New Cover

I am happy to announce that a new colorization that I recently completed has been selected as a cover for  Applied and Environmental Microbiology.  The image illustrates the subject of an accepted paper on the freshwater biofilm written by Sophia I. Passy, PhD and her co-writer, Chad A. Larson. "The rates of species accumulation and taxonomic diversification during phototrophic biofilm development are co-controlled by nutrient supply and current velocity."  

The scanning electron micrograph of the diatom Achnanthidium sp. from Blue Cypress Lake, FL, was provided by Dr. Paul Hargraves.