The paper is devoted to the results of research materials Kairshak site North Caspian Sea region. relevance topic determined by role this region in Neolithic process Eastern Europe. ceramic tradition early one oldest Technical and technological analysis ceramics indicates that dishes were made silt with an addition freshwater molluscs. Different vessels are typologically identified. An ornament...

The Upper Cretaceous (?Santonian) Aitym Formation in the central Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan, produced remains of a cimolodontan multituberculate (Uzbekbaatar wardi), a spalacotheriid symmetrodont (cf. Shalbaatar sp.), a deltatheroidan (cf. Deltatherus sp.), possibly the asioryctithere aff. Daulestes sp., possibly two zalambdalestids (Kulbeckia sp. cf. K. kulbecke and aff. Kulbeckia sp.), two s...

The review contains information on paleogenomic studies of the plague pathogen, Yersinia pestis , covering prehistoric epoch, periods first and second pandemics, epidemics outbreaks late XIX–XX centuries. We have summarized data reconstruction ancient Y. genomes Late Neolithic, Bronze Iron Ages, Justinian Plague epidemic pandemic, Black Death subsequent pandemic XIV–XVIII centuries, as well tra...

BACKGROUND Lipases (acylglycerol acylhydrolase, E. C. 3. 1. 1. 3) are widely distributed among microorganisms, animals and plants, catalyzing the hydrolysis of triglycerides to free fatty acids and glycerol. Their commercial application includes pharmaceutical, chemical, and paper industries. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to isolate and screen lipolytic fungi from coastal waters of the southern...

We have identified a Y-chromosomal lineage with several unusual features. It was found in 16 populations throughout a large region of Asia, stretching from the Pacific to the Caspian Sea, and was present at high frequency: approximately 8% of the men in this region carry it, and it thus makes up approximately 0.5% of the world total. The pattern of variation within the lineage suggested that it...