1. Zika virus as a causative agent for primary microencephaly: the evidence so far

   • Bor Luen Tang

   Mini-Review 13 July 2016 Pages: 595 - 601

2. The flagellin hypervariable region is a potential flagella display domain in probiotic Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917

   • Ying Yang
   • Yi Yang
   • Guoqiang Zhu

   Original Paper 12 April 2016 Pages: 603 - 610

   

3. Functional and bioinformatics analysis of an exopolysaccharide-related gene (epsN) from Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens ZW3

   • Jingrui Wang
   • Wei Tang
   • Yanping Wang

   Original Paper 15 April 2016 Pages: 611 - 618

   

4. Influence of DNA isolation method on the investigation of archaeal diversity and abundance in biogas plants

   • Juliane Theiss
   • Michael Rother
   • Kerstin Röske

   Original Paper 18 April 2016 Pages: 619 - 628

   

5. Evaluation and update of cutoff values for methanotrophic pmoA gene sequences

   • Xi Wen
   • Sizhong Yang
   • Susanne Liebner

   Original Paper 20 April 2016 Pages: 629 - 636

   

6. Description of Hydrogenophaga laconesensis sp. nov. isolated from tube well water

   • Soniya Mantri
   • Mohan Rao Chinthalagiri
   • Sathyanarayana Reddy Gundlapally

   Original Paper 22 April 2016 Pages: 637 - 644

   

7. Flavobacterium panacisoli sp. nov., isolated from soil of a ginseng field

   • Sun Young Jung
   • Yeon-Ju Kim
   • Deok-Chun Yang

   Original Paper 27 April 2016 Pages: 645 - 651

   

8. H-NS binding to evpB and evpC and repressing T6SS expression in fish pathogen Edwardsiella piscicida

   • Shilei Cui
   • Jingfan Xiao
   • Yuanxing Zhang

   Original Paper 28 April 2016 Pages: 653 - 661

   

9. Spongiimicrobium salis gen. nov., sp. nov., a bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a marine sponge

   • Jaewoo Yoon
   • Kyoko Adachi
   • Hiroaki Kasai

   Original Paper 28 April 2016 Pages: 663 - 670

   

10. Erratum to: Spongiimicrobium salis gen. nov., sp. nov., a bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a marine sponge

    • Jaewoo Yoon
    • Kyoko Adachi
    • Hiroaki Kasai

    Erratum 16 July 2016 Pages: 671 - 672

11. Complete genome sequence and comparative genome analysis of a new special Yersinia enterocolitica

    • Guoxiang Shi
    • Mingming Su
    • Xin Wang

    Original Paper 29 April 2016 Pages: 673 - 687

    

12. Biofilms of vaginal Lactobacillus reuteri CRL 1324 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus CRL 1332: kinetics of formation and matrix characterization

    • María Cecilia Leccese Terraf
    • María Silvina Juárez Tomás
    • María Elena Fátima Nader-Macías

    Original Paper 04 May 2016 Pages: 689 - 700

    

13. Copper-induced modifications in early symbiotic signaling factors of Ensifer (Sinorhizobium)–Medicago interactions

    • Murali Sharaff
    • G. Archana

    Short Communication 20 May 2016 Pages: 701 - 709

    

14. Synthetic biology: from mainstream to counterculture

    • Roy D. Sleator

    Short Communication 17 June 2016 Pages: 711 - 713

15. Relationships between rDNA, Nop1 and Sir complex in biotechnologically relevant distillery yeasts

    • Jagoda Adamczyk
    • Anna Deregowska
    • Maciej Wnuk

    Short Communication Open access 21 June 2016 Pages: 715 - 723