TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 3, Issue 7 (July 2009)
Original Articles
Microbial Population and Community Ecology
Competition favours reduced cost of plasmids to host bacteria
Rembrandt J F Haft, John E Mittler and Beth Traxler
ISME J 3: 761-769; advance online publication, April 2, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.22
Subject Category: Microbial population and community ecology
Functional GacS in Pseudomonas DSS73 prevents digestion by Caenorhabditis elegans and protects the nematode from killer flagellates
Lisa Bjørnlund, Regin Rønn, Maria Péchy-Tarr, Monika Maurhofer, Christoph Keel and Ole Nybroe
ISME J 3: 770-779; advance online publication, April 2, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.28
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Subject Category: Microbial population and community ecology
Time- and sediment depth-related variations in bacterial diversity and community structure in subtidal sands
Simone I Böer, Stefanie I C Hedtkamp, Justus E E van Beusekom, Jed A Fuhrman, Antje Boetius and Alban Ramette
ISME J 3: 780-791; advance online publication, April 2, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.29
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Subject Category: Microbial population and community ecology
Bias in assessments of marine microbial biodiversity in fosmid libraries as evaluated by pyrosequencing
Ben Temperton, Dawn Field, Anna Oliver, Bela Tiwari, Martin Mühling, Ian Joint and Jack A Gilbert
ISME J 3: 792-796; advance online publication, April 2, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.32
Subject Category: Microbial population and community ecology
Characterization of the complex bacterial communities colonizing biliary stents reveals a host-dependent diversity
Britta K Scheithauer, Melissa L Wos-Oxley, Björn Ferslev, Helmut Jablonowski and Dietmar H Pieper
ISME J 3: 797-807; advance online publication, April 9, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.36
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Subject Category: Microbial population and community ecology
Microbe-Microbe and Microbe-Host Interactions
Extracellular polysaccharide-protein complexes of a harmful alga mediate the allelopathic control it exerts within the phytoplankton community
Yasuhiro Yamasaki, Tomoyuki Shikata, Atsushi Nukata, Satoko Ichiki, Sou Nagasoe, Tadashi Matsubara, Yohei Shimasaki, Miki Nakao, Kenichi Yamaguchi, Yuji Oshima, Tatsuya Oda, Makoto Ito, Ian R Jenkinson, Makio Asakawa and Tsuneo Honjo
ISME J 3: 808-817; advance online publication, March 26, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.24
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Subject Category: Microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions
Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus
Reid N Harris, Robert M Brucker, Jenifer B Walke, Matthew H Becker, Christian R Schwantes, Devon C Flaherty, Brianna A Lam, Douglas C Woodhams, Cheryl J Briggs, Vance T Vredenburg and Kevin P C Minbiole
ISME J 3: 818-824; advance online publication, March 26, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.27
Subject Category: Microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions
Acyl-homoserine lactone-mediated cross talk among epiphytic bacteria modulates behavior of Pseudomonas syringae on leaves
Glenn F J Dulla and Steven E Lindow
ISME J 3: 825-834; advance online publication, April 2, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.30
Subject Category: Microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions
Integrated Genomics and Post-Genomics Approaches in Microbial Ecology
Microarray analysis of phosphate regulation in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH8102
Sasha G Tetu, Bianca Brahamsha, Daniel A Johnson, Vera Tai, Katherine Phillippy, Brian Palenik and Ian T Paulsen
ISME J 3: 835-849; advance online publication, April 2, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.31
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Subject Category: Integrated genomics and post-genomics approaches in microbial ecology
Microbial Ecology and Functional Diversity of Natural Habitats
Microbial diversity in alpine tundra soils correlates with snow cover dynamics
Lucie Zinger, Bahar Shahnavaz, Florence Baptist, Roberto A Geremia and Philippe Choler
ISME J 3: 850-859; advance online publication, March 26, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.20
Subject Category: Microbial ecology and functional diversity of natural habitats
Unique archaeal assemblages in the Arctic Ocean unveiled by massively parallel tag sequencing
Pierre E Galand, Emilio O Casamayor, David L Kirchman, Marianne Potvin and Connie Lovejoy
ISME J 3: 860-869; advance online publication, March 26, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.23
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Subject Category: Microbial ecology and functional diversity of natural habitats
Short Communications
Microbe-Microbe and Microbe-Host Interactions
Rhizobitoxine producers gain more poly-3-hydroxybutyrate in symbiosis than do competing rhizobia, but reduce plant growth
William C Ratcliff and R Ford Denison
ISME J 3: 870-872; advance online publication, April 9, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.38
Subject Category: Microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions
Microbial Ecology and Functional Diversity of Natural Habitats
Pyrococcus CH1, an obligate piezophilic hyperthermophile: extending the upper pressure-temperature limits for life
Xiang Zeng, Jean-Louis Birrien, Yves Fouquet, Georgy Cherkashov, Mohamed Jebbar, Joël Querellou, Philippe Oger, Marie-Anne Cambon-Bonavita, Xiang Xiao and Daniel Prieur
ISME J 3: 873-876; advance online publication, March 19, 2009; doi:10.1038/ismej.2009.21
Subject Category: Microbial ecology and functional diversity of natural habitats
