Thank you for responding to our invitation to review a manuscript for The FASEB Journal. We appreciate the time and effort our referees put into considering potential articles for the journal.

The audience for The FASEB Journal includes investigators, educators, and students in the many disciplines that make up the life sciences. We hope the articles we publish will be both accessible and interesting to our readership.

It may help to see the guidelines that we provide potential authors (below). If you would like to see a more detailed description by article type, please see Instructions for Authors.

If you wish to have collaborators assist with the review, please feel free to do so, as long as these collaborators have no conflicts of interest, which could bias their input or otherwise give the appearance of impropriety. However, this material should be considered confidential, as will any comments you may wish to provide.

We MUST receive your review within two weeks. If you should have any questions about the review process, please contact the Editorial Office at journals{at}faseb.org.

Research Communications
The FASEB Journal publishes a limited number of Research Communications, and it is our hope to fill the slots with papers that describe new, significant experimental findings that extend across scientific disciplines.

If you do not feel that this manuscript fits these criteria, please provide a few sentences explaining why you do not recommend its acceptance. If you have some specific comments that might be helpful to the authors, we would be pleased to relay them.

Reviews
We expect authors to provide an interpretative overview of the most significant new findings of the subject under review. The ideal Review for The FASEB Journal should have the following characteristics:

1. Be accurate scientifically
2. Describe the most relevant and recent contributions
3. Be fair in its appraisal of the significance of the studies cited
4. Be generous in the choice of citations, giving equal notice to contributions from both collaborators and competitors, and consider the scientific horizon to extend throughout the international community.

If you feel that this manuscript should be modified to meet these standards, please describe the specific changes that you recommend, and these will be relayed to the authors.

Hypotheses
We expect authors to provide an interpretative overview of the most significant new findings of the subject under consideration. The ideal Hypothesis for The FASEB Journal should have the following characteristics:

1. Be accurate scientifically
2. Describe a hypothesis which is both novel and relevant in the context of the most recent scholarship
3. Be fair in its appraisal of the significance of the studies cited
4. Be generous in the choice of citations, giving equal notice to contributions from both collaborators and competitors, and consider the scientific horizon to extend throughout the international community.

If you feel that this manuscript should be modified to meet these standards, please describe the specific changes that you recommend, and these will be relayed to the authors.