Aims and Scope

Originally founded as the Annales de l’Institut Pasteur, Research in Microbiology has been a leading source of up-to-date information in the
field of microbiology for more than a century. It publishes papers based on original research in fundamental and applied biology of bacteria,
archaea and lower eukaryotes. It covers all aspects of microbial taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology, physiology and metabolism, molecular genet-
ics and genomics, as well as interactions between microbes and interactions of microbes with their environment. Research in Microbiology
currently publishes 10 issues a year, including an annual Forum issue, and contains original articles, reviews and letters to the Editor.
Cited/abstracted in: Biological Abstracts/Biosis, CNRS/Pascal, Current Contents (Life Sciences), Excerpta Medica/EMbase, Index
Medicus/Medline, Science Citation Index.
Editor-in-Chief: D. PRANGISHVILI (Institut Pasteur, France)
Editors: C. BRAUN-BRETON (Montpellier, France); S. BRISSE (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France); M. De COSTA (Coimbra, Portugal);
E. DASSA, C. D’ENFERT (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France); S. FANNING (Dublin, Ireland); M. de FELICE (Naples, Italy);
L. DIJKSHOORN (Leiden, The Netherlands); M. ESPINOSA URGEL (Granada, Spain); P. LÓPEZ-GARCIA (Orsay, France);
S. NORDLUND (Stockholm, Sweden); P. NORMAND (Villeurbanne, France); V. PACES (Prague, Czech Republic); C. PARSOT (Institut
Pasteur, Paris, France); E. RON (Tel Aviv, Israel); P. SIMONET (Ecully, France); K. SMALLA (Braunschweig, Germany);
A. SUMMERS (Athens, USA); A. TOUSSAINT (Brussels, Belgium); M. VANEECHOUTTE (Gent, Belgium)
Review Editors: J.C. BARALE, J.M. GHIGO, D. MAZEL (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Editorial Board
F. Arigoni, Lausanne (Switzerland) G. Giraffa, Lodi (Italy) M.F. Sagot, Lyon (France)
M.J. Bailey, Oxford (UK) D. Gutnick, Tel Aviv (Israel) M.H. Saier, La Jolla, CA (USA)
P. Boistard, Castanet Tolosan (France) K. Ito, Kyoto (Japan) P. Sansonetti, Paris (France)
W. Boos, Konstanz (West Germany) U. Jenal, Basel (Switzerland) J.R. Scott, Atlanta, GA (USA)
P. Cornelis, Brussels (Belgium) C. Kato, Tokyo (Japan) H. Shinagawa, Osaka (Japan)
B. Cormack, Baltimore (USA) P. Linder, Geneva (Switzerland) P. Silar, Orsay (France)
J. Davies, Vancouver (Canada) E. Louis, Leicester (UK) N. Tandeau de Marsac, Paris (France)
F.J. de Bruijn, Castanet-Tolosan (France) C. Monteccuco, Padua (Italy) P. Thuriaux, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
A. Dominiguez, Salamanca (Spain) C.P. Moran Jr., Atlanta GA (USA) C.J. Thompson, Vancouver (Canada)
M.S. DuBow, Orsay (France) N. Nanninga, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) J. Tommassen, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
S.D. Ehrlich, Jouy en Josas (France) D. Ojcius, Merced (USA) C. Wandersmann, Paris (France)
D. Expert, Paris (France) N. Ogasawara, Nara (Japan) A. Willems, Ghent (Belgium)
P. Forterre, Orsay (France) P. Rosa, Hamilton, Montana (USA) E. Zechner, Graz (Austria)

Editorial office:
Claudine Elmerich, Managing Editor, e-mail: elmerich@pasteur.fr
Géraldine Camus, Editorial Coordinator, e-mail: microbiology@pasteur.fr
Cover photo: Copyright Institut Pasteur
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