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. Also covered in the abstract and citation database SciVerse Scopus®. Full text available on
SciVerse ScienceDirect®
Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. M. ESPINOSA-URGEL (Granada, Spain)

Editors: Dr. S. BRISSE (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France); Dr. N. BUDDELMEIJER (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France); Dr. D. CABANES
(Porto, Portugal); Dr. M. Da COSTA (Coimbra, Portugal); Dr. D. DAFFONCHIO (Milan, Italy); Dr. E. DASSA, Dr. C. D’ENFERT
(Institut Pasteur, Paris, France); Dr. R.P. DE VRIES (Utrecht, The Netherlands); Dr. L. DIJKSHOORN (Leiden, The Netherlands);
Dr. P. DYSON (Swansea, UK); Dr. E. FABRE (Paris, France); Dr. S. FANNING (Dublin, Ireland); Dr. S. FINKEL (Los Angeles, CA,
USA); Dr. S. GRIBALDO (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France); Dr. M. JEBBAR (Plouzané, France); Dr. D. MAZEL (Institut Pasteur, Paris,
France); Dr. S. NORDLUND (Stockholm, Sweden); Dr. P. NORMAND (Villeurbanne, France); Dr. V. PACES (Prague, Czech Republic);
Dr. J. R. PENADÉS CASANOVA (Segorbe, Spain); Dr. D. PRANGISHVILI (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France); Dr. E. RON (Tel Aviv, Israel);
Dr. P. SIMONET (Ecully, France); Dr. A. TOUSSAINT (Charleroi (Gosselies), Belgium); Dr. M. VANEECHOUTTE (Gent, Belgium);
Dr. B.VESTER (Odense, Denmark); Dr. F.X. WEILL (Insititut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Review Editors: Dr. P. BASTIN, J.M. GHIGO (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France), Dr. J. DAVIES (University of British Columbia, BC,
Canada) Dr. Y. DESSAUX (Institut des Sciences du Végétal, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

Desk Editor: Dr. Hafida Fsihi, E-mail: hafida@pasteur.fr

Editorial Coordinator: Géraldine Camus, E-mail: microbiology@pasteur.fr
Cover photo: Microbial Devices for Cell-Cell and Cell-Surface Interactions (see this issue). Copyright Institut Pasteur.

Publication information: Research in Microbiology (ISSN 0923-2508). For 2012, volume 163 is scheduled for publication.
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