MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BACTERIA AND MICROSCOPIC FUNGI FALLING OUT WITH SNOW ON BLAGOVESHCHENSK
Abstract
The morphology of bacteria and microscopic fungi in the snow that falls on Blagoveshchensk in the windless weather was studied. It was found out that during a snowfall in the snow flakes there are typical rod-shaped bacteria, yeast-like fungi, mycelian fragments of fungi, cultivated with difficulty elementary bodies of L-form bacteria and separate fines. The surface of the mold mycelium is covered with fine particles which are separated from each other by some distance, which allows to assume they have some relations with the receptors of the cell wall. Microscopic and submicroscopic forms identified in snowflakes can be the centers of ice formation, but mycelian fragments can be the nuclei of only large snowflakes.
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Viktor V. Katola
Institute of Geology and Nature Management of Far Eastern Branch RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Katola V.V. MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BACTERIA AND MICROSCOPIC FUNGI FALLING OUT WITH SNOW ON BLAGOVESHCHENSK. Bulletin Physiology and Pathology of Respiration. 2013;(48):86-89. (In Russ.)
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