1. Preface

   • M. A. Lachance

   EditorialNotes Pages: 89 - 89

2. Ascomycetous yeast communities of marine invertebrates in a Southeast Brazilian mangrove ecosystem

   • F. V. de Araujo
   • C. A. G. Soares
   • L. C. Mendonça-Hagler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 99

3. Assessment of phenotypic and genetic diversity in the yeast genusMetschnikowia

   • G. Giménez-Jurado
   • M. J. Valderrama
   • I. Spencer-Martins

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 110

4. Saccharomyces barnetti andSaccharomyces spencerorum: two new species ofSaccharomyces sensu lato (van der Walt)

   • Ann Vaughan-Martini

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 118

5. Phylogenesis of fission yeasts. Contradictions surrounding the origin of a century old genus

   • M. Sipiczki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 149

6. Yeast communities in a natural tequila fermentation

   • Marc-André Lachance

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 160

7. Xanthomonas campestris pv.parthenii pathovar nov. incitant of leaf blight of parthenium

   • Ramesh Chand
   • B. D. Singh
   • P. N. Singh

   General Papers Pages: 161 - 164

8. Taxonomy ofPenicillium nalgiovense isolates from mould-fermented sausages

   • Susanne J. Andersen

   General Papers Pages: 165 - 171

9. Sizing of theRhodococcus sp. R312 genome by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Localization of genes involved in nitrile degradation

   • Frédéric Bigey
   • Guilhem Janbon
   • Pierre Galzy

   General Papers Pages: 173 - 179