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SHATKOVSKA Oksana

Department of Evolutionary Morphology

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

15 Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street

Kyiv, 01054 Ukraine

vul. B. Khmelnyts'kogo, 15

 

Tel: +380 (44) 234-3093

shatkovskayaoksana@gmail.com

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5758-4364


SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:

Morpho-functional adaptations of the bird skeleton, evolution of birds, and bird ontogenesis.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

1988-1993: Higher education, Melitopol State Pedagogical Institute

1993-1998: Postgraduate course, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology

2001: Candidate of Sciences (Biol.), Thesis: «Formation of the limb skeleton in embryogenesis of altricial and precocial birds»

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1992-1993: assistant, Department of Zoology, Melitopol State Pedagogical Institute

1998 – 2001: engineer, Department of Evolutionary Morphology, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology.

2001-2006: junior researcher, Department of Evolutionary Morphology, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology

2001 - 2003: Research Grant of NAS of Ukraine

2006 -2011: researcher, Department of Evolutionary Morphology, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology

from 2011 to present – senior researcher, Department of Evolutionary Morphology, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology

2006-2007 and 2009-2012: part-time lecturer, Department of Zoology, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University

2021: part-time lecturer, Department of Biomorphology of Vertebrates, National University of Life and Environmental Science of Ukraine

 


SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Selected Publications:

Shatkovska, O. V., Ghazali, M., Mytiai, I. S., & Stegney, M. M. (2024). Patterns of integrated growth of body parts in Rook (Corvus frugilegus) ontogeny. Journal of Morphology, 285, e21690. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21690

Shatkovska O.V., Ghazali M. 2023. Covariation in shapes between the sternum and pelvis in aquatic birds with different locomotor modes. Zoodiversity, 57(3): 251–266, DOI 10.15407/zoo2023.03.251

Shatkovska O.V. and Ghazali M. 2021. Relative skull size as one of the factors limiting skull shape variation in passerines. Can. J. Zool. 99: 1054–1066. dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2021-0106

Mytiai I. S., Shatkovska O. V., Ghazali M. 2021. Allometry of egg size as a factor influencing egg shape in birds. Acta Ornithol. 56: 69–78. DOI 10.3161/00016454AO2021.56.1.007

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

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. Journal of Morphology, 279, 1590–1602. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20888

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

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

Kovtun M. F., Shatkovska O. V. Origin of altricial developmental mode in birds: to the issue of the evolution of ontogenesis //Vestnik zoologii. – 2011. – 45(2). – P. 161–171. (in Russian)

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

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)

Shatkovska O.V. Ossification of the limb skeleton in birds with different developmental modes. //Vestnik zoologii. – 1999. – ¹ 4-5. – P. 99-102. (in Ukrainian)


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