1. Polyphasic characterization of benthic, moderately halophilic, moderately thermophilic cyanobacteria with very thin trichomes and the proposal of Halomicronema excentricum gen. nov., sp. nov.

   • Raeid M. Abed
   • Ferran Garcia-Pichel
   • Mariona Hernández-Mariné

   Original Paper Pages: 361 - 370

2. Evaluation of non-cyanobacterial genome sequences for occurrence of genes encoding proteins homologous to cyanophycin synthetase and cloning of an active cyanophycin synthetase from Acinetobacter sp. strain DSM 587

   • Martin Krehenbrink
   • Fred-Bernd Oppermann-Sanio
   • Alexander Steinbüchel

   Original Paper Pages: 371 - 380

3. Desulfotignum phosphitoxidans sp. nov., a new marine sulfate reducer that oxidizes phosphite to phosphate

   • Bernhard Schink
   • Volker Thiemann
   • Michael W. Friedrich

   Original Paper Pages: 381 - 391

4. Effects of nitrogen availability on pigmentation and carbon assimilation in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain SH-94–5

   • Scott R. Miller
   • Miriam Martin
   • Richard W. Castenholz

   Original Paper Pages: 392 - 400

5. ATP-dependent 6-phosphofructokinase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima: characterization of an extremely thermophilic, allosterically regulated enzyme

   • Thomas Hansen
   • Meike Musfeldt
   • Peter Schönheit

   Original Paper Pages: 401 - 409

6. Two class II D-tagatose-bisphosphate aldolases from enteric bacteria

   • Andreas Brinkkötter
   • Ansiah Shakeri-Garakani
   • Joseph W. Lengeler

   Original Paper Pages: 410 - 419

7. Tetrachloroethene reductive dehalogenase of Dehalospirillum multivorans: substrate specificity of the native enzyme and its corrinoid cofactor

   • Anke Neumann
   • Anke Siebert
   • Gabriele Diekert

   Original Paper Pages: 420 - 426

8. Influence of biosolids compost on the bradyrhizobial genotypes recovered from cowpea and soybean nodules

   • Carolyn Cousin
   • Jean Grant
   • Peter van Berkum

   Short Communication Pages: 427 - 430

9. Sugar utilization in the hyperthermophilic, sulfate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus strain 7324: starch degradation to acetate and CO₂ via a modified Embden-Meyerhof pathway and acetyl-CoA synthetase (ADP-forming)

   • Antje Labes
   • Peter Schönheit

   Erratum Pages: 431 - 432