Cover Image, Volume 231, Number 11, November 2016.

The cover image, by Hyun-Seob Song et al., is based on the Article Microbial Community Metabolic Modeling: A Community Data-Driven Network Reconstruction, DOI: 10.1002/jcp.25428. Confocal micrograph depicting a metabolically coupled microbial consortium composed of cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus (red) supporting heterotrophic bacterium, Meiothermus ruber (green). Scientists at PNNL and ANL proposed a new approach for microbial community metabolic modeling using this phototroph-heterotroph co-culture as a model system to study how microorganisms living in communities coordinate their metabolisms in response to partnership. Imaged by PNNL scientist, William B. Chrisler.