Discover Life is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal that supports multidisciplinary research and policy developments across all fields relevant to life science. The journal aims to be a resource for researchers, policy makers and the general public for recent advances in life science, and its uses in research development and society. As a fully open access journal, we ensure that our research is highly discoverable and instantly available globally to everyone. The journal particularly welcomes work that aims to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially, Good Health and Well-Being; Life below Water, Life on Land.

 
Topics 

Topics welcomed at Discover Life include but are not limited to the following:

Biodiversity, taxonomy, and evolutionary biology
Species discovery, classification, phylogenetics, systematics, natural selection, adaptation, speciation, evolutionary theory, paleobiology, genetic drift.

Ecology, ecosystem dynamics, and conservation
Biotic interactions, habitat studies, population dynamics, community ecology, habitat restoration, conservation strategies, biodiversity hotspots, sustainable practices.

Molecular biology and genomics
Genomics, proteomics, cell signaling, metabolic pathways, gene expression, genetic variation, DNA sequencing, functional genomics, epigenetics.

Physiology, adaptation, and animal science
Homeostasis, stress responses, thermoregulation, animal behavior, animal physiology, zoology, ethology, animal nutrition.

Human, animal, and plant interactions
Ethology, domestication, wildlife management, botany, plant pathology, plant genetics, horticultural therapy, crop science.

Technological innovations and computational biology
Biotechnology, bioinformatics, imaging techniques, genomics tools, systems biology, biological modeling, statistical genetics, evolutionary algorithms.

Microbiology and disease dynamics
Pathogens, virology, bacteriology, mycology, microbial physiology, antibiotic resistance, zoonotic diseases.

Biology, society, and global challenges
Bioethics, biology education, science communication, biology and culture, science policy, global health challenges, societal implications.

Paleontology and earth's biological history
Fossil record, paleoecology, evolutionary history, stratigraphy, ancient environments, extinction events.

 
Content types

Discover Life welcomes full-length Research articles as well as Brief Communications of empirical findings, Reviews, Perspectives, Comments, Case Reports, Case Studies, Clinical Trials, Registered Reports, and Data Notes from across the full range of disciplines concerned with life science. The journal also publishes guest-edited Topical Collections of relevance to all aspects of life science and its applications. For more information, please follow up with our journal publishing contact.

Editor:
Alan W. Schwartz, email: originseditor@outlook.com
Executive Editor:
H.J. Cleaves, email: henderson.cleaves@gmail.com
Editorial Board:
C. Adami, Michigan State University, MI, USA; M. P. Callahan, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA; J. P. Dworkin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA; M. Gleiser, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA; P.G.Higgs, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; G.F. Joyce, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA; A. Lazcano, National Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico; B. Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; A. MacDermott, University of Houston-Clear Lake, TX, USA; K. Ruiz-Mirazo, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain; A. Weber, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA; F. Westall, CNRS, Orléans, France; H. Yabuta, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.