Կենսաբանության ֆակուլտետ
Faculty of Biology
Faculty of Biology of Yerevan State University has been established in 1933. :
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Marine S. Arakelyan

Head of Chair | Chair of Zoology
Education (beginning with IHE)
1991 - 1996: Yerevan State University
1997 - 2001: PhD study, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Science, St.-Petersburg, Russia

Academic degree
2001: Ph.D.; Biology
Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Science, St.-Petersburg, Russia
2012: DSc; Biology
Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology, Yerevan, Armenia

Professional experience
2014 - present: Head of Chair of ZoologyFaculty of Biology, Yerevan State University
2012 - present: Associate professor, Chair of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Yerevan State University
1996 - present: Researcher, Chair of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Yerevan State University, Armenia
2013 - present: Coordinator of projectsArmenian branch of NABU (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union)
2008 - 2009: Invited researcherCIBIO (Centre of Biodiversity and Genetic Resources), Portugal
2004 - 2012: Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Yerevan State University
2002 Invited researcher. Ramon Science Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
1998 - 2002: First Category Specialist Department of Specially Protected Natural Areas of the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia
1997 - 2002: Research Assistant Institute of Molecular Biology of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

Academic courses
Vertebrate biology, Comparative anatomy of vertebrate, Phylogeny and systematics of animals, Diversity of animals of Armenia, Methods of study in zoology

Scale of professional interests
Monitoring of animals, Biodiversity of amphibians and reptiles of Armenia and NKR, Parthenogenesis of rock lizards of genus Darevskia evolution pathways and hybridization. Parasites of reptiles. Diversity of turtles. Ontogenesis of reptiles

Participation in grant projects (present and past)
2015 - present: Coordinator of project, State Committee of Science (SCS) of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia and Russian Foundation for Basic Research joint Fund, 2015. 15 RF-048.
2015 - present: Principal Investigator, Fund of State Committee of Science RA
2016 - present: Principal Investigator, The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
2015 - 2016: Expert in herpetology, Development of a Management Plan of Ijevan Sanctuary
2015 - 2016: Coordinator of project, Booster Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation 2013-2016 UNEP/GEF Project
2013 - 2014: Coordinator of project, Armenian National Science & Education Fund (ANSEF)
2013 - 2015: Principal Investigator, Fund of State Committee of Science RA
2011 - 2016: Armenian team leader, BIOGEAST, Seventh framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions-People, International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
2010 - 2012: Principal Investigator, Fund of State Committee of Science RA
2011 - 2012: Coordinator of project, Second Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation
2011 - 2012: Coordinator of project, The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
2010 - 2012: Armenian team leader, FundaçãoCalousteGulbenkian. Preserving Armenian biodiversity: Joint Portuguese – Armenian program for training in modern conservation biology
2009 - 2010: Coordinator of project, Armenian National Science & Education Fund (ANSEF)
2008 - 2009: Coordinator of project, Armenian National Science & Education Fund (ANSEF)
2008 - 2009: Coordinator of project, First Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation,
2003 - 2004: Coordinator of project, Chelonian Research Foundation Linnaeus Fund Turtle Research Award

Languages
English – good, Russian – fluently, Armenian – as a native speaker

Professional membership (NGO, professional council, editorial staff of scientific journal, funds etc.)

Nikolsky’s Herpetological Society, St.-Petersburg, Russia
IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (TFTSG)
DEVC-Developing Country Member of Society for Conservation Biology“Young Biologists Association” NGO
“Bezoar” NGO

Awards received
Yerevan State University, 2014

arakelyanmarine@ysu.am

Latest Publications (60)
Effectiveness of protected area in example of Dilijan national park for terrestrial molluscs diversity and richness in Armenia
2018 | Thesis
Rufford Small Grants Conference “Conservation across the Caucasus”. 2018, p. 10
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Miguel A. Carretero, Enrique García-Muñoz, Elena Argaña, Susana Freitas, Claudia Corti, Marine Arakelyan , Neftalí Sillerod
Parthenogenetic Darevskia lizards mate frequently if they have the chance: a quantitative analysis of copulation marks in a sympatric zone
2018 | Article
Journal of Natural History. 2018, 52:7-8, 405-413 pp.
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Gleb N. Artemov, Alena I. Velichevskaya, Semen M. Bondarenko, Gayane H. Karagyan, Sargis A. Aghayan , Marine S. Arakelyan , Vladimir N. Stegniy, Igor V. Sharakhov, Maria V. Sharakhova
A standard photomap of the ovarian nurse cell chromosomes for the dominant malaria vector in Europe and Middle East Anopheles sacharovi
2018 | Article
Malaria Journal. 2018, 17:276, 1-11 pp.
Ф.Д. Даниелян , М. С. Аракелян , В. Е. Спангенберг
Изучение гибридных триплоидных самцов скальных ящериц рода Darevskia в симпатрической популяциии Армении
2018 | Article
Биологический журнал Армении. 2018, 2, 70, стр. 64-71
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DNA damage and micronuclei in parthenogenetic and bisexual Darevskia rock lizards from the areas with different levels of soil pollution
2018 | Article
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 2018, 154, 13-18 pp.
Diversity pattern of terrestrial molluscs in Dilijan National Park of Armenia
2018 | Article
2nd International Young Scientists Conference on “Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation Ecological Issues”. Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, 2018, pg. 73-74
Main Threats to a Critically Endangered Vertigo angustior Jeffreys, 1830 in Armenia
2018 | Thesis
Molluscan 20th Forum, London, UK, 2018, pg. 6
Arakelyan M. S. , Petrosyan R. K.
Conservation measures for the critically endangered species of lizard in Armenia (Eremis arguta transcaucasica)
2017 | Article
Biological diversity and conservation problems of the fauna-3. 2017, 22-24 pp.
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Petrosyan R. K., Arakelyan M. S.
The repraductive features of rare partenogenetic species darevskia rostombekowi
2017 | Thesis
Biological diversity and conservation problems of the fauna-3. 2017, 255-257 pp.
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«Կենսաբանություն» առարկայից սովորողների ուսումնական գործունեության արդյունքների գնահատման օրինակելի չափանիշները
2017 | Article
Համահայկական բնագիտական կրթական V գիտաժողով: «Բնագիտությունը 21-րդ դարում. ուսուցման հիմնախնդիրներ և լուծումներ»: 2017, էջ 150-154
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Variability of the morphomethric characteristics in the population of marsh frog Pelophylax ridibundus from Ararat valley (Armenia)
2017 | Thesis
Biological diversity and conservation problem of the fauna - 3. 2017, p. 28-29
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Victor Spangenberg, Marine Arakelyan , Eduard Galoyan, Sergey Matveevsky, Ruzanna Petrosyan , Yuri Bogdanov, Felix Danielyan , Oxana Kolomiets
Reticulate Evolution of the Rock Lizards: Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics and Spermatogenesis in Diploid and Triploid Males of the Genus Darevskia
2017 | Article
Genes. 2017, 8, pp. 1-15
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Некоторые фенотипические особенности квакш (amphibia: hylidae) Армении
2017 | Article
Հայաստանի կենսաբանական հանդես: 2017թ․, (69) 2, 70-75 էջ, Հայաստան
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Some phenotypic features of Armenian tree frogs (Amphibia: Hylidae)
2017 | Article
Biological Journal of Armenia, (69) 2, 2017, pg. 70-75
Спангенберг В. Е., Аракелян М. С. , Даниелян Ф. Д. , Матвеевский С. Н., Петросян Р. К., Галоян Э. А., Коломиец О. Л.
Особенности конкурентного синапсиса гомеологичных хромосом в мейозе приводят к тератозооспермии у триплоидных гибридов Армянских скальных ящериц
2016 | Thesis
Сборник тезисов Всероссийской конференции "50 лет ВОГиС: успехи и перспективы. 2016, стр. 291
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Морфологическое и фенотипическое разнообразие у Rana macrocnemis (Boulenger, 1885) из горных популяций северной и центральной Aрмении
2016 | Article
Экологические и эволюционные механизмы структурно-функционального гомеостаза живых систем: Материалы XIV Международной научно-практической экологической конференции. 2016, стр. 25-27
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В. Арутюнян, М. Аракелян
Изменчивость локационных сигналов нетопыря карлика на территории Армении
2016 | Thesis
Экологические и эволюционные механизмы структурно-функционального гомеостаза живых систем: Материалы XIV Международной научно-практической экологической конференции. 2016, стр. 29-30
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M. Arakelyan , A. Malkhasyan, K. Manvelyan
Baseline surveys of biodiversity of vertebrate in vicinity of Hors and Taratumb communities in Vayots Dzor
2016 | Thesis
Экологические и эволюционные механизмы структурно-функционального гомеостаза живых систем: Материалы XIV Международной научно-практической экологической конференции. 2016, стр. 90-91
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Изменчивость морфометрических признаков раковин наземного моллюска Napaeopsis hohenackeri (Pfeiffer, 1848)
2016 | Article
Экологические и эволюционные механизмы структурно-функционального гомеостаза живых систем. 2016, стр. 24-25
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Հայաստանի հանրապետության «Էմերալդ ցանցը»
2016 | Book
Վան Արյան, 2016թ․, 144 էջ
Ruzanna Petrosyan, Razmik Sargsyan, Marine Arakelyan
Pattern of coexisting of endangered parthenogenetic species Darevskia rostombekowi with syntopic Darevskia species
2016 | Thesis
9th Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin. 2016, p. 30
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Miguel A. Carretero, Enrique García-Muñoz, Elena Argaña, Susana Freitas, Claudia Corti, Marine Arakelyan , Neftalí Sillero
Parthenogenetic females mate if males are around. An analysis of copulation marks in A Darevskia mixed community
2016 | Thesis
9th Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin. 2016, p. 11-12
Հայաստանի Հանրապետության և Լեռնային Ղարաբաղի երկկենցաղները ու սողունները
2016 | Book
Մենագրություն: Էդիթ Պրինտ: 2016թ․, 200 էջ, Հայաստան, Երևան
Infestation of dice snake natrix tessellata (laurenti, 1768) by helminths in Armenia
2016 | Article
Biological Journal of Armenia, 2016, 1, 89-91 pp.
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Susana Freitas, Anna Vavakou, Marine Arakelyan , Sergei V. Drovetski, Jelka Crnobrnja-isailović, Artem A. Kidov, Dan Cogălniceanu, Claudia Corti, Petros Lymberakis, D. James Harris, Miguel A. Carretero
Cryptic diversity and unexpected evolutionary patterns in the meadow lizard, Darevskia praticola (Eversmann, 1834)
2016 | Article
Systematics and Biodiversity, 2016, 14, 2, 184-197 pp.
A. V. Omelchenkoa, A. E. Girnyk, F. A. Osipov, A. A. Vergun, V. G. Petrosyan, F. D. Danielyan , M. S. Arakelyand , A. P. Ryskov
Genetic Differentiation among Natural Populations of the Lizard Complex Darevskia raddei as Inferred from Genome Microsatellite Marking
2016 | Article
Russian Journal of Genetics, 2016, 52, 2, стр. 231-235
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А. В. Омельченко, А. Е. Гирнык, Ф. А. Осипов, А. А. Вергун, В. Г. Петросян, Ф. Д. Даниелян , М. С. Аракелян , А. П. Рысков
Генетическая дифференциация природных популяций ящериц комплекса darevskia raddei по данным микросателлитного маркирования геномов
2016 | Article
Генетика. 2016, 52, 2, стр. 260-264
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Susana Freitas, Sara Rocha, João Campos, Faraham Ahmadzadeh, Claudia Corti, Neftali Sillero, Marine Arakelyan , D. James Harris, Miguel A. Carretero
Parthenogenesis through the Ice Ages: a biogeographic analysis of Caucasian rock lizards (genus Darevskia)
2016 | Article
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2016, 102, 117-127 pp.
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Blood parasites morphotypes of rock lizards of Armenia (Հայաստանի ժայռային մողեսների արյան մակաբույծների մորֆոխմբերը)
2015 | Article
ԵՊՀ Գիտական տեղեկագիր: Քիմիա և կենսաբանություն, 2015 #2, էջ 45-49
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М. Абраамян, Р. Петросян, М. Аракелян
Сравнение временной составляющей экологических НИШ синтопичных видов скальных ящериц армении
2015 | Article
ԵՊՀ ՈՒԳԸ գիտական հոդվածների ժողովածու, 2015թ․, 1.1 (4), 72-74 էջ
Анализ повреждений ДНК у ящериц Darevskia Raddei, обитающих в зонах с различным уровнем загрязнения почв, методом ДНК-комет
2015 | Article
Հայաստանի կենսաբանական հանդես, 2015 թ․, 4, 67, 65-67 էջ
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M.R. Abrahamyan, R.K. Petrosyan, Ed.A. Galoyan, F.D. Danielyan , M.S. Arakelyan
Seasonal and daily activities of two syntopic parthenogenetic lizards of genus Darevskia (Darevskia ցեղատեսակի երկու կուսածին մողեսների սեզոնային և օրական ակտիվությունները)
2014 | Article
ԵՊՀ Գիտական տեղեկագիր: Քիմիա և կենսաբանություն, 2014 #2, էջ 39-42
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Petrosyan R. P., Arzumanyan M. V. , Stepanyan I. E., Arakelyan M. S.
New data of sizes of body and erythrocytes of Pelobates syriacus, Boetter, 1889 from Ararat valley, Armenia
2014 | Article
The International Conference «Biological diversity and conservation problems of the fauna of the Caucasus – 2». Prsc. of articals. 2014, 300-303
Phenotype diversity of marsh frogs Pelophylax ridibundus (Pallas, 1771) in some mountain populations of Armenia
2014 | Article
The International Conference «Biological diversity and conservation problems of the fauna of the Caucasus – 2».. Prsc. of articals. 2014, 41-45 pp.
Arzumanyan M. V. , Vardanyan A. I., Stepanyan I. E., Arakelyan M. S.
The interpopulation variability of sizes of body and erythrocytes of the marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) from Armenia
2013 | Article
The First International Conference of the Young Herpetologists of Russia and Neighboring Countries. Prsc. of articals. 2013, 44-47 pp.
Arakelyan M. , Danielyan F. , Corti C., Sindaco R., Leviton A.
Herpetofauna of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
2011 | Article
Salt Lake City SSAR, USA, 2011: 154
Arakelyan M. , Soghoyan A., Ilgaz Ç., Kumlutaş Y., Durmuş S., Tayhan Y.
Morphological and skeletochronological studies on four parthenogenetic species of genus Darevskia Arribas
2010 | Article
1999 - 7th International Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean basin, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain, 06-09 September 2010:62
Sex differences in loads of blood parasites among lizards genus Darevskia
2010 | Thesis
7th International Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean basin, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain, 06-09 September, 2010:33
Freitas S., Harris D. J., Danielyan F. , Arakelyan M. , Corti C., Carretero M. A.
Phylogeography of the Darevskia raddei species complex based on mtDNA
2009 | Article
7th International Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean basin, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain, 06-09 September: 54
Arakelyan M. , Danielyan F. , Turkozan O., Parham J.
Testudo graeca armeniaca from Armenia and NKR
2009 | Article
15th European Congress of Herpetology Kuşadası –Aydin, Turkey, 28 September-2 October, 2009:14
Vardanyan A. , Arakelyan M., Danielyan F.
Conservation status of the last surviving lizard population in the in Armenia
2009 | Article
International student conference. Yerevan: 17
Arakelyan M. , Danielyan F., Hezaveh N.
Distribution of Emys orbicularis along Arax River Valley
2008 | Article
Biological Journal of Armenia V1, 2008. 1-2 (60): 183-187
Sympatrsches vorkommen zweier formen von Testudo greca in Armenien und der Republik Nagorno-Karabakh
2008 | Article
Marginata, 2008, 26-30
Parthenogenesis in Caucasian rock lizard of the genus Darevskia from Armenia. Evolution of parthenogenesis in view of host- parasite relatives
2008 | Article
In: Corti C. (ed.) Herpetologia Sardiniae. Soc. Herp. Ital./Edizioni Belvedere, Latina, “Le scienze’(8), 2008: 25-28
Parthenogenesis in Caucasian rock lizard of genus Darevskia
2008 | Article
In: Corti C. (ed.) Herpetologia Sardiniae. Soc. Herp. Ital./Edizioni Belvedere, Latina, “Le scienze’(8), 2008: 29-32
The progress of microevolution in hybrids of rock lizards of genus Darevskia
2008 | Article
Biological Journal of Armenia V1
Arakelyan M. , J.F. Parham
The geographic distribution of turtles in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh)
2008 | Article
Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2008, 7(1): 70–77
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Hybrids of Darevskia valentini, D. armeniaca and D. unisexualis from a sympatric population in Armenia
2008 | Article
Amphibia-Reptilia, 2008, 29: 487-504
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The ratio of blood parasites between hybrids and their parental species of rock lizards of genus Darevskia
2007 | Article
14th European Congress of Herpetology, 19-23 September, 2007 Porto – Portugal
Fritz U., Guicking D., Arakelyan M. , Auer M., Ayaz D., Fernandez C., Bakiev A., Celani A., Džuki G., Fahd S., Havaš P., Joger U., Khabibullin V., Mazanaeva L., Široky P., Tripep S., Velez A., Anton G., Wink M.
Mitochondrial phylogeography of European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis, Emys trinacris) – an update
2007 | Article
Amphibia-Reptilia 28, 2007: 418-426
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Parham J.F., Türkozan O., Stuart B.L., Arakelyan M. , Shafei S., Macey J.R., Papenfuss T.J.
Genetic evidence for premature taxonomic inflation in Middle Eastern tortoises
2006 | Article
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 57(3):955-964
Age and growth of Eremias strauchi from Armenia
2005 | Thesis
1th Ukraine Herpetological Congress. Kiev, 9-15 October 2005. P 1
Krasnov B. R., Khokholova I. S., Arakelyan M. , Degen A. A.
Is a starving host tastier? Reproduction in fleas parasitizing food-limited rodents
2005 | Article
Functional Ecology 2005 19, 625–631
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Taskavak E., Arakelyan M.
Testudo graeca armeniaca
2004 | Article
Manduria V. 7 (22) P. 7-8
New data about helminthes of colubrid snakes
2003 | Thesis
12th ordinary general meeting programme & abstracts, Saint- Petersburg, 2003, p.49
Мартиросян И. А., Рысков А. П., Петросян В. Г., Аракелян М. С. , Асланян А.В. , Даниелян Ф. Д. , Даревский И. С., Токарская О. Н.
Изменчивость мини- и микросателлитных маркеров ДНК в популяциях партеногенетической скальной ящерицы Darevskia rostombekovi
2002 | Article
Генетика. 2002, том 38, N 6, с. 828-835
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Н. Г. Кан, И. А. Мартиросян, И. С. Даревский, Ф. Д. Даниелян , М. С. Аракелян , А. В. Асланян , В. В. Гречко, О. Н. Токарская, А. П. Рысков
ДНК-фингерпринтинг партеногенетических семей ящериц рода Lacerta: обнаружение генетически нестабильных локусов
2000 | Article
Молекулярная биология, 2000, том 34, N 5, с. 834-838
Асланян А. , Никогосян О., Краевская С., Аракелян М.
Некоторые особенности щиткования у ящериц L. valentini с территории Соткского золоторудного месторождения
1999 | Article
Вестник МАНЭБ, 1999, N 7, с. 70-73
Морфометрический анализ Lacerta raddei из некоторых популяций
1999 | Article
Сборник статей молодых научных сотрудников. Ереван. 1999, с. 91-95
Даниелян Ф. Д. , Григорян А. Ф., Ashot V. Aslanyan , Асланян А. В. , Арзуманян Г. В.
Гаметогенез у триплоидных гибридов L. unisexualis x L. Valentini
1998 | Thesis
Тезисы докладов научной конференции посвященной 75-летию кафедры зоологии ЕГУ. Ереван. 1998, с. 39-40