1. Second thoughts on septation by the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe: pull vs. push mechanisms with an appendix – dimensional modelling of the flat and variable septa

   • Byron F. Johnson
   • Bong Y. Yoo
   • Christopher P. Kozela

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 12

2. Yeast population dynamics of industrial fuel-ethanol fermentation process assessed by PCR-fingerprinting

   • Eurípedes Alves da Silva-Filho
   • Scheila Karina Brito dos Santos
   • Diogo Ardaillon Simões

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 23

3. Preventive and therapeutic administration of an indigenous Lactobacillus sp. strain against Proteus mirabilis ascending urinary tract infection in a mouse model

   • Martín Fraga
   • Paola Scavone
   • Pablo Zunino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 34

4. Inactivation of Escherichia coli and coliform bacteria in traditional brass and earthernware water storage vessels

   • Puja Tandon
   • Sanjay Chhibber
   • H. Robert Reed

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 48

5. Extracellular xylanases from two pathogenic races of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris: enzyme production in culture and purification and characterization of a major isoform as an alkaline endo-β-(1,4)-xylanase of low molecular weight

   • Inmaculada Jorge
   • Olga de la Rosa
   • Manuel Tena

   OriginalPaper Pages: 48 - 59

6. Conidial development in selected ambrosial species of the genus Raffaelea

   • Heiko Gebhardt
   • Franz Oberwinkler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 65

7. Comparison of cellular fatty acid profiles of the microbiota in different gut regions of BALB/c and C57BL/6J mice

   • Vaahtovuo Jussi
   • Eerola Erkki
   • Toivanen Paavo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 74

8. Characterization of Streptococcus mutans diversity by determining restriction fragment-length polymorphisms of the gtfB gene of isolates from 5-year-old children and their mothers

   • Cheryl Sam Toi
   • Peter Cleaton-Jones
   • Paul Fatti

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 85