Volume 363, Issue 24, December 2016

A simple fluorimetric screening allowed the selection of six wild-type microorganisms with high phosphotriesterase activity that could be used for the decontamination of organophosphorus compounds and for biotechnological applications.

454 pyrosequencing was first used to investigate the composition and dynamics of fungal communities in fresh pepper and different pepper fermentation phases.

Naturally infected rhesus monkeys carry Helicobacter pylori with a functional T4SS that can translocate CagA and thus use the same virulence mechanisms that are associated with disease in humans.

Genetic variation uncovered in Brazilian strains of the sugarcane smut fungi.

Genomic diversity of bacteriophages infecting Flavobacterium psychrophilum and the implications for the application of phages in disease control in aquaculture.