Annual Review of Microbiology, 2017

The Annual Review of Microbiology, like its sister volumes of Annual Reviews, is eagerly awaited almost like an annual tradition to welcome a new student into the laboratory. These volumes are multichapter edited volumes known for the breadth of topics with elaborate details. This volume too is large (~780 pages) and has 37 state-of-the-art reviews. The word cloud (page vii of the volume) generated from the review titles shows that bacteria and fungi are both represented in almost equal measure, and a range of topics spanning these and other microbes as model systems.