Научные интересы:

Морфология и филогения Xenacoelomorpha, Plathelminthes и Rotifera, нервная система, мускулатура, половая система, иммуногистохимия, конфокальная микроскопия, электронная микроскопия

Читаемые курсы:

• Xenacoelomorpha и свободноживущие плоские черви (турбеллярии) для 3 курса ЗБП

Избранные публикации:

• Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Bockerman I., Timoshkin O.A., 1995. Ultrastructure of the ciliary pits in the Geocentrophora group (Platyhelminthes, Lecithoepitheliata). Hydrobiologia, 305: 169-175.
• Raikova O.I., Falleni A., Gremigni V. 1995. Oogenesis in Actinoposthia beklemischevi (Platyhelminthes, Acoela): an ultrastructural and cytochemical study. Tissue and Cell, 27(6): 621-633.
• Raikova O.I., Falleni A., Justine J.-L. 1997. Spermiogenesis in Paratomella rubra (Platyhelminthes, Acoela): ultrastructural, immunocytochemical, cytochemical studies and phylogenetic implications. Acta Zoologica, 78(4): 295-307.
• Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Kotikova E.A., Gustafsson M.K.S. 1998. A commissural brain! The pattern of 5-HT immunoreactivity in Acoela (Plathelminthes). Zoomorphology, 118: 69-77.
• Raikova  O.I., Flyachinskaya L.P., Justine J.-L. 1998. Acoel spermatozoa: ultrastructure and immunocytochemistry of tubulin. Hydrobiologia, 383: 207-214.
• Raikova O.I., Justine J.-L. 1999. Microtubular system during spermiogenesis and in the spermatozoon of Convoluta saliens (Platyhelminthes, Acoela): tubulin immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy. Molecular Reproduction and Development, 52: 74-85.
• Raikova, O.I., Reuter M., Jondelius U., Gustafsson M.K.S. 2000. An immunocytochemical and ultrastructural study of the nervous and muscular systems of Xenoturbella westbladi (Bilateria inc.sed). Zoomorphology, 120: 107-118.
• Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Jondelius U., Gustafsson M.K.S. 2000a. The brain of the Nemertodermatida (Platyhelminthes) as revealed by anti-5HT and anti-FMRFamide immunostainings. Tissue & Cell, 32 (5): 358–365.
• Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Gustafsson M.K.S., Maule A.G., Halton, D.W., Jondelius U. 2004. Evolution of the nervous system in Paraphanostoma (Acoela). Zoologica Scripta, 33: 71-88.
• Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Gustafsson M.K.S., Maule A.G., Halton, D.W. and Jondelius U. 2004. Basiepidermal nervous system in Nemertoderma westbladi (Nemertodermatida): GYIRFamide immunoreactivity. Zoology, 107: 75-86. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2003.12.002
• Kotikova E.A., Raikova O.I., Reuter M., Gustafsson M.K.S. 2005. Rotifer nervous system visualised by FMRFamide and 5–HT immunocytochemistry and confocal scanning laser microscopy. Hydrobiologia, 546: 239-248.DOI 10.1007/s10750-005-4203-5
• Raikova O.I., Tekle Y. I., Reuter M., Jondelius U. 2006. Copulatory organ musculature in Childia (Acoela) as revealed by phalloidin fluorescence and confocal microscopy. Tissue and Cell, 38: 219-232.        doi:10.1016/j.tice.2006.04.001
• Tekle Y. I., Raikova O.I, Justine J-L., Hendelberg J., Jondelius U. 2007. Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical investigation of acoel sperms with 9 + 1 axoneme structure: new sperm characters for unraveling phylogeny in Acoela. Zoomorphology, 126: 1-16.  DOI 10.1007/s00435-006-0023-z
•  Raikova E.V., Ibragimov A.Yu., Raikova. O.I. 2007. Muscular system of a peculiar parasitic cnidarian Polypodium hydriforme: a phalloidin fluorescence study. Tissue and Cell, 39(2): 79-87.       doi:10.1016/j.tice.2007.01.003
• Tekle, Y. I., Raikova O. I., Justine J.-L., Jondelius, U. 2007. Ultrastructure and tubulin immunocytochemistry of the copulatory stylet-like structure in Childia species (Acoela). Journal of Morphology, 268: 166-180.      DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10502
• Jondelius U., Wallberg A., Hooge M., Raikova O.I. 2011. How the Worm Got its Pharynx: Phylogeny, Classification and Bayesian assessment of Character Evolution in Acoela. Systematic Biology,  60(6): 845-871.       DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syr073
• Meyer-Wachsmuth I., Raikova O.I., Jondelius U. 2013. The muscular system of Nemertoderma westbladi and Meara stichopi (Nemertodermatida, Acoelomorpha). Zoomorphology, 132: 239-252.  DOI 10.1007/s00435-013-0191-6
• Raikova O.I., Meyer-Wachsmuth I., Jondelius U. 2016. The plastic nervous system of Nemertodermatida. Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 16(1): 85-104. DOI 10.1007/s13127-015-0248-0
• Raikova E.V., Raikova O.I. 2016. Nervous system immunohistochemistry of a parasitic cnidarian Polypodium hydriforme at its free-living stage.  Zoology, 119(2): 143–152.      http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2015.11.004
• Raikova O. I., Kotikova E. A.,  Korgina E. M., Drobysheva I.M. 2019. Time to re-assess pharynx evolution in flatworms. Homology of pharynx rosulatus in rhabdocoel flatworms Dalytyphloplanida and Kalyptorhynchia. // Invertebrate Zoology 16(1): 57-70
• Jondelius U., Raikova O.I., Martinez P., 2019. Chapter 14.  Xenacoelomorpha, a Key Group to Understand Bilaterian Evolution: Morphological and Molecular Perspectives.  In: P. Pontarotti (ed.), Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods. Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019/ P. 287-315 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30363-1_14
• Biserova N. M., Mustafina A. R., Raikova O. I. The neuro-glandular brain of the Pyramicocephalus phocarum plerocercoid (Cestoda, Diphyllobothriidea): Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural study // Zoology. – 2022. – Т. 152. – С. 126012.       https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2022.126012

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