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Igor Dzeverin

Department of Evolutionary Morphology, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 15 Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine   Tel.: +(380) (44 )234-30-93 E-mail: dzeverin@izan.kiev.ua, igordzeverin@gmail.com ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4537-8579   Web-sites: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Igor_Dzeverin/ http://izan-kiev.academia.edu/IgorDzeverin http://www.kazhan.org.ua/eng/persons/dzev-home.htm http://probability.univ.kiev.ua/... YouTube channel

Education and Academic Degrees:

Doctor of Sciences (Biol.), 2012. Thesis: “Mechanisms affecting the evolutionary change of cranial structures in Myotis and related vespertilionid taxa”

Senior Researcher, 2007

Candidate of Sciences (Biol.), 1995 Thesis: “Craniometric variation and evolution of Myotis species (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Palearctics”

Postgraduate course, 1990-1993, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology

Higher education, 1984-1989, Shevchenko Kiev State University, Biological Faculty, Department of Zoology

Research Interests:

Evolutionary theory

Mammalogy

Biostatistics

History and philosophy of biology

Selected Publications:

Popova L., Nezdolii Y., Syniavska I., Rekovets L., Krokhmal O., Mironchuk T., Dzeverin I. 2022. Spatial and temporal patterns of species replacement in the Middle Pleistocene: а case study of Мicrotus nivaloides Major, 1902 and morphologically related species of the Northern Black Sea and Azov areas. Journal of Quaternary Science 37(7): 1229-1245. http://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3445

Mienasova A., Popova L., Dzeverin I. 2022. Morphometrics of Tirasiana from Vendian of Podillia (Ukraine). Visnyk Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geology 1(96): 6-10. http://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2713.96.01 [In Ukrainian with English summary]

Kuzmina T. A., Kuzmin Y., Dzeverin I., Lisitsyna O. I., Spraker T. R., Korol E. M., Kuchta R. 2021. Review of metazoan parasites of the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) and the analysis of the gastrointestinal helminth community of the population on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Parasitology Research 120(1): 117-132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-020-06935-6

Dzeverin I. 2020. The skull integration pattern and internal constraints in Myotis myotis – Myotis blythii species group (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) might be shaped by natural selection during evolution along the genetic line of least resistance. Evolutionary Biology 47(1): 18-42.

Ghazali M., Moratelli R., Dzeverin I. 2017. Ecomorph evolution in Myotis (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 24(4): 475-484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-016-9351-z

Kuzmina T. A., Dzeverin I., Kharchenko V. A. 2016. Strongylids in domestic horses: Influence of horse age, breed and deworming programs on the strongyle parasite community. Veterinary Parasitology 227: 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2016.07.024

Lyons E. T., Tolliver S. C., Kuzmina T. A., Dzeverin I. I., Nielsen M. K., McDowell K. J. 2014. Profiles of strongyle EPG values for Thoroughbred mares on14 farms in Kentucky (2012–2013). Veterinary Parasitology. 205: 646-652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2014.08.001

Dzeverin I. I. 2013. Genetic basis for the emergence of novelties in vertebrates’ evolution. Studia Biologica 7(2): 207-216. [In Ukrainian with English summary].

Ghazali M., Dzeverin I. 2013. Correlations between hardness of food and craniometric traits in nine Myotis species (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Vestnik zoologii 47(1): 73-82 (print version), e-67 – e-76 (online version). https://doi.org/10.2478/vzoo-2013-0006

Dzeverin I., Lashkova O. 2012. Rates of divergence for craniometric characters in Sylvaemus species (Muridae, Rodentia) from the Ukraine fauna. Scientific Bulletin of the Uzhgorod University (Series Biology) 32: 131-134. [In Ukrainian with English summary].

Kuzmina T. A., Lyons E. T., Tolliver S. C., Dzeverin I. I., Kharchenko V. A. 2012. Fecundity of various species of strongylids (Nematoda: Strongylidae) – parasites of domestic horses. Parasitology Research 111(6): 2265-2271. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-012-3077-5

Ghazali M., Dzeverin I. 2012. Biometrics and taxonomic status of Myotis blythii (Chiroptera, Vesperlionidae) from Crimea: odontometric characters. Vestnik zoologii 46(3): 259-267. [In Russian with English summary].

Dzeverin I., Ghazali M. 2012. Biometrics and taxonomic status of Myotis blythii (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from Crimea: cranial size and shape. Vestnik zoologii 46(1): 59-67. [In Russian with English summary].

Dzeverin I. 2011. The earliest known bats (Chiroptera): between the emergence and stasis. Scientific Bulletin of the Uzhgorod University (Series Biology) 30: 58-63. [In Ukrainian with English summary].

Dzeverin I. I. 2010. Genetic and developmental changes at early stages of chiropteran evolution: a brief review. Studia Biologica 4(3): 167-174. [In Ukrainian with English summary].

Dzeverin I., Putchkov P., Knyazeva O. 2010. Evolutionism and creationism in biology. Biologiia i khimiia v shkoli (2): 7-9, (3): 6-8, (4): 7-9, (5): 11-12, (6): 5-12. [In Ukrainian]

Dzeverin I., Ghazali M. 2010. Evolutionary mechanisms affecting the multivariate divergence in some Myotis species (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Evolutionary Biology 37(2-3): 100-112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-010-9086-3

Dzeverin I. I. 2009. Towards the synthesis: Darwinism, genetics and Schmalhausen’s evolutionary concept. The Bulletin of Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders of Ukraine 7(2): 305-321. [In Ukrainian with English summary].

Dzeverin I. I., Strelkov P. P. 2008. Taxonomic status of Myotis blythii (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from the Altai. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 87(8): 973-982. [In Russian with English summary].

Dzeverin I. 2008. The stasis and possible patterns of selection in evolution of a group of related species from the bat genus Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 15(2): 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-007-9071-5

Dzeverin I. I. 2007. The regressive trend of complex phenotypic structures in neutral evolution. Vestnik zoologii 41(1): 53-69.

Dzeverin I. I., Lashkova E. I. 2005. An input of heterochronies to the formation of interspecific differences in wood mice, Sylvaemus (Rodentia). Zhurnal obshchei biologii 66(3): 258-272. [In Russian with English summary].

Strelkov P. P., Abramson N. I., Dzeverin I. I. 2002. Geographic variation of craniometric characteristics in the noctule bat Nyctalus noctula (Chiroptera) related to its life history. Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 81(7): 850-863. [In Russian with English summary].

Dzeverin I. I. 1998. A unidimensional model of phenetic diversity of the Palearctic Myotis species. Biology Bulletin 25(2): 206-212. Originally published in Russian with English summary in Izvestiya Akademii nauk. Seriia biologicheskaia 1998(2): 258-265.

Dzeverin I. I. 1995. Craniometric variation in lesser mouse-eared bat, Myotis blythi (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 74(7): 82-95. [In Russian with English summary].

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