Claudi R., Prescott T.H., Prescott K.L., Mastitsky S.E., Evans D., Taraborelli A.C.
Two field experiments were carried out using a custom built flow-through laboratory to test the effect of elevated pH on dreissenid mussels as a potential control method. Both experiments tested the ability of dreissenid pediveligers to settle under conditions of elevated pH and the long-term...
Management of Biological Invasions (2013) 4(2): 101–111
Moskalev E.A., Stöhr R., Rieker R., Hebele S., Fuchs F., Sirbu H., Mastitsky S.E., Boltze C., König H., Agaimy A., Hartmann A., Haller F.
Detection of activating EGFR mutations in NSCLC is the prerequisite for individualised therapy with receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). In contrast, mutant downstream effector KRAS is associated with TKI resistance. Accordingly, EGFR mutation status is routinely examined in NSCLC...
Exotic species typically lose most of their associated parasites during long-distance spread. However, the few parasites that are co-introduced may have considerable adverse impacts on their novel hosts, including mass mortalities. We present a comprehensive inventory of parasites known to infect...
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (2013) DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2013.774576 (Online First)
We report the first results of a parasitological study of Dreissena polymorpha (zebra mussels) from the brackish Curonian Lagoon, SE Baltic Sea. Zebra mussels were collected monthly from May to October 2011 from a site near the mouth of the River Nemunas. Three types of endosymbionts were found...
Cheng HW, Lucy FE, Broaders MA, Mastitsky SE, Chen CH, Murray A
Municipal wastewater treatment plants play a crucial role in reducing the microbial and pathogen load of human wastes before the end-products are discharged to surface waters (final effluent) or land spread (biosolids). This study investigated the occurrence frequency of noroviruses, Enterococcus...
Claudi R, Graves A, Taraborelli AC, Prescott RJ, Mastitsky SE
A field experiment was conducted in 2009 using Lake Ontario water in a continuous flow through system to determine the impact of low pH on dreissenid mussel (zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha Pallas, 1771, and quagga mussel, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis Andrusov, 1897) settlement and survival...
The freshwater invasive mollusc Dreissena polymorpha and its host-specific commensal ciliate Conchophthirus acuminatus represent a convenient model to study various aspects of symbiotic relationships. This study was conducted to test whether the nutrient enrichment of waterbodies inhabited by D....
Moskalev EA, Luckert K, Vorobjev IA, Mastitsky SE, Gladkikh AA, Stephan A, Schrenk M, Kaplanov KD, Kalashnikova OB, Pötz O, Joos TO, Hoheisel JD
Background
The Wnt/beta-catenin signalling is aberrantly activated in primary B cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Epigenetic silencing of pathway inhibitor genes may be a mechanism for its activation. In this study, we investigated systematically and quantitatively the methylation status...
Minguez L, Boiché A, Sroda S, Matitsky S, Brulé N, Bouquerel J, Giambérini L
Aquatic organisms are exposed to pollution which may make them more susceptible to infections and diseases. The present investigation evaluated effects of nickel contamination and parasitism (ciliates Ophryoglena spp. and intracellular bacteria Rickettsiales-like organisms), alone and in...
Cheng HW, Broaders MA, Lucy FE, Mastitsky SE, Graczyk TK
Most research on wastewater treatment efficiency compliance focuses on physicochemical and microbial indicators; however, very little emphasis has been placed so far on determining suitable indicator organisms to predict the discharge level of pathogens from treatment plants. In this study, raw...
Ivandic BT, Mastitsky SE, Schönsiegel F, Bekeredjian R, Eils R, Frey N, Katus HA, Brors B
AIMS:
Penetrance and phenotypic expressivity of cardiomyopathies are modulated by modifier genes both in model systems and patients. We aimed to dissect the disease-modifying mechanisms by examining genome-wide gene expression in a new set of mouse (Mus musculus) congenic strains.
METHODS AND...
Karatayev AY, Mastitsky SE, Burlakova LE, Karatayev VA, Hajduk MM, Conn DB
One of the most significant ecological and economic impacts of exotic species is associated with their role as vectors for the introduction of parasites into invaded areas. Exotic parasites may have devastating impacts on invaded ecosystems; moreover, invaders may also become hosts for aboriginal...
Journal of Shellfish Research (2012) 31(3): 885-894
Karatayev A. Y., Mastitsky S. E., Padilla D. K., Burlakova L. E., Hajduk M. M.
The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and its congener the quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) are both invaders in freshwater, but have very different invasion histories, with zebra mussels attaining substantially faster rates of spread at virtually all spatial scales. However, in...
Municipal wastewater treatment plants play a vital role in reducing the microbial load of sewage before the end-products are discharged to surface waters (final effluent) or local environments (biosolids). This study was to investigate the presence of human-virulent microsporidian spores...
Mastitsky S. E., Karatayev A. Y., Burlakova L. E., Addamovich B. V.
As of the end of 2008, 25 species of non-native fishes have been documented in the Republic of Belarus. Of these, 17 (68%)
species were deliberately introduced for aquaculture, six (24%) species invaded from the adjacent territories by natural dispersal,
and two (8%) species were likely...
This study provides field evidence in support of the
“parasite spillback hypothesis” that predicts a positive numerical
response of native parasites to the presence of an exotic
host that is competing for these parasites with native hosts.We
examined the role that the exotic mollusc Dreissena...
Mastitsky S. E., Karatayev A. Y., Burlakova L. E., Molloy D. P.
Aim: Exotic species may serve as vectors for the introduction of parasites from
their native range and may also become infected by parasites already present in
invaded areas, but the total number of parasites infecting such exotic species in
their invaded areas is typically less than that in...
В статье приведены результаты оценки потенциальной инвазивности 31 чужеродного вида рыб Беларуси с использованием протокола FISK (Fish Invasiveness Screening Kit). Создана...
Вопросы рыбного хозяйства Беларуси (2010) 26: 250-258
Semenchenko V.P., Rizevsky V.K., Mastitsky S. E., Vezhnovets V. V., Pluta M. V., Razlutsky V. I., Laenko T.
The assessment of risks associated with alien invasive organisms implies a detailed knowledge of their taxonomical composition
and distribution within an assessment unit. In this paper we used both literature data and results from our field surveys of more
than forty sites, conducted in...
Karatayev A. Y., Mastitsky S. E., Burlakova L. E., Olenin S.
We analyzed the role of the waterways of Belarus in the spread of aquatic exotic invertebrates through the central European invasion corridor. Present day Belarus became critically important when in the end of the 18th—beginning of the 19th century three interbasin canals connecting rivers from...
During a survey of the Belarusian part of the Dnieper River conducted on 19-22 July 2006, we revealed five invasive Ponto-Caspian amphipod species in its benthos community: Chaetogammarus ischnus, Chelicorophium curvispinum, Dikerogammarus haemobaphes, Dikerogammarus villosus and
Pontogammarus...
Karatayev A. Y., Burlakova L. E., Molloy D. P., Mastitsky S. E.
Host specificity, extremely high prevalence and infection intensity, and easy sampling make the mantle-cavity ciliate Conchophthirus acuminatus a very convenient model to address numerous fundamental questions relating to symbiosis
and commensalism. The acquisition of food by the ciliate as a...
Journal of Shellfish Research (2007) Volume 26, Issue 4: 1153–1160
The Ponto-Caspian snail Lithoglyphus naticoides was recorded for the first time in Lake Lukomskoe in
2003. During parasitological examinations conducted in May and August 2006, the snail was found to
harbor cercariae of three trematode species: Palaeorchis sp., Rossicotrema donicum and...
Karatayev A. Y., Burlakova L. E., Padilla D. K., Mastitsky S. E., Olenin S.
We assembled information on 119 species
of freshwater macroinvertebrate invaders in
North America and Europe, and compared them to
all native freshwater species in North America and
Europe. We tested whether the invaders were a
random or selected group among taxa (phylum or
class), water quality...
On 23 July 2003, a new, previously unreported, molluscan species Lithoglyphus naticoides (gravel snail)
was found in the benthos of Lake Lukomskoe, Belarus. As Dreissena polymorpha (zebra mussel) is also
present, Lithoglyphus naticoides is the second Ponto-Caspian species recorded in this...
The paper includes data on species composition of chironomid larvae which were encountered in
the mantle cavity of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) within 7 waterbodies in the Republic of
Belarus. All were found to be free-living species commonly present in periphyton and/or benthos.
A...
International Review of Hydrobiology (2005) Volume 90, Issue 1: 42–50
Karatayev A. Y., Mastitsky S. E., Burlakova L. E., Molloy D. P., Vezhnovets G. G.
We report the results of a two-year study in the Svisloch River (Minsk, Belarus) on the dynamics of infection in Dreissena
polymorpha by nematodes and three ciliate species Conchophthirus acuminatus, Ophryoglena sp., and Ancistrumina limnica. Although
these endosymbionts were present in most of...
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology (2003) Volume 83: 73–82
Karatayev A. Y., Mastitsky S. E., Molloy D. P., Burlakova L. E.
This is the first study to quantify the periodic emergence of a Conchophthirus sp. from its bivalve host. Emergence rates
of C. acuminatus from Dreissena polymolpha over the entire 24-day experiment appeared to be directly correlated with infection
intensity. The rate of ciliate emergence from...
Journal of Shellfish Research (2003) Volume 22, Issue 1: 495-500
В пособии рассмотрены типовые задачи, с которыми сталкиваются исследователи-биологи в ходе статистической обработки результатов наблюдений и экспериментов...
Минск: РУП Институт рыбного хозяйства, 2009. - 76 с.
We report the first results of parasitological study of Dreissena polymorpha (zebra mussels) from Sweden. The samples of
Dreissena were collected from Lake Erken in July 2007. The most common endosymbionts found in the mantle cavity of the
mussels were the commensal ciliate Conchophthirus...