1. Preface

   • A. Yu. Rozanov

   EditorialNotes 24 December 2009 Pages: 851 - 851

2. The role of arthropods in the development of continental biota

   • A. G. Ponomarenko

   OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 852 - 857

3. Ammonoid evolution in marine ecosystems prior to the Permian-Triassic crisis

   • T. B. Leonova

   OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 858 - 865

4. Evolution of organogenic carbonate buildups in the Middle through Late Miocene of the Euxine-Caspian Basin (Eastern Paratethys)

   • I. A. Goncharova
   • Yu. V. Rostovtseva

   OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 866 - 876

5. Relicts of the Tethyan fauna in the Recent oceans

   • O. N. Zezina

   OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 877 - 880

6. Development of early human culture in northern Asia

   • A. P. Derevianko
   • M. V. Shunkov

   OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 881 - 889

7. DNA diversity in modern East European human populations in view of demographic history and adaptation

   • S. A. Limborska
   • D. A. Verbenko
   • P. A. Slominsky

   OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 890 - 895

8. Fossil bacteria from the Permotriassic Trappean strata of Siberia

   • M. M. Astafieva
   • A. Yu. Rozanov
   • E. V. Sapova

   OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 896 - 904

9. Bacterial Paleontological study of Archaean of Karelia

   • M. M. Astafieva
   • A. Yu. Rozanov

   OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 905 - 910

10. The evolution of the early precambrian geobiological systems

    • A. Yu. Rozanov
    • M. M. Astafieva

    OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 911 - 927

11. Preservation of living organic structures in unicellular and multicellular organisms in the fossil state

    • G. T. Ushatinskaya

    OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 928 - 939

12. Halophilic algal-bacterial and cyanobacterial communities and their role in carbonate precipitation

    • L. M. Gerasimenko
    • O. S. Mikhodyuk

    OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 940 - 957

13. Natural montmorillonite clay as prebiotic catalyst

    • I. V. Il’ina
    • E. V. Suslov
    • N. F. Salakhutdinov

    OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 958 - 964

14. Biomarker hydrocarbons in Lower Proterozoic sediments of north Eurasia

    • A. E. Kontorovich
    • I. D. Timoshina
    • V. F. Timofeev

    OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 965 - 971

15. Palaeoproterozoic petrified oil field (Shunga Event)

    • P. V. Medvedev
    • V. A. Melezhik
    • M. M. Filippov

    OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 972 - 979

16. Maximum entropy production and general trends in biospheric evolution

    • A. Kleidon

    OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 980 - 985