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Zoological Letters is sponsoring the Euro Evo Devo 2024 Meeting in Helsinki
Zoological Letters is happy to announce its support of the Euro Evo Devo 2024 Meeting in Helsinki. Euro Evo Devo Meetings are biennial meetings of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) and a major place for researchers to present and discuss their latest findings in evolutionary developmental biology. Zoological Letters' scope is strongly aligning with the meeting and has published many seminal papers in the field. This year the journal has decided to sponsor the Symposium “Neuro-evo-devo II: Adaptive diversification of neural structures.”.
Articles
Research article
Sexual dimorphism in the tardigrade Paramacrobiotus metropolitanus transcriptome
Kenta Sugiura, Yuki Yoshida, Kohei Hayashi, Kazuharu Arakawa, Takekazu Kunieda & Midori Matsumoto
Published 20 June 2024
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Boring life: early colony formation and growth in the endolithic bryozoan genus Penetrantia Silén, 1946
Sebastian H. Decker, Sarah Lemer, Simone Decker, Masato Hirose, Mildred J. Johnson & Thomas Schwaha
Published 14 June 2024
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Brood success of sex-role-reversed pheasant-tailed jacanas: the effects of social polyandry, seasonality, and male mating order
Ya-Fu Lee, Yen-Min Kuo, Bing-Yuan Chuang, Hui-Ching Hsu, Yi-Jun Huang, Yu-Chen Su & Wen-Chen Lee
Published 30 April 2024
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The more we search, the more we find: discovering and expanding the biodiversity in the ring nematode genus Xenocriconemella De Grisse and Loof, 1965 (Nematoda: Criconematidae)
A. Archidona-Yuste, I. Clavero-Camacho, A. N. Ruiz-Cuenca, C. Cantalapiedra-Navarrete, G. Liebanas, P. Castillo & J. E. Palomares-Rius
Published 25 March 2024
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Starvation resistance in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus requires a conserved supplementary nuclear receptor
Tobias Theska, Tess Renahan & Ralf J. Sommer
Published 13 March 2024
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Correction: Deep-sea ctenostome bryozoans: revision of the family Pachyzoidae, with description of a new genus and three new species from Zealandia
Thomas Schwaha & Dennis P. Gordon
Published 11 March 2024
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Bat pollinators: a decade of monitoring reveals declining visitation rates for some species in Thailand
Alyssa B. Stewart, Supawan Srilopan, Kanuengnit Wayo, Piriya Hassa, Michele R. Dudash & Sara Bumrungsri
Published 2 March 2024
Research article
Deep-sea ctenostome bryozoans: revision of the family Pachyzoidae, with description of a new genus and three new species from Zealandia
Thomas Schwaha & Dennis P. Gordon
Published 6 February 2024
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Neuromuscular organization of the benthic ctenophore, Vallicula multiformis
Kurato Mohri & Hiroshi Watanabe
Published 30 January 2024
Research article
Color vision evolution in egg-laying mammals: insights from visual photoreceptors and daily activities of Australian echidnas
Shiina Sakamoto, Yuka Matsushita, Akihiro Itoigawa, Takumi Ezawa, Takeshi Fujitani, Kenichiro Takakura, Yang Zhou, Guojie Zhang, Frank Grutzner, Shoji Kawamura & Takashi Hayakawa
Published 2 January 2024
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Planarian shows decision-making behavior in response to multiple stimuli by integrative brain function
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The phylum Vertebrata: a case for zoological recognition
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Natural selection, selective breeding, and the evolution of resistance of honeybees (Apis mellifera) against Varroa
The Correction to this article has been published in Zoological Letters 2020 6:10
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Did homeobox gene duplications contribute to the Cambrian explosion?
Founded in 1878, the Zoological Society of Japan is known to be one of the oldest and successful academic societies in Japan, and has supported scientific activities across a wide-range fields of areas associated with basic zoology. The Zoological Society of Japan is an academic society aimed at the advance and dissemination of animal scientific research. Members, starting with researchers and graduate students affiliated with universities and research institutes, consist of teaching staff at elementary, middle and high schools, and the number of members has reached 2,700.
Aims and scope
Zoological Letters is an open access journal that publishes new and important findings in the zoological sciences. As a sister journal to Zoological Science, Zoological Letters covers a wide range of basic fields of zoology, from taxonomy to bioinformatics. We also welcome submissions of paleontology reports as part of our effort to contribute to the development of new perspectives in evolutionary zoology. Our goal is to serve as a global publishing forum for fundamental researchers in all fields of zoology.
Shigeru Kuratani, RIKEN, Japan - Editor-in-Chief
Shigeru Kuratani received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology at Kyoto University. He spent the period from 1988 to 1991 working in experimental embryology in the Department of Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia before moving to the Biochemistry Department, Baylor College of Medicine, where he focused on molecular embryological research. He returned to Japan in 1994 to take a position as associate professor at the Institute of Medical Embryology and Genetics in the Kumamoto University School of Medicine. He moved to Okayama University to assume a professorship in the Department of Biology in 1997, where he remained until he was appointed team leader at the CDB in 2001. He was appointed Group Director at CDB from 2005 to 2014. Since 2014, he is Chief Scientist at RIKEN.
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Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 1.7
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.4
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.776
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.422Speed 2023
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 6
Submission to acceptance (median days): 136Usage 2023
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