Articles

1. Enzymology of cellulose degradation

   • Thomas M. Wood
   • Vicenta Garcia-Campayo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 161

2. Physiology and performance of thermophilic microorganisms in sewage sludge treatment processes

   • B. Sonnleitner
   • M. Bomio

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 146

3. Microbial degradation of chelating agents used in detergents with special reference to nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA)

   • Thomas Egli
   • Matthias Bally
   • Thomas Uetz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 132

4. Formation and physiological role of biosurfactants produced by hydrocarbon-utilizing microorganisms

   • Rolf K. Hommel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 119

5. Microbial metabolism of monoterpenes — recent developments

   • Peter W. Trudgill

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 105

6. Physiology of aliphatic hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms

   • Robert J. Watkinson
   • Philip Morgan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 92

7. Editorial

   EditorialNotes Pages: III - IV

8. Effect of fluorinated analogues of phenol and hydroxybenzoates on the anaerobic transformation of phenol to benzoate

   • Barbara R. Sharak Genthner
   • G. T. Townsend
   • P. J. Chapman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 74

9. Initial steps in the degradation of benzene sulfonic acid, 4-toluene sulfonic acids, and orthanilic acid in Alcaligenes sp. strain O-1

   • Thomas Thurnheer
   • Daniel Zürrer
   • Alasdair M. Cook

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 64

10. Phosphonate utilization by bacteria in the presence of alternative phosphorus sources

    • Diederik Schowanek
    • Willy Verstraete

    OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 53

11. Isolation and growth of a bacterium able to degrade nitrilotriacetic acid under denitrifying conditions

    • Ursula Wanner
    • Judith Kemmler
    • Georg Auling

    OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 41

12. Optimization of trichloroethylene oxidation by methanotrophs and the use of a colorimetric assay to detect soluble methane monooxygenase activity

    • Gregory A. Brusseau
    • Hsien-Chyang Tsien
    • Lawrence P. Wackett

    OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 29

13. Transformation of metolachlor in soil inoculated with a Streptomyces sp.

    • Shu-Yen Liu
    • Min-Hua Lu
    • Jean-Marc Bollag

    OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 17

14. Fermentative degradation of dipicolinic acid (pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid) by a defined coculture of strictly anaerobic bacteria

    • Birgit Seyfried
    • Bernhard Schink

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 7

15. Editorial

    EditorialNotes Pages: v - v