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Victor V. Starunov
ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/H-4543-2013
Scopus Author ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55835079800
RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=180684
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9001-2069
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=6dg7z6EAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Victor.Starunov@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 328-06-12, ext. 213
Educational background: Saint-Petersburg State University, 2008
Dissertations: “Structure and development of the ventral brain in Nereidid polychaetes (Annelida).” (PhD)
Research interests: Evolutionary biology, developmental biology, zoology, marine biology, Annelida, complex life cycles.
Field studies: White Sea, Barents Sea, Sea of Japan, La-Manche.
Pedagogical activity:
  • Bachelor’s course “Fundamentals of Zoology: Articulata”, Saint-Petersburg State University.
  • Master’s course “Comparative Immunology: Common Immune and Ontogenic Mechanisms”, Saint-Petersburg State University.
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 12-04-31702 mol_a. “The role of unsegmented structures in segmented body organization. Morpho-functional organisation of the pygidium in several Polychaeta families” PI Starunov V.V.
  • RFBR 16-34-60134 mol_a_dk “Study of the terminal parts of the annelid body in ontogeny and phylogenesis”. PI Starunov V.V.
  • RFBR 15-29-02650 ofi_m. Compilation of open access database collection of microscopic samples: “Model objects diversity for neuroscience, developmental biology and biotechnology”. PI E.E. Voronezhskaya
  • RFBR 16-04-00782 а. “The mystery of orthonectids plasmodium nature”. PI G.S. Slyusarev
  • Grant of the RF President, “Molecular basis for the trematode life cycles realization”. PI V.V. Starunov
  • RFBR 19-34-90111. The genome of the Psilostomatidae trematode, as the key to understanding of the molecular basis of the redioid trematodes complex life cycles realization. PI V.V. Starunov
Selected Publications:
  • Kutyumov V.A., Predeus A.V., Starunov V.V., Maltseva A.L., Ostrovsky A.N. 2021. Mitochondrial gene order of the freshwater bryozoan Cristatella mucedo retains ancestral lophotrochozoan features. Mitochondrion, 59: 96-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mito.2021.02.003
  • Starunov V.V., Barmasova G.A., Nesterenko M.A.., Kulakova M.A., Novikova E.L. 2020. Pygospio elegans (Annelida: Spionidae) – an annelid model for regeneration studies. Invertebrate Zoology, 17(3): 247–266. https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.17.3.04
  • Nesterenko M., Starunov V., Shchenkov S., Maslova A., Denisova S., Granovich A., Dobrovolskij A., Khalturin K. 2020. Molecular signatures of the rediae, cercariae and adult worm stages in the complex life cycles of parasitic flatworms (Psilostomatidae, Trematoda). Parasites & Vectors. 2020. 13:559. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04424-4
  • Starunov, V. 2019. Musculature and innervation of the pygidium in Eunicida (Annelida: Errantia). Biological Communications. 64(1): 31–40. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2019.104
  • Starunov, V. V. 2019, The organization of musculature and the nervous system in the pygidial region of phyllodocid annelids. Zoomorphology, 138: 55–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-018-00430-4
  • Khabibulina, V. & Starunov, V. 2019. Musculature development in planuloids of Cassiopeia xamachana (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Zoomorphology, 138: 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-019-00444-6
  • Bondarenko, N., Bondarenko, A., Starunov, V. & Slyusarev, G. 2019.Comparative analysis of the mitochondrial genomes of Orthonectida: insights into the evolution of an invertebrate parasite species. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 294(3): 715–727. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-019-01543-1
  • Старунов В.В., Зайцева О.В. 2018. сравнительное исследование организации пигидия многощетинковых червей (Polychaeta) семейств Nephtyidae и Syllidae. Доклады Академии наук, 478(2): 245-248. https://doi.org/10.7868/S0869565218020263
  • Slyusarev G.S., Nesterenko M.A., Starunov V.V. 2019. The structure of the muscular and nervous systems of the male Intoshia linei (Orthonectida). Acta Zoologica. 100(4): 451–458. https://doi.org/10.1111/azo.12279
  • Lobov AA, Maltseva AL, Starunov VV., et al. 2018. LOSP: A putative marker of parasperm lineage in male reproductive system of the prosobranch mollusk Littorina obtusata. J Exp Zool Part B Mol Dev Evol, 330: 193–201. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.22803
  • Starunov V.V., Voronezhskaya E.E., Nezlin L.P. 2017. Development of the nervous system in Platynereis dumerilii (Nereididae, Annelida). Frontiers in Zoology, 14(27): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-017-0211-3
  • Maltseva A.L., Starunov V.V., Zykin P.A. 2016. Application of MALDI-MSI for detection of antimicrobial peptides in tissues of the marine invertebrate Arenicola marina. ISJ-Invertebrate Survival Journal, 13: 205-209.
  • Slyusarev G.S., Starunov V.V. 2016. The structure of the muscular and nervous systems of the female Intoshia linei (Orthonectida). Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 16(1): 65-71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-015-0246-2
  • Shunkina K.V., Zaytseva O.V., Starunov V.V., Ostrovsky A.N. 2015. Comparative morphology of the nervous system in three phylactolaemate bryozoans. Frontiers in Zoology, 12(28): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-015-0112-2
  • Viktor V. Starunov, Nicolas Dray, Elena V. Belikova, Pierre Kerner, Michel Vervoort, Guillaume Balavoine 2015 A metameric origin for the annelid pygidium? BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15(25): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0299-z
  • Maltseva A.L., Kotenko O.N., Kokryakov V.N., Starunov V.V., Krasnodembskaya A.D. 2014. Expression pattern of arenicins - the antimicrobial peptides of polychaete Arenicola marina. Frontiers in Physiology, 5(497): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2014.00497

 

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