1. Introducing a digital protologue: a timely move towards a database-driven systematics of archaea and bacteria

   • Ramon Rosselló-Móra
   • Martha E. Trujillo
   • Iain C. Sutcliffe

   Editorial 06 February 2017 Pages: 455 - 456

2. Distinct bacterial communities across a gradient of vegetation from a preserved Brazilian Cerrado

   • Ademir Sergio Ferreira de Araujo
   • Walderly Melgaço Bezerra
   • Vania Maria Maciel Melo

   Original Paper 06 January 2017 Pages: 457 - 469

   

3. Streptomyces gamaensis sp. nov., a novel actinomycete with antifungal activity isolated from soil in Gama, Chad

   • Shanshan Zhao
   • Lan Ye
   • Xiangjing Wang

   Original Paper 22 December 2016 Pages: 471 - 477

   

4. Rhizobium hedysari sp. nov., a novel species isolated from a root nodule of Hedysarum multijugum in China

   • Lin Xu
   • Jianfeng Shi
   • Bo Li

   Original Paper 17 January 2017 Pages: 479 - 488

   

5. Culturable bacterial communities associated to Brazilian Oscarella species (Porifera: Homoscleromorpha) and their antagonistic interactions

   • Marinella Silva Laport
   • Mathieu Bauwens
   • Guilherme Muricy

   Original Paper 22 December 2016 Pages: 489 - 499

   

6. Effect of dietary probiotic supplementation on intestinal microbiota and physiological conditions of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) under waterborne cadmium exposure

   • Qixiao Zhai
   • Leilei Yu
   • Wei Chen

   Original Paper 27 December 2016 Pages: 501 - 513

   

7. Lactobacillus kefiri shows inter-strain variations in the amino acid sequence of the S-layer proteins

   • Mariano Malamud
   • Paula Carasi
   • María de los Angeles Serradell

   Original Paper 21 December 2016 Pages: 515 - 530

   

8. Dissecting the role of NtrC and RpoN in the expression of assimilatory nitrate and nitrite reductases in Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens

   • María F. López
   • Juan J. Cabrera
   • Silvina L. López-García

   Original Paper 31 December 2016 Pages: 531 - 542

   

9. Globisporangium oryzicola sp. nov., causing poor seedling establishment of directly seeded rice

   • Shihomi Uzuhashi
   • Kazuhide Hata
   • Motoaki Tojo

   Original Paper 23 December 2016 Pages: 543 - 552

   

10. Enterovirga rhinocerotis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from Rhinoceros unicornis faeces

    • Xiu Chen
    • Qin-Yuan Li
    • Cheng-Lin Jiang

    Original Paper 28 December 2016 Pages: 553 - 562

    

11. Phylogenetic relationships in the family Streptomycetaceae using multi-locus sequence analysis

    • David P. Labeda
    • Christopher A. Dunlap
    • William W. Metcalf

    Original Paper 30 December 2016 Pages: 563 - 583

    

12. Development of an Indirect Dot-PPA-ELISA using glutamate dehydrogenase as a diagnostic antigen for the rapid and specific detection of Streptococcus suis and its application to clinical specimens

    • Xiao-jing Xia
    • Lei Wang
    • Shu-guang Li

    Original Paper 05 January 2017 Pages: 585 - 592

    

13. Nature of the interactions between hypocrealean fungi and the mutualistic fungus of leaf-cutter ants

    • Sadala Schmidt Varanda-Haifig
    • Tatiane Regina Albarici
    • Andre Rodrigues

    Original Paper 31 December 2016 Pages: 593 - 605

    

14. Development of a regulatable expression system for the functional study of Vibrio vulnificus essential genes

    • Yan-Jiao Zhang
    • Guozhong Chen
    • Shiyong Chen

    Short Communication 02 January 2017 Pages: 607 - 614