The Journal of Morphology  welcomes articles of original research in cytology, protozoology, embryology, and general morphology. Articles generally should not exceed 35 printed pages. Preliminary notices or articles of a purely descriptive morphological or taxonomic nature are not included. No paper which has already been published will be accepted, nor will simultaneous publications elsewhere be allowed.


The Journal of Morphology publishes research in functional, comparative, evolutionary and developmental morphology from vertebrates and invertebrates. Human and veterinary anatomy or paleontology are considered when an explicit connection to neontological animal morphology is presented, and the paper contains relevant information for the community of animal morphologists. Based on our long tradition, we continue to seek publishing the best papers in animal morphology.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
J. Matthias Starck, Department of Biology II, University of Munich (LMU) - Biocenter, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
starck@jmorph.com
Advisory Board Members
William M. Kier, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA, billkier@bio.unc.edu
Reinhardt Mobjerg Kristensen, Zoological Museum and Arctic Station, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, rmkristensen@snm.ku.dk
Peter Wainwright, Department of Evolution & Ecology, University of California,Davis, CA 95616, USA,  PCWainwright@ucdavis.edu
Marvalee H. Wake, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, mhwake@socrates.berkeley.edu
Editorial Board Members
Anick Abourachid, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, abourach@mnhn.fr 
Natalia Biserova, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia, nbiserova@yandex.ru 
Richard Blob, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University,Clemson, SC 29634, USA, rblob@clemson.edu
Shaun P. Collin, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora 2086, VIC, Australia, s.collin@latrobe.edu.au
Rui Diogo, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA, ruidiogo@gwmail.gwu.edu
Elizabeth Dumont, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA, edumont@ucmerced.edu 
Peter Funch, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, peter.funch@biology.au.dk
Joachim Haug, Bioceter Martinsried - Dept. Bio. II, LMU Munchen, Planegg-artinsried 82152, Germany, jhaug@biologie.uni-muenchen.de 
Anthony Herrel, Département Adaptations du Vivant, CNRS/MNHN, Paris, France, anthony.herrel@mnhn.fr
Richard Hochberg, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01826, USA, rick_hochberg@uml.edu
Shigeru Kuratani, Laboratory for Evolutionary Morphology, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, saizo@cdb.riken.jp
Paula Mabee, Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA, pmabee@usd.edu
Jose Eduardo Marian, Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, jemarian@ib.usp.br 
Christopher R. Murphy, Cellular and Reproductive Biology Laboratory, Department of Anatomy and Histology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia, histology@anatomy.usyd.edu.au
Annemarie Oldewage, Department of Zoology, University of Johannesberg, 2006 Johannesberg, South Africa, aoldewage@uj.ac.za
Fernando Pardos, Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, fpardos@bio.ucm.es
Irina Ruf, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Senckenberg Museum, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany, irina.ruf@senckenberg.de
Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Biozentrum Grindel/Zoological Museum,Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, andreas.schmidt-rhaesa@uni-hamburg.de
Thomas Stach, Vergleichende Zoologie,Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany, tstach@zoosyst-berlin.de
Elena Temereva, Biological faculty Dept. Invertebrate Zoology, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia, temereva@mail.ru
Bret Tobalske, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA, bret.tobalske@mso.umt.edu
Alexander Tzetlin, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, Moscow, Russia, atzetlin@gmail.com, abtzetlin@wsbs-msu.ru
Jacqueline F. Webb, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA, jacqueline_webb@uri.edu
Cheryl D. Wilga, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK 99508, cwilga@uaa.alaska.edu