FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Send your best research to our Special Thematic Issues on Subsurface Microbiology and Polar and Alpine Microbiology!

General topics of interest to the Subsurface Microbiology Special Thematic Issue include the microbial ecology of the shallow subsurface, of hydrocarbon reservoirs and contaminated sites, and of deep and extreme environments. Specifically, manuscripts are invited addressing the ecology of pristine aquifers, of karst and caves, of contaminated sites, of hydrocarbon reservoirs, of marine sediments, of extreme and deep subsurface habitats, microbe-mineral interactions, the degradation of priority pollutants, the quantification of biodegradation, novel microbial key-players, the physiology and energetics of subsurface microbial activities, interactions and carbon flow within subsurface microbiota, as well as subsurface ecosystem modelling.

Topics of interest for thePolar and Alpine Microbiology Special Thematic Issueinclude: Ecology of cold terrestrial, cold aquatic and cold glacial environments; Permafrost; Microbial diversity of polar and alpine environments; Adaptions and physiology of cold adapted microorganisms; Evolution and phylogeny in cold environments; Bioremediation in cold environments; Climate change and consequences for life at the poles and in the mountains; Cold man-made environments; and Cryobiology and astrobiology.

All submitted papers should be complete in themselves and adequately supported by experimental detail; they should not be preliminary versions of communications to be published elsewhere. Prospective authors for MiniReviews should contact the Editors in advance. All manuscripts will undergo regular review by members of the Editorial Board and other appropriate experts.

Key reasons for publishing in FEMS Microbiology Ecology:

- Publication of international-quality research
- Increasing submission
- Global electronic accessibility
- Fast and competent peer-reviewing
- Online submission
- No page charges
- Free colour figures

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Click on the links below to view a selection of thematic issues published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology:

Ecology and metagenomics of soil microorganisms
October 2011

Chinese Microbial Ecology
November 2009

Gut Microbiology
December 2008

Multritrophic Interactions in the Rhizosphere
August 2008

Microorganisms, Macroorganisms and Ecology
November 2007

Microorganisms in Cold Environments
February 2007

Human-associated microbiota is recognized to play vital roles in maintaining host health, and it is implicated in many disease states. While the initial surge in the profiling of these microbial communities was achieved with Sanger and next-generation sequencing, many oligonucleotide microarrays have also been developed recently for this purpose. Containing probes complementary to small ribosomal subunit RNA gene sequences of community members, such phylogenetic arrays provide direct quantitative comparisons of microbiota composition among samples and between sample groups. Some of the developed microarrays including PhyloChip, Microbiota Array, and HITChip can simultaneously measure the presence and abundance of hundreds and thousands of phylotypes in a single sample. This review describes the currently available phylogenetic microarrays that can be used to analyze human microbiota, delineates the approaches for the optimization of microarray use, and provides examples of recent findings based on microarray interrogation of human-associated microbial communities. READ MORE