”
Selected Publications:
  • Lukhtanov V.A., Shapoval N.A. 2008. Detection of cryptic species in sympatry using population analysis of unlinked genetic markers: a study of the Agrodiaetus kendevani species complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Doclady Biological Sciences, 423: 432–436. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496608060197
  • Lukhtanov V.A., Shapoval N.A., Dantchenko A.V. 2014. Taxonomic position of several enigmatic Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Central and Eastern Iran: insights from molecular and chromosomal data. Comparative Cytogenetics, 8(4): 313–322. https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v8i4.8939
  • Lukhtanov V.A., Shapoval N.A., Anokhin B.A., Saifitdinova A.F., and Kuznetsova V.G. 2015. Homoploid hybrid speciation and genome evolution via chromosome sorting. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20150157. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0157
  • Shapoval N.A., Lukhtanov V.A. 2015. Intragenomic variations of multicopy ITS2 marker in Agrodiaetus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative Cytogenetics, 9(4): 483–497. https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v9i4.5429
  • Shapoval N.A., Luktanov V.A. 2015. Taxonomic interpretation of chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA variability in the species complex close to Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) dama (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Zookeys, 538: 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.538.6559
  • Shapoval N.A., Lukhtanov V.A. 2015. Taxonomic Position and Status of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) iphigenia (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Peloponnese, Southern Greece. Folia Biologica (Krakow), 63(4): 295–300. https://doi.org/10.3409/fb63_4.295
  • Shapoval n.A., Lukhtanov V.A. 2016. On the Generic Position of Polyommatus avinovi (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Folia Biologica (Krakow), 64(4): 267–273. https://doi.org/10.3409/fb64_4.267