Ancient permafrost staphylococci carry antibiotic resistance genes.

: Permafrost preserves a variety of viable ancient microorganisms. Some of them can be cultivated after being kept at subzero temperatures for thousands or even millions of years. : To cultivate bacterial strains from permafrost.

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus Strain F, Isolated from Ancient Permafrost.

Bacillus cereus strain F was isolated and cultured from a sample of permafrost, aged presumably about 3 million years, on the Mammoth Mountain (62°56'N, 133°59'E). These genome data provide the basis to investigate Bacillus cereus F, identified as a long-term survivor of the extremely cold and close environment.

Isolation and characterization of bacteria from ancient siberian permafrost sediment.

In this study, we isolated and characterized bacterial strains from ancient (Neogene) permafrost sediment that was permanently frozen for 3.5 million years. The sampling site was located at Mammoth Mountain in the Aldan river valley in Central Yakutia in Eastern Siberia.