Научные интересы:

Репродуктивная экология и эволюция репродуктивных стратегий водных беспозвоночных, эволюционная и функциональная морфология, анатомия, ультраструктура, эволюция полиморфизма, поведение, таксономия и биогеография морских мшанок, симбионты мшанок

Читаемые курсы:

• «История биологии»

• «Онтогенез и жизненные циклы беспозвоночных», 
• «Индивидуальность и колониальность в биологии», 
• «Концепции эволюции беспозвоночных»,
• «Палеобиология»

Избранные публикации :

Монографии

• Grischenko A.V., Gordon D.P., Taylor P.D., Kuklinski P., Denisenko N.V., Spencer Jones M.E., Ostrovsky A.N. (2022) Taxonomy, ecology and zoogeography of the Recent species of Rhamphostomella Lorenz, 1886 and Mixtoscutella gen. nov. (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). Zootaxa 5131(1): 1–115. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5131.1.1
• Cáceres-Chamizo J.P., Sanner J.A., Tilbrook K.J., Ostrovsky A.N. (2017) Revision of the Recent species of Exechonella Canu & Bassler in Duvergier, 1924 and Actisecos Canu & Bassler, 1927 (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata): systematics, biogeography and evolutionary trends in skeletal morphology. Zootaxa 4305(1): 1-79.
• Ostrovsky A.N. (2013) Evolution of the sexual reproduction in marine invertebrates: example of gymnolaemate Bryozoa. Springer Verlag. XXXII, 356 pp. ISBN: 978-94-007-7145-1 (Print) 978-94-007-7146-8 (Online)
• http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/book/978-94-007-7145-1
• http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-94-007-7146-8
• Batygina T.B., Bragina E.A., Ereskovsky A.V., Ostrovsky A.N. (2006) Viviparity in plants and animals: invertebrates and lower chordates. St Petersburg State University, 134 pp. [In Russian with English summary] ISBN 5-288-03803-1.

• Bogdanov E.A., Vishnyakov A.E., Kotenko O.N., Grischenko A.V., Letarov A.V., Ostrovsky A.N. (2023) Seasonal dynamics of a complex cheilostome bryozoan symbiosis: vertical transfer challenged. Scientific Reports 13: 375. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26251-6
• Orr R.J.S., Di Martino E., Ramsfjell M., Gordon D.P., Berning B., Chowdhury I., Craig S., Cumming R.L., Figuerola B., Florence W., Harmelin J.-G., Hirose M., Huang D., Jain S.S., Jenkins H.L., Kotenko O.N., Kuklinski P., Lee H.E., Madurell T., McCann L., Mello H.L., Obst M., Ostrovsky A.N., Paulay G., Porter J.S., Shunatova N.N., Smith A.M., Souto-Derungs J., Vieira L.M., Voje K.L., Waeschenbach A., Zágoršek K., Warnock R.C.M., Liow L.H. (2022) Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny. Science Advances 8(13): eabm7452. 
• DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm7452
• Serova K.M., Belikova E.V., Kotenko O.N., Vishnyakov A.E., Bogdanov E.A., Zaitseva O.V., Shunatova N.N. & Ostrovsky A.N. (2022) Reduction, rearrangement, fusion and hypertrophy: evolution of the muscular system in polymorphic zooids of cheilostome Bryozoa. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 22(4): 925-964. DOI:  10.1007/s13127-022-00562-y
• Bogdanov E.A., Vishnyakov A.E., Ostrovsky A.N. (2022) From Procaryota to Eumetazoa: Symbiotic associations in fossil and recent bryozoans. Paleontological Journal 56(7): 836-851. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030122070048
• Kotenko O.N., Bagrov S.V., Ostrovsky A.N. (2022) Aboral (pallial) epithelium in bryozoan larvae: a comparative morpho-functional analysis. Invertebrate Zoology 19(4): 369–403. DOI: 10.15298/invertzool.19.4.04
• Vishnyakov A.E., Karagodina N.P., Lim-Fong G., Ivanov P.A., Schwaha T.F., Letarov A.V. & Ostrovsky A.N. (2021) First evidence of virus-like particles in the bacterial symbionts of Bryozoa. Scientific Reports 11: 4. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78616-4
• Nekliudova U.A., Schwaha T. F., Kotenko O. N., Gruber D., Cyran N., Ostrovsky A.N. (2021) Three in one: Evolution of viviparity, coenocytic placenta and polyembryony in cyclostome bryozoans. BMC Ecology & Evolution 21, 54. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-021-01775-z
• Bibermair J., Ostrovsky A.N., Wanninger A., Schwaha T.F. (2021) Reproductive biology, embryonic development and matrotrophy in the phylactolaemate bryozoan Plumatella casmiana. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 21: 467-490. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-021-00497-w
• Ostrovsky A.N. (2021) Reproductive strategies and patterns in marine invertebrates: diversity and evolution. Paleontological Journal 55(7): 803-810. DOI: 10.1134/S003103012107008X
• 2020a Schwaha T.F., Ostrovsky A.N., Wanninger A. Key novelties in the evolution of Bryozoa: evidence from the soft-body morphology. Biological Reviews 95(3): 696-729. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12583
• Shevchenko E.T., Varfolomeeva M.A., Nekliudova U.A., Kotenko O.N., Usov N.V., Granovitch A.I., Ostrovsky A.N. (2020) Electra vs Callopora: Life-histories of two bryozoans with contrasting reproductive patterns from the White Sea. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 64(2): 137-157. DOI: 10.1080/07924259.2020.1729260
• Nekliudova U.A., Schwaha T.F., Kotenko O.N., Gruber D., Cyran N., Ostrovsky A.N. (2019) Sexual reproduction of the placental brooder Celleporella hyalina (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) in the White Sea. Journal of Morphology 280: 278-299. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20943
• Schwaha T., Moosbrugger M., Walzl M., Ostrovsky A.N. (2019) First ultrastructural evidence of placental nutrition in a ctenostome bryozoan: example of Amathia verticillata. Zoomorphology 138(2): 221-232. DOI: 10.1007/s00435-019-00438-4
• Nekliudova U.A., Shunkina K.V., Grishankov A.V., Varfolomeeva M.A., Granovitch A.I., Ostrovsky A.N. (2019) Colonies as dynamic systems: reconstructing the life-history of Cribrilina annulata (Bryozoa) on two algal substrates. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 99(6): 1363-1377. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315419000286
• Schwaha T., Handschuh S., Ostrovsky A.N., Wanninger A. (2018) Morphology of the bryozoan Cinctipora elegans (Cyclostomata, Cinctiporidae) with the first data on its sexual reproduction and the cyclostome neuro-muscular system. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 92. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1206-1
• Mathew M., Schwaha T., Ostrovsky A.N., Lopanik N.B. (2018) Symbiont-dependent sexual reproduction in marine colonial invertebrate: morphological and molecular evidence. Marine Biology 165: 14. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-017-3266-y
• Karagodina N.P., Vishnyakov A.E., Kotenko O.N., Maltseva A.L., Ostrovsky A.N. (2018) Ultrastructural evidence for nutritional relationships between a marine colonial invertebrate and its bacterial symbionts. Symbiosis 75: 155-164. DOI: 10.1007/s13199-017-0516-1
• Bolotov, I.N., Makhrov, A.A., Gofarov, M.Yu., Aksenova, O.V., Aspholm, P.E., Bespalaya, Yu.V., Kabakov, M.B., Kolosova, Yu.S., Kondakov, A.V., Ofenbock, T., Ostrovsky, A.N., Popov, I.Yu., von Proschwitz, T., Rudzite, M., Rudzitis, M., Sokolova, S.E., Valovirta, I., Vikhrev, I.V., Vinarski, M.V., Zotin, A.A. (2018) Climate warming as a possible trigger of keystone mussel population decline in oligotrophic rivers at the continental scale. Scientific Reports 8: 35. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18873-y
• Karagodina N.P., Vishnyakov A.E., Kotenko O.N., Maltseva A.L., Ostrovsky A.N. (2017) Ultrastructural evidence for nutritional relationships between a marine colonial invertebrate and its bacterial symbionts. Symbiosis: 1-10.
• Ostrovsky A.N., Lidgard S., Gordon D.P., Schwaha T., Genikhovich G., Ereskovsky A.V. (2016) Matrotrophy and placentation in invertebrates: a new paradigm. Biological Reviews 91: 673-711. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12189
• Shunkina K.V., Starunov V.V., Zaytseva O.V., Ostrovsky A.N. (2015) Comparative morphology of the nervous system in three phylactolaemate bryozoans. Frontiers in Zoology 12: 28. DOI:10.1186/s12983-015-0112-2