To the 90 years anniversary of Petr Petrovich Gambaryan

O.V. Zherebtsova and G.E. Zubtsova

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 2015, 319(3): 307–318   ·   https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2015.319.3.307

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Abstract

Biography and list of main publications of Petr Petrovich Gambaryan, an outstanding scientist, famous specialist in the functional morphology of mammals, is provided in connection with his 90 years anniversary.

Key words

biography, Gambaryan Petr Petrovich, locomotor apparatus, mammals, musculature, skeleton, theriology, functional morphology, evolution

Submitted July 30, 2015  ·  Accepted August 31, 2015  ·  Published September 25, 2015

References

Gambaryan P.P. 1949. Adaptive peculiarities of forelimbs of the rock mole-rat (Spalax leucodon nehringi Satunin). Abstract of the Candidate of biological sciences thesis. Yerevan, 9 p. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. 1960. Adaptive features of the locomotor organs in fossorial mammals. Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk Armyanskoy SSR, Yerevan, 195 p. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. 1972. The running of mammals. Adaptive features of locomotor organs. Nauka, Leningrad, 334 p. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. 1974. How mammals run. Anatomical adaptations. J. Wiley and Sons, New-York, 367 р.

Gambaryan P.P. 1989. Evolution of facial musculature of mammals. Nauka, Leningrad, 148 p. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. 1993. Facial musculature. In: V.E. Sokolov (Ed.). Ondatra. Morphology, systematics, ecology. Nauka, Moscow: 112–120. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. 1998. Evolution of scapulocoracoid in synapsid tetrapod. Zhurnal obshchey biologii, 59(6): 623–639. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. and Aristov A.A. 1981. Musculature and skeleton. In: The European red vole. N.V. Bashenina (Ed.). Nauka, Moscow: 53–84. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P., Aristov А.А., Dixon J.М. and Zubtsova G.Ye. 2002. Peculiarities of the hind limb musculature in monotremes: an anatomical description and functional approach. Russian Journal of Theriology, 1(1): 1–36. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.01.1.01

Gambaryan P.P. and Averianov A.O. 2001. Femur of a morganucodontid mammal from the Middle Jurassic of Central Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 46(1): 99–112.

Gambaryan P.P. and Dukel’skaya N.M. 1955. The rat. Sovetskaya nauka, Moscow, 255 p. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. and Gasc J.P. 1993. Adaptive properties of the musculoskeletal system in the mole-rat Myospalax myospalax (Mammalia, Rodentia), cinefluorographical, anatomical, biomechanical analyses of burrowing. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Anatomie und Ontogenie der Tiere, 123(4): 363–401.

Gambaryan P.P., Gasc J.P. and Renous S. 2002. Cinefluorographical study of the burrowing movements in the common mole, Talpa europaea (Lipotyphla, Talpidae). Russian Journal of Theriology, 1(2): 91–110. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.01.2.03

Gambaryan P.P., Gudkov V.M. and Sukhanov V.B. 1979. Skeletal muscles (Chapter 3). In: V.E. Sokolov (Ed.). The European bison. Morphology, systematics, evolution, ecology. Nauka, Moscow: 196–291. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. and Kielan-Jaworowska Z. 1995. Masticatory musculature of Asian taeniolabidoid multituberculate mammals. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 40(1): 45–108.

Gambaryan P.P. and Kielan-Jaworowska Z. 1997. Sprawling versus parasagittal stance in multituberculate mammals. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 42(1): 13–44.

Gambaryan P.P., Kuznetsov A.N., Panyutina A.A. and Gerasimov S.V. 2015. Shoulder girdle and forelimb myology of extent Monotremata. Russian Journal of Theriology, 14(1): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.14.1.01

Gambaryan P.P. and Sukhanov V.B. 1979. Biomechanic of locomotor apparatus in the European bison. In: V.E. Sokolov (Ed.). The European bison. Morphology, systematics, evolution, ecology. Nauka, Moscow: 292–327. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. and Sukhanov V.B. 1986. Structure, functions and adaptative features of skeletal musculature of the manatee (Chapter 5). In: V.E. Sokolov (Ed.). The manatee. Morphological adaptations. Nauka, Moscow: 188–305. [In Russian].

Gambaryan P.P. and Zherebtsova O.V. 2014. Short muscles of the hand and foot in Laonastes aenigmamus (Rodentia: Diatomyidae) and some other rock-dwellers. Russian Journal of Theriology, 13(2): 83–95. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.13.2.04

Gambaryan P.P., Zherebtsova O.V. and Perepelova A.A. 2013. Comparative analysis of forelimb musculature in Laonastes aenigmamus (Rodentia: Diatomyidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 317(3): 226–245.

Kielan-Jaworowska Z. and Gambaryan P.P. 1994. Postcranial anatomy and habits of Asian multituberculate mammals. Fossils and Strata, Scandinavian University Press, Oslo–Copenhagen–Stockholm, 36: 1–92.

Pridmore P.A., Rich T.H., Vickers-Rich P. and Gambaryan P.P. 2005. A tachyglossid-like humerus from the Early Cretaceous of south-eastern Australia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 12(3–4): 359–378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-005-6959-9

Sukhanov V.B., Gambaryan P.P. and Klykov V.I. 1986. Specificity of the forelimb skeleton of the manatee. In: V.E. Sokolov (Ed.). The manatee. Morphological adaptations. Nauka, Moscow: 157–187. [In Russian].

 

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