Abstract
As in previous years, over 2010 microbiology has been— either directly or indirectly—in the spotlight of many science news. However, it has been almost forgotten for many institutions that, on the occasion of the International Year of Biodiversity, celebrated life on Earth and the value that life’s diversity represents for humans. In fact, the logotype designed for that purpose only reflected a part of the Earth’s biodiversity: plants, animals, including human species, and the sea, with fish. Three of the major groupings of life— fungi, protists and prokaryotes, call them Domains, Kingdoms or whatever you like—were not represented there. (See Fig. 1 with the “unofficial” logotype drawn by our journal.) Biodiversity had been a priority area of the 6th Environmental Action
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