1. Rubidimonas crustatorum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Saprospiraceae isolated from a marine crustacean

   • Jaewoo Yoon
   • Atsuko Katsuta
   • Hiroaki Kasai

   Original Paper 13 October 2011 Pages: 461 - 467

   

2. Kocuria sediminis sp. nov., isolated from a marine sediment sample

   • Monu Bala
   • Chandandeep Kaur
   • Shanmugam Mayilraj

   Original Paper 20 October 2011 Pages: 469 - 478

   

3. A novel function of Streptomyces integration host factor (sIHF) in the control of antibiotic production and sporulation in Streptomyces coelicolor

   • Yung-Hun Yang
   • Eunjung Song
   • Byung-Gee Kim

   Original Paper 29 October 2011 Pages: 479 - 492

   

4. Compositions of microbial communities associated with oil and water in a mesothermic oil field

   • Yuriy Kryachko
   • Xiaoli Dong
   • Gerrit Voordouw

   Original Paper 29 October 2011 Pages: 493 - 506

   

5. Verminephrobacter aporrectodeae sp. nov. subsp. tuberculatae and subsp. caliginosae, the specific nephridial symbionts of the earthworms Aporrectodea tuberculata and A. caliginosa

   • Marie B. Lund
   • Sarah Schätzle
   • Kasper U. Kjeldsen

   Original Paper 22 October 2011 Pages: 507 - 514

   

6. Isolation and characterization of culturable endophytic actinobacteria associated with Artemisia annua L.

   • Jie Li
   • Guo-Zhen Zhao
   • Gary Strobel

   Original Paper 29 October 2011 Pages: 515 - 527

   

7. The physiological characteristics of the yeast Dekkera bruxellensis in fully fermentative conditions with cell recycling and in mixed cultures with Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • Luciana Filgueira Pereira
   • Ana Paula Guarnieri Bassi
   • Marcos Antonio de Morais Jr.

   Original Paper 22 October 2011 Pages: 529 - 539

   

8. The high fermentative metabolism of Kluyveromyces marxianus UFV-3 relies on the increased expression of key lactose metabolic enzymes

   • Raphael H. S. Diniz
   • Wendel B. Silveira
   • Flávia M. L. Passos

   Original Paper 09 November 2011 Pages: 541 - 550

   

9. Phyllosphere bacterial communities of trichome-bearing and trichomeless Arabidopsis thaliana leaves

   • Eva E. Reisberg
   • Ulrich Hildebrandt
   • Ute Hentschel

   Original Paper 13 November 2011 Pages: 551 - 560

   

10. Kinetics of anaerobic elemental sulfur oxidation by ferric iron in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and protein identification by comparative 2-DE-MS/MS

    • Jiri Kucera
    • Pavel Bouchal
    • Martin Mandl

    Original Paper 05 November 2011 Pages: 561 - 573

    

11. Streptomyces deserti sp. nov., isolated from hyper-arid Atacama Desert soil

    • Rakesh Santhanam
    • Chinyere K. Okoro
    • Michael Goodfellow

    Original Paper 12 November 2011 Pages: 575 - 581

    

12. Gene expression modulation by heat stress in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans LR

    • Daniela A. Ribeiro
    • Lúcio F. C. Ferraz
    • Laura M. M. Ottoboni

    Original Paper 16 November 2011 Pages: 583 - 593

    

13. Desulfosoma profundi sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep terrestrial geothermal spring in France

    • Patrick Grégoire
    • Marie-Laure Fardeau
    • Bernard Ollivier

    Original Paper 26 November 2011 Pages: 595 - 602

    

14. Diversity and distribution of the bioactive actinobacterial genus Salinispora from sponges along the Great Barrier Reef

    • M. E. Vidgen
    • J. N. A. Hooper
    • J. A. Fuerst

    Original Paper 18 November 2011 Pages: 603 - 618

    

15. Constitutive expression of ftsZ overrides the whi developmental genes to initiate sporulation of Streptomyces coelicolor

    • Joost Willemse
    • A. Mieke Mommaas
    • Gilles P. van Wezel

    Original Paper Open access 24 November 2011 Pages: 619 - 632

    

16. Two new species of the genus Candida in the Zygoascus clade, Candida lundiana sp. nov. and Candida suthepensis sp. nov., isolated from raw honey in Thailand

    • Sujinan Saksinchai
    • Motofumi Suzuki
    • Panuwan Chantawannakul

    Original Paper 22 November 2011 Pages: 633 - 640

    

17. Echinicola shivajiensis sp. nov., a novel bacterium of the family “Cyclobacteriaceae” isolated from brackish water pond

    • T. N. R. Srinivas
    • B. Kailash Tryambak
    • P. Anil Kumar

    Original Paper 22 November 2011 Pages: 641 - 647

    

18. Micromonospora haikouensis sp. nov., isolated from mangrove soil

    • Qing-yi Xie
    • Zhi Qu
    • Kui Hong

    Original Paper 13 January 2012 Pages: 649 - 655

    

19. Capsicum annuum L. trypsin inhibitor as a template scaffold for new drug development against pathogenic yeast

    • Suzanna F. F. Ribeiro
    • Marciele S. Silva
    • Valdirene M. Gomes

    Original Paper 08 December 2011 Pages: 657 - 670

    

20. Efficiency of the Cepheid Xpert vanA/vanB assay for screening of colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci during hospital outbreak

    • Dorota Zabicka
    • Janusz Strzelecki
    • Waleria Hryniewicz

    Short Communication 29 November 2011 Pages: 671 - 675

21. Survival and biofilm formation by Group B streptococci in simulated vaginal fluid at different pHs

    • Sandra Borges
    • Joana Silva
    • Paula Teixeira

    Short Communication 29 October 2011 Pages: 677 - 682

    

22. Editors’ Note: Physiological diversity within the Kluyveromyces marxianus species

    • Saul Nitsche Rocha
    • José Abrahão-Neto
    • Andreas Karoly Gombert

    Editors' Note 03 November 2011 Pages: 683 - 683