Feature Papers in Bacteria

Dear Colleagues,

This Topical Collection, "Feature Papers in Bacteria", aims to publish high-quality research articles, review articles, and communications that address the topic of bacteriology. Because the aim of this Topical Collection is to illustrate, through selected works, pioneering research in bacteriology, we encourage Editorial Board Members of Bacteria to contribute papers reflecting the latest progress in their research field, and welcome relevant experts and colleagues to do so as well. Please kindly note that only invited papers can be published online once accepted into this collection.

The scope of this Topical Collection includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Bacterial association with host tissues
• Bacterial production of bioactive compounds
• Bacteria in public health
• Bacteria and food safety
• Bacterial genomics and evolution
• Comparative bacterial genomics
• Integrative methods for the bacterial physiology and systems biology of bacteria.
• Population genomics in bacteria.
• Integrative approaches for bacterial adaptation and evolution.
• Bacterial development.
• Bacterial structural biology.
• Bacterial pathogenesis mechanisms.
• Bacterial immune evasion.
• Bacterial metabolism.
• Bacterial transformation and transcription.
• Bacterial secretion.
• Bacterial techniques and applications.
• Bacterial toxins.
• Bacterial ecology.

Prof. Dr. Bart C. Weimer
Collection Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the collection website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Bacteria is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• bacterial development
• bacterial genomics
• bacterial physiology 
• bacterial structural 
• bacterial pathogenesis mechanisms
• bacterial immune evasion
• bacterial metabolism
• bacterial transformation and transcription
• bacterial secretion
• bacterial techniques and applications
• bacterial toxins
• bacterial ecology