Publications 2017

Research Articles in Scientific Journals

Antonio Heredia-Rojas, J., Beltcheva, M., Rodriguez-De la Fuente, A.O., Heredia-Rodriguez, O., Metcheva, R., Rodriguez-Flores, L.E., Santoyo-Stephano, M.A., Castaneda-Garza, E. (2017) Evidence of genotoxicity induced by 60 Hz magnetic fields on mice bone marrow as assessed by in vivo micronucleus test. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 69-75.

Arriaga-Varela, E., Seidel, M., Deler-Hernandez, A., Senderov, V., Fikacek, M. (2017) A review of the Cercyon Leach (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae) of the Greater Antilles. ZOOKEYS, 681: 39-93. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.681.12522

Assyov, B. (2017) Scanning electron microscopic study of the european members of Baorangia, Exsudoporus and Lanmaoa (Boletales, Fungi). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 70 (5): 657-662

Bachvarova, D., Vagalinski, B., Doichinov, A., Stoev, P. (2017) New records of millipedes and centipedes from Bulgaria, with an annotated checklist of the Bulgarian myriapods. Zootaxa, 4263 (3): 507-526. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.4

Blandenier, Q., Lara, E., Mitchell, E.A.D., Alcantara, D.M.C., Siemensma, F.J., Todorov, M., Lahr, D.J.G. (2017) NAD9/NAD7 (mitochondrial nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase gene)-A new "Holy Grail" phylogenetic and DNA-barcoding marker for Arcellinida (Amoebozoa)? EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY, 58: 175-186. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2016.12.002

Bodner, M., Vagalinski, B., Makarov, S.E., Raspotnig, G. (2017) Methyl N-methylanthranilate: major compound in the defensive secretion of Typhloiulus orpheus (Diplopoda, Julida). Chemoecology, 27 (4): 171-175. DOI: 10.1007/s00049-017-0242-4.

Born-Torrijos, A., Holzer, A.S., Raga, J.A., van Beest, G.S., Yoneva, A. (2017) Description of embryonic development and ultrastructure in miracidia of Cardiocephaloides longicollis (Digenea, Strigeidae) in relation to active host finding strategy in a marine environment. Journal of Morphology, 278 (8): 1137-1148. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.20700

Chassovnikarova, T.G., Atanasov, N.I., Dimitrov, H.A., Mitkovska, V.I. (2017) Karyotypic characterization of the harvest mouse Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771) (Rodentia: Muridae) from upper Thracian valley, South Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 57-60.

Chassovnikarova, T.G., Stojanova, A. (2017) Second International conference on zoology and zoonoses: an overview of topics and contributions. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 3-8.

Chobanov, D.P., Kaya, S., Grzywacz, B., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Ciplak, B. (2017) The Anatolio-Balkan phylogeographic fault: a snapshot from the genus Isophya (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA, 46 (2): 165-179. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12194

Damyanova, S., Fikova, R. (2017) An assessment of heavy metal impact on aquatic ecosystems using a critical loads approach. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 70 (1): 83-92.

Daskalov, G.M., Boicenco, L., Grishin, A.N., Lazar, L., Mihneva, V., Shlyakhov, V.A., Zengin, M. (2017) Architecture of collapse: regime shift and recovery in an hierarchically structured marine ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 23 (4): 1486-1498. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13508

Denchev, C.M., Denchev, T.T. (2017) Validation of Schizonella caricis-atratae (Anthracoideaceae). Phytotaxa, 299 (1): 137-137. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.299.1.13

Dimitrova, Y.D., Mariaux, J., Georgiev, B.B. (2017) Redescriptions of four Palaeotropical species of the cestode genus Notopentorchis Burt, 1938 (Cyclophyllidea: Paruterinidae). Zootaxa, 4290 (1): 61-82. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.1.3

Doncheva, T., Stanilova, M., Vutov, V., Philipov, S. (2017) Alkaloids of Seeds, in vitro Cultivated, and ex vitro Adapted Plants of the Bulgarian Endemic Species Papaver degenii (Papaveraceae). NATURAL PRODUCT COMMUNICATIONS, 12 (3): 359-361.

Doycheva, I., Philipov, S., Stanilova, M. (2017) Evaluation of Glaucine Content in Bulgarian Black Sea Coast Localities of Glaucium flavum Cranz. (Papaveraceae). 9th Conference on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the South-Eastern European Countries (CMAPSEEC), MAY 26-29, 2016, Plovdiv, BULGARIA. NATURAL PRODUCT COMMUNICATIONS, 12 (2): 157-158.

Doycheva, I., Yankova-Tsvetkova, E., Stanilova, M. (2017) SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS INDUCTION IN GLAUCIUM FLAVUM CRANTZ. (PAPAVERACEAE). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie Bulgarie des Sciences, 70 (4): 525-530.

Ellis, L.T., Aleffi, M., ..., Natcheva, R., ..., Wang, Q. H. (2017) New national and regional bryophyte records, 51. Journal of Bryology, 39 (2): 177-190, DOI: 10.1080/03736687.2017.1298297

Eros, T., Bammer, V., Gyorgy, A.I., Pehlivanov, L., Schabuss, M., Zornig, H., Weiperth, A., Szaloky, Z. (2017) Typology of a Great River Using Fish Assemblages: Implications for the Bioassessment of the Danube River. RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, 33 (1): 37-49. DOI: 10.1002/rra.3060

Gecheva, G.M., Varadinova, E.D., Belkinova, D.S., Mihov, S.D., Gyuzelev, G.A., Hristeva, Y.G. (2017) Ecological status assessment of a hypersaline lake: a case study of Atanasovsko lake, Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 145-151.

Georgieva, G.N., Radeva, K.L., Uzunov, Y.I. (2017) New Data on Bottom Invertebrates of the Negovan Marshes and the Adjacent Lesnovska River. ACTA ZOOLOGICA BULGARICA, 69 (1): 89-94.

Golemansky, V. (2017) Review and check-list of coccidian parasites (Apicomplexa: Eucoccidiorida) of humans and animals in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 69 (2): 151-166.

Gomaa, F., Lahr, D.J.G., Todorov, M., Li, J., Lara, E. (2017) A contribution to the phylogeny of agglutinating Arcellinida (Amoebozoa) based on SSU rRNA gene sequences. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY, 59: 99-107, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2017.03.005

Groza, M., Lazarova, S., De Luca, F., Fanelli, E., Elshishka, M., Radoslavov, G., Hristov, P., Coman, M., Peneva, V. (2017) The morphological and molecular identity of Longidorus piceicola Liskova, Robbins & Brown, 1997 from Romania (Nematoda, Dorylaimida). ZOOKEYS, 667: 1-19. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.667.12011

Grzywacz, B., Heller, K-G., Chobanov, D.P., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. (2017) Conventional and molecular chromosome study in the European genus Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniinae, Platycleidini). Folia Biologica Krakow, 65 (1): 1-8. DOI: 10.3409/fb65_1.01

Grzywacz, B., Heller, K-G., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Karamysheva, T.V., Chobanov, D.P. (2017) Evolution and systematics of Green Bush-crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigonia) in the Western Palaearctic: testing concordance between molecular, acoustic, and morphological data (vol 17, pg 213, 2017). ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION, 17 (1): 229-229. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-016-0319-x

Hristov, P., Spassov, N., Iliev, N., Radoslavov, G. (2017) An independent event of Neolithic cattle domestication on the South-eastern Balkans: evidence from prehistoric aurochs and cattle populations. MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PART A, 28 (3): 383-391. DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1127361

Ilkova, J., Michailova, P., Szarek-Gwiazda, E., Kownacki, A., Ciszewski, D. (2017) The response of genome of the Chironomidae (Diptera) to heavy metal pollution in two rivers of southern Poland. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 9-15

Iorgu, I.S., Chobanov, D.P., Iorgu, E.I. (2017) The unexpected finding of Parapholidoptera castaneoviridis in south-eastern Romania(Insecta, Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). ZOOKEYS, 643: 87-96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.673.10645

Iorgu, I.S., Iorgu, E.I., Puskas, G., Ivkovic, S., Borisov, S., Gavril, V.D., Chobanov, D.P. (2017) Geographic distribution of Gryllotalpa stepposa (Insecta, Orthoptera, Gryllotalpidae) in South-eastern Europe, with first records for Romania, Hungary and Serbia (vol 605, pg 73, 2016). ZOOKEYS, 671: 155-156. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.671.13116

Ivanov, D., Worobiec, E. (2017) Middle Miocene (Badenian) vegetation and climate dynamics in Bulgaria and Poland based on pollen data. NECLIME Annual Meeting, OCT 19-22, 2014, Izmir, Turkey. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, 467 (SI): 83-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.038

Ivkovic, S., Iorgu, I.S., Horvat, L., Chobanov, D., Korsunovskaya, O., Heller, K-G. (2017) New data on the bush-cricket Montana medvedevi (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), critically endangered in Europe (EU 28), and a comparison of its song with all known song patterns within the genus. Zootaxa, 4263 (3): 527-542. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.5

Jablonska-Barna, I., Michailova, P., Langton, P.H., Kobak, J., Kakareko, T., Poznanska, M. (2017) The karyotype and external morphology of Stictochironomus sticticus (Fabricius, 1781) (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Poland. Annales Zoologici, 67 (1): 29-40. DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2017.67.1.004

Junker, K., Mutafchiev, Y. (2017) Micropleura huchzermeyeri n. sp (Camallanida: Dracunculoidea: Micropleuridae) from the Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti (Reptilia: Crocodylidae), in South Africa. Systematic Parasitology, 94 (7): 785-795. DOI: 10.1007/s11230-017-9742-4

Junker, K., Lutermann, H., Mutafchiev, Y. (2017) A new ascaridid nematode, Mammalakis zambiensis n. sp (Heterakoidea: Kiwinematidae), from the mole rat Fukomys anselli (Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholan & Kawalika) (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) in Zambia. Systematic Parasitology, 94 (5): 557-566, DOI: 10.1007/s11230-017-9721-9

Kakishima, M., Ji, J-X., Nagao, H., Wang, Q., Denchev, C.M. (2017) Clinoconidium globosum, nom. nov (Cryptobasidiaceae) producing galls on fruits of Cinnamomum daphnoides in Japan. Phytotaxa, 299 (2): 267-272. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.299.2.11

Kakishima, M., Nagao, H., Denchev, C.M. (2017) Laurobasidium hachijoense, comb. nov (Cryptobasidiaceae) causing aerialrootlike galls on Cinnamomum japonicum in Japan. Phytotaxa, 303 (1): 97-100. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.303.1.11

Kakishima, M., Nagao, H., Ji, Jing-Xin, Sun, Y., Denchev, C.M. (2017) Clinoconidium onumae comb. nov (Cryptobasidiaceae), producing galls on shoot buds of Cinnamomum tenuifolium in Japan. Phytotaxa, 313 (2): 175-184. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.313.2.3

Kerakova, M., Uzunov, Y., Varadinova, E. (2017) Comparison of trophic structure of the benthic macroinvertebrates in three Bulgarian riverine water bodies. TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 41 (2): 267-277. DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1510-62

Koleva, V., Kornilev, Y., Telenchev, I., Lukanov, S., Hristova, B., Natchev, N. (2017) Salt tolerance's toll: prolonged exposure to saline water inflicts damage to the blood cells of dice snakes (Natrix tessellata). WEB ECOLOGY, 17: 1-7. DOI: 10.5194/we-17-1-2017

Kolosova, V., Svanberg, I., ..., Dimitrova, D., ..., Soukand, R. (2017) The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models. JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE, 13: ar. 14. DOI: 10.1186/s13002-016-0132-9

Kownacki, A., Woznicka, O., Szarek-Gwiazda, E., Michailova, P., Czaplicka, A. (2017) Morphology of the adult male and pupal exuviae of Glyptotendipes (Glyptotendipes) glaucus (Meigen 1818) (Diptera, Chironomidae) using scanning electron microscope (SEM). ZOOTAXA, 4237 (2): 383-392. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.11

Kraicheva, I., Tsacheva, I., Nikolova, R., Topashka-Ancheva, M., Stoineva, I., Shivachev, B. (2017) Microwave assisted synthesis and X-ray structure of a novel anthracene-derived aminophosphonate. Enantioseparation of two alpha-aminophosphonates and genotoxicity in vivo. PHOSPHORUS, SULFUR AND SILICON AND THE RELATED ELEMENTS, 192 (4): 403-409. DOI: 10.1080/10426507.2016.1247086

Lefoulon, E., Giannelli, A., Makepeace, B.L., Mutafchiev, Y., Townson, S., Uni, S., Verocai, G.G., Otranto, D., Martin, C. (2017) Whence river blindness? The domestication of mammals and host-parasite co-evolution in the nematode genus Onchocerca. International Journal of Parasitology, 47 (8): 457-470. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.12.009

Lia, R.P., Mutafchiev, Y., ..., Riccio, B. (2017) Filarial infection caused by Onchocerca boehmi (Supperer, 1953) in a horse from Italy. PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH, 116 (1): 191-198. DOI: 10.1007/s00436-016-5277-x

Lopes-Lima, M., Sousa, R., ..., Trichkova, T., ..., Zogaris, S. (2017) Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and future challenges. BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS, 92 (1): 572-607. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12244

Makarov, S.E., Bodner, M., ..., Vagalinski, B., ..., Raspotnig, G. (2017) Chemical ecology of cave-dwelling millipedes: defensive secretions of the Typhloiulini (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 43 (4): 317-326. DOI: 10.1007/s10886-017-0832-1

Marchev, A.S., Aneva, I.Y., Koycheva, I.K., Georgiev, M.I. (2017) Phytochemical variations of Rhodiola rosea L. wild-grown in Bulgaria. International Symposium on Chromatography of Natural Products (ISCNP), Lublin, POLAND, 2016. PHYTOCHEMISTRY LETTERS, 20: 386-390. DOI: 10.1016/j.phytol.2016.12.030.

Marinov, M.P., Marchetti, C., Dimitrov, D., Ilieva, M., Zehtindjiev, P. (2017) Mixed haemosporidian infections are associated with higher fearfulness in Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava). CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 95 (6): 405-410, DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2016-0121

Marinov, M.P., Zehtindjiev, P., Dimitrov, D., Ilieva, M., Bobeva, A., Marchetti, C. (2017) Haemosporidian infections and host behavioural variation: a case study on wild-caught nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos). ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 29 (2): 126-137. DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2015.1102776

Marinova, M.H. (2017) New data on the morphology and the host range of five species of the genus Diorchis Clerc, 1903 (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) recorded from anseriform birds in Bulgaria. ACTA ZOOLOGICA BULGARICA, 69 (1): 125-138.

Markov, G., Colak, E., Yigit, N., Dimitrov, H. (2017) Epigenetic variation and population uniqueness of the forest dormouse (Dryomys nitedula) as revealed by craniological nonmetric traits. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 70 (3): 381-386

Markov, G.G., Colak, E., Yigit, N., Kocheva, M.A., Gospodinova, M.K., Dimitrov, H. (2017) Population epigenetic diversity versus subspecies detachment of the forest dormouse, Dryomys nitedula (Pallas, 1778) (Rodentia: Gliridae), in a long distance transect in Eurasia: implication for its conservation. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 199-204.
 
Markov, G.G., Zvychaynaya, E., Danilkin, A., Kholodova, M., Sugar, L., Dimitrov, H. (2017) Indication for genetic diversity of European roe deer Capreolus capreolus (L.) in southeastern Europe revealed by mt DNA markers. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 61-67.

Metcheva, R., Beltcheva, M., Kalinova, G., Marinova, M., Heredia R.J.A., Peneva, V. (2017) Organochlorine pesticides in feathers of penguins of the family Pygoscelidae from Livingston and Peterman islands, western Antarctica. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 183-188.

Michev, B., Zehtindjiev, P., Marinov, M.P., Liechti, F. (2017) Relationship between the intensity of nocturnal migration measured by radar and the anthropogenic mortality of birds. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 69 (2): 229-237.

Mitkovska, V.I., Dimitrov, H.A., Chassovnikarova, T.G. (2017) In vivo genotoxicity and cytotoxicity assessment of allowable concentrations of nickel and lead: comet assay and nuclear abnormalities in acridine orange stained erythrocytes of common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.).Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 47-56.

Montana, L., Caniglia, R., Galaverni, M., Fabbri, E., Ahmed, A., ..., Randi, E. (2017) Combining phylogenetic and demographic inferences to assess the origin of the genetic diversity in an isolated wolf population. PLOS ONE, 12 (5): AR e0176560. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176560

Mutafchiev, Y., Mariaux, J., Georgiev, B.B. (2017) Description of Acuaria europaea n. sp (Spirurida: Acuariidae) from Dendrocopos syriacus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg) and Oriolus oriolus (L.) (Aves) in Europe, with results of re-examination of related European species of Acuaria Bremser, 1811. SYSTEMATIC PARASITOLOGY, 94 (2): 201-214. DOI: 10.1007/s11230-016-9695-z

Naderi, M., Farashi, A., Markov, G. (2017) Exploring Contents of Lead and Cadmium in Tissues of Fat Dormouse Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766)(Rodentia: Gliridae) for Use in Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants in the Southern Caspian Coast Forests, Iran. ACTA ZOOLOGICA BULGARICA, 69 (1): 61-64.

Nikolov, I.S., Stoeckle, B.C., Markov, G., Kuehn, R. (2017) Substantial Hybridisation Between Wild Boars (Sus scrofa scrofa) and East Balkan Pigs (Sus scrofa f. domestica) in Natural Environment As a Result of Semi-wild Rearing in Bulgaria. CZECH JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE, 62 (1): 1-8. DOI: 10.17221/49/2015-CJAS

Pandourski, I., Metcheva, R., Beltcheva, M., Yankov, Y. (2017) Fauna of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Sakar Mountain, South-Eastern Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 205-209.

Pehlivanov, L.Z., Apostolou, A.J., Wolfram, G. (2017) Development of Bulgarian fish based index for ecological classification and monitoring of natural riparian lakes (Type L5/L-EC-1). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 153-162.

Petrova, G., Petrov, S., Bancheva, S. (2017) Molecular Characterization of Verbascum anisophyllum (Scrophulariaceae) Genetic Resources Through Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) Markers. 9th Conference on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the South-Eastern European Countries (CMAPSEEC), MAY 26-29, 2016, Plovdiv, BULGARIA. NATURAL PRODUCT COMMUNICATIONS, 12 (2): 189-192.

Popov, V. (2017) A pleistocene record of Apodemus agrarius (Pallas, 1771) (Mammalia: Rodentia) in the Magura cave, Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 69 (1): 121-124.

Popov, V. (2017) Early pleistocene small mammals (Eulipothyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha and Rodentia) from Futjova cave, North Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 69 (2): 263-282.

Radoslavov, G., Hristov, P., Shumkova, R., Mitkov, I., Sirakova, D., Bouga, M. (2017) A specific genetic marker for the discrimination of native Bulgarian honey bees (Apis mellifera rodopica): Duplication of col gene fragment. JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH, 56 (3): 196-202. DOI: 10.1080/00218839.2017.1307713

Stojanovski, S., Hristovski, M., Smiljkov, S., Atanassov, G., Velkova-Jordanovska, L., Blazhekovikj-Dimovska, D. (2017) Summary of significant fungal infections in Mollusca and Crustacea. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 231-234.

Stoyanov, B., Georgieva, S., Pankov, P., Kudlai, O., Kostadinova, A., Georgiev, B.B. (2017) Morphology and molecules reveal the alien Posthodiplostomum centrarchi Hoffman, 1958 as the third species of Posthodiplostomum Dubois, 1936 (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in Europe. SYSTEMATIC PARASITOLOGY, 94 (1): 1-20. DOI: 10.1007/s11230-016-9680-6

Todorov, I.A., Askew, R.R., Parvanov, D. (2017) Pteromalid fauna (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) in the grasslands of Vitosha mountain, Bulgaria: generic composition, diversity, abundance and phenology. ACTA ZOOLOGICA BULGARICA, 69 (1): 37-42.

Todorova, A., Pesheva, M., Iliev, I., Bardarov, K., Todorova, T. (2017) Antimutagenic, antirecombinogenic, and antitumor effect of amygdalin in a yeast cell-based test and mammalian cell lines. Journal of Medicinal Food, 20 (4): 360-366. DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2016.0108

Toshova, T.B., Zlatkov, B., Subchev, M., Toth, M. (2017) Monitoring the seasonal flight activity of three tortricid pests in Bulgaria with a single sex pheromone-baited trap. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 69 (2): 283-292.

Trendafilova, A., Todorova, M., Vitkova, A. (2017) Flavonoid glycosides and free radical scavenging activity of Bulgarian endemic Alchemilla jumrukczalica Pawl. BULGARIAN CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 49 (SI B): 111-114

Vasilev, V., Marinov, M.P. (2017) Oological characteristics of a Colony of Eurasian Jackdaw (Corvus monedula L.) in the Town of Shumen, NE Bulgaria. ACTA ZOOLOGICA BULGARICA, 69 (1): 143-147.

Vlasseva, A., Chassovnikarova, T., Atanassov, N. (2017) Autumn-winter diet and food niche overlap between red fox (Vulpes vulpes L., 1758) and golden jackal (Canis aureus L., 1758) in two regions in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 217-220.

Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Grzywacz, B., Heller, K-G., Chobanov, D.P. (2017) Comparative analysis of chromosomes in the Palaearctic bush-crickets of tribe Pholidopterini (Orthoptera, Tettigoniinae). COMPARATIVE CYTOGENETICS, 11 (2): 309-324. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i2.12070

Willner, W., Jimenez-Alfaro, B., ..., Vassilev, K., Venanzoni, R., Wohlgemuth, T., Chytry, M. (2017) Classification of European beech forests: a Gordian Knot? Applied Vegetation Science, 20 (3): 494-512. DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12299

Yoneva, A., Kuchta, R., Mariaux, J., Georgiev, B.B. (2017) The first data on the vitellogenesis of paruterinid tapeworms: an ultrastructural study of Dictyterina cholodkowskii (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea). PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH, 116 (1): 327-334. DOI: 10.1007/s00436-016-5295-8

Zehtindjiev, P., Vasilev, V., Marinov, M.P., Ilieva, M., Dimitrov, D., Peev, S., Raykov, I., Raykova, V., Ivanova, K., Bedev, K., Yankov, Y. (2017) No evidence for displacement of wintering red-breasted geese Branta ruficollis (Pallas, 1769) (Anseriformes) at a wind farms area in northeast Bulgaria: long-term monitoring results. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 69 (2): 215-228.

Zorenko, T.A., Atanasov, N.I. (2017) Patterns of behaviour as an evidence for the taxonomical status of Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) gregalis (Pallas, 1779) (Rodentia: Arvicolinae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 8, 2nd International Conference on Zoology and Zoonoses, OCT 26-28, 2016, Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 189-197.