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mBio® is ASM's first broad-scope, online-only, open access journal. mBio offers rapid review and publication of the best research in microbiology and allied fields

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  • Correlation between antibiotic use and resistance in honeybees
  • First isolation of a lethal new coronavirus
  • Ubiquitination may explain why Candida is a pathogen but Saccharomyces is not
  • First demonstration of a synthetic riboswitch that can control a virulence gene
  • 22 January 2013

  • Five New Genes Are Important for Common Polysaccharide Antigen Biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Youai Hao, Jerry D. King, Steven Huszczynski, Dana Kocíncová and Joseph S. Lam

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00631-12

  • 22 January 2013

  • Genomic Insights into the Atopic Eczema-Associated Skin Commensal Yeast Malassezia sympodialis

    Anastasia Gioti, Björn Nystedt, Wenjun Li, Jun Xu, Anna Andersson, Anna F. Averette, Karin Münch, Xuying Wang, Catharine Kappauf, Joanne M. Kingsbury, Bart Kraak, Louise A. Walker, Henrik J. Johansson, Tina Holm, Janne Lehtiö, Jason E. Stajich, Piotr Mieczkowski, Regine Kahmann, John C. Kennell, Maria E. Cardenas, Joakim Lundeberg, Charles W. Saunders, Teun Boekhout, Thomas L. Dawson, Carol A. Munro, Piet W. J. de Groot, Geraldine Butler, Joseph Heitman and Annika Scheynius

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00572-12

  • 22 January 2013

  • Comparative Genomics of Recent Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O104:H4: Short-Term Evolution of an Emerging Pathogen

    Yonatan H. Grad, Paul Godfrey, Gustavo C. Cerquiera, Patricia Mariani-Kurkdjian, Malika Gouali, Edouard Bingen, Terrence P. Shea, Brian J. Haas, Allison Griggs, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Marc Lipsitch, Matthew K. Waldor, François-Xavier Weill, Jennifer R. Wortman and William P. Hanage

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00452-12

  • 22 January 2013

  • Males Are Overrepresented among Life Science Researchers Committing Scientific Misconduct

    Ferric C. Fang, Joan W. Bennett and Arturo Casadevall

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00640-12

  • 22 January 2013

  • Modulation of Epstein-Barr Virus Glycoprotein B (gB) Fusion Activity by the gB Cytoplasmic Tail Domain

    Nicholas J. Garcia, Jia Chen and Richard Longnecker

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00571-12

  • 15 January 2013

  • Human Claudin-8 and -14 Are Receptors Capable of Conveying the Cytotoxic Effects of Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin

    Archana Shrestha and Bruce A. McClane

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00594-12

  • 15 January 2013

  • Cryptococcus neoformans Rim101 Is Associated with Cell Wall Remodeling and Evasion of the Host Immune Responses

    Teresa R. O'Meara, Stephanie M. Holmer, Kyla Selvig, Fred Dietrich and J. Andrew Alspaugh

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00522-12

  • 15 January 2013

  • Human Coronavirus EMC Is Not the Same as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

    Stanley Perlman and Jincun Zhao

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00002-13

  • 15 January 2013

  • Kinetics of Facultative Heterochromatin and Polycomb Group Protein Association with the Herpes Simplex Viral Genome during Establishment of Latent Infection

    Anna R. Cliffe, Donald M. Coen and David M. Knipe

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00590-12

  • 15 January 2013

  • Microbial Composition of Human Appendices from Patients following Appendectomy

    Caitriona M. Guinane, Amany Tadrous, Fiona Fouhy, C. Anthony Ryan, Eugene M. Dempsey, Brendan Murphy, Emmet Andrews, Paul D. Cotter, Catherine Stanton and R. Paul Ross

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00366-12

  • 15 January 2013

  • Flavin Electron Shuttles Dominate Extracellular Electron Transfer by Shewanella oneidensis

    Nicholas J. Kotloski and Jeffrey A. Gralnick

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00553-12

  • 8 January 2013

  • Contrasting Life Strategies of Viruses That Infect Photo- and Heterotrophic Bacteria, as Revealed by Viral Tagging

    Li Deng, Ann Gregory, Suzan Yilmaz, Bonnie T. Poulos, Philip Hugenholtz and Matthew B. Sullivan

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00516-12

  • 8 January 2013

  • Characterization of a Diffusible Signaling Factor from Xylella fastidiosa

    Ellen D. Beaulieu, Michael Ionescu, Subhadeep Chatterjee, Kenji Yokota, Dirk Trauner and Steven Lindow

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00539-12

  • 8 January 2013

  • The New Age of Virus Discovery: Genomic Analysis of a Novel Human Betacoronavirus Isolated from a Fatal Case of Pneumonia

    Kathryn V. Holmes and Samuel R. Dominguez

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00548-12

  • 8 January 2013

  • Targeted Amino Acid Substitutions Impair Streptolysin O Toxicity and Group A Streptococcus Virulence

    Emiliano Chiarot, Cristina Faralla, Nico Chiappini, Giovanna Tuscano, Fabiana Falugi, Gabriella Gambellini, Annarita Taddei, Sabrina Capo, Elena Cartocci, Daniele Veggi, Alessia Corrado, Simona Mangiavacchi, Simona Tavarini, Maria Scarselli, Robert Janulczyk, Guido Grandi, Immaculada Margarit and Giuliano Bensi

    doi:10.1128/mBio.00387-12

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