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Call for papers: Defaunation, functional extinctions and socio-ecological consequences
The Editors of BMC Zoology are pleased to announce the launch of a special collection on defaunation, functional extinctions and socio-ecological consequences.
We are now welcoming submissions and the deadline is June 1st 2021.
BMC Series Focus Issue
January: Data sharing
Research data are the foundations of reliable and reproducible science. This month, we would like to highlight different ways authors were able to publish and share their data by choosing the BMC series.
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The development of body and organ shape
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Structural organization and cohesiveness of foraging groups in Camponotus sericeus (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): locally regulated or self-organized?
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Indication of lethal interactions between a solitary bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the German Baltic Sea
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Moonlight is a key entrainer of lunar clock in the brain of the tropical grouper with full moon preference
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Fishing for iodine: what aquatic foraging by bonobos tells us about human evolution
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Nymphister kronaueri von Beeren & Tishechkin sp. nov., an army ant-associated beetle species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Haeteriinae) with an exceptional mechanism of phoresy
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LemurFaceID: a face recognition system to facilitate individual identification of lemurs
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Micro-CT imaging of live insects using carbon dioxide gas-induced hypoxia as anesthetic with minimal impact on certain subsequent life history traits
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Rediscovering a forgotten canid species
Aims and scope
BMC Zoology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of zoology, including comparative physiology, mechanistic and functional studies, morphology, life history, animal behavior, signaling and communication, cognition, parasitism, systematics, biogeography and conservation.
Editor
- Alison Cuff, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
- Dylan Smith, BioMed Central
Assistant Editor
- James Edwards, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Brock Fenton, University of Western Ontario
- Thomas Flatt, University of Lausanne
- Herbert Hoi, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
- Serge Morand, University of Montpellier
- Laurence Packer, York University
Meet the editors
Thomas Flatt is Associate Professor at the Department of Biology at the University of Fribourg. His main interest is the evolution and mechanisms of life history and aging. He is a Section Editor for BMC Zoology since its inception in 2016.
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Citation Impact
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2.529 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.786 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.197 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)Usage
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