We report here the draft genome sequences of nine Yersinia pestis subsp. microtus bv. Altaica strains isolated from the Altai Mountain plague focus (no. 36), which represent the 0.PE4 phylogroup circulating in populations of Mongolian pika (Ochotona pallasi).

Anca Chiriac1, Liliana Foia2, Anca Edward Chiriac2, Tudor Pinteala2, Caius Solovan3, Piotr Brzezinski4 1Department of Dermato-Physiology, Apollonia University Iasi, 2Departments of Dermatology, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, 3Departments of Dermatology, University of Medicine V Babes, Timisoara, Romania, 4Departments of Dermatology, 6th Military Support Unit, Ustka, ...

The round goby Neogobius melanostomus is one of the most wide-ranging invasive fish on earth, with substantial introduced populations within the Laurentian Great Lakes watershed, the Baltic Sea and several major European rivers. Rapid expansion and deleterious ecosystem effects have motivated extensive research on this species; here this research is synthesized. Maps of the global distribution ...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) is revolutionizing biodiversity monitoring, occupancy estimates, and real-time detections of invasive species. In the Great Lakes, the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus), an invasive benthic fish from the Black Sea, has spread to encompass all five lakes and many tributaries, outcompeting or consuming native species; however, estimates of round goby abundance are confo...

BACKGROUND: Members of the genus Gyrodactylus species are one of the extensive groups of monogenean ectoparasites which parasitize marine, brackish and freshwater fishes. OBJECTIVES: The main objective of the present study is the identification and diagnosis of the Gyrodactylus specsies on the fishes in certain rivers in the southwest of the Caspian Sea basin. METHODS: The field investigations ...