TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 2, Issue 12 (December 2008)
Original Articles
Microbe-Microbe and Microbe-Host Interactions
Quorum sensing in Cyanobacteria: N-octanoyl-homoserine lactone release and response, by the epilithic colonial cyanobacterium Gloeothece PCC6909
Dilara I Sharif, John Gallon, Chris J Smith and Ed Dudley
ISME J 2: 1171-1182; advance online publication, July 17, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.68
Micro-eukaryotic diversity of the human distal gut microbiota: qualitative assessment using culture-dependent and -independent analysis of faeces
Pauline D Scanlan and Julian R Marchesi
ISME J 2: 1183-1193; advance online publication, July 31, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.76
Integrated Genomics and Post-genomics Approaches in Microbial Ecology
Comparative genomics of two ecotypes of the marine planktonic copiotroph Alteromonas macleodii suggests alternative lifestyles associated with different kinds of particulate organic matter
Elena Ivars-Martinez, Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, Giuseppe D'Auria, Alex Mira, Steve Ferriera, Justin Johnson, Robert Friedman and Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
ISME J 2: 1194-1212; advance online publication, July 31, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.74
Geomicrobiology and Microbial Contributions to Geochemical Cycles
Transcription of nitrification genes by the methane-oxidizing bacterium, Methylococcus capsulatus strain Bath
Amisha T Poret-Peterson, James E Graham, Jay Gulledge and Martin G Klotz
ISME J 2: 1213-1220; advance online publication, July 24, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.71
Microbial Ecology and Functional Diversity of Natural Habitats
Plant host habitat and root exudates shape soil bacterial community structure
Feth el Zahar Haichar, Christine Marol, Odile Berge, J Ignacio Rangel-Castro, James I Prosser, Jérôme Balesdent, Thierry Heulin and Wafa Achouak
ISME J 2: 1221-1230; advance online publication, August 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.80
Bacteria associated with iron seeps in a sulfur-rich, neutral pH, freshwater ecosystem
Suzanne C M Haaijer, Harry R Harhangi, Bas B Meijerink, Marc Strous, Arjan Pol, Alfons J P Smolders, Karin Verwegen, Mike S M Jetten and Huub J M Op den Camp
ISME J 2: 1231-1242; advance online publication, August 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.75
Short Communication
Microbe-Microbe and Microbe-Host Interactions
Abrogation of the resistance of choline-induced Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence to sub-MIC erythromycin by ethanol
Nava Katri, Nachman Chaim Garber, Gillar Kilfin and Nechama Gilboa-Garber
ISME J 2: 1243-1246; advance online publication, August 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.79
