Trends in Microbiology

期刊简介：Trends in Microbiology provides a multidisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of microbiology: from cell biology and immunology to genetics and evolution, and ranges across virology, bacteriology, protozoology and mycology.Microbiology is, at present, one of the fastest moving disciplines in Life Sciences, thanks also to technological developments of the recent years. The relative ease and rapidity with which small genomes can be entirely sequenced is beginning to have significant impact on all areas of prokaryote biology, from pathogens to extremophiles, and will fuel new developments, for example, in drugs, vaccines and industrial enzyme research. Recent international developments are also responsible for a renewed interest in microbiology.The Table of Contents includes a lively mix of commentary, correspondence and review. Most articles are commissioned and all of them are peer-reviewed. Consequently, they make an authoritative basis for teaching and keeping abreast of developments across the field.The focus is on molecular microbiology and virology, and includes topics such as genomics, the gamut of plant and animal host-pathogen interactions, host immune responses, characterization and evolution of virulence determinants, cell cycle and differentiation, symbiosis in plant and animal associations, environmental microbiology, biodiversity and evolution, population dynamics, sex and mutagenesis, antibiotic resistance and production, drug and vaccine targets, as well as aspects of prion diseases and of fungal and protozoan biology.

【译文】微生物学趋势提供了关于微生物所有方面的跨学科论坛讨论：从细胞生物学和免疫学到遗传学和进化，涵盖了病毒学、细菌学、原生动物学和真菌学。目前，微生物学是生命科学中发展最快的学科之一，这也要归功于近年来技术的进步。小基因组可以迅速完全测序的相对容易和快速，开始对原核生物的所有领域产生重大影响，从病原体到极端生物，并将推动新领域的发展，例如药物、疫苗和工业酶研究。最近的国际发展也促使人们对微生物学产生了新的兴趣。目录包括评论、通信和评论的生动混合。大多数文章都是委托撰写的，所有文章都经过同行评审。因此，它们为教学和了解该领域的最新发展提供了权威的基础。重点是分子微生物学和病毒学，包括基因组学、植物和动物宿主-病原体相互作用的全面内容、宿主免疫反应、致病性决定因子的特征和进化、细胞周期和分化、植物和动物关联中的共生、环境微生物学、生物多样性和进化、种群动态、性别和突变、抗生素耐药性和生产、药物和疫苗靶点，以及朊病毒疾病、真菌和原生动物生物学的各个方面。