Editorial
What is wrong with this picture?
BMC Biology, BioMed Central, 236 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8HL, UK
BMC Biology 2012, 10:76 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-10-76
Published: 3 September 2012First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
When we first published our iconic image (Figure 1), devised on the fusion of BMC Biology with Journal of Biology in 2010 [1], we anticipated outraged objections from the microbial research community (among others) with a disclaimer acknowledging an element of artistic licence in the allocation of space per phylum (see legend to Figure 1, reproduced from [1]), successfully disarming Jonathan Eisen (http:/ / phylogenomics.blogspot.co.uk/ 2011/ 09/ no-award-to-give-out-but-here-are-s ome.html webcite) when he justly rose to the attack last year, and so far avoiding aggrieved comment on the underrepresentation of beetles.
