The ISME Journal - Table of Contents alert Volume 7 Issue 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 7, Issue 4 (April 2013) In this issue Original Articles Short Communication Also new AOP Sign up for e-alerts Recommend to your library Web feed Subscribe Advertisement A new study just published in ISMEJ sheds more light on unusual 'curtains' of biological material known as Nullarbor cave slimes. Life in the dark: metagenomic evidence that a microbial slime community is driven by inorganic nitrogen metabolism Tetu, Paulsen and colleagues The ISME Journal | doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.14   Original Articles Top MICROBIAL POPULATION AND COMMUNITY ECOLOGY Ocean currents shape the microbiome of Arctic marine sediments Leila J Hamdan, Richard B Coffin, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Jens Greinert, Tina Treude and Patrick M Gillevet ISME J 2013 7: 685-696; advance online publication, November 29, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.143 Abstract | Full Text Reducing bias in bacterial community analysis of lower respiratory infections Geraint B Rogers, Leah Cuthbertson, Lucas R Hoffman, Peter AC Wing, Christopher Pope, Danny A P Hooftman, Andrew K Lilley, Anna Oliver, Mary P Carroll, Kenneth D Bruce and Christopher J van der Gast ISME J 2013 7: 697-706; advance online publication, November 29, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.145 Abstract | Full Text Microbiota conservation and BMI signatures in adult monozygotic twins Sebastian Tims, Catherine Derom, Daisy M Jonkers, Robert Vlietinck, Wim H Saris, Michiel Kleerebezem, Willem M de Vos and Erwin G Zoetendal ISME J 2013 7: 707-717; advance online publication, November 29, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.146 Abstract | Full Text Sediment microbial communities in Great Boiling Spring are controlled by temperature and distinct from water communities Jessica K Cole, Joseph P Peacock, Jeremy A Dodsworth, Amanda J Williams, Daniel B Thompson, Hailiang Dong, Geng Wu and Brian P Hedlund ISME J 2013 7: 718-729; advance online publication, December 13, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.157 Abstract | Full Text MICROBE-MICROBE AND MICROBE-HOST INTERACTIONS The chemical interactome space between the human host and the genetically defined gut metabotypes Open Ulrik Plesner Jacobsen, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, Falk Hildebrand, Jeroen Raes, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Irene Kouskoumvekaki and Gianni Panagiotou ISME J 2013 7: 730-742; advance online publication, November 22, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.141 Abstract | Full Text Gut bacteria–host metabolic interplay during conventionalisation of the mouse germfree colon Sahar El Aidy, Muriel Derrien, Claire A Merrifield, Florence Levenez, Joël Doré, Mark V Boekschoten, Jan Dekker, Elaine Holmes, Erwin G Zoetendal, Peter van Baarlen, Sandrine P Claus and Michiel Kleerebezem ISME J 2013 7: 743-755; advance online publication, November 22, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.142 Abstract | Full Text By their genes ye shall know them: genomic signatures of predatory bacteria Zohar Pasternak, Shmuel Pietrokovski, Or Rotem, Uri Gophna, Mor N Lurie-Weinberger and Edouard Jurkevitch ISME J 2013 7: 756-769; advance online publication, November 29, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.149 Abstract | Full Text Microbial metabolic exchange in 3D Jeramie D Watrous, Vanessa V Phelan, Cheng-Chih Hsu, Wilna J Moree, Brendan M Duggan, Theodore Alexandrov and Pieter C Dorrestein ISME J 2013 7: 770-780; advance online publication, January 3, 2013; 10.1038/ismej.2012.155 Abstract | Full Text Bacterial colonization of Hydra hatchlings follows a robust temporal pattern Sören Franzenburg, Sebastian Fraune, Philipp M Altrock, Sven Künzel, John F Baines, Arne Traulsen and Thomas CG Bosch ISME J 2013 7: 781-790; advance online publication, January 24, 2013; 10.1038/ismej.2012.156 Abstract | Full Text EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS Significant variation in transformation frequency in Streptococcus pneumoniae Benjamin A Evans and Daniel E Rozen ISME J 2012 7: 791-799; advance online publication, January 10, 2013; 10.1038/ismej.2012.170 Abstract | Full Text INTEGRATED GENOMICS AND POST-GENOMICS APPROACHES IN MICROBIAL ECOLOGY Biostimulation induces syntrophic interactions that impact C, S and N cycling in a sediment microbial community Kim M Handley, Nathan C VerBerkmoes, Carl I Steefel, Kenneth H Williams, Itai Sharon, Christopher S Miller, Kyle R Frischkorn, Karuna Chourey, Brian C Thomas, Manesh B Shah, Philip E Long, Robert L Hettich and Jillian F Banfield ISME J 2013 7: 800-816; advance online publication, November 29, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.148 Abstract | Full Text Anoxic carbon flux in photosynthetic microbial mats as revealed by metatranscriptomics Luke C Burow, Dagmar Woebken, Ian PG Marshall, Erika A Lindquist, Brad M Bebout, Leslie Prufert-Bebout, Tori M Hoehler, Susannah G Tringe, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Peter K Weber, Alfred M Spormann and Steven W Singer ISME J 2013 7: 817-829; advance online publication, November 29, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.150 Abstract | Full Text Phylogenetic conservatism of functional traits in microorganisms Adam C Martiny, Kathleen Treseder and Gordon Pusch ISME J 2013 7: 830-838; advance online publication, December 13, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.160 Abstract | Full Text MICROBIAL ECOLOGY AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF NATURAL HABITATS Metabolic activity of subterranean microbial communities in deep granitic groundwater supplemented with methane and H2 Karsten Pedersen ISME J 2013 7: 839-849; advance online publication, December 13, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.144 Abstract | Full Text Microbial hitchhikers on intercontinental dust: catching a lift in Chad Jocelyne Favet, Ales Lapanje, Adriana Giongo, Suzanne Kennedy, Yin-Yin Aung, Arlette Cattaneo, Austin G Davis-Richardson, Christopher T Brown, Renate Kort, Hans-Jürgen Brumsack, Bernhard Schnetger, Adrian Chappell, Jaap Kroijenga, Andreas Beck, Karin Schwibbert, Ahmed H Mohamed, Timothy Kirchner, Patricia Dorr de Quadros, Eric W Triplett, William J Broughton and Anna A Gorbushina ISME J 2013 7: 850-867; advance online publication, December 20, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.152 Abstract | Full Text Microbial composition affects the functioning of estuarine sediments Heather E Reed and Jennifer BH Martiny ISME J 2013 7: 868-879; advance online publication, December 13, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.154 Abstract | Full Text Short Communication Top MICROBE-MICROBE AND MICROBE-HOST INTERACTIONS An opportunistic pathogen isolated from the gut of an obese human causes obesity in germfree mice Open Na Fei and Liping Zhao ISME J 2013 7: 880-884; advance online publication, December 13, 2012; 10.1038/ismej.2012.153 Abstract | Full Text Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. 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