TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

《微生物学趋势》提供了一个多学科论坛，讨论微生物学的所有方面:从细胞生物学和免疫学到遗传学和进化论，涵盖病毒学、细菌学、原生动物学和真菌学。微生物学是目前生命科学中发展最快的学科之一，这也要感谢近年来的技术发展。小基因组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，从病原体到极端微生物，并将推动新的发展，例如，在药物、疫苗和工业酶研究。最近的国际发展也使人们对微生物学重新产生了兴趣。目录包括一个生动的混合评论，通信和审查。大多数文章都是委托撰写的，而且都是经过同行评审的。因此，它们为教学和了解整个领域的发展奠定了权威的基础。重点是分子微生物学和病毒学,包括基因组学等主题,全体宿主-病原体相互作用,植物和动物宿主免疫反应,毒性因素的特征和演变,细胞周期和分化,共生的植物和动物协会、环境微生物学、生物多样性与进化、种群动态、性和诱变,抗生素耐药性和生产,药物和疫苗的目标,以及朊病毒疾病，真菌和原生动物生物学方面的研究。

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.