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Evolutionary Developmental Biology hosts articles dealing with issues that cannot be satisfactorily addressed within either evolutionary biology or developmental biology alone, first of all those dealing with evolvability, or the potential of organisms to evolve. Addressing those questions involves the investigation of the genotype to phenotype map, the diverse and often complex ways in which the phenotype is controlled by genes. It also requires a special attention at the origin and the structure of variation, in particular the features of the developmental system. This demands in-depth analyses ranging from the genetic and genomic level to the full complexity of developmental processes, including all the aspects in which these involve interactions with the environment, in both an instructive and a selective sense. Investigating evolvability means also to get a key to the study of the origin of evolutionary novelties. Any relevant approach is welcome, provided that mathematical modelling, gene expression studies, morphometric investigations, biomechanical studies, comparative morphological analyses, or a combination thereof, are fruitfully applied to address evo-devo questions. We welcome manuscripts addressing the relationships between evolutionary theory and the conceptual core of developmental biology, such as the evolution of individuality, the evolution of the life cycle, and the possible evo-devo underpinnings of speciation events, as well as theoretical and methodological discussions about evolvability and evolutionary innovations, but also about homology, convergence, heterochrony and other core concepts, provided that these notions are addressed in an integrated evo-devo perspective. We also encourage submission of papers focussing on the many promising but hitherto only marginally addressed questions such as the evolution of developmental systems based on interactions between multicellulars and their associated microbiome; the use of fossil ontogenetic sequences in reconstructing the evolution of development; and the evolution of the periodization and timing of developmental events.Indexed in: PubMed, PubMed Central, Google Scholar, DOAJ, CrossRef, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
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Evolutionary Developmental Biology welcomes submissions of the following article types: Book Review, Correction, Data Report, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Protocols, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge, Systematic Review and Technology Report.
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the section Evolutionary Developmental Biology, where they are peer-reviewed by the Associate and Review Editors of the specialty section.
Articles published in the section Evolutionary Developmental Biology will benefit from the Frontiers impact and tiering system after online publication. Authors of published original research with the highest impact, as judged democratically by the readers, will be invited by the Chief Editor to write a Frontiers Focused Review - a tier-climbing article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The author selection is based on article impact analytics of original research published in all Frontiers specialty journals and sections. Focused Reviews are centered on the original discovery, place it into a broader context, and aim to address the wider community across all of Cell and Developmental Biology and Ecology and Evolution.
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