EDITORIAL
On behalf of the editors of mBio, I gratefully acknowledge the following individuals, who served as reviewers for the journal in 2015. Their time and effort in reviewing articles have been essential in ensuring the high quality of our publications, and their help is greatly appreciated.
Mark Achtman
Margaret Ackerman
Alvaro Acosta-Serrano
Jeffrey Actor
Mark Adams
Pia Adelroth
Sarah Ades
Hector Aguilar
Brian Ahmer
Gillian Air
Klaus Aktories
Christopher Alabi
Sonja-Verena Albers
Courtney Aldrich
Caitilyn Allen
Francis Alonzo
J. Andrew Alspaugh
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
James Alwine
Zhiqiang An
Deborah Anderson
Kirk E. Anderson
E. Virginia Armbrust
Sandra Armstrong
Gustavo Arrizabalaga
Michel Arthur
David Askew
Ina Atrée
Taeok Bae
Fabio Bagnoli
Joel Baines
Mona Bajaj-Elliot
David Baker
Nathalie Balaban
Ashwin Balagopal
Mitchell Balish
Emily Balskus
David Baltrus
Jeri Barak
Montserrat Barcena
Daniela Barilla
Carolina Barillas-Mury
Jeremy Barr
Rodolphe Barrangou
Christopher Basler
Andreas Bäumler
Kenneth Bayles
Pascale Beauregard
Avraham Beer
Peter Beernink
Robert Belas
John Belisle
Stephen Bell
Gabriele Berg
Jeffrey Bergelson
David Bermudes
Thomas Bernhardt
Sukesh Bhaumik
Jennifer F. Biddle
Paulo Bispo
Ira Blader
David Blair
Steven Blanke
Bonnie Blomberg
David Bloom
Linda Bockenstedt
Teun Boekhout
Blaise Boles
Robert Bonomo
Elizabeth Boon
Seth Bordenstein
Tanja Bosak
Jürgen Bosch
Helena Boshoff
Jonathan Boyson
Alexander Bradley
Peter Bradley
Thomas Briese
Brandon Briggs
David Briles
Paul Brindley
Eric Brown
Gordon Brown
Jeremy Brown
Glenn Browning
John Brumell
Brian Brunelle
Mark Brynildsen
Juliane Bubeck-Wardenburg
Kerry Buchholz
Angus Buckling
Andries Budding
Lori Burrows
David Bzik
Javier Cabanes
Isabelle Caldelari
Leonides Calvo-Bado
Andrew Camilli
Elizabeth Campbell
Andrea Campisano
Paula Cannon
Hannah Carey
Mark Carrington
Clayton Caswell
Prabha Chandrasekaran
Christophe Chassard
Keith Chater
Subhadeep Chatterjee
Dhruba Chattoraj
Hualan Chen
Jiandong Chen
Joseph Chen
Yury Chernoff
Ambrose Cheung
Scott Chimileski
Charles Chiu
Byung-Kwan Cho
Claire Chougnet
Peter Christie
Gino Cingolani
Anthony Clark
Thomas Clavel
Keith Clay
David Coil
Anamaris Colberg-Poley
Stephane Compant
Laurie Comstock
Sean Conlan
Nancy Connell
Isabelle Coppens
Richard Cordaux
Otto Cordero
Pierre Cornelis
Teresa Coque
Peggy Cotter
Harry Courtney
Patrice Courvalin
Leah Cowen
Michael Cox
Nancy Cox
Carolyn Coyne
Robert Cramer
Sean Crosson
Longzhu Cui
Melanie Cushion
Mauro Dalla Serra
Pranav Danthi
Dana Davis
Piet de Groot
René De Mot
Carlos de Noronha
Willem de Vos
Kirk Deitsch
Frank DeLeo
Maurizio Del Poeta
Neal DeLuca
Mark Denison
William DePas
Vojo Deretic
Andrew Desbois
Kevin Devine
Patricia Diaz
Andreas Diepold
Stephen Diggle
Larry Dishaw
Maziar Divangahi
Yohei Doi
Anca Dorhoi
Adam Driks
Patrick Duffy
Paul Dunman
Julie Dunning Hotopp
Gary Dunny
Magdalena Dunowska
Rebecca Dutch
Bas Dutilh
Jonathan Dworkin
Dan Dwyer
Michelle Dzeijman
Ashlee Earl
Frank Ebel
Leo Eberl
Tassos Economou
Andrew Edwards
Maryna Eichelberger
Patrick Eichenberger
Bart Eijkelkamp
Abraham Eisenstark
David Engelthaler
Luis Enjuanes
Lynn Enquist
Suzanne Epstein
Joel Ernst
Robert Ernst
Jeffery Errington
Joana Falcao Salles
Daniel Falush
Michael Federle
Brice Felden
Marta Feldmesser
Mariet Feltkamp
Gen-Sheng Feng
Hanping Feng
Peter Feng
Scott Ferrenberg
Paul Fey
Raina Fichorova
Paul Fidel
David Fidock
Ken Fields
Luisa Figueiredo
Melanie Filiatrault
Scott Filler
Alain Filloux
Ralf-Joerg Fischer
Vincent Fischetti
Matthew Fisher
Derek Fisher
Ross Fitzgerald
Barry Flinn
Harry Flint
Viacheslav Fofanov
Juan Fontana
Anja Forche
Larry Forney
Naomi Forrester
Kristoffer Forslund
Ron Fouchier
Carolin Frank
Richard Frankel
Michael Franklin
Lori Frappier
James Fraser
David Fredricks
Christopher French
W. Florian Fricke
David Friedman
Takema Fukatsu
Shinji Fukuda
Clay Fuqua
Tom Gallagher
J. Victor Garcia
Dominique Garcin
Timothy Garrett
Elke Genersch
Stephane Genin
Nicole Gerardo
Kenn Gerdes
Karine Gibbs
Jack Gilbert
Scott Gilbert
Michael Gillings
Zemer Gitai
Pierre Gladieux
Anna Gogleva
Hana Golding
Mark Gomelsky
Félix Goñi
Carlos Gonzalez
Uri Gophna
Christian Gortázar
Ernest Gould
Jeffrey Gralnick
Lone Gram
Gregor Grass
Mark Gresnigt
Joel Griffitts
Marc-Jan Gubbels
Patricia Guerry-Kopecko
Hubertus Haas
Ted Hackstadt
Julius Clemence Hafalla
Daisuke Hagiwara
Anders Hakansson
Mohamed Hakimi
William Hanage
Lynn Hancock
Hermie Harmsen
Simon Harris
Tajie Harris
Elizabeth Harry
Rasika Harshey
Elizabeth Hartland
John Harty
Kim Hasenkrug
Graham Hatfull
Philippe Hauser
Stanley Hazen
Cynthia He
Ian Head
Sophie Helaine
Nicholas Heng
Scott Hensley
Juan Hermoso
Alfredo Herrera-Estrella
Johannes Herrmann
Penelope Higgs
Hubert Hilbi
Russell Hill
James Hoch
Ann Hochschild
Robert M. Hoffman
Monica Höfte
Deborah Hogan
Brenda Hogue
Edward J. Hollox
Edward Holmes
Kathryn Holmes
Fred Homa
Hee-Jeon Hong
Marcus Horn
Alexander Horswill
Benjamin A. Horwitz
S. H. R. Hosseini
Benjamin Howden
Guanghua Huang
Jean Huang
Julie Huber
Casey Hubert
David Hunstad
Julian Hurdle
Aeron Hurt
Curtis Huttenhower
Alexander Idnurm
James Imlay
William Inskeep
Vikas Jain
Guilhem Janbon
Yu-Sin Jang
Blythe Janowiak
Gunther Jansen
Laura Jarboe
Michael Jennings
Lars Jeuken
Christian Jobin
Paul Johnston
Kristina Jonas
Jeffrey Jones
Aras Kadioglu
Jiri Kana
Hyun Ah Kang
Petros Karakousis
Kazuyuki Kasahara
David Katz
Deepak Kaushal
Barbara Kazmierczak
Daniel Kearns
Patrick Keeling
Melissa Kendall
François Képès
Thomas Kepler
Margaret Kielian
Mogens Kilian
Kami Kim
Samantha King
Veljo Kisand
Daan Kiviet
Lisa Klasson
David Knipe
Laura Knoll
Dennis Ko
Lester Kobzik
Andrew Koh
Heidi Kong
Omry Koren
Anita Koshy
Akos T. Kovacs
Natacha Kremer
Thomas Kristie
James Kronstad
Lee Kroos
Tomoko Kubori
Meta Kuehn
Michael Kühl
Jens Kuhn
Richard Kuhn
Purnima Kumar
Rolf Kümmerli
Andrei Kuzminov
Kyung Kwon-Chung
Peter Kwong
Marc-Andre Lachance
Michael Lagunoff
Thomas Lane
Jean-Paul Latge
Beth Lazazzera
Francois Lebreton
Benhur Lee
Elissa Lei
Jay Lennon
Alan Leonard
Emil Lesho
Elena Levashina
Bruce Levin
Tera Levin
Jesica Levingston Macleod
Stuart Levitz
Deborah Lewinsohn
Kim Lewis
Daniel Libraty
Tami Lieberman
Susan Liebman
Patrick Linder
Frederique Lisacek
Melissa Lodoen
Frank Loeffler
Richard Longnecker
Daniel López
Stephen Lory
Anice Lowen
Steven Lower
Alexander Loy
Shan Lu
Aldons Lusis
Michael Lynch
Susan Lynch
Bing Ma
Li-Jun Ma
Hiten Madhani
Kira Makarova
Mark Mandel
Riccardo Manganelli
Suliana Manley
Jaan Mannik
Costas Maranas
Esperanza Martínez-Romero
Flávia Martinello
Vega Masignani
Revati Masilamani
Sergei Maslov
Tetsuro Matano
Anuja Mathew
Ichiro Matsumura
Kai Matuschewski
Wendy Maury
Robin May
Shonna McBride
Christopher McDevitt
Diane McDougald
Michael McInerney
James McInerney
James McKinlay
Rachel McLoughlin
Barry McMahon
Paul L. McNeil
Espen Melum
Tod Merkel
D. Merrell
Dennis Metzger
Folker Meyer
Jan Michiels
Tam Mignot
Virginia Miller
David Mills
Aaron Mitchell
Yorgo Modis
Christopher Mody
Daniel Monleón
Donald Morisson
Cécile Morlot
Joachim Morschhäuser
Herbert Morse
Eric Mortensen
Rosa Mourino
W. Moye-Rowley
Conrad Mullineaux
Alicia Muro-Pastor
Barbara Murray
Lieve Naesens
Julian Naglik
Xavier Nassif
Sergei Nekhai
David Nelson
Josh Neufeld
David Newburg
Mari-Anne Newman
Olivier Neyrolles
David Nichols
Anthony Nicola
Kirsten Nielsen
Michele Nishiguchi
Joshua Nosanchuk
Mairi Noverr
Minou Nowrousian
Jack Nunberg
Takuro Nunoura
Marco Rinaldo Oggioni
Dennis Ohman
Antonio Oliver
Michal Olszewski
Carlos Orihuela
Alice Ortmann
Mario Ostrowski
Paul O’Toole
Melanie Ott
Karen Ottemann
Michael Otto
Soufian Ouchan
Kelli Palmer
Bernhard Palsson
Timothy Palzkill
Eric Pamer
Navraj Pannu
Leslie Parent
Adam Parks
Matthew Parsek
Norman Pavelka
Vladimir Pelicic
Philip Pellett
John Perfect
David Perlin
Stanley Perlman
Jean Luc Pernodet
Reuben Peters
Kevin Pethe
Constantinos Petrovas
Julie Pfeiffer
Andrew Phipps
Dominique Pidard
Susan Pierce
Robert Pike
Mariana Pinho
Paul Planet
Julie Plastino
Joe Pogliano
Stefan Pöhlmann
Shawn Polson
Martin Polz
Mihai Pop
Danilo Porro
Jennifer Potts
Lance Price
Morgan Price
David Pride
James Prosser
Paolo Puccetti
Ralf Rabus
Seth Rakoff-Nahoum
Sanjay Ram
Richard Randall
Philip Rather
Daniel Read
Timothy Read
Matthew Redinbo
Christopher Rensing
Federico Rey
Lisa Reynolds
Todd Reynolds
Andrew Rice
Kelly Rice
Anthony Richardson
Cristina Risco Ortiz
Jeffrey Roberts
Marilyn Roberts
Eduardo Rocha
Dan Rockey
Marcio Rodrigues
John Rohde
Antonis Rokas
Suzan Rooijakkers
R. Roop
Jason Rosch
Ilan Rosenshine
Natividad Ruiz
Steffen Rupp
Charles Russell
Jacob Russell
Kathleen Ryan
Jonah Sacha
Jeroen Saeij
Jason Sahl
Padmini Salgame
Jeanne Salje
Nicole Sampson
Scott Samuels
Alvaro Sanchez
Per Saris
Christopher Sassetti
Tor Savidge
Luis Sayavedra-Soto
Esperance Schaefer
Herb Schellhorn
Siegfried Scherer
Jeffrey Schertzer
Larry Schlesinger
Amy Schmid
Claudia Schmidt-Dannert
Christoph Schoen
Christoph Schüller
Martin Schuster
Martin Schwemmle
Patrick Seed
Anna Seekatz
Julia Segre
H. Seifert
Yuji Sekiguchi
David Sela
Bret Sellman
Bert Semler
Ganes Sen
Paolo Serafini
Angela Sessitch
Peter Setlow
Konstantin Severinov
William Shafer
Mara Shainheit
Sagi Shapira
Itai Sharon
Paul Sharp
Thomas Sharpton
Brian Shaw
Bang Shen
Bo Shopsin
D. V. Sign
Anita Sil
Thomas Silhavy
Natalie Silmon de Monerri
Lynn Silver
Robert Silverman
Eric Skaar
Mark Slifka
Jason Slot
Mark Smeltzer
C. Smith
Joe Smith
George Smulian
Evan Snitkin
Evgeni Sokurenko
Dominique Soldati-Favre
Abraham Sonenshein
Joseph Sorg
Brad Spellberg
Nicola Stanley-Wall
Jack Stapleton
George Stewart
Timothy Stinear
Ulrich Stingl
Gregory Storch
Klemen Strle
Jorg Stulke
Xin-zhuan Su
Carlos Subauste
Periasamy Subbarayan
William Sullivan
Bryan Swingle
W. Swords
Anna Székely
Hendrik Szurmant
Yi-Wei Tang
Phil Tarr
Jeffery Taubenberger
John Taylor
Tanel Tenson
Rita Tewari
Kevin Theis
Ulrich Theopold
Alex Therien
Casey Theriot
Volker Thiel
Marco Thines
Paul Thomas
Torsten Thomas
Vinai Thomas
Linda Thomashow
Justin Thornton
J. Cameron Thrash
Alejandro Toledo-Arana
Eva Top
Alfredo Torres
Victor Torres
Baldwyn Torto
Guy Tran Van Nhieu
Matthew Traxler
Moritz Treeck
Elaine Tuomanen
Peter Turnbaugh
Jeffery Twiss
Buddy Ullman
Gottfried Unden
Constantin Urban
Raphael Valdivia
Susana Valente
Peter van der Ley
Gerlinde van de Walle
Giel van Dooren
Laurence Van Melderen
Mark van Raaij
Willem van Schaik
Daria Van Tyne
Rachel Vannette
Willem van Wamel
Raghavan Varadarajan
Michael Vasil
Vijayakumar Velu
Keerthi Prasad Venkataramanan
Salvador Ventura
James Versalovic
Kevin Verstrepen
Laura Via
Marco Vignuzzi
Waldemar Vollmer
Veronika von Messling
Andreas Wack
Stephen Waggoner
Matthew Waldor
K. Walker
Judy Wall
David Wang
Dong Wang
Jin-Town Wang
Digby Warner
Christopher Waters
Milind Watve
Joel Weadge
Gunter Wegener
Grzegorz Wegrzyn
Jeffrey Weiser
David Weiss
Matthew Welch
Sandra Weller
Melanie Wellington
Finn Werner
Guido Werner
John Werren
Judith White
Marvin Whiteley
Chris Whitfield
William Whitman
Brian Wilkinson
Alex Wilson
Malcolm Winkler
Wade Winkler
Sebastian Winter
Elizabeth Winzeler
Jeffrey Withey
Steven Witkin
Christiane Wolz
Daniel Wozniak
Jianming Wu
Marcel Wüthrich
Karina Xavier
Jie Xiao
Jin-Rong Xu
X. Frank Yang
Robert Yarchoan
Lael Yonker
Sung Yoon
Lingchong You
Vincent Young
Xi Yu
Andrew Yurochko
Eva Yus Najera
Nicholas Zachos
Thomas Zahrt
Oscar Zaragoza
Yanjin Zhang
Yifan Zhang
Bojian Zheng
Wilma Ziebuhr
Joseph Ziegelbauer