Laboratory of Genosystematics

Group members

Sergei Shedko

Group leader
Head of Laboratory
Candidate of biological sciences

Olga Ufyrkina

Senior Researcher
Candidate of biological sciences

Galina Nemkova

Research Fellow

Irina Miroshnichenko

Leading Engineer

Irina Kulikova

Engineer
Candidate of biological sciences

Selected publications

2025 - Genetic differentiation and population structure of “northern” wigeons (Anseriformes: Anatidae: Mareca americana, M. penelope)

Kulikova I.V., Lavretsky P., McCracken K.G., Zhuravlev Yu.N., Miroshnichenko I.L., Correll A.B., Peters J.L .

Vertebrate Zoology     2025; 75: 757-772

DOI: 10.3897/vz.75.e167908

2025 - Predator-prey transmission of a gammaherpesvirus from Asian badgers (Meles leucurus) to endangered Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica)

Gilbert M., Hill M.A.M., Cheung L.Y.N., Kiser P.K., Seryodkin I.V., Miquelle D.G., Goodrich J.M., Sulikhan N., Uphyrkina O., Goncharuk M., Kerley L., Troyer R.M.

PLOS ONE     2025; 20(7): e0327463

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0327463

2024 - The Finding of the Second Canestrini’s Organ in Loach Species (Cobitidae) Characterized by a Single Lamina Circularis on the First Branched Ray of the Pectoral Fin in the Mature Males. An Atavism or an Innovation?

Vasil'eva E.D., Shedko S.V.

Journal of Ichthyology     2024; 64(3): 452–456

DOI: 10.1134/S0032945224700115

2023 - DNA Identification of Parasitic Copepods Salmincola (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Lernaeopodidae): Variability and Rate of Evolution of the Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I Gene

Shedko S.V., Shedko M.B., Miroshnichenko I.L., Nemkova G.A.

Russian Journal of Genetics     2023; 59(10): 1022-1031

DOI: 10.1134/S1022795423100113

2023 - Comparative studies of X chromosomes in Cervidae family

Proskuryakova A.A., Ivanova E.S., Makunin A.I., Larkin D.M., Ferguson-Smith M.A., Yang F., Uphyrkina O.V., Perelman P.L., Graphodatsky A.S.

Scientific Reports     2023; 13: 11992

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39088-4

2023 - Ancient DNA reveals genetic admixture in China during tiger evolution

Sun  X., Liu  Y-C., Tiunov  M.P., Gimranov D.O., Zhuang Y., Han Y., Driscoll C.A., Pang Y., Li C., Pan Y., Velasco M.S., Gopalakrishnan S., Yang R-Z., Li B-G., Jin K., Xu X., Uphyrkina O., Huang Y., Wu X-H., Gilbert  M.T.P., O’Brien S.J., Yamaguchi N., Luo S-J.

Nature Ecology & Evolution     2023; 7: 1914–1929

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02185-8

2022 - ТHE FAR EASTERN LEOPARD CAT PRIONAILURUS BENGALENSIS EUPTILURA NEEDS TO BE IN THE RED DATA BOOKS OF PRIMORSKY KRAI AND RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Uphyrkina O.V., Beklemisheva V.R., Goncharuk M.S., Kerley L., Graphodatsky A.S., Perelman P.L.

Biota and environment of natural areas     2022; 10(3): 21-35

DOI: 10.25221/2782-1978_2022_3_3

IN RUSSIAN

2022 - Molecular Dating of Phylogeny of Sturgeons (Acipenseridae) Based on Total Evidence Analysis

Shedko S.V.

Russian Journal of Genetics     2022; 58(6): 718–729

DOI: 10.1134/S1022795422060084

2022 - A New Species of the Pond Loaches Misgurnus (Cobitidae) from the South of Sakhalin Island

Shedko S.V., Vasil’eva E.D.

Journal of Ichthyology     2022; 62(3): 356–372

DOI: 10.1134/S0032945222030158

2022 - Taxonomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of Cyprinid Fish of Genus Hemiculter (Cyprinidae, Xenocypridinae): Sharpbellies of the Species Group Hemiculter lucidus

Vasil’eva E.D., Vasil’ev V.P., Miroshnichenko I.L., Shedko S.V.

Journal of Ichthyology     2022; 62(3): 327–347

DOI: 10.1134/S0032945222030171

2022 - Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomy of the carp fish of genus Hemiculter (Cyprinidae, Xenocypridinae): species of the group H. leucisculus

Vasil’eva E.D., Vasil’ev V.P., Nemkova G.A., Shedko S.V.

Journal of Ichthyology     2022; 62(1): 1-15

DOI: 10.1134/S0032945222010131

2022 - Z‐chromosome outliers as diagnostic markers to discriminate Mallard and Chinese Spot‐billed Duck (Anatidae)

Kulikova I.V., Shedko S.V., Zhuravlev Y.N., Lavretsky P., Peters J.L.

Zoologica Scripta     2022; 51(4): 401-414

DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12540

2021 - Molecular mechanisms and gene regulation of melanic plumage coloration in birds

Kulikova I.V.

Russian Journal of Genetics     2021; 57(8): 893-911

DOI: 10.1134/S102279542108007X

2021 - African and Asian leopards are highly differentiated at the genomic level

Paijmans J.L.A., Barlow A., Becker M.S., Cahill J.A., Fickel J., Förster D.W.G., Gries K., Hartmann S., Havmøller R.W., Henneberger K., Kern C., Kitchener A.C., Lorenzen E.D., Mayer F., OBrien S.J., von Seth J., Sinding M.-H.S., Spong G., Uphyrkina O., Wacher B., Westbury M.V., Dalen L., Bhak J., Manica A., Hofreiter M.

Current Biology     2021; 31(9): 1872-1882

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.084

2021 - Morphologies and population genetic structures of the eight‐barbel loach of the genus Lefua on southern Sakhalin

Machida Y., Kanaiwa M., Shedko S.V., Matsubara H., Kobayashi H., Mandagi I.F., Ooyagi A., Yamahira K.

Ichthyological Research     2021; 48(2): 239-248

DOI: 10.1007/s10228-020-00783-1

2020 - Variability of the mtDNA Control Region in the Bean Goose, Anser fabalis Latham 1787, in the Russian Far East

Volkovsky D.V., Fisenko P.V., Zhuravlev Y.N.

Biology Bulletin     2020; 47(7): 782-790

DOI: 10.1134/S1062359020070171

2020 - Distemper, extinction, and vaccination of the Amur tiger

Gilbert M., Sulikhan N., Uphyrkina O., Goncharuk M., Kerley L., Castro E.H., Reeve R., Seimon T., McAloose D., Seryodkin I.V., Naidenko S.V., Davis C.A., Wilkie G.S., Vattipally S.B., Adamson W.E., Hinds C., Thomson E.C., Willett B.J., Hosie M.J., Logan N., McDonald M., Ossiboff R.J., Shevtsova E.I., Belyakin S., Yurlova A.A., Osofsky S.A., Miquelle D.G., Matthews L., Cleaveland S.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)     2020; 117(50): 31954–31962

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000153117

2020 - On the First Finding of Barcheek Goby Rhinogobius similis (Gobiidae) in the Russian Far East Waters and on The Results of its COI-Genotyping

Shedko S.V.

Journal of Ichthyology     2020; 60(5): 782-785

DOI: 10.1134/S0032945220050112

2020 - Asymmetric Hybridization of Kaluga Acipenser dauricus Georgi, 1775 and Amur Sturgeon A. schrenckii Brandt, 1869 (Acipenseridae) in Nature as Follows from Analysis of Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Markers

Shedko S.V., Miroshnichenko I.L., Nemkova G.A.

Russian Journal of Genetics     2020; 56(6): 718–724

DOI: 10.1134/S1022795420060101

2020 - Genetic Homogeneity of the Black-Billed Capercaillie Subspecies Tetrao parvirostris parvirostris Bonaparte, 1856 and T. p. kamtschaticus Kittlitz, 1858 (Tetraonidae, Aves) Based on the Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Data

Spiridonova L.N., Lobkov E.G., Shedko S.V., Kryukov A.P.

Russian Journal of Genetics     2020; 56(4): 454–459

DOI: 10.1134/S1022795420040134

2020 - Assessing the health risks of reintroduction: The example of the Amur leopard, Panthera pardus orientalis

Lewis J., Tomlinson A., Gilbert M., Alshinetski M., Arzhanova T., Goncharuk M., Goodrich J., Kerley L., Korotkova I., Miquelle D., Naidenko S., Sulikhan N., Uphyrkina O.

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases     2020; (3): 1177-1188

DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13449

2019 - Causes of the excess of frequency of SCH34 mitotype in population of Amur sturgeon Acipenser schrenckii (Acipenseridae) based on the analysis of complete mitochondrial genomeS

Shedko S.V.

Russian Journal of Genetics     2019; 55(7): 922-926

DOI: 10.1134/S1022795419060164

2019 - The rate of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene evolution according to the analysis of recent (about 12 000 years) isolation of charrs Salvelinus Kronotskoe

Shedko S.V.

Russian Journal of Genetics     2019; 55(12): 1559-1563

DOI: 10.1134/S102279541909014X

2019 - TRANSBOUNDARY MIGRATION AND THE LOCAL CONSTRAINTS IN THE DYNAMIC OF FISH FAUNA IN THE LOWER REACHES OF TUMANNAYA RIVER

Zhuravlev Yu. N., Shedko S.V., Klyshevskaya S.V.

Amurian zoological journal     2019; 11(4): 348–361

DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2019-11-4-348-361

IN RUSSIAN

2019 - HOLARCTIC PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE OF EURASIAN WIGEON (MARECA PENELOPE)

Kulikova I.V., Zhuravlev Y.N., Korobitsyn I.G., Nemkova G.A., Mccracken K.G., Peters J.L.

Vavilov journal of genetics and breeding     2019; 23(3): 362-369

DOI: 10.18699/VJ19.503

IN RUSSIAN

2018 - Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Natural History and Adaptation in the World’s Tigers

Liu YC, Sun X, Driscoll C., Miquelle D.G., Xu X, Martelli P., Uphyrkina O., Smith J.L.D., O’Brien S.J., Luo SJ

Current Biology     2018; 28(23): 3840-3849

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.019

2018 - Two Amur leopards come into captivity in Russia in 2015

Blidchenko E.Yu., Sulikhan N.S., Shevtsova E.I., Vitkalova A.V., Sonin P.L., Kuzmenko V.B., Matyukhina D.S., Gilbert M., Alshinetskiy M.V., Naidenko S.V., Miquelle D.G.

Cat News     2018; (67): 15-17

2018 - Primary study of seroprevalence to virus pathogens in wild felids of South Primorie, Russia

Naidenko S.V., Hernandez-Blanco J.A., Pavlova E.V., Erofeeva M.N., Sorokin P.A., Litvinov M.N., Kotlyar A.K., Sulikhan N.S., Rozhnov V.V.

Canadian Journal of Zoology     2018; 96(8): 839-846

DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2017-0192

2018 - Canine Distemper Virus in a Wild Far Eastern Leopard Panthera pardus orientalis

Sulikhan N.S., Gilbert M., Blidchenko E.Yu., Naidenko S.V., Ivanchuk G.V., GorpenchenkoT.Yu., Alshinetskiy M.V., Shevtsova E.I., Goodrich J.M., Lewis J.C.M., Goncharuk M.S., Uphyrkina O.V., Rozhnov V.V., Shedko S.V., McAloose D., Miquelle D.G., Seimon T.A.

Journal of Wildlife Diseases     2018; 54: 170-174

DOI: 10.7589/2017-03-065

2018 - Phylogeography of the eight-barbel loach Lefua nikkonis (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae): how important were straits in northern Japan as biogeographical barriers?

Ooyagi A., Mokodongan D.F., Montenegro J., Mandagi I.F., Koizumi N., Machida Y., Inomata, N., Shedko S.V., Hutama A.A., Hadiaty R.K., Yamahira K.

Ichthyological Research     2018; 65: 115-126

DOI: 10.1007/s10228-017-0597-0

2017 - Genetic identification of the caviar-producing Amur and Kaluga sturgeons revealed a high level of concealed hybridization

Boscari E., Barmintseva A., Zhang S., Yue H., Li C., Shedko S.V., Lieckfeldt D., Ludwig A., Wei Q.W., Mugue N.S., Congiu L.

Food Control     2017; 82: 243-250

DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2017.07.001

2017 - ABOUT SPECIALLY PROTECTED NATURAL AREAS CREATING IN THE KHANKA LAKE BASIN

Makarchenko E.A., Vshivkova T.S., Ganzey K.S., Klyshevskaya S.V., Kozhevnikov A.E., Maslova I.V., Nazarenko A.A., Prozorova L.A., Prokopez S.D., Shabalin S.A., Shedko S.V.

Vestnik of the Far East Branch of the Russian academy of sciences     2017; (2): 115-141

IN RUSSIAN

2017 - The low level of differences between mitogenomes of the Sakhalin sturgeon Acipenser mikadoi Hilgendorf, 1892 and the green sturgeon A. medirostris Ayeres, 1854 (Acipenseridae) indicates their recent divergence

Shedko S.V.

Russian Journal of Marine Biology     2017; 43(2): 176-179

DOI: 10.1134/S1063074017020080

2016 - Comparison of carnivore, omnivore, and herbivore mammalian genomes with a new leopard assembly

Kim S., Cho Y.S., Kim H-M., Chung O., Kim H., Jho S., Seomun H., Kim J., Bang W.Y., Kim C., Jun JeH., Lee HyeJin, Cho S., Uphyrkina O., Kostyria A., Goodrich J., Miquelle D., Roelke M., Lewis J., Yurchenko A., Bankevich A., Cho J., Lee S., Edwards J.S., Weber J.A., Cook J., Kim S., Lee H., Manica A., Lee I.

Genome Biology     2016; 17: 211

DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1071-4

2016 - Variability of the mtDNA Control Region in Goose Anser albifrons Scopoli, 1769

Volkovsky D.V., Fisenko P.V., Gerasimov Yu.N., Zhuravlev Yu.N.

Russian Journal of Genetics     2016; 52(3): 314–319

DOI: 10.1134/S1022795416030170

2016 - Species phylogeny and diversification process of Northeast Asian Pungitius revealed by AFLP and mtDNA markers

Takahashi H., Møller P.R., Shedko S.V., Ramatulla T., Joen S.-R., Zhang C.-G., Sideleva V.G., Takata K., Sakai H., Goto A., Nishida M.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution     2016; 99: 44-52

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.022

2016 - Unidirectional Hybridization of Kaluga Acipenser dauricus Georgi, 1775 and Amur Sturgeon Acipenser schrenckii Brandt, 1869, Inferred from the Mitochondrial DNA Genotyping of Their Natural Hybrids

Shedko S.V., Shedko M.B.

Russian Journal of Genetics     2016; 52(3): 292-297

DOI: 10.1134/S1022795416020137

2016 - Becoming pure: identifying generational classes of admixed individuals within lesser and greater scaup populations

Lavretsky P., Peters J.L., Winker K., Bahn V., Kulikova I., Zhuravlev Y.N., Wilson R.E., Barger C., Gurney K., McCracken K.G.

Molecular Ecology     2016; 25(3): 661–674

DOI: 10.1111/mec.13487

2016 - Two complete mitochondrial genome sequences of white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis (Salmoniformes: Salmonidae)

Shedko S.V.

Mitochondrial DNA Part A: DNA Mapping, Sequencing, and Analysis     2016; 27(1): 259-260

DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2014.883615