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Contents: September 2009, Volume 75, Issue 18

       Biotechnology

       Microbial Ecology

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Geomicrobiology

       Environmental Microbiology

       Methods

       Food Microbiology

       Mycology

       Physiology

       Public Health Microbiology

       Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

       Invertebrate Microbiology

       Errata

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Biotechnology:

Genetic Engineering of Enterobacter asburiae Strain JDR-1 for Efficient Production of Ethanol from Hemicellulose Hydrolysates
Changhao Bi, Xueli Zhang, Lonnie O. Ingram, and James F. Preston
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5743-5749; published ahead of print July 17, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01180-09
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Increased Malonyl Coenzyme A Biosynthesis by Tuning the Escherichia coli Metabolic Network and Its Application to Flavanone Production
Zachary L. Fowler, William W. Gikandi, and Mattheos A. G. Koffas
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5831-5839; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00270-09
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Anaerobic Fermentation of Glycerol in Paenibacillus macerans: Metabolic Pathways and Environmental Determinants
Ashutosh Gupta, Abhishek Murarka, Paul Campbell, and Ramon Gonzalez
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5871-5883; published ahead of print July 17, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01246-09
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Cell Surface Engineering of a β-Galactosidase for Galactooligosaccharide Synthesis
Yumei Li, Lili Lu, Hongmei Wang, Xiaodong Xu, and Min Xiao
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5938-5942; published ahead of print July 17, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00326-09
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Carbonate Crystals Precipitated by Freshwater Bacteria and Their Use as a Limestone Consolidant
Dania V. Zamarreño, Robert Inkpen, and Eric May
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5981-5990; published ahead of print July 17, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02079-08
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Microbial Ecology:

Microbial Biogeography of Six Salt Lakes in Inner Mongolia, China, and a Salt Lake in Argentina
Eulyn Pagaling, Huanzhi Wang, Madeleine Venables, Andrew Wallace, William D. Grant, Don A. Cowan, Brian E. Jones, Yanhe Ma, Antonio Ventosa, and Shaun Heaphy
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5750-5760; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00040-09
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Defining DNA-Based Operational Taxonomic Units for Microbial-Eukaryote Ecology
David A. Caron, Peter D. Countway, Pratik Savai, Rebecca J. Gast, Astrid Schnetzer, Stefanie D. Moorthi, Mark R. Dennett, Dawn M. Moran, and Adriane C. Jones
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5797-5808; published ahead of print July 10, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00298-09
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Modeling of Spatially Referenced Environmental and Meteorological Factors Influencing the Probability of Listeria Species Isolation from Natural Environments
R. Ivanek, Y. T. Gröhn, M. T. Wells, A. J. Lembo, Jr., B. D. Sauders, and M. Wiedmann
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5893-5909; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02757-08
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Structure and Composition of Aggregates in Two Large European Rivers, Based on Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy and Image and Statistical Analyses
Birgit Luef, Thomas R. Neu, Irene Zweimüller, and Peter Peduzzi
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5952-5962; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00186-09
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Genome-Wide Identification of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genes Required for Maximal Tolerance to Ethanol
Miguel C. Teixeira, Luís R. Raposo, Nuno P. Mira, Artur B. Lourenço, and Isabel Sá-Correia
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5761-5772; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00845-09
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Contributions of O Island 48 to Adherence of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 to Epithelial Cells In Vitro and in Ligated Pig Ileal Loops
Xianhua Yin, Roger Wheatcroft, James R. Chambers, Bianfang Liu, Jing Zhu, and Carlton L. Gyles
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5779-5786; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00507-09
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rhs Genes Are Potential Markers for Multilocus Sequence Typing of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strains
K. Liu, S. J. Knabel, and E. G. Dudley
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5853-5862; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00859-09
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Cloning, Expression, and Characterization of a Peculiar Choline-Binding β-Galactosidase from Streptococcus mitis
Susana Campuzano, Beatriz Serra, Daniel Llull, José L. García, and Pedro García
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5972-5980; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00618-09
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Mobilization of a Tn402-Like Class 1 Integron with a Novel Cassette Array via Flanking Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Element-Like Structures
Michael R. Gillings, Maurizio Labbate, Ammara Sajjad, Nellie J. Giguère, Marita P. Holley, and H. W. Stokes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 6002-6004; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01033-09
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Geomicrobiology:

U(VI) Sequestration in Hydroxyapatite Produced by Microbial Glycerol 3-Phosphate Metabolism
Evgenya S. Shelobolina, Hiromi Konishi, Huifang Xu, and Eric E. Roden
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5773-5778; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00628-09
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Environmental Microbiology:

Evaluation of Swine-Specific PCR Assays Used for Fecal Source Tracking and Analysis of Molecular Diversity of Swine-Specific "Bacteroidales" Populations
Regina Lamendella, Jorge W. Santo Domingo, Anthony C. Yannarell, Shreya Ghosh, George Di Giovanni, Roderick I. Mackie, and Daniel B. Oerther
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5787-5796; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00448-09
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Discovery of [NiFe] Hydrogenase Genes in Metagenomic DNA: Cloning and Heterologous Expression in Thiocapsa roseopersicina
Gergely Maróti, Yingkai Tong, Shibu Yooseph, Holly Baden-Tillson, Hamilton O. Smith, Kornél L. Kovács, Marvin Frazier, J. Craig Venter, and Qing Xu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5821-5830; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00580-09
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Assessment of Microbial Communities by Graph Partitioning in a Study of Soil Fungi in Two Alpine Meadows
L. Zinger, E. Coissac, P. Choler, and R. A. Geremia
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5863-5870; published ahead of print July 17, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00748-09
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Isolation and Characterization of "Dehalococcoides" sp. Strain MB, Which Dechlorinates Tetrachloroethene to trans-1,2-Dichloroethene
Dan Cheng and Jianzhong He
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5910-5918; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00767-09
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Microbial Diversity and Host-Specific Sequences of Canada Goose Feces
Jingrang Lu, Jorge W. Santo Domingo, Stephen Hill, and Thomas A. Edge
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5919-5926; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00462-09
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Methods:

Identification of Yersinia enterocolitica at the Species and Subspecies Levels by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Andrea Elisabeth Kuhm, Daniel Suter, Richard Felleisen, and Jörg Rau
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5809-5813; published ahead of print July 17, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00206-09
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Identification of a Basic Helix-Loop-Helix-Type Transcription Regulator Gene in Aspergillus oryzae by Systematically Deleting Large Chromosomal Segments
Feng Jie Jin, Tadashi Takahashi, Masayuki Machida, and Yasuji Koyama
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5943-5951; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00975-09
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Strategy for Extracting DNA from Clay Soil and Detecting a Specific Target Sequence via Selective Enrichment and Real-Time (Quantitative) PCR Amplification
Kweku K. Yankson and Todd R. Steck
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 6017-6021; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00211-09
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Food Microbiology:

Macrolide Resistance in Microorganisms at Antimicrobial-Free Swine Farms
Zhi Zhou, Lutgarde Raskin, and Julie L. Zilles
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5814-5820; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00977-09
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Competition of Listeria monocytogenes Serotype 1/2a and 4b Strains in Mixed-Culture Biofilms
Youwen Pan, Frederick Breidt, Jr., and Sophia Kathariou
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5846-5852; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00816-09
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Role of Transporter Proteins in Bile Tolerance of Lactobacillus acidophilus
Erika A. Pfeiler and Todd R. Klaenhammer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 6013-6016; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00495-09
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Mycology:

N-Acetylglucosamine Utilization by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Based on Expression of Candida albicans NAG Genes
Jürgen Wendland, Yvonne Schaub, and Andrea Walther
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5840-5845; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00053-09
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Physiology:

In Vitro Kinetics of Prebiotic Inulin-Type Fructan Fermentation by Butyrate-Producing Colon Bacteria: Implementation of Online Gas Chromatography for Quantitative Analysis of Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Gas Production
Gwen Falony, An Verschaeren, Feije De Bruycker, Vicky De Preter, Kristin Verbeke, Frédéric Leroy, and Luc De Vuyst
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5884-5892; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00876-09
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Overexpression of the groESL Operon Enhances the Heat and Salinity Stress Tolerance of the Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. Strain PCC7120
Akhilesh Kumar Chaurasia and Shree Kumar Apte
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 6008-6012; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00838-09
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Impact of Alginate Overproduction on Attachment and Biofilm Architecture of a Supermucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strain
Iain D. Hay, Kali Gatland, Andrea Campisano, J. Zoe Jordens, and Bernd H. A. Rehm
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 6022-6025; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01078-09
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Public Health Microbiology:

Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strains That Persist in Feedlot Cattle Are Genetically Related and Demonstrate an Enhanced Ability To Adhere to Intestinal Epithelial Cells
Brandon A. Carlson, Kendra K. Nightingale, Gary L. Mason, John R. Ruby, W. Travis Choat, Guy H. Loneragan, Gary C. Smith, John N. Sofos, and Keith E. Belk
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5927-5937; published ahead of print July 17, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00972-09
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Interactions of Typical and Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains with the Calf Intestinal Mucosa Ex Vivo
Francis Girard, Francis Dziva, Mark P. Stevens, and Gad Frankel
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5991-5995; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01170-09
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Development of a Two-Color Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Technique for Species-Level Identification of Human-Infectious Cryptosporidium spp.
A. Alagappan, P. L. Bergquist, and B. C. Ferrari
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5996-5998; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00643-09
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Distribution of Sulfonamide Resistance Genes in Escherichia coli and Salmonella Isolates from Swine and Chickens at Abattoirs in Ontario and Québec, Canada
Gosia K. Kozak, David L. Pearl, Julia Parkman, Richard J. Reid-Smith, Anne Deckert, and Patrick Boerlin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5999-6001; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02844-08
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Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

Antimicrobial Resistance-Conferring Plasmids with Similarity to Virulence Plasmids from Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Strains in Salmonella enterica Serovar Kentucky Isolates from Poultry
W. Florian Fricke, Patrick F. McDermott, Mark K. Mammel, Shaohua Zhao, Timothy J. Johnson, David A. Rasko, Paula J. Fedorka-Cray, Adriana Pedroso, Jean M. Whichard, J. Eugene LeClerc, David G. White, Thomas A. Cebula, and Jacques Ravel
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 5963-5971; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00786-09
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Invertebrate Microbiology:

Genetic Subdivision of Chemosynthetic Endosymbionts of Solemya velum along the Southern New England Coast
Frank J. Stewart, Alan Hyun Y. Baik, and Colleen M. Cavanaugh
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 6005-6007; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00689-09
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Errata:

Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Lysine Racemase from a Soil Metagenomic Library
I-Chien Chen, Wei-De Lin, Shin-Kuang Hsu, Venkatesan Thiruvengadam, and Wen-Hwei Hsu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. September 2009 75: 6026
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