ΦEMS Microbiology Ecology

Minireview     Mini Review   The outer membrane glycolipids of bacteria from cold environments: isolation, characterization, and biological activity     Angela Casillo; Ermenegilda Parrilli ; Maria Luisa Tutino; Maria Michela Corsaro   Review describing peculiar structural features of glycolipids from the outer membrane of Gram-negative psychrophiles and their contribution to cold adaptation.

Research Articles     Editor's Choice   Viral degradation of marine bacterial exopolysaccharides     F Lelchat; P Y Mocaer; T Ojima ; G Michel; G Sarthou ...   Marine phages are able to passively degrade their hosts dissolved EPS.     The response of methanotrophs to additions of either ammonium, nitrate or urea in alpine swamp meadow soil as revealed by stable isotope probing     Dan He; Liyan Zhang; Marc G Dumont; Jin-Sheng He; Lijuan Ren ...   Urea has large effects on the metabolically active methanotroph communities in the swamp meadow soil on the QTP.     Linking changes in snow cover with microbial nitrogen cycling functional gene abundance and expression in agricultural soil     Lindsay D Brin; Claudia Goyer; Bernie J Zebarth; David L Burton; Martin H Chantigny   Linking changes in snow cover with microbial nitrogen cycling functional gene abundance and expression in agricultural soil.     A water stress-adapted inoculum affects rhizosphere fungi, but not bacteria nor wheat     Charlotte Giard-Laliberté; Hamed Azarbad; Julien Tremblay; Luke Bainard ; Étienne Yergeau   Does an inoculum with a previous history of water stress improve plant tolerance to water stress?     Biogeochemical gold cycling selects metal-resistant bacteria that promote gold particle transformation     Santonu Kumar Sanyal; Jeremiah Shuster; Frank Reith   The study highlights the continuum of microbe-mineral interactions in the context of global gold biogeochemical cycling.     Bacterial community changes with granule size in cryoconite and their susceptibility to exogenous nutrients on NW Greenland glaciers     Jun Uetake; Naoko Nagatsuka; Yukihiko Onuma; Nozomu Takeuchi; Hideaki Motoyama ...   In ten northwestern Greenland glaciers the bacterial community composition was different in four different grain sizes of cryoconite. Their susceptibility to exogenous nutrients in the cryoconite holes also changed.     Analysis of functional gene transcripts suggests active CO2assimilation and CO oxidation by diverse bacteria in marine sponges     Guofang Feng; Fengli Zhang; Shivakumar Banakar; Liisi Karlep; Zhiyong Li   Functional transcripts indicate autotrophic CO2 assimilation through the reductive pentose phosphate cycle, heterotrophic anaplerotic CO2 assimilation, and aerobic CO oxidation by phylogenetically diverse bacteria in three sympatric sponges T. swinhoei, P. simplex and Ph. fusca.     Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea of the ANME-2d clade feature lipid composition that differs from other ANME archaea     Julia M Kurth ; Nadine T Smit; Stefanie Berger; Stefan Schouten; Mike S M Jetten ...   Lipid analysis of microorganisms involved in the anaerobic oxidation of methane helps to understand the prevalence and importance of those organism for the global methane cycle in past and present environments.     Biogeography of the free-living and particle-attached bacteria in Tibetan lakes     Keshao Liu; Juzhi Hou; Yongqin Liu; Anyi Hu ; Mingda Wang ...   Functional transcripts indicate autotrophic CO2 assimilation through the reductive pentose phosphate cycle, heterotrophic anaplerotic CO2 assimilation and aerobic CO oxidation by phylogenetically diverse bacteria in three sympatric sponges Theonella swinhoei, Plakortis simplex and Phakellia fusca.     Tropical forest conversion to rubber plantation in southwest China results in lower fungal beta diversity and reduced network complexity     Hokyung Song; Dharmesh Singh; Kyle W Tomlinson; Xiaodong Yang; Matthew Chidozie Ogwu ...   We compared soil fungal diversity of tropical forest fragments and rubber plantations in China, finding greater beta diversity in the forest habitat.     A novel metabarcoding approach to investigate Fusariumspecies composition in soil and plant samples     José F Cobo-Díaz; Riccardo Baroncelli; Gaétan Le Floch; Adeline Picot   New Fusarium-specific primers for MiSeq metabarcoding were designed. F. graminearum and F. avenaceum were the main species found in maize residue samples, and F. oxysporum in soil samples.     Who eats what? Unravelling microbial conversion of coal to methane     Silas H W Vick; Se Gong; Stephen Sestak; Tania J Vergara ; Kaydy L Pinetown ...   Distinct biodegradable components of coal organic matter and intrinsic microbial taxa involved in their catabolism are investigated under anoxic conditions.     Diversity and antimicrobial potential of Actinobacteria isolated from diverse marine sponges along the Beibu Gulf of the South China Sea     Tan Liu; Shufei Wu; Ruizhen Zhang; Dexiang Wang; Jun Chen ...   A total of 363 bacterial isolates, including 123 actinobacterial strains, were isolated from 49 marine sponges from Beibu Gulf, South China Sea, and their antimicrobial potential and functional gene resources were analyzed.     Gestation alters the gut microbiota of an oviparous lizard     Brian K Trevelline; Kirsty J MacLeod; Tracy Langkilde; Kevin D Kohl   Like mammals, gestation alters the gut microbiota of an oviparous lizard, suggesting that the restructuring of microbial communities during reproduction may be an evolutionarily conserved phenomenon across vertebrate reproductive strategies.     Diversity of deep-water coral-associated bacteria and comparison across depth gradients     Sigmund Jensen; Martin Hovland; Michael D J Lynch; David G Bourne   Corals located on the mid-Norwegian shelf host an abundance of poorly known bacterial species comparable to other deep-water corals though contrasts with tropical corals, reflecting environmental influence.     Space, time and captivity: quantifying the factors influencing the fecal microbiome of an alpine ungulate     Sarah E Haworth; Kevin S White; Steeve D Côté; Aaron B A Shafer   This study characterizes the fecal microbiome of mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) populations across space, time and the effects of captivity to offer more insights into the health of alpine wildlife.

Corrigenda       Corrigendum to: Identification and characterization of bacterial symbionts in three species of filth fly parasitoids         Corrigendum to: Nectar yeasts of two southern Spanish plants: the roles of immigration and physiological traits in community assembly