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Contents: April 2007, Volume 73, Issue 8

       Minireviews

       Public Health Microbiology

       Enzymology and Protein Engineering

       Physiology and Biotechnology

       Microbial Ecology

       Food Microbiology

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Biodegradation

       Methods

       Environmental Microbiology

       Mycology

       Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

       Invertebrate Microbiology

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Minireviews:

Performance, Design, and Analysis in Microbial Source Tracking Studies
Donald M. Stoeckel and Valerie J. Harwood
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2405-2415; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02473-06
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Public Health Microbiology:

Identification of Bacterial DNA Markers for the Detection of Human Fecal Pollution in Water
Orin C. Shanks, Jorge W. Santo Domingo, Jingrang Lu, Catherine A. Kelty, and James E. Graham
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2416-2422; published ahead of print January 5, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02474-06
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Persistence and Decontamination of Bacillus atrophaeus subsp. globigii Spores on Corroded Iron in a Model Drinking Water System
Jeffrey G. Szabo, Eugene W. Rice, and Paul L. Bishop
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2451-2457; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02899-06
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Characterization of Extended-Host-Range Pseudo-T-Even Bacteriophage Kpp95 Isolated on Klebsiella pneumoniae
Lii-Tzu Wu, Shu-Ying Chang, Ming-Ren Yen, Tsuey-Ching Yang, and Yi-Hsiung Tseng
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2532-2540; published ahead of print March 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02113-06
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Ex Vivo Stability of the Rodent-Borne Hantaan Virus in Comparison to That of Arthropod-Borne Members of the Bunyaviridae Family
J. Hardestam, M. Simon, K. O. Hedlund, A. Vaheri, J. Klingström, and Å. Lundkvist
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2547-2551; published ahead of print March 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02869-06
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Prevalence and Genetic Properties of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Definitive Phage Type 104 Isolated from Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus House Rats in Yokohama City, Japan
Eiji Yokoyama, Soichi Maruyama, Hidenori Kabeya, Siro Hara, Shin Sata, Toshiro Kuroki, and Tomoko Yamamoto
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2624-2630; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02465-06
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Inactivation of Influenza A Virus on Copper versus Stainless Steel Surfaces
J. O. Noyce, H. Michels, and C. W. Keevil
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2748-2750; published ahead of print January 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01139-06
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Tetracycline Resistance Mediated by tet(W), tet(M), and tet(O) Genes of Bifidobacterium Isolates from Humans
J. Aires, F. Doucet-Populaire, and M. J. Butel
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2751-2754; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02459-06
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Outbreak of an Acute Aflatoxicosis in Kenya in 2004: Identification of the Causal Agent
Claudia Probst, Henry Njapau, and Peter J. Cotty
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2762-2764; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02370-06
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Helicobacter pylori EstV: Identification, Cloning, and Characterization of the First Lipase Isolated from an Epsilon-Proteobacterium
Cristian Ruiz, Serena Falcocchio, F. I. Javier Pastor, Luciano Saso, and Pilar Diaz
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2423-2431; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02215-06
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Generation by a Widely Applicable Approach of a Hybrid Dioxygenase Showing Improved Oxidation of Polychlorobiphenyls
Beatriz Cámara, Michael Seeger, Myriam González, Christine Standfuß-Gabisch, Silke Kahl, and Bernd Hofer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2682-2689; published ahead of print February 23, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02523-06
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Physiology and Biotechnology:

Molecular Basis of Fructose Utilization by the Wine Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a Mutated HXT3 Allele Enhances Fructose Fermentation
Carole Guillaume, Pierre Delobel, Jean-Marie Sablayrolles, and Bruno Blondin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2432-2439; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02269-06
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An NAD(P)H-Nicotine Blue Oxidoreductase Is Part of the Nicotine Regulon and May Protect Arthrobacter nicotinovorans from Oxidative Stress during Nicotine Catabolism
Marius Mihasan, Calin-Bogdan Chiribau, Thorsten Friedrich, Vlad Artenie, and Roderich Brandsch
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2479-2485; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02668-06
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Carbohydrate Starvation Causes a Metabolically Active but Nonculturable State in Lactococcus lactis
Balasubramanian Ganesan, Mark R. Stuart, and Bart C. Weimer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2498-2512; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01832-06
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Genetic Engineering of Zymobacter palmae for Production of Ethanol from Xylose
Hideshi Yanase, Dai Sato, Keiko Yamamoto, Saori Matsuda, Sho Yamamoto, and Kenji Okamoto
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2592-2599; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02302-06
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Oil Field Souring Control by Nitrate-Reducing Sulfurospirillum spp. That Outcompete Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria for Organic Electron Donors
Casey Hubert and Gerrit Voordouw
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2644-2652; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02332-06
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Characterization of the Role of para-Aminobenzoic Acid Biosynthesis in Folate Production by Lactococcus lactis
Arno Wegkamp, Wietske van Oorschot, Willem M. de Vos, and Eddy J. Smid
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2673-2681; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02174-06
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Microbial Ecology:

Succession and Diel Transcriptional Response of the Glycolate-Utilizing Component of the Bacterial Community during a Spring Phytoplankton Bloom
Winnie W. Y. Lau, Richard G. Keil, and E. Virginia Armbrust
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2440-2450; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01965-06
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Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria Capable of Tolerating the Extreme Conditions of Clean Room Environments
Myron T. La Duc, Anne Dekas, Shariff Osman, Christine Moissl, David Newcombe, and Kasthuri Venkateswaran
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2600-2611; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.03007-06
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Effects of Abiotic Factors on the Phylogenetic Diversity of Bacterial Communities in Acidic Thermal Springs
Jayanti Mathur, Richard W. Bizzoco, Dean G. Ellis, David A. Lipson, Alexander W. Poole, Richard Levine, and Scott T. Kelley
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2612-2623; published ahead of print January 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02567-06
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Effects of Bacterial Prey Species and Their Concentration on Growth of the Amoebae Acanthamoeba castellanii and Hartmannella vermiformis
Zoë L. Pickup, Roger Pickup, and Jacqueline D. Parry
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2631-2634; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02061-06
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Isolation and Characterization of Soil Bacteria That Define Terriglobus gen. nov., in the Phylum Acidobacteria
Stephanie A. Eichorst, John A. Breznak, and Thomas M. Schmidt
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2708-2717; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02140-06
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Food Microbiology:

Genotypic and Physiological Characterization of Saccharomyces boulardii, the Probiotic Strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Laura Edwards-Ingram, Paul Gitsham, Nicola Burton, Geoff Warhurst, Ian Clarke, David Hoyle, Stephen G. Oliver, and Lubomira Stateva
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2458-2467; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02201-06
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New Mathematical Modeling Approach for Predicting Microbial Inactivation by High Hydrostatic Pressure
Bernadette Klotz, D. Leo Pyle, and Bernard M. Mackey
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2468-2478; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02211-06
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Identification of Lactobacillus sakei Genes Induced during Meat Fermentation and Their Role in Survival and Growth
Eric Hüfner, Tobias Markieton, Stéphane Chaillou, Anne-Marie Crutz-Le Coq, Monique Zagorec, and Christian Hertel
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2522-2531; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02396-06
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Gene Expression and Biochemical Analysis of Cheese-Ripening Yeasts: Focus on Catabolism of L-Methionine, Lactate, and Lactose
Orianne Cholet, Alain Hénaut, Serge Casaregola, and Pascal Bonnarme
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2561-2570; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02720-06
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Comparative High-Density Microarray Analysis of Gene Expression during Growth of Lactobacillus helveticus in Milk versus Rich Culture Medium
Vladimir V. Smeianov, Patrick Wechter, Jeffery R. Broadbent, Joanne E. Hughes, Beatriz T. Rodríguez, Tove K. Christensen, Ylva Ardö, and James L. Steele
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2661-2672; published ahead of print February 23, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.00005-07
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Yeast Populations Residing on Healthy or Botrytis-Infected Grapes from a Vineyard in Attica, Greece
Aspasia A. Nisiotou and George-John E. Nychas
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2765-2768; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01864-06
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Analysis of Homothallic Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain Mating during Must Fermentation
Jesús Ambrona and Manuel Ramírez
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2486-2490; published ahead of print February 23, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02431-06
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Ferrous Iron- and Sulfur-Induced Genes in Sulfolobus metallicus
Stephan Bathe and Paul R. Norris
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2491-2497; published ahead of print February 23, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02589-06
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A mariner-Based Transposition System for Listeria monocytogenes
Min Cao, Alan Pavinski Bitar, and Hélène Marquis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2758-2761; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02844-06
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Biodegradation:

The Dehalococcoides Population in Sediment-Free Mixed Cultures Metabolically Dechlorinates the Commercial Polychlorinated Biphenyl Mixture Aroclor 1260
Donna L. Bedard, Kirsti M. Ritalahti, and Frank E. Löffler
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2513-2521; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02909-06
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Methods:

Characterization of Growing Microorganisms in Soil by Stable Isotope Probing with H₂¹⁸O
Egbert Schwartz
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2541-2546; published ahead of print February 23, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02021-06
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Fluorescence-Based Bacterial Overlay Method for Simultaneous In Situ Quantification of Surface-Attached Bacteria
Rainer Müller, Gerhard Gröger, Karl-Anton Hiller, Gottfried Schmalz, and Stefan Ruhl
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2653-2660; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02884-06
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Assessing Adhesion Forces of Type I and Type IV Pili of Xylella fastidiosa Bacteria by Use of a Microfluidic Flow Chamber
Leonardo De La Fuente, Emilie Montanes, Yizhi Meng, Yaxin Li, Thomas J. Burr, H. C. Hoch, and Mingming Wu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2690-2696; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02649-06
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Alignment-Independent Comparisons of Human Gastrointestinal Tract Microbial Communities in a Multidimensional 16S rRNA Gene Evolutionary Space
Knut Rudi, Monika Zimonja, Bente Kvenshagen, Jarle Rugtveit, Tore Midtvedt, and Merete Eggesbø
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2727-2734; published ahead of print March 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01205-06
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Gene Targeting in Gram-Negative Bacteria by Use of a Mobile Group II Intron ("Targetron") Expressed from a Broad-Host-Range Vector
Jun Yao and Alan M. Lambowitz
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2735-2743; published ahead of print February 23, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02829-06
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Environmental Microbiology:

Development of a Real-Time PCR Probe for Quantification of the Heterotrophic Dinoflagellate Cryptoperidiniopsis brodyi (Dinophyceae) in Environmental Samples
Tae-Gyu Park, Miguel F. de Salas, Christopher J. S. Bolch, and Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2552-2560; published ahead of print February 23, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02389-06
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Isolation of Methylophaga spp. from Marine Dimethylsulfide-Degrading Enrichment Cultures and Identification of Polypeptides Induced during Growth on Dimethylsulfide
Hendrik Schäfer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2580-2591; published ahead of print February 23, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02074-06
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Evidence of Horizontal Transfer of Symbiotic Genes from a Bradyrhizobium japonicum Inoculant Strain to Indigenous Diazotrophs Sinorhizobium (Ensifer) fredii and Bradyrhizobium elkanii in a Brazilian Savannah Soil
Fernando Gomes Barcellos, Pâmela Menna, Jesiane Stefânia da Silva Batista, and Mariangela Hungria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2635-2643; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01823-06
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Cellular Identification of a Novel Uncultured Marine Stramenopile (MAST-12 Clade) Small-Subunit rRNA Gene Sequence from a Norwegian Estuary by Use of Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization-Scanning Electron Microscopy
Karolina Kolodziej and Thorsten Stoeck
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2718-2726; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02158-06
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Mycology:

A Complex Ergovaline Gene Cluster in Epichloë Endophytes of Grasses
Damien J. Fleetwood, Barry Scott, Geoffrey A. Lane, Aiko Tanaka, and Richard D. Johnson
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2571-2579; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.00257-07
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Induction of Glutathione S-Transferase in Biofilms and Germinating Spores of Mucor hiemalis Strain EH5 from Cold Sulfidic Spring Waters
Enamul Hoque, Stephan Pflugmacher, Johannes Fritscher, and Manfred Wolf
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2697-2707; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02786-06
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Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

Unusual Codon Bias in Vinyl Chloride Reductase Genes of Dehalococcoides Species
Paul J. McMurdie, Sebastian F. Behrens, Susan Holmes, and Alfred M. Spormann
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2744-2747; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02768-06
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Invertebrate Microbiology:

Increased Prevalence of Ubiquitous Ascomycetes in an Acropoid Coral (Acropora formosa) Exhibiting Symptoms of Brown Band Syndrome and Skeletal Eroding Band Disease
Oded Yarden, Tracy D. Ainsworth, George Roff, William Leggat, Maoz Fine, and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. April 2007 73: 2755-2757; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02738-06
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