Postdoctoral Scientist
Biology Department
Duke University
E-mail: nikolai.kandul@duke.edu
B.S., St. Petersburg State University, 1995
M.S., St. Petersburg State University, 1997
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005
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Kandul, N. P., and M. A. F. Noor. 2008. Rampant splicing and exon turnover of Drosophila Bruno-3. submitted.
Kandul, N. P., V. A. Lukhtanov and N. E. Pierce 2007. Karyotypic diversity and speciation in Agrodiaetus butterflies. Evolution 61: 546-558
Kandul, N. P. , K. M. Wright, E. V. Kandul and M. A. F. Noor 2006. No evidence for learned mating discrimination in male Drosophila pseudoobscura. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 54.
Lukhtanov, V. A., R. Vala and N. P. Kandul. 2006. Rearrangement of the Agrodiaetus dolus species group (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) using a new cytological approach and molecular data. Insect Systematics and Evolution 37: 325-334.
Lukhtanov*, V. A., N. P. Kandul*, J. Plotkin, A. V. Dantchenko, D. Haig and N. E. Pierce 2005. Reinforcement of pre-zygotic isolation and karyotype diversification in Agrodiaetus blue butterflies. Nature 436: 385-389. * These authors contributed equally to this work.
Als, T. D., R. Vila, N. P. Kandul, D. R. Nash, S.-H. Yen, Y.-F. Hsu, A. A. Mignault, J. J. Boomsma and N. E. Pierce 2004. The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in Large Blue butterflies. Nature 432: 387-390.
Kandul, N. P. , V. A. Lukhtanov, A. V. Dantchenko, J. W. S. Coleman, C. H. Sekercioglu, David Haig and N. E. Pierce. 2004. Phylogeny of Agrodiaetus Hubner 1822 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) inferred from mtDNA sequences of COI and COII, and nuclear sequences of EF1-?: karyotype diversification and species radiation. Systematic biology 53: 278-298.
Lukhtanov, V. A., N. P. Kandul, W. O. de Prins and D. van der Poorten. 1998. Karyology of certain species in the subgenus Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus Hubner, [1822]) from Turkey: new data and their taxonomic consequences (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Holarctic Lepidoptera 5: 1-8.
Lukhtanov, V. A., A. V. Dantchenko and N. P. Kandul. 1997. Die karyotypen von Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damone damone und P. (A.) damocles rossicus nebst einigen problemen bei Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Suppl. 16: 43-48.
Kandul, N. P. 1997. The karyology and the taxonomy of the blue butterflies of the genus Agrodiaetus Hubner, [1822] from the Crimea (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Atalanta 28: 111-119.
Kandul, N. P. and V. A.Lukhtanov 1997. Karyotype variability and systematics of blue butterflies of the species group Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) poseidon and P. (A.) dama (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76: 63-69. (in Russian)
Lukhtanov, V. A., V. V. Zolothuhin, N. A. Beliakova, U. Eitschberger and N. P. Kandul. 1994. Die karyologische und morphologische Begrundung der Artselbstandigkeit von Euproctis kogistana spec. nov. aus Tadschikistan (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae). Atalanta 25(3/4): 543-557, 624-625.
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