Complete Genome Sequences of Seven Strains of spp. Isolated from Boreal Forest Soil in Interior Alaska.

Here, we describe the complete genome assemblies of seven sp. isolates collected from a boreal forest soil on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Using the VolTRAX v2 multiplex library preparation for Nanopore sequencing and Illumina reads for polishing, we assembled complete genome sequences for each of the isolates.

[A possibility of using some pyrethroids to prevent plague in the Siberian natural foci of the souslik type].

Experiments have established that the pyrethroids deltamethrin and cypermethrin (decis and cimbush) may be used in the Siberian natural plague foci for not only emergency, but also early prevention of plague. This substantially expands and simplifies the possibility of organizing disinfection actions and reduces the cost of treatments. The findings are determined by the specific features of the biology and ecology of fleas inhabiting in the natural plague foci of the souslik type in a continental climate area.

[The growth movements of moss protonemata under clinostatic and microgravity conditions].

Populations of dark-grown protonemata of moss Ceratodon purpureus wt-4 (Germany) and wt-U (Ukraine) were rotated on clinostat or flown in space (experiment "Protonema" aboard Bion-11, December 24, 1996-January 7, 1997) to determine the effects of altered gravity on orientation of protonemata growing filaments. Protonemata had been cultivated 8 days in vertical stationary position at dark to be transported to microgravity or placed in clinostat for the period of 14 days. In the ground control, protonemata demonstrated the negatively gravitropic growth (straight upwards in a bundle of compact filaments).