EDITOR IN CHIEF (2021)
Harold L. Drake
University of Bayreuth
EDITORS
Haruyuki Atomi, Editor (2021)
Kyoto University
Johanna Björkroth, Editor (2018)
University of Helsinki
Daniel Cullen, Editor (2017)
USDA Forest Products Laboratory
Charles M. Dozois, Editor (2020)
INRS—Institut Armand-Frappier
Edward G. Dudley, Editor (2020)
Pennsylvania State University
Christopher A. Elkins, Editor (2018)
U.S. FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Marie A. Elliot, Editor (2019)
McMaster University
Robert M. Kelly, Editor (2017)
North Carolina State University
Maia Kivisaar, Editor (2017)
Tartu University
Joel E. Kostka, Editor (2021)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Shuang-Jiang Liu, Editor (2021)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Frank E. Löffler, Editor (2018)
University of Tennessee
Emma Master, Editor (2021)
University of Toronto
Andrew J. McBain, Editor (2021)
University of Manchester
Volker Müller, Editor (2019)
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Hideaki Nojiri, Editor (2017)
The University of Tokyo
Rebecca E. Parales, Editor (2021)
University of California—Davis
M. Julia Pettinari, Editor (2021)
University of Buenos Aires
Donald W. Schaffner, Editor (2020)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Patrick D. Schloss, Editor and Cover Editor (2019)
University of Michigan
Janet L. Schottel, Editor (2018)
University of Minnesota
Eric V. Stabb, Editor (2021)
University of Georgia
Alfons J. M. Stams, Editor (2020)
Wageningen University
Claire Vieille, Editor (2020)
Michigan State University
Gerrit Voordouw, Editor (2017)
University of Calgary
Ning-Yi Zhou, Editor (2021)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Thomas E. Shenk, Chairman, Journals Board
Stefano Bertuzzi, Chief Executive Officer
Barbara M. Goldman, Director, Journals
Barbara S. Slinker, Production Editor
Stephanie L. D'Agostino, Assistant Production Editor
Michael E. Lerman, Assistant Production Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Adly M. M. Abd-Alla (2018)
Lorenz Adrian (2017)
Warish Ahmed (2019)
Birgit E. Alber (2019)
Gladys Alexandre (2018)
Michael S. Allen (2017)
Eric Altermann (2018)
Matthew J. Arduino (2019)
Arthur I. Aronson (2018)
Fred O. Asiegbu (2019)
Shota Atsumi (2018)
Reha O. Azizoglu (2018)
Charles W. Bacon (2018)
Craig Baker-Austin (2018)
Matthew G. Bakker (2019)
David A. Baltrus (2018)
Jeffrey A. Banas (2018)
Ravi D. Barabote (2018)
Jeri D. Barak (2019)
Rodolphe Barrangou (2017)
Josefina Barrera-Cortes (2018)
Mirko Basen (2018)
Dennis A. Bazylinski (2018)
Teresa M. Bergholz (2018)
Stefan Bertilsson (2018)
Jennifer F. Biddle (2018)
Kelly A. Bidle (2019)
Linda F. Bisson (2019)
Christopher Blackwood (2019)
Sara E. Blumer-Schuette (2018)
Paul L. E. Bodelier (2018)
Matthias Boll (2018)
Daniel R. Bond (2018)
Kostas Bourtzis (2018)
E. Fidelma Boyd (2018)
Eric S. Boyd (2018)
Alejandra Bravo (2018)
Frederick Breidt (2017)
Nichole A. Broderick (2018)
Peter A. Bron (2017)
Harald Bruessow (2019)
Harry Brumer (2017)
Andreas Brune (2018)
Alison Buchan (2017)
Wolfgang Buckel (2019)
Daniel H. Buckley (2017)
Bruno Bühler (2019)
William Burkhardt (2018)
Helen Y. Buse (2019)
Stefan G. Buzoianu (2017)
Douglas R. Call (2019)
Amy V. Callaghan (2018)
Barbara J. Campbell (2019)
Isaac K. O. Cann (2018)
Yiping Cao (2017)
Michelle Q. Carter (2018)
Rick Cavicchioli (2019)
Stéphane Chaillou (2018)
Woo-Suk Chang (2018)
John M. Chaston (2018)
Jinru Chen (2017)
Shicheng Chen (2017)
Wilfred Chen (2018)
Yi Chen (2017)
Yuhuan Chen (2018)
Michael L. Chikindas (2019)
Ludmila Chistoserdova (2018)
Konstantin Chumakov (2018)
Kuang-Ren Chung (2017)
Clifford G. Clark (2017)
J. Douglas Cossar (2018)
Donald A. Cowan (2018)
Alison M. Cupples (2019)
Hongyue Dang (2018)
Rolf Daniel (2018)
Michelle Danyluk (2019)
Alexandre J. da Silva (2018)
Jennifer M. DeBruyn (2017)
Svetlana N. Dedysh (2018)
Zixin Deng (2019)
Tom Desmet (2018)
Mickaël Desvaux (2018)
Eduardo Díaz (2019)
Francisco Diez-Gonzalez (2019)
Lubbert Dijkhuizen (2019)
Alan A. DiSpirito (2019)
Jayna L. Ditty (2019)
Jan Dolfing (2018)
James S. G. Dooley (2018)
Angela E. Douglas (2019)
Irina S. Druzhinina (2018)
Doris d'Souza (2017)
Alain C. Dufour (2019)
Anne K. Dunn (2018)
Jonathan Dworkin (2017)
Daniel C. Eastwood (2017)
Leo Eberl (2018)
Elizabeth A. Edwards (2019)
Armin Ehrenreich (2019)
Henry L. Ehrlich (2018)
Patrick Y. Eichenberger (2018)
Mark A. Eiteman (2018)
Kathryn T. Elliott (2018)
Mostafa S. Elshahed (2018)
David Emerson (2018)
Philipp Engel (2019)
Tobias J. Erb (2017)
Danilo Ercolini (2018)
Leonardo Erijman (2019)
Manuel Espinosa-Urgel (2018)
Patrick Fach (2018)
Joseph O. Falkinham (2017)
Séamus Fanning (2018)
Babu Z. Fathepure (2019)
J. Christopher Fenno (2019)
Juan Ferré (2019)
J. Gregory Ferry (2018)
Martin Filion (2018)
Steven E. Finkel (2019)
Steven L. Foley (2017)
Philipp Franken (2018)
Eelco Franz (2019)
W. Florian Fricke (2017)
Michael W. Friedrich (2018)
Barbara E. Funnell (2018)
Vincenzina Fusco (2018)
Shinya Fushinobu (2018)
Cormac G. M. Gahan (2018)
Victor P. J. Gannon (2019)
Michael G. Gänzle (2019)
Jeffrey G. Gardner (2019)
Beilei Ge (2019)
Elke Genersch (2018)
Johannes Gescher (2018)
Lutz Geue (2019)
Lisa M. Gieg (2019)
Jennifer B. Glass (2017)
Emanuel Goldman (2019)
Mark Gomelsky (2017)
Lawrence D. Goodridge (2018)
Lisa A. Gorski (2018)
Yuval Gottlieb (2018)
David E. Graham (2017)
Jeffrey A. Gralnick (2018)
Stefan J. Green (2017)
Leslie A. Gregg-Jolly (2017)
Amy M. Grunden (2018)
Yitzhak Hadar (2019)
Thomas E. Hanson (2018)
Eiji Haramoto (2018)
Steven D. Harris (2017)
Mark E. Hart (2017)
Valerie J. Harwood (2018)
Annele I. Hatakka (2019)
Jianzhong He (2018)
Brian P. Hedlund (2017)
Henry S. Heine (2018)
Thorsten Heinekamp (2018)
Hermann J. Heipieper (2018)
Niels B. Hendriksen (2018)
Kristina L. Hillesland (2018)
Dirk Hoffmeister (2018)
Emily B. Hollister (2018)
Allen L. Honeyman (2018)
Dallas G. Hoover (2018)
Marcus A. Horn (2017)
Adina C. Howe (2018)
John A. Hudson (2017)
Jeroen Hugenholtz (2018)
Hor-Gil Hur (2018)
Michael R. Hyman (2019)
Michael F. Hynes (2019)
Kiyohiko Igarashi (2019)
Michele M. Igo (2018)
Masaharu Ishii (2017)
Masahiro Ito (2017)
Javier A. Izquierdo (2018)
Mohamed A. Jamal (2018)
Edward L. Jarroll (2018)
Dieter Jendrossek (2018)
Michael B. Jenkins (2018)
Francis E. Jenney (2019)
Ian Jenson (2017)
Zhongjun Jia (2017)
Weihong Jiang (2018)
Nianzhi Jiao (2017)
Karyn N. Johnson (2019)
Zackary I. Johnson (2018)
Jessica L. Jones (2018)
Juan L. Jurat-Fuentes (2019)
Klaus Jürgens (2018)
Martin Kaltenpoth (2019)
Yoichi Kamagata (2018)
Boran Kartal (2017)
John J. Kelly (2018)
William R. Kenealy (2018)
Eungbin Kim (2018)
David H. Kingsley (2019)
James E. Kirby (2019)
Martin G. Klotz (2018)
Kalmia E. Kniel (2017)
Ryuichi Koga (2018)
Steffen Kolb (2017)
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis (2018)
Shige Koseki (2018)
Michael Y. Kosoy (2017)
Balasubrahmanyam Kottapalli (2017)
Sven Krappmann (2018)
Christian P. Kubicek (2018)
Sergei V. Kuchin (2018)
Timothy M. LaPara (2018)
Gisèle LaPointe (2017)
Robert A. LaRossa (2018)
Luis F. Larrondo (2017)
Ray A. Larsen (2018)
Peter C. K. Lau (2018)
Jared R. Leadbetter (2018)
Paulo C. Lemos (2018)
Daniel J. Lessner (2018)
Mark A. Lever (2019)
Jianrong Li (2019)
Wenli Li (2019)
Steven Lindow (2019)
Erin K. Lipp (2018)
Xueduan Liu (2019)
Karen G. Lloyd (2018)
John C. Londesborough (2018)
Alexander Loy (2017)
Xiaonan Lu (2019)
Yahai Lu (2019)
Taina K. Lundell (2018)
Eugene L. Madsen (2018)
Jacques Mahillon (2017)
Mark J. Mandel (2017)
Maria L. Marco (2018)
Julia A. Maresca (2018)
Matthew J. Marshall (2019)
Marta S. L. Martins (2018)
Eiji Masai (2017)
Timothy E. Mattes (2017)
Ann G. Matthysse (2018)
Timothy R. McDermott (2018)
Quinn S. McFrederick (2018)
Michael J. McInerney (2019)
James McKinlay (2018)
Robert J. C. McLean (2018)
Aubrey F. Mendonca (2018)
John S. Meschke (2017)
Chris H. Miller (2018)
Kathryn Milligan-Myhre (2019)
Debra L. Milton (2019)
Kiwamu Minamisawa (2018)
Kentaro Miyazaki (2017)
Robert Moore (2018)
Corrie S. Moreau (2017)
Paula J. Mouser (2018)
Rodney A. Moxley (2019)
Jochen A. Müller (2018)
T. G. Nagaraja (2018)
Yuji Nagata (2018)
Brett A. Neilan (2017)
Josh D. Neufeld (2018)
Irene L. G. Newton (2018)
Nancy N. Nichols (2018)
Jens Nielsen (2018)
Brendan A. Niemira (2018)
Dietrich H. Nies (2018)
Pablo I. Nikel (2019)
Nobuhiko Nomura (2017)
Heléne Norder (2019)
Andrew V. Ogram (2018)
Haley F. Oliver (2019)
Julie B. Olson (2018)
Huub J. M. Op den Camp (2018)
Ivan J. Oresnik (2017)
Kelli L. Palmer (2018)
Konstantinos Papadimitriou (2019)
Hee-Deung Park (2017)
Ilenys M. Perez-Diaz (2018)
Gregg S. Pettis (2017)
Laurent Philippot (2017)
Carmen Pin (2018)
Antonio G. Pisabarro (2017)
Mircea Podar (2017)
Shawn W. Polson (2018)
David L. Popham (2018)
Rolf A. Prade (2018)
M. Auxiliadora Prieto (2018)
Qingsheng Qi (2017)
Ralf Rabus (2017)
Mark Radosevich (2017)
Andreja Rajkovic (2018)
Gemma Reguera (2018)
Bernd H. A. Rehm (2018)
Gregor Reid (2018)
Peter Richard (2018)
Christian Riedel (2018)
Rita V. M. Rio (2018)
Courtney J. Robinson (2018)
Daniel D. Rockey (2019)
Jorge L. M. Rodrigues (2019)
David Rodrígues-Lázaro (2018)
Fernando Rojo (2019)
Margaret F. Romine (2017)
Michael Rother (2018)
Patricia Ruas-Madiedo (2019)
Knut Rudi (2019)
Daâd A. Saffarini (2017)
Irene Salinas (2019)
Irene Sánchez-Andrea (2019)
Robert A. Sanford (2018)
Daisuke Sano (2018)
Anderson S. Sant'Ana (2018)
Brian D. Sauders (2019)
Gary Sawers (2017)
Frank A. Scannapieco (2017)
Birgit E. Scharf (2017)
Herb E. Schellhorn (2019)
Jonathan S. Schilling (2018)
Bernhard Schink (2018)
John W. Schmidt (2019)
Michael G. Schmidt (2018)
Monika Schmoll (2017)
Hildgund Schrempf (2017)
Dirk Schüler (2018)
Bernhard Seiboth (2017)
Yuji Sekiguchi (2018)
David A. Sela (2018)
Jeremy D. Semrau (2017)
John M. Senko (2018)
Peter Setlow (2018)
Luca Settanni (2019)
Robert M. Q. Shanks (2018)
Manan Sharma (2018)
Thomas J. Sharpton (2019)
Cody S. Sheik (2019)
Joshua D. Shrout (2018)
Mark W. Silby (2018)
Mitchell H. Singer (2017)
Steven W. Singer (2018)
David R. Singleton (2018)
Matthias Sipiczki (2019)
Panos N. Skandamis (2019)
Evan W. Skowronski (2018)
J. Leif Smith (2019)
Mario Soberon (2018)
Helena M. Solo-Gabriele (2018)
Greg A. Somerville (2017)
Stephen Spiro (2019)
Lisa Y. Stein (2019)
Alexander Steinbüchel (2017)
Laura Steindler (2019)
Roger Stephan (2017)
Ann M. Stevens (2019)
Brian Stevenson (2019)
George C. Stewart (2018)
Jill R. Stewart (2018)
Michael R. Strand (2019)
Laura K. Strawn (2019)
Wolfgang R. Streit (2018)
Garret Suen (2019)
Matt D. Sweeney (2019)
Teruhiro Takabe (2019)
Ben D. Tall (2017)
Takuji Tanaka (2018)
Ralph S. Tanner (2017)
Gerald W. Tannock (2017)
Sam R. Telford (2018)
Casey M. Theriot (2019)
Michael G. Thomas (2018)
Linda S. Thomashow (2018)
Thomas Thurnheer (2018)
Ming Tien (2018)
Nicolas Toro Garcia (2017)
César I. Torres (2018)
Effie Tsakalidou (2019)
Masataka Tsuda (2018)
Takeharu Tsuge (2018)
Hidetoshi Urakawa (2017)
Wouter R. van der Star (2017)
Jan-Peter van Pijkeren (2018)
Cristian Varela (2018)
Michael L. Vasil (2019)
Marco Ventura (2018)
Karen L. Visick (2019)
Dmitriy V. Volokhov (2018)
Julia A. Vorholt (2018)
Stéphane Vuilleumier (2018)
S. Aljoscha Wahl (2018)
Judy D. Wall (2018)
Gejiao Wang (2018)
Keith Warriner (2017)
J. Scott Weese (2018)
Laure Weisskopf (2018)
Derek H. Wells (2018)
Tingyi Wen (2018)
Volker F. Wendisch (2018)
Steven W. Wilhelm (2018)
Kurt E. Williamson (2017)
David B. Wilson (2019)
Charles F. Wimpee (2017)
Regina-Michaela Wittich (2017)
Gideon M. Wolfaardt (2019)
Randy W. Worobo (2019)
Qinglong Wu (2018)
Chuanwu Xi (2017)
Hua Xiang (2018)
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Jiangchao Zhao (2019)
Erik R. Zinser (2019)
Erwin G. Zoetendal (2018)
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