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In his blog, Alexander Okamoto discusses the importance of museum specimens in studying mammalian bone formation outside conventional model systems.
Kyriacos Kareklas speaks about how his work on Siamese fighting fish challenges traditional models on animal fighting behavior and sheds light on flexible decision-making in contests.
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 1.4
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 1.6
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.644
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.498
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