Comparative Analysis of the 16S to 23S Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Sequences of Bacillus thuringiensis Strains and Subspecies and of Closely Related Species

Volume 61, no. 4, p. 1624, column 2, lines 38-41: The sentence should read "For example, at position 21, the G nucleotide (Fig. 1) was present in all the ISR B. thuringiensis subspecies except for B. thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis (Te4), which contained an A." Page 1624, column 2, line 45: "Position 62" should read "position 11." Page 1624, column 2, line 47: "Position 90" should read "position 39." Page 1624, column 2, line 49: "Position 83" should read "position 32." Page 1625, column 1, line 3: "Position 83" should read "position 32." Page 1626, column 1, line 1: "Positions 62, 90, and 165, and one deletion at position 83" should read "positions 11, 39, and 114, and one deletion at position 32." [This corrects the article on p. 1623 in vol. 61.].     

Purification and Properties of a Novel Thermostable Galacto-Oligosaccharide-Producing (beta)-Galactosidase from Sterigmatomyces elviae CBS8119

Volume 61, no. 11, p. 4028, column 1, line 37: "p-nitrophenyl-(beta)-d-galactopyranoside" should read "p-nitrophenyl-(beta)-d-glucopyranoside." Page 4028, column 1, line 38: "p-nitrophenyl-(beta)-l-arabinopyranoside" should read "p-nitrophenyl-(alpha)-l-arabinopyranoside." Page 4028, column 2, Table 2, last line: "PNP-(beta)-l-arabinopyranoside" should read "PNP-(alpha)-l-arabinopyranoside." Page 4028, column 2, Table 2, footnote a, line 4: "PNP-(alpha)-l-arabinopyranoside" should read "PNP-(beta)-l-arabinopyranoside." [This corrects the article on p. 4026 in vol. 61.].     

Stereoselective Production of (+)-trans-Chrysanthemic Acid by a Microbial Esterase: Cloning, Nucleotide Sequence, and Overexpression of the Esterase Gene of Arthrobacter globiformis in Escherichia coli

Volume 61, no. 9, p. 3209, column 2, line 23: "L22165" should read "L22516." [This corrects the article on p. 3208 in vol. 61.].     

Effect of oxytetracycline-medicated feed on antibiotic resistance of gram-negative bacteria in catfish ponds

Vol. 61, no. 6, p. 2338, Table 5, column 2, last line: "9" should read "97.9." [This corrects the article on p. 2335 in vol. 61.].     

PCR Amplification and Direct Sequencing of gyrB Genes with Universal Primers and Their Application to the Detection and Taxonomic Analysis of Pseudomonas putida Strains

Vol. 61, no. 3, p. 1104, column 2, 5 lines from the bottom: "each of the primers at a concentration of 1 mM" should read "each of the primers at a concentration of 1 (mu)M." [This corrects the article on p. 1104 in vol. 61.].     

Specificity of Reductive Dehalogenation of Substituted ortho-Chlorophenols by Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans JW/IU-DC1

Volume 61, no. 1, abstract, lines 4 and 5: "2,6-dichloro-4-R-phenols, where . . ." should read "2,6-dichloro-4-R-phenols (2,6-DCl-4-RPs, where R is -H, -F, -Cl, -NO(inf2), -CO(inf2)(sup-), or -COOCH(inf3)) . . ." Line 6: ". . . bromophenols (2-BrP, 2,6-DBrP, and 2-Br-4ClP)" should read ". . . the bromophenols 2-BrP, 2,6-DBrP, and 2-Br-4-ClP." [This corrects the article on p. 346 in vol. 61.].     

Cloning and Nucleotide Sequencing of the Membrane-Bound l-Sorbosone Dehydrogenase Gene of Acetobacter liquefaciens IFO 12258 and Its Expression in Gluconobacter oxydans

Volume 61, no. 2, p. 419, column 1, lines 15-19: this sentence should read as follows. "The alcohol dehydrogenase and glucose dehydrogenase have a common region reported to be related to pyrroloquinoline quinone binding (2, 10), but SNDH does not contain such a region, indicating that SNDH is not a quinoprotein." Page 419, column 2, line 12: "(Table 4)" should read "(Table 3)." [This corrects the article on p. 413 in vol. 61.].     

Comparison of phenotypical and molecular methods for the identification of bacterial strains isolated from a deep subsurface environment

Vol. 61, no. 9, p. 3406: the Acknowledgments should read as follows. "This work was supported by the CNRS and by grants of the European Community and ANDRA as part of the project Archimede-Argiles and of the Direction de la Recherche et des Etudes Doctorales. V.B. was a recipient of a CIFRE fellowship." [This corrects the article on p. 3400 in vol. 61.].     

Use of Molecular Typing Methods To Trace the Dissemination of Listeria monocytogenes in a Shrimp Processing Plant

Volume 62, no. 2, p. 705, column 2, line 5 from bottom: "neutralized with chlorine" should read "chlorine neutralized by the addition of 5 ml of a 1% solution of sodium thiosulfate." Page 706, Table 1, footnote b: Footnote b should read "The designation in parentheses is the area or type of sample collected as indicated in Table 3." Page 709, Tables 3 and 4: Tables 3 and 4 should read as shown below. [This corrects the article on p. 705 in vol. 62.].     

Manganese-Dependent Cleavage of Nonphenolic Lignin Structures by Ceriporiopsis subvermispora in the Absence of Lignin Peroxidase

Vol. 62, no. 10, p. 3684, column 2, line 16: "Tri(methylsilyl)" should read "Tri(trimethylsilyl)." Line 17: "Di(methylsilyl)" should read "Di(trimethylsilyl)." Line 20: "Tri(methylsilyl)" should read "Trimethylsilyl." Page 3686, column 1, reference 12: The journal should be Dokl. Akad. Nauk Belarusi. [This corrects the article on p. 3679 in vol. 62.].     

Differential susceptibility of aeromonads and coliforms to cefsulodin

Volumn 62, no. 6, p. 1885, Abstract, line 3: "For 102 of 129 Aeromonas isolates" should read "For 102 of 130 Aeromonas isolates." Page 1887, column 1, lines 16 and 17: "and for 13 of 21 coliform isolates" should read "and for 13 of 94 coliform isolates." [This corrects the article on p. 1885 in vol. 62.].     

Amplification of the amoA Gene from Diverse Species of Ammonium-Oxidizing Bacteria and from an Indigenous Bacterial Population from Seawater

Vol. 61, no. 7, p. 2705, column 2, lines 9 to 16: these sentences should read as follows. "These two sequences show 75% identity at the DNA level to the published N. europaea sequence and show 85% identity to each other. Interestingly, the regions that our primers were designed to target show 5 and 3 mismatches with the Nitrosospira sequence and 2 and 2 mismatches with the Nitrosolobus sequence for the forward and reverse primers, respectively." [This corrects the article on p. 2702 in vol. 61.].     

Factors Which Affect the Frequency of Sporulation and Tetrad Formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Baker's Yeasts

Vol. 61, no. 2, p. 635, legend to Fig. 3, line 1: "VS ( )" should read "VS ((symbl))." Legend to Fig. 4, line 3: "DS81-D ( )" should read "DS81-D ((symbl))." [This corrects the article on p. 630 in vol. 61.].     

Detection of a Single Viable Cryptosporidium parvum Oocyst in Environmental Water Concentrates by Reverse Transcription-PCR

Volume 62, no. 9, p. 3386, column 1, last line: "(specific gravity, 2.10) and centrifuging the mixture at 2,000 x g for 10 min" should read "(specific gravity, 1.10) and centrifuging the mixture at 1,050 x g for 10 min." Page 3387, column 1, line 16: "25 cycles at 90(deg)C for 5 min" should read "25 cycles at 90(deg)C for 5 s." [This corrects the article on p. 3385 in vol. 62.].     

Binding of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1 Toxins to the Midgut Brush Border Membrane Vesicles of Chilo suppressalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae): Evidence of Shared Binding Sites

Volume 62, no. 5, p. 1544, Abstract, line 4: "Cry1Aa" should read "Cry1Ac." [This corrects the article on p. 1544 in vol. 62.].     

Isolation of a Bacterial Culture That Degrades Methyl t-Butyl Ether

Volume 60, no. 7, p. 2593, abstract, line 11: "radiolabeled either" should read "radiolabeled ether." Page 2594, column 1, line 13 from bottom: "KH(inf2)PO(inf4) (350 pmg/liter)" should read "KH(inf2)PO(inf4) (350 mg/liter)." [This corrects the article on p. 2593 in vol. 60.].     

Cloning and Sequencing of LlaII Restriction/Modification Genes from Lactococcus lactis and Relatedness of This System to the Streptococcus pneumoniae DpnII System

Volume 61, no. 6, p. 2193-2202: the restriction/modification system designation "LlaII" should read "LlaDCHI" throughout the paper to conform to conventional nomenclature for such systems. [This corrects the article on p. 2193 in vol. 61.].     

Rapid Glutamate Decarboxylase Assay for Detection of Escherichia coli

Volume 59, no. 12, p. 4347, column 1, line 3 from bottom: "500 x g" should read "2,500 x g." [This corrects the article on p. 4347 in vol. 59.].     

Evidence for Intracellular and Extracellular Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) Lyases and DMSP Uptake Sites in Two Species of Marine Bacteria

Volume 63, no. 8, p. 3183, column 1, line 3 from the bottom: "0.012 versus 0.730" should read "0.022 versus 0.065." [This corrects the article on p. 3182 in vol. 63.].     

Production of Galacto-Oligosaccharide from Lactose by Sterigmatomyces elviae CBS8119

Volume 61, no. 11, p. 4022, column 2, line 10: "K(inf2)HSO(inf4)" and "KH(inf2)SO(inf4)" should read "K(inf2)HPO(inf4)" and "KH(inf2)PO(inf4)," respectively. Line 13: "K(inf2)HSO(inf4)" should read "K(inf2)HPO(inf4)." Line 14: "KH(inf2)SO(inf4)" and "0.2 g of CaCO(inf3)" should read "KH(inf2)PO(inf4)" and "1 g of CaCO(inf3)," respectively. [This corrects the article on p. 4022 in vol. 61.].