The Universal Database of Russian Academy of Sciences Journals: Life Sciences features a collection of Russian language peer-reviewed journals on the life sciences published by Nauka, the leading publisher of scientific books and articles in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. The journals contain research by prominent Russian and international scientists on such essential topics as evolutionary, comparative and ecological physiology, biochemistry and morphology, agrochemistry, structural and functional genomics, bioinformatics, biomedicine, molecular enzymology, molecular virology and immunology among others.