Ludmila V. Chistyakova

Web of Science ResearcherID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAE-2379-2020
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=88995
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7192-1198
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=7BuKM5gAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Ludmila.Chistyakova@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 735-78-57
Educational background: Leningrad State University, 1993
Dissertations: “Genus Pelomyxa Greeff, 1874 (pelomyxae) – morphology, biology and phylogeny.” (PhD)
Research interests: Protistology, anaerobic protists, symbiotic associations, taxonomy, phylogeny,biodiversity, morphology, life cycles, ultrastructure.
Field studies: North-West of Russia.
Professional membership: Interregional Russian Microbiological Society, http://microbiosociety.ru
Pedagogical activity: Supervision of students of the Faculty of Biology, SPSU
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RSF 23-24-00240 Comprehensive analysis of communities of ciliates - endobionts of the digestive tract of odd-toed ungulates under conditions of long-term captivity Pl Chistyakova L.V.
  • RSF 24-44 00096. Mechanisms of community assembly of amoeboid protist in anthropogenic ecosystems of urban parks in megacities of Russia and China Pl Smirnov A.V.
  • RFBR 18-04-00138 а PI A.O. Frolov “Trypanosomatids and their prokaryotic endosymbionts: cophylogeny and a diversity of symbiotic associations”.
  • RFBR 16-04-01454 а PL A.V. Smirnov “Evolution, phylogeny and systematics of amoebae of the class Tubulinea (Amoebozoa, Lobosa)”.
  • RFBR 15-04-00396-a PI A.O. Frolov “A comprehensive analysis of cytobiontic communities of the archamoebas (Amoebozoa, Archamoebae)”.
  • RFBR 11-04-00217-а PI A.O. Frolov “Experimental and theoretical analysis of a phylogenetic concept of Conosa”.
  • RFBR 08-04-00176-а PI A.O. Frolov “Experimental and theoretical analysis of a phylogenetic concept of Archamoebae”.
Selected Publications:
  • Chistyakova L. V., A. O. Frolov. 2011. Light and electron microscopic study of Pelomyxa stagnalis sp. n. (Archamoebae, Pelobiontida) Cell and Tissue Biology. 5(1), 90-97 https://doi.org/10.1134/s1990519x11010044
  • Frolov A. O., L. V. Chystyakova, M. N. Malysheva. 2011. Light and electron microscopic study of Pelomyxa flava sp.n. (Archamoebae, Pelobiontida). Cell and Tissue Biology. 5(1), 81–89. https://doi.org/10.1134/s1990519x1101007x
  • Chystyakova L. V., O. A. Miteva, A. O. Frolov. 2012. Morphology of Mastigamoeba aspera Schulze, 1875 Cell and Tissue Biology. 6(2), 189 – 196 https://doi.org/10.1134/s1990519x1202005
  • Chystyakova L. V., O. A. Miteva, A. O. Frolov, S.O. Skarlato. 2013. Comparative morphology of the Subphilum Conosa Cavalier-Smith 1998. Tsytologia. 55 (11), 778 – 787.
  • E. Ptáˇcková, A. Yu. Kostygov, L. V. Chistyakova, L. Falteisek, A. O. Frolov, D. J. Patterson, G.Walker, I. Cepicka 2013 Evolution of Archamoebae: Morphological and Molecular Evidence for Pelobionts Including Rhizomastix, Entamoeba, Iodamoeba, and Endolimax Protist. 164 (3), 380 – 410 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2012.11.005
  • L.V. Chistyakova, M.A. Berdieva, A.O. Frolov, A.V. Goodkov. 2014. Reisolation and redescription of pelobiont Pelomyxa paradoxa Penard, 1902 (Archamoebae, Pelobiontida) Cell and Tissue Biology. 56 (10), 770–778 https://doi.org/10.1134/s1990519x14060029
  • Chistyakova L. V., A. Yu. Kostygov, O. A. Kornilova, V. Yurchenko. 2014. Reisolation and redescription of Balantidium duodeniStein, 1867 (Litostomatea, Trichostomatia). Parasitology Research. 113 (11), 4207 – 4215 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-014-4096-1
  • Berdieva M. A., L. V. Chistyakova, O. A. Miteva, A. O. Frolov, A. V. Goodkov. 2015. A light and electron microscopic study of Pelomyxa secunda (Gruber, 1884) comb. nov. (Archamoebae, Pelobiontida). Cell and Tissue Biology 9(2), 158–165 https://doi.org/10.1134/s1990519x15020029
  • Chistyakova L. V., Berdieva M. A., Kostygov A.Y., Frolov A. O. 2016. Diversity of symbiotic consortia of prokaryotes in the cells of pelomyxids (Archamoeba, Pelomyxidae). Protistology. 10(1), 13–25.
  • Kornilova O.A., Chistyakova L.V., Kostygov A. Yu. 2016. The status of the species Balantidium elongatum from the gut of european common frog. Protistology. 10(2), 37.
  • G. Gutierres, L.V. Chistyakova, E. Villalobo, A.Y. Kostygov, A.O. Frolov. 2017. Identification of Pelomyxa palustris Endosymbionts. Protist. 168 (4), 408–424 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2017.06.001
  • Rudakova A.V., A.V. Emeline, K.M. Bulanin, L.V. Chistyakova, V.V. Maevskaya, D.W.Bahnemann. 2018. Self-cleaning properties of zirconium dioxide thin films. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry. 367, 397–405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2018.08.037
  • Adl, S.M., Bass, D., Lane, C.E. (…),Chistyakova L.V., (…), Zlatogursky, V., Zhang, Q. 2019. Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes. J. Euk. Microbiol. 66(1), 4-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12691
  • Kamyshatskaya O., Mesentsev Y., Chistyakova L. and Smirnov, A. 2019. Light-microscopic morphology and ultrastructure of Polychaos annulatum (Penard, 1902) Smirnov et Goodkov, 1998 (Amoebozoa, Tubulinea, Euamoebida), re-isolated from the surroundings of St. Petersburg (Russia). Protistology, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12691
  • Chistyakova L., Bezborodkina N., Berdieva M., Radaev A., Goodkov A. 2020.The nature and features of organization of reserve polysaccharides in three Pelomyxa species (Archamoebea, Pelobiontida). Protoplasma. 257(6):1701–1708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709-020-01546-5
  • Kornilova O., Tsushko K., Chistyakova L. 2020 The first record of intestinal ciliates from Mountain Zebra in South Africa // Acta protozoologica.59, 149–155. https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.20.012.13267
  • Chistyakova L., Berdieva M., Tsarev V., Frolov A. 2020. Variation of the microtubular cytoskeleton organization in representatives of the genus Pelomyxa (Amoebozoa, Archamoebae, Pelobiontida) // Protistology. 14 (3) 147–159. https://doi.org/10.21685/1680-0826-2020-14-3
  • Kornilova O.A., Radaev A.V., Chistyakova L.V. 2021. Intestinal ciliates (Ciliophora) from the wild plains zebra (Equus quagga) in South Africa, with notes on the microtubule cytoskeleton organisation // Eur. J. Protistol.81. 125842 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2021.125842
  • Chistyakova L., Berdieva M., Goodkov A., Frolov A. 2021. A forgotten Pelomyxa species: redescription of Pelomyxa tarda Gruber, 1887 (Archamoebae, Pelobiontida)//Protistology. 15 (4), 294–303 https://doi.org/10.21685/1680-0826-2021-15-4-5
  • Bogolyubov D., Chistyakova L., Goodkov A.. 2022. Glomerulosomes: morphologically distinct nuclear organelles of unknown nature // Protoplasma https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709-022-01742-5
  • Chistyakova L., Berdieva M., Goodkov A., Frolov A. 2022. Pelomyxa doughnuta sp. nov. (Archamoebea, Pelobiontida) with an unusual nucleus-glycogen association // J. Eukar. Microbiol.12889. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12889
  • Chistyakova L.V., Kostygov A.Yu., Goodkov A.V., Radaev A.V., Frolov A.O. 2023. Phylogenetic position of the pelobiont Mastigamoeba aspera and revision of the family Mastigamoebidae (Archamoebae, Pelobiontida). European Journal of Protistology 91: 126029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2023.126029
  • Kornilova O.A., Belokon M.E., Skazina M.A., Alekseeva O.S., Chistyakova L.V. 2023. Ciliates from the intestine of zoo-kept black rhinoceros, with immunofluorescence microscopic and molecular phylogenetic investigation of Rhinozeta rhinozeta (Litostomatea). European Journal of Protistology. 90: 126006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2023.126006
  • Kornilova O.A., Ganyukova A.I., Belokon M.E., Platonov V.V., Chistyakova L.V. 2023. Ciliates from the faeces of the free-ranging dromedary from Oman: Morphology and molecular phylogeny. Protist. 174: 125993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2023.125993