Research Article

Resistance of Permafrost and Modern Acinetobacter lwoffii Strains to Heavy Metals and Arsenic Revealed by Genome Analysis

Table 1

Characteristics of permafrost Acinetobacter lwoffii strains.

StrainAge of sedimentSampling locality

ED23-3520–40 KKolyma Lowland, Bank of river Homus-Yuryiah, Late-Pleistocene-Ice-Complex
ED45-23 20–40 KKolyma Lowland, Bank of river Homus-Yuryiah, Late-Pleistocene-Ice-Complex
ЕD9-5а 15–30 KKolyma Lowland, Bank of river Homus-Yuryiah, Late-Pleistocene-Ice-Complex
ЕК30А 1,6–1,8 MKolyma Lowland, Bank of river Konkovaya, Early Pleistocene
VS15 2-3 MKolyma Lowland, Bank of river Grand Chukochia, Late-Pleistocene-Ice-Complex

Age of subsoil permafrost sediments (corresponding to the period of freezing before the present) in years: K = 103 years; M = 106 years.