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Special Online Collection: Microbial Ecology

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Microbial EcologyIn the 23 May 2008 issue, Science and its online companion Science Signaling explore the stunning diversity and dynamics of the microbial universe. In Science, News stories look at the hidden microbial world inside sponges and ongoing efforts to classify microbes with respect to their environments, while Review articles discuss the microbial processes that drive earth's biogeochemical cycles and approaches to understanding the distribution of microbial taxa and their traits. In Science Signaling, Perspectives explore how different plant pathogens use similar signaling molecules in distinct ways, how gut microbes dampen the host immune response, and how mast cells use extracellular traps to kill microbes.

In Science

INTRODUCTION

Lost in Microbial Space >
Caroline Ash, John Foley, Elizabeth Pennisi

NEWS

The Inner Lives of Sponges >
Gretchen Vogel
Confusing Kinships >
John Bohannon

REVIEWS

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth’s Biogeochemical Cycles >
Paul G. Falkowski, Tom Fenchel, Edward F. Delong
Microbial Biogeography: From Taxonomy to Traits >
Jessica L. Green, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Rachel J. Whitaker
Microbial Ecology of Ocean Biogeochemistry: A Community Perspective >
Suzanne L. Strom

In Science Signaling

EDITORIAL GUIDE

Focus Issue: A Niche of One's Own >
Elizabeth M. Adler and John F. Foley
The nature of microbe-host relationships often depends on signaling pathways in the host.

PERSPECTIVE

Diversification of the Function of Cell-to-Cell Signaling in Regulation of Virulence within Plant Pathogenic Xanthomonads >
Max Dow
Different plant pathogens use similar signaling molecules in distinct ways.

PERSPECTIVE

Bacterial-Modulated Signaling Pathways in Gut Homeostasis >
Won-Jae Lee
Stimulation of the production of reactive oxygen species in gut epithelial cells by commensal bacteria dampens the host immune response.
ETosis: A Novel Cell Death Pathway >
Florian Wartha and Birgitta Henriques-Normark
Pathogenic microbes are trapped and killed by mast cell- and neutrophil-derived extracellular traps.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)