Brachybacterium phenoliresistens strain W13A50 was isolated from a petroleum-contaminated saline site, which could degrade hydrocarbon under high salinity conditions. Here, we present 4.2-Mb draft genome sequence of this strain, which will provide insights into the diversity of Brachybacterium and the mechanism of hydrocarbon degradation in saline environments.

Virtual geographic environments (VGE) are environments pertaining to the relationship between post-humans and 3-D virtual worlds. Post-humans are defined as a combination of humans in the real world with 3-D avatars in 3-D virtual worlds. Five types of space, namely Internet space, data space, 3-D graphical space, personal perceptual and cognitive space, and social space are used to explore the...

In this paper, we address two challenging issues underlying spatial cognitive simulation using software agents immersed in Virtual Geographic Environments (VGE). First, the way to describe virtual VGE models using accurate spatial decomposition approaches structured using graph theory techniques. Second, the use of graph abstraction techniques to realistically support advanced navigation and pa...

Aquareoviruses are serious pathogens of aquatic animals. Here, genome characterization and functional gene analysis of a novel aquareovirus, largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides reovirus (MsReV), was described. It comprises 11 dsRNA segments (S1-S11) covering 24,024 bp, and encodes 12 putative proteins including the inclusion forming-related protein NS87 and the fusion-associated small transme...

Microorganisms growing in saline environments represent an important source of biologically active compounds. Such environments are distributed all over the world and mainly include oceans, coastal and deep sea locations, soda lakes, soda deserts as well as artificial salterns. Many antibacterial, antifungal, anti-tumor, cytotoxic and photo protective compounds have been isolated till date from...

This article is devoted to the use in concrete of polymeric reagent POLY-ANS, developed based on production waste polyacrylonitrile fibers. The results effect capillary absorption concrete, which contributes provision high resistance cement saline environments, are given.