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Contents: June 2008, Volume 74, Issue 12        Minireviews        Food Microbiology        Physiology and Biotechnology        Environmental Microbiology        Plant Microbiology        Public Health Microbiology        Methods        Enzymology and Protein Engineering        Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology        Microbial Ecology        Genetics and Molecular Biology        Errata

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Minireviews:

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Structure of the Archaeal Community of the Rumen Peter H. Janssen and Marek Kirs Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3619-3625; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02812-07 [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Food Microbiology:

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Longitudinal Study of the Molecular Epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni in Cattle on Dairy Farms Patrick S. L. Kwan, Andrew Birtles, Frederick J. Bolton, Nigel P. French, Susan E. Robinson, Lynne S. Newbold, Mathew Upton, and Andrew J. Fox Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3626-3633; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.01669-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Roles of DacB and Spm Proteins in Clostridium perfringens Spore Resistance to Moist Heat, Chemicals, and UV Radiation Daniel Paredes-Sabja, Nahid Sarker, Barbara Setlow, Peter Setlow, and Mahfuzur R. Sarker Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3730-3738; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00169-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Competing Isogenic Campylobacter Strains Exhibit Variable Population Structures In Vivo Chris Coward, Pauline M. van Diemen, Andrew J. K. Conlan, Julia R. Gog, Mark P. Stevens, Michael A. Jones, and Duncan J. Maskell Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3857-3867; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02835-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Physiology and Biotechnology:

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Minimal Escherichia coli Cell for the Most Efficient Production of Ethanol from Hexoses and Pentoses Cong T. Trinh, Pornkamol Unrean, and Friedrich Srienc Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3634-3643; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02708-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Influence of Environmental Stress on Distributions of Times to First Division in Escherichia coli Populations, as Determined by Digital-Image Analysis of Individual Cells Gordon W. Niven, Jennifer S. Morton, Tamara Fuks, and Bernard M. Mackey Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3757-3763; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02551-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Insights into the Mode of Action of Chitosan as an Antibacterial Compound Dina Raafat, Kristine von Bargen, Albert Haas, and Hans-Georg Sahl Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3764-3773; published ahead of print May 2, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00453-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Two Angular Dioxygenases Contribute to the Metabolic Versatility of Dibenzofuran-Degrading Rhodococcus sp. Strain HA01 Hamdy A. H. Aly, Nguyen B. Huu, Victor Wray, Howard Junca, and Dietmar H. Pieper Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3812-3822; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00226-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Chitin Hydrolysis by Listeria spp., Including L. monocytogenes J. J. Leisner, M. H. Larsen, R. L. Jørgensen, L. Brøndsted, L. E. Thomsen, and H. Ingmer Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3823-3830; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02701-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Retargeting R-Type Pyocins To Generate Novel Bactericidal Protein Complexes Steven R. Williams, Dana Gebhart, David W. Martin, and Dean Scholl Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3868-3876; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00141-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Mycelium Differentiation and Antibiotic Production in Submerged Cultures of Streptomyces coelicolor Angel Manteca, Ruben Alvarez, Nuria Salazar, Paula Yagüe, and Jesus Sanchez Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3877-3886; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02715-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Environmental Microbiology:

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Increased Fitness of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 Leucine Auxotrophs in Soil Wook Kim and Stuart B. Levy Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3644-3651; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00429-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Microbial Communities in Contaminated Sediments, Associated with Bioremediation of Uranium to Submicromolar Levels Erick Cardenas, Wei-Min Wu, Mary Beth Leigh, Jack Carley, Sue Carroll, Terry Gentry, Jian Luo, David Watson, Baohua Gu, Matthew Ginder-Vogel, Peter K. Kitanidis, Philip M. Jardine, Jizhong Zhou, Craig S. Criddle, Terence L. Marsh, and James M. Tiedje Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3718-3729; published ahead of print May 2, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02308-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Cultivation of Hard-To-Culture Subsurface Mercury-Resistant Bacteria and Discovery of New merA Gene Sequences L. D. Rasmussen, C. Zawadsky, S. J. Binnerup, G. Øregaard, S. J. Sørensen, and N. Kroer Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3795-3803; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00049-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Temporal Variations in the Dynamics of Potentially Microcystin-Producing Strains in a Bloom-Forming Planktothrix agardhii (Cyanobacterium) Population Enora Briand, Muriel Gugger, Jean-Christophe François, Cécile Bernard, Jean-François Humbert, and Catherine Quiblier Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3839-3848; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02343-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Plant Microbiology:

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Hypervariations of a Protease-Encoding Gene, PD0218 (pspB), in Xylella fastidiosa Strains Causing Almond Leaf Scorch and Pierce's Disease in California J. Chen, E. Civerolo, K. Tubajika, S. Livingston, and B. Higbee Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3652-3657; published ahead of print May 2, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02386-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Genetic Structure and Biology of Xylella fastidiosa Strains Causing Disease in Citrus and Coffee in Brazil Rodrigo P. P. Almeida, Fernanda E. Nascimento, John Chau, Simone S. Prado, Chi-Wei Tsai, Sílvio A. Lopes, and Joao R. S. Lopes Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3690-3701; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02388-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Nodulation Gene Regulation and Quorum Sensing Control Density-Dependent Suppression and Restriction of Nodulation in the Bradyrhizobium japonicum-Soybean Symbiosis Siriluck Jitacksorn and Michael J. Sadowsky Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3749-3756; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02939-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

The Supernumerary Chromosome of Nectria haematococca That Carries Pea-Pathogenicity-Related Genes Also Carries a Trait for Pea Rhizosphere Competitiveness M. Rodriguez-Carres, G. White, D. Tsuchiya, M. Taga, and H. D. VanEtten Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3849-3856; published ahead of print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00351-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Public Health Microbiology:

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Associations between Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Fecal Generic Escherichia coli Isolates from Cow-Calf Herds in Western Canada Sheryl P. Gow, Cheryl L. Waldner, Josee Harel, and Patrick Boerlin Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3658-3666; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02505-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Longitudinal Study of Antimicrobial Resistance among Escherichia coli Isolates from Integrated Multisite Cohorts of Humans and Swine W. Q. Alali, H. M. Scott, R. B. Harvey, B. Norby, D. B. Lawhorn, and S. D. Pillai Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3672-3681; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02624-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Alternative Hand Contamination Technique To Compare the Activities of Antimicrobial and Nonantimicrobial Soaps under Different Test Conditions Janice L. Fuls, Nancy D. Rodgers, George E. Fischler, Jeanne M. Howard, Monica Patel, Patrick L. Weidner, and Melani H. Duran Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3739-3744; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02405-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Effect of Exposure to UV-C Irradiation and Monochloramine on Adenovirus Serotype 2 Early Protein Expression and DNA Replication Kwanrawee Sirikanchana, Joanna L. Shisler, and Benito J. Mariñas Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3774-3782; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02049-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Methods:

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Rapid Screening of Quorum-Sensing Signal N-Acyl Homoserine Lactones by an In Vitro Cell-Free Assay Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Yung Pin Chen, R. Sean Norman, and Alan W. Decho Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3667-3671; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02869-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Comparison of Broth Microdilution, Etest, and Agar Disk Diffusion Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Lactobacillus acidophilus Group Members Sigrid Mayrhofer, Konrad J. Domig, Christiane Mair, Ulrike Zitz, Geert Huys, and Wolfgang Kneifel Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3745-3748; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02849-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Effect of Extraction and Assay Media on Analysis of Airborne Endotoxin Suzanne Spaan, Gert Doekes, Dick Heederik, Peter S. Thorne, and Inge M. Wouters Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3804-3811; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02537-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Development and Experimental Validation of a Predictive Threshold Cycle Equation for Quantification of Virulence and Marker Genes by High-Throughput Nanoliter-Volume PCR on the OpenArray Platform Robert D. Stedtfeld, Samuel W. Baushke, Dieter M. Tourlousse, Sarah M. Miller, Tiffany M. Stedtfeld, Erdogan Gulari, James M. Tiedje, and Syed A. Hashsham Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3831-3838; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02743-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Norovirus Genomes in Oysters by a Two-Step Isothermal Amplification Assay System Combining Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification and Reverse Transcription-Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assays Shinji Fukuda, Yukie Sasaki, and Masato Seno Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3912-3914; published ahead of print May 2, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00127-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

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Characterization of the Pattern of s1- and β-Casein Breakdown and Release of a Bioactive Peptide by a Cell Envelope Proteinase from Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis CRL 581 Elvira María Hebert, Gianfranco Mamone, Gianluca Picariello, Raúl R. Raya, Graciela Savoy, Pasquale Ferranti, and Francesco Addeo Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3682-3689; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00247-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Biphenyl Dioxygenase from an Arctic Isolate Is Not Cold Adapted Emma R. Master, Nathalie Y. R. Agar, Leticia Gómez-Gil, Justin B. Powlowski, William W. Mohn, and Lindsay D. Eltis Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3908-3911; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02928-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

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Population Structure of the Fish-Pathogenic Bacterium Flavobacterium psychrophilum Pierre Nicolas, Stanislas Mondot, Guillaume Achaz, Catherine Bouchenot, Jean-François Bernardet, and Eric Duchaud Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3702-3709; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.00244-08 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Microbial Ecology:

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Morphological and Genetic Evidence that the Cyanobacterium Lyngbya wollei (Farlow ex Gomont) Speziale and Dyck Encompasses at Least Two Species Jennifer J. Joyner, R. Wayne Litaker, and Hans W. Paerl Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3710-3717; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02645-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Coexistence of Antibiotic-Producing and Antibiotic-Sensitive Bacteria in Biofilms Is Mediated by Resistant Bacteria Naoki Narisawa, Shin Haruta, Hiroyuki Arai, Masaharu Ishii, and Yasuo Igarashi Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3887-3894; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02497-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Free-Living Tube Worm Endosymbionts Found at Deep-Sea Vents Tara L. Harmer, Randi D. Rotjan, Andrea D. Nussbaumer, Monika Bright, Andrew W. Ng, Eric G. DeChaine, and Colleen M. Cavanaugh Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3895-3898; published ahead of print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02470-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

Characterization of a Bacterial Community in an Abandoned Semiarid Lead-Zinc Mine Tailing Site Monica O. Mendez, Julia W. Neilson, and Raina M. Maier Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3899-3907; published ahead of print April 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02883-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

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Molecular Analysis of the Enterobacter sakazakii O-Antigen Gene Locus N. Mullane, P. O'Gaora, J. E. Nally, C. Iversen, P. Whyte, P. G. Wall, and S. Fanning Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3783-3794; published ahead of print April 25, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02302-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Transfer of Conjugative Elements from Rumen and Human Firmicutes Bacteria to Roseburia inulinivorans Karen P. Scott, Jenny C. Martin, Jakub Mrazek, and Harry J. Flint Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3915-3917; published ahead of print May 2, 2008, doi:10.1128/AEM.02807-07 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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Errata:

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Methane-Producing Microbial Community in a Coal Bed of the Illinois Basin Dariusz Strapoc, Flynn W. Picardal, Courtney Turich, Irene Schaperdoth, Jennifer L. Macalady, Julius S. Lipp, Yu-Shih Lin, Tobias F. Ertefai, Florence Schubotz, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Maria Mastalerz, and Arndt Schimmelmann Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3918 [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

Role of Migratory Birds in Introduction and Range Expansion of Ixodes scapularis Ticks and of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Canada N. H. Ogden, R. L. Lindsay, K. Hanincová, I. K. Barker, M. Bigras-Poulin, D. F. Charron, A. Heagy, C. M. Francis, C. J. O'Callaghan, I. Schwartz, and R. A. Thompson Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3919 [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

The Ehrlich Pathway for Fusel Alcohol Production: a Century of Research on Saccharomyces cerevisiae Metabolism Lucie A. Hazelwood, Jean-Marc Daran, Antonius J. A. van Maris, Jack T. Pronk, and J. Richard Dickinson Appl. Environ. Microbiol. June 2008 74: 3920 [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]

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