Volume 93, Issue 9, September 2017

Evolutionary patterns of desferrioxamine genes involved in biosynthesis and transport help to understand the chemical diversity of siderophores and bacterial adaptation.

Severe weather events influence shedding of Escherichia coli, particularly serogroup O157, by cattle, but resulting colonies of E. coli O157 would generally be sensitive to microbial interventions at abattoirs.

Detailed knowledge was generated about the effects of feeding two contrasting hay qualities, differing in contents of fibrous carbohydrates and sugars with varying levels of concentrate on the rumen bacteria.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species richness recovers in a few years of recultivation after lignite open-cast mining, but also declines rapidly following years of conventional agriculture.

Patterns of prey selectivity and niche segregation between bacterial and protozoan micropredators in an agricultural soil are investigated using ¹³C-labelled bacterial prey and rRNA-SIP.

Trophic specialisation in leptophryid amoebae (Vampyrellida) and their strategies to prey on planktonic algae.

Anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea subgroups have different distribution patterns in sediment of the Haima cold seep in the west part of the northern slope of South China Sea.

This study sheds light on a phylogenomics dichotomy between dental unit waterlines and clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Communities of ectomycorrhizal fungi after harvest seem to be more influenced by environmental filtering than by continuity of trees.

Two novel symbionts of filth fly parasitoids are described—Sodalis and Rickettsia; we also studied the effect of Wolbachia on two of the parasitoid species.

Labile C triggers fungal nitrogen removal from decomposing leaf litter in aquatic systems.

Grazing resistance in bacterial phenotypes (plankton versus biofilm) depends on the feeding trait of the grazer rather than being an intrinsic attribute of biofilms.