Dr. Andrei N. Ostrovsky

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSystematics and Morphology (Zoology)
KeywordsAnatomy, Bryozoa, Evolution, Reproduction, Zoology

Current contact address

CountryRussian Federation
CitySt. Petersburg
InstitutionSt. Petersburg University
InstituteDepartment of Invertebrate Zoology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Priska SchäferInstitut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2000

Programme(s)

2000Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008Ostrovsky, A. N., Dick, M. H. & Mawatari S. F.: The internal-brooding apparatus in the bryozoan genus Cauloramphus (Cheilostomata: Calloporidae) and its inferred homology to ovicells. In: Zoological Science, 2008, 36-52
2006Ostrovsky, A. N., Grischenko, A. V., Taylor, P. D., Bock, P. & Mawatari, S. F. Comparative anatomical study of internal brooding in three anascan bryozoans (Cheilostomata) and its taxonomical and evolutionary implications.. In: Journal of Morphology, 2006, 739-749
2006Ostrovsky, A. N., Takashima, R., Dick, M. H., Grischenko, A. V., Nishi, H. & Mawatari S. F.: First finding of Cretaceous cheilostome bryozoan from Hokkaido, Japan. In: Cretaceous Research , 2006, 859-862
2006Cheetham, A. H., Sanner, J., Taylor P. D. & A. N. Ostrovsky.: Morphological differentiation of avicularia and the proliferation of species in mid-Cretaceous Wilbertopora Cheetham, 1954 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata).. In: Journal of Paleontology , 2006, 49-71
2006Batygina, T. B., Bragina E. A., Ereskovsky, A. V. & Ostrovsky, A. N.: Viviparity in Plants and Animals: Invertebrates and Lower Chordates [In Russian with English summary]. St Petersburg State University 2006
2005A. N. Ostrovsky & P. D. Taylor.: Brood chambers constructed from spines in fossil and Recent cheilostome bryozoans.. In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2005, 317-361
2004Andrei N. Ostrovsky: Brood chambers (ovicells) in cheilostome bryozoans: the structure, history of research and modern problematics (in Russian).. In: Biologija Morja , 2004, 169-182
2004Andrei N. Ostrovsky, Paul D. Taylor: Brood chambers constructed from spines and costae in fossil and recent cheilostome bryozoans: preliminary report.. In: Boletin de la Sociedad de Biologiá de Concepción , 2004, 99
2004Ostrovsky, A. N. & P. D. Taylor: Early stages of the ovicell development in the calloporid Wilbertopora (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the Upper Cretaceous of the USA.. In: G. I. Moyano G., J. M. Cancino & P. N. Wyse Jackson Bryozoan Studies 2004. A. A. Balkema Publishers, 2004. 223 -230
2004Andrei N. Ostrovsky, Paul D. Taylor: Early stages of the ovicell development in the calloporids Wilbertopora (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the Upper Cretaceous of the USA: preliminary report.. In: Boletin de la Sociedad de Biologiá de Concepción , 2004, 100
2004Andrei N. Ostrovsky, Paul D. Taylor: Systematics of Upper Cretaceous calloporid bryozoans with primitive spinose ovicells.. In: Palaeontology , 2004, 775-793
2003Andrei N. Ostrovsky & Priska Schäfer: Ovicell structure in Callopora dumerili and C. lineata (Bryozoa: Cheilostomatida).. In: Acta Zoologica, 2003, 15-24
2003Andrei N. Ostrovsky, Priska Schäfer & Dennis P. Gordon. Ultrastructure and development of the ooecial walls in some calloporid bryozoans. . In: Zoologischer Anzeiger , 2003, 223-240
2002Andrei N. Ostrovsky: Brood chambers in cribrimorphs evolved by fusion of costae: further arguments.. In: Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, Caroline J. Buttler, Mary E. Spencer Jones, Bryozoan Studies 2001. A. A. Balkema Publishers, 2002. 247-255
2002Andrei N. Ostrovsky & Natalia N. Shunatova: Colonial behaviour and group zooidal reactions in Bryozoa: history of the research. . In: Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, Mary E. Spencer Jones, Annals of Bryozoology: aspects of the history of research on bryozoans.. International Bryozoology Association, 2002. 185-200
2002Natalia N. Shunatova & Andrei N. Ostrovsky: Group behaviour and chimneys in marine bryozoans.. In: Marine Biology, 2002, 503-518
2002Andrei N. Ostrovsky, Natalia N. Shunatova & Irina I. Antipenko: Historical review on individual autozooidal behaviour and feeding mechanisms in Bryozoa.. In: Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, Mary E. Spencer Jones, Annals of Bryozoology: aspects of the history of research on bryozoans.. International Bryozoology Association, 2002. 201-228
2002Andrei N. Ostrovsky: Origin of larval brooding in cheilostomate bryozoans (Bryozoa: Cheilostomatida) and its possible evolutionary consequences.. In: Ecology & Life (Science, Education, Culture), 2002, 29
2002Andrei N. Ostrovsky: The dynamics of sexual changing in bryozoan colonies: an argument in a favour of cross-fertilization.. In: Ecology & Life (Science, Education, Culture), 2002, 29
2001Natalia N. Shunatova, & Andrei N. Ostrovsky: Individual autozooidal behaviour and feeding in marine bryozoans.. In: Sarsia, 2001, 113-142