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Front cover illustration

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of thin section of spores of Paenibacillus stellifer strain IS 5, isolated from a paper machine. The ornamented coat of the spore, 0.8 {mu}m in diameter, looks spiky in the thin section. Photograph courtesy of Irmgard Suominen, Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, Helsinki University. See the paper by Suominen and others in this issue, pp. 1369-1374.