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• • All articles published in Microbial Biotechnology are freely available to download in 2009 & 2010!
• • Microbial Biotechnology is the latest sister journal to existing premier microbiology journals including Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology and Cellular Microbiology

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Editor's Choice

Bioleaching genomics
Roland J. Siezen, Greer Wilson

A molecular key for building hyphae aggregates: the role of the newly identified Streptomyces protei
Ilona Koebsch, Jens Overbeck, Sophie Piepmeyer, Holger Meschke, Hildgund Schrempf

A versatile and scalable strategy for glycoprofiling bifidobacterial consumption of human milk oligo
Riccardo G. LoCascio, Milady R. Niñonuevo, Scott R. Kronewitter, Samara L. Freeman, J. Bruce German,

Nitric oxide-mediated dispersal in single- and multi-species biofilms of clinically and industrially
Nicolas Barraud, Michael V. Storey, Zoe P. Moore, Jeremy S. Webb, Scott A. Rice, Staffan Kjelleberg

Substrate-dependent transcriptomic shifts in Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum grown in syntrophic co-
Souichiro Kato, Tomoyuki Kosaka, Kazuya Watanabe

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Current Issue Table of Contents

Volume 2, Issue 6 (November 2009)

 

Genomics update
Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria: the oil-spill clean-up crew

Rob J. W. Brooijmans, Margreet I.Pastink, Roland J. Siezen

Editorial
Editorial
Gad Frankel, Robert K. Shaw, David Pink, Cedric N. Berger, Paul Hand

 
Highlight
The heat, drugs and knockout systems of Microbial Biotechnology
Craig Daniels, Carmen Michan, Tino Krell, Amalia Roca, Juan L. Ramos

 

Minireview
Bacteriophage biocontrol in animals and meat products
Stefan Uthoff, Daniel Bröker, Alexander Steinbüchel

 

Research articles

Dynamic of active microorganisms inhabiting a bioleaching industrial heap of low-grade copper sulfide ore monitored by real-time PCR and oligonucleotide prokaryotic acidophile microarray
Francisco Remonsellez, Felipe Galleguillos, Mercedes Moreno-Paz, Victor Parro, Maurice Acosta, Celcilia Demergasso

 

Tyramine biosynthesis in Enterococcus durans in transcriptionally regulated by the extracellular pH and tyrosine concentration
Daniel M. Linares, María Fernández, M. Cruz Martín, Miguel A. Álvarez

 

Viscoelastic properties of Staphylococcus Aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis mono-microbial biofilms
Antonio Di Stefano, Eleonora D'Aurizio, Oriana Trubiani, Rossella Grande, Emanuela Di Campli, Mara Di Giulio, Soraya Di Bartolomeo, Piera Sozio, Antonio Iannitelli, Antonia Nostro, Luigina Cellini

 

Web Update
Biocatalysis and whole cell biotransformations: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in Microbial Biotechnology
Lawrence P. Wackett

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Top Cited Articles

 

Metabolic engineering to enhance bacterial hydrogen production

Toshinari Maeda, Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Thomas K. Wood

 

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 virulence factors and poplar tree response in the rhizosphere
Can Attila, Akihiro Ueda, Suat L. G. Cirillo, Jeffrey D. Cirillo, Wilfred Chen, Thomas K. Wood

 

Tracing explosives in soil with transcriptional regulators of Pseudomonas putida evolved for responding to nitrotoluenes
Junkal Garmendia, Aitor de las Heras, Teca Calcagno Galvão, Víctor de Lorenzo

Massively parallel pathogen identification using high-density microarrays
Nicolas Berthet, Philip Dickinson, Ingrid Filliol, Anita K. Reinhardt, Christophe Batejat, Tatiana Vallaeys, Katherine A. Kong, Christopher Davies, Walter Lee, Shenglan Zhang, Yaron Turpaz, Beate Heym, Gilberte Coralie, Laurent Dacheux, Ana Maria Burguière, Hervé Bourhy, Iain G. Old, Jean-Claude Manuguerra, Stewart T. Cole, Giulia C. Kennedy

Natural products genomics
Roland J. Siezen, Barzan I. Khayatt

High shear enrichment improves the performance of the anodophilic microbial consortium in a microbial fuel cell
Hai The Pham, Nico Boon, Peter Aelterman, Peter Clauwaert, Liesje De Schamphelaire, Patrick van Oostveldt, Kim Verbeken, Korneel Rabaey, Willy Verstraete