1. Microbiology of hyper-arid environments: recent insights from the Atacama Desert, Chile

   • Alan T. Bull
   • Juan A. Asenjo

   Perspective 06 April 2013 Pages: 1173 - 1179

2. Yeast competence for exogenous DNA uptake: towards understanding its genetic component

   • Petar Tomev Mitrikeski

   Review Paper 26 March 2013 Pages: 1181 - 1207

   

3. Identification of a metagenome-derived prephenate dehydrogenase gene from an alkaline-polluted soil microorganism

   • Chengjian Jiang
   • Bangqiao Yin
   • Bo Wu

   Original Paper 12 March 2013 Pages: 1209 - 1219

   

4. Characterization of precipitates formed by H₂S-producing, Cu-resistant Firmicute isolates of Tissierella from human gut and Desulfosporosinus from mine waste

   • Olga P. Ikkert
   • Anna L. Gerasimchuk
   • Olga V. Karnachuk

   Original Paper 12 March 2013 Pages: 1221 - 1234

   

5. Streptomyces araujoniae sp. nov.: an actinomycete isolated from a potato tubercle

   • Leonardo José da Silva
   • Rodrigo Gouvêa Taketani
   • Tiago Domingues Zucchi

   Original Paper 16 March 2013 Pages: 1235 - 1244

   

6. Micromonospora halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of a Pisum sativum plant

   • Lorena Carro
   • Rüdiger Pukall
   • Martha E. Trujillo

   Original Paper 15 March 2013 Pages: 1245 - 1254

   

7. Geojedonia litorea gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from coastal seawater

   • Sooyeon Park
   • Jung-Sook Lee
   • Jung-Hoon Yoon

   Original Paper 21 March 2013 Pages: 1255 - 1262

   

8. Litorimonas cladophorae sp. nov., a new alphaproteobacterium isolated from the Pacific green alga Cladophora stimpsoni, and emended descriptions of the genus Litorimonas and Litorimonas taeaensis

   • Olga I. Nedashkovskaya
   • Andrey D. Kukhlevskiy
   • Sung-Keun Rhee

   Original Paper 23 March 2013 Pages: 1263 - 1269

   

9. Use of the tetrazolium salt MTT to measure cell viability effects of the bacterial antagonist Lysobacter enzymogenes on the filamentous fungus Cryphonectria parasitica

   • Nrupali Patel
   • Peter V. Oudemans
   • Donald Y. Kobayashi

   Original Paper Open access 26 March 2013 Pages: 1271 - 1280

   

10. Transcriptional profiling of Saccharomyces cerevisiae T2 cells upon exposure to hardwood spent sulphite liquor: comparison to acetic acid, furfural and hydroxymethylfurfural

    • Paramjit K. Bajwa
    • Chi-Yip Ho
    • Hung Lee

    Original Paper 29 March 2013 Pages: 1281 - 1295

    

11. High activity catechol 1,2-dioxygenase from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain KB2 as a useful tool in cis,cis-muconic acid production

    • Urszula Guzik
    • Katarzyna Hupert-Kocurek
    • Danuta Wojcieszyńska

    Original Paper Open access 28 March 2013 Pages: 1297 - 1307

    

12. Bacterioplankton community structure in the Arctic waters as revealed by pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes

    • Yin-Xin Zeng
    • Fang Zhang
    • Hui-Rong Li

    Original Paper 29 March 2013 Pages: 1309 - 1319

    

13. Tenacibaculum halocynthiae sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from sea squirt Halocynthia roretzi

    • Young-Ok Kim
    • Sooyeon Park
    • Jung-Hoon Yoon

    Original Paper 30 March 2013 Pages: 1321 - 1327

    

14. The bacteria and bacteriophages from a Mesquite Flats site of the Death Valley desert

    • Eric Prestel
    • Christophe Regeard
    • Michael S. DuBow

    Original Paper 05 April 2013 Pages: 1329 - 1341

    

15. Penicillium subrubescens, a new species efficiently producing inulinase

    • S. Mansouri
    • J. Houbraken
    • P. Lankinen

    Original Paper 05 April 2013 Pages: 1343 - 1357

    

16. Sphingomonas ginsenosidivorax sp. nov., with the ability to transform ginsenosides

    • Xue-Feng Jin
    • Jin-Kwang Kim
    • Wan-Taek Im

    Original Paper 06 April 2013 Pages: 1359 - 1367

    

17. Saccharopolyspora dendranthemae sp. nov. a halotolerant endophytic actinomycete isolated from a coastal salt marsh plant in Jiangsu, China

    • Yue-Ji Zhang
    • Wen-Di Zhang
    • Ji-Hong Jiang

    Original Paper 05 April 2013 Pages: 1369 - 1376

    

18. Saccharomonospora oceani sp. nov. isolated from marine sediments in Little Andaman, India

    • Dao-Feng Zhang
    • Wei Chen
    • Wen-Jun Li

    Original Paper 03 April 2013 Pages: 1377 - 1384

    

19. Nocardioides panaciterrulae sp. nov., isolated from soil of a ginseng field, with ginsenoside converting activity

    • Jin-Kwang Kim
    • Qing-Mei Liu
    • Min-Ho Yoon

    Original Paper 04 April 2013 Pages: 1385 - 1393

    

20. Identification of up-regulated proteins potentially involved in the antagonism mechanism of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens G1

    • Haipeng Cao
    • Weidong Zheng
    • Liqun Lu

    Short Communication 13 March 2013 Pages: 1395 - 1404

    

21. Proposal to replace the illegitimate genus name Prescottia Jones et al. 2013 with the genus name Prescottella gen. nov. and to replace the illegitimate combination Prescottia equi Jones et al. 2013 with Prescottella equi comb. nov

    • Amanda L. Jones
    • Iain C. Sutcliffe
    • Michael Goodfellow

    Short Communication 25 April 2013 Pages: 1405 - 1407

22. Erratum to: Two novel species Enterococcus lemanii sp. nov. and Enterococcus eurekensis sp. nov., isolated from a swine-manure storage pit

    • Michael A. Cotta
    • Terence R. Whitehead
    • Paul A. Lawson

    Erratum 17 April 2013 Pages: 1409 - 1418