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Contents: December 2002, Volume 68, Issue 12

       Minireviews

       Methods

       Environmental Microbiology and Biodegradation

       Public Health Microbiology

       Physiology and Biotechnology

       Food Microbiology

       Plant Microbiology

       Enzymology and Protein Engineering

       Microbial Ecology

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Geomicrobiology

       Invertebrate Microbiology

       Mycology

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Minireviews:

Bacterial Chemotaxis toward Environmental Pollutants: Role in Bioremediation
Gunjan Pandey and Rakesh K. Jain
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5789-5795;
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Microbial Source Tracking: Current Methodology and Future Directions
Troy M. Scott, Joan B. Rose, Tracie M. Jenkins, Samuel R. Farrah, and Jerzy Lukasik
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5796-5803;
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Dimethylsulfoniopropionate: Its Sources, Role in the Marine Food Web, and Biological Degradation to Dimethylsulfide
Duane C. Yoch
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5804-5815;
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Methods:

Modeling the Lag Time of Listeria monocytogenes from Viable Count Enumeration and Optical Density Data
F. Baty, J. P. Flandrois, and M. L. Delignette-Muller
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5816-5825;
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Oligonucleotide Fingerprinting of rRNA Genes for Analysis of Fungal Community Composition
Lea Valinsky, Gianluca Della Vedova, Tao Jiang, and James Borneman
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5999-6004;
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Sequencing-Independent Method To Generate Oligonucleotide Probes Targeting a Variable Region in Bacterial 16S rRNA by PCR with Detachable Primers
Stefan Bertilsson, Colleen M. Cavanaugh, and Martin F. Polz
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6077-6086;
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Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry of Lipopeptide Biosurfactants in Whole Cells and Culture Filtrates of Bacillus subtilis C-1 Isolated from Petroleum Sludge
Joachim Vater, Bärbel Kablitz, Christopher Wilde, Peter Franke, Neena Mehta, and Swaranjit Singh Cameotra
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6210-6219;
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A Novel Fluorescent Protein-Based Biosensor for Gram-Negative Bacteria
Yan Y. Goh, Bow Ho, and Jeak L. Ding
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6343-6352;
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Genetic and Phenotypic Analysis of Acinetobacter baumannii Insertion Derivatives Generated with a Transposome System
Caleb W. Dorsey, Andrew P. Tomaras, and Luis A. Actis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6353-6360;
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Fingerprinting Closely Related Xanthomonas Pathovars with Random Nonamer Oligonucleotide Microarrays
Mark T. Kingsley, Timothy M. Straub, Douglas R. Call, Don S. Daly, Sharon C. Wunschel, and Darrell P. Chandler
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6361-6370;
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Enumeration of Legionella CFU by Colony Hybridization Using Specific DNA Probes
Wakako Satoh, Mayumi Nakata, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Takayuki Ezaki, and Keiichi Hiramatsu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6466-6470;
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Environmental Microbiology and Biodegradation:

Rhodanobacter sp. Strain BPC1 in a Benzo[a]pyrene-Mineralizing Bacterial Consortium
Robert A. Kanaly, Shigeaki Harayama, and Kazuya Watanabe
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5826-5833;
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Arthrobacter aurescens TC1 Metabolizes Diverse s-Triazine Ring Compounds
Lisa C. Strong, Charlotte Rosendahl, Gilbert Johnson, Michael J. Sadowsky, and Lawrence P. Wackett
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5973-5980;
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Linking of Microorganisms to Phenanthrene Metabolism in Soil by Analysis of ¹³C-Labeled Cell Lipids
Anders R. Johnsen, Anne Winding, Ulrich Karlson, and Peter Roslev
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6106-6113;
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Benzothiazole Degradation by Rhodococcus pyridinovorans Strain PA: Evidence of a Catechol 1,2-Dioxygenase Activity
Nicolas Haroune, Bruno Combourieu, Pascale Besse, Martine Sancelme, Thorsten Reemtsma, Achim Kloepfer, Amer Diab, Jeremy S. Knapp, Simon Baumberg, and Anne-Marie Delort
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6114-6120;
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Phylogenetic and Kinetic Diversity of Aerobic Vinyl Chloride-Assimilating Bacteria from Contaminated Sites
Nicholas V. Coleman, Timothy E. Mattes, James M. Gossett, and Jim C. Spain
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6162-6171;
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Gene Cloning and Molecular Characterization of a Two-Enzyme System Catalyzing the Oxidative Detoxification of ß-Endosulfan
Tara D. Sutherland, Irene Horne, Robyn J. Russell, and John G. Oakeshott
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6237-6245;
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Disruption of narH, narJ, and moaE Inhibits Heterotrophic Nitrification in Pseudomonas Strain M19
D. R. Nemergut and S. K. Schmidt
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6462-6465;
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Public Health Microbiology:

A Multiresistant Clone of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O118:[H16] Is Spread in Cattle and Humans over Different European Countries
Heinrich Maidhof, Beatriz Guerra, Sascha Abbas, Hany M. Elsheikha, Thomas S. Whittam, and Lothar Beutin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5834-5842;
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Cryptosporidium and Giardia Recoveries in Natural Waters by Using Environmental Protection Agency Method 1623
Carol L. DiGiorgio, David A. Gonzalez, and Christopher C. Huitt
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5952-5955;
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Photoreactivation of Escherichia coli after Low- or Medium-Pressure UV Disinfection Determined by an Endonuclease Sensitive Site Assay
Kumiko Oguma, Hiroyuki Katayama, and Shinichiro Ohgaki
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6029-6035;
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Monitoring Changing Toxigenicity of a Cyanobacterial Bloom by Molecular Methods
Judith A. Baker, Barrie Entsch, Brett A. Neilan, and David B. McKay
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6070-6076;
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The Environmental Pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans Grows in Amphibian Cells at Low Temperatures
Michel Drancourt, Vincent Jarlier, and Didier Raoult
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6403-6404;
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Virulence Properties and Serotypes of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli from Healthy Australian Cattle
Michael A. Hornitzky, Barbara A. Vanselow, Keith Walker, Karl A. Bettelheim, Bruce Corney, Paul Gill, Graham Bailey, and Steven P. Djordjevic
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6439-6445;
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Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in Humans and Imported Chickens in Japan
Yoshiyuki Ozawa, Koichi Tanimoto, Takahiro Nomura, Masao Yoshinaga, Yoshichika Arakawa, and Yasuyoshi Ike
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6457-6461;
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Physiology and Biotechnology:

Genealogy Profiling through Strain Improvement by Using Metabolic Network Analysis: Metabolic Flux Genealogy of Several Generations of Lysine-Producing Corynebacteria
Christoph Wittmann and Elmar Heinzle
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5843-5859;
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A Novel High-Cell-Density Protein Expression System Based on Ralstonia eutropha
Sriram Srinivasan, Gavin C. Barnard, and Tillman U. Gerngross
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5925-5932;
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Aquaporin Expression Correlates with Freeze Tolerance in Baker's Yeast, and Overexpression Improves Freeze Tolerance in Industrial Strains
An Tanghe, Patrick Van Dijck, Françoise Dumortier, Aloys Teunissen, Stefan Hohmann, and Johan M. Thevelein
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5981-5989;
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Identification and Characterization of Novel Surface Proteins in Lactobacillus johnsonii and Lactobacillus gasseri
Marco Ventura, Ivana Jankovic, D. Carey Walker, R. David Pridmore, and Ralf Zink
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6172-6181;
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Aerobic Metabolism of 4-Hydroxybenzoic Acid in Archaea via an Unusual Pathway Involving an Intramolecular Migration (NIH Shift)
D. J. Fairley, D. R. Boyd, N. D. Sharma, C. C. R. Allen, P. Morgan, and M. J. Larkin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6246-6255;
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Genetic Changes To Optimize Carbon Partitioning between Ethanol and Biosynthesis in Ethanologenic Escherichia coli
S. A. Underwood, S. Zhou, T. B. Causey, L. P. Yomano, K. T. Shanmugam, and L. O. Ingram
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6263-6272;
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Effect of Different NADH Oxidase Levels on Glucose Metabolism by Lactococcus lactis: Kinetics of Intracellular Metabolite Pools Determined by In Vivo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Ana Rute Neves, Ana Ramos, Helena Costa, Iris I. van Swam, Jeroen Hugenholtz, Michiel Kleerebezem, Willem de Vos, and Helena Santos
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6332-6342;
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Existence of a True Phosphofructokinase in Bacillus sphaericus: Cloning and Sequencing of the pfk Gene
Alejandro F. Alice, Gaspar Pérez-Martínez, and Carmen Sánchez-Rivas
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6410-6415;
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Incorporation of DNA and Protein Precursors into Macromolecules by Bacteria at -15^oC
Brent C. Christner
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6435-6438;
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Food Microbiology:

Cork Taint of Wines: Role of the Filamentous Fungi Isolated from Cork in the Formation of 2,4,6-Trichloroanisole by O Methylation of 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol
María Luisa Álvarez-Rodríguez, Laura López-Ocaña, José Miguel López-Coronado, Enrique Rodríguez, María Jesús Martínez, Germán Larriba, and Juan-José R. Coque
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5860-5869;
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Detection by PCR-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay of Clostridium botulinum in Fish and Environmental Samples from a Coastal Area in Northern France
Patrick Fach, Sylvie Perelle, Françoise Dilasser, Joël Grout, Claire Dargaignaratz, Lucien Botella, Jean-Marie Gourreau, Frédéric Carlin, Michel R. Popoff, and Véronique Broussolle
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5870-5876;
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Macedocin, a Food-Grade Lantibiotic Produced by Streptococcus macedonicus ACA-DC 198
Marina D. Georgalaki, Erika Van den Berghe, Dimitrios Kritikos, Bart Devreese, Jozef Van Beeumen, George Kalantzopoulos, Luc De Vuyst, and Effie Tsakalidou
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5891-5903;
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Temperature- and Surfactant-Induced Membrane Modifications That Alter Listeria monocytogenes Nisin Sensitivity by Different Mechanisms
Jie Li, Michael L. Chikindas, Richard D. Ludescher, and Thomas J. Montville
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5904-5910;
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Role of Membrane Fluidity in Pressure Resistance of Escherichia coli NCTC 8164
M. A. Casadei, P. Mañas, G. Niven, E. Needs, and B. M. Mackey
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5965-5972;
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Distribution of Human Virus Contamination in Shellfish from Different Growing Areas in Greece, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom
M. Formiga-Cruz, G. Tofiño-Quesada, S. Bofill-Mas, D. N. Lees, K. Henshilwood, A. K. Allard, A.-C. Conden-Hansson, B. E. Hernroth, A. Vantarakis, A. Tsibouxi, M. Papapetropoulou, M. D. Furones, and R. Girones
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5990-5998;
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Bile Stress Response in Listeria monocytogenes LO28: Adaptation, Cross-Protection, and Identification of Genetic Loci Involved in Bile Resistance
Máire Begley, Cormac G. M. Gahan, and Colin Hill
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6005-6012;
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The Product of arcR, the Sixth Gene of the arc Operon of Lactobacillus sakei, Is Essential for Expression of the Arginine Deiminase Pathway
Manuel Zúñiga, María del Carmen Miralles, and Gaspar Pérez-Martínez
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6051-6058;
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The Biodiversity of Lactic Acid Bacteria in Greek Traditional Wheat Sourdoughs Is Reflected in Both Composition and Metabolite Formation
Luc De Vuyst, Vincent Schrijvers, Spiros Paramithiotis, Bart Hoste, Marc Vancanneyt, Jean Swings, George Kalantzopoulos, Effie Tsakalidou, and Winy Messens
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6059-6069;
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Flow Cytometric Assessment of Membrane Integrity of Ethanol-Stressed Oenococcus oeni Cells
M. Graça da Silveira, M. Vitória San Romão, Maria C. Loureiro-Dias, Frans M. Rombouts, and Tjakko Abee
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6087-6093;
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Novel Food-Grade Plasmid Vector Based on Melibiose Fermentation for the Genetic Engineering of Lactococcus lactis
Isabelle Boucher, Marc Parrot, Hélène Gaudreau, Claude P. Champagne, Christian Vadeboncoeur, and Sylvain Moineau
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6152-6161;
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Arginine Catabolism by Sourdough Lactic Acid Bacteria: Purification and Characterization of the Arginine Deiminase Pathway Enzymes from Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis CB1
Maria De Angelis, Liberato Mariotti, Jone Rossi, Maurizio Servili, Patrick F. Fox, Graciela Rollán, and Marco Gobbetti
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6193-6201;
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Molecular Subtype Analyses of Campylobacter spp. from Arkansas and California Poultry Operations
K. L Hiett, N. J. Stern, P. Fedorka-Cray, N. A. Cox, M. T. Musgrove, and S. Ladely
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6220-6236;
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Direct Identification in Food Samples of Listeria spp. and Listeria monocytogenes by Molecular Methods
Luca Cocolin, Kalliopi Rantsiou, Lucilla Iacumin, Carlo Cantoni, and Giuseppe Comi
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6273-6282;
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Sensitivity of Listeria monocytogenes to Sanitizers Used in the Meat Processing Industry
Nadya Romanova, Stacy Favrin, and Mansel W. Griffiths
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6405-6409;
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Sakacin G, a New Type of Antilisterial Bacteriocin
L. Simon, C. Fremaux, Y. Cenatiempo, and J. M. Berjeaud
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6416-6420;
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Plant Microbiology:

Identification of an Iron-Regulated, Hemin-Binding Outer Membrane Protein in Sinorhizobium meliloti
Federico Battistoni, Raúl Platero, Rosario Duran, Carlos Cerveñansky, Julio Battistoni, Alicia Arias, and Elena Fabiano
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5877-5881;
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Genetic Variability in Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Populations Sampled on a Local Scale during Natural Epidemics
Lorys M. M. A. Villaréal, Christian Lannou, Claude de Vallavieille-Pope, and Claire Neema
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6138-6145;
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Relatedness of Chromosomal and Plasmid DNAs of Erwinia pyrifoliae and Erwinia amylovora
Gayle C. McGhee, Elise L. Schnabel, Kimberly Maxson-Stein, Beatrix Jones, Verlyn K. Stromberg, George H. Lacy, and Alan L. Jones
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6182-6192;
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Identification and Characterization of an N-Acylhomoserine Lactone-Dependent Quorum-Sensing System in Pseudomonas putida Strain IsoF
Anette Steidle, Marie Allesen-Holm, Kathrin Riedel, Gabriele Berg, Michael Givskov, Søren Molin, and Leo Eberl
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6371-6382;
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Purification and Characterization of Carbazole 1,9a-Dioxygenase, a Three-Component Dioxygenase System of Pseudomonas resinovorans Strain CA10
Jeong-Won Nam, Hideaki Nojiri, Haruko Noguchi, Hiromasa Uchimura, Takako Yoshida, Hiroshi Habe, Hisakazu Yamane, and Toshio Omori
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5882-5890;
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Surface Display of Foreign Epitopes on the Lactobacillus brevis S-Layer
Silja Åvall-Jääskeläinen, Kari Kylä-Nikkilä, Minna Kahala, Terhi Miikkulainen-Lahti, and Airi Palva
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5943-5951;
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Construction of DNA-Shuffled and Incrementally Truncated Libraries by a Mutagenic and Unidirectional Reassembly Method: Changing from a Substrate Specificity of Phospholipase to That of Lipase
Jae Kwang Song, Bora Chung, Young Hak Oh, and Joon Shick Rhee
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6146-6151;
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Xylanase and Acetyl Xylan Esterase Activities of XynA, a Key Subunit of the Clostridium cellulovorans Cellulosome for Xylan Degradation
Akihiko Kosugi, Koichiro Murashima, and Roy H. Doi
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6399-6402;
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Microbial Ecology:

Prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter lari, and Campylobacter coli in Different Ecological Guilds and Taxa of Migrating Birds
Jonas Waldenström, Tina Broman, Inger Carlsson, Dennis Hasselquist, René P. Achterberg, Jaap A. Wagenaar, and Björn Olsen
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5911-5917;
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Effects of Dietary Fat Source and Subtherapeutic Levels of Antibiotic on the Bacterial Community in the Ileum of Broiler Chickens at Various Ages
Ane Knarreborg, Mary Alice Simon, Ricarda M. Engberg, Bent Borg Jensen, and Gerald W. Tannock
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5918-5924;
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Impact of Integrated Fish Farming on Antimicrobial Resistance in a Pond Environment
Andreas Petersen, Jens Strodl Andersen, Tawatchai Kaewmak, Temdoung Somsiri, and Anders Dalsgaard
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6036-6042;
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Impact of Protozoan Grazing on Bacterial Community Structure in Soil Microcosms
Regin Rønn, Allison E. McCaig, Bryan S. Griffiths, and James I. Prosser
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6094-6105;
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Molecular Analysis of the Nitrate-Reducing Community from Unplanted and Maize-Planted Soils
Laurent Philippot, Séverine Piutti, Fabrice Martin-Laurent, Stéphanie Hallet, and Jean Claude Germon
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6121-6128;
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Composition and Function of Sulfate-Reducing Prokaryotes in Eutrophic and Pristine Areas of the Florida Everglades
Hector Castro, K. R. Reddy, and Andrew Ogram
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6129-6137;
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Soil Microbial Community Structure across a Thermal Gradient following a Geothermal Heating Event
Tracy B. Norris, Jon M. Wraith, Richard W. Castenholz, and Timothy R. McDermott
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6300-6309;
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Bacterial Group II Introns in a Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Environment
Mircea Podar, Lauren Mullineaux, Hon-Ren Huang, Philip S. Perlman, and Mitchell L. Sogin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6392-6398;
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Quantitative Determination of Bile Salt Hydrolase Activity in Bacteria Isolated from the Small Intestine of Chickens
Ane Knarreborg, Ricarda M. Engberg, Søren K. Jensen, and Bent B. Jensen
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6425-6428;
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Rapid Identification, Differentiation, and Proposed New Taxonomic Classification of Bifidobacterium lactis
Marco Ventura and Ralf Zink
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6429-6434;
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Gene Cloning and Characterization of Multiple Alkane Hydroxylase Systems in Rhodococcus Strains Q15 and NRRL B-16531
L. G. Whyte, T. H. M. Smits, D. Labbé, B. Witholt, C. W. Greer, and J. B. van Beilen
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5933-5942;
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Construction and Evaluation of Plasmid Vectors Optimized for Constitutive and Regulated Gene Expression in Burkholderia cepacia Complex Isolates
Matthew D. Lefebre and Miguel A. Valvano
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 5956-5964;
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Cloning and Characterization of lin Genes Responsible for the Degradation of Hexachlorocyclohexane Isomers by Sphingomonas paucimobilis Strain B90
Rekha Kumari, Sanjukta Subudhi, Mrutyunjay Suar, Gauri Dhingra, Vishakha Raina, Charu Dogra, Sukanya Lal, Jan Roelof van der Meer, Christof Holliger, and Rup Lal
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6021-6028;
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Multiple Streptococcus mutans Genes Are Involved in Biofilm Formation
Akihiro Yoshida and Howard K. Kuramitsu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6283-6291;
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A Whole-Genome Shotgun Optical Map of Yersinia pestis Strain KIM
Shiguo Zhou, Wen Deng, Thomas S. Anantharaman, Alex Lim, Eileen T. Dimalanta, Jun Wang, Tian Wu, Tao Chunhong, Robert Creighton, Andrew Kile, Erika Kvikstad, Michael Bechner, Galex Yen, Ana Garic-Stankovic, Jessica Severin, Dan Forrest, Rod Runnheim, Chris Churas, Casey Lamers, Nicole T. Perna, Valerie Burland, Frederick R. Blattner, Bhubaneswar Mishra, and David C. Schwartz
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6321-6331;
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AbiA, a Lactococcal Abortive Infection Mechanism Functioning in Streptococcus thermophilus
Mark Tangney and Gerald F. Fitzgerald
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6388-6391;
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Identification of a Replicon from pTXL1, a Small Cryptic Plasmid from Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides Y110, and Development of a Food-Grade Vector
Franck Biet, Yves Cenatiempo, and Christophe Fremaux
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6451-6456;
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Geomicrobiology:

Isolation and Characterization of Metal-Reducing Thermoanaerobacter Strains from Deep Subsurface Environments of the Piceance Basin, Colorado
Yul Roh, Shi V. Liu, Guangshan Li, Heshu Huang, Tommy J. Phelps, and Jizhong Zhou
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6013-6020;
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Growth of Iron(III)-Reducing Bacteria on Clay Minerals as the Sole Electron Acceptor and Comparison of Growth Yields on a Variety of Oxidized Iron Forms
Joel E. Kostka, Dava D. Dalton, Hayley Skelton, Sherry Dollhopf, and Joseph W. Stucki
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6256-6262;
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Conspicuous Veils Formed by Vibrioid Bacteria on Sulfidic Marine Sediment
Roland Thar and Michael Kühl
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6310-6320;
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Invertebrate Microbiology:

The Genus Caedibacter Comprises Endosymbionts of Paramecium spp. Related to the Rickettsiales (Alphaproteobacteria) and to Francisella tularensis (Gammaproteobacteria)
Cora L. Beier, Matthias Horn, Rolf Michel, Michael Schweikert, Hans-Dieter Görtz, and Michael Wagner
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6043-6050;
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Response of Ants to a Deterrent Factor(s) Produced by the Symbiotic Bacteria of Entomopathogenic Nematodes
Xinsheng Zhou, Harry K. Kaya, Kurt Heungens, and Heidi Goodrich-Blair
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6202-6209;
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Coexistence of Multiple Proteobacterial Endosymbionts in the Gills of the Wood-Boring Bivalve Lyrodus pedicellatus (Bivalvia: Teredinidae)
Daniel L. Distel, David J. Beaudoin, and Wendy Morrill
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6292-6299;
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Field Studies Using a Recombinant Mycoinsecticide (Metarhizium anisopliae) Reveal that It Is Rhizosphere Competent
Gang Hu and Raymond J. St. Leger
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6383-6387;
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Phylogenetic Analysis of Acute Bee Paralysis Virus Strains
Tamás Bakonyi, Elvira Grabensteiner, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Miklós Rusvai, Grazyna Topolska, Wolfgang Ritter, and Norbert Nowotny
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6446-6450;
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Mycology:

Competitive PCR for Quantitation of a Cytophaga-Flexibacter-Bacteroides Phylum Bacterium Associated with the Tuber borchii Vittad. Mycelium
Elena Barbieri, Giulia Riccioni, Anna Pisano, Davide Sisti, Sabrina Zeppa, Deborah Agostini, and Vilberto Stocchi
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2002 68: 6421-6424;
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