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Articles
Review
Potential of Garra rufa as a novel high-temperature resistant model fish: a review on current and future approaches
Yasuhito Shimada, Baki Aydın, Koto Kon-Nanjo, Kiki Syaputri Handayani, Victor David Nico Gultom, Oleg Simakov, Fahrurrozi & Tetsuo Kon
Published 27 February 2025
Research article
Effect of temperature cycles on the sleep-like state in Hydra vulgaris
Aya Sato, Manabu Sekiguchi, Koga Nakada, Taishi Yoshii & Taichi Q. Itoh
Published 28 January 2025
Research article
Spatially ordered recruitment of fast muscles in accordance with movement strengths in larval zebrafish
Sayaka Shimizu, Taisei Katayama, Nozomi Nishiumi, Masashi Tanimoto, Yukiko Kimura & Shin-ichi Higashijima
Published 3 January 2025
Research article
Ecology of endolithic bryozoans: colony development, growth rates and interactions of species in the genus Immergentia
Mildred J. Johnson, Sarah Lemer, Masato Hirose, Sebastian H. Decker & Thomas Schwaha
Published 31 December 2024
Research article
Evolution of wing scales in Diptera documented by fossils
Ewa Krzemińska, Wiesław Krzemiński, Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Jadwiga Stanek-Tarkowska, Kornelia Skibińska & Daubian Santos
Published 30 December 2024
Research article
The lost generation of Pemphigus populiglobuli (Hemiptera, Aphididae): exploring the taxonomy of the Svalbard aphids of genus Pemphigus
Karina Wieczorek, Dominik Chłond, Emmanuelle Jousselin & Stephen J. Coulson
Published 18 December 2024
Research article
A transphyletic study of metazoan β-catenin protein complexes
Ivan Mbogo, Chihiro Kawano, Ryotaro Nakamura, Yuko Tsuchiya, Alejandro Villar-Briones, Yoshitoshi Hirao, Yuuri Yasuoka, Eisuke Hayakawa, Kentaro Tomii & Hiroshi Watanabe
Published 2 December 2024
Correction
Correction: Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals
Kai R. Caspar, Lisa Hüttner & Sabine Begall
Published 28 October 2024
Research article
Unique bone histology of modern giant salamanders: a study on humeri and femora of Andrias spp.
Nicole Klein, Dorota Konietzko-Meier, Sudipta Kalita, Masahiro Noda, Sena Ishikawa, Yuki Taguchi, Wataru Anzai & Shoji Hayashi
Published 18 October 2024
Research article
The remarkable larval morphology of Rhaebo nasicus (Werner, 1903) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) with the erection of a new bufonid genus and insights into the evolution of suctorial tadpoles
Pedro Henrique dos Santos Dias, Jackson R. Phillips, MartÃn O. Pereyra, D. Bruce Means, Alexander Haas & Philippe J. R. Kok
Published 30 September 2024
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Planarian shows decision-making behavior in response to multiple stimuli by integrative brain function
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The phylum Vertebrata: a case for zoological recognition
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Natural selection, selective breeding, and the evolution of resistance of honeybees (Apis mellifera) against Varroa
The Correction to this article has been published in Zoological Letters 2020 6:10
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Aquatic adaptation and the evolution of smell and taste in whales
Founded in 1878, the Zoological Society of Japan is known to be one of the oldest and successful academic societies in Japan, and has supported scientific activities across a wide-range fields of areas associated with basic zoology. The Zoological Society of Japan is an academic society aimed at the advance and dissemination of animal scientific research. Members, starting with researchers and graduate students affiliated with universities and research institutes, consist of teaching staff at elementary, middle and high schools, and the number of members has reached 2,700.
Aims and scope
Zoological Letters is an open access journal that publishes new and important findings in the zoological sciences. As a sister journal to Zoological Science, Zoological Letters covers a wide range of basic fields of zoology, from taxonomy to bioinformatics. We also welcome submissions of paleontology reports as part of our effort to contribute to the development of new perspectives in evolutionary zoology. Our goal is to serve as a global publishing forum for fundamental researchers in all fields of zoology.
Shigeru Kuratani, RIKEN, Japan - Editor-in-Chief
Shigeru Kuratani received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology at Kyoto University. He spent the period from 1988 to 1991 working in experimental embryology in the Department of Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia before moving to the Biochemistry Department, Baylor College of Medicine, where he focused on molecular embryological research. He returned to Japan in 1994 to take a position as associate professor at the Institute of Medical Embryology and Genetics in the Kumamoto University School of Medicine. He moved to Okayama University to assume a professorship in the Department of Biology in 1997, where he remained until he was appointed team leader at the CDB in 2001. He was appointed Group Director at CDB from 2005 to 2014. Since 2014, he is Chief Scientist at RIKEN.
ZooDiversity Web is a search and access website that provides an attractive and easy-to-use internet search engine and showcase for scientific papers published since 1984 in the English-language journal of the Zoological Society of Japan (Zoological Science). These papers include over 4,000 peer-reviewed articles on a great diversity of over 13,000 different species of animals.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 1.7
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.4
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.776
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.422Speed 2024
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 6
Submission to acceptance (median days): 118Usage 2024
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Altmetric mentions: 318