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Leonid L. Voyta
ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/K-5665-2018
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=169366
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0167-9401
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=pHDO7gQAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Leonid.Voyta@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7(812) 328-13-11
Educational background: Zabaikalsky State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Biology and Geography, Chair of Ecology, 2002.
Dissertations: “Ecologo-morphological analysis of populations of Microtus maximowiczii Schrenk, 1858 (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in Transbaikalia.” (PhD)
Research interests: Systematics, morphology, zoogeography, phylogeny of Mammals (Lypotiphla, Rodentia); taxonomy and methods of morphological analysis; computed micro-tomography.
Field studies: East Siberia, northern Far East, East Europe, Central and West Asia.
Professional membership: Theriological Society of Russia at the RAS, http://therio.ru
Editorial activity: Associate Editor of the Russian Journal of Theriology, http://zmmu.msu.ru/rjt/
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 14-04-07021: “Publication of the Identification Guide "The Mammals of Fauna of Russia and Adjacent Territories. Lipotyphlans" "” (2014);
  • RFBR 19-04-00049: “Taxonomic diversity of the extinct crocidosoricine shrews, and origin of extant subfamilies Soricinae and Crocidurinae (Lipotyphla: Soricidae)” (2019–2021);
  • RSF № 22-24-00510: “Analysis of the small mammal morphospace dynamics within palaeocommunities through new algorithms based on the twoand three-dimensional geometric morphometrics approaches”
Selected Publications:
  • Voyta L.L., Omelko V.E., Petrova E.A. Analysis of the morphometrics variability and intraspecific structure of Sorex minutissimus zimmermann, 1780 (Lipotyphla: Soricidae) in Russia// Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 2013. Vol. 317. No. 3. P. 332–351.
  • Lavrenchenko L.A., Voyta L.L., Hutterer R. Diversity of shrews in Ethiopia, with the description of two new species of Crocidura (Mammalia: Lipotyphla: Soricidae) // Zootaxa. 2016. Vol. 4196. P. 038–060.
  • Voyta L.L. Age related cranial characters from the viewpoint of species identification of Amur and Daurian hedgehogs (Lipotyphla: Erinaceidae) // Russian Journal of Theriology. 2017. Vol. 16. No. 2. P. 176–184. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.16.2.06
  • Voyta L.L., Zazhigin V.S. A primer of correction of quantitative data of extinct shrews crocidosoricinae (Lipotyphla: Soricidae) using statistic tests // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 2017. Vol. 321. No. 3. P. 326–338.
  • Zazhigin V.S., Voyta L.L. A new middle Miocene crocidosoricine shrew from the Mongolian Shargain Gobi Desert // Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 2018. Vol. 63. No. 1. P. 171–187. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00396.2017
  • Golenishchev F.N., Voyta L.L., Moroldoev I.V., Abramson N.I., Petrova T.V., Kartavtseva I.V. New Transbaikalian finds of the Muja Valley Vole (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Alexandromys mujanensis) // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 2018. Vol. 322. No. 3. P. 357–384. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2018.322.3.357
  • Voyta L.L., Golenishchev F.N., Petrova E.A. Putjata’s expedition to Chinese Khingan in 1891 and its small mammal collection from “Tongjia Yingzi” kept at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia // Russian journal of Theriology. 2019. Vol. 18. No. 1. P. 56–66.
  • Voyta L.L., Golenishchev F.N., Tiunov M.P. Far-Eastern grey voles Alexandromys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from Medvezhyi Klyk cave Late Pleistocene–Holocene deposits, Primorskii Kray, Russia // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 2019. Vol. 323. No. 3. С. 313–346. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2019.323.3.313
  • Voyta L.L., Zazhigin V.S., Miroljubov A.A. Comparative analysis of shrew tooth pigmentation using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 2019. Vol. 323. No. 3. 347–363. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2019.323.3.347
  • Zazhigin V.S., Voyta L.L. Northern Asian Pliocene-Pleistocene beremendiin shrews (Mammalia, Lipotyphla, Soricidae): a description of material from Russia (Siberia), Kazakhstan, and Mongolia and the paleobiology of Beremendia // Journal of Paleontology. 2019. Vol. 93. No. 6. P. 1234–1257. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.51
  • Voyta L.L., Zazhigin V.S., Petrova E.A., Krjutchkova L.Y. Shrew dentition (Lipotyphla: Soricidae)—endodontic morphology and its phylogenetic resolving power // Mammal Research. 2020. Vol. 65, Issue 1, P. 33–48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-019-00455-0
  • Omelko V.E., Kuzmin Y.V., Tiunov M.P., Voyta L.L., Burr G.S. Late Pleistocene and Holocene small mammal (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) remains from Medvezhyi Klyk Cave in the Southern Russian Far East // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 2020. Vol. 324, No. 1, pp. 124–145. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2020.324.1.124
  • Voyta L.L., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P., Vinokurova M.A. When beremendiin shrews disappeared in East Asia, or how we can estimate fossil redeposition // Historical Biology. 2021. VOL. 33, NO. 11, 2656–2667. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1822354
  • Voyta L.L., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P., Petrova E.A., Kryuchkova L.Yu. Temporal variation in soricid dentition: which are first – qualitative or quantitative features? // Historical Biology. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.1986040
  • Voyta L.L., Abramov A.V., Lavrenchenko L.A., Nicolas V., Petrova E.A., Kryuchkova L.Yu. Dental polymorphisms in Crocidura (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) and evolutionary diversification of crocidurine shrew dentition // Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab103
  • Voyta L.L. Review of the current objectives and modern approaches to studying extant and extinct shrews (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) investigation: the origin of the modern subfamilies and diversity of Crocidosoricinae // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 2021. Vol. 325, No. 4, pp. 409–429. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2021.325.4.409
  • Voyta L.L., Zazhigin V.S., Krjutchkova L.Y. Fossil soricids (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) in collection of Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN, Russia, Moscow): actiual data on 2021 // Russian Journal of Theriology. 2021. Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 136-142. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.20.2.03
  • Abramov A., Voyta L., Kijashko P. 2022. Scientific collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg. Biological Communication 67(4): 331–339. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2022.407
  • Daxner-Hock G., Mors T., Kazansky A.Y., Matasova G.G., Ivanova V.V., Shchetnikov A.A., Filippov I.A., Voyta L.L., Erbajeva M.A. 2022. A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia) // Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 102(4): 969-983. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-022-00558-8
  • Voyta L.L., Mors T., Erbajeva M.A. 2022. Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): A preliminary report // Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 102(4):897-914. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-022-00557-9
  • Zazhigin V.S., Voyta L.L. 2022. New Neogene anourosoricin shrews from northern Asia // Palaeontologia Electronica 25(3):A29. https://doi.org/10.26879/1209
  • L.L. Voyta, V.E. Omelko, E.P. Izvarin, Yu.E. Kropacheva, E.O. Eidinova, J.A. Shemyakina, V.S. Nikiforova, T.V. Strukova and N.G. Smirnov. Late Quaternary communities of shrews, Soricidae, from Ural and Far East Regions of Russia: A protocol for the multifactorial morphospace building // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 2023, 327(3): 555–590. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2023.327.3.555
  • Petrova E.A., Voyta L.L., Bessudnov A.A., Sinitsyn A.A. 2023. An integrative paleobiological study of woolly mammoths from the Upper Paleolithic site Kostenki 14 (European Russia) // Quaternary Science Reviews 302:107948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107948
  • Voyta L.L., Izvarin E.P., Shemyakina Yu.A., Nikiforova V.S., Strukova T.V., Smirnov N.G., Melnikov D.A., Bobretsov A.V. 2023. Morphospace dynamics and intraspecies variety of Sorex araneus and S. tundrensis according to recent and fossil data. Palaeontologia Electronica 26(3):a51. https://doi.org/10.26879/1330
  • Averianov A.O., Voyta L.L. 2024. Putative Triassic stem mammal Tikitherium copei is a Neogene shrew // Journal of Mammalian Evolution 31:10. . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-024-09703-w

 

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