Department of Zoology

The department employs 9 full-time teachers including 2 doctors of biological sciences, professors, 6 candidates of biological sciences, associate professors, 1 senior teacher and 2 laboratory assistants. There is a postgraduate study at the department. There are 3 educational and 3 educational and scientific laboratories, a zoological museum at the department too.

Disciplines taught at the department:

Biology, Biology of Individual Development, Biomethods, Biometrics, Large Zoology Workshop, Hydrobiology, Entomology, Entomology and Methods of Making School Collections, Ethology, General Cytology and Histology, Preserved Business, Zoogeography, Zoology of Invertebrates, Zoology of Invertebrates, Zoology of Invertebrates, Zoology , Forest Entomology, Mathematical Methods in Biology, Methods of Assigning and Solving Problems and Tests in Biology, Methodology and Organization of Scientific Research in Biology, Museum matter and the basis of naturalistic school, Ornithology, Parasitology, Pedobiolohiya with bases olihohetolohiyi, population biology, comparative anatomy of invertebrates, comparative anatomy of vertebrates, theory of evolution, Mammalogy, Ukraine fauna.

Main areas of research:

ecological-faunistic studies.
comparative morphology of vertebrates.
investigation of vertebrate olfactory organ morphogenesis.

Publications Department:  

1. Buslenko L., Dembicki R., Ivantsiv V. The influence of soil granulometric composition on the horology of earthworms. Polish journal of soil science. — 2013. — Vol. XLVI, № 2.— P. 97–106.
2. Kovtun M. F., Stepanuyk Ya. V. Morphogenesis of Vomeronasal Organ of Pelophylax ridibundus (Amphibia, Anura) // Вестн. зоологии. — 2013. — Т. 47, № 4.— С. 357-363.
3. Kovtun, M. F, Stepanyuk, Ya. V. The Development of Olfactory Organ of Lissotriton vulgaris (Amphibia, Caudata) // Вестн. зоологии. — 2015. — Т. 49, № 6.— С. 559–566.
4. Kovtun M. F. The Development of Olfactory Organ of Triturus vulgaris (Amphibia, Caudata) / M. F. Kovtun, Ya. V. Stepanyuk // Vestnik zoologii. – К., 2015. – T. 49, Vol. 2. – P. 451-456.
5. Perkovsky E. E., Sukhomlin E. B. A new species of Hellichiella (Diptera: Simuliidae) with 11-segmented antenna from the Eocene // Israel Journal of Entomology, 2016. — Vol. 46.— P. 79–86. DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.59292
6. Perkovsky E. E., Sukhomlin E. B. New Late Eocene Blackflies (Diptera, Simuliidae) from the Rovno Amber (Ukraine) // Paleontological Journal. – 2015. — Vol. 49 (6).— Р. 608–614. DOI https://doi.org/10.1134/s0031030115060106
7. Perkovsky E. E., Sukhomlin E. B. The First Record of Late Cretaceous Blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Asia (Yantardakh, Taimyr) // Paleontological Journal, 2016. — Vol. 50, N 9, pp. 997–1000. DOI https://doi.org/10.1134/s0031030116090112
8. Sukhomlin K. B. Preliminary Analysis of Phylogenetic Relationships Among Palaearctic Simuliinae (Diptera, Simuliidae) Inferred from Morphological Characters // Вестн. зоологии. — 2012. — Т. 46, № 6.— С. 515–532. DOI https://doi.org/10.2478/v10058-012-0045-6
9. Sukhomlin K. The Adaptation of Bloodsucking Black Flies to Feeding on Warm-blooded Animals / K. Sukhomlin, O. Zinchenko, M. Zinchenko // Науковий вісник Східноєвроп. нац. ун-ту ім. Лесі Українки. – Серія Біол. науки. — Луцьк. — 2016. — № 7 (356).— С. 158–164. DOI https://doi.org/10.29038/2617-4723-2017-356-7-158-164
10. Sukhomlin K. B. The current state of the population of the golden nematode potato Globodera rostochiensis (Nematoda: Heteroderidae) in the northwest of Ukraine / K. B. Sukhomlin, V. M. Koshirets, M. O. Zinchenko, Y. V. Biletskiy, O. P. Zinchenko // Biosystems Diversity. – 2019. – 27(1). – Р. 33-38. DOI https://doi.org/10.15421/011905
11. Perkovsky E. E., Sukhomlin E. B., Zelenkov N. V. An unexpectedly abundant new genus of black flies (Diptera, Simuliidae) from Upper Cretaceous Taimyr amber of Ugolyak, with discussion of the early evolution of birds at high latitudes. — Cretaceous Research, 2018. — Vol.90.— P. 80-89. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2018.04.002
12. Tytiuk O. Light microscopy of development of the olfactory organ of European weatherfish Misgurnus fossilis / Tytiuk O., Yaryhin O., Stepanyuk Ya. // Zoological science. – V. 35 (2). – 2018. – P. 115-122.
13. Tytiuk O. The Influence of Fixatives on the Validity of Histological Preparations of Olfactory Organ in Teleostei / O. Tytiuk, Ya. Stepanyuk, O. Yaryhin // Vestnik Zoologii. – 2018. – V. 52 (4). – Р. 553–556.
14. Tytiuk O. New type of development of olfactory rosette of bushymouth catfish Ancistrus dolichopterus (Teleostei: Loricariidae) / O. Tytiuk, O. Yaryhin, Y. Stepanyuk, // In Journal of Morphology. NJ USA : WILEY, 2019. – Vol. 280. ‒ P. 231.