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The journal publishes original research papers, reviews and method papers. While reviews should be designed as comparative surveys, summarizing the current knowledge from an evolutionary perspective, method papers should present new approaches or reviews on methods used in animal morphology. The research papers should be based on morphological investigation of invertebrates and vertebrates at the macroscopic, microscopic and ultrastructural level, including embryological studies, with emphasis on:
Comparison: Studies comparing morphological and anatomical structures in an evolutionary context
Function: Studies relating structure and function
Integration: Studies on the relation between structural-functional systems of animals and their general biology
Evolution: Studies on the evolution of morphological and anatomical structures on the basis of sound phylogenies
Development: Studies on the spatiotemporal formation of morphological and anatomical structures

Chief Editor
Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa
Zoological Museum and Biocenter Grindel
University of Hamburg
Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3
20146 Hamburg, Germany
email: andreas.schmidt-rhaesa@uni-hamburg.de

Editors 

Thomas Bartolomaeus, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Ökologie, An der Immenburg 1, 53121 Bonn, Germany
email: tbartolomaeus@evolution.uni-bonn.de
Andrea Cardini, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Via Campi, 103, 41125 Modena, Italy, email: cardini@unimo.it
Romano Dallai, Università degli Studi di Siena, via A. Moro 2, 53100 Siena, Italy, email: dallai@unisi.it
Vincent Debat, UMR7205 OSEB, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45 rue Buffon CP50, 75005 Paris, France, email: debat@mnhn.fr
Greg D. Edgecombe, Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK, email: g.edgecombe@nhm.ac.uk
Douglas J. Eernisse, California State University, Fullerton, Department of Biological Science, PO Box 6850, fullerton, CA 92834-6850, USA, email: deernisse@fullerton.edu
Marco Ferraguti, Laboratorio di Zoologia e Citologia, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy, email: marco.ferraguti@unimi.it
Carmelo Fruciano, School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Queensland University of Technology ,Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia, email: carmelo.fruciano@qut.edu.au
Gonzalo Giribet, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, email: ggiribet@oeb.harvard.edu
Stanislav N. Gorb, Zoological Institute, Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Kiel University, Am Botanischen Garten 9, 24118 Kiel, Germany, email: sgorb@zoologie.uni-kiel.de
Kevin M. Gribbins, Department of Biology, University of Indiana, Indianapolis, 400 East Hanna Avenue, IN 46227, USA, email: kevingribbins@gmail.com
Alexander Haas, University Hamburg, Biozentrum Grindel/Zoological Museum, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany, email: alexander.haas@uni-hamburg.de
Dominique G. Homberger, Department of Zoology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA, email: zodhomb@lsu.edu
Ana Ivanovic, Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, email: ana@bio.bg.ac.rs
Günter Purschke, Universität Osnabrück, Fachbereich Biologie, Barbarastrasse 11, 49034 Osnabrück, Germany, email: purschke@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de
Stefan Richter, University Rostock, General and Special Zoology, Universitätsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock, Germany, email: stefan.richter@uni-rostock.de
Gerhard Scholtz, Vergleichende Zoologie, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Philippstr. 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany, email: gerhard.scholtz@rz.hu-berlin.de
Gerhard Steiner, Zoologisches Institut, Universität Wien, Althanstrasse 10, 1090 Wien, Österreich, email: gerhard.steiner@univie.ac.at
Elena Temereva, Moscow State University, Biological faculty, Invertebrate Zoology, Moscow 119992, Russia, email: temereva@mail.ru
Christiane Todt, University of Bergen, Department of Biology, 5020 Bergen, Norway, email: Christiane.Todt@bm.uib.no
Seth Tyler, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maine, 5751 Murray Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5751, USA, email: styler@maine.edu
Andreas Wanninger, University of Vienna, Department of Integrative Zoology, Althanstraße 14, UZA 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria, email: andreas.wanninger@univie.ac.at
Iain C. Wilkie, Gilmorehill, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, email: iain.wilkie@glasgow.ac.uk
Katrine Worsaae, University Copenhagen, Marine Biological Section, Department of Biology, Strandpromenaden 5, 3000 Helsingør, Denmark, email: kworsaae@bio.ku.dk