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Contents: June 2008, Volume 74, Issue 11        Public Health Microbiology        Physiology and Biotechnology        Food Microbiology        Microbial Ecology        Genetics and Molecular Biology        Methods        Plant Microbiology        Enzymology and Protein Engineering        Environmental Microbiology        Geomicrobiology        Mycology        Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology        Invertebrate Microbiology        Authors Correction

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Public Health Microbiology:

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Shewanella and Photobacterium spp. in Oysters and Seawater from the Delaware Bay Gary P. Richards, Michael A. Watson, Edward J. Crane, III, Iris G. Burt, and David Bushek Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3323-3327; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00060-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Detection and Quantification of Group C Rotaviruses in Communal Sewage Edina Meleg, Krisztián Bányai, Vito Martella, Baoming Jiang, Béla Kocsis, Péter Kisfali, Béla Melegh, and György Szucs Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3394-3399; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02895-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Bayesian-Integrated Microbial Forensics Kristin H. Jarman, Helen W. Kreuzer-Martin, David S. Wunschel, Nancy B. Valentine, John B. Cliff, Catherine E. Petersen, Heather A. Colburn, and Karen L. Wahl Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3573-3582; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02526-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Comparison of Campylobacter Populations in Wild Geese with Those in Starlings and Free-Range Poultry on the Same Farm F. M. Colles, K. E. Dingle, A. J. Cody, and M. C. J. Maiden Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3583-3590; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02491-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Physiology and Biotechnology:

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Factors Contributing to Heat Resistance of Clostridium perfringens Endospores Benjamin Orsburn, Stephen B. Melville, and David L. Popham Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3328-3335; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02629-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Synthesis and Accumulation of Cyanophycin in Transgenic Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Anna Steinle, Fred Bernd Oppermann-Sanio, Rudolf Reichelt, and Alexander Steinbüchel Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3410-3418; published ahead of print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00366-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Responses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Hemoglobin Promoters to In Vitro and In Vivo Growth Conditions Sudesh Pawaria, Amrita Lama, Manoj Raje, and Kanak L. Dikshit Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3512-3522; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02663-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Coenzyme F420-Dependent Sulfite Reductase-Enabled Sulfite Detoxification and Use of Sulfite as a Sole Sulfur Source by Methanococcus maripaludis Eric F. Johnson and Biswarup Mukhopadhyay Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3591-3595; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00098-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

High-Yield Production of Secreted Active Proteins by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type III Secretion System M. Derouazi, B. Toussaint, L. Quénée, O. Epaulard, M. Guillaume, R. Marlu, and B. Polack Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3601-3604; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02576-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Construction of a Reporter Vector System for In Vivo Analysis of Promoter Activity in Propionibacterium freudenreichii Therese Faye, Anita Åsebø, Zhian Salehian, Thor Langsrud, Ingolf F. Nes, and Dag Anders Brede Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3615-3617; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02870-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Food Microbiology:

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Inactivation of Bacillus anthracis Spores by a Combination of Biocides and Heating under High-Temperature Short-Time Pasteurization Conditions Sa Xu, Theodore P. Labuza, and Francisco Diez-Gonzalez Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3336-3341; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02072-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Evaluation of the Persistence of Infectious Human Noroviruses on Food Surfaces by Using Real-Time Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification Safaa Lamhoujeb, Ismail Fliss, Solange E. Ngazoa, and Julie Jean Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3349-3355; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02878-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Transcriptional Analysis of L-Methionine Catabolism in the Cheese-Ripening Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica in Relation to Volatile Sulfur Compound Biosynthesis Orianne Cholet, Alain Hénaut, Agnès Hébert, and Pascal Bonnarme Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3356-3367; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00644-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Microbial Ecology:

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Development of a Cell Surface Display System in a Magnetotactic Bacterium, "Magnetospirillum magneticum" AMB-1 Masayoshi Tanaka, Yuko Nakata, Tetsushi Mori, Yoshiko Okamura, Hitoshi Miyasaka, Haruko Takeyama, and Tadashi Matsunaga Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3342-3348; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02276-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental materials] [Reprints and Permissions]

Factors Controlling the Distribution of Archaeal Tetraethers in Terrestrial Hot Springs Ann Pearson, Yundan Pi, Weidong Zhao, WenJun Li, Yiliang Li, William Inskeep, Anna Perevalova, Christopher Romanek, Shuguang Li, and Chuanlun L. Zhang Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3523-3532; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02450-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

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Characterization of Replication and Conjugation of Streptomyces Circular Plasmids pFP1 and pFP11 and Their Ability To Propagate in Linear Mode with Artificially Attached Telomeres Ran Zhang, Ana Zeng, Ping Fang, and Zhongjun Qin Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3368-3376; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00402-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

In Vitro Mutagenesis of Bacillus subtilis by Using a Modified Tn7 Transposon with an Outward-Facing Inducible Promoter Christophe Bordi, Bronwyn G. Butcher, Qiaojuan Shi, Anna-Barbara Hachmann, Joseph E. Peters, and John D. Helmann Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3419-3425; published ahead of print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00476-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

The Probiotic Lactobacillus johnsonii NCC 533 Produces High-Molecular-Mass Inulin from Sucrose by Using an Inulosucrase Enzyme Munir A. Anwar, Slavko Kralj, Marc J. E. C. van der Maarel, and Lubbert Dijkhuizen Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3426-3433; published ahead of print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00377-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Characterization and Genomic Analysis of Phage ascc28, a Phage of the Family Podoviridae Infecting Lactococcus lactis Steven E. Kotsonis, Ian B. Powell, Christopher J. Pillidge, Gaëtan K. Y. Limsowtin, Alan J. Hillier, and Barrie E. Davidson Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3453-3460; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02379-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

The Cyclic AMP-Dependent Catabolite Repression System of Serratia marcescens Mediates Biofilm Formation through Regulation of Type 1 Fimbriae Eric J. Kalivoda, Nicholas A. Stella, Dawn M. O'Dee, Gerard J. Nau, and Robert M. Q. Shanks Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3461-3470; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02733-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Methods:

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Development and Use of an Efficient System for Random mariner Transposon Mutagenesis To Identify Novel Genetic Determinants of Biofilm Formation in the Core Enterococcus faecalis Genome Christopher J. Kristich, Vy T. Nguyen, Thinh Le, Aaron M. T. Barnes, Suzanne Grindle, and Gary M. Dunny Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3377-3386; published ahead of print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02665-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Plant Microbiology:

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Characterization of the RND-Type Multidrug Efflux Pump MexAB-OprM of the Plant Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae Savina O. Stoitsova, Yvonne Braun, Matthias S. Ullrich, and Helge Weingart Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3387-3393; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02866-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

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Improvement of the Glutaryl-7-Aminocephalosporanic Acid Acylase Activity of a Bacterial -Glutamyltranspeptidase Chiaki Yamada, Kyoko Kijima, Sayaka Ishihara, Chinatsu Miwa, Kei Wada, Toshihiro Okada, Keiichi Fukuyama, Hidehiko Kumagai, and Hideyuki Suzuki Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3400-3409; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02693-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Investigating the Properties of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry Proteins with Novel Loop Replacements Created Using Combinatorial Molecular Biology Craig R. Pigott, Martin S. King, and David J. Ellar Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3497-3511; published ahead of print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02844-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Environmental Microbiology:

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Anaerobic and Aerobic Degradation of Cyanophycin by the Denitrifying Bacterium Pseudomonas alcaligenes Strain DIP1 and Role of Three Other Coisolates in a Mixed Bacterial Consortium Ahmed Sallam and Alexander Steinbüchel Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3434-3443; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02575-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Characterization of Diazotrophs Containing Mo-Independent Nitrogenases, Isolated from Diverse Natural Environments Doris A. Betancourt, Telisa M. Loveless, James W. Brown, and Paul E. Bishop Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3471-3480; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02694-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Assessing Genetic Heterogeneity within Bacterial Species Isolated from Gastrointestinal and Environmental Samples: How Many Isolates Does It Take? D. Döpfer, W. Buist, Y. Soyer, M. A. Munoz, R. N. Zadoks, L. Geue, and B. Engel Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3490-3496; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02789-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Comparative Genomics of "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes" 195 and an Enrichment Culture Containing Unsequenced "Dehalococcoides" Strains Kimberlee A. West, David R. Johnson, Ping Hu, Todd Z. DeSantis, Eoin L. Brodie, Patrick K. H. Lee, Helene Feil, Gary L. Andersen, Stephen H. Zinder, and Lisa Alvarez-Cohen Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3533-3540; published ahead of print March 21, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.01835-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Community-Level Assessment of the Effects of the Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Chlorhexidine on the Outcome of River Microbial Biofilm Development J. R. Lawrence, B. Zhu, G. D. W. Swerhone, E. Topp, J. Roy, L. I. Wassenaar, T. Rema, and D. R. Korber Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3541-3550; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02879-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Blocking of Bacterial Biofilm Formation by a Fish Protein Coating Rebecca Munk Vejborg and Per Klemm Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3551-3558; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00279-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Detection of Active Butyrate-Degrading Microorganisms in Methanogenic Sludges by RNA-Based Stable Isotope Probing Masashi Hatamoto, Hiroyuki Imachi, Yuto Yashiro, Akiyoshi Ohashi, and Hideki Harada Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3610-3614; published ahead of print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00045-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Geomicrobiology:

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Estimates of Biogenic Methane Production Rates in Deep Marine Sediments at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin F. S. Colwell, S. Boyd, M. E. Delwiche, D. W. Reed, T. J. Phelps, and D. T. Newby Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3444-3452; published ahead of print March 14, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02114-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Mycology:

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Isolation of Fungal Cellobiohydrolase I Genes from Sporocarps and Forest Soils by PCR Ivan P. Edwards, Rima A. Upchurch, and Donald R. Zak Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3481-3489; published ahead of print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02893-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Aspergillus nidulans Natural Product Biosynthesis Is Regulated by MpkB, a Putative Pheromone Response Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Ali Atoui, Dapeng Bao, Navgeet Kaur, W. Scott Grayburn, and Ana M. Calvo Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3596-3600; published ahead of print March 31, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02842-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

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Complete Genome Sequence of Nitrosospira multiformis, an Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium from the Soil Environment Jeanette M. Norton, Martin G. Klotz, Lisa Y. Stein, Daniel J. Arp, Peter J. Bottomley, Patrick S. G. Chain, Loren J. Hauser, Miriam L. Land, Frank W. Larimer, Maria W. Shin, and Shawn R. Starkenburg Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3559-3572; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02722-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Invertebrate Microbiology:

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Evolutionary Relationships of "Candidatus Endobugula" Bacterial Symbionts and Their Bugula Bryozoan Hosts Grace E. Lim-Fong, Lindsay A. Regali, and Margo G. Haygood Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3605-3609; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02798-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Authors Correction:

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Effects of Imposed Salinity Gradients on Dissimilatory Arsenate Reduction, Sulfate Reduction, and Other Microbial Processes in Sediments from Two California Soda Lakes T. R. Kulp, S. Han, C. W. Saltikov, B. D. Lanoil, K. Zargar, and R. S. Oremland Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3618 [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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