Research area:

fish taxonomy, evolution, speciation, faunagenesis, morphological divergence, genetic divergence, and variability.

 

Membership in editorial boards, scientific communities, and other organizations:

subject editor – scientific journal Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal International Journal of Aquatic Biology;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal International Journal of Zoology and Animal Biology;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Research in Zoology;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series: Biology. Ecology;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Tomsk State University Journal of Biology;

member – European Ichthyological Society;

member – World Sturgeon Conservation Society.

 

Major papers over the past five years:

Pourshabanan A., Moghaddam F. Y., Aliabadian M., Ghassemzadeh F., Rossi G., Mousavi-Sabet H., Vasil’eva E. Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of roaches (Rutilus, Leuciscidae) in the southern part of the Caspian Sea. Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2023, vol. 21, iss. 1, pp. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.22124/cjes.2023.6099

 

Dyldin Yu. V., Orlov A. M., Hanel L., Romanov V. I., Fricke R., Vasil’eva E. D. Ichthyofauna of the fresh and brackish waters of Russia and adjacent areas: Annotated list with taxonomic comments. 1. Families Petromyzontidae–Pristigasteridae. Journal of Ichthyology, 2022, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 385–414. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945222030031

 

Vasil’ev V., Vasil’eva E. Triploid forms’ karyotypes of spined loaches from the genus Cobitis (Actinopterygii: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae) of the upper Dnieper and Western Dvina rivers: Analysis of the triploids’ origin. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2022, vol. 52, iss. 1, pp. 67–75. https://doi.org/10.3897/aiep.52.81191

 

Vasil’eva E. D., Vasil’ev V. P., Nemkova G. A., Shedko S. V. Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomy of the carp fish of genus Hemiculter (Cyprinidae, Xenocypridinae): Species of the group H. leucisculus. Journal of Ichthyology, 2022, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945222010131

 

Vasil’ev V. P., Rachek E. I., Amvrosov D. Y., Barmintseva A. E., Vasil’eva E. D. Fertility of females of sturgeon hybrids obtained from species with different levels of ploidy (Acipenser ruthenus and A. dauricus) and their cloning. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 2021, vol. 37, iss. 2, pp. 186–197. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.14168

 

Vasil’eva E. D., Vasil’ev V. P. Taxonomic relations of Russian and Persian sturgeons (genus Acipenser, Acipenseridae): An updated synthesis. Journal of Ichthyology, 2021, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 17–32. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945221010173

 

Vasil’eva E. D., Vasil’ev V. P. Dynamics of diversity of spined loaches of genus Cobitis, inhabiting Caucasus, during the anthropogenic period according to the data of museum collections. I. Morphological variability and diagnostic characters of Cobitis saniae (Cobitidae). Journal of Ichthyology, 2020, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 868–884. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945220060090

 

Vasil’eva E. D., Vasil’ev V. P. Craniological divergence of two genetically closely related Caucasian spined loaches: Cobitis saniae and C. derzhavini (Cobitidae). Journal of Ichthyology, 2020, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 555–561. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945220040207

 

Vasil’eva E. D., Solovyeva E. N., Levin B. A., Vasil’ev V. P. Cobitis derzhavini sp. nova–A new spined loach species (Teleostei: Cobitidae) discovered in the Transcaucasia. Journal of Ichthyology, 2020, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 135–153. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945220020198

 

Jeon Y. S., Ko M.-H., Vasil’eva E. D., Myung R.-Y., Won Y.-J. Genetic patterns reveal northward range expansion and cryptic diversity in Nalbant’s spined loach, Cobitis nalbanti sensu lato (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae). Systematics and Biodiversity, 2020, vol. 18, iss. 1, pp. 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1737842