| Scientific projects and grants: |
- RSF 20-14-00049, PI A.L. Mukhin. The price to cope with avian malaria: physiological cost of choosing a different defense strategie.
- RFBR 10-04-00721-а, PI L.V. Sokolov. Causes and mechanisms of dispersal in passerine birds.
- RFBR 12-04-00497-а, PI A.L. Mukhin. From circadian clocks to habitat adaptations: phenomenon of diel rhythm shift in flight activity of passerine species in their life history stages.
- RFBR 15-04-00417-а, PI A.L. Mukhin. Avian malaria: how haemosporidian invasion affects behaviour of infected bird.
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| Selected Publications: |
- Erokhina M., Bushuev A., Platonova E., Khaitov V., Davydov A., Mukhin A. 2025. Dynamics of resting metabolic rate and innate immune response in malaria-infected Eurasian siskins. J Current Zoology x(x): xx-xx. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaf015. In press.
- Erokhina M.M., Bushuev A.V., Palinauskas V., Platonova E.V., Mukhin A. 2024. Intensity of Haemoproteus spp. blood infection differs between wild birds captured using different trapping methods. Biological Communications 69(3): 192-199. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2024.307
- Züst Z., Mukhin A., Taylor P.D., Schmaljohann H. 2023. Pre-migratory flights in migrant songbirds: the ecological and evolutionary importance of understudied exploratory movements. Movement Ecology 11(78): https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00440-y
- Platonova E., Aželytė J., Iezhova T., Ilgūnas M., Mukhin A. & Palinauskas V. 2021. Experimental study of newly described avian malaria parasite Plasmodium (Novyella) collidatum n. sp., genetic lineage pFANTAIL01 obtained from South Asian migrant bird. Malaria J 20(82). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03588-3
- Palinauskas V., Platonova E., Žiegytė R., Mukhin A. 2020. Dynamics of blood stage and sporozoite-induced malarial infections in experimentally infected passerines. International J Parasitology 50(13): 1057-1065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.05.015
- Mukhin A., Kobylkov, D., Kishkinev D. & Grinkevich V. 2018. Interrupted breeding in a songbird migrant triggers development of nocturnal locomotor activity. Scientific Reports 8: 5520 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23834-0
- Mukhin A., Palinauskas V., Platonova E., Kobylkov D., Vakoliuk I., Valkiūnas G. 2016. The Strategy to Survive Primary Malaria Infection: An Experimental Study on Behavioural Changes in Parasitized Birds. PLoS ONE, 11(7): e0159216. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159216
- Asghar M., Palinauskas V., Zaghdoudi-Allan N., Valkiūnas P., Mukhin A., Platonova E., Färnert A., Bensch S., Hasselquist D. 2016. Parallel telomere shortening in multiple body tissues owing to malaria infection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283(1836) https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1184
- Kobylkov D., Kosarev V., Mukhin A. 2014. Fuel for the road: the pre-migratory fuel loading of adult Eurasian Reed Warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus). Journal of Ornithology, 155(4): 979–986. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-014-1084-2
- Mukhin A. Grinkevich V., Helm B. 2009. Under Cover of Darkness: Nocturnal Life of Diurnal Birds. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 24(3): 225–231. https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730409335349
- Mukhin A., Chernetsov N., Kishkinev D. 2008. Acoustic information as a distant cue for habitat recognition by nocturnally migrating passerines during landfall. Behavioral Ecology, 19(4): 716-723. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arn025
- Mukhin A., Kosarev V., Ktitorov P. 2005. Nocturnal life of young songbirds well before migration. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 272 (1572): 1535-1539. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3120
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