TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 2, Issue 4 (April 2008)
Commentary
AHL-driven quorum-sensing circuits: their frequency and function among the Proteobacteria
Rebecca J Case, Maurizio Labbate and Staffan Kjelleberg
ISME J 2: 345-349; advance online publication, February 14, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.13
Original Articles
Microbial population and community ecology
Changes in coral-associated microbial communities during a bleaching event
David Bourne, Yuki Iida, Sven Uthicke and Carolyn Smith-Keune
ISME J 2: 350-363; advance online publication, December 6, 2007; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.112
Regulation of nif gene expression and the energetics of N2 fixation over the diel cycle in a hot spring microbial mat
Anne-Soisig Steunou, Sheila I Jensen, Eric Brecht, Eric D Becraft, Mary M Bateson, Oliver Kilian, Devaki Bhaya, David M Ward, John W Peters, Arthur R Grossman and Michael Kühl
ISME J 2: 364-378; advance online publication, March 6, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.117
Improved group-specific PCR primers for denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of the genetic diversity of complex microbial communities
Martin Mühling, John Woolven-Allen, J Colin Murrell and Ian Joint
ISME J 2: 379-392; advance online publication, March 13, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.97
Protein oxidation: key to bacterial desiccation resistance?
James K Fredrickson, Shu-mei W Li, Elena K Gaidamakova, Vera Y Matrosova, Min Zhai, Heather M Sulloway, Johannes C Scholten, Mindy G Brown, David L Balkwill and Michael J Daly
ISME J 2: 393-403; advance online publication, February 14, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.116
Microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions
Stress tolerance in plants via habitat-adapted symbiosis
Rusty J Rodriguez, Joan Henson, Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh, Marshal Hoy, Leesa Wright, Fleur Beckwith, Yong-Ok Kim and Regina S Redman
ISME J 2: 404-416; advance online publication, February 7, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.106
Evolutionary genetics
Influence of industrial contamination on mobile genetic elements: class 1 integron abundance and gene cassette structure in aquatic bacterial communities
Meredith S Wright, Craig Baker-Austin, Angela H Lindell, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Hatch W Stokes and J Vaun McArthur
ISME J 2: 417-428; advance online publication, February 14, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.8
Geomicrobiology and microbial contributions to geochemical cycles
Molecular and biogeochemical evidence for ammonia oxidation by marine Crenarchaeota in the Gulf of California
J Michael Beman, Brian N Popp and Christopher A Francis
ISME J 2: 429-441; advance online publication, January 17, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.118
Thermodynamic constraints on methanogenic crude oil biodegradation
Jan Dolfing, Stephen R Larter and Ian M Head
ISME J 2: 442-452; advance online publication, December 13, 2007; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.111
