For authors considering submitting research involving phylogenetic analysis, please consult our editorial for guidance on the methodologies we consider to be of a suitable standard for consideration in BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Call for Papers
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Call for Papers: Applications of Environmental DNA and RNA in Ecology
BMC Ecology and Evolution has launched a new collection to bring together research that uses environmental DNA and RNA approaches to:
● Analyse past and present biodiversity
● Monitor ecosystem health and dynamics
● Analyse diet and trophic interactions
● Detect endangered, rare or cryptic species
● Support SDG6, SDG14 or SDG15.
Please click the above link for further information and to submit to the collection.
New in BMC Ecology and Evolution
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Extensive loss of Wnt genes in Tardigrada
Chavarria and colleagues investigate the body plan evolution of tardigrades and find that loss of Wnt genes may be related to their simplified development, anatomy and miniaturization.
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Airborne environmental DNA metabarcoding detects more diversity, with less sampling effort, than a traditional plant community survey
In the face of global change, monitoring changes in biodiversity is essential. Johnson and colleagues explore the use of airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) as a method of whole plant community monitoring.
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Exceptionally simple, rapidly replaced teeth in sauropod dinosaurs demonstrate a novel evolutionary strategy for herbivory in Late Jurassic ecosystems
Melstrom et al. uncover a novel approach to a plant-based diet, unique to sauropods, a genus of long-necked dinosaurs thought to be the largest animals to have ever lived on land.
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Toward an understanding of the chemical ecology of alternative reproductive tactics in the bulb mite (Rhizoglyphus robini)
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Relationships between male secondary sexual traits, physiological state and offspring viability in the three-spined stickleback
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Cardiac physiology and metabolic gene expression during late organogenesis among F. heteroclitus embryo families from crosses between pollution-sensitive and -resistant parents
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The evolution of insect visual opsin genes with specific consideration of the influence of ocelli and life history traits
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A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes
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BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees
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In search of the genetic footprints of Sumerians: a survey of Y-chromosome and mtDNA variation in the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
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A worldwide correlation of lactase persistence phenotype and genotypes
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Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes
Aims and scope
BMC Ecology and Evolution, formerly known as BMC Evolutionary Biology, is an open access, peer-reviewed journal interested in all aspects of ecological and evolutionary biology. The journal considers articles on a broad range of topics, including population genetics, conservation genetics, phylogenetics, behavioural ecology, population ecology, macroecology, palaeontology, biodiversity (e.g. environmental DNA approaches), theoretical research (e.g. terraforming) and ecological and evolutionary developmental biology.
Editor
- Jennifer Harman, BioMed Central
Assistant Editor
- Alexandria Latto, BioMed Central
Senior Editorial Board Members
- David Liberles, Temple University, USA
- Arndt von Haeseler, Max F Perutz Laboratories, Austria
- Carmel McDougall, Griffith University, Australia
- Christy Anna Hipsley, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Arne Traulsen, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
- Luke Jacobus, Indiana University, USA
- Josef Settele, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany
- David Ferrier, University of St Andrews, UK
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Authors submitting to this journal can opt to use a new service that will make it easier to share research data.
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Valuable data often go unpublished when they could be helping to progress science. Hence, the BMC Series introduced Data notes, a short article type allowing you to describe your data and publish them to make your data easier to find, cite and share.
You can publish your data in BMC Genomic Data (genomic, transcriptomic and high-throughput genotype data) or in BMC Research Notes (data from across all natural and clinical sciences).
More information about our unique article type can be found on the BMC Genomic Data and BMC Research Notes journal websites.
BMC Series Focus Issues
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Microbial resistance has become a major threat to human health in the 21st century. In order to provide the public with a general understanding of the situation of drug-resistant pathogens, and to alert and prevent this threat, the BMC Series Journals dedicate their first focus issue in 2022 to research on antimicrobial resistance.
December: HIV
For World AIDS day, the BMC Series Journals dedicate this month's focus issue to research on HIV and AIDS highlighting recent advancements in understanding the biology of the disease, the continued breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment and also shed some light on what life with HIV is like.
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For BMC Evolutionary Biology (former title)
Speed
99 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
85 days to first decision for all manuscripts
214 days from submission to acceptance
22 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
3.260 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.732 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.198 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.531 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)Usage
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1,846 Altmetric MentionsTransparency and Openness
TOP Factor score - 9