Gita Paskerova

ResearcherID: H-3805-2014
ScopusID: 6506637976
ORCID: 0000-0002-1026-4216

Web-pages:
https://zoology.bio.spbu.ru/Eng/People/Staff/paskerova.php
http://mbs.spbu.ru/en/science/sprozoans-apicomplexa-sporozoa-and-their-hyperparasites/

Curriculum Vitae

General research interests: marine fauna; parasites, protists; host-parasite relationships on molecular, cellular and tissue levels; light and electron microscopy.

Latest research activities:
Evolutionary trends of early emerging apicomplexans (Alveolata: Apicomplexa): ultrastructural and biological data.
Fine structure and life cycle of metchnikovellids (Metchnikovellidae) in the context of putative evolutionary history of Microsporidia.
Morphology and taxonomy of henricias (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Henricia) of the White Sea.

Courses:

1. “Zoological Video-Excursions” (lectures and video presentations, 26 hours), for the undergraduate students;
2. “Echinodermata” (lectures and practical works, 18 hours), for the undergraduate students;
3. “Ctenophora” (lectures and practical works, 8 hours), for the undergraduate students;
4. “Deuterostomia” (lectures and practical works, 6 hours), for the undergraduate students;
5. “Parasitic protists” (lecutes and practical works, 48 hours), for the Master students.
6. Practical course “Zoology of Invertebrates» (practical works – 64 hours) – for the undergraduate students.
7. Summer practice «Zoology of Invertebrates» (White Sea Marine Station or Peterhof, 2 weeks), for the undergraduate students.

Papers:

1. Dolgikh V.V., Nassonova E.S., Paskerova G.G. 1996. Activities of enzymes of carbohydrate and energetic metabolism in spores of the microsporidia Nosema grylli. Parasitologiya, vol.30, (2): 178-181 [in Russian; English summary]. https://www.zin.ru/journals/parazitologiya/content/2002/prz_2002_6_6_Dolgikh.pdf
2. Paskerova G.G. 1996. Urceolaria kozloffi, an ectocommencal of the brachiopod Hemithyris psittacea from the White Sea. Parasitologiya, vol.30, (3): 236-243 [in Russian; English summary]. https://www.zin.ru/journals/parazitologiya/content/1996/prz_1996_3_6_Paskerova.pdf
3. Paskerova G.G., Sokolova Yu.Ya., Dobrovolsky (Dobrovolskij) A.A. 1998. Peculiarities of pathogenesis of a fat body in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus (Gryllidae) infected with Adelina grylli (Sporozoa: Adeleina). Parasitologiya. Vol.32 (5): 457-463 [in Russian; English summary]. https://www.zin.ru/journals/parazitologiya/content/1998/prz_1998_5_8_Paskerova.pdf
4. Dyakin A.Yu., Paskerova G.G. 2004. Urospora chiridotae (Sporozoa: Gregarinomorpha: Eugregarinida) - a neogamic parasite of sea cucumber Chiridota laevis (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apoda). Parasitologiya. Vol.38 (3): 225-238 [in Russian with English summary]. https://www.zin.ru/Journals/parazitologiya/content/2004/prz_2004_3_3_Dyakin.pdf
5. Butaeva F., Paskerova G., Entzeroth R. 2006. Ditrypanocystis sp. (Apicomplexa, Gregarinia, Selenidiidae): the mode of survival in the gut of Enchytraeus albidus (Annelida, Oligochaeta, Enchytraeidae) is close to that of the coccidian genus Gryptosporidium. Tsytologiya. Vol.48 (8): 695-704 [in English]. http://www.tsitologiya.cytspb.rssi.ru/48_8/butaeva.pdf
6. Sokolova Yu.Ya., Paskerova G.G., Rotari Yu.M., Nasonova E.S., Smirnov A.V. 2013. Fine structure of Metchnikovella incurvata Caullery and Mesnil 1914 (microsporidia), a hyperparasite of gregarines Polyrhabdina sp. from the polychaete Pygospio elegans. Parasitology. Vol.140: 855–867 [in English]. doi:10.1017/S0031182013000036.
7. Sokolova Yu.Ya., Paskerova G.G., Rotari Yu.M., Nassonova E.S., Smirnov A.V. 2014. Description of Metchnikovella spiralis sp. n. (Microsporidia: Metchnikovellidae), with notes on the ultrastructure of metchnikovellids. Parasitology, 141, pp 1108-1122. doi:10.1017/S0031182014000420.
8. Rotari Yu.M., Paskerova G.G., Sokolova Yu.Ya. 2015. Diversity of metchnikovellids (Metchnikovellidae, Rudimicrosporea), hyperparasites of bristle worms (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the White Sea. Protistology. Vol. 9 (1): 50-59. http://protistology.ifmo.ru/num9_1/sokolova_protistology9-1.pdf
9. Valigurová A., Paskerova G.G., Diakin A., Kováčiková M., Simdyanov T.G. 2015. Protococcidian Eleutheroschizon duboscqi, an unusual apicomplexan interconnecting gregarines and cryptosporidia. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0125063. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125063.
10. Diakin A., Paskerova G.G., Simdyanov T.G., Aleoshin V.V., Valigurová A. 2016. Morphology and molecular phylogeny of coelomic gregarines (Apicomplexa) with different types of motility: Urospora ovalis and U. travisiae from the polychaete Travisia forbesii. Protist. Vol. 167 (June 2016): 279-301. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2016.05.001.
11. Paskerova G.G., Frolova E.V., Kováčiková M., Panfilkina T.S., Mesentsev E.S., Smirnov A.V., Nassonova E.S. 2016. Metchnikovella dogieli sp. n. (Microsporidia: Metchnikovellida), a parasite of archigregarines Selenidium sp. from polychaetes Pygospio elegans. Protistology, 10 (4): 148-157. doi:10.21685/1680-0826-2016-10-4-4.
12. Valigurová A., Vaškovicová N., Diakin A., Paskerova G.G., Simdyanov T.G., Kováčiková M. 2017. Motility in blastogregarines (Apicomplexa): Native and drug-induced organisation of Siedleckia nematoides cytoskeletal elements. PLoS ONE 12 (6): e0179709. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179709.
13. Bratova O., Paskerova G.G. 2018. Henricia spp. (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Echinasteridae) of the White Sea: morphology, morphometry and synonymy. Can. J. Zool. 96 (4): 341–355. dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2017-0072.
14. Simdyanov T.G., Paskerova G.G., Valigurová A., Diakin A., Kováčiková M., Schrével J., Guillou L., Dobrovolskij A.A., Aleoshin V.V. 2018. First ultrastructural and molecular phylogenetic evidence from the blastogregarines, an early branching lineage of plesiomorphic Apicomplexa. Protist. 169(5): 697–726. 10.1016/j.protis.2018.04.006.
15. Galindo L.J., Torruella G., Moreira D., Timpano H., Paskerova G., Smirnov A., Nassonova E., López-García P. 2018. Evolutionary genomics of Metchnikovella incurvata (Metchnikovellidae), an early branching microsporidium. Genome Biol. Evol. 10(10): 2736–2748. doi:10.1093/gbe/evy205.
16. Paskerova G.G., Miroliubova (Panfilkina) T.S., Diakin A.,Kováčiková M., Valigurová A., Guillou L., Aleoshin V.V., Simdyanov T.G. 2018. Fine structure and Molecular Phylogenetic Position of Two Marine Gregarines, Selenidium pygospionis sp. n. and S. pherusae sp. n., with Notes on the Phylogeny of Archigregarinida. Protist 169(6): 826-852. 10.1016/j.protis.2018.06.004.
17. Kováčiková M., Paskerova G.G., Diakin A., Simdyanov T.G.,Vaškovicová N., Valigurová A. 2019. Motility and cytoskeletal organisation in the archigregarine Selenidium pygospionis (Apicomplexa): observations on native and experimentally affected parasites. Parasitology Research 118(9): 2651-2667. doi: 10.1007/s00436-019-06381-z.
18. Janouškovec J., Paskerova G.G., Miroliubova (Panfilkina) T.S., Mikhailov K.V., Birley T., Aleoshin V.V., Simdyanov T.G. 2019. Apicomplexan-like parasites are polyphyletic and widely but selectively dependent on cryptic plastid organelles. eLife 8: 49662. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.49662
19. Miroliubova (Panfilkina) T.S., Simdyanov T.G., Mikhailov K.V., Aleoshin V.V., Janouškovec J., Belova P.A., Paskerova G.G. 2020. Polyphyletic origin, intracellular invasion, and meiotic genes in the putatively asexual agamococcidians (Apicomplexa incertae sedis). Scientific Reports. 10: 1-17. 10:15847. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72287-x
20. Karpov Sergey A., Paskerova Gita G. 2020. The aphelids, intracellular parasitoids of algae, consume host cytoplasm “from the inside”. Protistology 14 (4): 258–263. Doi: 10.21685/1680-0826-2020-14-4-7.
21. Nassonova E., Bondarenko N., Paskerova G., Kováčiková M., Frolova E., Smirnov А. 2021. Evolutionary relationships of Metchnikovella dogieli Paskerova et al., 2016 (Microsporidia: Metchnikovellidae) revealed by multigene phylogenetic analysis. Parasitology Research 120: 525–534. Doi:10.1007/s00436-020-06976-x.
22. Mikhailov K.V., Nassonova E.S., Shishkin Y.A., Paskerova G.G., TSimdyanov T.G., Yudina V.A., Smirnov A.V., Janouškovec J., and Aleoshin V.V. 2021. Ribosomal RNA of the metchnikovellids in gregarine transcriptomes and rDNA of the microsporidia sensu lato in environmental metagenomes. Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii 82 (3): 201-228, 10.31857/S0044459621030040] (in Russian with English Summary).
23. Frolova E.V., Paskerova G.G., Smirnov A.V., Nassonova E.S. 2021. Molecular phylogeny and new light microscopic data of Metchnikovella spiralis (Microsporidia: Metchnikovellidae), a hyperparasite of eugregarine Polyrhabdina sp. from the polychaete Pygospio elegans. Parasitology. 148: 779–786. Doi: 10.1017/S0031182021000603.
24. Paskerova G.G., Miroliubova T.S., Valigurová A., Janouškovec J., Kováčiková M., Diakin A., Sokolova Y.Y., Mikhailov K.V., Aleoshin V.V., Simdyanov T.G. 2021. Evidence from the resurrected family Polyrhabdinidae Kamm, 1922 (Apicomplexa: Gregarinomorpha) supports the epimerite, an attachment organelle, as a major eugregarine innovation. PeerJ 9: e11912. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11912.

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