Born 1973, Bratsk, Russia.

Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Vladivostok, Russia (also known as Institute of Biology and Pedology), 1996-2001.
        Major: Zoology. Ph. D., 1999. Dissertation: "Acaroid mites (Acariformes: Acaroidea) of the Russian Far East"

Far Eastern State University (Vladivostok, Russia), 1990-1995.
        Major: Zoology. Diploma (1995).

Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
         Assistant Research Scientist - present

Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Vladivostok, Russia, 1996-2001.
        Junior researcher (1996-1999), researcher (1999-2001).

Systematics: Acaroid mites (Acari: Acaroidea), bee-associated mites, House-dust mites (Pyroglyphidae)

Phylogeny: Molecular and morphological data analyses in RAxML, MrBayes, BEST (serial and parallel), and PAUP

Laboratory and analytical techniques: DNA amplification and sequencing using direct PCR, long PCR (including sequencing of mitogenomes), cloning, primer design, transfer RNA prediction, ribosomal DNA secondary structure inference

Cryptic species: Diagnostics and evolution

Parallel computing: Creation/configuring/maintance of an OpenMPI computer cluster (52 nodes) for bioninformatics applications

Statistics & Morphometrics: Principal Component Analysis, Discriminant Function Analysis, Logistic Regression, Univariate analyses in SPSS; Geometric and Traditional Morphometrics.

Internet, Internet scripting languages: HTML, CDML, CSS, W3C DOM; Java Script, PHP.

Programming languages: Perl, Unix shell script, Visual Basic.

Acarology Summer Program: Agricultural Acarology. The Ohio State University. June 24-July 6, 2001

Morphometrics Workshop. The University of California, Berkeley. June 6-12, 2002.

The Bee Course. A Workshop for Conservation Biologists, Pollination Ecologists, and other Biologists. The Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Arizona. August 20-28, 2003

Encyclopedia of Life. Building content for EOL: Higher-level classification of Acari and astigmatan mite taxonomy. 20,000 USD (2011)

Russian Ministry of Education and Science 02.740.11.5139 "Phylogeny and biodiversity of mites Endeostigmata from deep-soil" 1,750,000 RUR (58,300 USD) (2010-2011)

Collaborative research: Estimating Species Trees with Population Genetic Approaches: Working Towards a New Phylogenetic Paradigm for 21st Century Phylogenetics (NSF-Evolutionary Processes Cluster, DEB-0918218, 2009-2011) (subcontract investigator)

Phylogeny of the House Dust Mites and Relatives: Evolution or Devolution of Parasitism? Phylogeny of the House Dust Mites and Relatives: Evolution or Devolution of Parasitism? (NSF DEB-0613769, 2006-2009) (subcontract investigator)

Phylogeny and Historical Ecology of Mite Parasites of Vertebrates (Acari: Dermanyssoidea and Sarcoptoidea) (NSF DEB-0118766, 2001-2006) (subcontract investigator)

Systematics and ecology of North American bee-associated mites: potential threats to native and introduced pollinators (United States Department of Agriculture, 2002-2004)

Systematics, Ontogeny and Ecology of the Family Acaridae (Acari: Astigmata) (NSF-PEET, DEB-9521744, 1999-2001) (subcontract investigator)

Computerized catalog of insects of the Russian Far East (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, 1999)

Ad hoc grant reviewer for US National Science Foundation (NSF) in bioinformatics and systematic biology, and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Ad hoc reviewer for the following journals (32): Evolution, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Molecular Ecology, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Journal of Genetics and Genomics, Invertebrate Systematics, The Journal of Parasitology, Systematic Parasitology, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Zoologischer Anzeiger, Journal of Natural History, Insect Systematics and Evolution, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Polar Biology, International Journal of Acarology, Experimental and Applied Acarology, Journal of Stored Product Research, Journal of Applied Entomology, Systematic and Applied Acarology, Zootaxa, Zoological Science, Acarologia, Zookeys, Contributions to Zoology (Leiden), Entomologica Fennica, Neotropical Entomology, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Biologia (Bratislava), Belgian Journal of Entomology, Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, Zoologicheskiy zhurnal, Records of the Canterbury Museum.

Klimov, P. B., and B. M. OConnor. 2008. Morphology, Evolution, and Host Associations of Bee-Associated Mites of the Family Chaetodactylidae (Acari: Astigmata), with a Monographic Revision of North American Taxa. Miscellaneous Publications. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 199. 243 pp. PDF (38.2Mb), Order hard copy.

Klimov, P. B., Sidorchuk, E. 2011. An enigmatic lineage of mites from Baltic amber shows a unique, possibly female-controlled mating. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 102: 661-668. PDF. This paper was featured in ScienceDaily, MSNBC news, the Discovery Channel, the University of Michigan News Service, and many others US and international news sites.

Klimov, P. B., and Knowles, L. L. 2011. Repeated parallel evolution of minimal rRNAs revealed from detailed comparative analysis. Journal of Heredity. 102(3): 283-293. PDF

Knowles, L., Klimov, P. B. 2011 (invited paper). Estimating phylogenetic relationships despite discordant gene trees across loci: the species tree of a diverse species group of feather mites (Acari: Proctophyllodidae). Parasitology. 138(13): 1750-1759. PDF

Bochkov A. V., Klimov, P. B., Wauthy, G. 2011. Phylogeny and coevolutionary associations of makialgine mites (Acari, Psoroptidae, Makialginae) provide insight into evolutionary history of their hosts, strepsirrhine primates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 162(1): 1-14. PDF

Sidorchuk E. A, Klimov, P. B. 2011. Redescription of Acarus rhombeus Koch & Berendt, 1854 (Acari: Astigmata: Glaesacarus, Glaesacaridae gen. et fam. nov.) from Baltic amber (Upper Eocene): evidence for female-controlled mating. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9(2): 183-196. PDF

Klimov, P.B. and Tolstikov, A.V. 2011. Acaroid mites of Northern and Eastern Asia (Acari: Acaroidea). Acarina. 19: 252-264. PDF

Bochkov, A. V., Klimov, P. B., Wauthy, G. 2010. A review of the mite subfamily Makialginae (Acari: Psoroptidae) - permanent parasites of strepsirrhine primates. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 153: 217-237. PDF

Stekolnikov, A., Klimov, P. 2010. A revision of chiggers of the minuta species-group (Acari: Trombiculidae: Neotrombicula) using multivariate morphometrics. Systematic Parasitology. 77: 55-69. PDF

Estrada-Bárcenas, D. A., Palacios-Vargas, J. G., Estrada-Venegas, E., Klimov, P. B., Martínez-Mena, A., Taylor, M. L. 2010. Biological activity of the mite Sancassania sp. (Acari: Acaridae) from bat guano associated with the pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 105(2): 127-131. PDF

Klimov, P.B., OConnor, B.M., 2010. Case 3501. Acarus putrescentiae Schrank, 1781 (currently Tyrophagus putrescentiae; Acariformes, ACARIDAE): proposed conservation of usage by designation of a replacement neotype. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 67(1): 24-27.PDF

Klimov, P. B. and OConnor, B. M. 2009. Improved tRNA prediction in the American house dust mite reveals widespread occurrence of extremely short minimal tRNAs in acariform mites. BMC Genomics. 10: 598 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-598 PDF

Klimov P. B. and OConnor, B. M. 2009. Conservation of the name Tyrophagus putrescentiae, a medically and economically important mite species (Acari: Acaridae). International Journal of Acarology. 35(2): 95-114. PDF

Klimov, P. B. and OConnor, B. M. 2008. Origin and higher-level relationships of psoroptidian mites (Acari: Astigmata: Psoroptidia): Evidence from three nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47(3): 1135-1156. PDF

Klimov, P. B. OConnor, B. M., and Knowles, L. L. 2007. Museum specimens and phylogenies elucidate ecology' s role in coevolutionary associations between mites and their bee hosts. Evolution. 61(6): 1368-1379. PDF

Klimov, P. B., Vinson B. S., OConnor, B. M. 2007. Acarinaria in associations of apid bees (Hymenoptera) and chaetodactylid mites (Acari). Invertebrate Systematics. 21: 109-136 PDF

Klimov, P. B. and OConnor, B. M. 2007. Ancestral area analysis of chaetodactylid mites (Acari: Chaetodactylidae), with description of a new early derivative genus and six new species from the Neotropics. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 100(6): 810-829. PDF

Rojas E. W. and Klimov B. M. 2007. Mites of the genus Rhizoglyphus (Acari: Acaridae) infesting cultivated bulbs in central and southern Chile, with taxonomic notes on Acarus hyacinthi Boisduval and Rhizoglyphus frickorum Nesbitt. International Journal of Acarology. Vol. 33(1): 87-90. PDF

Klimov, P. B., Bochkov A. V., OConnor B. M. 2006. Host specificity and multivariate diagnostics of cryptic species in predacious cheyletid mites of the genus Cheletophyes (Acari: Cheyletidae) associated with large carpenter bees. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87 (1): 45-58.PDF

Bochkov, A. V., Klimov, P. B., OConnor, B. M. 2005. Fur-mites of the genus Atopomelus Trouessart, 1918 (Acari: Atopomelidae) life-cycle phylogeny and host parasite-associations. Acarologia 45: 207-241. PDF.

Bochkov, A. V. and Klimov, P. B. 2005. Three new species of the predaceous Cheyletidae (Acari: Prostigmata) phoretic on insects. Acarina, 13(1): 15-22. PDF.

Klimov, P. B., OConnor B. M. 2005. Phylogeny, biogeography and phoretic associations of mites of the genus Boletoglyphus (Acari: Acaridae) associated with polypore fungi. In B. R. Striganov (Ed.). In: Proceeding of symposium "Ecological diversity of soil biota and bioproductivity of soil" (Tyumen', 1-4 Feb 2005): 124-125.

Klimov, P. B., OConnor B. M. 2004. Multivariate discrimination among cryptic species of the mite genus Chaetodactylus (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) associated with bees of the genus Lithurgus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in North America. Experimental and Applied Acarology Vol. 33. P. 157-182.PDF

Klimov, P. B., Lekveishvili, M., Dowling A. P. G., OConnor B. M. 2004. Multivariate analysis of morphological variation in two cryptic species of Sancassania (Acari: Acaridae) from Costa Rica. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. Vol. 97, N 2. P. 322-345. PDF

Bochkov, A. V., Klimov, P. B. 2004. A new predaceous mite, Nodele (Aztecocheyletus) conquistador subg. n., sp n. (Acari: Cheyletidae), phoretic on a bee Aztecanthidium tenochtitlanicum (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Acarina. 12(1): 23-27. PDF.

Klimov, P. B and B. M. OConnor. 2003. Phylogeny, historical ecology and systematics of some mushroom-associated mites of the genus Sancassania (Acari: Acaridae), with new generic synonymies. Invertebrate Systematics. Vol. 17. P. 469-514. PDF

Klimov, P. B. 2000. The origin of astigmatid mites ontogenesis (Acariformes, Astigmata). Chteniya Pamyati Alekseya Ivanovicha Kurentsova (A.I.Kurentsov's Annual Memorial Meetings). Issue 11. Vladivostok: Dal'nauka Press. P. 121-138 [in Russian]PDF

Klimov, P. B. 2000. Notes on systematics, distribution and ecology of mites of the genus Fagacarus (Acariformes: Acaridae). Acarina. Vol.8. N.2. P.105-115. PDF

Klimov, P. B. 2000. A review of acarid mites of the tribe Caloglyphini (Acaridae, Acariformes) with description of a new genus and species from Siberia and Russian Far East. Vestnik zoologii. Ukraine. Vol. 34, N 4-5. p. 27-35.PDF

Klimov, P. B. 2000. Paulacarellus faini sp. n., a new species of acarid mite (Acariformes: Acaridae) from the Russian Far East. Acarologia. T. 41, fasc. 3-4. p. 249-253. PDF

Klimov, P. B. 2000. [Bionomy of acarid mite Calvoliella laphriae (Samšiňák, 1956) (Acariformes, Acaridae), phoretic on flies of the genus Laphria (Diptera, Asilidae)]. Chteniya Pamyati Alekseya Ivanovicha Kurentsova (A.I.Kurentsov's Annual Memorial Meetings). Issue 9. Vladivostok: Dal'nauka Press. P. 91-104 [in Russian, English abstarct]. PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1999. Description of a new genus, Umakefeq gen. n., including three new species of mycetophagous acarid mites (Acariformes, Acaridae) from Eastern Palaearctic. Acarina. Vol. 7, N 2. P. 93-106.PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1999. [Notes on systematics and distribution of the mite subfamily Fagacarinae (Acariformes: Acaridae)]. Proceedings of VIIth Acarological meetings Saint Petersburg, 1999. P. 32-33. [in Russian] PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1999. [Akaroidnye kleshi Dal’nego Vostoka Rossii (Acariformes: Acaroidea)]. Ph. D. Thesis. Vladivostok: Dal’nauka. 1-20 p. [in Russian]

Klimov, P. B. 1998. To the knowledge of mites and ticks (Acari) of Kuril Islands. Far Eastern Entomologist. N 36. P. 1-36.PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1998. To the knowledge of acarid mites of the genus Schwiebea (Acariformes, Acaridae) from Far East, with notes on the genus. Vestnik zoologii. Ukraine. Vol. 32, N 3. P. 13-30. PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1998. A new tribe of acarid mites of the subfamily Rhizoglyphinae (Acariformes, Acaridae). Far Eastern Entomologist. N 59. P. 1-19.PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1998. Viedebanttia egorovi sp. n., a new acarid mite (Acariformes: Acaridae) from South Korea, with notes on the genus. Zoosystematica rossica. Vol. 8. P. 251-254.PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1998. Michaelopus longiretinalis sp. n. (Acari, Acaridae), a new species of acaroid mite associated with beetle Onthophagus lenzi (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from South Korea. Acarina. Russian Journal of Acarology. Vol. 6, N 1-2. P. 17-19. PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1998. [Biology of development of the acarid mite Sancassania mandzhur (Acari, Acaridae). Chteniya Pamyati Alekseya Ivanovicha Kurentsova (A.I.Kurentsov's Annual Memorial Meetings). Issue 8. Vladivostok: Dal'nauka Press. P. 93-106. [in Russian] PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1998. [A review of the mite genus Boletoglyphus Volgin, 1953 (Acari, Acaridae)]. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. Vol. 77, N. 10. P. 1122-1127. [in Russian] PDF Translated in Entomological Review, Vol. 78, N 9 1998, p. 1094-1101] PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1997. New data on the fauna and biology of acarid mites (Acari, Acaridae) from the Far East. Acarina, Russian Journal of Acarology. Vol. 5, N 1-2. P. 69-72. PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1997. [Data on the biology and systematics of Paracaropsis travisi (Acari, Cheyletidae), new mite for Russia]. Fundamental'nye problemy okhrany okruzhayushchey sredy. Vol. 1. P. 9-11. [in Russian] PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1996. A review of the Palaearctic genus Mezorhizoglyphus Kadzhaja, 1966 (Acari, Acaridae). Far Eastern Entomologist. N 25. P. 1-8. PDF

Klimov, P. B. 1996. [New species of acarid mite of the genus Caloglyphus (Acari, Acaridae) from Russian Far East]. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 1996. Vol. 75, N 4. P. 613-619. [in Russian] PDF

Klimov, P. B, OConnor, B. M. 2004. Visual Key.

Klimov, P. B, OConnor, B. M. 2004. North American bee-associated mites: potential threats to native and introduced pollinators.

XIII International Congress of Acarology, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil - August 2010. 1) Placing Endeostigmata and Astigmata in the acariform tree of life using five nuclear genes (with Barry OConnor) PPT; 2) Not gone with the wind: origin and diversification of hummingbird proctophyllodid mites (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) as evidenced by five nuclear genes (with Barry OConnor) PPT; 3) Phylogenetic relationships of the Sarcoptoidea (Acari: Astigmata) parasitic on mammals: evidence for polyphyly of the group (B.M. OConnor & P.B. Klimov)

The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Dec 13-16, 2009. Oral presentation: Evaluation of basal relationships of acariform mites using five nuclear genes (with Barry OConnor)

Videoconference with the Tymen' State University. March 27, 2007. Coevolutionary associations between bees and mites (Apoidea-Chaetodactylidae) PPT (in Russian).

The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Dec 15-18, 2005. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Oral presentation: Chaetodactylid mites: Evolution and Host Associations (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) (with Barry OConnor) PPT

The National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET-V). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. September 20-23, 2004. Poster presentations: The next generation of identification tools: interactive programs incorporating multivariate models (with B. M. OConnor) PPT

The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. November 14-17, 2004. Salt Lake City, Utah. Oral presentation: Evaluation of host specificity in mites of the genus Cheletophyes (Cheyletidae) using linear and non-linear multivariate statistics (with Andre Bochkov and Barry M. OConnor) PPT

The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Oct. 26-29, 2003. Cincinnati, Ohio. Oral presentation: Multivariate Discrimination Among Cryptic Species of the Mite Genus Chaetodactylus (Acari: Chaetodactylidae) Associated with Bees of the Genus Lithurgus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in North America (with Barry M. OConnor) PDF

The National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET-IV). The University of California Berkeley. June 1-5, 2002. Two poster presentations: 1) Phylogeny, biogeography and host associations of the genus Boletoglyphus (Acari: Acaridae) associated with polypore fungi (with B. M. OConnor) PDF; 2) Phylogeny and historical ecology of some mushroom-associated mites of the genus Sancassania (Acari: Acaridae), with some new generic synonymies (with M. Lekveishvili & Barry M. OConnor) PDF

XI International Congress of Acarology. Mérida, Yucatán, México. 8-13 September 2002. Poster presentation: Multivariate tools for distinguishing of cryptic species of mites of the genus Sancassania (Acari: Acaridae) (with Barry M. OConnor) PDF

The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Dec. 9 - Dec. 12, 2001. San Diego, California. Two poster presentations: 1) Phylogeny, biogeography and host associations of the genus Boletoglyphus (Acari: Acaridae) associated with polypore fungi (with B. M. OConnor) PDF; 2) Phylogeny and historical ecology of some mushroom-associated mites of the genus Sancassania (Acari: Acaridae), with some new generic synonymies (with M. Lekveishvili & Barry M. OConnor) PDF

VIIIth Acarological Conference (Russia, Saint Petersburg, 1999). Oral presentation: [Notes on systematics and distribution of the mite subfamily Fagacarinae (Acariformes: Acaridae)] [in Russian] PDF

Fundamental Problems of Nature Protection (Russia, Vladivostok, 1998). Oral presentation: [Acaroid mites of the Russian Far East and neighboring territories (Acariformes, Acaroidea)] [in Russian]

Fundamental Problems of Nature Protection (Russia, Vladivostok, 1997). Oral presentation: [Data on the biology and systematics of Paracaropsis travisi (Acari, Cheyletidae), new mite for Russia] [in Russian] PDF