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Articles
Research article
Polymorphism in the symmetries of gastric pouch arrangements in the sea anemone D. lineata
Safiye E. Sarper, Tamami Hirai, Take Matsuyama, Shigeru Kuratani and Koichi Fujimoto
Published on: 6 September 2021
Research article
The balance of crystalline and amorphous regions in the fibroin structure underpins the tensile strength of bagworm silk
Nobuaki Kono, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Ayaka Tateishi, Keiji Numata and Kazuharu Arakawa
Published on: 26 July 2021
Review article
The digestive tract as an essential organ for water acquisition in marine teleosts: lessons from euryhaline eels
Yoshio Takei
Published on: 21 June 2021
Research article
Integrative taxonomy resolves species identities within the Macrobiotus pallarii complex (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae)
Daniel Stec, Matteo Vecchi, Magdalena Dudziak, Paul J. Bartels, Sara Calhim and Łukasz Michalczyk
Published on: 27 May 2021
Research article
The formation of a hatching line in the serosal cuticle confers multifaceted adaptive functions on the eggshell of a cicada
Minoru Moriyama, Kouji Yasuyama and Hideharu Numata
Published on: 13 May 2021
Research article
Structure of a hinge joint with textured sliding surfaces in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)
Miloš Vittori
Published on: 11 May 2021
Research article
New Indomalayan Nebularmis species (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) provoke a discussion on its intrageneric diversity
Piotr Gąsiorek, Katarzyna Vončina, Joanna Ciosek, Mariana Veloso, Paulo Fontoura and Łukasz Michalczyk
Published on: 12 April 2021
Research article
Digit ratio in the common toad Bufo bufo: the effects of reduced fingers and of age dependency
Mikołaj Kaczmarski, Jan M. Kaczmarek, Łukasz Jankowiak, Krzysztof Kolenda and Piotr Tryjanowski
Published on: 25 March 2021
Research article
D-Tryptophan enhances the reproductive organ-specific expression of the amino acid transporter homolog Dr-SLC38A9 involved in the sexual induction of planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis
Takanobu Maezawa, Masaki Ishikawa, Kiyono Sekii, Go Nagamatsu, Ryohei Furukawa and Kazuya Kobayashi
Published on: 20 March 2021
Research article
Developmental fates of shark head cavities reveal mesodermal contributions to tendon progenitor cells in extraocular muscles
Shunya Kuroda, Noritaka Adachi, Rie Kusakabe and Shigeru Kuratani
Published on: 15 February 2021
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, 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.
ZooDiversity Web is a search and access website that provides an attractive and easy-to-use internet search engine and showcase for scientific papers published since 1984 in the English-language journal of the Zoological Society of Japan (Zoological Science). These papers include over 4,000 peer-reviewed articles on a great diversity of over 13,000 different species of animals.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
29 days to first decision for all manuscripts
59 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
156 days from submission to acceptance
20 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
2.836 - 2-Year Impact Factor
2.758 - 5-Year Impact Factor
1.005 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.022 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
173,055 Downloads (2021)
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