Archives of Microbiology publishes papers on all areas of basic research in microbiology. Such studies can be approached using biochemical genetic microbiological molecular biological physiological or physical methods or a combination thereof. The papers published must sufficiently contribute to the understanding and knowledge in the particular field. Each paper must provide novel information about the organism(s) or its interaction with its environment. Purely confirmatory studies taxonomical descriptions of new species that lack a novel metabolism or other novel characteristics and gene sequences alone are usually not published.