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The Behavioural Biology section of Biology explores the biological foundations of behaviour in both animals and humans. This section emphasizes the understanding of how genetic, neurobiological, and environmental factors interact to help shape behaviour. The key topics include behavioura...

The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Section publishes cutting-edge research and innovative discoveries in the broad field of biological chemistry, biochemistry, chemical biology, and molecular biology, et al. Our section welcomes scientists from diverse backgrounds and specialties to contribut...

The Bioinformatics section of the journal Biology focuses on publishing manuscripts that describe new bioinformatics tools and methods. These tools and methods should enable breakthroughs across a wide range of biology-relevant fields, such as microbiology, cell and molecular biology, ge...

The Biophysics Section focuses on publishing significant findings related to topics in Biophysics. It publishes reviews, research papers, communications, and reports on the important problems in modern biophysics. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical re...

The Biotechnology Section publishes cutting-edge research and innovative applications at the biology–technology interface. We welcome original research, reviews, and perspectives that advance fundamental biotechnological principles and address global challenges through sustainable biologica...

The Cancer Biology Section aims to advance our understanding of cancer as a complex and dynamic disease in which cancer cells interact and co-evolve with the tumor microenvironment and host physiology, in either the untreated state or in response to therapeutic pressures.

While normal cel...

The Cell Biology Section focuses on publishing significant findings related to topics in Cell Biology. It publishes reviews, research papers, communications, and reports. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There ...

We have definitively entered the Age of the Anthropocene. The impacts of human activities on terrestrial and marine habitats, and climate change, are putting global biodiversity at risk as never before seen. Population declines and the destruction of natural habitats have increased the extinction...

This Section covers two overlapping fields: developmental and reproductive biology. The processes of embryonic development are direct consequences of reproductive events, and both are necessary for the propagation of life.

Developmental and reproductive biology have evolved enormously in ...

Ecology studies the interactions between ecological entities (individuals, populations or systems) and their environment. It aims to understand these entities as they are today and how they may change in the future. Living in a rapidly changing world, it is important to understand the response of...

The theory of evolution holds a pivotal position in biology, pervading and helping to explain a vast number of features, mechanisms, and processes studied by the different disciplines comprising the vast area of biological research. However, the theory itself can be subjected to reconsideration i...

The primary aim of the “Genetics and Genomics” Section is to advance the understanding of the biological processes regulating any organism’s capacity to reproduce, grow and respond to stimuli in both healthy and diseased states. Therefore, we invite geneticists, basic biologists...

The Immunology Section focuses on publishing significant findings related to all topics in Immunology, with a particular emphasis on comparative and evolutionary immunology. It welcomes original research addressing the immune system throughout the biology of vertebrates and invertebrates, as well...

Infection is the most prevalent cause of disease and death in biological entities. Its devastating effects on human and animal health, as well as on global crops and livestock production, drive edge-cutting research from many disciplines. Infection biology is a transversal theme that covers all a...

Marine biology is the scientific study of the diverse living organisms that inhabit saltwater environments, such as oceans and seas.

The Marine Biology Section provides a platform for research investigating the complexity and diversity of marine life, from microscopic plankton to the larg...

The Medical Biology Section of Biology offers a dedicated platform for the publication of high-quality research that advances our understanding of human health and disease through fundamental biological inquiry. We particularly welcome submissions that integrate approaches from bioc...

Microorganisms are the second most abundant and diverse biological resources on Earth, which encompass viruses, prokaryotes, and certain eukaryotic groups such as microalgae, protozoa, and fungi. Undoubtably, microorganisms are crucial components of the Earth's biosphere. They exhibit all types o...

The definition of "Physiology" is not trivial because this field of biology is not restricted to a certain research topic, method, or organ. Instead, it can be best defined by the central question asked in any physiological research, "How does it work?".

Long ago, methods of classical phy...

Plants are primary producers capable of synthesising organic material from inorganic components, releasing oxygen in the process, thus representing the basis of life on this planet. Generally lacking a capacity to move, plants have developed an amazing array of adaptations to various biotic and a...

Scope of this section:

• theoretical biology
• biomathematics (with mathematics intelligible to biologists as a whole)
• bioinformatics (with a specific effort on the modelling side)
• theoretical ecology
• philosophy of sciences (with an accent on history of biological theories)
• theoretical medicine, etc.

Toxicology is the branch of biology that examines how harmful substances (xenobiotics) interact with living organisms (including animals, plants, microorganisms, and humans) and their environments. It seeks to answer fundamental questions about what makes a substance toxic, how much exposure is d...

As a branch of biology, zoology can be viewed as an integrative domain of research encompassing all aspects of animal life, from the level of the gene to the level of the ecosystem. The section Zoology covers a large number of fields of research that emerge from the “natural history” ...