FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Chief Editor:  James I. Prosser

NIH-funded Authors From April 2008, the NIH is mandating grant-holders to deposit their published papers in PubMed Central within 12 months of publication.  Read more

Highlight: Microorganisms are active in Icelandic Hot Springs

Archae have been detected recently as a major and often dominant component of the microbial communities performing ammonia oxidation in terrestrial and marine environments. In a molecular survey of archael ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) genes in terrestrial hot springs of Iceland and Kamchatka, the amoA gene encoding the alpha subunit of AMO was detected in a total of 14 hot springs out of the 22 investigated. Most of these amoA-positive hot springs had temperatures between 82 and 97 °C and pH range between 2.5 and 7. In phylogenetic analysis....read more    Nitrification in terrestrial hot springs of Iceland and Kamchatka  L. Reigstad, A. Richter, H. Daims, T. Urich, L. Schwark and C. Schleper

The journal contains Research Articles and MiniReviews on fundamental aspects of the ecology of microorganisms in natural soil, aquatic and atmospheric habitats, including extreme environments, and in artificial or managed environments. Research papers on pure cultures and in the areas of plant pathology and medical, food or veterinary microbiology will be published where they provide valuable generic information on microbial ecology.
Papers can deal with culturable and unculturable forms of any type of microorganism: bacteria, archaea, filamentous fungi and yeasts, protozoa, algae or viruses.