
Cover Adapted image of sea surface temperature (NASA) showing environmental variation across the ocean through a color gradient. Sea surface temperature represents one of the 15 features used in a study correlating environmental variation with different types of membrane protein families in metagenomic sequence data from the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition. (Cover illustration by Prianka Patel and Tara Gianoulis. [For details, see Patel et al., pp. 960–971.])