1. The Bacterial Cell Cycle: DNA Replication, Nucleoid Segregation, and Cell Division

   • A. A. Prozorov

   Review Pages: 375 - 387

2. Regulation of Metabolic and Electron Transport Pathways in the Freshwater Bacterium Beggiatoa leptomitiformis D-402

   • M. S. Muntyan
   • M. Yu. Grabovich
   • G. A. Dubinina

   Experimental Articles Pages: 388 - 394

3. The Effect of Sodium Salts and pH on the Hydrogenase Activity of Haloalkaliphilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

   • E. N. Detkova
   • G. S. Soboleva
   • M. A. Pusheva

   Experimental Articles Pages: 395 - 399

4. Characterization of the Lipopolysaccharide from Rahnella aquatilis 1-95

   • L. D. Varbanets
   • E. L. Zdorovenko
   • G. M. Zdorovenko

   Experimental Articles Pages: 400 - 407

5. Dynamics of the Growth and Population Composition of Mixed Cultures of R, S, and M Dissociants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

   • E. S. Mil’ko
   • S. S. Khabibullin
   • G. I. El’-Registan

   Experimental Articles Pages: 408 - 414

6. Conditions Favoring Differentiation and Stabilization of the Life Cycle of the Yeast Pachysolen tannophilus

   • O. I. Bolotnikova
   • N. P. Mikhailova
   • A. I. Ginak

   Experimental Articles Pages: 415 - 419

7. The Role of Intercellular Contacts in the Initiation of Growth and in the Development of a Transiently Nonculturable State by Cultures of Rhodococcus rhodochrous Grown in Poor Media

   • S. A. Voloshin
   • M. O. Shleeva
   • A. S. Kaprelyants

   Experimental Articles Pages: 420 - 427

8. Adaptive Reactions of Mycoplasmas In Vitro: “Viable but Unculturable Forms” and Nanocells of Acholeplasma laidlawii

   • V. M. Chernov
   • N. E. Mukhametshina
   • O. A. Chernova

   Experimental Articles Pages: 428 - 433

9. Fluorescence Microscopic Study of Microorganisms Treated with Chaotropic Agents

   • V. I. Duda
   • V. N. Danilevich
   • A. P. Shorokhova

   Experimental Articles Pages: 434 - 439

10. Methylophaga murata sp. nov.: a Haloalkaliphilic Aerobic Methylotroph from Deteriorating Marble

    • N. V. Doronina
    • Ts. D. Lee
    • Yu. A. Trotsenko

    Experimental Articles Pages: 440 - 447

11. Elucidation of the Taxonomic Status of Industrial Strains of Thermophilic Lactic Acid Bacteria by Sequencing of 16S rRNA Genes

    • S. G. Botina
    • A. M. Lysenko
    • V. V. Sukhodolets

    Experimental Articles Pages: 448 - 452

12. The Construction and Monitoring of Genetically Tagged, Plasmid-Containing, Naphthalene-Degrading Strains in Soil

    • A. E. Filonov
    • L. I. Akhmetov
    • A. M. Boronin

    Experimental Articles Pages: 453 - 458

13. First Isolation of the Yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus in Western Siberia

    • A. M. Yurkov

    Experimental Articles Pages: 459 - 462

14. Genetic Diversity in Pseudomonads Associated with Cereal Cultures Infected with Basal Bacteriosis

    • V. K. Bobrova
    • I. A. Milyutina
    • A. V. Troitskii

    Experimental Articles Pages: 463 - 470

15. The Saprotrophic Bacterial Complex in the Raised Peat Bogs of Western Siberia

    • A. V. Golovchenko
    • Yu. V. Sannikova
    • D. G. Zvyagintsev

    Experimental Articles Pages: 471 - 476

16. Microbiological and Isotopic-Geochemical Investigations of Meromictic Lakes in Khakasia in Winter

    • A. S. Savvichev
    • I. I. Rusanov
    • M. V. Ivanov

    Experimental Articles Pages: 477 - 485

17. Aerobic Methanotrophic Communities in the Bottom Sediments of Lake Baikal

    • E. A. Gainutdinova
    • B. Ts. Eshinimaev
    • Yu. A. Trotsenko

    Experimental Articles Pages: 486 - 494

18. Plasmid Rearrangements in Azospirillum brasilense

    • L. P. Petrova
    • I. V. Borisov
    • E. I. Katsy

    Short Communications Pages: 495 - 497

19. Igor Stepanovich Kulaev Celebrates His 75th Birthday

    Chronicle Pages: 498 - 499