1. Editorial

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 1

2. Rhodococcal systematics: problems and developments

   • Michael Goodfellow
   • Grace Alderson
   • Jongsik Chun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 20

3. Diversity of isolates of Rhodococcus equi from Australian Thoroughbred horse farms

   • Anna C. Morton
   • Nina Baseggio
   • Glenn F. Browning

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 25

4. Novel rhodococci and other mycolate actinomycetes from the deep sea

   • Joy A. Colquhoun
   • Joanne Mexson
   • Alan T. Bull

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 40

5. In situ detection of rhodococci associated with activated sludge foams

   • Russell J. Davenport
   • James N. Elliott
   • John Upton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 48

6. Cell envelope composition and organisation in the genus Rhodococcus

   • Iain C. Sutcliffe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 58

7. Surface-active lipids in rhodococci

   • Siegmund Lang
   • Jim C Philp

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 70

8. The putative regulator of catechol catabolism in Rhodococcus opacus 1CP – an IclR-type, not a LysR-type transcriptional regulator

   • Dirk Eulberg
   • Michael Schlömann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 82

9. A self-compartmentalizing protease in Rhodococcus: the 20S proteasome

   • René De Mot
   • István Nagy
   • Wolfgang Baumeister

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 87

10. Biotransformation of nitriles by rhodococci

    • Alan William Bunch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 97

11. Enantioselective biotransformations using rhodococci

    • Timothy M. Beard
    • Michael I. Page

    OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 106

12. Application of whole cell rhodococcal biocatalysts in acrylic polymer manufacture

    • Jonathan Hughes
    • Yvonne C. Armitage
    • Kenneth C. Symes

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 118

13. Desulphurisation of benzothiophene and dibenzothiophene by actinomycete organisms belonging to the genus Rhodococcus, and related taxa

    • Christopher Oldfield
    • Nicola T. Wood
    • Fabrice R. Faure

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 132

14. Applied aspects of Rhodococcus genetics

    • Michael J. Larkin
    • René De Mot
    • István Nagy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 153

15. Cloning of genes that have environmental and clinical importance from rhodococci and related bacteria

    • Eric R. Dabbs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 168

16. Structural alteration of linear plasmids encoding the genes for polychlorinated biphenyl degradation in Rhodococcus strain RHA1

    • Masao Fukuda
    • Satoru Shimizu
    • Eiji Masai

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 173

17. Molecular characterisation of a Rhodococcus ohp operon

    • Justin A.C. Powell
    • John A.C. Archer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 188