EDITORIAL
The editors and Editorial Board members of the Journal of Bacteriology thank the many special reviewers who contributed to the peer review process during the period from September 2015 through August 2016. We recognize and greatly appreciate their time, effort, and expertise.
Stephen T. Abedon
Michael W. W. Adams
Ogun Adebali
Martin Aepfelbacher
Sonja-Verena Albers
Kylie Allen
Francis Alonzo
Christopher Alteri
Miguel A. Alvarez
Orna Amster-choder
Gregory G. Anderson
Judith P. Armitage
Sandra K. Armstrong
Abdussalam Azem
Horacio Bach
Guangchun Bai
Mitchell F. Balish
Steven Ball
David A. Baltrus
Joseph T. Barbieri
Melanie Jean Barnett
Rodolphe Barrangou
Marek Basler
Bonnie Bassler
Tom J. Battin
Gwyn A. Beattie
Marcel A. Behr
Chase Beisel
Robert Belas
Boris R. Belitsky
Robert A. Bender
Jose A. Bengoechea
Ivan Berg
James M. Berger
Thomas Bernhardt
Harris D. Bernstein
Katja Bettenbrock
Penny J. Beuning
Devaki Bhaya
Kelly Bidle
Gursonika Binepal
Emanuele G. Biondi
Nils-Kaare Birkeland
Robert E. Blankenship
Thomas A. Bobik
Christopher N. Boddy
Joe Bondy-Denomy
Irina V. Boni
Helena Ingrid Boshoff
Beth Boudreau
Philippe Bouloc
Emmanuelle Bouveret
Grant R. Bowman
Erhard Bremer
Ariane Briegel
Christopher John Brigham
Cassandra L. Brinkman
Shaun R. Brinsmade
Pamela J. B. Brown
Claude Bruand
Yves V. Brun
Nicole R. Buan
Nienke Buddelmeijer
Tim John Bull
Hector Burgos
Andreas Burkovski
Robert L. Burnap
Robert A. Burne
Stephen Busby
Paul James Buske
Julea N. Butt
Mark J. Buttner
Kyle C. Cady
Elizabeth Campbell
Bin Cao
Josep Casadesus
Jean-François Cavin
Patricia A. DiGiuseppe Champion
Josephine R. Chandler
Dhruba K. Chattoraj
Guo-Qiang Chen
Joseph Chen
Ambrose Cheung
Peter Chien
Ludmila Chistoserdova
Graham Christie
Josephine E. Clark-Curtiss
Dom B. Clewell
Jeff A. Cole
Ian Collinson
Asunción Contreras
Gregory M. Cook
Vaughn S. Cooper
Teresa M. Coque
Pierre Cornelis
Pascale F. Cossart
Peggy A. Cotter
Donald L. Court
Timothy L. Cover
Lisa Craig
John E. Cronan
Laszlo N. Csonka
Simon M. Cutting
Dayle A. Daines
Ankur Dalia
Remus Dame
Robert Daniels
Mary Ellen Davey
Alan R. Davidson
Bryan W. Davies
Suzanne Dawid
Xavier De Bolle
Gabriele Deckers-Hebestreit
Jesus de la Cruz
Frank R. DeLeo
Mónica Alejandra Delgado
Victor de Lorenzo
Pieter De Maayer
Diego de Mendoza
Tanneke den Blaauwen
Rajendar Deora
Yves Dessaux
Linda C. DeVeaux
Wim DHaeze
Madushini Nirosha Dharmasena
Pavel Dibrov
Stephen P. Diggle
Alan A. DiSpirito
Karrera Djoko
Timothy J. Donohue
Patricia C. Dos Santos
Simon L. Dove
Maxwell Dow
Diana M. Downs
Shaynoor Dramsi
Adam Driks
Brian T. Driscoll
Robert Louis Duda
Yves F. Dufrene
Margaret Janet Duncan
Michael Dunn
Michael L. Dyall-Smith
Daniel E. Dykhuizen
Michelle Dziejman
Tassos Economou
Armin Ehrenreich
Michael Ehrmann
Sabine Ehrt
Jerry Eichler
Moh El-Naggar
Joanne Engel
Harold Erickson
Jeffery Errington
Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena
Manuel Espinosa
Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg
Robert Fagan
Stephen K. Farrand
J. Christopher Fenno
Ken Fields
Jonathan Filee
Alyssa J. Findlay
Peter Charles Fineran
Devon Fitzgerald
Ann M. Flower
Steven L. Foley
Steven A. Forst
Sarah Fortune
Matthew S. Francis
Richard B. Frankel
Gillian M. Fraser
Sarah L. French
Thorsten Friedrich
Masaya Fujita
Tamas Gaal
Anne Galinier
Erin C. Gaynor
Otto Geiger
Robert Gennis
Kenn Gerdes
Robin Ghosh
David P. Giedroc
Michael S. Gilmore
Nicolas Ginet
Zemer Gitai
Joanna B. Goldberg
Erin Goley
Paul D. Gollnick
Andrew Goodman
Myron F. Goodman
Heidi Goodrich-Blair
Friedrich Götz
J. Gowrishankar
David E. Graham
Jeffrey A. Gralnick
Peter Graumann
Casey S. Greene
Elisabeth Grohmann
Charles Grubmeyer
Angelika Gründling
Christoph Grundner
Tomas N. Gustafsson
Inga Haenelt
Martin Hagemann
Anders P. Hakansson
Luanne Hall-Stoodley
Joshua J. Hamilton
Neal D. Hammer
Lynn E. Hancock
Thomas E. Hanson
Klaus Hantke
Marina Harper
Caroline S. Harwood
Robert Haselkorn
Robert P. Hausinger
Susanne Häussler
Christopher Hayes
Ralf Heermann
David E. Heinrichs
John D. Helmann
Hauke H. Hennecke
Jennifer K. Herman
Anat A. Herskovits
Moshe Herzberg
Gary Edward Heussler
N. Luisa Hiller
Deborah M. Hinton
Akira Hirata
Ann Hochschild
Deborah A. Hogan
Pascal Hols
Alexander R. Horswill
Philippe Horvath
James C. Hu
Diarmaid Hughes
Kelly T. Hughes
David A. Hunstad
Ryan C. Hunter
Geoffrey Hutinet
Michael Ibba
Yuki Ichinose
Alberto Álvaro Iglesias
Michele M. Igo
Francesco Imperi
Juan Imperial
Cheryl Ingram-Smith
Masahiro Ito
Jane Jackman
Dieter Jahn
Dagmara Jakimowicz
Dick Janssen
Ann E. Jerse
Ding Jun Jin
Jeremiah Johnson
Mike Jones
Ann-Beth Jonsson
Kou-San Ju
Vincent Juillard
Zhu Jun
Sheryl Justice
Michael L. Kahn
Nobuhiko Kamada
T. Joseph Kappock
Ece Karatan
Laszlo Kari
Ikuro Kawagishi
Barbara I. Kazmierczak
Thomas E. Kehl-Fie
Robert M. Kelly
Melissa M. Kendall
Stefan Klumpp
Theresa M. Koehler
Anne-Brit Kolstø
Arash Komeili
Günther Koraimann
Reinhard Krämer
Libor Krasny
Nicholas Kredich
Bernd Kreikemeyer
Jens Kreth
Sherry Kuchma
Gargi Kulkarni
Tomohisa Kuzuyama
Erh-Min Lai
Mei-Chin Lai
Gyanu Lamichhane
Iain L. Lamont
Ray A. Larsen
Tim Larson
Inigo Lasa
Wyndham W. Lathem
Jared Renton Leadbetter
Benfang Lei
John A. Leigh
Alan C. Leonard
Susan B. Leschine
Celine M. Levesque
Bruce R. Levin
Chunhao Li
Shanshan Li
Xian-Zhi Li
Patrick Linder
Ariel Lindner
Trevor Lithgow
Jun Liu
Sharon R. Long
Rolf Lood
Martin Lössner
Andrew Lee Lovering
Susan T. Lovett
Yun Luo
Robert J. Maier
Wojciech Makałowski
Iris Maldener
Mark J. Mandel
Shannon D. Manning
Colin Manoil
Costas D. Maranas
Martin G. Marinus
Brian L. Mark
Luciano Marrafini
Eric Martens
Christopher J. Marx
Bernd Masepohl
Steven W. Matson
Philip Matsumura
Kathleen A. McDonough
Martin John McGavin
Kevin S. McIver
James B. McKinlay
Wilfried J. Meijer
Jay Mellies
Richard J. Meyer
Ivan Mijakovic
Scott A. Minnich
Aaron P. Mitchell
Douglas A. Mitchell
Harry L. T. Mobley
Sylvain Moineau
Charles P. Moran
Kazuya Morikawa
Tomotake Morita
Hilary G. Morrison
Jochen A. Mueller
Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Matthew A. Mulvey
Carey Nadell
Kenji V. P. Nagashima
Keiichi Namba
Beiyan Nan
Kenneth H. Nealson
David E. Nelson
Wai-Leung Ng
Bryce Nickels
Robert A. Niederman
Hiroshi Nikaido
Alex Ninfa
Jesse David Noar
Hideaki Nojiri
Mark R. O'Brian
Michael O'Connor
Helen O'Hare
Mitsuo Ogura
Mikolaj Olejniczak
Jonathan W. Olson
Ivan J. Oresnik
Himadri B. Pakrasi
Robert J. Palmer
Kai Papenfort
John S. Parkinson
Mikhail Pavlenok
Shelley M. Payne
Vladimir Pelicic
Robert D. Perry
Gabriella Pessi
Alan Peterkofsky
Martin Pilhofer
Jaume Piñol
Gregory V. Plano
Mechthild Pohlschroder
Bert Poolman
Daniel A. Portnoy
G. Dean Price
Thomas Proft
Stefan Pukatzki
Harald Putzer
Ralf Rabus
Ronald Raines
Gordon Ramage
Kumaran S. Ramamurthi
Christopher Rao
Colin Ratledge
Cornelia Reimmann
Douglas Risser
Frank Robb
Richard J. Roberts
Nigel Robinson
Daniel D. Rockey
Dmitry A. Rodionov
Gloria Marcela Rodriguez
Terry Roemer
Tony Romeo
Diego Romero
Martin Roop II
Jason W. Rosch
Roberto Rosini
John R. Roth
Michael Rother
Lawrence I. Rothfield
Eric J. Rubin
Michael Rust
Daad Saffarini
Nina R. Salama
Steven J. Sandler
Carlos A. Santiviago
Frank Sargent
Christopher Sassetti
Gary Sawers
Bernhard H. Schink
Paula Jean Schlax
Patrick M. Schlievert
Ruth A. Schmitz
David Alan Schneider
Wolfgang H. Schwarz
Herbert P. Schweizer
David R. Scott
Kimberley D. Seed
Gerd M. Seibold
H. Steven Seifert
Stephanie Seveau
Robert M. Q. Shanks
Adam B. Shapiro
Qunxin She
David J. Sherratt
Daisuke Shiomi
Brian Shoichet
Joshua D. Shrout
Ruth E. Silversmith
Lyle A. Simmons
Jon T. Skare
Karen Skorupski
C. Jeffrey Smith
Gary Smith
Liz Sockett
Christian Sohlenkamp
Kwangmin Son
Jorg Soppa
Joseph A. Sorg
Kevin R. Sowers
Dieter Spiteller
Alfred Michael Spormann
Srinand Sreevatsan
Hans Steenackers
Lisa Y. Stein
Ann M. Stevens
Valley Stewart
Roman Stocker
Paul Stoodley
Gisela Storz
Edward Swords
Christoph M. Tang
Andreas Tauch
Michael E. Taveirne
Andrew F. Taylor
Matthew Craig Taylor
Chris M. Thomas
Michael G. Thomas
Kai M. Thormann
Andy-Mark Thunnissen
Louis S. Tisa
Nicolas Toro
Eduard Torrents
Matthew F. Traxler
M. Stephen Trent
Tsuyoshi Uehara
Gottfried Unden
Claudio Valverde
Ransome van der Hoeven
Carin K. Vanderpool
Brian C. VanderVen
Marjan W. van der Woude
Laurence Van Melderen
Douwe van Sinderen
Gilles van Wezel
Jan-Willem Veening
Thierry Vernet
Miguel Vinas
Patrick H. Viollier
Joerg Vogel
Martin I. Voskuil
Masaaki Wachi
Judy D. Wall
Matthew J. Wargo
Seiya Watanabe
Derek H. Wells
Robert H. White
William B. Whitman
David Edward Whitworth
Annegret Wilde
Brian J. Wilkinson
Brenda A. Wilson
Benjamin E. Wolfe
Christiane Wolz
Gerard Wong
Janet M. Wood
Joshua Woodward
Tao Xu
Jun Yan
Xiaojing Yang
Zhaomin Yang
Alejandra Yep
Fitnat H. Yildiz
Shiro Yoshioka
Ryland F. Young
Raz Zarivach
Anton Zavialov
Michael E. Zegans
Lanying Zeng
Janice M. Zengel
Changyi Zhang
Weiping Zhang
Wilma Ziebuhr
Julie L. Zilles
Stephen H. Zinder