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  1. Dora, a key component of target-directed miRNA degradation, is essential for local genomic amplification in Drosophila ovarian follicle cells

    Article • Gene, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  2. Pseudomonas Phage Lydia and the Evolution of the Mesyanzhinovviridae Family

    Article • Viruses, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  3. Dora, a key component of target-directed miRNA degradation, is essential for local genomic amplification inDrosophilaovarian follicle cells

    Article • February 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  4. The Construction of Heterothallic Strains of Komagataella kurtzmanii Using the I-SceI Meganuclease

    Article • Biomolecules, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  5. Chloroplast Genome Variation and Phylogenetic Relationships of Autochthonous Varieties of Vitis vinifera from the Don Valley

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  6. The relationship of microbial biodiversity and clinical forms of oral lichen planus: Analysis based on 16S rRNA sequencing

    Article • Russian Journal of Skin and Venereal Diseases, July 2024, ECO-Vector LLC

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  7. The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Vitis vinifera ‘Krasnostop Zolotovskiy’, an autochthonous variety of the Don Valley

    Article • Turczaninowia, May 2024, Altai State University

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  8. Xanthomonas Phage PBR31: Classifying the Unclassifiable

    Article • Viruses, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  9. Pemphigus: New approaches to diagnosis and disease severity assessment

    Article • Russian Journal of Skin and Venereal Diseases, November 2023, ECO-Vector LLC

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  10. Genomic Insights into Syntrophic Lifestyle of ‘Candidatus Contubernalis alkaliaceticus’ Based on the Reversed Wood–Ljungdahl Pathway and Mechanism of Direct Electron Transfer

    Article • Life, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  11. Biogeographic Analysis Suggests Two Types of Planktonic Prokaryote Communities in the Barents Sea

    Article • Biology, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  12. Inter-comparison of marine microbiome sampling protocols

    Article • ISME Communications, August 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  13. Evolutionary patterns of archaea predominant in acidic environment

    Article • Environmental Microbiome, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  14. Prospects for Using Metagenomic Analysis As a Tool for The Accurate Diagnosis of Capripoxvirus Infections in Farm Animals

    Article • Nanobiotechnology Reports, June 2023, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  15. Obligate autotrophy at the thermodynamic limit of life in a new acetogenic bacterium

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, May 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  16. Effects of Coenzyme Q10 on the Biomarkers (Hydrogen, Methane, SCFA and TMA) and Composition of the Gut Microbiome in Rats

    Article • Pharmaceuticals, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  17. Natronogracilivirga saccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Cyclonatronum proteinivorum gen. nov., sp. nov., haloalkaliphilic organotrophic bacteroidetes from hypersaline soda lakes forming a new family Cyclonatronaceae fam. nov. in the order Balneolales

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  18. Methane Cycle in a Littoral Site of a Temperate Freshwater Lake

    Article • Microbiology, April 2023, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  19. Microbial Processes of Methane Oxidation at the Kara Sea Sites of Gas Prospecting

    Article • Microbiology, April 2023, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  20. Analysis of Genome Structure and Its Variations in Potato Cultivars Grown in Russia

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  21. Carbon Emission and Biodiversity of Arctic Soil Microbial Communities of the Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land Archipelagos

    Article • Microorganisms, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  22. Effect of Brown Algae and Lichen Extracts on the SCOBY Microbiome and Kombucha Properties

    Article • Foods, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  23. On the Gene Pool of Don Valley Grape Varieties

    Article • Nanobiotechnology Reports, October 2022, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  24. Ayka, a Novel Curtobacterium Bacteriophage, Provides Protection against Soybean Bacterial Wilt and Tan Spot

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  25. Targeted Modification of Mammalian DNA by a Novel Type V Cas12a Endonuclease from Ruminococcus bromii

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  26. Nitrogen Fixation Activity and Genome Analysis of a Moderately Haloalkaliphilic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodovulum tesquicola

    Article • Microorganisms, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  27. Bacteriophage Control of Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. glycinea in Soybean

    Article • Plants, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  28. Wintertime Simulations Induce Changes in the Structure, Diversity and Function of Antarctic Sea Ice-Associated Microbial Communities

    Article • Microorganisms, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  29. The Baltic Sea methane pockmark microbiome: The new insights into the patterns of relative abundance and ANME niche separation

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  30. An Interplay between Viruses and Bacteria Associated with the White Sea Sponges Revealed by Metagenomics

    Article • Life, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  31. Culture-Independent Survey of Thermophilic Microbial Communities of the North Caucasus

    Article • Biology, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  32. Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus qingshengii (Formerly erythropolis ) TA37, a First-Generation Biocatalyst for Synthesis of Functionalized Acrylamides

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, December 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov, Andrey Novikov

  33. Draft Genome Sequences of Two Strains of Enterococcus lactis Showing High Potential as Cattle Probiotic Supplements

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, December 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  34. SNP-Based Analysis Reveals Authenticity and Genetic Similarity of Russian Indigenous V. vinifera Grape Cultivars

    Article • Plants, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  35. An interplay between viruses and bacteria associated with marine sponges from the White Sea revealed by metagenomics

    Article • November 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  36. Draft Genome Sequence of the Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodoferax sp. Strain U11-2br, Isolated from a Mountain Lake on the Ulagan Plateau

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, October 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  37. Draft Genome Sequence of the Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodomicrobium sp. Strain Az07, Isolated from a Brackish Canal

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, September 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  38. Draft De Novo Genome Assembly of Acinetobacter pittii Strain VKPM B-3780, a Prospective Multifunctional Bioremediation Agent

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, August 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  39. Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus erythropolis VKPM Ac-1659, a Putative Oil-Degrading Strain Isolated from Polluted Soil in Siberia

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, July 2021, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  40. Novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Infirmifilum lucidum gen. nov. sp. nov., reclassification of Thermofilum uzonense as Infirmifilum uzonense comb. nov. and assignment of the family Thermofilaceae to the order Thermofilales ord. nov.

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  41. Appearances are deceptive: Three RNA viruses co-infected with the nucleopolyhedrovirus in host Lymantria dispar

    Article • Virus Research, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  42. Characteristics of bacterial and yeast microbiomes in spontaneous and mixed-fermentation beer and cider

    Article • Food Microbiology, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  43. A dataset of four probiotic Bifidobacterium strains genome assemblies

    Article • Data in Brief, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  44. Corrigendum: High Representation of Archaea Across All Depths in Oxic and Low-pH Sediment Layers Underlying an Acidic Stream

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  45. Thermogemmata fonticola gen. nov., sp. nov., the first thermophilic planctomycete of the order Gemmatales from a Kamchatka hot spring

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  46. Complete Genome Sequence of a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon, Thermosphaera sp. Strain 3507, Isolated from a Chilean Hot Spring

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, December 2020, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  47. Utilization of low-molecular-weight organic compounds by the filterable fraction of a lotic microbiome

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, December 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  48. Data on draft genome sequence of Caldanaerobacter sp. strain 1523vc, a thermophilic bacterium, isolated from a hot spring of Uzon Caldera, (Kamchatka, Russia)

    Article • Data in Brief, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  49. High Representation of Archaea Across All Depths in Oxic and Low-pH Sediment Layers Underlying an Acidic Stream

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, November 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  50. Origin and Evolution of Studiervirinae Bacteriophages Infecting Pectobacterium: Horizontal Transfer Assists Adaptation to New Niches

    Article • Microorganisms, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  51. Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria Alcanivorax and Marinobacter Associated With Microalgae Pavlova lutheri and Nannochloropsis oculata

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, October 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  52. Tenuifilum thalassicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderate thermophilic anaerobic bacterium from a Kunashir Island shallow hot spring representing a new family Tenuifilaceae fam. nov. in the class Bacteroidia

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  53. Hot in Cold: Microbial Life in the Hottest Springs in Permafrost

    Article • Microorganisms, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  54. Symbiosis between nanohaloarchaeon and haloarchaeon is based on utilization of different polysaccharides

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  55. Isachenkonia alkalipeptolytica gen. nov. sp. nov., a new anaerobic, alkaliphilic proteolytic bacterium capable of reducing Fe(III) and sulfur

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, August 2020, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  56. Tepidiforma bonchosmolovskayae gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic Chloroflexi bacterium from a Chukotka hot spring (Arctic, Russia), representing a novel class, Tepidiformia, which includes the previously uncultivated lineage OLB14

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, February 2020, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  57. Morphologically Different Pectobacterium brasiliense Bacteriophages PP99 and PP101

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  58. Co-occurrence patterns of bacteria within microbiome of Moscow subway

    Article • Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  59. Analysis of 16S rRNA Primer Systems for Profiling of Thermophilic Microbial Communities

    Article • Microbiology, November 2019, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  60. Genomic Insights into the Carbon and Energy Metabolism of a Thermophilic Deep-Sea Bacterium Deferribacter autotrophicus Revealed New Metabolic Traits in the Phylum Deferribacteres

    Article • Genes, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov, Professor Mohamed Jebbar

  61. Differential polysaccharide utilization is the basis for a nanohaloarchaeon : haloarchaeon symbiosis

    Article • October 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  62. Corrigendum to “Natrachaeobius chitinivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Natrarchaeobius haloalkaliphilus sp. nov., alkaliphilic, chitin-utilizing haloarchaea from hypersaline alkaline lakes” [Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 42 (2019) 309–318]

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  63. The Metabolism of Thermophilic Hydrolytic Bacterium Thauera hydrothermalis Strain par-f-2 Isolated from the West Siberian Subsurface Biosphere

    Article • Microbiology, September 2019, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  64. Form III RubisCO-mediated transaldolase variant of the Calvin cycle in a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  65. Draft genome sequence data of Bifidobacterium longum strain VKPM Ac-1636, a prospective probiotic isolated from human gut

    Article • Data in Brief, August 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  66. Tautonia sociabilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermotolerant planctomycete, isolated from a 4000 m deep subterranean habitat

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, August 2019, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  67. Microbial Communities of Polymetallic Deposits’ Acidic Ecosystems of Continental Climatic Zone With High Temperature Contrasts

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, July 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  68. Characterization of Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum Bacteriophage PP16 Prospective for Biocontrol of Potato Soft Rot

    Article • Microbiology, July 2019, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  69. Diversity of “Ca. Micrarchaeota” in Two Distinct Types of Acidic Environments and Their Associations with Thermoplasmatales

    Article • Genes, June 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  70. Data on draft genome sequence of Bacillus sp. strain VKPM B-3276 isolated from Culex pipiens larvae

    Article • Data in Brief, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  71. Natrarchaeobius chitinivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Natrarchaeobius halalkaliphilus sp. nov., alkaliphilic, chitin-utilizing haloarchaea from hypersaline alkaline lakes

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  72. Halococcoides cellulosivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic cellulose-utilizing haloarchaeon from hypersaline lakes

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, May 2019, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  73. Corrigendum to “Natronobiforma cellulositropha gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel haloalkaliphilic member of the family Natrialbaceae (class Halobacteria) from hypersaline alkaline lakes” [Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 41 (2018) 355–362]

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, March 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  74. First Report of Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. brasiliense Causing Blackleg and Stem Rot Disease of Potato in Russia

    Article • Plant Disease, February 2019, Scientific Societies

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  75. Archaea dominate the microbial community in an ecosystem with low-to-moderate temperature and extreme acidity

    Article • Microbiome, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  76. Host Specificity of the Dickeya Bacteriophage PP35 Is Directed by a Tail Spike Interaction With Bacterial O-Antigen, Enabling the Infection of Alternative Non-pathogenic Bacterial Host

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  77. First Report of Pectobacterium parmentieri Causing Stem Rot Disease of Potato in Russia

    Article • Plant Disease, January 2019, Scientific Societies

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  78. Whole-genome sequence data and analysis of type strains ‘Pusillimonas nitritireducens’ and ‘Pusillimonas subterraneus’ isolated from nitrate- and radionuclide-contaminated groundwater in Russia

    Article • Data in Brief, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  79. Phenotypic and Genomic Properties of a Novel Deep-Lineage Haloalkaliphilic Member of the Phylum Balneolaeota From Soda Lakes Possessing Na+-Translocating Proteorhodopsin

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, November 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  80. Members of the Uncultured Taxon OP1 (“Acetothermia”) Predominate in the Microbial Community of an Alkaline Hot Spring at East-Tuvinian Upland

    Article • Microbiology, November 2018, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  81. Sulfur Respiration in a Group of Facultatively Anaerobic Natronoarchaea Ubiquitous in Hypersaline Soda Lakes

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, October 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  82. Decoupling between sulfate reduction and the anaerobic oxidation of methane in the shallow methane seep of the Black sea

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, September 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  83. Genomic Insights Into Energy Metabolism of Carboxydocella thermautotrophica Coupling Hydrogenogenic CO Oxidation With the Reduction of Fe(III) Minerals

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  84. Genome of Pectobacterium atrosepticum PB72 and Genome its Specific Bacteriophage PP90

    Article • Genome Announcements, July 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  85. Natronobiforma cellulositropha gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel haloalkaliphilic member of the family Natrialbaceae (class Halobacteria) from hypersaline alkaline lakes

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  86. Draft Genome Sequence of Roseomonas aestuarii Strain JR1/69-1-13 Isolated from Nitrate- and Radionuclide-Contaminated Groundwater in Russia

    Article • Genome Announcements, June 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  87. Microbiome Responses to an Uncontrolled Short-Term Diet Intervention in the Frame of the Citizen Science Project

    Article • Nutrients, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  88. Draft Genome Sequence of Methylovulum psychrotolerans Sph1 T , an Obligate Methanotroph from Low-Temperature Environments

    Article • Genome Announcements, March 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Svetlana N Dedysh, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  89. Genomic characteristics of vB_PpaP_PP74, a T7-like Autographivirinae bacteriophage infecting a potato pathogen of the newly proposed species Pectobacterium parmentieri

    Article • Archives of Virology, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexander N. Ignatov, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  90. The genome analysis of Oleiphilus messinensis ME102 (DSM 13489 T ) reveals backgrounds of its obligate alkane-devouring marine lifestyle

    Article • Marine Genomics, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  91. The nucleoid protein Dps binds genomic DNA of Escherichia coli in a non-random manner

    Article • PLOS One, August 2017, PLOS

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  92. ‘ARMAN’ archaea depend on association with euryarchaeal host in culture and in situ

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  93. Calorithrix insularis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel representative of the phylum Calditrichaeota

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, May 2017, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  94. Thermodesulfobium acidiphilum sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic, sulfate-reducing, chemoautotrophic bacterium from a thermal site

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, May 2017, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  95. Discovery of anaerobic lithoheterotrophic haloarchaea, ubiquitous in hypersaline habitats

    Article • The ISME Journal, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  96. Analysis of chitinase diversity in the Baltic Sea bottom sediments

    Article • Microbiology, January 2017, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  97. High Diversity of Planctomycetes in Soils of Two Lichen-Dominated Sub-Arctic Ecosystems of Northwestern Siberia

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, December 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Svetlana N Dedysh, Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  98. Biology of archaea from a novel family Cuniculiplasmataceae (Thermoplasmata) ubiquitous in hyperacidic environments

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  99. Induction of transcription through the scs insulator leads to abnormal development of Drosophila melanogaster

    Article • Russian Journal of Genetics, October 2016, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  100. Complete genome sequence of ‘Halanaeroarchaeum sulfurireducens’ M27-SA2, a sulfur-reducing and acetate-oxidizing haloarchaeon from the deep-sea hypersaline anoxic lake Medee

    Article • Standards in Genomic Sciences, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  101. Thermogladius calderae gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, hyperthermophilic crenarchaeote from a Kamchatka hot spring

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, March 2016, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  102. Complete genome sequence of and proposal of Thermofilum uzonense sp. nov. a novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon and emended description of the genus Thermofilum

    Article • Standards in Genomic Sciences, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  103. Halo(natrono)archaea isolated from hypersaline lakes utilize cellulose and chitin as growth substrates

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, September 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  104. Diversity of hydrolases from hydrothermal vent sediments of the Levante Bay, Vulcano Island (Aeolian archipelago) identified by activity-based metagenomics and biochemical characterization of new esterases and an arabinopyranosidase

    Article • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  105. Structure of the archaeal community in the Black Sea photic zone

    Article • Microbiology, July 2015, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  106. Genomic Analysis of Pure Cultures and Communities

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  107. Tepidisphaera mucosa gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic member of the class Phycisphaerae in the phylum Planctomycetes, and proposal of a new family, Tepidisphaeraceae fam. nov., and a new order, Tepidisphaerales ord. nov.

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, November 2014, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  108. Thermosipho activus sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic, hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea sample

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, July 2014, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  109. Mobilitalea sibirica gen. nov., sp. nov., a halotolerant polysaccharide-degrading bacterium

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, May 2014, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  110. Complete Genomic Sequence of "Thermofilum adornatus" Strain 1910bT, a Hyperthermophilic Anaerobic Organotrophic Crenarchaeon

    Article • Genome Announcements, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  111. Complete Genome Sequence of Salinarchaeum sp. Strain HArcht-Bsk1T, Isolated from Hypersaline Lake Baskunchak, Russia

    Article • Genome Announcements, July 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  112. Selective interactions of boundaries with upstream region of Abd-B promoter in Drosophila bithorax complex and role of dCTCF in this process

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  113. Functional Interaction between the Fab-7 and Fab-8 Boundaries and the Upstream Promoter Region in the Drosophila Abd-B Gene

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2008, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov

  114. Study of the Functional Interaction between Mcp Insulators from the Drosophila bithorax Complex: Effects of Insulator Pairing on Enhancer-Promoter Communication

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Biology, February 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Stepan Toshchakov