Applied and Environmental Microbiology - August 2007, Volume 73, Issue 16

Plant Microbiology:

Nuria de María, Ángeles Guevara, M. Teresa Serra, Isabel García-Luque, Alfonso González-Sama, Mario García de Lacoba, M. Rosario de Felipe, and Mercedes Fernández-Pascual

Putative Porin of Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lupinus) Bacteroids Induced by Glyphosate
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Jesús Caballero-Mellado, Janette Onofre-Lemus, Paulina Estrada-de los Santos, and Lourdes Martínez-Aguilar

The Tomato Rhizosphere, an Environment Rich in Nitrogen-Fixing Burkholderia Species with Capabilities of Interest for Agriculture and Bioremediation

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Food Microbiology:

O. Sunnotel, W. J. Snelling, N. McDonough, L. Browne, J. E. Moore, J. S. G. Dooley, and C. J. Lowery

Effectiveness of Standard UV Depuration at Inactivating Cryptosporidium parvum Recovered from Spiked Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas)
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I. D. Ogden, M. MacRae, M. Johnston, N. J. C. Strachan, A. J. Cody, K. E. Dingle, and D. G. Newell

Use of Multilocus Sequence Typing To Investigate the Association between the Presence of Campylobacter spp. in Broiler Drinking Water and Campylobacter Colonization in Broilers
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Rachel Gamble and Peter M. Muriana

Microplate Fluorescence Assay for Measurement of the Ability of Strains of Listeria monocytogenes from Meat and Meat-Processing Plants To Adhere to Abiotic Surfaces
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Physiology and Biotechnology:

Jeremiah D. Read, Paul A. Colussi, Mehul B. Ganatra, and Christopher H. Taron

Acetamide Selection of Kluyveromyces lactis Cells Transformed with an Integrative Vector Leads to High-Frequency Formation of Multicopy Strains
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Alberto Quesada, M. Isabel Guijo, Faustino Merchán, Blas Blázquez, M. Isabel Igeño, and Rafael Blasco

Essential Role of Cytochrome bd-Related Oxidase in Cyanide Resistance of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes CECT5344
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Susana Romero, Enrique Merino, Francisco Bolívar, Guillermo Gosset, and Alfredo Martinez

Metabolic Engineering of Bacillus subtilis for Ethanol Production: Lactate Dehydrogenase Plays a Key Role in Fermentative Metabolism
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Juan Zhang, Rui-Yan Fu, Jeroen Hugenholtz, Yin Li, and Jian Chen

Glutathione Protects Lactococcus lactis against Acid Stress
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Luis G. Bermúdez-Humarán, Sébastien Nouaille, Vladimir Zilberfarb, Gérard Corthier, Alexandra Gruss, Philippe Langella, and Tarik Issad

Effects of Intranasal Administration of a Leptin-Secreting Lactococcus lactis Recombinant on Food Intake, Body Weight, and Immune Response of Mice
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Hanno Richter, Martin Lanthier, Kelly P. Nevin, and Derek R. Lovley

Lack of Electricity Production by Pelobacter carbinolicus Indicates that the Capacity for Fe(III) Oxide Reduction Does Not Necessarily Confer Electron Transfer Ability to Fuel Cell Anodes
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A. Mendes-Ferreira, M. del Olmo, J. García-Martínez, E. Jiménez-Martí, C. Leão, A. Mendes-Faia, and J. E. Pérez-Ortín

Saccharomyces cerevisiae Signature Genes for Predicting Nitrogen Deficiency during Alcoholic Fermentation
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Shigenori Yamaguchi, Hidenobu Komeda, and Yasuhisa Asano

New Enzymatic Method of Chiral Amino Acid Synthesis by Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Amino Acid Amides: Use of Stereoselective Amino Acid Amidases in the Presence of -Amino--Caprolactam Racemase
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Mycology:

Takeo Shimizu, Hiroshi Kinoshita, and Takuya Nihira

Identification and In Vivo Functional Analysis by Gene Disruption of ctnA, an Activator Gene Involved in Citrinin Biosynthesis in Monascus purpureus
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Wei-Jen Chen, François Delmotte, Sylvie Richard Cervera, Lisette Douence, Charles Greif, and Marie-France Corio-Costet

At Least Two Origins of Fungicide Resistance in Grapevine Downy Mildew Populations
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Khalid El Karkouri, Claude Murat, Elisa Zampieri, and Paola Bonfante

Identification of Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequence Motifs in Truffles: a First Step toward Their DNA Bar Coding
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Public Health Microbiology:

S. Butot, T. Putallaz, C. Croquet, G. Lamothe, R. Meyer, H. Joosten, and G. Sánchez

Attachment of Enteric Viruses to Bottles
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Jennifer A. Ufnar, David F. Ufnar, Shiao Y. Wang, and R. D. Ellender

Development of a Swine-Specific Fecal Pollution Marker Based on Host Differences in Methanogen mcrA Genes
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Verónica P. Costantini, Ana C. Azevedo, Xin Li, Mike C. Williams, Frederick C. Michel, Jr., and Linda J. Saif

Effects of Different Animal Waste Treatment Technologies on Detection and Viability of Porcine Enteric Viruses
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Sonia Ragull, Marian Garcia-Nuñez, Maria Luisa Pedro-Botet, Nieves Sopena, Maria Esteve, Rafael Montenegro, and Miquel Sabrià

Legionella pneumophila in Cooling Towers: Fluctuations in Counts, Determination of Genetic Variability by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE), and Persistence of PFGE Patterns
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Microbial Ecology:

Andreas Nocker, Priscilla Sossa-Fernandez, Mark D. Burr, and Anne K. Camper

Use of Propidium Monoazide for Live/Dead Distinction in Microbial Ecology
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Brajesh K. Singh, Kevin R. Tate, Gokul Kolipaka, Carolyn B. Hedley, Catriona A. Macdonald, Peter Millard, and J. Colin Murrell

Effect of Afforestation and Reforestation of Pastures on the Activity and Population Dynamics of Methanotrophic Bacteria
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Jamie L. Myers, Raju Sekar, and Laurie L. Richardson

Molecular Detection and Ecological Significance of the Cyanobacterial Genera Geitlerinema and Leptolyngbya in Black Band Disease of Corals
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Jesse G. Dillon, Susan Fishbain, Scott R. Miller, Brad M. Bebout, Kirsten S. Habicht, Samuel M. Webb, and David A. Stahl

High Rates of Sulfate Reduction in a Low-Sulfate Hot Spring Microbial Mat Are Driven by a Low Level of Diversity of Sulfate-Respiring Microorganisms
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Xavier Mari, Marie-Emmanuelle Kerros, and Markus G. Weinbauer

Virus Attachment to Transparent Exopolymeric Particles along Trophic Gradients in the Southwestern Lagoon of New Caledonia
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Ryuki Miyauchi, Kazuma Oki, Yoshiteru Aoi, and Satoshi Tsuneda

Diversity of Nitrite Reductase Genes in "Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis"-Dominated Cultures Enriched by Flow-Cytometric Sorting
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Geomicrobiology:

T. R. Kulp, S. Han, C. W. Saltikov, B. D. Lanoil, K. Zargar, and R. S. Oremland

Effects of Imposed Salinity Gradients on Dissimilatory Arsenate Reduction, Sulfate Reduction, and Other Microbial Processes in Sediments from Two California Soda Lakes
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Emilio Blas-Galindo, Felipe Cava, Eduardo López-Viñas, Jesús Mendieta, and José Berenguer

Use of a Dominant rpsL Allele Conferring Streptomycin Dependence for Positive and Negative Selection in Thermus thermophilus
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Tatsuya Tominaga and Yoshinori Hatakeyama

Development of Innovative Pediocin PA-1 by DNA Shuffling among Class IIa Bacteriocins
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Andrzej T. Lulko, Jan-Willem Veening, Girbe Buist, Wiep Klaas Smits, Evert Jan Blom, Aaron C. Beekman, Sierd Bron, and Oscar P. Kuipers

Production and Secretion Stress Caused by Overexpression of Heterologous -Amylase Leads to Inhibition of Sporulation and a Prolonged Motile Phase in Bacillus subtilis
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Minjeong Park, Yeji Jeon, Ho Hee Jang, Hyun-Su Ro, Woojun Park, Eugene L. Madsen, and Che Ok Jeon

Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of 3-Hydroxybenzoate 6-Hydroxylase from Polaromonas naphthalenivorans CJ2
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Stijn Lagaert, Steven Van Campenhout, Annick Pollet, Tine M. Bourgois, Jan A. Delcour, Christophe M. Courtin, and Guido Volckaert

Recombinant Expression and Characterization of a Reducing-End Xylose-Releasing Exo-Oligoxylanase from Bifidobacterium adolescentis
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Jesús Torres-Bacete, Daniel Hormigo, Maribel Stuart, Miguel Arroyo, Pedro Torres, María P. Castillón, Carmen Acebal, José L. García, and Isabel de la Mata

Newly Discovered Penicillin Acylase Activity of Aculeacin A Acylase from Actinoplanes utahensis
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Environmental Microbiology:

François Coutard, Solen Lozach, Monique Pommepuy, and Dominique Hervio-Heath

Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR for Transcriptional Expression Analysis of Virulence and Housekeeping Genes in Viable but Nonculturable Vibrio parahaemolyticus after Recovery of Culturability
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Alexis J. de Kerchove and Menachem Elimelech

Impact of Alginate Conditioning Film on Deposition Kinetics of Motile and Nonmotile Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains
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Invertebrate Microbiology:

Saliou Fall, Jérôme Hamelin, Farma Ndiaye, Komi Assigbetse, Michel Aragno, Jean Luc Chotte, and Alain Brauman

Differences between Bacterial Communities in the Gut of a Soil-Feeding Termite (Cubitermes niokoloensis) and Its Mounds
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Holly Snyder, S. Patricia Stock, Sam-Kyu Kim, Yolanda Flores-Lara, and Steven Forst

New Insights into the Colonization and Release Processes of Xenorhabdus nematophila and the Morphology and Ultrastructure of the Bacterial Receptacle of Its Nematode Host, Steinernema carpocapsae
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Methods:

J. Trent Fox, David G. Renter, Michael W. Sanderson, Daniel U. Thomson, Kelly F. Lechtenberg, and T. G. Nagaraja

Evaluation of Culture Methods To Identify Bovine Feces with High Concentrations of Escherichia coli O157
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Qiong Wang, George M. Garrity, James M. Tiedje, and James R. Cole

Naïve Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial Taxonomy
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Christopher B. Blackwood, Deborah Hudleston, Donald R. Zak, and Jeffrey S. Buyer

Interpreting Ecological Diversity Indices Applied to Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Data: Insights from Simulated Microbial Communities
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Errata:

Yuki Sawatari and Atsushi Yokota

Diversity and Mechanisms of Alkali Tolerance in Lactobacilli
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J. A. Tomlinson, I. Barker, and N. Boonham

Faster, Simpler, More-Specific Methods for Improved Molecular Detection of Phytophthora ramorum in the Field
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Patricia J. Waldron, Steven T. Petsch, Anna M. Martini, and Klaus Nüsslein

Salinity Constraints on Subsurface Archaeal Diversity and Methanogenesis in Sedimentary Rock Rich in Organic Matter
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