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Minireviews:

Peter H. Janssen and Marek Kirs

Structure of the Archaeal Community of the Rumen
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3619-3625. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Food Microbiology:

Patrick S. L. Kwan, Andrew Birtles, Frederick J. Bolton, Nigel P. French, Susan E. Robinson, Lynne S. Newbold, Mathew Upton, and Andrew J. Fox

Longitudinal Study of the Molecular Epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni in Cattle on Dairy Farms
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3626-3633. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Daniel Paredes-Sabja, Nahid Sarker, Barbara Setlow, Peter Setlow, and Mahfuzur R. Sarker

Roles of DacB and Spm Proteins in Clostridium perfringens Spore Resistance to Moist Heat, Chemicals, and UV Radiation
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3730-3738. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Chris Coward, Pauline M. van Diemen, Andrew J. K. Conlan, Julia R. Gog, Mark P. Stevens, Michael A. Jones, and Duncan J. Maskell

Competing Isogenic Campylobacter Strains Exhibit Variable Population Structures In Vivo
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3857-3867. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Physiology and Biotechnology:

Cong T. Trinh, Pornkamol Unrean, and Friedrich Srienc

Minimal Escherichia coli Cell for the Most Efficient Production of Ethanol from Hexoses and Pentoses
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3634-3643. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gordon W. Niven, Jennifer S. Morton, Tamara Fuks, and Bernard M. Mackey

Influence of Environmental Stress on Distributions of Times to First Division in Escherichia coli Populations, as Determined by Digital-Image Analysis of Individual Cells
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3757-3763. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Dina Raafat, Kristine von Bargen, Albert Haas, and Hans-Georg Sahl

Insights into the Mode of Action of Chitosan as an Antibacterial Compound
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3764-3773. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hamdy A. H. Aly, Nguyen B. Huu, Victor Wray, Howard Junca, and Dietmar H. Pieper

Two Angular Dioxygenases Contribute to the Metabolic Versatility of Dibenzofuran-Degrading Rhodococcus sp. Strain HA01
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3812-3822. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

J. J. Leisner, M. H. Larsen, R. L. Jørgensen, L. Brøndsted, L. E. Thomsen, and H. Ingmer

Chitin Hydrolysis by Listeria spp., Including L. monocytogenes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3823-3830. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Steven R. Williams, Dana Gebhart, David W. Martin, and Dean Scholl

Retargeting R-Type Pyocins To Generate Novel Bactericidal Protein Complexes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3868-3876. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Angel Manteca, Ruben Alvarez, Nuria Salazar, Paula Yagüe, and Jesus Sanchez

Mycelium Differentiation and Antibiotic Production in Submerged Cultures of Streptomyces coelicolor
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3877-3886. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Environmental Microbiology:

Wook Kim and Stuart B. Levy

Increased Fitness of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 Leucine Auxotrophs in Soil
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3644-3651. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Microbial Communities in Contaminated Sediments, Associated with Bioremediation of Uranium to Submicromolar Levels
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3718-3729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

L. D. Rasmussen, C. Zawadsky, S. J. Binnerup, G. Øregaard, S. J. Sørensen, and N. Kroer

Cultivation of Hard-To-Culture Subsurface Mercury-Resistant Bacteria and Discovery of New merA Gene Sequences
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3795-3803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Enora Briand, Muriel Gugger, Jean-Christophe François, Cécile Bernard, Jean-François Humbert, and Catherine Quiblier

Temporal Variations in the Dynamics of Potentially Microcystin-Producing Strains in a Bloom-Forming Planktothrix agardhii (Cyanobacterium) Population
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3839-3848. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Plant Microbiology:

J. Chen, E. Civerolo, K. Tubajika, S. Livingston, and B. Higbee

Hypervariations of a Protease-Encoding Gene, PD0218 (pspB), in Xylella fastidiosa Strains Causing Almond Leaf Scorch and Pierce's Disease in California
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3652-3657. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Rodrigo P. P. Almeida, Fernanda E. Nascimento, John Chau, Simone S. Prado, Chi-Wei Tsai, Sílvio A. Lopes, and Joao R. S. Lopes

Genetic Structure and Biology of Xylella fastidiosa Strains Causing Disease in Citrus and Coffee in Brazil
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3690-3701. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Siriluck Jitacksorn and Michael J. Sadowsky

Nodulation Gene Regulation and Quorum Sensing Control Density-Dependent Suppression and Restriction of Nodulation in the Bradyrhizobium japonicum-Soybean Symbiosis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3749-3756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

M. Rodriguez-Carres, G. White, D. Tsuchiya, M. Taga, and H. D. VanEtten

The Supernumerary Chromosome of Nectria haematococca That Carries Pea-Pathogenicity-Related Genes Also Carries a Trait for Pea Rhizosphere Competitiveness
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3849-3856. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Public Health Microbiology:

Sheryl P. Gow, Cheryl L. Waldner, Josee Harel, and Patrick Boerlin

Associations between Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Fecal Generic Escherichia coli Isolates from Cow-Calf Herds in Western Canada
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3658-3666. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

W. Q. Alali, H. M. Scott, R. B. Harvey, B. Norby, D. B. Lawhorn, and S. D. Pillai

Longitudinal Study of Antimicrobial Resistance among Escherichia coli Isolates from Integrated Multisite Cohorts of Humans and Swine
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3672-3681. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Janice L. Fuls, Nancy D. Rodgers, George E. Fischler, Jeanne M. Howard, Monica Patel, Patrick L. Weidner, and Melani H. Duran

Alternative Hand Contamination Technique To Compare the Activities of Antimicrobial and Nonantimicrobial Soaps under Different Test Conditions
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3739-3744. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Kwanrawee Sirikanchana, Joanna L. Shisler, and Benito J. Mariñas

Effect of Exposure to UV-C Irradiation and Monochloramine on Adenovirus Serotype 2 Early Protein Expression and DNA Replication
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3774-3782. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Methods:

Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Yung Pin Chen, R. Sean Norman, and Alan W. Decho

Rapid Screening of Quorum-Sensing Signal N-Acyl Homoserine Lactones by an In Vitro Cell-Free Assay
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3667-3671. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sigrid Mayrhofer, Konrad J. Domig, Christiane Mair, Ulrike Zitz, Geert Huys, and Wolfgang Kneifel

Comparison of Broth Microdilution, Etest, and Agar Disk Diffusion Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Lactobacillus acidophilus Group Members
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3745-3748. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Suzanne Spaan, Gert Doekes, Dick Heederik, Peter S. Thorne, and Inge M. Wouters

Effect of Extraction and Assay Media on Analysis of Airborne Endotoxin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3804-3811. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Robert D. Stedtfeld, Samuel W. Baushke, Dieter M. Tourlousse, Sarah M. Miller, Tiffany M. Stedtfeld, Erdogan Gulari, James M. Tiedje, and Syed A. Hashsham

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
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3831-3838. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Shinji Fukuda, Yukie Sasaki, and Masato Seno

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
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3912-3914. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Elvira María Hebert, Gianfranco Mamone, Gianluca Picariello, Raúl R. Raya, Graciela Savoy, Pasquale Ferranti, and Francesco Addeo

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
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3682-3689. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Emma R. Master, Nathalie Y. R. Agar, Leticia Gómez-Gil, Justin B. Powlowski, William W. Mohn, and Lindsay D. Eltis

Biphenyl Dioxygenase from an Arctic Isolate Is Not Cold Adapted
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3908-3911. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

Pierre Nicolas, Stanislas Mondot, Guillaume Achaz, Catherine Bouchenot, Jean-François Bernardet, and Eric Duchaud

Population Structure of the Fish-Pathogenic Bacterium Flavobacterium psychrophilum
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3702-3709. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Ecology:

Jennifer J. Joyner, R. Wayne Litaker, and Hans W. Paerl

Morphological and Genetic Evidence that the Cyanobacterium Lyngbya wollei (Farlow ex Gomont) Speziale and Dyck Encompasses at Least Two Species
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3710-3717. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Naoki Narisawa, Shin Haruta, Hiroyuki Arai, Masaharu Ishii, and Yasuo Igarashi

Coexistence of Antibiotic-Producing and Antibiotic-Sensitive Bacteria in Biofilms Is Mediated by Resistant Bacteria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3887-3894. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tara L. Harmer, Randi D. Rotjan, Andrea D. Nussbaumer, Monika Bright, Andrew W. Ng, Eric G. DeChaine, and Colleen M. Cavanaugh

Free-Living Tube Worm Endosymbionts Found at Deep-Sea Vents
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3895-3898. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Monica O. Mendez, Julia W. Neilson, and Raina M. Maier

Characterization of a Bacterial Community in an Abandoned Semiarid Lead-Zinc Mine Tailing Site
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3899-3907. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

N. Mullane, P. O'Gaora, J. E. Nally, C. Iversen, P. Whyte, P. G. Wall, and S. Fanning

Molecular Analysis of the Enterobacter sakazakii O-Antigen Gene Locus
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3783-3794. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Karen P. Scott, Jenny C. Martin, Jakub Mrazek, and Harry J. Flint

Transfer of Conjugative Elements from Rumen and Human Firmicutes Bacteria to Roseburia inulinivorans
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3915-3917. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Errata:

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

Methane-Producing Microbial Community in a Coal Bed of the Illinois Basin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3918. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Role of Migratory Birds in Introduction and Range Expansion of Ixodes scapularis Ticks and of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Canada
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3919. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Lucie A. Hazelwood, Jean-Marc Daran, Antonius J. A. van Maris, Jack T. Pronk, and J. Richard Dickinson

The Ehrlich Pathway for Fusel Alcohol Production: a Century of Research on Saccharomyces cerevisiae Metabolism
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 3920. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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