Selected publications


2009 S. A. Maslakova and J. D. von Döhren. Larval development with transitory epidermis in Paranemertes peregrina and other hoplonemerteans. Biological Bulletin 216: 273-292. PMID: 19556594    pdf


2008 S. A. Maslakova and J. L. Norenburg. Revision of the smiling worms, genus Prosorhochmus Keferstein 1862, and description of a new species, Prosorhochmus belizeanus sp. nov. (Prosorhochmidae, Hoplonemertea, Nemertea) from Florida and Belize. Journal of Natural History 42: 1219-1260.   pdf


2008 S. A. Maslakova and J. L. Norenburg. Revision of the smiling worms, genera Prosadenoporus Bürger, 1890 and Pantinonemertes Moore and Gibson, 1981 and description of a new species Prosadenoporus floridensis sp. nov. (Prosorhochmidae; Hoplonemertea, Nemertea) from Florida and Belize. Journal of Natural History 42: 1689-1727.   pdf


2007 P. Roe, J. L. Norenburg and S. A. Maslakova. Nemertea. In: The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon, 4th Edition. Edited by J. Carlton. Pp. 182-196 (Plates 86-90).   pdf


2007 Oswald, F., Schmitt, F.M., Leutenegger, A., Ivanchenko, S.,D'Angelo, C., Salih, A., Maslakova, S. A., Bulina, M., Schirmbeck, R., Nienhaus, G.U., Matz, M.V. & Wiedenmann, J. Contributions of host and symbiont pigments to the coloration of reef corals. FEBS Journal 274: 1102–1109.   PMID: 17244197   pdf


2006 C. D. Bishop, D. F. Erezyilmaz, T. Flatt, C. D. Georgiou, M. G. Hadfield, A. Heyland, J. Hodin, M. W. Jacobs, S. A. Maslakova, A. Pires, A. M. Reitzel, S. Santagata, K. Tanaka and J. H. Youson. What is metamorphosis? Journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 655-661.   pdf


2005 S. A. Maslakova, M. Thiel, N. Vásquez and J. L. Norenburg. The smile of Amphiporus nelsoni Sanchez, 1973 (Nemertea: Hoplonemertea: Monostilifera: Amphiporidae) leads to a redescription and a change in family. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 18: 483-49.   pdf


2004 S. A. Maslakova, M. Q. Martindale and J. L. Norenburg. Vestigial prototroch in a basal nemertean Carinoma tremaphoros (Palaeonemertea, Nemertea). Evolution and Development 6: 219-226.  PMID: 15230962   pdf


2004 S. A. Maslakova, M. Q. Martindale and J. L. Norenburg. Fundamental properties of spiralian developmental program are displayed by the basal nemertean Carinoma tremaphoros (Palaeonemertea, Nemertea). Developmental Biology 267: 342-360.   PMID: 15013798  pdf


2002  Crandall, F. B., Norenburg, J. L., Chernyshev, A. V., Maslakova, S. A., Schwartz, M. L. & Kajihara, H. Checklist of the Nemertean Fauna of Japan and Northeastern Asia.   pdf


2001 S. A. Maslakova and J. L. Norenburg. Phylogenetic study of pelagic nemerteans (Pelagica, Polystilifera). Hydrobiologia 456: 111-132.   pdf


1999 S. A. Maslakova and V. V. Malakhov, V. V. Hidden larva in the Hoplonemertini order of nemerteans. Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Series Biological 366: 849-852.   pdf