1. Editorial

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - v

2. 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

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

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

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 17

4. 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

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

   • Ursula Wanner
   • Judith Kemmler
   • Georg Auling

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 41

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

   • Diederik Schowanek
   • Willy Verstraete

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 53

7. 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

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