Molecular Ecology Editorial 2012 and Referees 2011

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Editorial 2012
State of the journal
We are pleased to report that the state of the journal con-
tinues to be strong. Molecular Ecology’s impact factor as
calculated by ISI Web of Knowledge rose for the sixth
year in a row, from 4.301 in 2005 to 6.457 in 2010. The
journal currently ranks fifth in impact in both the
Ecology (130 journals) and Evolutionary Biology (45
journals) categories tracked by ISI. When only journals
publishing primary research articles are considered,
Molecular Ecology ranks second and third among Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology journals, respectively. The 414
articles published in Molecular Ecology in 2010 make it
one of the largest journals in ecology and evolutionary
biology as well, ranking third in both subject categories.
Announcements
Molecular Ecology Prize
The 2011 Molecular Ecology Prize was awarded to
Professor Deborah Charlesworth of the University of
Edinburgh for her pioneering studies of mating systems
and the origin of sex chromosomes. A biography of
Deborah and her contributions to molecular ecology
can be found on page 23 of this issue.
Molecular Ecology Symposium
In 2012 the first Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
(Evolution 2012) will be held in Ottawa, Canada’s capi-
tal city. This signal event will bring together five of the
world’s largest academic societies devoted to the study
of ecology and evolutionary biology: the American
Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Canadian Society for
Ecology and Evolution (CSEE), the European Society for
Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), the Society for the Study
of Evolution (SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biolo-
gists (SSB).
2012 also marks the 20th anniversary for Molecular
Ecology. To celebrate the tremendous advances that
have been made in this research area, as well as to
brainstorm about the future of the field, the journal is
sponsoring a Molecular Ecology Symposium on 6th July
2012 in Ottawa, the day before Evolution 2012 gets
underway. The structure of the meeting will follow the
basic format of Molecular Ecology, with plenary talks in
each of the journal subject areas, followed by panel dis-
cussions that will focus on future advances. To broaden
participation, the symposium will include an online
component, which will involve live streaming of the
talks and discussions involving both in-the-room dele-
gates and those participating online. The current speaker
line-up is available at http://www.molecularecologist.
com/ottawa-2012/.
Meta-analyses studies
With the widespread implementation of the Joint Data
Archiving Policy, large numbers of ecological and evo-
lutionary data sets are becoming available. Data archiv-
ing, combined with the enormous rate at which new
data are being generated, will allow us to address many
questions in ecology and evolution with a degree of
rigour and decisiveness that was not possible even
several years ago. Thus, we strongly encourage the sub-
mission of meta-analysis studies to Molecular Ecology.
Meta-analysis studies will typically be published as part
of our ‘Invited Reviews’ section, which will be renamed
‘Invited Reviews and Meta-analyses’. Louis Bernatchez
edits this section, and if you have a review or meta-
analysis study that you would like to develop for Molec-
ular Ecology please contact him (louis.bernatchez@bio.
ulaval.ca) to ensure that it is an appropriate topic for
the journal.
Data archiving
We have been delighted by the positive response to the
implementation of our Joint Data Archiving Policy at
the beginning of 2011. Following discussions with our
editors and authors, it is clear that the utility of
archived data is greatly enhanced when the scripts used
in the analyses are also made available. Given that
these scripts may be a mix of proprietary and freely
available code, we have decided against making their
deposition compulsory, but we nonetheless strongly
encourage authors to make these scripts available
whenever possible.
Reviewers
We wish to express our gratitude to our many referees
for the donation of their time to the journal and to the
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discipline of molecular ecology; people who reviewed
for us between 1 November 2010 and 15 October 2011
are listed at the end of this editorial.
Editorial issues
Current standards for publication in Molecular
Ecology
One of the most challenging aspects of editing a large
journal like Molecular Ecology is maintaining consistency
in our editorial decisions across the wide range of top-
ics covered by the journal and among our highly
respected but diverse subject editors. This is exacer-
bated by the rapidly changing norms in the field in
terms of molecular tools and analytical approaches.
An especially contentious issue concerns the publica-
tion of phylogeographic studies based on the analyses
of a single locus. We sometimes choose not to review
such studies because conclusions drawn from such lim-
ited data may not be reliable. However, we do not have
a blanket policy to reject them without review because
there are questions for which analysis of a single locus
is appropriate. Authors, referees and editors have on
occasion suggested that we establish guidelines regard-
ing the minimum number of loci, populations and indi-
viduals for a study to be considered for publication in
Molecular Ecology. However, we have been reluctant to
formulate such guidelines because they would depend
on the question being addressed, the kind of molecular
markers employed, the geographic range of the focal
taxa and so forth. Likewise, such guidelines would have
to be modified on a yearly basis as standards of the
field continue to ratchet upwards. Nonetheless, we feel
that knowledge of current norms in Molecular Ecology
with respect to these parameters would be useful to our
authors and editors. Here we present information on
the numbers of loci, populations and individuals
employed by studies published in the journal from Jan-
uary to September 2011 (Figs 1 to 6; Tables 1–4).
There are no real surprises. For example, an average
of 17.4 microsatellite loci are employed in studies pub-
lished in the journal in 2011 (Fig. 1; Table 1). The larg-
est numbers of loci were assayed in studies of
‘Ecological Genomics’ and ‘Molecular Adaptation’ and
the fewest in studies of ‘Kinship, Parentage and Behav-
iour’ (Fig. 1). This difference is reasonable given that
many questions in the latter category can be answered
with 6–10 loci, whereas there is almost no limit to the
number of loci that can be useful in genome-wide scans
for evidence of selection.
Approximately half of microsatellite studies in the
subject categories ‘Phylogeography’ and ‘Speciation and
Hybridization’ also include information on organellar
variation. However, the inclusion of organellar data
was less frequent in other subject areas and absent in
studies of ‘Kinship, Parentage and Behaviour’ (Table 1).
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10
15
20
25
30
35
40
150
200
250
300
Ecological genomics
Ecological interactions
Kinship, parentage and behaviour
Molecular adaptation
Phylogeography
Population and conservation genetics
Speciation and hybridization
Microsatellites
Fig. 1 Average number of microsatellite loci employed by
studies published in Molecular Ecology from January to
September 2011. Error bars indicate one standard deviation of
uncertainty.
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
10 000
15 000
20 000
25 000
30 000
35 000
40 000
Ecological genomics
Ecological interactions
Kinship, parentage and behaviour
Molecular adaptation
Phylogeography
Population and conservation genetics
Speciation and hybridization
SNPs
Fig. 2 Average number of single nucleotide polymorphisms
(SNPs) employed by studies published in Molecular Ecology
from January to September 2011. Error bars indicate one stan-
dard deviation of uncertainty.
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The number of studies that employ single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) for inference about pattern and
process in molecular ecology is too small to make
meaningful comparisons between subject areas (Fig. 2;
Table 2). Nonetheless, it is clear that the number of
SNPs employed is typically more than 10 times that of
microsatellites. This is not surprising given that SNPs
are more amenable to high throughput genotyping than
microsatellites. Because the information content of
SNPs, which are bi-allelic, is much less than that of
microsatellites, it is reassuring that the reduced infor-
mation content per SNP is more than made up for by
the greater number SNPs that are assayed in an average
study when compared to microsatellites. Interestingly,
unlike microsatellite studies, articles that reported on
SNP variation rarely included organellar data.
Studies that employ nuclear genes for inference assay
fewer loci than do comparable studies with microsatel-
lite or SNP markers, although there are outlier studies
(Fig. 3; Table 3). This is especially true for ‘Phylogeog-
raphy’ studies or studies of ‘Ecological Interactions’
(Fig. 3). The relatively few nuclear genes assayed in
many studies presumably reflect the time and expense
associated with gathering sequence data for low-copy
Fig. 4 Average number of amplified fragment length polymor-
phisms (AFLPs) employed by studies published in Molecular
Ecology from January to September 2011. Error bars indicate
one standard deviation of uncertainty.
Fig. 3 Average number of nuclear genes employed by studies
published in Molecular Ecology from January to September
2011. Error bars indicate one standard deviation of uncertainty.
Fig. 5 Average number of populations analysed by studies
published in Molecular Ecology from January to September
2011. Error bars indicate one standard deviation of uncertainty.
Fig. 6 Average number of individuals analysed by studies
published in Molecular Ecology from January to September
2011. Error bars indicate one standard deviation of uncertainty.
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Table 1 Numbers of populations, individuals, organelles and microsatellite loci surveyed in studies published in Molecular Ecology
from January to September 2011
Subject
category
No.
populations
No.
individuals
No.
organelles
No.
microsatellites References
Ecological Genomics N ⁄A 186 0 258 Burrell et al. (2011)
Ecological Interactions 3 86 1 17 Foote et al. (2011)
Kinship, Parentage and Behaviour 9 678 1 20 Hua et al. (2011)
23 502 0 10 Qian et al. (2011)
11 211 0 3 Bonckaert et al. (2011)
N⁄A 506 0 7 Tiedemann et al. (2011)
1 333 0 14 Bretman et al. (2011)
N⁄A 779 0 16 Wang & Lu (2011)
N⁄A 254 0 6 Oddou-Muratorio et al. (2011)
N⁄A 771 0 8 Cheron et al. (2011)
N⁄A 204 0 7 Ursprung et al. (2011)
4 253 0 15 Thoss et al. (2011)
N⁄A 337 0 6 Moran & Clark (2011)
N⁄A 12 725 0 8 Christie et al. (2011)
1 102 0 6 While et al. (2011)
Molecular Adaptation 23 1050 0 25 Xhaard et al. (2011)
1 190 0 21 Olsson et al. (2011)
30 853 0 18 Keller et al. (2011)
Phylogeography 2 35 1 16 Kraaijeveld et al. (2011)
14 125 1 10 Lim & Sheldon (2011)
18 170 1 20 Ferrero et al. (2011)
N⁄A 65 0 10 Pepper et al. (2011)
N⁄A 79 1 6 Walter et al. (2011)
1 149 0 15 Hirsch & Maldonado (2011)
17 230 0 9 Kronauer et al. (2011)
N⁄A 864 0 10 Born et al. (2011)
Population and Conservation Genetics 15 689 0 10 Castellanos et al. (2011)
11 1405 1 10 Ozer et al. (2011)
N⁄A 1379 0 11 Cuveliers et al. (2011)
10 310 0 16 Guivier et al. (2011)
10 440 1 23 Lawton et al. (2011)
39 1114 0 6 Mokhtar-Jamai et al. (2011)
N⁄A 153 0 12 Rougeron et al. (2011)
N⁄A 487 0 8 Lye et al. (2011)
3 197 0 103 Li & Merila (2011)
23 123 1 10 Hu et al. (2011)
N⁄A 507 0 7 Criscione et al. (2011)
35 1624 1 10 Andras et al. (2011)
12 312 0 16 Lancaster et al. (2011)
11 319 1 9 Koblmuller et al. (2011)
11 600 1 20 Horne et al. (2011)
8 139 0 7 Kawakami et al. (2011)
3 368 1 22 Agudo et al. (2011)
23 1262 0 8 Bronnenhuber et al. (2011)
235 0 8 Lane & Shine (2011)
4N⁄A 0 15 Luquet et al. (2011)
17 427 0 15 Richter-Boix et al. (2011)
1 125 0 28 Ortego et al. (2011)
5 178 0 9 Chair et al. (2011)
7 192 0 12 Solmsen et al. (2011)
6 476 1 10 van Oppen et al. (2011)
2 520 0 17 Rieux et al. (2011)
10 189 0 8 Chun et al. (2011)
23 337 0 6 Shepherd & Perrie (2011)
11 1824 0 12 Bull et al. (2011)
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nuclear genes. Similar to the microsatellite studies,
about half of the nuclear gene studies also assay varia-
tion in organellar DNA.
Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP)
studies are rapidly being replaced in Molecular Ecology
by sequence-based markers such as SNPs and restric-
tion site–associated DNA (RAD) sequencing. Nonethe-
less, a substantial number of AFLP studies were
published in Molecular Ecology in 2011 (Fig. 4; Table 4).
The information content of an AFLP fragment is very
low because AFLPs are bi-allelic and dominant. Thus, it
is reassuring that all AFLP studies published in Molecu-
lar Ecology employed >100 loci and most studies
assayed between 200 and 600 loci.
In addition to the 155 studies listed in Tables 1–4, ten
studies were published in Molecular Ecology during
this period that were based solely on one or more
organellar genes. Also, two of the studies that employed
nuclear gene sequence data were based on a single gene.
In total, 12 of 165 studies (7%) included in our survey
are based on data from a single locus. Thus, while single
locus studies are uncommon in the journal, they are not
yet extinct. However, going forward we recommend that
authors base their inferences on multiple loci if at all
possible to ensure that their articles are sent out for
review and are reviewed favourably by referees.
We also examined current standards with respect to
the number of populations and individuals typically
assayed in the different subject categories included in
Molecular Ecology (Figs 5 and 6). Most studies analyse
between 10 and 20 populations and between 200 and 500
individuals. There are two outlier subject categories:
‘Ecological Genomics’ studies typically analyse about
half as many populations as studies from other subject
Table 1 Continued
Subject
category
No.
populations
No.
individuals
No.
organelles
No.
microsatellites References
21 569 0 137 Orozco-terWengel et al. (2011)
N⁄A 192 1 18 Zhu et al. (2011)
16 316 0 8 Schrey et al. (2011b)
N⁄A 94 1 20 Charruau et al. (2011)
10 1132 0 9 Cammen et al. (2011)
16 85 0 15 Karlin et al. (2011)
N⁄A 1287 0 13 Knutsen et al. (2011)
33 516 0 13 Dobata et al. (2011)
14 747 0 8 Winkler et al. (2011)
1 730 0 9 Pluess (2011)
20 478 0 17 Fitzpatrick et al. (2011)
1N⁄A 0 19 Morrissey & Ferguson (2011)
N⁄A 139 0 7 Liebgold et al. (2011)
6 291 0 19 Brekke et al. (2011)
N⁄A 1040 0 9 Hufford et al. (2011)
N⁄A 470 0 8 Schrey et al. (2011a)
1 87 0 24 Grueber et al. (2011)
5 231 1 12 Reichard et al. (2011)
Speciation and Hybridization 29 397 0 9 Chavez et al. (2011)
14 186 1 7 Schmidt et al. (2011)
8 368 1 15 Palma-Silva et al. (2011)
4 591 0 18 Ricca et al. (2011)
25 679 1 13 Bock et al. (2011)
2 28 1 18 Legrand et al. (2011)
2 56 0 25 Buonaccorsi et al. (2011)
N⁄A 731 0 6 Field et al. (2011)
N⁄A 250 1 9 Bohling & Waits (2011)
N⁄A 678 0 12 Cullingham et al. (2011)
N⁄A 1040 1 10 Thierry et al. (2011)
N⁄A 446 1 13 Cabria et al. (2011)
7 102 1 9 Vergilino et al. (2011)
5N⁄A 0 25 Carlon & Lippe (2011)
N⁄A 301 1 6 Pinzon & LaJeunesse (2011)
2 152 1 33 Sacks et al. (2011)
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areas (Fig. 5), whereas ‘Kinship, Parentage and Behav-
iour’ studies assay approximately three times more
individuals than studies published in the other subject
categories (Fig. 6). The latter observation is satisfying
because studies in ‘Kinship, Parentage and Behaviour’
typically employ fewer loci than do studies in other cate-
gories, but make up for this by studying much larger
numbers of individuals.
The data presented above are intended to provide
guidance regarding the numbers of populations, indi-
viduals and loci that were perceived by editors and
reviewers as acceptable for publication in Molecular
Ecology. However, we anticipate that these standards
will continue to evolve, with increasingly large data
sets made feasible by improved technology and meth-
odologies. Moreover, sampling strategies and marker
choices should be designed to best address the ques-
tion motivating the study. As we stress in our guide
to authors, our main criterion is that studies utilize
molecular genetic techniques to address consequential
questions in ecology, evolution, behaviour and conser-
vation. If your sampling scheme, molecular genetic
approaches and data analyses strategies are well
designed for investigating an important question in
ecology or evolutionary biology, then your study
stands a very good chance of being published in
Molecular Ecology.
When should you make a complaint?
We handle a large volume of articles and sometimes
make decisions that are unpopular with authors. While
the majority of authors accept an unfavourable decision
and make use of the feedback before submitting else-
where, there are cases where it is worth contacting us
to discuss the decision further. As there is sometimes
confusion on what constitutes a valid reason for revisit-
ing a decision, we have provided some guidance below
regarding when a complaint is likely to be successful
(an earlier version of this piece can be found at http://
www.molecularecologist.com/).
To begin, here are some general suggestions that will
make it more likely that a challenge will be successful.
First, we recommend not contacting the journal imme-
diately after receiving a decision you disagree with, as
the tone of these complaint letters is seldom construc-
tive. Second, avoid using ‘Reply All’ when passing deci-
sion letters to co-authors, particularly if you include
some invective, as these messages sometimes come back
to the journal. Third, before you launch a challenge,
please check with your co-authors, as they may prefer
to submit elsewhere instead.
It is worth noting that complaint letters that attempt
to identify negative reviewers and dismiss their con-
cerns on the grounds that they are prejudiced against
your work are seldom successful. Guesses on reviewer
identity are often wrong, and they also constitute an ad
hominem attack on that person’s integrity. Furthermore,
even if your nemesis did give a signed negative review,
this is not grounds to overturn the decision. The editor
was almost certainly aware of this issue when they
decided to reject your article, and the rejection implies
that the editor either agrees with their criticisms of your
work or else based the rejection on comments of
another referee.
Once you have had a few days to read through the
decision, and you are still convinced that it is unfair,
then compose a carefully worded letter that explains
why the decision needs to be revisited. Be warned that
challenging a decision along the following lines almost
never works out:
– ‘You gave my paper a ‘reject, encourage resubmis-
sion’ decision, but it should have been an ‘acceptance
Table 2 Numbers of populations, individuals, organelles and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) surveyed in studies pub-
lished in Molecular Ecology from January to September 2011
Subject
category
No.
populations
No.
individuals
No.
organelles
No.
SNPs References
Ecological Genomics 5 576 0 171 Cubillos et al. (2011)
Ecological Interactions 15 105 0 22 Nestmann et al. (2011)
Molecular Adaptation 26 156 0 768 Prunier et al. (2011)
2 186 0 23 Svetec et al. (2011)
Phylogeography 70 70 0 384 Hofinger et al. (2011)
Population and Conservation Genetics 9 466 0 151 Gomaa et al. (2011)
25 725 0 44 057 Gautier & Naves (2011)
Speciation and Hybridization 79 895 0 1536 Wang et al. (2011)
30 604 0 81 Stemshorn et al. (2011)
5 196 0 112 Renaut et al. (2011)
2 152 1 51 Sacks et al. (2011)
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with minor revisions’. For Molecular Ecology, a reject-
encourage typically indicates that the article needs
extensive changes (potentially including additional
data) and that the editor wants to send it through the
review process again. It is also generally best to
respond to individual reviewer and editor comments
as part of the resubmission rather than to challenge
the decision itself.
– ‘Two of the reviewers loved it and only suggested
minor edits, but Referee 3 was much more negative
and made you reject it’. A decision is not based on an
average of the review recommendations, and if the
comments of Referee 3 convinced the editor that the
article is flawed, no amount of adulation from
reviewers who missed these problems is going to
change that.
– ‘I accidentally included the wrong dataset ⁄analy-
ses ⁄conclusions, and this is why the paper was
rejected’. We can only review the materials that have
been sent to us, so please check your manuscript files
carefully before submitting.
– ‘You published a very similar paper back in 2006, so
it is inconsistent to reject our manuscript now’. The
field is constantly changing and the standards for
publication are always moving higher. If your data
and methods were cutting-edge five years ago, it
Table 3 Numbers of populations, individuals, organelles and nuclear genes surveyed in studies published in Molecular Ecology from
January to September 2011
Subject
category
No.
populations
No.
individuals
No.
organelles
Nuclear
genes References
Ecological Interactions 4 1063 1 1 Tedersoo et al. (2011)
3 64 0 2 Morick et al. (2011)
42 134 0 1 Kennedy et al. (2011)
Molecular Adaptation 15 360 1 5 Atyame et al. (2011)
Phylogeography 14 950 1 2 Fijarczyk et al. (2011)
5 125 1 1 Baird et al. (2011)
19 100 1 1 Cooper et al. (2011)
N⁄A 108 0 3 Gazis et al. (2011)
23 290 1 4 Zhan et al. (2011)
13 161 0 5 Morris-Pocock et al. (2011)
12 81 1 3 Nobre et al. (2011)
3 211 1 1 Triponez et al. (2011)
3 87 1 3 Portik et al. (2011)
N⁄A 85 1 1 Hayward et al. (2011)
11 203 1 2 Fernandez-Mendoza et al. (2011)
13 239 1 2 Schoville et al. (2011)
29 176 0 1 Etter et al. (2011)
45 463 0 5 Roe et al. (2011)
N⁄A 266 1 2 Turmelle et al. (2011)
12 150 1 2 Lohse et al. (2011)
N⁄A 66 1 2 Sarnat & Moreau (2011)
33 170 1 1 Kokita & Nohara (2011)
Population and Conservation Genetics 14 140 0 16 Onge et al. (2011)
50 106 1 1 Douglas et al. (2011)
N⁄A 151 0 2 Le Rouzic et al. (2011)
N⁄A 73 1 3 Welch et al. (2011)
2 127 0 4 McCairns et al. (2011)
Speciation and Hybridization N⁄A 162 1 1 Barrett & Freudenstein (2011)
3 167 1 6 Dyer et al. (2011)
N⁄A 9 0 67 Alamouti et al. (2011)
N⁄A 187 1 12 Brelsford et al. (2011)
40 40 0 18 Bimova et al. (2011)
3 26 1 2 Bird et al. (2011)
6 301 0 10 Ouanes et al. (2011)
2 55 2 17 Wachowiak et al. (2011)
N⁄A 353 0 6 Kiss et al. (2011)
7 776 1 3 Culumber et al. (2011)
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saves everyone time if you submit to a more special-
ized journal. Furthermore, even if a manuscript simi-
lar to your own has appeared in the most recent
issue, that accepted manuscript could have other
merits that led to its acceptance. Please also bear in
mind that we have likely already rejected numerous
other similar articles this year, and those decisions
are not made public.
– ‘We resubmitted our paper, but while the original
reviewers liked the new version, the comments you
received from the new referees made you reject it’.
Molecular Ecology has a policy of only allowing one
‘reject, encourage resubmission’ per article, which
prevents interminable rounds of ‘reject-encourage ⁄
resubmission ⁄finding new reviewers ⁄they find new
problems ⁄yet another reject-encourage’. Resubmitted
articles do get accepted about 70%of the time, so
clearly it is possible to prepare a new version that
convinces both the original and the new reviewers
that the manuscript is worth publishing. Lastly, if
none of the original reviewers were able to look
at the resubmission, our only option is to use new
referees.
So when should you challenge a rejection? The reason
that most often leads us to revisit a decision is evidence
that the peer review process was flawed in some way
that unfairly biased the evaluation of your article. For
example, a reviewer might claim that a particular analy-
sis is vital to your study. However, if the analysis is
actually in the article and somehow neither the editor
nor the reviewer noticed it, then certainly the decision
would be revisited. Similarly, if a reviewer convinces
the editor that some aspect of the methods is fundamen-
tally flawed, but the criticism can be shown to be incor-
rect, then it would be worth appealing the decision.
It should be noted that while instances such as the
two described above would be grounds for appeal,
there is no guarantee that the decision will be over-
turned. It might be, for example, that there were other
major flaws in the article that were largely responsible
for its rejection rather than any mistakes made by the
referees or editors. We do occasionally overturn deci-
sions, and if we are convinced by the authors that a
mistake was made in the review process resulting in a
faulty decision, we will either alter the decision or
invite a new version of the article. This is infrequent,
about one in every 50 rejections, but it does happen!
Loren Rieseberg
Chief Editor
(lriesebe@mail.ubc.ca)
Tim Vines
Managing Editor
(managing.editor@molecol.com)
Nolan Kane
News and Views Editor
(nckane@gmail.com)
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Subject
category
No.
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No.
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No.
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