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Volume 27, Number 5
05 March 2008

pp 715-816

The EMBO Journal Cover Contest 2008 has a winner! This coloured SEM image of Urediniomycete spores, prepared by Martin Oeggerli, received the most praise from the jury and was selected as the winner in the "scientific" section of our contest, from among more than 700 submissions. The editors and other members of the jury would like to thank all participants of the contest for their enthusiasm and compliment them on the large number of very beautiful images they submitted. We hope that we will be able to display some of the most interesting submissions on future front covers of The EMBO Journal.

"I found this spectacular situation in the central part of a fungal fruit body while exploring the sudden death of a tiny plant that used to grow just outside my front door," writes Martin Oeggerli." Apparently, a fungus had attacked some leaves of the plant and almost destroyed it entirely within a few days. The spores are only 4.3 µm in diameter."

For more fascinating views of the microcosm surrounding us, please visit the photographer's website at www.micronaut.ch." This image © Martin Oeggerli 2007."

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