TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 2, Issue 3 (March 2008)
Mini Review
Something from (almost) nothing: the impact of multiple displacement amplification on microbial ecology FREE
Erik K Binga, Roger S Lasken and Josh D Neufeld
ISME J 2: 233-241; advance online publication, February 7, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.10
Original Articles
Microbial population and community ecology
Metabolic evidence for biogeographic isolation of the extremophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruber FREE
Ramon Rosselló-Mora, Marianna Lucio, Arantxa Peña, Jocelyn Brito-Echeverría, Aránzazu López-López, Maria Valens-Vadell, Moritz Frommberger, Josefa Antón and Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
ISME J 2: 242-253; advance online publication, January 31, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.93
Differences in soil bacterial diversity: driven by contemporary disturbances or historical contingencies? FREE
Yuan Ge, Ji-zheng He, Yong-guan Zhu, Jia-bao Zhang, Zhihong Xu, Li-mei Zhang and Yuan-ming Zheng
ISME J 2: 254-264; advance online publication, January 31, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.2
Evaluating different approaches that test whether microbial communities have the same structure FREE
Patrick D Schloss
ISME J 2: 265-275; advance online publication, January 31, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.5
Microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions
Vibrio cholerae and Aeromonas: do they share a mutual host? FREE
Yigal Senderovich, Yana Gershtein, Etti Halewa and Malka Halpern
ISME J 2: 276-283; advance online publication, February 7, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.114
3D FISH for the quantification of methane- and sulphur-oxidizing endosymbionts in bacteriocytes of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus FREE
Sébastien Halary, Virginie Riou, Françoise Gaill, Thomas Boudier and Sébastien Duperron
ISME J 2: 284-292; advance online publication, January 24, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.3
Evolutionary genetics
Evolutionary loss of the rdar morphotype in Salmonella as a result of high mutation rates during laboratory passage FREE
Carla J Davidson, Aaron P White and Michael G Surette
ISME J 2: 293-307; advance online publication, February 7, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.4
Microbial ecology and functional diversity of natural habitats
Sources of edaphic cyanobacterial diversity in the Dry Valleys of Eastern Antarctica FREE
Susanna A Wood, Andreas Rueckert, Donald A Cowan and S Craig Cary
ISME J 2: 308-320; advance online publication, January 31, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.104
The life history of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae is linked to the water cycle FREE
Cindy E Morris, David C Sands, Boris A Vinatzer, Catherine Glaux, Caroline Guilbaud, Alain Buffière, Shuangchun Yan, Hélène Dominguez and Brian M Thompson
ISME J 2: 321-334; advance online publication, January 10, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.113
Short Communications
Microbial population and community ecology
Identification of the bacterial symbiont Entotheonella sp. in the mesohyl of the marine sponge Discodermia sp. FREE
Wolfram M Brück, Susan H Sennett, Shirley A Pomponi, Philippe Willenz and Peter J McCarthy
ISME J 2: 335-339; advance online publication, February 7, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.91
Geomicrobiology and microbial contributions to geochemical cycles
Arsenite-dependent photoautotrophy by an Ectothiorhodospira-dominated consortium FREE
Charles R Budinoff and James T Hollibaugh
ISME J 2: 340-343; advance online publication, January 24, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.115
