Dovgal Igor Vasilyevich
Affiliation: A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS
Position, academic degree, rank: chief researcher, D. Sc., Prof.
Address: 2 Nakhimov ave., Sevastopol, 299011, Russian Federation
E-mail: dovgal-1954@mail.ru
Research area:
fauna, ecology, systematics, evolution, and phylogeny of sessile protists;
investigation of Suctorea, Chonotrichia, and Apostomatia (Ciliophora);
development of the concept of a hydrodynamic boundary layer of a liquid as an adaptive zone for sessile protists;
questions of evolution of protists ontogenesis (ciliates especially) in connection with transition of the latter ones to the sedentary lifestyle;
issues of ontogeny evolution and Metazoa origin.
Membership in editorial boards, scientific communities, and other organizations:
member of the editorial board – scientific journal Protistology;
member of the editorial board – scientific journal Ecologica Montenegrina;
member of the editorial board – scientific journal Ecosistemy;
member of the editorial board – scientific journal Marine biological journal;
member – International Society of Protistologists;
member – Russian Hydrobiological Society.
References:
Chatterjee T., Sautya S., Dovgal I., Mishra G. Report of epibiont Thecacineta oregonensis (Ciliophora: Suctorea) on Desmodora sp. (Nematoda) at 990 m depth from seamount flank of the Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 2023, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 257–260. https://doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.6F74246A
Chatterjee T., Sautya S., Dovgal I., Pandey V. New records of epibiont suctorians Actinocyathula homari and Acineta nitocrae (Ciliophora: Suctorea) on harpacticoid copepod from the west coast of India. Protistology, 2023, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 118–123. https://doi.org/10.21685/1680-0826-2023-17-2-7
Raschyslov O. D., Dovgal I. V. Variability of the black scorpionfish, Scorpaena porcus Linnaeus, 1758 (Scorpaenidae), from two Black Sea localities. Marine Biological Journal, 2023, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 104–106. https://marine-biology.ru/mbj/article/view/392
Chatterjee T., Sautya S., Abibulaeva A., Dovgal I. Report of epibiont ciliates on benthic seed shrimps (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from subtidal Mumbai coast of India with addendum to the checklist of ciliates inhabiting ostracods. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 2022, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 335–343. https://doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.F687A49B
Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Desai A., Nanajkar M. Report of rotifer-ciliate-gastropod hyperepibiosis found on snail (Mollusca) from Goa, India. Acta Biologica, 2022, no. 28, pp. 81–89. https://doi.org/10.18276/ab.2021.28-09
Fahrni J., Dovgal I., Qu Z. Molecular phylogeny of Chonotrichia (Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea) inferred from SSU rDNA sequences. European Journal of Protistology, 2022, vol. 86, art. no. 125920 (8 p.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2022.125920
Durucan F., Dovgal I. New reports of suctorian ciliates (Ciliophora, Suctorea) epibiont on halacarid mites and a harpacticoid copepod from Türkiye. Marine Biological Journal, 2022, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 28–33. https://marine-biology.ru/mbj/article/view/350
Sergeeva N. G., Abibulaeva A. S., Dovgal I. V. First finds of sessile ciliates (Ciliophora) in artificial and natural caverns on the Crimean coast of the Black Sea. Ecologica Montenegrina, 2022, vol. 52, pp. 33–41. https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2022.52.5
Chatterjee T., Sautya S., Dovgal I., Gaikwad S. Report of suctorian ciliates (Ciliophora, Suctorea) as epibionts on meiobenthic nematodes in an oxygen minimum zone of the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 2022, vol. 5138, iss. 4, pp. 492–500. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5138.4.9
Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Sautya S., Abibulaeva A., Padhi S. K. Report of Cothurnia cf. pedunculata Dons, 1918 (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) found as epibiont on Entoprocta from the Indian Ocean. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 2022, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 83–87. https://doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.D1F8DCA4
Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Fernandes V., Bhaumik A., Nanajkar M. Report of Acineta euchaetae Sewell, 1951 from new locality of the Arabian Sea with notes on their taxonomy and distribution. Zootaxa, 2021, vol. 5039, no. 2, pp. 291–298. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5039.2.9
Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Fernandez-Leborans G. A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on cnidarians. Zootaxa, 2021, vol. 5039, no. 2, pp. 151–178. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5039.2.1
Baldrighi E., Dovgal I., Zeppilli D., Abibulaeva A., Michelet C., Michaud E., Franzo A., Grassi E., Cesaroni L., Guidi L., Balsamo M., Sandulli R., Semprucci F. The cost for biodiversity: Records of ciliate–nematode epibiosis with the description of three new suctorian species. Diversity, 2020, vol. 12, iss. 6, art. no. 224 (25 p.). https://doi.org/10.3390/d12060224
Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Mayén-Estrada R., Fernandez-Leborans F. A checklist of ciliates (Ciliophora) inhabiting on ostracods (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Zootaxa, 2020, vol. 4763, no. 1, pp. 17–30. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4763.1.2
Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Nanajkar M. Report of ciliate epibionts (Ciliophora) on meiobenthic invertebrates from Indian coast near Karwar, Karnataka. Protistology, 2020, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 84–88. https://doi.org/10.21685/1680-0826-2020-14-2-5
Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Schizas N. V. Report of epibiont ciliates (Ciliophora) on harpacticoid copepods from Caribbean mesophotic reefs. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 2020, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 131–136. https://doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.E1C0E61
Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Fernandez-Leborans G. A checklist of suctorian epibiont ciliates (Ciliophora) found on meiobenthic marine nematodes. Journal of Natural History, 2019, vol. 53, no. 33–34, pp. 2133–2143. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2019.1692085
Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Nanajkar M., Fernandes V. Report of epibiont ciliates (Cilliophora: Suctorea) on pelagic ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from the Arabian Sea. Zootaxa, 2019, vol. 4695, no. 4, pp. 378–384. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4695.4.5
Chatterjee T., Nanajkar M., Dovgal I. New record of Loricophyra stresemanni (Ciliophora: Suctorea) as epibiont on nematodes from the Indian Ocean and notes on the genus Loricophrya. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 2019, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 283–288. https://doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.9C4BB1B2
Durucan F., Artüz M. L., Dovgal I. V. The first record of Paracineta irregularis (Ciliophora, Suctorea) as epibiont on Rhombognathus halacarid mite (Acari, Halacaridae) from the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. Protistology, 2019, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 67–70. http://protistology.ifmo.ru/num13_2/dovgal_protistology_13-2.pdf