Dr. Roman P. Kostyuchenko
Associate Professor
E-mail: roman_kostyuchenko@pochta.ru

Research interest:

The comparative embryology of the annelids

Organization of Hox- and ParaHox-genes and their function in larval and postlarval development of polychaete Nereis virens and Platynereis dumerilii

Ooplasmic segregation and primary trochoblast specification during embryogenesis of Nereis virens and Platynereis dumerilii (Polychaete)

Posterior growth zone in the annelids during development and regeneration

Asexual reproduction in oligochaete

Selected publications:

Kulakova M, Bakalenko N., Novikova E., Cook Ch.E., Eliseeva E., Steinmetz P., Kostyuchenko R.P., Dondua A., Arendt D., Akam M., Andreeva T. Hox gene expression in larval development of the polychaetes Nereis virens and Platynereis dumerilii (Annelida, Lophotrochozoa). Development, Genes and Evolution, 2007;217(1):39-54      [abstract]      [PDF]

Kharin, A.V., Zagainova, I.V., Kostyuchenko, R.P. [Formation of the zone of paratomy in freshwater oligochaetes] Ontogenez. 2006;37(6):424-37. Russian. Simultaneous English language translation in Russian Journal of Developmental Biology. 2006; 37(6):354-365      [abstract]      [PDF]

Kostyuchenko, R.P., Dondua, A.K. [Development of the prototroch in embryogenesis of Nereis virens (Polychaeta)] Ontogenez. 2006 Mar-Apr;37(2):91-9. Russian.. Simultaneous English language translation in Russian Journal of Developmental Biology. 2006; 37(2): 69-76      [abstract]

Kulakova M.A., Kostyuchenko R.P., Andreeva T.F., Dondua A.K. The abdominal-B-like gene expression during larval development of Nereis virens (polychaeta). Mech Dev. 2002; 115(1-2):177-9.      [abstract]      [PDF]

Kostyuchenko R.P., Dondua A.K. [Ooplasmic segregation and morphological axis formation in the polychaete Nereis virens embryo] Ontogenez. 2000; 31(2):120-31. Russian.Simultaneous English language translation in Russian Journal of Developmental Biology. 2000; 31(2):95-105      [abstract] [PDF1] [PDF2] [PDF3]

Dondua A.K., Kostyuchenko R.P., Fedorova Z.E. Effects of some cytoskeleton inhibitors on ooplasmic segregation in the Nereis virens egg. Int J Dev Biol. 1997; 41(6):853-8.        [Abstract]

Dondua A.K., Dorresteijn A.W., Kostyuchenko R.P., Fedorova Zh.E., Fisher A. [The effect of aphidicolin on trochoblast differentiation in the early ontogeny of polychaetes] Ontogenez. 1996; 27(6):419-26.1996; 27(6): 341-47. Russian. Simultaneous English language translation in Russian Journal of Developmental Biology 1996; 27(6): 341-47.      [abstract] [PDF]