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Contents: January 2008, Volume 74, Issue 1        Instructions to Authors        Environmental Microbiology        Public Health Microbiology        Food Microbiology        Microbial Ecology        Genetics and Molecular Biology        Physiology and Biotechnology        Enzymology and Protein Engineering        Invertebrate Microbiology        Methods        Plant Microbiology        Geomicrobiology        Mycology        Author's Correction

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Instructions to Authors:

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

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Environmental Microbiology:

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Ni Uptake and Limitation in Marine Synechococcus Strains Christopher L. Dupont, Katherine Barbeau, and Brian Palenik Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 23-31; published ahead of print October 19, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01007-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Conservation of the Chitin Utilization Pathway in the Vibrionaceae Dana E. Hunt, Dirk Gevers, Nisha M. Vahora, and Martin F. Polz Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 44-51; published ahead of print October 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01412-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Mutations in the lux Operon of Natural Dark Mutants in the Genus Vibrio Elizabeth A. O'Grady and Charles F. Wimpee Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 61-66; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01199-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Survival of and In Situ Gene Expression by Vibrio vulnificus at Varying Salinities in Estuarine Environments Melissa K. Jones, Elizabeth Warner, and James D. Oliver Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 182-187; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02436-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Short-Term Temporal Variability in Airborne Bacterial and Fungal Populations Noah Fierer, Zongzhi Liu, Mari Rodríguez-Hernández, Rob Knight, Matthew Henn, and Mark T. Hernandez Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 200-207; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01467-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Environmental Determinants of the Occurrence and Distribution of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Rias of Galicia, Spain Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Antonio Lozano-Leon, Jose Varela-Pet, Joaquin Trinanes, Yolanda Pazos, and Oscar Garcia-Martin Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 265-274; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01307-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Characterization of Two New Genes, amoR and amoD, in the amo Operon of the Marine Ammonia Oxidizer Nitrosococcus oceani ATCC 19707 Amal F. El Sheikh, Amisha T. Poret-Peterson, and Martin G. Klotz Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 312-318; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01654-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Formation of N-Ethylmaleimide (NEM)-Glutathione Conjugate and N-Ethylmaleamic Acid Revealed by Mass Spectral Characterization of Intracellular and Extracellular Microbial Metabolites of NEM Elmer-Rico E. Mojica, Sungpyo Kim, and Diana S. Aga Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 323-326; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01407-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Eucaryotic Diversity in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat Leah M. Feazel, John R. Spear, Alicia B. Berger, J. Kirk Harris, Daniel N. Frank, Ruth E. Ley, and Norman R. Pace Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 329-332; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01448-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Public Health Microbiology:

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Orthopoxvirus Detection in Environmental Specimens during Suspected Bioterror Attacks: Inhibitory Influences of Common Household Products Andreas Kurth, John Achenbach, Liljia Miller, Ian M. Mackay, Georg Pauli, and Andreas Nitsche Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 32-37; published ahead of print October 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01501-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Population Structures of Two Genotypes of Vibrio vulnificus in Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and Seawater Elizabeth Warner and James D. Oliver Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 80-85; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01434-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Analysis of Fungal Flora in Indoor Dust by Ribosomal DNA Sequence Analysis, Quantitative PCR, and Culture M. Pitkäranta, T. Meklin, A. Hyvärinen, L. Paulin, P. Auvinen, A. Nevalainen, and H. Rintala Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 233-244; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.00692-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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 Melanie J. Harriff, Martin Wu, Michael L. Kent, and Luiz E. Bermudez Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 275-285; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01480-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Effects of UV Radiation on Photolyase and Implications with Regards to Photoreactivation following Low- and Medium-Pressure UV Disinfection Jiangyong Hu and Puay Hoon Quek Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 327-328; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.00013-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Genomic Markers for Differentiation of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis A.I and A.II Strains Claudia R. Molins-Schneekloth, John T. Belisle, and Jeannine M. Petersen Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 336-341; published ahead of print November 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01522-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Food Microbiology:

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Effects of Dried Distillers’ Grain on Fecal Prevalence and Growth of Escherichia coli O157 in Batch Culture Fermentations from Cattle M. E. Jacob, J. T. Fox, J. S. Drouillard, D. G. Renter, and T. G. Nagaraja Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 38-43; published ahead of print October 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01842-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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 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 Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 86-98; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01512-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Comparative Analysis of the B-Dependent Stress Responses in Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria innocua Strains Exposed to Selected Stress Conditions Sarita Raengpradub, Martin Wiedmann, and Kathryn J. Boor Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 158-171; published ahead of print November 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.00951-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Microbial Interactions within a Cheese Microbial Community Jérôme Mounier, Christophe Monnet, Tatiana Vallaeys, Roger Arditi, Anne-Sophie Sarthou, Arnaud Hélias, and Françoise Irlinger Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 172-181; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01338-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Lactobacillus Strain Diversity Based on Partial hsp60 Gene Sequences and Design of PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Assays for Species Identification and Differentiation Giuseppe Blaiotta, Vincenzina Fusco, Danilo Ercolini, Maria Aponte, Olimpia Pepe, and Francesco Villani Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 208-215; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01711-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Microbial Ecology:

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Cross-Ocean Distribution of Rhodobacterales Bacteria as Primary Surface Colonizers in Temperate Coastal Marine Waters Hongyue Dang, Tiegang Li, Mingna Chen, and Guiqiao Huang Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 52-60; published ahead of print October 26, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01400-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Bacterial Community Composition in Central European Running Waters Examined by Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Sequence Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes Sara Beier, Karl-Paul Witzel, and Jürgen Marxsen Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 188-199; published ahead of print November 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.00327-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Effects of Wildfire and Harvest Disturbances on Forest Soil Bacterial Communities Nancy R. Smith, Barbara E. Kishchuk, and William W. Mohn Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 216-224; published ahead of print November 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01355-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Genetic and Immunological Comparison of the Cladoceran Parasite Pasteuria ramosa with the Nematode Parasite Pasteuria penetrans Liesbeth M. Schmidt, Laurence Mouton, Guang Nong, Dieter Ebert, and James F. Preston Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 259-264; published ahead of print October 12, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01778-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Quantifying Community Dynamics of Nitrifiers in Functionally Stable Reactors Lieven Wittebolle, Han Vervaeren, Willy Verstraete, and Nico Boon Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 286-293; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01006-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

In Situ Activity of Suspended and Immobilized Microbial Communities as Measured by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Petr Walczysko, Ute Kuhlicke, Sabine Knappe, Christiana Cordes, and Thomas R. Neu Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 294-299; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01806-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

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Recycling of Shiga Toxin 2 Genes in Sorbitol-Fermenting Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:NM Alexander Mellmann, Shan Lu, Helge Karch, Jian-guo Xu, Dag Harmsen, M. Alexander Schmidt, and Martina Bielaszewska Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 67-72; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01906-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Cloning and Characterization of Two Lactobacillus casei Genes Encoding a Cystathionine Lyase Stefan Irmler, Sylvie Raboud, Beata Beisert, Doris Rauhut, and Hélène Berthoud Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 99-106; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.00745-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Identification of Streptococcus uberis Multilocus Sequence Types Highly Associated with Mastitis Takehiro Tomita, Brian Meehan, Nalin Wongkattiya, Jakob Malmo, Gillian Pullinger, James Leigh, and Margaret Deighton Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 114-124; published ahead of print November 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01373-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Physiology and Biotechnology:

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Novel Mechanism for Conditional Aerobic Growth of the Anaerobic Bacterium Treponema denticola Yanlai Lai and Lianrui Chu Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 73-79; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01972-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Utilization of Molasses Sugar for Lactic Acid Production by Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. delbrueckii Mutant Uc-3 in Batch Fermentation Arti Dumbrepatil, Mukund Adsul, Shivani Chaudhari, Jayant Khire, and Digambar Gokhale Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 333-335; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01595-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

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Cholest-4-En-3-One-1-Dehydrogenase, a Flavoprotein Catalyzing the Second Step in Anoxic Cholesterol Metabolism Yin-Ru Chiang, Wael Ismail, Sébastien Gallien, Dimitri Heintz, Alain Van Dorsselaer, and Georg Fuchs Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 107-113; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01968-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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 Yoshiaki Umemoto, Ryosuke Onishi, and Toshiyoshi Araki Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 305-308; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01793-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Invertebrate Microbiology:

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Plasmid Patterns of Bacillus thuringiensis Type Strains Arturo Reyes-Ramírez and Jorge E. Ibarra Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 125-129; published ahead of print November 16, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02133-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Fitness Variation of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto Strains in Mice Klára Hanincová, Nicholas H. Ogden, Maria Diuk-Wasser, Christopher J. Pappas, Radha Iyer, Durland Fish, Ira Schwartz, and Klaus Kurtenbach Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 153-157; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01567-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Methods:

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Comparison and Validation of Methods To Quantify Cry1Ab Toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis for Standardization of Insect Bioassays André L. B. Crespo, Terence A. Spencer, Emily Nekl, Marianne Pusztai-Carey, William J. Moar, and Blair D. Siegfried Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 130-135; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01855-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Prokaryotic Suppression Subtractive Hybridization PCR cDNA Subtraction, a Targeted Method To Identify Differentially Expressed Genes Susan K. De Long, Kerry A. Kinney, and Mary Jo Kirisits Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 225-232; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01647-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Single-Nucleotide Primer Extension Assay for Detection and Sequence Typing of "Dehalococcoides" spp. Marcell Nikolausz, Antonis Chatzinotas, Márton Palatinszky, Gwenaël Imfeld, Paula Martinez, and Matthias Kästner Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 300-304; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01600-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Conjugative Transfer between Escherichia coli and Leptospira spp. as a New Genetic Tool Mathieu Picardeau Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 319-322; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02172-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Plant Microbiology:

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Host-Synthesized Secondary Compounds Influence the In Vitro Interactions between Fungal Endophytes of Maize Megan Saunders and Linda M. Kohn Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 136-142; published ahead of print November 9, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01538-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Geomicrobiology:

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Subsurface Microbial Diversity in Deep-Granitic-Fracture Water in Colorado 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 Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 143-152; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01133-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Growth of Thermophilic and Hyperthermophilic Fe(III)-Reducing Microorganisms on a Ferruginous Smectite as the Sole Electron Acceptor Kazem Kashefi, Evgenya S. Shelobolina, W. Crawford Elliott, and Derek R. Lovley Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 251-258; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01580-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Thickness and Surface Density of Extracellular Polymers on Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Eric S. Taylor and Steven K. Lower Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 309-311; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.01904-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Mycology:

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Carbon Source Dependence and Photostimulation of Conidiation in Hypocrea atroviridis Martina A. Friedl, Christian P. Kubicek, and Irina S. Druzhinina Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 245-250; published ahead of print November 2, 2007, doi:10.1128/AEM.02068-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Author's Correction:

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Molecular Epidemiologic Investigation of Campylobacter coli in Swine Production Systems, Using Multilocus Sequence Typing Siddhartha Thakur, W. E. Morgan Morrow, Julie A. Funk, Peter B. Bahnson, and Wondwossen A. Gebreyes Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 342 [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Microbial Composition and Structure of Aerobic Granular Sewage Biofilms S. D. Weber, G. Wanner, W. Ludwig, K.-H. Schleifer, and J. Fried Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 74: 343 [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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