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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY: 2008 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 1-22. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Environmental Microbiology:

Christopher L. Dupont, Katherine Barbeau, and Brian Palenik

Ni Uptake and Limitation in Marine Synechococcus Strains
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 23-31. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dana E. Hunt, Dirk Gevers, Nisha M. Vahora, and Martin F. Polz

Conservation of the Chitin Utilization Pathway in the Vibrionaceae
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 44-51. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Elizabeth A. O'Grady and Charles F. Wimpee

Mutations in the lux Operon of Natural Dark Mutants in the Genus Vibrio
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 61-66. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Melissa K. Jones, Elizabeth Warner, and James D. Oliver

Survival of and In Situ Gene Expression by Vibrio vulnificus at Varying Salinities in Estuarine Environments
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 182-187. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Noah Fierer, Zongzhi Liu, Mari Rodríguez-Hernández, Rob Knight, Matthew Henn, and Mark T. Hernandez

Short-Term Temporal Variability in Airborne Bacterial and Fungal Populations
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 200-207. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Antonio Lozano-Leon, Jose Varela-Pet, Joaquin Trinanes, Yolanda Pazos, and Oscar Garcia-Martin

Environmental Determinants of the Occurrence and Distribution of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Rias of Galicia, Spain
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 265-274. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amal F. El Sheikh, Amisha T. Poret-Peterson, and Martin G. Klotz

Characterization of Two New Genes, amoR and amoD, in the amo Operon of the Marine Ammonia Oxidizer Nitrosococcus oceani ATCC 19707
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 312-318. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elmer-Rico E. Mojica, Sungpyo Kim, and Diana S. Aga

Formation of N-Ethylmaleimide (NEM)-Glutathione Conjugate and N-Ethylmaleamic Acid Revealed by Mass Spectral Characterization of Intracellular and Extracellular Microbial Metabolites of NEM
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 323-326. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leah M. Feazel, John R. Spear, Alicia B. Berger, J. Kirk Harris, Daniel N. Frank, Ruth E. Ley, and Norman R. Pace

Eucaryotic Diversity in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 329-332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Public Health Microbiology:

Andreas Kurth, John Achenbach, Liljia Miller, Ian M. Mackay, Georg Pauli, and Andreas Nitsche

Orthopoxvirus Detection in Environmental Specimens during Suspected Bioterror Attacks: Inhibitory Influences of Common Household Products
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 32-37. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth Warner and James D. Oliver

Population Structures of Two Genotypes of Vibrio vulnificus in Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and Seawater
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 80-85. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Pitkäranta, T. Meklin, A. Hyvärinen, L. Paulin, P. Auvinen, A. Nevalainen, and H. Rintala

Analysis of Fungal Flora in Indoor Dust by Ribosomal DNA Sequence Analysis, Quantitative PCR, and Culture
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 233-244. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Melanie J. Harriff, Martin Wu, Michael L. Kent, and Luiz E. Bermudez

Species of Environmental Mycobacteria Differ in Their Abilities To Grow in Human, Mouse, and Carp Macrophages and with Regard to the Presence of Mycobacterial Virulence Genes, as Observed by DNA Microarray Hybridization
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 275-285. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Jiangyong Hu and Puay Hoon Quek

Effects of UV Radiation on Photolyase and Implications with Regards to Photoreactivation following Low- and Medium-Pressure UV Disinfection
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 327-328. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claudia R. Molins-Schneekloth, John T. Belisle, and Jeannine M. Petersen

Genomic Markers for Differentiation of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis A.I and A.II Strains
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 336-341. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Food Microbiology:

M. E. Jacob, J. T. Fox, J. S. Drouillard, D. G. Renter, and T. G. Nagaraja

Effects of Dried Distillers’ Grain on Fecal Prevalence and Growth of Escherichia coli O157 in Batch Culture Fermentations from Cattle
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 38-43. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicholas Camu, Ángel González, Tom De Winter, Ann Van Schoor, Katrien De Bruyne, Peter Vandamme, Jemmy S. Takrama, Solomon K. Addo, and Luc De Vuyst

Influence of Turning and Environmental Contamination on the Dynamics of Populations of Lactic Acid and Acetic Acid Bacteria Involved in Spontaneous Cocoa Bean Heap Fermentation in Ghana
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 86-98. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarita Raengpradub, Martin Wiedmann, and Kathryn J. Boor

Comparative Analysis of the ^B-Dependent Stress Responses in Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria innocua Strains Exposed to Selected Stress Conditions
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 158-171. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Jérôme Mounier, Christophe Monnet, Tatiana Vallaeys, Roger Arditi, Anne-Sophie Sarthou, Arnaud Hélias, and Françoise Irlinger

Microbial Interactions within a Cheese Microbial Community
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 172-181. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Giuseppe Blaiotta, Vincenzina Fusco, Danilo Ercolini, Maria Aponte, Olimpia Pepe, and Francesco Villani

Lactobacillus Strain Diversity Based on Partial hsp60 Gene Sequences and Design of PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Assays for Species Identification and Differentiation
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 208-215. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Microbial Ecology:

Hongyue Dang, Tiegang Li, Mingna Chen, and Guiqiao Huang

Cross-Ocean Distribution of Rhodobacterales Bacteria as Primary Surface Colonizers in Temperate Coastal Marine Waters
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 52-60. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Sara Beier, Karl-Paul Witzel, and Jürgen Marxsen

Bacterial Community Composition in Central European Running Waters Examined by Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Sequence Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 188-199. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Nancy R. Smith, Barbara E. Kishchuk, and William W. Mohn

Effects of Wildfire and Harvest Disturbances on Forest Soil Bacterial Communities
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 216-224. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Liesbeth M. Schmidt, Laurence Mouton, Guang Nong, Dieter Ebert, and James F. Preston

Genetic and Immunological Comparison of the Cladoceran Parasite Pasteuria ramosa with the Nematode Parasite Pasteuria penetrans
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 259-264. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lieven Wittebolle, Han Vervaeren, Willy Verstraete, and Nico Boon

Quantifying Community Dynamics of Nitrifiers in Functionally Stable Reactors
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 286-293. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Petr Walczysko, Ute Kuhlicke, Sabine Knappe, Christiana Cordes, and Thomas R. Neu

In Situ Activity of Suspended and Immobilized Microbial Communities as Measured by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 294-299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Alexander Mellmann, Shan Lu, Helge Karch, Jian-guo Xu, Dag Harmsen, M. Alexander Schmidt, and Martina Bielaszewska

Recycling of Shiga Toxin 2 Genes in Sorbitol-Fermenting Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:NM
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 67-72. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Irmler, Sylvie Raboud, Beata Beisert, Doris Rauhut, and Hélène Berthoud

Cloning and Characterization of Two Lactobacillus casei Genes Encoding a Cystathionine Lyase
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 99-106. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takehiro Tomita, Brian Meehan, Nalin Wongkattiya, Jakob Malmo, Gillian Pullinger, James Leigh, and Margaret Deighton

Identification of Streptococcus uberis Multilocus Sequence Types Highly Associated with Mastitis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 114-124. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Biotechnology:

Yanlai Lai and Lianrui Chu

Novel Mechanism for Conditional Aerobic Growth of the Anaerobic Bacterium Treponema denticola
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 73-79. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arti Dumbrepatil, Mukund Adsul, Shivani Chaudhari, Jayant Khire, and Digambar Gokhale

Utilization of Molasses Sugar for Lactic Acid Production by Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. delbrueckii Mutant Uc-3 in Batch Fermentation
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 333-335. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Yin-Ru Chiang, Wael Ismail, Sébastien Gallien, Dimitri Heintz, Alain Van Dorsselaer, and Georg Fuchs

Cholest-4-En-3-One-¹-Dehydrogenase, a Flavoprotein Catalyzing the Second Step in Anoxic Cholesterol Metabolism
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 107-113. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yoshiaki Umemoto, Ryosuke Onishi, and Toshiyoshi Araki

Cloning of a Novel Gene Encoding β-1,3-Xylosidase from a Marine Bacterium, Vibrio sp. Strain XY-214, and Characterization of the Gene Product
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 305-308. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Invertebrate Microbiology:

Arturo Reyes-Ramírez and Jorge E. Ibarra

Plasmid Patterns of Bacillus thuringiensis Type Strains
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 125-129. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Klára Hanincová, Nicholas H. Ogden, Maria Diuk-Wasser, Christopher J. Pappas, Radha Iyer, Durland Fish, Ira Schwartz, and Klaus Kurtenbach

Fitness Variation of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto Strains in Mice
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 153-157. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Methods:

André L. B. Crespo, Terence A. Spencer, Emily Nekl, Marianne Pusztai-Carey, William J. Moar, and Blair D. Siegfried

Comparison and Validation of Methods To Quantify Cry1Ab Toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis for Standardization of Insect Bioassays
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 130-135. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susan K. De Long, Kerry A. Kinney, and Mary Jo Kirisits

Prokaryotic Suppression Subtractive Hybridization PCR cDNA Subtraction, a Targeted Method To Identify Differentially Expressed Genes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 225-232. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Marcell Nikolausz, Antonis Chatzinotas, Márton Palatinszky, Gwenaël Imfeld, Paula Martinez, and Matthias Kästner

Single-Nucleotide Primer Extension Assay for Detection and Sequence Typing of "Dehalococcoides" spp.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 300-304. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Mathieu Picardeau

Conjugative Transfer between Escherichia coli and Leptospira spp. as a New Genetic Tool
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 319-322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Microbiology:

Megan Saunders and Linda M. Kohn

Host-Synthesized Secondary Compounds Influence the In Vitro Interactions between Fungal Endophytes of Maize
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 136-142. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geomicrobiology:

Jason W. Sahl, Raleigh Schmidt, Elizabeth D. Swanner, Kevin W. Mandernack, Alexis S. Templeton, Thomas L. Kieft, Richard L. Smith, William E. Sanford, Robert L. Callaghan, Jeffry B. Mitton, and John R. Spear

Subsurface Microbial Diversity in Deep-Granitic-Fracture Water in Colorado
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 143-152. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazem Kashefi, Evgenya S. Shelobolina, W. Crawford Elliott, and Derek R. Lovley

Growth of Thermophilic and Hyperthermophilic Fe(III)-Reducing Microorganisms on a Ferruginous Smectite as the Sole Electron Acceptor
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 251-258. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eric S. Taylor and Steven K. Lower

Thickness and Surface Density of Extracellular Polymers on Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 309-311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Mycology:

Martina A. Friedl, Christian P. Kubicek, and Irina S. Druzhinina

Carbon Source Dependence and Photostimulation of Conidiation in Hypocrea atroviridis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 245-250. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Author's Correction:

Siddhartha Thakur, W. E. Morgan Morrow, Julie A. Funk, Peter B. Bahnson, and Wondwossen A. Gebreyes

Molecular Epidemiologic Investigation of Campylobacter coli in Swine Production Systems, Using Multilocus Sequence Typing
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 342. [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. D. Weber, G. Wanner, W. Ludwig, K.-H. Schleifer, and J. Fried

Microbial Composition and Structure of Aerobic Granular Sewage Biofilms
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 343. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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