Victoria Shneyer

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Academic degree, academic title: Dr.Sc.

Position: Leading Researcher

E-mail: shneyer@binran.ru

Research interests:

DNA-systematics and molecular phylogeny of angiosperms, Apiaceae, Iridaceae, Poaceae.
Species and speciation, DNA barcoding, cryptic species, cytotypes.

Keywords: DNA-systematics, molecular phylogeny, angiosperms, species, speciation, DNA-barcoding, cryptic species, cytotypes, Apiaceae, Iridaceae, Poaceae

Education and work experience:

1968 — Graduated from the Leningrad State University. Diploma in Biochemistry of humans and animals.
1971–1974 — Post graduate course at the Komarov Botanical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
1976 — Candidate Biol. Sci. (= Ph.D) from the Moscow State University.
2000 — Doctor Biol. Sci. from the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS.

1968–1971 — All-Union Research Institute of Plant Industry.
1974 — until now — work in the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS.

Grants and research projects:

Project leader:

2011–2013. RFBR №11-04-01167а «Evolution in the grass genus Milium with high caryological polymorphism: phylogenetic structure, phylogeography and cryptic speciation».
2008–2009. RFBR №08-04-12149-ofi «DNA barcoding in plants: development of methods and development of databases».
2000–2002. RFBR №00-04-48980а «Creation of a basis for the natural system of the Umbelliferae family based on data on the similarity of their proteins».
1996–1998. RFBR №96-04-49891а «Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Umbelliferae family based on the immunochemical study of seed storage proteins».

Member of research team:

2018–2020. RFBR №18-04-01040 «Patterns and rules of genome and karyotype variations in plant interspecial hybrids and hybridigenic species».
2017–2019. RFBR №17-00-00337 «Variations in genomes and transcriptomes of allopolyploid grasses, Aveneae Dumort., in domestication and natural selection».
2012–2014. RFBR №12-04-01470-а «Variations in genomes and karyotypes during the divergence of flowering plant taxa arising by polyploidy and interspecific hybridization: a comprehensive molecular, phylogenetic and cytogenetic study».
2009–2011. RFBR №09-04-01469-а «Genetic mechanisms of plant evolution during speciation by polyploidy and interspecific hybridization».

Professional memberships:

Editorial activity:

Editorial Board member of the Journal «Botanicheskii Zhurnal»
Subject editor of the Journal «Comparative Cytogenetics»

Selected publications:

Gnutikov A.A., Nosov N.N., Zuev E.V., Lysenko N.S., Shneyer V.S., Troitsky A.V., Rodionov A.V. Genomic composition of the artificial hybrid ×Trititrigia cziczinii (Hordeeae, Poaceae) and related taxa according to molecular phylogenetic data. Plants. 2026. 15(1): 70.

Zhurbenko P.M., Wilson C.A., … Shneyer V.S. et al. Iris cryptoruthenica sp. nov. (Iridaceae): a cryptic lineage within the morphotype Iris ruthenica revealed by chloroplast and rDNA barcoding and karyosystematic evidence. Turczaninowia. 2025. 28(4): 195–213.

Shneyer V.S., Rodionov A.V. 20 Years of DNA Barcoding ― Achievements and Problems. Biochemistry Moscow. 2025. 90(11): 1602–1619.

Gnutikov A.A., Nosov N.N., Loskutov I.G., Rodionov A.V., Shneyer V.S. Participation of Wild Species Genus Avena L.(Poaceae) of Different Ploidy in the Origin of Cultivated Species According to Data on Intragenomic Polymorphism of the ITS1-5.8 S rRNA Region. Plants. 2025. 14(10): 1550.

Punina E.O., Gnutikov A.A., Nosov N.N., Shneyer V.S., Rodionov A.V. Hybrid Origin of ×Leymotrigia bergrothii (Poaceae) as Revealed by Analysis of the Internal Transcribed Spacer ITS1 and trnL Sequences. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024. 25(22): 11966.

Gnutikov A.A., Nosov N.N., … Shneyer V.S. et al. Genetic Diversity of the Species of the Genus Deschampsia P. Beauv. (Poaceae) Based on the Analysis of the ITS Region: Polymorphism Proves Distant Hybridization. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024. 25(21): 11348.

Punina E.O., Mikhaylova Y.V., Shneyer V.S., Krapivskaya E.E., Machs E. M., Rodionov A.V. Intragenomic polymorphism of the 35S rDNA internal transcribed spacers (ITS) in three species and three interspecific hybrids of Pulsatilla (Ranunculaceae). Turczaninowia. 2024. 27: 67–85.

Gnutikov A.A., Nosov N.N., … Shneyer V.S. et al. Hybridization in the Subtribe Alopecurinae Dumort.(Poaceae) According to Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis: Different Ploidy Level Tells Different Origin of the Groups. Plants. 2024. 13(7): 919.

Gnutikov A., Nosov N., Loskutov I., Blinova E., Shneyer V., Rodionov A. Origin of Wild Polyploid Avena Species Inferred from Polymorphism of the ITS1 rDNA in Their Genomes. Diversity. 2023. 15: 717.

Gnutikov A., Nosov N., Koroleva T., Punina E., Probatova N., Shneyer V., Rodionov A. Origin of the Rare Hybrid Genus ×Trisetokoeleria Tzvelev (Poaceae) According to Molecular Phylogenetic Data. Plants. 2022. 11: 3533.

Gnutikov A., Nosov N., Loskutov I., Blinova E., Shneyer V., Shneyer V., Probatova N., Rodionov A. New Insights into the Genomic Structure of Avena L.: Comparison of the Divergence of A-Genome and One C-Genome Oat Species. Plants. 2022. 11: 1103.

Rodionov A.V., Gnutikov A.A., Nosov N.N., Mikhaylova Y.V., Shneyer V.S., Punina E.O. Intragenomic Polymorphism of the ITS 1 Region of 35S rRNA Gene in the group of grasses with two-chromosome species: different ggenome composition in closely related Zingeria species. Plants. 2020. 9: 1647.

Rodionov A.V., Shneyer V.S., Gnutikov A.A. Nosov N.N., Zhurbenko P.M., Punina E.O., Loskutov I.G., Muravenko O.V. Species dialectics: from initial uniformity, through the greatest possible diversity to ultimate uniformity. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 2020. 105(9): 835–853. In Russian.

Rodionov A.V., Shneyer V.S., Punina E.O., Nosov N.N., Gnutikov A.A. The law of homologous series in variation for systematics. Russian Journal of Genetics. 2020. 56(11): 1227-1238.

Rodionov A.V., Amosova A.V., ... Shneyer V.S. et al. Genetic consequence of interspecial hybridization, its role in speciation and phenotypic diversity of plants. Russian Journal of Genetics. 2019. 55(3): 278-294.

Rautian M.S., Rodionov A.V., Shneyer V.S. Polyphyly of chloroplast carriers: where do plants are located on the “tree of life? Turczaninowia. 2019. 22(2): 121-132. In Russian.

Rodionov A.V., Dobryakova K.S., Nosov N.N., Gnutikov A.A., Punina E.O., Kriukov A.A., Shneyer V.S. Polymorphism of ITS sequences in 35S rRNA genes in Elymus dahuricus aggregate species: two cryptic species? Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genetiki i Selektsii = Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding. 2019. 23(2): 287-295.

Shneyer V.S., Kotseruba V.V., Machs E.M., Rodionov A.V. Cryptic species, interspecific hybridization, and the breakdown of biodiversity. Skvortsovia: International Journal of Salicology and Plant Biology. 2019. 5(2): 12-14.

Shneyer V.S., Rodionov A.V. Plant DNA Barcodes. Biology Bulletin Reviews. 2019. 9(4): 295-3900.

Shneyer V.S., Punina E.O., Rodionov A.V. Intraspecific variation of ploidy in angiosperms and its taxonomical treatment. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 2018. 103(5): 555-585. In Russian

Shneyer V.S., Kotseruba V.V. Cryptic species in plants and their detection by genetic differentiation between populations. Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research. 2015. 5(5): 528-541.

Shneyer V.S. On some cases of conflict between serological and DNA sequence data in Apiaceae. Plant Diversity and Evolution. 2010. 128(1–2): 173-180.

Shneyer V.S. DNA barcoding is a new approach in comparative genomics of plants. Russian Journal of Genetics. 2009. 45(11): 1267-1278.

Shneyer V.S. DNA barcoding of animal and plant species as an approach for their molecular identification and describing of diversity. Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii. 2009. 70(4). 296-315. In Russian

Shneyer V.S. ON the species-specificity of DNA: fifty years later. Biochemistry. 2007. 72(12): 1377-1384.

Valiejo-RomanC. M.,.Shneyer V.S, SamigullinT. H., Terentieva E I., Pimenov M. G. An attempt to clarify taxonomic relationships in «Verwandtschaftskreis der Gattung Ligusticum» (Umbelliferae-Apioideae) by molecular analysis. Plant Syst.Evol. 2006. 257: 25-43.

Shneyer V.S. DNA sequence data in plant systematics: a brief outline of methods for their receiving, handling and treating. Part I. Extracting and sequencing of DNA; an alignment of the sequences. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 2005. 90(3): 304-331. In Russian.

Shneyer V.S. DNA sequence data in plant systematics: a brief outline of methods for their receiving, handling and treating. Part II. Methods of trees constructing and of the estimation of their support; choosing of taxa and of DNA sequences for an analysis. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 2005. 90(3): 304-331. In Russian

Shneyer V.S., Kutyavina N.G., Pimenov M.G. Systematic relationships whithin and between Peucedanum and Angelica (Umbelliferae - Peucedaneae) inferred from immunological studies of seed proteins. Plant Syst. Evol. 2003. 236(3-4): 175-194.

Shneyer V.S., Kutyavina N.G. , Pimenov M.G. Immunochemical investigation of taxonomical relationships in the tribes Coriandreae, Scandiceae, Caucalideae, Dauceae and Thapsieae (Umbelliferae – Apioideae). Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 2001. 86(2): 14-25. In Russian

Shneyer V.S. Serotaxonomical study of the genus Iris s.str. (Iridaceae). Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 1999. 84(9): 37-46. In Russian

Pimenov M.G., Shneyer V.S., Valjejo-Roman K.M., Troitsky A.V., Terentieva E.I. Komarovia Korovin: a multidisciplinary study of a genus of uncertain taxonomic position. Komarovia. 1999. 1: 63-75.

Shneyer V.S., Borschtschenko G.P., Pimenov M.G. Immunochemical appraisal of relationships within the tribe Peucedaneae (Apiaceae). Plant Syst.Evol. 1995. 198(1): 1-16.

Shneyer V.S., Morosova N.S., Kutyavina N.G. Serotaxonomical investigation in the Papaverales. Plant Syst.Evol. 1995. 198(l.9): 181-182.

Shneyer V.S., Kutyavina N.G. On serological similarity of Hypogomphia turkestana and the members of the subtribe Lamiinae (Lamiaceae). Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 1992. 77(3): 54-60. In Russian

Shneyer V.S., Borschtschenko G.P., Pimenov M.G., Leonov M.V. The tribe Smyrnieae (Umbelliferae) in the light of serotaxonomical analysis. Plant Syst. Evol. 1992. 182(1): 135-148.

Shneyer V.S. Chloroplast DNA as a source of information for the systematic of higher plants. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 1991. 76(12): 1657-1673 In Russian.

Shneyer V.S. Serotaxonomical study of the genus Iris s.l. (Iridaceae). Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 1990. 75(6): 804-809. In Russian.

Shneyer V.S. Serotaxonomical study of the tribe Ixieae (Iridaceae). Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 1990. 75(12): 1657-1668 In Russian

Shneyer V.S. Immunochemical method of the comparing of proteins in the systematic of plants. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 1988. 73(8): 1073-1085. In Russian

Shneyer V.S. Serological studies in Iridaceae family. On the relationship of the genera Crocus and Romulea. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. 1986. 71(3): 341-345. In Russian.