1. Announcement

   Announcement Pages: iii - iii

2. Effects of live Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells on zoospore germination, growth, and cellulolytic activity of the rumen anaerobic fungus, Neocallimastix frontalis MCH3

   • Frédérique Chaucheyras
   • Gérard Fonty
   • Philippe Gouet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 205

3. Chitinolytic activity of the anaerobic rumen fungus Piromyces communis OTS1

   • Masaru Sakurada
   • Diego P. Morgavi
   • Ryoji Onodera

   OriginalPaper Pages: 206 - 209

4. Growth of the thermophilic bacterium Clostridium thermocellum in continuous culture

   • Herbert J. Strobel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 210 - 214

5. Detection of Bacteroides fragilis in clinical specimens by polymerase chain reaction amplification of the neuraminidase gene

   • Ravi Jotwani
   • Naoki Kato
   • Kazue Ueno

   OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 219

6. Studies on siderophore production and effect of iron deprivation on the outer membrane proteins of Madurella mycetomatis

   • Martha Inés Baquero Mezence
   • Patrick Boiron

   OriginalPaper Pages: 220 - 223

7. Location by fluorescence microscopy of glycosidases and a xylanase in the anaerobic gut fungi Caecomyces communis, Neocallimastix frontalis, and Piromyces rhizinflata

   • André Breton
   • Brigitte Gaillard-Martine
   • Belgacem Kherratia

   OriginalPaper Pages: 224 - 227

8. ssp Genes and spore osmotolerance in Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis and Bacillus sphaericus

   • Adriana Cucchi
   • Carmen Sanchez de Rivas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 228 - 233

9. Studies on the Exopolysaccharide from Sphingomonas paucimobilis-GS1: Nutritional requirements and precursor-forming enzymes

   • Anita A. Ashtaputre
   • Avinash K. Shah

   OriginalPaper Pages: 234 - 238

10. Catabolite Repression of induction of aldose reductase activity and utilization of mixed hemicellulosic surgars in Candida guilliermondii

    • Juliet K. Sugai
    • Jean-Philippe Delgenes

    OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 244

11. H₂ as an energy source for mixotrophic acetogenesis from the reduction of CO₂ and syringate by Acetobacterium woodii and Eubacterium limosum

    • Shi Liu
    • Joseph M. Suflita

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 250

12. Identification, cloning, and sequencing of DNA essential for encapsulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae

    • David A. Watson
    • Vivek Kapur
    • James M. Musser

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 259