VICTOR FET
Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences,
Marshall University,
Huntington, West Virginia 25755-2510, USA
Contact
Phone (304) 696-3116
Fax (304) 696-7136
Email fet@marshall.edu
Background
Ph.D., Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St.
Petersburg, Russia, 1984
B.S./M.S., University of Novosibirsk, Russia, 1976
1995-present: Marshall University, Huntington, West
Virginia, USA
1990-1995: Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1988-1990: postdoc, Vanderbilt
University Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
1976-1987: zoologist, national parks of Turkmenistan (Central
Asia).
Teaching Experience:
Genetics, Principles of
Evolution, Biogeography, Introduction to Biology, DNA Technology, Human
Genetics, Biotechnology, Invertebrate Zoology, Parasitology.
Research
Interests
My
interests lie in various aspects of evolution, genetics, biogeography and
taxonomy of scorpions - which demonstrate remarkable adaptations and diversity
acquired in their 400,000,000 years of known evolutionary history.
My
research involves reconstructing scorpion evolution and phylogeny with
molecular techniques, particularly mitochondrial DNA PCR and sequence analysis
- the same methods as are used in forensic science, DNA fingerprinting/barcoding, and genetic engineering. I am also interested in
taxonomy, systematics, paleontology, morphology, and various phenomena specific
to scorpions, including in particular their sensory
organs. I also collaborate on projects in molecular evolution of other
animals.
I
am actively involved in systematics, faunistics, and
taxonomy of scorpions, and published widely on this subject. With my
co-authors, I published the Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998) (2000), a "yellow
pages" book listing about 1300 species and 170 genera of the existing
scorpions, plus about 100 fossil species.
Another
aspect of my research concerns evolution, biodiversity, and biogeography of
desert and mountain animals and biotas, especially in
Central Asia and the Balkans. I work with local collectives of biologists as an
editor on production of definitive monographs in biodiversity and biogeography.
Two of such monographic works have been published, Biogeography and
Ecology of Turkmenistan (1994) and Biogeography
and Ecology of Bulgaria (2007).
I
have traveled intensively with research purposes, both for field work and
museum work. In 2001-2002, the National
Geographic Society sponsored my expedition to Central Asian deserts to
study scorpions there. My overseas field travels over many years took me to
Mexico, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria,
Georgia, Greece, Austria, France, Russia, Slovenia, and New Zealand; I worked
with scorpion collections in the natural history museums of the USA, England,
Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, and Bulgaria, and studied
collections loaned from dozens of other museums. I run a number of cooperative
projects with researchers from many countries. In 2005, I was
on a sabbatical leave as a Fulbright Scholar Program grant recipient in
Bulgaria; and in 2012, on a sabbatical leave as a Fulbright Scholar Program grant recipient in
Greece.
I am also
the editor (together with Michael E. Soleglad) of"Euscorpius", the Occasional Publications in Scorpiology, an online peer-reviewed research journal
and the only research
periodical completely devoted to scorpions, mainly to their systematics.
NOTE THAT 'Euscorpius' is now fully migrated to Marshall Digital Scholar:
http://mds.marshall.edu/euscorpius/
"Euscorpius" archive (issues 1 to 270) is also available at the journal's old website: http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius
Since its inception in 2001, "Euscorpius"
published 272
issues authored by 159
zoologists from 34
countries (USA, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, China,
Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe,
Guatemala, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, The
Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Somaliland, Sri
Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Venezuela.)
In 2002-2019,
249 new
species and 17 new genera of
scorpions from 63
countries (Afghanistan, Australia, Bosnia &
Herzegovina, the British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Greece,
Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,
Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lithuania (amber),
Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman,
Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Somaliland, Sri Lanka,
Suriname, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, USA,
Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, and Yemen) have been
described in “Euscorpius”.
My
additional interests within biological sciences concern history of biology, especially in my native
Russia. I translated into English a seminal and nearly forgotten
Russian work
on symbiogenesis by Boris
M. Kozo-Polyansky (1924). The book was published in May 2010 by
Harvard University Press.
This
work was co-edited, encouraged and promoted by Professor Lynn Margulis (1938-2011),
the leading authority on symbiogenesis and the original author of
the serial endosymbiotic theory (SET)
of eukaryotic cell origin. On 24 September 2010, Professor Margulis came to Marshall
University to celebrate
publication of this important book.
PUBLICATIONS:
[for non-biology publications, mainly in Russian, see Other Publications]
Books
Babkov, V. V. 2013. The Dawn of Human Genetics. Translated from Russian by Victor Fet. Edited by James Schwartz. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. 808 pp. Order on Amazon.
Kozo-Polyansky, B. M. 2010. Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution. Translated from Russian by Victor Fet. Edited by Victor Fet & Lynn Margulis. Introduction by Peter H. Raven. Cambridge–London: Harvard University Press, 198 pp. Order on Amazon.
Fet, V. & A. Popov (eds). 2007. Biogeography and
Ecology of Bulgaria. Dordrecht-Boston: Springer, 687 pp.
Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). 2001. Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis.
Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society, UK, 450 pp.
Fet, V., W. D. Sissom, G. Lowe & M. E. Braunwalder.
2000. Catalog of the Scorpions of the World
(1758-1998) New York: New York Entomological Society, 690 pp.
Fet, V. & K. I. Atamuradov (eds). 1994. Biogeography and Ecology of
Turkmenistan. Dordrecht–Boston: Kluwer Academic,
650 pp.
Journal Papers &
Book Chapters:
2018
Fet, V., F. Kovařík, B. Gantenbein, R. C. Kaiser, A.
K. Stewart & M. R. Graham. 2018. Revision of the
Mesobuthus caucasicus complex from
Central Asia, with descriptions of six new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae).
Euscorpius,
255:
1-77.
pdf
2017
2016
Dunlop, J., D. Legg, P. Selden, V. Fet, J. Schneider & R. Rößler.
2016. Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany
Fet, V., M. R. Graham, G. Blagoev, A. Karataş & Ah. Karataş. 2016. DNA barcoding indicates hidden diversity of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) in Turkey. Euscorpius, 216: 1-20. pdf
Fet, V. & A. Popov. 2016. The scorpion of Vrachanska Planina. Pp. 47-53 in: Bechev D & Georgiev D (eds).Faunistic diversity of Vrachanski Blakan Nature Park. Plovdiv: Plovdid University, 2016.
Kononov, A., K. Ustyantsev, A. Blinov, V. Fet & Y.N.Baranchikov.
2016. Genetic diversity of aboriginal and invasive populations
of four-eyed fir bark beetle Polygraphus proximus
Blandford (Coleoptera,Curculionidae, Scolytinae).
Agricultural and Forest Entomology (2016), DOI:
10.1111/afe.12161
Soleglad, M. E., V. Fet, M. R. Graham & R. F.Ayrey. 2016. Graemeloweus, a new scorpion genus from northern California, USA (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Euscorpius, 227: 1-38 (25 July 2016). pdf
2015
Teruel,
R., G. Lowe, V. Fet & K. A. Daniel.
2015.
Occurrence of a telson gland in the genus Superstitionia Stahnke,
1940 (Scorpiones: Superstitioniidae).
Euscorpius,
204: 1−5.
pdf file
Tropea, G. & V. Fet. 2015. Two new species of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from central-western Greece. Euscorpius, 199: 1−16. [E. giachinoi, E. vailatii] pdf file
Tropea, G., V. Fet, A. Parmakelis, P. Kotsakiozi & I. Stathi. 2015a. A new species of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from southern Bulgaria. Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 49: 10−20. [E. drenskii] pdf file
2014
Fet, V. 2014.
Nabokov's silverfish.
The Nabokovian (University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas), 44.
Fet, V., M.R. Graham,
M.M. Webber & G. Blagoev. 2014. Two new species of Euscorpius
(Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae)
Fet, V., M.E. Soleglad, A. Parmakelis, P. Kotsakiozi &
I. Stathi. 2014. Two new species
of Euscorpius from Euboea Island, Greece (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae).
Arthropoda Selecta,
23(2): 111-126.
Kovařík,
F., V. Fet & M.E. Soleglad. 2014.
Euscorpius yagmuri, a new scorpion species
from Epirus, northwestern Greece (Scorpiones:
Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius,
193: 1−11.
PDF
file
Teruel, R., F. Kovařík,
S. Navidpour & V.
Fet. 2014. The first record of the genus
Anomalobuthus Kraepelin, 1900 from Iran, with
description of a new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae).
Euscorpius,
192: 1−10.
PDF
file
Tropea, G., V. Fet, A. Parmakelis, P. Kotsakiozi &
I. Stathi. 2014.
Three new species of
Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Greece.
Euscorpius,
190: 1−22.
PDF
file
2013
Benli, M., E. A. Yağmur & V. Fet. 2013. Etudes on iurids, VII. An
SEM study of external morphology of
Calchas birulai
Fet et al., 2009 (Scorpiones: Iuridae).
Euscorpius,
164:
1−31.
PDF file
Fet, V. 2013a. [Fantastic person, fantastic life]. Fantasticheskie - i chelovek, i sud'ba / Фантастические - и человек, и судьба. Priroda [Nature] (Moscow, Russia), 4: 83-87 (in Russian) [about the life of Raissa L. Berg (1913-2006)].
Fet, V. 2013b. [Notes on scorpions and scorpiologists]. Zametki o skorpionakh i skorpiologakh / Заметки о скорпионах и скорпиологах. Priroda [Nature] (Moscow, Russia), 10: 52-58 (in Russian). PDF file
Fet, V. 2013c. [Notes on Nabokov's childhood entomology]. Zametki o detskoi entomologii Nabokova / Заметки о детской энтомологии Набокова. In: Poberezhye, 21. Philadelphia (in Russian). PDF file
Fet,
V., M. E. Soleglad, A. Parmakelis, P. Kotsakiozi & I. Stathi. 2013a. Three
more species of Euscorpius confirmed for Greece (Scorpiones:
Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius, 165: 1−27.
PDF file
Fet,
V., M. E. Soleglad, A. Parmakelis, P. Kotsakiozi & I. Stathi. 2013b. A new species of Euscorpius from Tinos Island, Greece (Scorpiones:
Euscorpiidae).
Revista Ibérica de Aracnología,
23: 3‒10.
PDF file
Navidpour, S., M.E. Soleglad, V. Fet & F. Kovařík. 2013. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part IX. Hormozgan Province, with description of Odontobuthus tavighiae sp. n. (Buthidae). Euscorpius, 170: 1−29. PDF file
Parmakelis, A., P. Kotsakiozi, G. Tropea, E.A. Yağmur, I. Stathi, V. Fet & M.Е. Soleglad. 2013. DNA markers confirm presence of Euscorpius avcii Tropea et al., 2012 (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) on Samos Island, Greece. Euscorpius, 161: 1−6. PDF file
Parmakelis, A., I. Stathi, P. Kotsakiozi, S. Poulikarakou & V. Fet. 2013. Hidden diversity of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) in Greece revealed by multilocus species-delimitation approaches. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 110: 728−748.
Tropea, G., V. Fet, A. Parmakelis, P. Kotsakiozi & I. Stathi. 2013. A new species of Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 from Peloponnese, Greece (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius, 169: 1−11.
PDF file
Yağmur, E.A., M.E. Soleglad, V. Fet & F.
Kovařík. 2013. Etudes on iurids, VI. Further
revision of Calchas Birula, 1899 (Scorpiones: Iuridae), with a
description of a new genus and two new species. Euscorpius, 159:
1−37.
PDF file
2012
Fet, V. 2012. [Slanted truths of Lynn Мargulis]. Nepryamye istiny Lynn
Мargulis /
Непрямые
истины
Линн
Маргулис.
Priroda
[Nature] (Moscow,
Russia), 8: 67-71
(in Russian).
PDF file;
English
translation (unpublished)
Fet, V. 2012. [Toward the history of study of symbiogenesis. On the English translation of B. M. Kozo-Polyansky’s A New Principle of Biology (1924) ] K istorii izucheniya simbiogeneza. O perevode na angliiskii yazyk knigi B.M.Kozo-Polyanskogo “Novyy printsip biologii” (1924) / К истории изучения симбиогенеза. O переводe на английский язык книги Б.М. Козо-Полянского «Новый принцип биологии» (1924). Istoriko-biologicheskie issledovaniya [Studies in Historical Biology], St. Petersburg, Russia, 4(2): 125-129 (in Russian, with English summary). PDF file
Graham, M.R., V. Oláh-Hemmings &
V. Fet. 2012. Phylogeography of co-distributed dune
scorpions identifies the Amu Darya River as a long-standing component of Central
Asian biogeography (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Zoology
in the Middle East, 55: 95−110.
PDF file
Graham, M.R., P.
Stoev, N. Akkari, G. Blagoev & V. Fet. 2012. Euscorpius sicanus (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae)
from Tunisia: DNA barcoding confirms ancient
disjunctions across the Mediterranean Sea. Serket, 25: 16-26.
PDF file
Graham, M.R., M.M.
Webber, G. Blagoev, N. Ivanova & V. Fet. 2012. Molecular and morphological evidence supports
the elevation of Euscorpius
germanus croaticus Di Caporiacco, 1950
(Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) to Euscorpius croaticus
stat. nov.,
a rare species from Croatia. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 21: 41‒50.
PDF file
Karataş,
A., V. Fet & M.M. Gharkheloo. 2012. On the type locality of Mesobuthus vesiculatus
(Pocock, 1899) (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius, 147:
1−3. PDF file
Navidpour, S., V. Fet,
F. Kovařík & M.E. Soleglad. 2012. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida,
Scorpiones). Part VIII. Fars Province.
Euscorpius, 139: 1−32.
PDF file
Soleglad, M.E., V. Fet, F. Kovařík
& E.A. Yağmur. 2012. Etudes on iurids, V.
Further revision of Iurus Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Iuridae), with a
description of a new genus and two new species. Euscorpius, 143: 1−70.
PDF file
Soleglad, M.E., F.
Kovařík & V. Fet. 2012. A new species of Pseudochactas (Scorpiones: Pseudochactidae)
from Afghanistan. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 50: 89−98.
PDF file
Fet, V. 2011a. [Nabokov’s biogeographic mosaic]. Biogeograficheskaya mozaika Nabokova / Биогеографическая мозаика Набокова. Priroda [Nature] (Moscow, Russia), 10: 88−95 (in Russian). PDF file
Fet, V. 2011b. Symbiogenesis in Russia. Pp. 153−158 in: Margulis, L., C.A. Asikainen & W. Krumbein (eds). Chimeras and Consciousness: Evolution of the Sensory Self. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 321 pp.
Fet, V., D.E. Shcherbakov & M.E. Soleglad. 2011. The first
record of Upper Permian and Lower Triassic scorpions from Russia (Chelicerata: Scorpiones). Euscorpius, 121: 1−16.
PDF file
Fet, V., M.E. Soleglad & S.L. Zonstein. 2011. The genus Akrav Levy, 2007 (Scorpiones: Akravidae) revisited. Euscorpius, 134: 1−49. PDF file
Kovařík, F., Е.А. Yağmur, V. Fet & S. Navidpour. 2011. On two subspecies of Mesobuthus
eupeus (C. L. Koch, 1839) in Turkey (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius,
109: 1−15. PDF file
Soleglad, M. E., V. Fet & G. Lowe. 2011. Contributions to scorpion systematics. IV. Observations on the Hadrurus “spadix” subgroup with a description of a new species (Scorpiones: Caraboctonidae). Euscorpius, 112: 1−36. PDF file
Navidpour, S., M.
Ezatkhah, F. Kovařík, M.E. Soleglad & V. Fet.
2011. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part VII. Kerman
Province. Euscorpius,
131: 1−32. PDF file
Fet,
V. 2010а. Scorpions of Europe.
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 62(1): 3–12. PDF file
Fet,
V. 2010b. Foreword. P. 5 in:
Stockmann, R. & E. Ythier. Scorpions of the World. N.A.P. Editions, 568 pp.
Guerrero, R., L. Margulis & V.
Fet. 2010. [Darwin-Wallace
Paradigm Shift: Ten days that failed to shake the world]. Sdvig paradigm Darvinom i Uollesom: Desyat’ dnei, kotorye
ne potryasli mir. / Сдвиг парадигм Дарвином и Уоллесом: Десять дней, которые не потрясли мир. Istoriko-biologicheskie issledovaniya [Studies in
Historical Biology], St. Petersburg, Russia, 2(1): 83-88 (in Russian,
translated by V. Fet).
PDF file
Kovařík, F., V. Fet,
M. E. Soleglad & E. A. Yağmur. 2010. Etudes on iurids,
III. Revision of the genus Iurus
Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Iuridae), with a description of two new species from
Turkey. Euscorpius, 95: 1–212. PDF file
Navidpour, S., H. H. Nayebzadeh, M. E. Soleglad, V. Fet,
F. Kovařík & M. H. Kayedi. 2010. Scorpions
of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part VI. Lorestan Province. Euscorpius, 99:
1−23. PDF file
Soleglad M. E. & V. Fet. 2010. Further observations on scorpion genera Hadrurus
and Hoffmannihadrurus (Scorpiones, Caraboctonidae). ZooKeys, 59: 1−13. PDF file
Stathi, I., V. Fet & M. E. Soleglad. 2010. Etudes on iurids, IV. Observations on Calchas gruberi from Megisti Island, Greece (Scorpiones: Iuridae). Euscorpius, 101: 1–9. PDF file
Fet,
V., H. El-Hennawy, M. E. Braunwalder & J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson.
2009. The first observation on scorpion biogeography by Aristotle. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 44: 147–150.
PDF file
Fet, V., M. E.
Soleglad & F. Kovařík. 2009. Etudes on iurids, II. Revision of genus Calchas Birula, 1899,
with the description of two new species (Scorpiones:
Iuridae). Euscorpius, 82: 1–72. PDF file
Marusik, Yu. & V. Fet. 2009a. A survey of East Palaearctic Hersiliola
Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae),
with a description of three new genera.
ZooKeys, 16: 75–114.
PDF file
Marusik, Yu. & V. Fet. 2009b. Book review: Species and Communities in Extreme Environments. Festschrift
towards the 75th Anniversary and a Laudatio in Honour of Academician Yuri Ivanovich Chernov. Pensoft
Publishers & KMK Scientific Press: Sofia-Moscow, 2 vols., 494 pp. BioRisk, 2: 73–76.
PDF file.
Pirali-Kheirabadi, K., S. Navidpour, V. Fet,
F. Kovařík & M. E. Soleglad. 2009. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida,
Scorpiones). Part V. Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiyari Province. Euscorpius, 78:
1–23. PDF file
Soleglad, M. E., F. Kovařík & V. Fet.
2009. Etudes on iurids, I.
The orthobothriotaxic pattern in Iuridae, with observations on neobothriotaxy
in genus Iurus (Scorpiones: Iuridae). Euscorpius,
79: 1–21. PDF file
2008
Brewer,
M., M. Graham, V. Fet & M. Soleglad. 2008.
Scorpion serrula: an enigmatic structure under SEM. Proceedings of the West
Virginia Academy of Sciencе, Abstracts
of the 82nd Annual Session, Marshall University, March 31, 2007, 79(1): 30
(published May 2008).
Fet, V. 2008a. Zoological label as literary form.
The Nabokovian (University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas), 60: 18–26.
Fet, V. 2008b. Hersiliola brachyplura Strand, 1913 belongs to Oecobius (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Zootaxa, 1849:
67. (PDF file available upon
request)
Fet, V. & M.D. Golubovsky. 2008. Vavilov’s vision
for genetics was among Stalin’s many victims. Nature, 455: 27. PDF file
Fet, V. & L. Margulis. 2008. [Symbiogenesis and B.M. Kozo-Polyansky].
Simbiogenez i B.M. Kozo-Polyansky / Симбиогенез и Б.M. Козо-Полянский.
In: Sovremennoe sostoyanie,
problemy i perspektivy regional’nykh botanicheskikh issledovanii [Current Status, Issues, and
Perspectives of Regional Botanical Studies]. Materials of
the International Conference, 6-8 February 2008, Voronezh State University,
Voronezh, Russia (in Russian). PDF file
Fet, V. & M. E. Soleglad. 2008. Cladistic analysis of superfamily
Iuroidea, with emphasis on subfamily Hadrurinae (Scorpiones: Iurida). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 43:
255–281. PDF file
Kaltsas, D., I. Stathi & V. Fet. 2008. Scorpions of the Eastern Mediterranean. Pp. 209-246 In: Makarov, S.E. & R.N. Dimitrijević (eds.). Advances in Arachnology and Developmental Biology. Papers dedicated to Prof. Dr. Božidar P.M. Ćurčić. Vienna-Belgrade-Sofia, 517 pp. PDF file
Navidpour,
S., F. Kovařík, M. E. Soleglad & V. Fet. 2008a. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part I. Khoozestan Province. Euscorpius, 65:
1–41.
PDF file
Navidpour,
S., M. E. Soleglad, V. Fet & F. Kovařík. 2008b. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part II. Bushehr
Province. Euscorpius,
67: 1–33. PDF file
Navidpour,
S., V. Fet, F. Kovařík & M. E. Soleglad. 2008c. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part III. Ilam Province.
Euscorpius,
69: 1–29. PDF file
Navidpour,
S., F. Kovařík, M. E. Soleglad & V. Fet. 2008d. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part IV. Kohgilouyeh & Boyer Ahmad Province.
Euscorpius,
74: 1–24. PDF file
Novikova,
O., V. Fet & A. Blinov. 2008. Non-LTR retrotransposons in fungi. Functional and Integral Genomics, Aug. 2 PDF file
Soleglad,
M. E. & V. Fet. 2008. Contributions to scorpion
systematics. III. Subfamilies Smeringurinae and Syntropinae (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Euscorpius, 71: 1–115. PDF file
Fet, V. & M. E. Soleglad. 2007a. Fauna and zoogeography of
scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) in Bulgaria. Pp. 405–422 In: Fet, V. & A. Popov (eds). Biogeography and Ecology of
Bulgaria. Springer. PDF file
Fet, V. & M. E. Soleglad. 2007b. Synonymy of Parabroteas montezuma Penther, 1913 and designation of neotype for Vaejovis mexicanus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 41: 251–263. PDF file
Jones, M., B.
Gantenbein, V. Fet & M. Blaxter. 2007. The effect
of model choice on phylogenetic inference using mitochondrial sequence data:
Lessons from the scorpions. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 43(2): 583–595. PDF file
Kovařík, F., M. E.
Soleglad & V. Fet. 2007. A new species of
scorpions in the "Charmus"
group from India (Scorpiones: Buthoidea). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 40:
201–209. PDF file
Lushnikova, T., V. Fet & W. I. Towler. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis and genomic structure of the cone
photoreceptor gene, NCKX2 (SLC24A2). Proceedings
of the West Virginia Academy of Sciencе,
2006, 78(2): 33–47 (published July 2007).
Novikova, O., V. Fet & A. Blinov. 2007a. LTR retrotransposons in the Aspergillus fumigatus and A. nidulans genomes. Molecular Biology 41(5): 756–763 (also
in Russian: Molekulyarnaya Biologiya
41(5): 830–838). PDF file
Novikova, O., V. Fet & A. Blinov. 2007b.
Homology-dependent inactivation of LTR retrotransposons
in Aspergillus fumigatus and
A. nidulans
genomes. Molecular Biology
41(5): 886–893.
Novikova, O., E. Śliwińska, V. Fet, J. Settele, A. Blinov & M. Woyciechowski.
2007. CR1 clade of non-LTR retrotransposons from Maculinea
butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): evidence for
recent horizontal transmission. BMC
Evolutionary Biology, 7(1): 93 (19 pp).
PDF file
Soleglad, M. E., G. Lowe
& V. Fet. 2007. Systematic observations on the
scorpion genus Syntropis,
with description of two new species (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 40:
119–136. PDF file
Baptista, C., J. A. Santiago-Blay, M. E. Soleglad & V. Fet. 2006. The Cretaceous
scorpion genus, Archaeobuthus, revisited
(Scorpiones: Archaeobuthidae). Euscorpius, 35:
1–40. PDF file
Chowell, G., P. Díaz-Dueñas, R. Bustos-Saldaña, A. Alemán Mireles & V. Fet. 2006. Epidemiological
and clinical characteristics of scorpionism in
Colima, Mexico (2000-2001). Toxicon, 47: 753–758.
Fet, V. 2006. Wanderings under the constellation of Scorpio. Science First Hand [Novosibirsk, Russia], 6(11): 83–94 (a popular article). PDF file; Russian version: Stranstviya pod sozvezdiem Skorpiona. Nauka iz pervykh ruk, 6(11): 111–121 PDF file
Fet, V., M.S. Brewer, M. E. Soleglad & D.P.A. Neff. 2006. Constellation array: a new sensory structure in scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 38: 269–278. PDF file
Fet, V., B. Gantenbein, Ay. Karataş & A. Karataş. 2006. An
extremely low genetic divergence across the range of Euscorpius italicus (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Journal of Arachnology,
34(1): 248–253. PDF file
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & M. S. Brewer. 2006. Laterobasal aculear serrations (LAS) in scorpion family
Vaejovidae (Scorpiones: Chactoidea). Euscorpius, 45: 1–19. PDF file (or in four high-resolution
files: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad, M. S. Brewer, D. P. A. Neff & M. L. Norton. 2006a. Constellation array in scorpion genera Paruroctonus, Smeringurus, Vejovoidus, and Paravaejovis (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Euscorpius, 41: 1–15. PDF file
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad, M. S. Brewer, D. P. A. Neff & M. L. Norton. 2006b. Vestigial serrula in scorpion genera Paruroctonus, Smeringurus, Vejovoidus, and Paravaejovis (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Euscorpius, 49: 1–20. PDF in low resolution: part 1 and part 2; or in high resolution in 6 parts: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6.
Glushkov, S., O. Novikova, A. Blinov & V. Fet. 2006. Divergent non-LTR retrotransposon lineages from the genomes of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 275: 288–296. PDF file
Graham, M.R. & V. Fet. 2006. Serrula in retrospect: a historical look at scorpion literature (Scorpiones: Orthosterni). Euscorpius, 48: 1–19. PDF file
Kovařík, F. & V. Fet.
2006a. Taxonomic position of the genus Simonoides Vachon et Farzanpay, 1987, and description of a new species of Orthochirus Karsch
from Iran (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius,
38: 1–10. PDF file
Kovařík, F. & V. Fet.
2006b. Taxonomic position of the genus Sassanidotus Farzanpay, 1987
(Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius,
39: 1–9. PDF file
Soleglad,
M. E. & V. Fet. 2006. Contributions to
scorpion systematics. II. Stahnkeini, a new tribe in
scorpion family Vaejovidae (Scorpiones: Chactoidea). Euscorpius, 40: 1–32. PDF file
Teruel,
R., V. Fet & M. R. Graham. 2006. The first
mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of Cuban Buthidae (Scorpiones: Buthoidea).
Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 39:
219–226. PDF file
Acosta,
L. E. & V. Fet. 2005. Nomenclatural notes in
Scorpiones (Arachnida). Zootaxa,
934: 1–12. PDF file
Fet, V. & M. E. Braunwalder. 2005. Systematik und Bestimmung / Sistematica e determinazione. Pp. 17–50 In: Braunwalder, M. E. Fauna Helvetica 13. Scorpiones (Arachnida). Centre suisse de cartographie de la Faune / Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, Neuchâtel, 240 pp. (parallel text in German and Italian). PDF file
Fet, V. & M. E. Soleglad. 2005. Contributions to scorpion
systematics. I. On recent changes in high-level taxonomy. Euscorpius, 31: 1–13. PDF file
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & G. Lowe. 2005. A new trichobothrial character for the high-level systematics of Buthoidea (Scorpiones: Buthida). Euscorpius, 23: 1–40. PDF file
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad, Yu. V. Mosseichik & D. E. Shcherbakov. 2005 [A scorpion from a peatbog: the first arthropod fossil from the Late Viséan of the Moscow Coal Basin]. In: Durante, M. V. & I. A. Ignatyev (eds), Plant World in Space and Time. Collection of scientific papers, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of academician V.V Menner (1905-1989). GEOS, Moscow: 163–166 (in Russian). PDF file See also Fet et al. 2004 (in English.)
Gantenbein, B., V. Fet, I. A. Gantenbein-Ritter & F. Balloux. 2005. Evidence for recombination in scorpion mitochondrial DNA (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 272(1564): 697–704. PDF file
Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2005a. A new scorpion genus (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) from Mexico. Euscorpius, 24: 1–13. PDF file
Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2005b. The genus Auyantepuia González-Sponga, 1978 is confirmed as a synonym of Broteochactas Pocock, 1893 (Scorpiones: Chactidae). Euscorpius, 29: 1–14. PDF file
Soleglad,
M. E., V. Fet & F. Kovařík. 2005. The
systematic position of the scorpion genera Heteroscorpion Birula, 1903 and Urodacus Peters, 1861 (Scorpiones: Scorpionoidea).
Euscorpius, 20: 1–38. PDF file
Fet, V. & D. D. Gaffin. 2004. Preface. Proceedings of the 3d Scorpiology Symposium, American Arachnological Society 28th Annual Meeting, Norman, Oklahoma, 28 June 2004. Euscorpius, 17: i-–v. PDF file of the Proceedings
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & B. Gantenbein. 2004. The Euroscorpion: genus Euscorpius
(Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Proceedings
of the 3d Scorpiology Symposium, American
Arachnological Society 28th Annual Meeting, Norman, Oklahoma, 23-27 June 2004.
Euscorpius, 17: 47–59. PDF file of the Proceedings
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & A. V. Gromov. 2004. The platypus of a scorpion: genus Pseudochactas (Scorpiones: Pseudochactidae). Proceedings of the 3d Scorpiology Symposium, American Arachnological Society 28th Annual Meeting, Norman, Oklahoma, 28 June 2004. Euscorpius, 17: 61–68. PDF file of the Proceedings.
See also
the abstracts of the first "Scorpion Symposium", Los Angeles, June 1985
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & F. Kovařík. 2004. Subfamily Lisposominae revisited (Scorpiones: Bothriuridae).
Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 10: 195–209. PDF file
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad, Yu. V. Mosseichik & D.E. Shcherbakov. 2004. A scorpion from a peatbog: the first arthropod fossil from the Late Viséan of the Moscow Coal Basin. Euscorpius, 13: 1–5. PDF file See also Fet et al. 2005 (in Russian).
Fet, V., M.E. Soleglad, D. P. A. Neff & I. Stathi. 2004. Tarsal armature in the superfamily Iuroidea (Scorpiones: Iurida). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 10: 17–40. PDF file
Santiago-Blay, J.A., V. Fet, M.E. Soleglad & S.R. Anderson. 2004. A new genus and subfamily of scorpions from Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber (Scorpiones: Chaerilidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 9: 3–14. PDF file
Santiago-Blay, J.A., V. Fet, M.E. Soleglad & P.R. Craig. 2004. The second Cretaceous scorpion specimen from Burmese amber (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2(2): 147–152. PDF file
Santiago-Blay, J.A., M.E. Soleglad & V. Fet. 2004. A redescription and family placement of Uintascorpio Perry, 1995 from the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation (Middle Eocene) of Colorado, USA (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 10: 7–16. PDF file
Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2004. The systematics of scorpion subfamily Uroctoninae (Scorpiones: Chactidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 10: 81–128. PDF file
Teruel, R., V. Fet & L. de Armas. 2004. A note on the scorpions from the Pirin Mountains, southwestern Bulgaria (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius, 14: 1–11. PDF file
Fet, V. 2003a. The Crimean scorpion, Euscorpius tauricus (C.L. Koch, 1837) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): an endemic species supported by mitochondrial DNA evidence. Arthropoda Selecta (Moscow, Russia), 11(4): 271–276. PDF file
Fet, V. 2003b. To spell or not to spell: again on Rowlandius jarmillae
Armas & Cockendolpher, 2001 (Schizomida:
Hubbardiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia,
8: 44. PDF file
Fet, V., B. Gantenbein, A. V. Gromov, G. Lowe & W. R. Lourenço. 2003. The first molecular phylogeny of Buthidae (Scorpiones). Euscorpius, 4: 1–10. PDF file
Fet, V., Ay. Karataş, E. V. Fet & A. Karataş. 2003. First data on the molecular phylogeny of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Turkey. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 82 (12): 1518–1521 (Moscow, Russia) (in Russian; English summary). PDF file . English translation published in: Entomological Review, 2003, 83, Suppl. 2: 249-252 PDF file
Fet, V. & F. Kovařík. 2003. A record of Euscorpius (Polytrichobothrius) italicus (Herbst, 1800) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) in Iraq. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae (Prague, Czech Republic), 67: 179–181. PDF file
Fet, V. & C. Messing. 2003. Case 3270. Isometrinae Clark, 1917 (Echinodermata, Crinoidea): proposed emendation of spelling to Isometrainae to remove homonymy with Isometrinae Kraepelin, 1891 (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature (UK), 60(4): 293–296. PDF file
See also
ICZN Opinion 2132 (2005)
which approved the scorpion subfamily name Isometrinae
(now in synonymy).
Fet, E. V., D. Neff, M. Graham & V. Fet. 2003. Metasoma of Orthochirus (Scorpiones: Buthidae): are
scorpions evolving a new sensory organ? Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia, 8:
69–72. PDF file
Fet, V., M. E. Petersen & G. S. Slyusarev. 2003. Case 3151. Rhopalurusinae Bücherl, 1971 (Arachnida, Scorpiones: Buthidae): proposed conservation as the correct spelling to remove homonymy with Rhopaluridae Stunkard, 1937 (Orthonectida). Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature (UK), 60(1): 23–25. PDF file
Fet, V. , M. E. Soleglad, B. Gantenbein, V. Vignoli, N. Salomone, E. V. Fet & P. J. Schembri. 2003. New molecular and morphological data on the “Euscorpius carpathicus” species complex (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Italy, Malta, and Greece justify the elevation of E. c. sicanus (C. L. Koch, 1837) to the species level. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 110(2): 355–379. PDF file
Gantenbein, B., V. Fet & A. V. Gromov. 2003. The first DNA phylogeny of four species of Mesobuthus Vachon, 1950 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Eurasia. Journal of Arachnology, 31(3): 412–420. PDF file
Kovařík, F. & V. Fet.
2003. Scorpion Euscorpius (Euscorpius)
tergestinus (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) in central
Bohemia. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae (Prague,
Czech Republic), 67: 189–192. PDF file
Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2003a. The scorpion sternum: structure and phylogeny (Scorpiones: Orthosterni). Euscorpius, 5: 1–34. PDF file
Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2003b. High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni). Euscorpius, 11: 1–175. PDF file
Review of Soleglad & Fet (2003b) by J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson
in the Newsletter of British
Arachnological Society.
Fet, V. 2002. Correction of the original spelling for Rowlandius jarmillae Armas & Cokendolpher, 2001 (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 5: 90. PDF file
Fet, V., M. E. Braunwalder & H. D. Cameron. 2002. Scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) described by Linnaeus. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 12(4): 176–182. PDF file
Fet, V., B. Gantenbein, E. V. Fet & V. Popa. 2002. Euscorpius carpathicus (Linnaeus, 1767) from Romania (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): mitochondrial DNA data. Biogeographica (Paris), 78(4): 141–147. PDF file
Fet, V. & M. E. Soleglad. 2002. Morphology analysis supports presence of more than one species in the “Euscorpius carpathicus” complex (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius, 3: 1–51. PDF file
Gantenbein, B., M. E. Soleglad, V. Fet, P. Crucitti & E. V. Fet. 2002. Euscorpius naupliensis (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): elevation to the species level justified by molecular and morphology data. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 6: 13–43. PDF file
Capes,
E. M. & V. Fet. 2001. A
redescription of the scorpion genus Plesiobuthus Pocock,
1900 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Pakistan. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen
Museum Hamburg, 13(164): 295–304. PDF file
Fet, V. & G. Bechly. 2001. Case
3120a. Liochelidae, fam. nov.
(Scorpiones): proposed introduction as a substitute name for Ischnuridae Simon, 1879, as an alternative to the suggested
emendment of Ischnurinae
Fraser, 1957 (Insecta, Odonata)
to Ischnurainae in order to remove homonymy. Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature,
58(4): 280–281. PDF file
See also ICZN Opinion
2037, which approved the family name Liochelidae.
However, this name is not valid: it is an available junior synonym of Hormurinae Laurie, 1896 (see Soleglad et al. 2005 for detailed
discussion). The family name which should be used now is Hemiscorpiidae.
Fet, V., E. M. Capes & W. D. Sissom. 2001. Polisius, a new scorpion genus
from Iran (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Pp. 183–190 in: Fet,
V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A.
Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society. PDF file
Fet, V., M. Kuntner & B. Sket. 2001. Scorpions of Slovenia: a faunistic and biogeographical survey. Pp. 255–266 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society. PDF file
Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & M. D. Barker. 2001. Phylogenetic analysis of the “hirsutus” group of the genus Hadrurus Thorell (Scorpiones: Iuridae) based on morphology and mitochondrial DNA. Pp. 139–160 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society. PDF file
Frost, L., D. R. Butler, B. O'Dell & V. Fet. 2001. A coumarin as a fluorescent compound in scorpions. Pp. 365–368 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society. PDF file
Gantenbein, B., V. Fet, & M. D. Barker. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA markers reveal a deep, divergent phylogeny in Centruroides exilicauda (Wood) (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Pp. 235–244 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society. PDF file
Gantenbein, B., M. E. Soleglad & V. Fet. 2001. Euscorpius balearicus Caporiacco, 1950, stat. nov. (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): molecular (allozymes and mtDNA) and morphological evidence for an endemic Balearic Islands species. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution, 1(4): 301–320. PDF file
Huber, D., B. Gantenbein, V. Fet & B. Scherabon, B. 2001. Euscorpius carpathicus (L.) from Austria (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): phylogenetic position clarified by mitochondrial DNA analysis. Pp. 273–278 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society. PDF file
Komposch, C., B. Scherabon & V. Fet. 2001. Scorpions of Austria. Pp. 267–272 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society. PDF file
Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2001. Evolution of scorpion orthobothriotaxy: a cladistic approach. Euscorpius, 1: 1–38. PDF file
Towler, W. I., J. Ponce Saavedra, B. Gantenbein & V. Fet. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA reveals divergent phylogeny in tropical Centruroides (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Mexico. Biogeographica (Paris), 77(4): 157–172. PDF file
Yamashita, T. & V. Fet. 2001. Molecular approaches to biogeography. Pp. 347–369 In: Brownell P. H., and G. A. Polis (eds). Scorpion Biology and Research. Oxford University Press, UK.
Chapters in: Fet, V., W. D. Sissom, G. Lowe & M. E. Braunwalder. Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998). New York Entomological Society, New York, 690 pp.
Fet, V. 2000a. Family Chaerilidae. Pp. 323-328.
Fet, V. 2000b. Family Heteroscorpionidae. Pp. 381-382.
Fet, V. 2000c. Family Ischnuridae. Pp. 383-408.
Fet, V. 2000d. Family Microcharmidae. Pp. 421-423.
Fet, V. 2000e. Family Palaeopisthacanthidae. Pp. 424-425.
Fet, V. 2000f. Family Pseudochactidae. P. 426
Fet, V. 2000g. Family Scorpionidae.
Pp. 427-486.
Fet, V. 2000h. Family Scorpiopidae. Pp. 383-408.
Fet, V. 2000i. Suborder Branchioscorpionina. Pp. 554-595.
Fet, V. & G. Lowe. 2000. Family Buthidae. Pp.
54-286.
Fet, V. & W. D. Sissom. 2000. Family Euscorpiidae.
Pp. 355-381.
Lowe, G. & V. Fet. 2000. Family Bothriuridae. Pp. 17-53.
Sissom, W. D. & V. Fet. 2000a.
Family Diplocentridae. Pp. 329-354.
Sissom, W. D. & V. Fet. 2000b.
Family Iuridae. Pp. 409-420.
Sissom, W. D. & V. Fet. 2000c. Family Troglotayosicidae. Pp. 501-502.
Fet, V. 2000j. Scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones)
from the Balkan Peninsula in the collections of the National Museum of Natural
History, Sofia. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 11: 47-60. PDF file
Fet, V. 2000k. Gary Allan Polis (1946-2000). Arthropoda Selecta (Moscow), 8(4): 293-295. PDF file
Fet, V. 2000l. Gary Allan Polis (1946-2000). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society, 89: 14-15. PDF file
Fet, V. & G. Bechly. 2000. Case 3120. Ischnurainae Fraser, 1957 (Insecta, Odonata): proposed conservation as the correct spelling of Ischnurinae to remove homonymy with Ischnuridae Simon, 1879 (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature, 57(1): 26-28. PDF file
Fet, V. & M. E. Braunwalder. 2000a. Case 3119. Vachoniainae Maury, 1973 (Arachnida, Scorpiones): proposed conservation as the correct spelling to remove homonymy with Vachoniidae Chamberlin, 1947 (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones). Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature 57(1): 24-25. PDF file
Fet, V. & M. E. Braunwalder. 2000b. The scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) of the Aegean area: current problems in taxonomy and biogeography. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 130 (Suppl. 1): 17-22. PDF file
Fet, V., B. E. Hendrixson, W. D. Sissom
& G. Levy. 2000. First record for the genus Mesobuthus Vachon, 1950 in Israel: Mesobuthus nigrocinctus (Ehrenberg,
1828), comb. n. (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Mt. Hermon.
Israel Journal of Zoology, 46: 287-295. PDF file
Gantenbein, B., V. Fet, M. Barker & A. Scholl. 2000. Nuclear and mitochondrial markers reveal the existence of two parapatric scorpion species in the Alps: Euscorpius germanus (C. L. Koch, 1837) and E. alpha Caporiacco, 1950, stat. nov. (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie, 107(4): 843-869. PDF file
Scherabon, B., B. Gantenbein, V. Fet, M. Barker, M. Kuntner, C. Kropf & D. Huber. 2000. A new species of scorpion from Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia: Euscorpius gamma Caporiacco, 1950, stat. nov. (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). In: Gajdoš P. & Pekár S. (eds): Proceedings of the 18th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Stará Lesná, 1999. Ekológia (Bratislava), Vol. 19, Supplement 3, pp. 253-262. PDF file
Atamuradov, H. I., G. N. Fet, V. Fet, R. Valdez & W. R. Feldman. 1999. Biodiversity, genetic diversity, and protected areas in Turkmenistan. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 9(1-2): 73-88.
Fet, V., K. Gerlach, W. Gladwell & M. Little. 1999. First mitochondrial DNA
phylogenetic data from blacknose dace (Rhinichthys atratulus) (Cyprinidae, Osteichthyes) in West
Virginia. Proceedings of the West
Virginia Academy of Science, 71(1): 2.
Fet, V., M. Barker & B. Gantenbein, B. 1999. Species-level variation of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene sequence: use in molecular systematics and biogeography. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science, 71(1): 15.
Gantenbein, B., V. Fet, C. Largiader & A. Scholl. 1999. First DNA phylogeny of the genus Euscorpius Thorell 1876 (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) and its bearing on the taxonomy and biogeography of this genus. Biogeographica (Paris), 75(3): 59-72. PDF file.
Little,
M., A. Tennant, V. Fet & D. Tarter. 1999. The presence of unique forms of the common minnow, Rhinichthys atratulus, in
West Virginia streams. Proceedings of the
West Virginia Academy of Science, 71(1): 2.
Braunwalder,
M. E. & V. Fet. 1998. On
publications about scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) by Hemprich
and Ehrenberg (1828-1831). Bulletin of
the British Arachnological Society, 11(1): 29-35. PDF file
Fet, V. 1998. Case 3026. Androctonus caucasicus
Nordmann, 1840 (currently Mesobuthus caucasicus; Arachnida,
Scorpiones): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature, 55(1): 14-16. PDF file; see also ICZN, Opinion 1933.
Fet, V., G. A. Polis & W. D. Sissom. 1998. Life in sandy deserts:
the scorpion model. Journal of the Arid
Environments (London), 39: 609-622. PDF file
Sissom,
W. D. & V. Fet. 1998. Redescription of Compsobuthus matthiesseni
(Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Southwestern Asia. Journal of Arachnology,
26: 1-8. PDF file
Sissom,
W. D., V. Fet & M. E. Braunwalder. 1998. Case
3031. Paruroctonus Werner, 1934 (Arachnida, Scorpiones):
proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological
Nomenclature, 55(1): 17-19. PDF file;
see also ICZN, Opinion 1934
Fet, V. 1997a. Neohemibuthus zarudnyi
(Birula, 1903) from Iran, a senior synonym of N. kinzelbachi Lourenco, 1996 (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Revue Arachnologique,
12(6): 65-68. PDF file
Fet, V. 1997b. Note on Euscorpius
carpathicus (Linnaeus, 1767) (Scorpiones, Chactidae) from the Crimea. Journal of Arachnology,
25: 106-108. PDF file
Fet, V. 1997c. Notes on the taxonomy of some Old World scorpions
(Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chactidae, Ischnuridae,
Scorpionidae). Journal of Arachnology, 25(3): 245-250. PDF file
Fet, V. & M. E. Braunwalder. 1997. On the true authorship and
taxonomic history of Euscorpius germanus
(C. L. Koch, 1837) (nec C. L. Koch, 1836; nec
Schaeffer, 1766) (Scorpiones: Chactidae). Bulletin
of the British Arachnological Society, 10(8): 308-310.
Fet, V. & W. D. Sissom. 1997. A new generic synonymy in
scorpions: Scorpiobuthus Werner 1939 = Uroplectes Peters 1862
(Scorpiones: Buthidae). Journal of Arachnology, 25(3): 408-409. PDF file
Gitelman, S. E., M. Kobrin, A. Lee, V. Fet, K. Lyons and B. L. M. Hogan. 1997. Structure and
sequence of the mouse Bmp6 gene. Mammalian
Genome, 8: 212-214. PDF file
Fet, V. 1994a. Fauna and zoogeography of scorpions (Arachnida:
Scorpiones) in Turkmenistan. In V. Fet & K. I. Atamuradov (eds.), Biogeography
and ecology of Turkmenistan (Monographiae Biologicae 72), pp. 525-534. Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic Publishers. PDF file
Fet, V. 1994b. Introduction: One hundred years of natural history in Turkmenistan. Pp. 1-4 In: Fet, V. and K. I. Atamuradov (Eds). Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. PDF file
Fet, V. 1994c. Biogeographic position of
Khorassan-Kopetdagh. Pp. 197-203 In: Fet, V. and K. I. Atamuradov
(Eds). Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht. PDF file
Fet, V. & R. M. Vezzetti.
1994. PCR amplification of mitochondrial DNA from preserved
scorpions. Ancient DNA Newsletter [British
Museum, UK], 2(1): 14. PDF file
Mikhailov,
K. G., and V. Fet. 1994. Fauna and
zoogeography of spiders (Aranei) in
Turkmenistan. Pp. 499-524 In: Fet, V. and K. I. Atamuradov (Eds). Biogeography and
Ecology of Turkmenistan. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. PDF file
Fet, V. 1993a. Notes on Euscorpius mingrelicus (Kessler, 1874) from the Caucasus. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze
Naturali "Enrico Caffi" (Bergamo), 16(1993): 1-8. PDF file
Fet
V. 1993b. The spider genus
Cedicus Simon, 1875 (Arachnida, Aranei, Agelenidae) from Middle
Asia. Arthropoda Selecta, 2(1): 69-75. PDF file
Fet, V. 1992a. Islands in a desert sea: biogeography of spiders and scorpions in Turkmenistan. American Arachnology, 46: 8.
Fet, V. 1992b. DNA in arachnology: update
for year 1992. American Arachnology, 45: 7-11.
Fet, V. & B. J. Poindexter. 1992. Genetic variation of mitochondrial DNA in Centruroides exilicauda (Scorpiones: Buthidae) as revealed by the polymerase chain reaction. American Zoologist, 32(5): 136A.
Nenilin, A. V. & V. Fet. 1992. Zoogeographical analysis of the world scorpion fauna (Arachnida Scorpiones). Arthropoda Selecta, 1(2): 3-31 (in Russian, with English abstract). PDF file
Poindexter,
B. J. & V. Fet. 1992. PCR amplification of
mitochondrial DNA provides molecular markers for biogeographic study of desert
scorpions. ASB Bull. 39(2):
100-101.
Fet, V. 1991a. Follow the DNA Road: costs, benefits, and forecast for arachnology. American Arachnology, 44: 5.
Fet, V. 1991b. According to the Red Book of
Turkmenistan. Bulletin of Cape May
Geographic Society, 44: 12-13.
Fet, V. 1991c. Review of: G. A. Polis (Ed.). 1990. Biology of Scorpions, Stanford University Press. Journal of the Arid Environments (London), 31(2): 254-255.
Zimmerman,
E.C., C.M. Jones, V. Fet, B.L.M. Hogan & M.
Magnuson. 1991. Nucleotide sequence of mouse SCIP cDNA,
a POU-domain transcription factor.
Nucleic Acids Research, 19 (4): 956.
Fet, V. & Rechkin, D.V. 1990. Scorpion trichobothriotaxy:
a principal component analysis. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali
"Enrico Caffi"
(Bergamo), 14 (1989): 191-206. PDF file
Fet, V. 1989a. A catalog of scorpions of the USSR. Families Chactidae and Iuridae. In: A. B. Lange (ed.). Fauna I ekologiya paukov i skorpionov [Fauna and Ecology of Spiders and Scorpions], pp. 76-98. Nauka: Moscow. (in Russian).
Fet, V. 1989b. A catalogue of scorpions (Chelicerata:
Scorpiones) of the USSR. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze
Naturali "Enrico Caffi" (Bergamo), 13(1988): 73-171. PDF file
Fet, V., M. E. Dickinson & B. L. M. Hogan. 1989.
Localization of the mouse gene for Spp (2ar, osteopontine, bone sialoprotein
I, 44-kDal bone phosphoprotein, tumor-secreted
phosphoprotein) to chromosome 5, closely linked to Ric (Rickettsia
resistance). Genomics, 5:
375-377.
Fet, V. 1988. Review of: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. A Restudy of the Fossil Scorpionida of the World. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society, 52: 6. PDF file
Fet, V. & R. B. Madge. 1988. Calchas Birula, 1899, a valid name, not a homonym of Calchas Klug, 1850 (Scorpionida,
Iuridae and Coleoptera, Melyridae).
Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 7(8): 252. PDF file
Fet, V. 1987a. A new genus and species of a scorpion from East Karakum: Pectinibuthus birulai Fet n.g. n.sp. (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Revue d’Entomologie de l'URSS, 66(2): 443-446 (in Russian). PDF file
Fet, V. 1987b. On Kraepelinia palpator (Birula) (Scorpiones, Buthidae) found in East
Iran. Proc. Acad. Sci. Turkmen. SSR
ser. biol. sci. 1: 79 (in Russian).
Fet, V. & S. P. Gruodis. 1987. The first record of a scorpion, Euscorpius italicus (Herbst, 1800) (Scorpioniformes,
Chactidae) in Lithuania. Transactions of the
Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR, (C), 4(100): 42-45 (in
Russian). PDF file
Fet, V. 1986c. Notes on some Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Chactidae) from Greece and Turkey. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi" (Bergamo), 9(1985): 3-11. PDF file
Fet,V. 1986b. Materials on the spider (Aranei) fauna in
the Turkmenian SSR, USSR. IV. Titanoeca lehtineni,
new species. Proc. Acad. Sci. Turkmen.
SSR ser. biol. sci., 6: 65. (in Russian). PDF file
Mikhailov, K. G. & V. Fet. 1986. Material on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Turkmenia. I. Families Anyphaenidae, Sparassidae, Zoridae, Clubionidae, Micariidae, Oxyopidae. Proc. Zool. Mus. Moscow State Univ. 24:168-186 (in Russian). PDF file
Tanasevitch, A.V. & Fet,V.
1986. Material on the fauna of spiders (Aranei)
from Turkmenistan. 3. Family Linyphiidae. Proc. Acad. Sci. Turkmen. SSR ser. biol.
sci. 1: 33-42 (in Russian). PDF file
Fet, V. 1985a. Ecological distribution of spiders
of Syunt-Khasardagh Reserve. In: Rastitelnost i zhivotnyi mir Zapadnogo Kopetdaga
[The Vegetation and Animal Life of Western Kopetdagh], Ashkhabad, Ylym, pp. 271-277 (in Russian). PDF file
Fet, V. 1985b. Zoogeographical analysis of the spider fauna of the southwestern Kopetdagh. In: Ovtsharenko, V.I. (Ed.). Fauna and Ecology of Spiders of the USSR. Proc. Zool. Inst. USSR Acad. Sci., 139: 72-77 (in Russian)
Fet, V. 1985c. Zoogeographical features of the spider fauna of the southwestern Kopetdagh. In: 8th All-Union Zoogeographical Conference, Leningrad, 6-8 February 1985, pp. 258-259 (in Russian). PDF file
Dunin, P. M. & Fet, V. 1985. Dysdera transcaspica sp. n. (Aranei, Dysderidae) from Turkmenia. Zool. Zhurnal, 64(2): 298-300 (in Russian).
Nenilin, A. B. & Fet, V. 1985. New species of spiders of the genus Zodarion (Aranei, Zodariidae) from Turkmenia. Zool. Zhurnal, 64(4): 618-620 (in Russian).
Zonstein, S. L. & Fet,V. 1985. Materials on spider fauna of Turkmenia. II. Fam. Atypidae. Proc. Acad. Sci. Turkmen. SSR (ser. biol. sci.), 6: 65-68 (in Russian). PDF file
2014
Fet, V. Scorpions and their niche: insights for fossil record. Symposium on soil and litter organisms and their habitats - a geological retrospective. 11-12 September 2014, Görlitz, Germany.
Fet, V. et al. Euroscorpion revisited:
Not-so-cryptic diversity of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae).
28th European Congress of Arachnology.
Turin, Italy, August 2014.
Parmakelis, A., P. Kotsakiozi, S. Poulikarakou, I. Stathi & V. Fet. 2012. Ancient scorpions of Greece: DNA phylogeny of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions (ICZEGAR), June 18-22, 2012, Athens, Greece.
Fet, V., M.E. Soleglad & S.L. Zonstein. 2011. The genus Akrav Levy, 2007
(Scorpiones: Akravidae) revisited. 26th European Congress
of Arachnology, Sede Boqer, Israel, September 2011.
Fet, V. 2010. Ecological niches of Professor Fet.
August 10, 2010. Eureka Science Cafe,
Novosibirsk, Russia (in Russian).
Fet, V. 2010. Scorpion species-level systematics as guided by DNA markers. March 25, 2010. Ontario Biodiversity Instiutute, Guelph, Canada.
Fet, V. 2009. Scorpions of Greece and adjacent lands: current advances in systematics. 25th European Congress of Arachnology, Alexandroupolis, Greece, August 16-21, 2009.
Reading; history; literature;
theatre.
I published poetry and drama, mostly in Russian language, in books, journals, and on the Web: see my August & Gustav website: http://victorfet.com and also: www.ggause.com, www.litera.ru/slova/fet
See
also Other
Publications for a detailed Russian bibliography.
See
review of my 2000 poetry book (in English) published in World Literature Today
(2002) at http://www.litera.ru/slova/fet/wlt.html.
The
second Russian poetry book, Mnogoye neyasno [Many Things Unclear]
has been published in May 2004:
http://www.izdatgeo.ru/Contents/Books/BooksRu/Gum/index2004.html
The third Russian poetry book, Otblesk [A Gleam] has been published in December 2008.
I
also serve as an American correspondent for the Russian-language journal, Literaturnyi evropeets (The
Literary European) (Frankfurt, Germany), where I published poems, essays, and
reviews.