Our Publications

Yanchukov, A., Çetintaş, O., Çolak, F., Nedyalkov, N., Rusin, M., Solak, H. M., ... & Sözen, M. (2026). Genome-wide SNP and mtDNA phylogeny of blind mole rats (Spalacinae Gray, 1821) reflects a complex history of relictualism, expansion, and speciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 206(1), zlaf186.

Rusin, M. (2025). A review of Tsimlyansk Birch Mouse Sicista cimlanica (Mammalia: Rodentia: Sminthidae): distribution, phylogeography, and conservation. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 17(5), 26939-26950.

Rusin, M., Çetintaş, O., Ghazali, M., Sándor, A. D., & Yanchukov, A. (2024). Underworld: evolution of blind mole rats in Eastern Europe. Mammalian Biology, 1-16.

Rusin, M. (2023). Phylogeography of the Western Populations of Stylodipus telum (Rodentia, Dipodidae) based on Mitochondrial DNA. Zoodiversity, 57(1).

Vasyliuk, O., Prylutskyi, O., Marushchak, O., Kuzemko, A., Kutsokon, I., Nekrasova, O., Raes, N., Rusin, M. (2022). An Extended dataset of occurrences of species listed in Resolution 6 of the Bern Convention from Ukraine. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e84002.

Lebedev, V. S., Kovalskaya, Y., Solovyeva, E. N., Zemlemerova, E. D., Bannikova, A. A., Rusin, M. Y., & Matrosova, V. A. (2021). Molecular systematics of the Sicista tianschanica species complex: a contribution from historical DNA analysis. PeerJ, 9, e10759.

Lebedev, V., Poplavskaya, N., Bannikova, A., Rusin, M., Surov, A., & Kovalskaya, Y. (2020). Genetic variation in the Sicista subtilis (Pallas, 1773) species group (Rodentia, Sminthidae), as compared to karyotype differentiation. Mammalia, 84(2), 185-194.

Korbut Z., Rusin M., Neumann K., Banaszek A. (2019). Filling the gap: the common hamster, Cricetus cricetus, phylogeography – a case study of Ukraine as potential refugial area. Folia Zoologica, 68(1): 48-58.

Lebedev VS, Rusin MY, Zemlemerova ED, Matrosova VA, Bannikova AA, Kovalskaya YM, Tesakov AS (2019). Phylogeny and evolutionary history of birch mice Sicista Griffith, 1827 (Sminthidae, Rodentia): Implications from a multigene study. J Zool Syst Evol Res, 1–15.

Rusin M., Lebedev V., Matrosova V., Zemlemerova E., Lopatina N., Bannikova A. (2018). Hidden diversity in the Caucasian mountains: an example of birch mice (Rodentia, Sminthidae, Sicista). Hystrix, It. J. Mamm., 29(1): 61-66.

Cserkész T., Rusin M., Czabán D., Sramkó G. (2017). Recent geographic distribution of birch mice (genus Sicista) in the western Great Caucasus Mts., with designation of terra typica for Sicista caucasica (Sminthidae, Rodentia). North-Western Journal of Zoology, 13(2): 371-375.

Rusin, M., Ghazaryan, A., Hayrapetyan, T., Papov, G., & Martynov, A. (2017). Rediscovery of Armenian Birch Mouse, Sicista armenica (Mammalia, Rodentia, Sminthidae). Vestnik zoologii, 51(5): 443-446.

Rusin M., Ghazali M., Semenikhina M. (2016). Notes on the nomenclature of Sicista Griffith, 1827 (Rodentia, Sminthidae). Bionomina, 10(1): 55-60.

Matrosova V.A., Rusin M.Yu., Volodina E.V., Proyavka S.V., Savinetskaya L.E., Shekarova O.N., Rashevska H.V., Volodin I.A. (2016). Genetic and alarm call diversity across scattered populations of speckled ground squirrels (Spermophilus suslicus). Mammalian Biology, 81(3): 255-265.

Cserkész T., Rusin M., Sramkó G. (2016). An integrative systematic revision of the European southern birch mice (Rodentia: Sminthidae, Sicista subtilis group). Mammal Review, 46(2): 114-130.

Rusin M., Rashevska H., Mylobog Y., Stryhunov V. (2015). Rediscovery of the northern mole vole, Ellobius talpinus (Rodentia, Cricetidae), at the western bank of the Dnipro river, Ukraine. Vestnik zoologii, 49(3): 261-266.

Matrosova V.A., Savinetskaya L.E., Shekarova O.N., Pivanova S.V., Rusin M.Yu., Volodin I.A., Volodina E.V., Tchabovsky A.V. (2014). Within- and Between-Population Polymorphism of the mtDNA Control Region of the Speckled Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus suslicus). Doklady Biological Sciences, 455: 143-148.

Korbut Z., Rusin M.Yu., Banaszek A. (2013). The distribution of the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) in western Ukraine. Zoologica Poloniae, 58(3-4): 99-112.

Rusin M.Yu., Banaszek A., Mishta A.V. (2013). The common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) in Ukraine: evidence for population decline. Folia Zoologica, 62(3): 207-213.

Hadid Y., Németh A., Snir S., Pavlíček T., Csorba G., Kázmér M., Major Á., Mezhzherin S., Rusin M., Coşkun Y., Nevo E. (2012). Is evolution of blind mole rats determined by climate oscillations? PLoS ONE, 7(1).

Cserkész T., Kitowski I., Czochra K., Rusin M. (2009). Distribution of the Southern birch mouse (Sicista subtilis) in East-Poland. Morphometric variations in discrete European populations of superspecies S. subtilis. Mammalia, 73(3): 221-229.

Rusin M.Yu., Sineva N.V., Kolesnikov M.A. (2008). On a state of the northern mole-vole Ellobius talpinus (Rodentia, Cricetidae) in Eastern Ukraine. Vestnik zoologii, 42(3): 275-279 (in Russian with English summary).