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Kedrov, B., S. Pasichnyk. 2022. Kovtun Mykhailo Fotiiovych, an evolutionary morphologist, embryologist, and teacher. Novitates Theriologicae, 13: 142–146. http://doi.org/10.53452/nt1362

title

Kovtun Mykhailo Fotiiovych, an evolutionary morphologist, embryologist, and teacher

author(s)

Boris Kedrov (Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University, Nizhyn)
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6881-5861
Sergiy Pasichnyk (Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University, Nizhyn)
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5225-0058

abstract

Mykhailo Fotiiovych Kovtun was a famous Ukrainian zoologist, whose scientific activity was related to the Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine. His main scientific research aimed at analysing data on the evolutionary morphology and embryology of bats and birds. He is the author of the theory of origin of bat’s flight and proposed a theoretical basis for universal mechanisms of transformation of organs and systems in the prenatal development of mammals and birds that increase the species diversity of vertebrates in the evolutionary process. Mykhailo Kovtun authored and co-authored more than 170 scientific papers, about 100 of which are theriological. He was leader of the Ukrainian school of classical morphology of vertebrates and had supervised over 17 PhD theses.

language

Ukrainian, with English summary

references

Biletska, M. G., М. F. Kovtun, R. J. Likhotop. 2006. Naso-Palatine Complex in Mammals (Comparative Anatomy, Embryology, Evolution). Vezha, Lutsk, 1–166.
Kovtun, М. F. 1978. Locomotion Apparatus in Bats. Naukova Dumka, Kyiv, 1–230.
Kovtun, М. F. 1984. The Structure and Evolution of the Locomotion Organs in Bats. Naukova Dumka, Kyiv, 1–304.
Kovtun, М. F., R. J. Likhotop. 1994. Embryonic Development of the Cranium and Evolution of Chiroptera. Naukova Dumka, Kyiv, 1–304.
Kovtun, М. F., S. Y. Ledenev. 1999. Growth and development of limbs in Chiroptera. Institute of zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, 1–82. (Series: Vestnik zoologii — Supplement, Issue 12).
Kovtun, М. F., O. M. Mikityuk, L. P. Kharchenko. 2005. Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates. OVS, Kharkiv, 1–687.
Kovtun, М. F., O. V. Shatkovska, Y. V. Shatkovskii. 2008. The formation of the Skull and Skeleton of the Limbs of Birds in Embryogenesis. Naukova Dumka, Kyiv, 1–200.
Kovtun, M. F. 2013. Ontogenesis: a phenomenon and a process (on the problem of the evolution of ontogenesis). Vestnik zoologii, 47 (3): 3–14. https://doi.org/10.2478/vzoo-2013-0019
Kovtun, M. F. 2017. On the origin of flight in Chiroptera (Mammalia): did gliding precede active flight? Zoologichesky zhurnal, 96 (5): 537–546.
Kovtun, M. F. 2018. Variability, alterability, evolution. Cherkasy University Bulletin. Biological Sciences Series, 2: 49–59. https://doi.org/10.31651/2076-5835-2018-1-2-49-59

date

online: 01.03.2022; print: 01.03.2022