Научные интересы:

Экология, систематика, эволюция и тафономия насекомых (преимущественно муравьев). Палеоэкология, палеонтология, мезозойские и кайнозойские янтарные биоты, 3D-моделирование.

Читаемые курсы:

• Основы палеоэкологии
• Социальные членистоногие в экосистемах

Избранные публикации:

• Zharkov D, Dubovikoff D. A fossil "Social Stomach": Micro-CT imaging unearths first fossil record of ant proventriculi and comparative analysis with recent species. J of Morphol. 2023 Nov;284(11):e21645. doi: 10.1002/jmor.21645.
• Zharkov D, Nizamutdinov T, Dubovikoff D, Abakumov E, Pospelova A. Navigating Agricultural Expansion in Harsh Conditions in Russia: Balancing Development with Insect Protection in the Era of Pesticides. Insects. 2023; 14(6):557. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14060557
• Dubovikoff, D. A.; Zharkov, D. M. 2023. A comment on: an Eocene army ant (2022) by Sosiak CE et al. Biology Letters 19: 20220603:3 pp. 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0603
• Zharkov, D.; Dubovikoff, D.; Abakumov, E. The First Fossil Record of the Genus Manica Jurine, 1807 from Late Eocene Baltic Amber and Discussion of the Early Evolution of Myrmicini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Insects 2023, 14, 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14010021
• Dubovikof, D.A. & Zharkov, D.M. 2022. A new species of the genus Dolichoderus Lund, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from a Late Eocene European amber. Caucasian entomological bulletin, 18(1), 147–152. https://doi.org/10.23885/181433262022181-147152
• Belokobylskij SA, Dubovikoff DA, Manukyan AR, Zharkov DM. 2021. Braconid parasitoids of ants (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae, Neoneurini) from Baltic amber with a discussion of records of fossil larvae parasitizing ant workers. In: Proshchalykin MYu, Gokhman VE (Eds) Hymenoptera studies through space and time: A collection of papers dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Arkady S. Lelej. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84: 29-43. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.84.67749

Членство в научных обществах:

• Русское энтомологическое общество

• Палеонтологическое общество при РАН