TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 2, Issue 6 (June 2008)
Commentary
Global-scale processes with a nanoscale drive: the role of marine viruses FREE
Corina P D Brussaard, Steven W Wilhelm, Frede Thingstad, Markus G Weinbauer, Gunnar Bratbak, Mikal Heldal, Susan A Kimmance, Mathias Middelboe, Keizo Nagasaki, John H Paul, Declan C Schroeder, Curtis A Suttle, Dolors Vaqué and K Eric Wommack
ISME J 2: 575-578; advance online publication, April 3, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.31
Mini-Review
Prophages in marine bacteria: dangerous molecular time bombs or the key to survival in the seas? FREE
John H Paul
ISME J 2: 579-589; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.35
Original Articles
Microbial population and community ecology
Niche differentiation among sulfur-oxidizing bacterial populations in cave waters FREE
Jennifer L Macalady, Sharmishtha Dattagupta, Irene Schaperdoth, Daniel S Jones, Greg K Druschel and Danielle Eastman
ISME J 2: 590-601; advance online publication, March 20, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.25
Applying stable isotope probing of phospholipid fatty acids and rRNA in a Chinese rice field to study activity and composition of the methanotrophic bacterial communities in situ FREE
Qiongfen Qiu, Matthias Noll, Wolf-Rainer Abraham, Yahai Lu and Ralf Conrad
ISME J 2: 602-614; advance online publication, April 3, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.34
Microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions
Escherichia coli transcription factor YncC (McbR) regulates colanic acid and biofilm formation by repressing expression of periplasmic protein YbiM (McbA) FREE
Xue-Song Zhang, Rodolfo García-Contreras and Thomas K Wood
ISME J 2: 615-631; advance online publication, February 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.24
Evolution of host resistance in a toxin-producing bacterial–fungal alliance FREE
Imke Schmitt, Laila P Partida-Martinez, Robert Winkler, Kerstin Voigt, Esra Einax, Franziska Dölz, Sabine Telle, Johannes Wöstemeyer and Christian Hertweck
ISME J 2: 632-641; advance online publication, February 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.19
Integrated genomics and post-genomics approaches in microbial ecology
Microarray-based whole-genome hybridization as a tool for determining procaryotic species relatedness FREE
Liyou Wu, Xueduan Liu, Matthew W Fields, Dorothea K Thompson, Christopher E Bagwell, James M Tiedje, Terry C Hazen and Jizhong Zhou
ISME J 2: 642-655; advance online publication, February 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.23
Microbial ecology and functional diversity of natural habitats
Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems FREE
Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, Gazalah Sabehi, Itai Sharon, Karl-Paul Witzel, Matthias Labrenz, Klaus Jürgens, Tamar Barkay, Maayke Stomp, Jef Huisman and Oded Beja
ISME J 2: 656-662; advance online publication, March 27, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.27
Nitrogen fixation in an anticyclonic eddy in the oligotrophic North Pacific Ocean FREE
Allison A Fong, David M Karl, Roger Lukas, Ricardo M Letelier, Jonathan P Zehr and Matthew J Church
ISME J 2: 663-676; advance online publication, February 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.22
Direct analysis of tfdA gene expression by indigenous bacteria in phenoxy acid amended agricultural soil FREE
Jacob Bælum, Mette H Nicolaisen, William E Holben, Bjarne W Strobel, Jan Sørensen and Carsten S Jacobsen
ISME J 2: 677-687; advance online publication, March 20, 2008; doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.21
