1. Do neighboring lakes share common taxa of bacterioplankton? Comparison of 16S rDNA fingerprints and sequences from three geographic regions

   • E. S. Lindström
   • E. Leskinen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 9

2. Host-symbiont recognition in the environmentally transmitted sepiolid squid-Vibrio mutualism

   • M. K. Nishiguchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 10 - 18

3. Water discharge-regulated bacteria-heterotrophic nanoflagellate (HNF) interactions in the water column of the river rhine

   • M. Weitere
   • H. Arndt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 29

4. Wavelike distributions of infections by an introduced and naturally occurring root pathogen along wheat roots

   • A. H. C. van Bruggen
   • A. M. Semenov
   • V. V. Zelenev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 30 - 38

5. Rock phosphate solubilization and colonization of maize rhizosphere by wild and genetically modified strains of Penicillium rugulosum

   • I. Reyes
   • L. Bernier
   • H. Antoun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 48

6. The diversity and function of soil microbial communities exposed to different disturbances

   • A. K. Müller
   • K. Westergaard
   • S. J. Sørensen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 58

7. Effectiveness of municipal waste compost and its humic fraction in suppressing Pythium ultimum

   • J. A. Pascual
   • C. Garcia
   • J. M. Lynch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 68

8. Enhanced phosphate uptake and polyphosphate accumulation in Burkholderia cepacia grown under low-pH conditions

   • A. Mullan
   • J. P. Quinn
   • J. W. McGrath

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 77

9. Phylogenetic analysis of bacterial communities associated with ectoparasitic chewing lice of pocket gophers: A culture-independent approach

   • D. L. Reed
   • M. S. Hafner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 78 - 93