Frontiers in Zoology is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal publishing high quality research articles and reviews on all aspects of animal life.

As a biological discipline, zoology has one of the longest histories. Today it occasionally appears as though, due to the rapid expansion of life sciences, zoology has been replaced by more or less independent sub-disciplines amongst which exchange is often sparse. However, the recent advance of molecular methodology into "classical" fields of biology, and the development of theories that can explain phenomena on different levels of organisation, has led to a re-integration of zoological disciplines promoting a broader than usual approach to zoological questions. Zoology has re-emerged as an integrative discipline encompassing the most diverse aspects of animal life, from the level of the gene to the level of the ecosystem.

Frontiers in Zoology is the first open access journal focusing on zoology as a whole. It aims to represent and re-unite the various disciplines that look at animal life from different perspectives and at providing the basis for a comprehensive understanding of zoological phenomena on all levels of analysis. Frontiers in Zoology provides a unique opportunity to publish high quality research and reviews on zoological issues that will be internationally accessible to any reader at no cost.

The journal was initiated and is supported by the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, one of the largest national zoological societies with more than a century-long tradition in promoting high-level zoological research.

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Hypothesis
Methodology
Research
Review

Editors-in-Chief
Juergen Heinze, University of Regensburg, Germany 
Ulrich Technau, University of Vienna, Austria
Editorial Board
Nora J Besansky, University of Notre Dame, United States of America
Thomas Bugnyar, University of Vienna, Austria
Ariel Chipman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 
Molly Duman-Scheel, Indiana University School of Medicine, United States of America 
Julia Fischer, Leibniz Institute for Primatology, Germany 
Raghavendra Gadagkar, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore, India 
Martin Giurfa, Université Toulouse III, France 
Jaco M Greeff, University of Pretoria, South Africa 
Bettina B Harr, Max-Planck-Institut for Evolutionary Biology, Germany 
Andreas Hejnol, University of Bergen, Norway 
Barbara Hellriegel, University of Zurich, Switzerland 
Yoh Iwasa, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan 
Judith Korb, University of Osnabrueck, Germany 
Daiqin Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Miriam Liedvogel, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany, Germany 
John N Maina, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 
Bálint Markó, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania 
Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Hans HM Merzendorfer, University of Osnabruck, Germany 
Nico Michiels, Institute for Evolution and Ecology, Tuebingen, Germany 
Toru Miura, Hokkaido University, Japan 
Claus Nielsen, Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
John A Nyakatura, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany 
Mark-Oliver Roedel, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Germany
Cristian Pasquaretta, Research Center on Animal Cognition, France
Christian Roos, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Germany 
Eduardo SA Santos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Stefan Scheu, Technischen Universität Darmstadt, Germany 
Thomas Schmitt, Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Germany 
Jacqui Shykoff, University Paris-Sud, France 
Meike Stumpp, University of Kiel, Germany  
Ralf Sommer, Max Planck Institute, Germany 
Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom 
Nicholas Strausfeld, University of Arizona, United States of America 
Eörs Szathmáry, Collegium Budapest, Hungary 
Diethard Tautz, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany 
Kazuki Tsuji, University of the Ryukyus, Japan 
Leslie Turner, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Simon Verhulst, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Karine Van Doninck, University of Namur, Belgium
T.N.C Vidya, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
Gerhard von der Emde, University of Bonn, Germany 
Franz J Weissing, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Edward O Wilson, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States of America