mBio – home of some really cool, #openaccess microbiology papers

Am really enjoying the suite of papers coming out in mBio – the Open Access PLOSOne like journal from the American Society for Microbiology.  Here are some examples of recent papers that caught my eye:

• Biogeochemical Forces Shape the Composition and Physiology of Polymicrobial Communities in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung by Robert A. Quinn, Yan Wei Lim, Heather Maughan, Douglas Conrad, Forest Rohwer and Katrine L. Whiteson
• Causes for the Persistence of Impact Factor Mania by Arturo Casadevall and Ferric C. Fang
• Comparative Analysis of Salmonella Genomes Identifies a Metabolic Network for Escalating Growth in the Inflamed Gut by Sean-Paul Nuccio and Andreas J. Bäumler
• Use and Misuse of Statistical Significance in Survival Analyses by Yoichi Furuya, Danushka K. Wijesundara, Teresa Neeman and Dennis W. Metzger
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in Dromedary Camels in Saudi Arabia by Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, Thomas Briese, Nischay Mishra, Vishal Kapoor, Stephen C. Sameroff, Emmie de Wit, Vincent J. Munster, Lisa E. Hensley, Iyad S. Zalmout, Amit Kapoor, Jonathan H. Epstein, William B. Karesh, Peter Daszak, Osama B. Mohammed, and W. Ian Lipkin
• Programmable Removal of Bacterial Strains by Use of Genome-Targeting CRISPR-Cas Systems by Ahmed A. Gomaa, Heidi E. Klumpe, Michelle L. Luo, Kurt Selle, Rodolphe Barrangou, and Chase L. Beisel

And many many more.  Kudos to ASM and mBio.

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen