1. Inorganic polyphosphates in extremophiles and their possible functions

   • Alvaro Orell
   • Claudio A. Navarro
   • Carlos A. Jerez

   Review 15 May 2012 Pages: 573 - 583

   

2. Amino acid-assimilating phototrophic heliobacteria from soda lake environments: Heliorestis acidaminivorans sp. nov. and ‘Candidatus Heliomonas lunata’

   • Marie Asao
   • Shinichi Takaichi
   • Michael T. Madigan

   Original Paper 16 May 2012 Pages: 585 - 595

   

3. Desulfuribacillus alkaliarsenatis gen. nov. sp. nov., a deep-lineage, obligately anaerobic, dissimilatory sulfur and arsenate-reducing, haloalkaliphilic representative of the order Bacillales from soda lakes

   • D. Y. Sorokin
   • T. P. Tourova
   • G. Muyzer

   Original Paper Open access 24 May 2012 Pages: 597 - 605

   

4. Bacterial and archaeal diversity in two hot spring microbial mats from the geothermal region of Tengchong, China

   • Eulyn Pagaling
   • William D. Grant
   • Shaun Heaphy

   Original Paper 24 May 2012 Pages: 607 - 618

   

5. High level expression and characterization of a thermostable lysophospholipase from Thermococcus kodakarensis KOD1

   • Zhicheng Cui
   • Yuhan Wang
   • Baolei Jia

   Original Paper 24 May 2012 Pages: 619 - 625

   

6. Purification and characterization of a halophilic α-amylase with increased activity in the presence of organic solvents from the moderately halophilic Nesterenkonia sp. strain F

   • Mohammad Shafiei
   • Abed-Ali Ziaee
   • Mohammad Ali Amoozegar

   Original Paper 17 May 2012 Pages: 627 - 635

   

7. Purification and characterization of an acidothermophilic cellulase enzyme produced by Bacillus subtilis strain LFS3

   • Rekha Rawat
   • Lakshmi Tewari

   Original Paper 18 May 2012 Pages: 637 - 644

   

8. Archaeal diversity: temporal variation in the arsenic-rich creek sediments of Carnoulès Mine, France

   • A. Volant
   • A. Desoeuvre
   • O. Bruneel

   Original Paper 20 June 2012 Pages: 645 - 657

   

9. Hexavalent chromate reduction by alkaliphilic Amphibacillus sp. KSUCr3 is mediated by copper-dependent membrane-associated Cr(VI) reductase

   • Abdelnasser S. S. Ibrahim
   • Mohamed A. El-Tayeb
   • Garabed Antranikian

   Original Paper 05 June 2012 Pages: 659 - 668

   

10. Biogeography of bacterial communities in hot springs: a focus on the actinobacteria

    • Angel Valverde
    • Marla Tuffin
    • Don A. Cowan

    Original Paper 19 June 2012 Pages: 669 - 679

    

11. Is there a cold shock response in the Antarctic psychrophile Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis?

    • Florence Piette
    • Pierre Leprince
    • Georges Feller

    NOTE 03 May 2012 Pages: 681 - 683