Nataliya I. Abramson

ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/E-8001-2017
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=83720
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7387-5455
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=9udChBgAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: Senior Researcher
Position: Head of Laboratory, Leading Researcher
E-mail: Nataliya.Abramson@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 714-04-04
Educational background: Leningrad State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, 1982.
Dissertations: “True lemmings (Lemmini, Cricetidae, Rodentia):systematic position and evolution.” (PhD)
Research interests: Morphology, ecology, systematics, phylogeny, phylogeography, colonization history, paleontology of Pleistocene, molecular phylogeny, genesis of adaptations and speciation in mammals.
Field studies: Arctic tundra from Kola peninsula to Chukotka peninsula and adjacent islands, Kamchatka peninsula, Yakutia< Zabaikal’skii kraj, Verkhoyanskii Range, South Ural, Ol’khon Island, Amurskaya oblast’.
Professional membership: Theriological Society RAS
Editorial activity:
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 06-04-49294-а PI N.I.Abramson “Forest voles (Clethrionomyini, Arvicolinae, Rodentia)of Palearctic: phylogeny, taxonomy and colonization history inferred from combined analysis of data from variation of DNA markers, paleontology, morphology and comparative ethology”.
  • RFBR 09-04-01330-а PI N.I. Abramson “Reconstruction of evolutionary history, phylogeny and systematics of supraspecies taxa in the subfamily Arvicolinae (Myomorpha, Rodentia). Analysis of possibilities and limitations of molecular and morphological approaches”.
  • RFBR 12-04-01310-а PI N.I. Abramson “Phylogeny, systematics, adaptive radiation and historical biogeography of the subfamily Arvicolinae (Cricetidae, Rodentia): synthesis of molecular –genetic, morphological and paleontological data”.
  • RFBR 15-04-04602- а PI N.I.Abramson “Molecular –genetic studies of museum collections of rodents: phylogenetic and taxonomic aspects”.
  • RFBR 18-04- 00730-а PI N.I.Abramson “Molecular studies of formation of adaptations to the subterranean lifestyle in rodents of the Arvicolinae subfamily (Rodentia) in context of phylogenetic history”.
  • Russian Scientific Foundation (RNF) 19-74-20110 “Evolutionary history of the subfamily Arvicolinae (Cricetidae, Rodentia): взгляд со стороны генома”.
Selected Publications:
  • Lagerholm V.K., Sandoval-Castellanos E., Ehrich D., Abramson N.I., Nadachowski A., Kalthoff D.C., Germonpré M., Angerbjörn A., Stewart J.R., Dalén L. // On the origin of the Norwegian lemming // Molecular Ecology. 2014. Vol. 23(8). P. 2060-2071. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12698
  • Lebedev, V.S., Bannikova, A.A., Tesakov, A.S., Abramson, N.I. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Alticola (Cricetidae, Rodentia) as inferred from the sequence of the cytochrome b gene // Zoologica Scripta. 2007. Vol.36 (6), P. 547-563. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00300
  • Abramson N.I., Lebedev V.S., Tesakov A.S., Bannikova A.A. Supraspecies Relationships in the Subfamily Arvicolinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae): An Unexpected Result of Nuclear Gene Analysis // Molecular Biology. 2009. Vol. 43. № 5. P. 834-846. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496609050196
  • Bannikova, A.A., Lebedev, V.S., Lissovsky, A.A., Matrosova, V., Abramson, N.I., Obolenskaya, E.V., Tesakov, A.S. Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the Asian lineage of vole genus Microtus (Rodentia: Arvicolinae) inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence // Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2010. Vol.99 (3). P. 595-613 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01378.x
  • Abramson N.I., Petrova T.V., Dokuchaev N.E., Obolenskaya E.V., Lissovsky A.A Phylogeography of the Gray Red-Backed Vole Craseomys rufocanus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) Across the Distribution Range Inferred from Nonrecombining Molecular Markers // Russian Journal of Theriology. 2012. Vol. 11. № 2. P. 137-156.
  • Petrova T.V., Zakharov E.S., Samiya R., Abramson N.I. Phylogeography of the narrow-headed vole Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) gregalis (Cricetidae, Rodentia) inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences: An echo of Pleistocene prosperity // Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 2015. Vol. 53 (2). P. 97-108, https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12082
  • Palkopoulou E., Baca M., Abramson N.I., Sablin M., Socha P., Nadachowski A., Prost S., Germonpr M., Kosintsev P., Smirnov N.G., Vartanyan S., Ponomarev D., Nystrome J., Nikolskiy P., Jass C.N., Litvinov Yu.N., Kalthoff D.C., Grigoriev S., Fadeeva T., Douka A., Higham T.F.G., Ersmark E., Pitulko V., Pavlova E., Stewart J.R., Wezglenski P., Stankovic A., Dalén L. Synchronous genetic turnovers across Western Eurasia in Late Pleistocene collared lemmings // Global Change Biology. 2016. Vol. 22 (5). P. 1710-1721, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13214
  • Bodrov S.Y., Kostygov A.Y., Abramson N.I., Rudneva L.V.Revision of the taxonomic position of the Olkhon Mountain vole (Rodentia, Cricetidae) // Biology Bulletin. 2016. Vol. 43. № 2. P. 136-145.
  • Petrova T.V., Tesakov A.S., Kowalskaya Y.M., Abramson N.I. Cryptic speciation in the narrow-headed vole Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) gregalis (Rodentia: Cricetidae) // Zoologica Scripta. 2016. Vol. 45 (6). P. 618-629, https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12176
  • Lagerholm V.K., Norén K., Ehrich D., Ims R.A., Killengreen S.T, Abramson N.I., Niemimaa J., Angerbjörn A., Henttonen H., Dalén L. Run to the hills: Gene flow among mountain areas leads to low genetic differentiation in the Norwegian lemming // Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2017. Vol. 121 (1), P.1-4. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blw020
  • Lissovsky A.A., Petrova T. V., Yatsentyuk S. P., Golenishchev F. N., Putincev N. I., Kartavtseva I.V., Sheremetyeva I. N., Abramson N.I. Multilocus phylogeny and taxonomy of East Asian voles Alexandromys (Rodentia, Arvicolinae) // Zoologica Scripta. 2017. Vol. 47(1). P.9–20.
  • N. I. Abramson and T. V. Petrova. Genetic analysis of type material of the Amur lemming resolves nomenclature issues and creates challenges for the taxonomy of true lemmings (Lemmus, Rodentia: Cricetidae) in the eastern Palearctic // Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2018. Vol.182 (2). P. 465-467. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx044
  • Bondareva, O., Genelt–Yanovskiy, E., Abramson, N. Copse snail Arianta arbustorum (Linnaeus, 1758) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) in the Baltic Sea region: Invasion or range extension? Insights from phylogeographic analysis and climate niche modeling // Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 2020. Vol.58 (1). P. 221-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12350
  • Bondareva, O.V., Abramson, N.I. The complete mitochondrial genome of the common pine vole Terricola subterraneus (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) // Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources. 2019. VOL. 4, NO. 2. P. 3925–3926, https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2019.1687026
  • Bodrov S., Vasilieva V.K., Okhlopkov I.M., Mamaev N.M., Zakharov E.S., Oleinikov A. Yu., Genelt-Yanovskiy E. A. and Abramson N.I. Evolutionary history of mountain voles of the subgenus Aschizomys (Cricetidae, Rodentia), inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers.// Integrative Zoology 2020; 0: 00–00, https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12415