Review and assessment of the significance of scientific works by I.V. Zmitrovich, devoted to the processes of biological development and eukaryote megataxonomy

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The present review provides a detailed bibliographic analysis of scientific works, including little-known ones, by I.V. Zmitrovich, devoted to the processes of biological development and taxonomy of eukaryotes. As the study of the bibliographic heritage of I.V. Zmitrovich has shown, important issues of theoretical biology raised in his works were morphogenesis, adaptogenesis, and eukaryote megataxonomy. First of all, by the specificity of affiliation, I.V. Zmitrovich was interested in fungi – osmoheterotrophic organisms with a chitinous cell wall, an open growth system, resembling plants and for a long time attributed to this kingdom. However, consideration of the tendencies of the development of multicellularity and modular theory expanded the realm of interests of this researcher, being extended to the evolution of the vegetative body of plant organism, including higher plants with different types of cells and tissue differentiation. The purpose of this review was to study and acquaint our readers with the numerous scientific works by I.V. Zmitrovich devoted to the morphogenesis and taxonomy of eukaryotes of the last thirty years, many of which, in our opinion, were undeservedly lost in the intensifying flow of scientific and technical information of recent years.

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Vladimir V. Perelygin

Saint Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: vladimir.pereligin@pharminnotech.com

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Industrial Ecology Department, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing House Northwestern Institute of Biomedical Problems and Environmental Protection

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Mikhail V. Zharikov

Saint Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University

Email: zharikov.mihail@pharminnotech.com

Senior Laboratory Assistant at the Department of Industrial Ecology

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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2. Fig. 1. Schematic representation of the development of the basidioma (A) and hymenophore (B) of Microporus xanthopus and interpretation of morphogenesis in light of the concept of an insolation niche [20]

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3. Fig. 2. The main factors influencing the morphogenesis of basidiomes of polyporaceous fungi and epiphenomena of their interaction: 1 – hydrothermal regime, 2 – evaporation intensity, 3 – microclimate, “insolation niche”, 4 – daily fluctuations, 5 – daily heating of the substrate. Morphogenetic effects: I – initiation of primordia, II – energy of expansion of aerial mycelium, III – hygrotropism (+/–), IV – phototropism (+/–), V – histogenesis [20]

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4. Fig. 3. Factors, levels and morphofunctional results of adaptogenesis according to I.V. Zmitrovich. Arrows reflect cause-and-effect relationships and mediated blocks, straight lines – the connection of concepts [20]

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5. Fig. 4. The pattern of imbalance between the main adaptive intentions of multicellulars’ cell (on black background), which leads to carcinogenesis [23]

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6. Fig. 5. Aspects and concepts of species in taxonomy. Lines reflect the relationship of concepts. The correlation of the concepts “ecospecies/phylospecies” (highlighted by a double frame), increasingly successful in connection with the development of methods of molecular taxonomy and comparative genomics, provides important material for the theory of speciation and adaptogenesis [20]

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