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• http://www.nature.com/ismej
• Editor: Mark Bailey, John Heidelberg and George Kowalchuk
• Volume 2: 12issues per year
• ISSN: 1751-7362
• Date Established: May 2007
• Published on behalf of: The International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME)

Aims and Scope:

The ISME Journal encompasses the breadth of microbial ecology, and topics of particular concentration include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Integration of genomics and post-genomics approaches into studies of microbial activities, interactions and phylogeny
• Interactions among microorganisms and between microbes and their eukaryotic hosts, including plant, animal and human diseases and symbioses
• Understanding of biotic/abiotic interactions in situ and microbial drivers of biogeochemical cycles
• Integrated advances in environmental biotechnology
• Impacts of global change on microbial communities and processes
• Theoretical advances in microbial population and community ecology.

Readership:

Microbiologists, molecular biologists, cell biologists, biotechnologists, earth scientists, evolution and ecology researchers and geneticists.

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