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SHATKOVSKA Oksana

Department of Evolutionary Morphology

I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology

vul. B. Khmelnyts'kogo, 15

Kyiv UKRAINE 01601

Tel: +380 (44) 234-3093

Fax: +380 (44)

E-mail: timid [at] ukr.net


SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:

Forming a skeleton of bird limbs in embryogenesis and postembryogenesis.

Changes of proportions of the skeleton of the limbs in ontogeny of birds of different adaptive groups.

Morpho-functional adaptation of the limbs of the birds.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

1993: Graduated from Melitopol State Pedagogical Institute as a teacher of biology and chemistry

1993-1998: Postgraduate course, Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev (Ukraine)

2001: Degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences (equivalent of Ph.D.), Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Dissertation entitled «Embrionic Formation of Limbs Skeleton of Altricial and Precocial Birds»

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1992-1993: Laboratory assistant of chair of Zoology of Melitopol State Pedagogical Institute

1998 – 2001: Leading engineer, Department of Evolutionary morphology, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2000 - 2002: National Academy of Science of Ukraine Young Scientist fellowship.

2001-2006: Junior Research Scientist, Department of Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2001 - 2003: Research Grant of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Project: "Ontogeny of altricial and precocial birds in light of problems of becoming types of development in the phylogeny of higher vertebrates")

2006 -2011: Research Scientist, Department of Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2011 – till present: Senior Research Scientist, Department of Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2006-2007 and 2009-2012: part-time lecturer of the National Pedagogical University named after MP Dragomanov (teaching lectures and practical exercises of the course "Zoology of vertebrate ", "Phylogeny of vertebrates"; thesis guide)

 


SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Totally 25 publications.

Selected Publications:

Shatkovska O.V. Ossification of bird limbs skeleton of the different development types. //Vestnik zoologii. – 1999. – ¹ 4-5. – P. 99-102. (in Ukrainian)

Kovtun M. F., Shatkovska O. V., Shatkovsky Yu. V. Organogenesis of the limb skeleton of altricial and precocial birds in embryogenesis // Scientific Bulletin of National Agricultural University. - 1999. – N 16. - P. 83-86. (in Russian)

Kovtun M. F., Shatkovska O. V., Shatkovsky Yu. V. Formation of the altricial type development of birds// Vestnik zoologii. – 2003. – ¹37(2). – P. 51-59. (in Ukrainian)

Kovtun M. F., Shatkovska O. V., Shatkovsky Yu. V. Dynamics of growth of length and diameter long tubular bones of limbs at birds with different type of development //Tavricheskiy mediko-biologicheskiy vestnik. – 2006. - V.9, ¹3. – P. 80 – 82. (in Ukrainian)

Shatkovska Î. V. Heterochronies and development model of birds // Science magazine named NEC NP Drahomanova. Series 20. Biology. – 2008. – N 2. – P. 41-44. (in Ukrainian)

Kovtun M. F., Shatkovska O. V., Shatkovsky Yu. V. Formation of the skull and the skeleton of limbs of birds in embryogenesis. – Kiev: Naukova dumka, 2008. – 198p. (in Ukrainian)

Kovtun M. F., Shatkovska O. V. Origin of Altricial Model of Development for Birds: to the Problem of Evolution of Ontogenesis //Vestnik zoologii. – 2011. – 45(2). – P. 161–171. (in Russian)

Mytiai I.S., Shatkovska O.V. and Ghazali M. 2017. Size and shape of eggs of Neognathae: effects of developmental mode and phylogeny. Can. J. Zool. 95: 359–366, dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2016-0142

Shatkovska O.V. and Ghazali M. 2017. Relationship between developmental modes, flight styles,and wing morphology in birds, The European Zoological Journal, 84:1, 390-401, DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2017.1346151

Shatkovska OV, Ghazali M, Mytiai IS, Druz N. 2018. Size and shape correlation of birds’ pelvis and egg: Impact of developmental mode, habitat, and phylogeny. J. Morphol. 2079: 1590-1602. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20888

Shatkovska OV, Ghazali M. 2020. Integration of skeletal traits in some passerines: impact (or the lack thereof) of body mass, phylogeny, diet and habitat. J. Anat. 236: 274-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13095


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