MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF CELL DIVISDION GENES AND ADJACENT GENES IN THE CYANOBACTERIUM PLEUROCAPSA SP. CALU 1126

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For the first time for cyanobacteria of the “Pleurocapsa” group (Pleurocapsa sp. CALU 1126), nucleotide sequences of cell division gene ftsZ and adjacent genome sites were determined. The comparison of this locus indicates differences in phylogeny traced by separate genes

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Mariya Yuryevna Skopina

Saint-Petersburg State University

Email: masha_sk@list.ru
Postgraduate student, Junior Researcher, Deptartament of Microbiology

Elena Petrovna Chizhevskaya

All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology

Email: chizhevskaya@yandex.ru
Ph. D. Senior Researcher, Deptartament of Genetics and Breeding of Microorganisms

Evgeny Evgenyevich Andronov

All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology

Email: eeandr@gmail.com
Ph. D., Head of the Laboratory of Microbiological Monitoring and Mioremediation of Soils

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Pinevich

Saint-Petersburg State University

Email: Pinevich.A@mail.ru
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Deptartament of Microbiology

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