FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Chief Editor:  Dieter Haas

New impact factor: 9.783  FEMS Microbiology Reviews offers thorough review and publication of high-quality review papers that are original, in their approach and are dedicated to topics of current interest. All articles are published FREE of charge- Colour is free - except for non-essential colour in print Latest Thematic Issue on Extracelluar Biology edited by K. Chater This special issue focuses on how the lives of selected bacteria are  embedded in extracellular biology. Implicit in this view was the sense that the adaptation, evolution and speciation of bacteria are shaped by and reflected in their interface with the world outside... Free access to this issue here

Highlight: The extracellular biology of lactobacilli

Lactobacilli belong to the lactic acid bacteria, which play a key role in industrial and artisan food raw-material fermentation, including a large variety of fermented dairy products. Next to their role in fermentation processes, specific strains of Lactobacillus are currently marketed as health-promoting cultures or probiotics. The last decade has witnessed the completion of a large number of Lactobacillus genome sequences, including the genome sequences of some of the probiotic species and strains. This development opens avenues to unravel the Lactobacillus-associated health-promoting activity at the molecular level.  Read more.

Vol. 34-2 p.134

The extracellular biology of the lactobacilli Michiel Kleerebezem, Pascal Hols, Elvis Bernard, Thomas Rolain, Miaomiao Zhou, Roland J. Siezen, Peter A. Bron

Scope of the journal

This journal publishes reviews dealing with all aspects of microbiology that have not been surveyed recently. They should be devoted to topics of current interest and may be of a speculative and selective nature or they may provide comprehensive, critical and authoritative coverage. Reviews should provide new perspectives and critical, detailed discussions of significant trends in the areas being reviewed. Historical analyses of important subjects will also be accepted. All reviews should address both specialists and the general reader. Whenever possible, reviews should be put into the framework of general microbiology and biology. Manuscripts of lectures delivered at symposia that do not review the related field are not acceptable, nor are unevaluated compilations of the literature.