Environmental Microbiology Reports

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Volume 5 is online now!

Microbial respiration in ice at subzero temperatures

This paper quantifies microbial respiration and active cell populations of Antarctic glacial isolates Paenisporosarcina sp. B5 and Chryseobacterium sp. V3519-10. At all temperatures, initial high rates of metabolism were followed by lower rates suggestive of a non-reproductive metabolic state. The data demonstrates that bacteria actively respired acetate in polycrystalline ice with abundant nutrients despite low temperatures and the physical ice matrix. The results suggest that the debris-rich basal ice that exists at temperatures just below the freezing point and underlies portions of both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets represents a significant potential habitat for metabolically active microbial communities. READ MORE

Plant lectin-like antibacterial proteins from phytopathogens Pseudomonas syringae and Xanthomonas citri
Maarten G. K. Ghequire, Wen Li, Paul Proost, Remy Loris and René De Mot

Detection and diversity of pathogenic Vibrio from Fiji
Reema Singh, Vinay Narayan, Patricia McLenachan, Richard C. Winkworth, Suparna Mitra, Peter J. Lockhart, Lorraine Berry, Abdulla M. Hatha, William Aalbersberg and Dhana Rao

Vibrio choleraein a historically cholera-free country
Bradd J. Haley, Arlene Chen, Christopher J. Grim, Philip Clark, Celia Municio Diaz, Elisa Taviani, Nur A. Hasan, Elizabeth Sancomb, Wessam Mahmoud Elnemr, Muhammad A. Islam, Anwar Huq, Rita R. Colwell and Eva Benediktsdóttir

Special issues on the following topics have recently been published in Environmental Microbiology Reports:

Symbiosis
Editors: Paola Bonfante, Karen Visik, Moriya Ohkuma

Pseudomonas
Editors: Professors Burkhard Tummler, Victor de Lorenzo, Alain Filloux and Joyce Loper

Vibrio Ecology
Editors: Carla Pruzzo, Balakrish Nair, Jim Oliver and Rita Colwell

Methane Cycle
Editors: Professor J. Colin Murrell and Professor Mike S. M. Jetten

Gelatinous matrix with embedded microbes suspended in subsurface waters originating from Devil's Kitchen Creek, a flowing spring in Lassen Volcanic National Park (Magnification 2000X) For further details, readers are referred to the article by Tin et al on pp. 491-499 of Volume 3.