Olga Kotenko
e-mail: olgakotenko@gmail.com
ResearchGate: Olga Kotenko
Current position:
Lecturer at the Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology, St.-Petersburg State University.
Scientific interests:
Comparative embryology and development of marine invertebrates; larval morphology; evolution of development and origin of novel body plans, evolution and systematics of bryozoans; invertebrates of the White Sea.
Current research:
Early development, larval structure and metamorphosis and their evolution within Gymnolaemata (Bryozoa).
Current lecture courses
- «Zoology of Invertebrates»: practical course and summer field practice for the 1st year undergraduate students, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University (since 2005).
- «Comparative embryology of invertebrates»: lecture course for the 4th year undergraduate students, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University (since 2013).
- «Invertebrate ontogeny», course for Master’s students, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University (since 2012).
- «Fundamentals of Zoology: Mollusca», St. Petersburg State University (since 2016).
Projects participation:
- RSF grant 23-14-00351 Exaptations in marine colonial invertebrates: non-canonical pathways of the evolution of sexual reproduction and symbiosis. Leader: Andrey N. Ostrovsky. 2023-2025
Papers:
- Grant H.E., Ostrovsky A.N., Jenkins H.L.,…Kotenko O.N.,…Waeschenbach A. (2023) Multiple evolutionary transitions of reproductive strategies in a phylum of aquatic colonial invertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (in press).
- Bogdanov E.A., Vishnyakov A.E., Kotenko O.N., Grischenko A.V., Letarov A.V., Ostrovsky A.N. (2023). Seasonal dynamics of a complex cheilostome bryozoan symbiosis: vertical transfer challenged. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 375.
- Kotenko, O. N., Bagrov, S., Ostrovsky, A. N. Aboral (pallial) epithelium in bryozoan larvae: a comparative morpho-functional analysis. Invertebrate zoology. 2022. 19(4), 369-403.
- Serova, K. M., Belikova, E. V., Kotenko, O. N., Vishnyakov, A. E., Bogdanov, E. A., Zaitseva, O. V., ... & Ostrovsky, A. N. (2022). Reduction, rearrangement, fusion, and hypertrophy: evolution of the muscular system in polymorphic zooids of cheilostome Bryozoa. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 22(4), 925-964.
- Orr, R. J., Di Martino, E., Ramsfjell, M. H., Gordon, D. P., Berning, B., Chowdhury, I., ...Kotenko, O.N., … & Liow, L. H. (2022). Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny. Science advances, 8(13), eabm7452. Q1
- Nekliudova, U. A., Schwaha, T., Kotenko, O. N., Gruber, D., Cyran, N., & Ostrovsky, A. N. (2021). Three in one: evolution of viviparity, coenocytic placenta and polyembryony in cyclostome bryozoans. BMC Ecology and evolution, 21(1), 54. [54]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01775-z
- Shevchenko, E. T., Varfolomeeva, M. A., Nekliudova, U. A., Kotenko, O. N., Usov, N. V., Granovitch, A. I., & Ostrovsky, A. N. (2020). Electra vs Callopora: life histories of two bryozoans with contrasting reproductive strategies in the White Sea. Invertebrate Reproduction & Development, 64(2), 137-157.
- Kvach, A. Y., Varfolomeeva, M. A., Kotenko, O. N., Kutiumov, V. A., Granovitch, A. I., Ostrovsky, A. N., ... & Grischenko, A. V. (2019). Life history of the ctenostome bryozoan Flustrellidra hispida in the White Sea. Invertebrate Zoology, 16(4), 343-360.
- Nekliudova, U. A., Schwaha, T. F., Kotenko, O. N., Gruber, D., Cyran, N., & Ostrovsky, A. N. (2019). Sexual reproduction of the placental brooder Celleporella hyalina (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) in the White Sea. Journal of morphology, 280(2), 278-299.
- Karagodina, N. P., Vishnyakov, A. E., Kotenko, O. N., Maltseva, A. L., & Ostrovsky, A. N. (2018). Ultrastructural evidence for nutritional relationships between a marine colonial invertebrate (Bryozoa) and its bacterial symbionts. Symbiosis, Vol. 75, Issue 2, p. 155-164.
- Серова, К. М., Вишняков, А. Э., Зайцева, О. В., Котенко, О. Н., & Островский, А. Н. (2017). Сравнительный анализ строения нервной системы полиморфных зооидов у морских мшанок. Доклады Академии наук, Т. 475, No. 2, с. 234-237 (In English: Serova, K. M., Vishnyakov, A. E., Zaitseva, O. V., Kotenko, O. N., & Ostrovsky, A. N. (2017, July). Comparative analysis of the nervous system structure of polymorphic zooids in marine bryozoans. Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 475, No. 1, pp. 144-147).
- Maltseva, A. L., Kotenko, O. N., Kutyumov, V. A., Matvienko, D. A., Shavarda, A. L., Winson, M. K., & Ostrovsky, A. N. (2017). Novel brominated metabolites from Bryozoa: a functional analysis. Natural product research, 31(16), 1840-1848.
- Кутюмов В. А., Мальцева А. Л., Котенко О. Н., Островский А. Н. Функциональная дифференцировка колонии мшанок: анализ на уровне протеома // ЦИТОЛОГИЯ, 2016. T. 58, № 1, С. 60-66 (In English: Kutyumov V.A., Maltseva A.L., Kotenko O.N., Ostrovsky A.N. (2016) Functional differentiation of a bryozoan colony: a proteomic analysis. Tsitologiia, 58(1), 60-66).
- Maltseva A.L., Kotenko O.N., Shabalin K.A., Shavarda A.L., Winson M.K., Ostrovsky A.N. Novel brominated fungicidal alkaloid isolated from the marine bryozoan Chartella membranaceatruncata (Smitt, 1868) // Studi trentini di scienze naturali, 2014. — Vol. 94, — P. 163-168
- Maltseva Arina L., Olga N. Kotenko, Vladimir N. Kokryakov, Viktor V. Starunov, Anna D. Krasnodembskaya Expression pattern of arenicins - the antimicrobial peptides of polychaete Arenicola marina // Frontiers in Physiology, 2014. — Vol. 5, — P. 497 (1-11)
Recent abstracts:
- Kotenko O.N. & Ostrovsky A.N. “Mysteries of byozoan larval evolution”, Marine biology in the 21st century: Developmental biology, Molecular and Cell biology, Biotechnology of Marine Organisms, Vladivostok, 2023 (oral presentation, in Russian).
- Kotenko O.N., Bagrov S.V. & Ostrovsky A.N. “The pallial epithelium in bryozoan larvae - how to 'dress' well”, 19th International Bryozoological Association conference, Dublin 2022. (on-line oral presentration).
Research-related hobbies: scuba diving.
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