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Born in Leningrad on August 7, 1973
Graduated from: St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science. Dept. of Zoology of Vertebrates
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E-mail: tsytsulina@hotmail.com

Scientific research focuses on Myotis taxonomy and sibling species problem. Study on the subgenus Selysius resulted in revision of the taxonomic composition of some species groups within the subgenus. It was proposed to use tooth shape details for species identification within "mystacinus" species group. Morphological study of the subgenus Selysius allowed separated several cryptic species and raise statuses of several forms to species. Current study is focused on molecular taxonomy and phylogeography in bats.

Education

• 1990-1995 — St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology. MSc thesis: Agressivness of Mandarin Vole, Lasiopodomys mandarinus Miln-Edw. Supervisor Smorkatcheva A.V.
  
• 1995-1997 — Research training. Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia). Research training final thesis: Taxonomy of Myotis frater group (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Supervisor Strelkov P.P.
  
• 1997-2001 — PhD course. Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia). PhD thesis: Taxonomy of mouse-eared bats from subgenus Selysius (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae, Myotis) of Palaearctic. Supervisor Strelkov P.P.
  

Employment

• 1993-1995 — Senior collection curator, Lab. of Mammals, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. St. Petersburg, Russia.
  
• 1996-1997 — Research associate, Caucasus State Biosphere Reserve, Adler, Russia
  
• 2000-2001 — Senior collection curator, Lab. of Mammals, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. St. Petersburg, Russia
  
• 2001-2002 — Research associate, Lab. of Mammals, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. St. Petersburg, Russia
  
• 2002-2003 — JSPS post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Genetic Diversity, Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
  
• 2003-2005 — COE post-doctoral fellow. Laboratory of Genetic Diversity, Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
  

Professional affiliation: Russian Society of Mammology — since 1996; Asian Bat Research Institute (non-profit organisation) — since 2002; Mammalogical Society of Japan — since 2004.

New bat taxa, described by K. Tsytsulina:
Myotis mystacinus caucasicus Tsytsulina, 2000
Myotis annamiticus Kruskop, Tsytsulina, 2001
Myotis frater eniseensis Tsytsulina, Strelkov, 2001

Number of publications (not including abstracts of conferences) - 12.
Major publications:

• Benda P., K. A. Tsytsulina. 2000. Taxonomic revision of Myotis mystacinus group (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in the western Palaearctic. — Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 64: 331-398.
  
• Kruskop S. V., K. A. Tsytsulina. 2001. A new big-footed mose-eared bat Myotis annamiticus sp. nov. (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) from Vietnam. — Mammalia, 65(1): 63-72.
  
• Tsytsulina K. 2001. Myotis ikonnikovi (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and its relationships with similar species. — Acta Chiropterologica. 3(1):11-19.
• Tsytsulina K., P. P. Strelkov. 2001. Taxonomy of the Myotis frater species group (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera). — Bonner zool. Beitr. 50(1-2): 15-26.
• Smirnov D. G., K. A. Tsytsulina. 2003. The ontogeny of the baculum in Nyctalus noctula and Vespertilio murinus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). — Acta Chiropterologica. 5(1): 117-123.
• Tsytsulina K., 2004. On taxonomical status of Myotis abei Yoshikura, 1944 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), Zoological Science, 21: 963-966.
• Tsytsulina K. A., M. H. Dick, K. Maeda, R. Masuda. 2012. Systematics and phylogeography of the steppe whiskered bat Myotis aurascens Kuzyakin, 1935 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). — Russian Journal of Theriology, 11(1): 1-20.