Dragonflies of Ukraine

Stanislav Gorb

Year of birth- 1965

Scientific intetests: morphology, behaviour

Area of investigations: Kiev province

Last publications on Odonata

Monographs connected with Odonata

1. Gorb S.N. (1998) Functional morphology of the head-arrester system in Odonata. 132 pp. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nagele u. Obermiller) Stuttgart.
2. Gorb S.N., Pavljuk, R.S., Spuris Z.D. (2000) Odonata of Ukraine: A faunistic overview. 155 pp. Vestnik Zoologii, Supplement N 15, Kiev (in Ukrainian).
3. Gorb, S.N. (2001) Attachment devices of insect cuticle. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 305 pp.

Atricles on Odonata

1. Gorb, S.N. (1999) Serial elastic elements in the damselfly wing: mobile vein joints contain resilin. Naturwissenschaften. 86: 552-555.
2. Gorb, S.N. (1999) Evolution of the dragonfly head-arresting system. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 266: 525-535.
3. Gorb, S.N. (2000) Ultrastructure of the neck membrane in dragonflies (Odonata). J. Zool. Lond. 250: 479-494.
4. Gorb, S.N., Frese, W., and Schwarz, U. (2000) Was Libellen zu Flugkunstlern macht. Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 12-13.
5. Gorb, S.N., Kesel, A.B., and Berger, J. (2000) Microsculpture of the wing surface in Odonata: evidence for cuticular wax covering. Arthropod Structure and Development 29:129-135.
6. Matushkina, N., and Gorb, S. (2002) Stylus of the odonate endophytic ovipositor: a mechanosensory organ controlling egg positioning. J. Insect Physiol. 48: 213-219.
7. Matushkina N., Gorb S. Mechanical properties of the endophytic ovipositor in damselflies (Zygoptera, Odonata) and their oviposition substrates // Zoology. - 2007. - Vol. 110. P. 167–175. Download abstract. Full text of the article could be ordered from the authors.

Contacts
Evolutionary Biomaterials Group,
Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung,
Heisenbergstr. 3,
D-70569 Stuttgart
Deutschland/Germany

Tel. +49-711-6893414
Fax.+49-711- 6893412
s.gorb@mf.mpg.de.

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