Featured publications

• Gabelaia, M., Tarkhnishvili, D., Murtskhvaladze, M. 2015.Phylogeography and morphological variation in a narrowly distributed Caucasian rock lizard, Darevskia mixta.Amphibia-Reptilia 36: 45-54
• Tarkhnishvili, D., Gavashelishvili, A., Murtskhvaladze, M., Gabelaia, M., Tevzadze, G. 2014.Human Paternal Lineages, Languages and Environment in the Caucasus.Human Biology 86: 113-130
• Tarkhnishvili D., Murtskhvaladze M., Gavashelishvili A. 2013. Speciation in Caucasian lizards: climatic dissimilarity of the habitats is more important than isolation time. Biological Journal of the LinneanSociety 109 (4): 876-892.
• Mumladze L., Tarkhnishvili D., Murtskhvaladze M. 2013.Systematics and evolutionary history of large endemic snails from the Caucasus (Helix buchii, H. goderdziana).American Malacological Bulletin 31 (2): 225-234.
• Murtskhvaladze M, Gurielidze Z, Kopaliani N, Tarkhnishvili D. 2012. Gene introgression between Gazella subguturrosa and G. marica: limitations of maternal inheritance analysis for species identification with conservation purposes. ActaTheriologica 57 (4): 383-386.
• Khorozyan I, MaLKhaSyan A, Murtskhvaladze M. 2011. The striped hyaena Hyaena hyaena (Hyaenidae, Carnivora) rediscovered in Armenia, Folia Zool., 60 (3): 253–261.
• Tarkhnishvili D, Gavashelishvili A, Avaliani A, Murtskhvaladze M, Mumladze L. 2010.Unisexual rock lizard might be outcompeting its bisexual progenitors in the Caucasus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101, 447-460
• Murtskhvaladze M, Gavashelishvili A, Tarkhnishvili D. 2010.Geographic and genetic boundaries of brown bear (Ursus arctos) population in the Caucasus. Molecular Ecology, 19, 1829-1841
• Murtskhvaladze M, Tarkhnishvili D., 2006. Estimation of Brown Bear Abundance and Population Structure in Borjom_Kharagauli national Park with Molecular-Genetic Methods. Proc. Georgian Acad. Sci., Biol. Ser B. Vol 4, No 4.
• Tarkhnishvili, David; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Gavashelishvili, Alexander; Speciation in Caucasian lizards: climatic dissimilarity of the habitats is more important than isolation time Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109 4 876-892 2013
• Mumladze, Levan; Tarkhnishvili, David; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Systematics and evolutionary history of large endemic snails from the Caucasus (Helix buchii and H. goderdziana)(Helicidae) American Malacological Bulletin 31 2 225-234 2013 American Malacological Society
• Tarkhnishvili, David; Gavashelishvili, Alexander; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Gabelaia, Mariam; Tevzadze, Gigi; Human paternal lineages, languages, and environment in the Caucasus Human Biology 86 2 113-130 2014 Wayne State University Press
• Gabelaia, Mariam; Tarkhnishvili, David; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Phylogeography and morphological variation in a narrowly distributed Caucasian rock lizard, Darevskia mixta Amphibia-reptilia 36 1 45-54 2015 Brill
• Tevzadze, Gigi; Tarkhnishvili, David; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Gavashelishvili, Alexander; Human Paternal Lineages, Languages, and Environment in the Caucasus Human Biology 2015
• Tarkhnishvili, David; Gabelaia, Mariam; Mumladze, Levan; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Mitochondrial phylogeny of the Darevskia saxicola complex: two highly deviant evolutionary lineages from the easternmost part of the range The Herpetological Journal 26 2 175-182 2016 British Herpetological Society
• Tarkhnishvili, David; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Anderson, Cort L; Coincidence of genotypes at two loci in two parthenogenetic rock lizards: how backcrosses might trigger adaptive speciation Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 121 2 365-378 2017 Oxford University Press
• Tarkhnishvili, David; Gavashelishvili, Alexander; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Latsuzbaia, Ardashel; Landscape complexity in the Caucasus impedes genetic assimilation of human populations more effectively than language or ethnicity Human Biology 88 4 287-300 2016 Wayne State University Press
• Seroepidemiology and molecular diversity of Leishmania donovani complex in Georgia Parasites & Vectors 9 279 2016 https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-016-1558-6
• Barlow, Axel; Cahill, James A; Hartmann, Stefanie; Theunert, Christoph; Xenikoudakis, Georgios; Fortes, Gloria G; Paijmans, Johanna LA; Rabeder, Gernot; Frischauf, Christine; Grandal-d’Anglade, Aurora; Partial genomic survival of cave bears in living brown bears Nature ecology & evolution 2 10 1563-1570 2018 Nature Publishing Group UK London
• Mostajeran, Maryam; Malekian, Mansoureh; Fakheran, Sima; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Fadakar, Davoud; Habibzadeh, Nader; Assessment of genetic variation and evolutionary history of Caucasian Grouse (Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi). Ornis Fennica 96 2 2019
• Tarkhnishvili, D; Barateli, N; Murtskhvaladze, M; Iankoshvili, G; Estimating phenotypic heritability of sexual and unisexually reproducing rock lizards (genus Darevskia) Zoologischer Anzeiger 285 105-113 2020 Urban & Fischer
• Candan, Kalmil; Kornilios, Panagiotis; Yanchukov, Alexey; Kumlutas, Yusuf; Ayaz, Dinçer; Tarkhnishvili, David; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Kurdadze, Sofiko; Barateli, Natia; Gabelaia, Mariam; Molecular Phylogeny of Valentin's Lizard, Darevskia valentini,(Boettger, 1892) Reveals New Genetic Lineages and may suggest Taxonomic Reconstruction 2019
• Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Kotorashvili, Adam; Next Generation Sequencing Method of Avian Influenza Virus, Optimised Research Protocol Bull. Georg. Natl. Acad. Sci 10 4 2016
• Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Tarkhnishvili, David; Anderson, Cort L; Kotorashvili, Adam; Phylogeny of caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia) and other true lizards based on mitogenome analysis: Optimisation of the algorithms and gene selection PLoS One 15 6 e0233680 2020 Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA
• Tarkhnishvili, David; Yanchukov, Alexey; Şahin, Mehmet Kürşat; Gabelaia, Mariam; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Candan, Kamil; Galoyan, Eduard; Arakelyan, Marine; Iankoshvili, Giorgi; Kumlutaş, Yusuf; Genotypic similarities among the parthenogenetic Darevskia rock lizards with different hybrid origins BMC Evolutionary Biology 20 1 25-Jan 2020 BioMed Central
• Gavashelishvili, Alexander; Yanchukov, Alexey; Tarkhnishvili, David; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Akhvlediani, Irakli; Kazancı, Ceren; Landscape genetics and the genetic legacy of Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the modern Caucasus Scientific Reports 11 1 17985 2021 Nature Publishing Group UK London
• Yanchukov, Alexey; Tarkhnishvili, David; Erdolu, Meriç; Şahin, Mehmet Kürşat; Candan, Kamil; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Gabelaia, Mariam; Iankoshvili, Giorgi; Barateli, Natia; Ilgaz, Çetin; Precise paternal ancestry of hybrid unisexual ZW lizards (genus Darevskia: Lacertidae: Squamata) revealed by Z-linked genomic markers Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 136 2 293-305 2022 Oxford University Press UK
• Geographical and temporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 clades in the WHO European Region, January to June 2020 Eurosurveillance 25 32 2020 https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.32.2001410
• Tarkhnishvili, David; Hille, Axel; Waller, Thomas; Todua, Mariam; Murtskhvaladze, Marine; Böhme, Wolfgang; Morphological trends and genetic divergence in anacondas, genus Eunectes Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes: Boidae) Amphibia-Reptilia 1 aop 15-Jan 2022 Brill