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 2016 through August 2017. We recognize and greatly appreciate their time, effort, and expertise.
Luis A. Actis
Michael W. W. Adams
Hiroji Aiba Michael Airola
Sonja-Verena Albers
Phillip Aldridge
Rodrigo Almeida
Daniel Amador-Noguez
Gregory G. Anderson
Jose Manuel Andreu
Sandra K. Armstrong
Mesrop Ayrapetyan
Abdu F. Azad
Michael A. Bachman
Michael Bagdasarian
Mitchell F. Balish
Amy B. Banta
Mariette Barbier
Sonia L. Bardy
Blanca Barquera
Rodolphe Barrangou
Frederic J. Barras
Marek Basler
Carl E. Bauer
Jessica M. Beauchamp
Heather Joann Beck
Donald F. Becker
Chase Beisel
Boris R. Belitsky
Stephen D. Bell
Jose A. Bengoechea
Jorge A. Benitez
Agnieszka Bera
Shantanu Bhatt
Devaki Bhaya
Kelly Bidle
Emanuele G. Biondi
Melanie Blokesch
Daniel R. Bond
Joe Bondy-Denomy
Irina V. Boni
Winfried Boos
Yan Boucher
Cara C. Boutte
Emmanuelle Bouveret
Grant R. Bowman
Jeff M. Boyd
Günter Brader
Marc Bramkamp
Miriam Braunstein
Erhard Bremer
Ariane Briegel
Inka Brockhausen
Roland Brosch
Daniel R. Brown
Sylvia Brugman
Nienke Buddelmeijer
Andreas Burkovski
Stephen Busby
Alejandro Buschiazzo
Elizabeth Campbell
Valerie Jean Carabetta
Ross P. Carlson
Agamemnon J. Carpousis
Josep Casadesús Pursals
Francis J. Castellino
Clayton C. Caswell
Felipe Cava
Rick Cavicchioli
Patricia Ann Champion
Yanjie (Jay) Chao
Joseph Chen
Yu Chen
Kyu Hong Cho
Chuna Choudhary
Peter J. Christie
Hak Suk Chung
Josephine E. Clark-Curtiss
Murray Coles
Jean-Francois Collet
Ian Collinson
Fabian Moritz Commichau
Brian Conlon
Vaughn S. Cooper
Doug Cossar
Peggy A. Cotter
Justin Courcelle
Robert A. Cramer
John E. Cronan
Laszlo N. Csonka
Dennis G. Cvitkovitch
Kurt Martin
Dahlstrom Zachary
Dalebroux Fredrick
Heath Damron
Richard Darveau
Alan R. Davidson
Leonardo De La Fuente
Nicholas R. De Lay
Phillippe Delepelaire
Diego de Mendoza
Keith M. Derbyshire
Ian Dodd
Timothy J. Donohue
Diana M. Downs
Michel Drancourt
Yves F. Dufrene
Evert C. Duin
Anne K. Dunn
Michael Dunn
Julie C. Dunning Hotopp
Paul J. Dyson
Leo Eberl
Brian Joseph Eddie
Andrew Edwards
Michael Ehrmann
Ozlem Dogan Ekici
Christopher A. Elkins
Sofiane El Kirat Chatel
Jeremy R. Ellermeier
Moh El-Naggar
Tobias Erb
Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena
Manuel Espinosa-Urgel
Turlough M. Finan
Mark Fisher
Doug Forrester
Steven A. Forst
Patrick Forterre
Sarah Fortune
Dan Fraenkel
Dara W. Frank
Jean Marie A. Frere
Georg Fritz Kevin
K. Fuller Friedrich
Götz Giovanni
Gadda Daniel J.
Gage Anne Galinier
Andrew F. Gardner
Jeffrey F. Gardner
James Garnett
Anthony G. Garza
Baoxue Ge
Kenn Gerdes
John A. Gerlt
Daniel G. Gibson
Jorge A. Giron
Philippe Glaser
Sarah Glaven
James W. Golden
Erin Goley
Paul Gollnick
Isabel Gordo
Andrea Gorrell
Mark Goulian
Richard L. Gourse
Angelika Gründling
David E. Graham
Jeffrey A. Gralnick
Jean Greenberg
Eduardo A. Groisman
Amy Michele
Grunden Mary
Lou Guerinot
Rita Hõrak
Inga Haenelt
Martin Hagemann
Rasika Harshey
Eric T. Harvill
Caroline S. Harwood
Alan R. Hauser
Finbarr Hayes
Guixin He
Ya-Wen He
Michael Hecker
Johann Heider John
D. Helmann
Michael Henson
Jennifer K. Herman
Antonia Herrero
Hubert Hilbi
Deborah M. Hinton
Jon Hobman
Michio Homma
Raven Huang
Damon Huber
Iain Hunter
Ryan C. Hunter
Ralph R. Isberg
Tomokazu Ito
Jane Jackman
Francoise Jacob-Dubuisson
Jeremiah Johnson
Reid C. Johnson
Kou-San Ju
Zhu Jun
Rolf Kümmerli
Anna C. Karls
Elizabeth Karr
Melissa M. Kendall
William Kenealy
Hwan Keun Kim
John R. Kirby
Todd Kitten
Phillip E. Klebba
Karl E. Klose
Michael Konkel
Anna Konovalova
Nicole Marie Koropatkin
Reinhard Krämer
Anne Marie Krachler
Duncan C. Krause
Tino Krell
Jens Kreth
Christopher J. Kristich
Joseph A. Krzycki
Meta Kuehn
Sidney R. Kushner
Masahiro Kusumoto
Andrei Kuzminov
Robert A. LaRossa
Richard J. Lamont
Robert C. Landick
Tim Larson
David R. F. Leach
Song Lee
Vincent T. Lee
John A. Leigh
Alan C. Leonard
John M. Leong
Gene-Wei Li
Wenxing Liang
Dominique Limoli
Jun Lin
Sue Lin-Chao
Hannes Link
George Liu
Jun Liu
Frank E. Loeffler
Sharon R. Long
Martin Loose
Josph Loparo
Matthew Lopper
K. Brooks Low
Ignacio Luque
Stuart A. MacNeill
George A. Mackie
Giuseppe Magistro
Iris Maldener
Gabriele Malengo
Ming Man
Mark J. Mandel
Colin Manoil
Anita Marchfelder
Julia A. Maresca
Eric Martens
Gregory B. Martin
Norma Cecilia
Martinez-Gomez
Thorsten Mascher
Emilia Mauriello
Meghan May
Siobhan McClean
William R. McCleary
Peter McGlynn
Matthew McIntosh
James B. McKinlay
Roisin M. McMahon
Yves Mechulam
John C. Meeks
Stephen B. Melville
Timothy C. Meredith
Houra Merrikh
Alexandra R. Mey
Samuel I. Miller
Virginia L. Miller
Chris Minion
Hari Misra
Harry L. T. Mobley
Emilio Montesinos
Rachel Anne Mooney
Kambiz Morabbi Heravi
Trevor Moraes
Charles P. Moran
Patrice L. Moreau
Leonilde Morais Moreira
Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Barbara E. Murray
Heath Murray
Colin Murrell
Arcady R. Mushegian
Carey Nadell
Satish K. Nair
William W. Navarre
Ellen L. Neidle
Wai-Leung Ng
Robert A. Nicholas
Bryce Nickels
Takehiko Nohmi
Richard P. Novick
Michael O'Connor
Marco Rinaldo Oggioni
Amanda G. Oglesby-Sherrouse
Yasuo Ohnishi
Davi Ortega
Karen M. Ottemann
Jose Palacios
Kelli L. Palmer
Tanya Parish
John S. Parkinson
Sally R. Partridge
Martin S. Pavelka
David S. Peabody
Mario Pedraza-Reyes
José Penades
Ines C. Pereira
Everett Pesci
Joseph E. Peter
Germán Eduardo Piñas
Martin Pilhofer
Sebastian Poggio
Laurent Poirel
Alessandra Polissi
Jan Potempa
Chester W. Price
G. Dean Price
Laurence Prunetti
Benjamin D. Rae
Stephen W. Ragsdale
Kumaran S. Ramamurthi
Christopher Rao
Philip N. Rather
John F. Rawls
Nathan W. Rigel
Rafael Rivilla
Sanja Roje
Ute Romling
David R. Rose
John R. Roth
Michael Rother
Craig R. Roy
Luis M. Rubio
Nina R. Salama
James E. Samuel
John-Demian Sauer
Uwe Sauer
Gary Sawers
Jon R. Sayers
Roel M. Schaaper
Mark A. Schembri
Stefan Schild
Bernhard H. Schink
Paula Jean Schlax
Amy K. Schmid
Michael P. Schmitt
Dirk Schnappinger
Wolfgang H. Schwarz
June R. Scott
Kimberley D. Seed
Alecia Septer
Ho Pan Sham
Robert M. Q. Shanks
Samuel A. Shelburne
Moshe Shemesh
Howard A. Shuman
M. Sloan Siegrist
Lyle A. Simmons
Joan L. Slonczewski
Alison G. Smith
Margaret C. Smith
Magdalene Y. So
Evgeni V. Sokurenko
Abraham L. Sonenshein
Joseph A. Sorg
Olga Soutourina
Beny Spira Jörg
Stülke Ralf Steuer
David B. Stewart
Adrie J. Steyn
Daniel Stoebel
Andreas Stolz
Gisela Storz
Beatrix Suess
Michael G. Surette
Catharina Svanborg
Michele S. Swanson
F. Robert Tabita
Ming Tan
Christoph M. Tang
Haixu Tang
Kaspars Tars
Martin Thanbichler
Rudolf K. Thauer
Gavin H. Thomas
Kai M. Thormann
Anna D. Tischler
Eduard Torrents
Matthew F. Traxler
M. Stephen Trent
Masataka Tsuda
Cagla Tukel
Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Kürsad Turgay
Gottfried Unden
Adrianus W. M. van der Velden
Brian C. VanderVen
Michael L. Vasil
Paul D. Veith
Thiago Motta Venancio
Elena F. Verdu
Wim F. J. Vermaas
Heidi Vitrac
Joerg Vogel
Amy Vollmer
Martin I. Voskuil
Joseph Thomas Wade
Graham C. Walker
Martin J. Warren
Kylie J. Watts
Keith E. Weaver
Daniel M. Weinberger
Rodney A. Welch
Robert H. White
William B. Whitman
Annegret Wilde
Laura Williams
Stephanie Willing
Mathias Winterhalter
Christiane Wolz
Janet M. Wood
Hui Wu
Takashi Yamada
Soo-Jin Yang
Alejandra Yep
Fitnat H. Yildiz
Christopher K. Yost
Ryland F. Young
Hongwei D. Yu
Ze-Chun Yuan
Helen I. Zgurskaya
Weiping Zhang