Dmitry Musolin Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan      I was born and educated in Saint Petersburg, Russia. I have two M.Sc. degrees: from Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy (in Forestry/Forest Entomology) and from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (in Environmental Sciences and Policy). I earned my Ph.D. degree at Saint Petersburg State University (in Entomology, 1997, Seasonal Cycles of Heteroptera: Diversity and Environmental Control). For the following few years, I did three postdoctoral projects: first in the laboratory of Prof. H. Numata, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, 1998-2000 (eco-physiology of diapause and overwintering and range expansion of Nezara viridula) and second in the laboratory of Dr. K. Ito, National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Sapporo, Japan, 2001-2005 (eco-physiology of diapause of predatory anthocorid bugs), and currently I am working in the laboratory of Prof. K. Fujisaki, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (response of Nezara viridula to simulated global warming).

     I am interested in the seasonal ecology of Heteroptera. The primary focus of my experimental research is photoperiodic control of diapause and other seasonal adaptations. My interest covers different seasonal phenomena in Heteroptera: environmental control of seasonal development, diapause (induction, maintenance, termination), ecology of overwintering, polymorphism/polyphenism, migrations, voltinism, seasonal cycles, life histories, etc.  My research in Osaka and Kyoto showed that Nezara viridula responds to climate warming by expanding its distribution range (Musolin & Numata, 2003a, b, 2004, 2007) and this finding promoted my interest in response of Heteroptera to climate change.

    Actually, now I am looking for job. Please let me know if you have anything to offer or advise. I will be happy to send you my CV and full Publication list (including non-Pentatomoidea papers) upon email request.

Contact Information:

Email: musolin@gmail.com

Current Projects:
1) Response of Nezara viridula to simulated global warming;
2) Response of Heteroptera species to climate change (range expansion, ecological and physiological responses);
3) Heteroptera life cycles: Diversity and environmental control;
4) Photoperiodism in Heteroptera species.

Publications:

Musolin, D. L. and A. H. Saulich.  1995.  Factorial regulation of seasonal cycle in stink bug Graphosoma lineatum (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae). 1. Temperature and photoperiodic responses.  Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 74(4): 736–743. [in Russian with English summary; English translation: Entomological Review. 1996. 75(9): 84–93]

Musolin, D. L.  1996.  Photoperiodic induction of aestivation in the stink bug Picromerus bidens (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae). A preliminary report.  Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 75(12): 1901–1904. [in Russian with English summary; English translation: Entomological Review. 1996. 76(8): 1058–1060] http://www.maik.rssi.ru/abstract/enteng/96/enteng1058_abstract.pdf 

Musolin, D. L. and A. H. Saulich.  1996.  Photoperiodic control of seasonal development in bugs (Heteroptera).  Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 75(3): 489–506. [in Russian with English summary; English translation: Entomological Review. 1996. 76(7): 849–864] http://www.maik.rssi.ru/abstract/enteng/96/enteng0849_abstract.pdf 

Saulich, A. H. and D. L. Musolin.  1996.  Univoltinism and its regulation in some temperate true bugs (Heteroptera).  European Journal of Entomology 93(3): 507–518. http://www.eje.cz/scripts/viewabstract.php?abstract=655&browsevol=0

Musolin, D. L.  1997.  Seasonal Cycles of Heteroptera: Diversity and Environmental Control.  Ph.D. dissertation, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. 168 pp. [in Russian]

Musolin, D. L. and A. H. Saulich.  1997.  Photoperiodic control of nymphal growth in true bugs (Heteroptera).  Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76(5): 530–542. [in Russian with English summary; English translation: Entomological Review. 1997. 77(6): 768–780] http://www.maik.rssi.ru/abstract/enteng/97/enteng0768_abstract.pdf

Musolin, D. L.  1998.  Environmental Control of Insect Seasonality: Diversity of Patterns in Nature and Practical Applications.  Master of Science thesis, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, the Central European University, Budapest. 120 pp.

Musolin, D. L. and A. H. Saulich.  1999.  Diversity of seasonal adaptations in terrestrial true bugs (Heteroptera) from the Temperate Zone.  Entomological Science 2(4): 623–639. 

Musolin, D. L. and A. H. Saulich A.H., 2000. Summer dormancy ensures univoltinism in the predatory bug Picromerus bidens.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 95(3): 259–267. [PDF]

Musolin, D. L. and A. H. Saulich.  2001.  Environmental control of voltinism of the stinkbug Graphosoma lineatum in the forest-steppe zone (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae).  Entomologia Generalis 25(4): 255–264.

Musolin, D. L. and H. Numata.  2003.  Photoperiodic and temperature control of diapause induction and colour change in the southern green stink bug Nezara viridula.  Physiological Entomology 28(2): 65–74. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-3032.2003.00307.x/abs/

Musolin, D. L. and H. Numata.  2003.  Timing of diapause induction and its life-history consequences in Nezara viridula: Is it costly to expand the distribution range?  Ecological Entomology 28(6): 694–703. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2003.00559.x/abs/

Musolin, D. L. and H. Numata.  2004.  Late-season induction of diapause in Nezara viridula and its effect on adult coloration and post-diapause reproductive performance.  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 11(1): 1–6. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00137.x/abs/

Musolin, D. L. and K. Fujisaki. 2006. Changes in ranges: Trends in distribution of true bugs (Heteroptera) under conditions of the current climate warming. Russian Entomological Journal 15(2):175-179.

Musolin, D. L., K. Fujisaki, and H. Numata. 2007. Photoperiodic control of diapause termination colour change and postdiapause reproduction in the southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula. Physiological Entomology 32(1):64-72. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-3032.2006.00542.x

Saulich, A. H. and D. L. Musolin.  (in prep.)  True bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). In: Saulich, A. H. Seasonal Cycles of Insects.  St. Petersburg University Press. [in Russian]

Paper or electronic reprints are available upon request: musolin@gmail.com

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