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With over 1.4 million article downloads annually, and a journal Altmetric score of 3, FEMS Microbiology Reviews publishes outstanding reviews from leading experts in key areas of microbiology.

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Exploring the human microbiome from multiple perspectives

Exploring the human microbiome from multiple perspectives: factors altering its composition and function

The authors provide new insights into the association between multiple factors and alterations in our microbiota; data revision, technical challenges and methods, particularly metaolomics, are thoroughly discussed within the context of linking microorganisms to genes and proteins, and subsequently to functions.

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Novel approaches in function-driven single-cell genomics

Novel approaches in function-driven single-cell genomics

This review highlights the use of function-driven single-cell genomics for the targeted recovery of single-cell genomes from uncultivated or uncharacterised microbes implicated with a specific function or phenotype.

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Microbial processes driving coral reef organic carbon flow

Microbial communities in coral reefs readily respond to benthic phase shifts driven by human impacts. By changing community composition, increasing growth rates and carbon demand, and escaping viral predation, microbes rewire coral reef organic flow and accelerate ecosystem degradation.

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Thematic Issues

Antimicrobial Therapy

Read the latest Thematic Issue from FEMS Microbiology Reviews which discusses the issues associated with antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance.

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Signals to Sociality

Read the latest Thematic Issue from FEMS Microbiology Reviews which frames the important question of how microbes communicate and why it’s so important.

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Yeasts as models in Cell Biology

This Thematic Issue assembles a panel of 9 reviews that cover a wide range of fields in which yeast models continue contributing seminal discoveries, covering topics such as DNA structure, physiology, and many more.

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Virtual Special Issues

Yeast Lipids in Paris 2017

The Yeast Lipids Conference (YLC) is held annually to promote free discussion between scientists working on or interested in all aspects of yeast and fungal lipids. With FEMS Yeast Research Editor-in-Chief Jens Nielsen as an invited speaker, the articles in this virtual issue have been selected by Tristan Rossignol to highlight the excellent yeast lipid research we publish.

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Helicobacter Virtual Special Issue

Helicobacter pylori colonises 50% of the human population, and is the leading cause of peptic ulcer disease. Read a collection of papers from the FEMS journals giving insight into the pathogenicity, genetics and biochemistry of these microbes.

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Articles making impact

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Explore the FEMS journals portal, the online gateway to assist the microbiology community in their education and development.

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It's free to publish Open Access articles with FEMS Microbiology Reviews. Find out more and submit your research today!

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Peerwith allows you to find language editing experts specializing in microbiology and with FEMS Journals publishing experience. Get in touch with one of our hundreds of language experts by placing a request on the FEMS page.

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Thank you, from FEMS

We’d like to thank our reviewers for their contribution to FEMS Microbiology Reviews in 2016. We are sincerely grateful for your efforts. Click below to see a full list of reviewers.


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