1. Genetic and functional characterization of an extracellular modular GH6 endo-β-1,4-glucanase from an earthworm symbiont, Cellulosimicrobium funkei HY-13

   • Do Young Kim
   • Min Ji Lee
   • Ho-Yong Park

   Original Paper 19 October 2015 Pages: 1 - 12

   

2. Bacillus depressus sp. nov., isolated from soil of a sunflower field

   • Xuexin Wei
   • Di Xin
   • Jianli Zhang

   Original Paper 09 October 2015 Pages: 13 - 20

   

3. Three genetic groups of the Eucalyptus stem canker pathogen Teratosphaeria zuluensis introduced into Africa from an unknown source

   • Luke Jimu
   • ShuaiFei Chen
   • Jolanda Roux

   Original Paper 24 October 2015 Pages: 21 - 33

   

4. Streptomonospora tuzyakensis sp. nov., a halophilic actinomycete isolated from saline soil

   • Demet Tatar
   • Kiymet Guven
   • Nevzat Sahin

   Original Paper 12 October 2015 Pages: 35 - 41

   

5. Catellatospora vulcania sp. nov. and Catellatospora paridis sp. nov., two novel actinobacteria isolated from volcanic sediment and the rhizosphere of Paris polyphylla

   • Feiyu Jia
   • Siyu Guo
   • Wensheng Xiang

   Original Paper 14 October 2015 Pages: 43 - 50

   

6. Trimeric autotransporter adhesins contribute to Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae pathogenicity in mice and regulate bacterial gene expression during interactions between bacteria and porcine primary alveolar macrophages

   • Wanhai Qin
   • Lei Wang
   • Liancheng Lei

   Original Paper 22 October 2015 Pages: 51 - 70

   

7. Phylogenomic analysis of the genus Ralstonia based on 686 single-copy genes

   • Yucheng Zhang
   • Sai Qiu

   Original Paper 22 October 2015 Pages: 71 - 82

   

8. Aliidiomarina minuta sp. nov., a haloalkaliphilic bacterium that forms ultra-small cells under non-optimal conditions

   • Saad M. Farooqui
   • Mitchell H. Wright
   • Anthony C. Greene

   Original Paper 28 October 2015 Pages: 83 - 93

   

9. Nocardia zapadnayensis sp. nov., isolated from soil

   • Fadime Ozdemir-Kocak
   • Hayrettin Saygin
   • Nevzat Sahin

   Original Paper 07 November 2015 Pages: 95 - 103

   

10. Diversity and antimicrobial potential of bacterial isolates associated with the soft coral Alcyonium digitatum from the Baltic Sea

    • Thi Mien Pham
    • Jutta Wiese
    • Johannes F. Imhoff

    Original Paper 11 November 2015 Pages: 105 - 119

11. A novel l-asparaginase from Aquabacterium sp. A7-Y with self-cleavage activation

    • Zhibin Sun
    • Ding Li
    • Zhongli Cui

    Original Paper 19 November 2015 Pages: 121 - 130

    

12. Identification of a gene involved in the biosynthesis pathway of the terminal sugar of the archaellin N-linked tetrasaccharide in Methanococcus maripaludis

    • Yan Ding
    • Gareth M. Jones
    • Ken F. Jarrell

    Original Paper 21 November 2015 Pages: 131 - 148

    

13. Bacillus lindianensis sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic and moderately halotolerant bacterium isolated from saline and alkaline soils

    • Guiming Dou
    • Hongcan Liu
    • Yuchao Ma

    Original Paper 24 November 2015 Pages: 149 - 158

    

14. Actinomadura algeriensis sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from Saharan soil

    • Abdelhadi Lahoum
    • Noureddine Bouras
    • Nasserdine Sabaou

    Original Paper 05 November 2015 Pages: 159 - 165

    

15. Erratum to: Erysipelothrix larvae sp. nov., isolated from the larval gut of the rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

    • Byung-Ho Bang
    • Moon-Soo Rhee
    • Byoung-Chan Kim

    Erratum 25 November 2015 Pages: 167 - 168

16. Erratum to: Roseovarius algicolus sp. nov., isolated from culture fluid of Cochlodinium polykrikoides

    • Saet-Byeol Moon
    • Sang-Seob Lee

    Erratum 23 November 2015 Pages: 169 - 169