Marine Research Laboratory

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Laboratory of marine studies since its formation in 1960 works in the following main directions: taxonomy and systematics of zoobenthos, estimation of biodiversity, and biogeographical and synecological zoning. Studies are performed with the use of traditional methods and innovation technologies of molecular biology, biostatistics, ecology, and geoinformatics. Many results are world known and obtained in cooperation with foreign colleagues from leading museums and scientific institutions, being supported by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Arctic Council. Regions of investigations cover the Arctic and Antarctic, far eastern seas of Russia, tropical waters of the Pacific, and Pont-Caspian region.

In 2010–2020, the stuff of the laboratory had published 14 keys and monographs, about 300 papers on systematics and ecology of different rank zootaxa and communities on the whole. 130 new for science invertebrate species of 17 genera and 3 families were described, inventory of the zoobenthic fauna of Arctic and Russian Far Eastern seas was performed, and the system of the class Holoturoidea (Echinodermata) was renovated. Ecological studies revealed regularities of biodiversity and quantitative development of zoobenthos in Arctic and far eastern seas in dependence of hydrological factors and anthropogenic influence, in particular, of the intensity of fishery. Together with operative publishing the obtained data are deposited in international databases, such as the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and the European resource MarBEF Data System (Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning).

Staff

17 doctors and 27 candidates of science were trained at the laboratory.

Currently, the laboratory staff counted 18 researchers, 4 research assistants and collection keepers.

Stanislav G. Denisenko (Head of Laboratory, Senior Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences)

Boris A. Anokhin (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Sergey Yu. Gagaev (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Sergei D. Grebelnyi (Leading Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences)

Nina V. Denisenko (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Natalia E. Zhuravliova (Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Denis V. Zakharov (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Natalia Yu. Ivanova (Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Pavel V. Kijashko (Leading Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Elena L. Markhaseva (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Grigori S. Morozov (Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Nadezhda B. Ovchankova (Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Elena G. Panina (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Boris I. Sirenko (Principal Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences)

Alexey V. Smirnov (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Igor S. Smirnov (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Elena V. Soldatenko (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Ekaterina A. Stratanenko (Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Denis V. Tumanov (Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Elena M. Chaban (Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences)

Olga V. Bozhenova (Senior Collection Keeper)

Olga L. Zimina (Curator of Сollections)

Tatyana N. Konina (Research Assistant)

Alisa V. Mikhailova (Curator of Сollections)

Ekaterina A. Nefedova (Senior Collection Keeper)

Raisa A. Pikalova (Senior Collection Keeper)

Vladislav V. Potin (Senior Collection Keeper)

Topic of State Assignment

“Taxonomy, biodiversity and ecology of invertebrates of the Russian and adjacent waters of the World Ocean, continental ponds and wetlands”
PI: Head of Laboratory, Doctor of Biological Sciences S.G. Denisenko
No. 122031100275-4

Collections

Stock collections stored in the laboratory are the largest in Russia. They contain more than 15,000 species of marine and freshwater invertebrates and about 1,700,000 storage units, including digitized Sea Star Collection (Class Asteroidea), Brittle Star Collection (Class Ophiuroidea), Sea Urchin Collection (Class Echinoidea) and Sea Cucumber Collection (Class Holothuroidea).

Main publications of the Laboratory staff

Anokhin B.A., Kuznetsova V.G. 2018 FISH-based karyotyping of Pelmatohydra oligactis (Pallas, 1766), Hydra oxycnida Schulze, 1914, and H. magnipapillata Itô, 1947 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) Comparative Cytogenetics 12(4): 539-548. https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v12i4.32120

Chaban E.M., Ekimova I.A., Schepetov D.M., Chernyshev A.V. 2022. The new genus Aglaona: the first abyssal aglajid (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea: Aglajidae) with a description of two new species from the North-Western Pacific Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196(1): 198-214. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab115

Denisenko N.V. 2023. Species richness and diversity patterns of bryozoans of the Arctic region: spatial variation of bryozoan diversity. In: M.M. Key, J.S. Porter and P.N. Wyse Jackson (eds). Bryozoan Studies 2022. Proceedings of the nineteenth international Bryozoology association conference. London, CRC Press (Taylor &Francis Group). C. 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003454915

Denisenko N.V., Denisenko S.G. 2023. Large-Scale Variation in Diversity of Biomass-Dominating Key Bryozoan Species in the Seas of the Eurasian Sector of the Arctic // Diversity, V.15, paper N: 604. P.129-147. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15050604

Denisenko, S.G., J.M. Grebmeier, and L.W. Cooper. 2015. Assessing bioresources and standing stock of zoobenthos (key species, high taxa, trophic groups) in the Chukchi Sea. Oceanography 28(3):146-157, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.63. Polar Biology (2019) 42:1703-1717 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-02455-3

Gagaev S.Yu. 2024. A new species the genus Chaetozone (Annelida: Cirratulidae) from the seaward part of Chaunskaya Bay in the East Siberian Sea (Russia) // Zoosystematica Rossica, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 237-243. https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2024.33.2.237

Goodwin C., Dinn C., Nefedova E., Nijhof F., Murillo F., Nozères C. 2021. Two new species of encrusting sponge (Porifera, family Crellidae) from eastern Canada // Canadian Journal of Zoology 99(9): 760-772. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2021-0041

Grebelnyi S. D., Ivanova N. Yu. and Quyet Do Huu. Notes on morphology, distribution and bionomics of Phyllodiscus semoni Kwietniewski, 1897 (Anthozoa: Actiniaria: Aliciidae) // Zoosystematica Rossica. 2023. V. 31. No. 2. P. 331-341. https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2023.32.2.331

Grebelnyi S. D., Ivanova N. Yu. Significance of Symmetry Features for the Classification of Anthozoa. // Paleontological Journal. 2023. V. 57. No. 11. P. 2-21. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030123110059

Ivanova N.Yu. 2021. Morphological description of Arctic sea anemone Haliactis arctica Carlgren, 1921 and taxonomic status of Halcampactinidae Carlgren, 1921 and Haliactinidae Carlgren, 1921 // Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Vol. 101, No. 4, 2021. - pp. 685-697. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315421000576

Markhaseva E.L. 2023. New Benthopelagic Calanoids (Copepoda: Clausocalanoidea) of the deep Japan Sea // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS Vol. 327, No. 2, 2023.- pp. 263-287. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2023.327.2.263

Sirenko B. 2024. Composition of species of the genus Amicula Gray, 1847(Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Zoosystematica Rossica, 33(2): 363-382. https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2024.33.2.3630

Sirenko B. I. 2024. New genus and two new species of brooding chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from North-Western Pacific. Zootaxa. 5492(4): 505-529. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5492.4.2

Smirnov A.V. 2021. Origin of the Class Holothuroidea // Paleontological Journal. Vol. 55. No. 7, - pp. 766-786. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121070108

Soldatenko E.V., Shatrov A.B., Petrov A.A, Prosorova 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

Denisenko S. G., Denisenko N. V., Chaban E. M., Gagaev S. Yu., Petryashov V. V., Zhuravleva N. E., A. A. Sukhotin The current status of the macrozoobenthos around the Atlantic walrus haulouts in the Pechora Sea (SE Barents Sea) // Polar Biol., Vol. 42, H. 1703-1717. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-02455-3

Tumanov, D.V., Shunatova, N.N., Fedyuk, K.A., 2024. Integrative description of Grevenius annulatus (Eutardigrada, Isohypsibioidea) from North-West Russia with new data on the species cuticular structure leads to the institution of a new genus. Zoologica Scripta, https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12703

Zhuravleva N.E., Denisenko S.G. 2020. Biodiversity and distribution of hydropolyps (Hydrozoa) in the Barents and adjacent waters of the Norwegian Sea (based on the results of benthos collection during the PINRO expeditions in 2003-2008) // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 324, No. 4, 2020, pp. 548-563. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2020.324.4.548

Zakharov D.V., Manushin I.E., Jorgensen L.L., Strelkova N.A. The influence of the Red king crab and snow crab on the megabenthos communities of the Barents Sea. Marine Biological Journal. 2024. Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 32-50. https://doi.org/10.21072/mbj.2024.09.1.03

Mikhailova A.V., Denisenko S.G. 2023. Preliminary results of the inventory of ascidian faunas in the seas of the Russian Arctic // Transactions of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vol. 327, No. 2, P. 295-302. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2023.327.2.295

Stratanenko, E.A. Study of the growth of the sea lily Heliometra glacialis (Owen 1833 ex Leach MS) (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) by ring-shaped marks formed in the structure of their brachialia // Zoological journal. - 2024. - Vol. 103, No. 9. - P. 46-52. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0044513424090051

Smirnov I.S., Lobanov A.L., Smirnov A.V. 2019. Echinoderm Collections of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, as Information Base for Fundamental Biological Investigation // Acta Scientific Medical Sciences, 3.12: 85-102. https://doi.org/10.31080/ASMS.2019.03.0475

Ovchankova N.B., Krasheninnikov A.B. The first record of Gyraulus cf. acronicus (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Planorbidae) in waterbodies of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago // Fauna norvegica, 2023 Vol. 42: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.5324/fn.v42i0.4917

Monographs of the Laboratory staff

Illustrated keys to free-living invertebrates of the Eurasian seas and adjacent deep-water parts of the Arctic. Volume 3. Cnidarians, comb jellies / Sirenko B.I. (ed.). Moscow: KMK, 2012. 237 p.

Buzhinskaya G.N. Polychaete worms (Polychaeta) of the Far Eastern seas of Russia and adjacent waters of the Pacific Ocean: annotated list of species, bibliography. Moscow: KMK Scientific Publications Partnership. 2013. 131 p.

Josefson A.B., Mokievsky V. Bergmann M., Blicher M. E., Bluhm B., Cochrane S., Denisenko N.V., Hasemann Ch.,. Jørgensen L. L., Klages M., Schewe I., Sejr M. K., Soltwedel Th., Wesławski J.M., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M. 2013. Marine invertebrates. In: Arctic Biodiversity Assessment: Status and Trends in Arctic Biodiversity. Akureyri: CAFF. p. 277-309.

List of species of free-living invertebrates of the Russian Far Eastern seas. In: Studies of the fauna of the seas / edited by B.I. Sirenko. St. Petersburg, 2013. Issue 75. No. 83. 256 p.

Bogutskaya N.G., Kiyashko P.V., Naseka A.M., Orlova M.I. 2013. Identification of fish and invertebrates of the Caspian Sea. T. 1. Fishes and Mollusks. - SPb.; M.: KMK Scientific Publications Partnership. 543 p. ISBN 978-5-87317-932-9

Denisenko S.G. 2013. Biodiversity and Bioresources of the Barents Sea Macrozoobenthos: Structure and Long-Term Changes - SPb.: Nauka. 284 p.

Grozeva S., Anokhin B.A., Kuznetsova V.G. 2015. Bedbugs (Hemiptera). Protocols for cytogenetic mapping of arthropod genomes. CRC Press, Taylor and Francias Group, 526 p. Ed. I. Sharakhov. P. 285-326. https://doi.org/10.1201/b17450-9

Kiyashko P.V. 2016. Mollusks. In the book: Key to zooplankton and zoobenthos of fresh waters of European Russia. Vol. 2. Zoobenthos / Alekseev V.R., Tsalolikhin S.Ya. (eds.). M-SPb.: KMK Scientific Publications Partnership. Pp. 8-29. ISBN 978-5-9907572-4-O

Kiyashko P.V., Soldatenko E.V., Vinarsky M.V. 2016. Class gastropods - Gastropoda Cuvier, 1797. In the book: Key to zooplankton and zoobenthos of fresh waters of European Russia. Vol. 2. Zoobenthos. / Alekseev V.R., Tsalolikhin S.Ya. (eds.). Appendix: Freshwater mollusks of the north and northwest of European Russia. / Ed. P. V. Kiyashko. Moscow-St. Petersburg: KMK Scientific Publications Partnership. Pp. 335-438 + 4 color incl. ISBN 978-5-9907572-4-O

Bogatov V. V., Kiyashko P. V. 2016. Class bivalve mollusks - Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 In the book: Key to zooplankton and zoobenthos of fresh waters of European Russia. Vol. 2. Zoobenthos / Alekseev V. R., Tsalolikhin S. Ya. (eds.). Supplement: Freshwater mollusks of the north and northwest of European Russia. / Ed. P. V. Kiyashko. Moscow-St. Petersburg: KMK Scientific Publications Partnership. Pp. 285-334 + 4 color incl. ISBN 978-5-9907572-4-O

Kos M.S. Copepods of the families Stephidae and Temoridae (Copepoda: Calanoida) of the seas of Russia and adjacent waters. [Keywords on the fauna. Issue 179]. St. Petersburg, 2016, 108 p.

Tumanov, D.V., 2016. Tardigrades. Chapter in the monograph. Keyword to zooplankton and zoobenthos of fresh waters of European Russia. Volume 2. Zoobenthos. Scientific Publications Association KMK, 457 p.

Species diversity of biota and distribution of bottom communities in Prydz Bay, Commonwealth Sea (East Antarctica) (ed. by B.I. Sirenko, S.Yu. Gagaev and I.S. Smirnov): Chapter 2. SPb, Studies of the fauna of the seas, Vol. 76(84), Results of biological studies of the Russian Antarctic expedition, SPb., 2017. 117 p

Jankowski T., Anokhin B. 2019. Chapter 4: Phylum Cnidaria. Keys to Palaearctic Fauna. Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates - Volume IV, Academic press, an imprint of Elsevier, p. 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385028-7.00004-4

Denisenko S.G., Denisenko N.V. 2021. Zoobenthos of the Barents Sea. In: Lisitsyn A.P. (ed.) Barents Sea System. Moscow, GEOS. P.581-611. ISBN 978-5-89118-825-9, 978-5-6045110-0-8

Grischenko A.V., Gordon D.P., Taylor P.D., Kuklinski P., Denisenko N.V., Ostrovsky A.N. 2022. Taxonomy, ecology and zoogeography of the Recent species of Rhamphostomella Lorenz, 1886 and Mixtoscutella n. gen. (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand // Zootaxa, v. 5131, No. 1, 115p. ISBN 978-1-77688-507-7 ISBN 978-1-77688-506-0 (paperback) (Online edition). http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5131.1.1

Denisenko N.V. 2023. Species richness and diversity patterns of bryozoans of the Arctic region: spatial variation of bryozoan diversity. In: M.M. Key, J.S. Porter and P.N. Wyse Jackson (eds). Bryozoan Studies 2022. Proceedings of the nineteenth international Bryozoology association conference. London, CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group). pp. 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003454915

Vinarski M.V., Kijashko P.V., Andreeva S.I., Sitnikova T.Ya., Yanina T.A. 2024. Atlas and catalog of the living mollusks of the Aral and Caspian Seas. Vita Malacologica, Vol. 23.124 p. ISBN 978-3-948603-50-2

Laboratory staff participate in the following grants

RFBR No. 19-54-53028_a. “Comparative analysis of the Ophiura sarsii Lütken, 1855 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) populations in the seas of the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans: morphology, genetics and linear growth” (PI S.A. Nazarova).

RFBR No. 18-05-60157_a. “Сentury-long changes in the bottom ecosystems of the Russian Arctic seas, the current state and forecast” (PI S.G. Denisenko).

RFBR No. 16-34-00682_a. “Winter in the tidal zone: winter conditions impact to the bivalve population recruitment in the White Sea (with the specific reference to Macoma balthica)” (PI S.A. Nazarova).