Dr. Andrey Ostrovskiy, PhD
Maggioni, D., Schuchert, P., Ostrovsky, A. N., Schiavo, A., Hoeksema, B. W., Pica, D., Piraino, S., Arrigoni, R., Seveso, D., Montalbetti, E., Galli, P., & Montano, S. (2024). Systematics and character evolution of capitate hydrozoans. Cladistics, 40(2), 107-134. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12567

Piwoni-Piórewicz, A., Liow, L. H., Krzemińska, M., Iglikowska, A., Ronco, F., Mazurkiewicz, M., Smith, A. M., Gordon, D. P., Waeschenbach, A., Najorka, J., Figuerola, B., Boonzaaier-Davids, M. K., Achilleos, K., Mello, H. L., Florence, W. K., Vieira, L. M., Ostrovsky, A., Shunatova, N. N., Porter, J. S., ... Kuklinski, P. (2024). Skeletal mineralogy of marine calcifying organisms shaped by sea water temperature and evolutionary history – a case study of cheilostome bryozoans. Global Ecology and Biogeography: a Journal of Macroecology, 33(8), [e13874].

Grant, H. E., Ostrovsky, A. N., Jenkins, H. L., Vieira, L. M., Gordon, D. P., Foster, P. G., Kotenko, O. N., Smith, A. M., Berning, B., Porter, J. S., Florence, W. K., Souto Derungs, J., Tilbrook, K. J., & Waeschenbach, A. (2023). Multiple evolutionary transitions of reproductive strategies in a phylum of aquatic colonial invertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2010), 1-12. [20231458]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1458






Orr, R. J. S., Di Martino, E., Ramsfjell, M. H., 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., ... Liow, L. H. (2022). Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny. Science Advances, 8(13), [7452]. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm7452










Ostrovsky, A. (2021). Sexual reproduction in Bryozoa. In T. Schwaha (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology. Phylum Bryozoa. (pp. 101-121). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1515/9783110586312


Vertical transfer of bacterial symbionts in cheilostome bryozoans – questioned paradigm

E. A. Bogdanov (Speaker), A.E. Vishnyakov (Speaker) & Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

22 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Everything is not like in everyone: coenocytes and exaptations in cyclostome bryozoans

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker), G. Vlasov (Contributor), E. A. Bogdanov (Speaker) & O.N. Kotenko (Speaker)

8 Aug 202212 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Frontal shields in cheilostome bryozoans: diversity and evolution

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker) & D.P. Gordon (Speaker)

25 Apr 202229 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Muscular systems of cyclostome bryozoans

E.V. Belikova (Speaker), Thomas Schwaha (Speaker), Elena Temereva (Speaker) & Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

16 Jun 201922 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Placental nourishment in ctenostome bryozoans: ultrastructural evidence

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker), Martin Moosbrugger (Speaker) & Thomas Schwaha (Speaker)

16 Jun 201922 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The embryonic development of the freshwater bryozoan Plumatella casmiana

Julian Bibermair (Speaker), Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker), Andreas Wanninger (Speaker) & Thomas Schwaha (Speaker)

16 Jun 201922 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Comparative ultrastructure of placental analogues in Bryozoa

Uliana Nekliudova (Speaker), Thomas Schwaha (Contributor), Daniela Gruber (Contributor), Norbert Cyran (Contributor) & Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

17 Aug 201723 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Diversity of muscular systems in cheilostome Bryozoa

E. Belikova (Speaker), Thomas Schwaha (Contributor) & Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

17 Aug 201723 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Evolutionary transition from incipient to substantial placentotrophy in a genus of cheilostome Bryozoa

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker), Thomas Schwaha (Contributor) & Martin Moosbrugger (Contributor)

17 Aug 201723 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Structural and transport adaptations for symbiosis between bryozoans and bacteria

A.E. Vishnyakov (Speaker), N. Karagodina (Contributor), O.N. Kotenko (Contributor), Thomas Schwaha (Contributor), Martin Moosbrugger (Contributor) & Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

17 Aug 201723 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The neuromuscular system of cyclostome bryozoans shows more similarity to gymnolaemates than phylactolaemates, an example from Cincitipora elegans

Thomas Schwaha (Speaker), Stephan Handschuh (Contributor), Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor) & Andreas Wanninger (Contributor)

17 Aug 201723 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Muscular system of the cyclostome bryozoan Crisia eburnea: preliminary data

E. Belikova (Speaker), Thomas Schwaha (Contributor) & Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

25 May 201728 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Myonatomy of gymnolaemate larvae: searching for homologies

O.N. Kotenko (Speaker) & Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

25 May 201728 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


New ultrastructural data on crisiid Cyclostomata

Uliana Nekliudova (Speaker), Thomas Schwaha (Contributor), Daniela Gruber (Contributor), Norbert Cyran (Contributor) & Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

25 May 201728 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Transitions of reproductive strategies in the Cheilostomatida: repeated evolution or loss of embryonic incubation "

H. Grant (Speaker), Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor) & O.N. Kotenko (Contributor)

25 May 201728 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


An updated molecular phylogeny of Bryozoa

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

10 Apr 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Cyclostome sexual reproduction

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

10 Apr 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dynamics of the sexual structure and oogenesis in four boreal-arctic cheilostome bryozoans

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

10 Apr 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ecology, evolution and distribution of bathyalBryozoan in the NE Atlantic-a midterm assessment.

Björn Berning (Speaker), Javier Souto Derungs (Contributor), Oscar Reverter-Gil (Contributor), Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor) & J.G. Harmelin (Contributor)

10 Apr 201615 Apr 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Comparative neuroanatomy of avicularia - polymorphic zooids of cheilostomate Bryozoa

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ecology, evolution and distribution of bryozoans in the NE Atlantic - a midterm assessment

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Comparing sexual reproduction in two Mediterranenan brzoyoans Mzriapora truncata and Adeonella calveti> Preliminarz results

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dynamics of sexual reproduction in the cheilsotme bryozoan Cribrilina annulata in the Chupa Inlet (Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea)

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


"First data on the sexual reproduction in the Mediterranean cheilostome bryozoans Myriapora truncata and Adeonella calveti"

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


How many times has matrotrophy evolved in animals ?

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

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"Life history of Callopora craticula (Cheilostomata, Gymnolaemata) in chupa Inlet (Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea)"

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


"Life history of Callopora craticula (Cheilostomata, Gymnolaemata) in the chupa Inlet (Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea)"

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

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"New data on the nervous system of freshwater bryozoans"

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

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"Origin and diversity of non-feeding larvae in the bryozoan class Gymnolaemata"

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

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"Predator-prey relationships at bathyal depths: a case study using cheilostome bryozoans"

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


"Preliminary data on microanatomy and ultrastructure of avicularia in five cheilostome bryozoans"

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

2014 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Placental nourishment in the genus Bugula (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata)

Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

31 May 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



The placental analogue and pattern of oogenesis in the cheilostome bryozoan Bicellariella ciliata (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata).

Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

1 Dec 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Struktur und Funktion des Plazenta-analogen Systems bei Bicellariella ciliata (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata)

Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

21 Oct 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Structure of placental analogues in the phylum Bryozoa.

Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

20 Jun 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Brooding and maternal provisioning in ctenostome bryozoans.

Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

5 May 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Structure and function of the placental analogue of Bicellariella ciliata (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata).

Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

5 May 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Bryozoan collections from the Red Sea, Maldives and Oman: current progress in identification.

Andrey Ostrovsky (Speaker)

21 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Superficial frontal calcification (secondary calcification) on new Bryozoans from the Middle Miocene of Moravia (Czech Republic).

Andrey Ostrovsky (Contributor)

21 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Evolution of Polymorphism in Bryozoa

Schack, C. & Ostrovskiy, A.

7/04/256/04/28

Project: Research funding


Evolution of oogenese in Bryozoa

Ostrovskiy, A.

1/07/2330/06/27

Project: Research funding


Evolution von Viviparie und Pol

Ostrovskiy, A.

11/05/1511/03/18

Project: Research funding


Evolution v.Matrotrophie

Ostrovskiy, A.

10/05/109/03/13

Project: Research funding


Department of Palaeontology

Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
1090 Wien
Room: 2A224

andrey.ostrovskiy@univie.ac.at