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It is the aim of Chemoecology to promote and stimulate basic science in the field of chemical ecology by publishing research papers that integrate evolution and/or ecology and chemistry in an attempt to increase our understanding of the biological significance of natural products. Its scopes cover the evolutionary biology, mechanisms and chemistry of biotic interactions and the evolution and synthesis of the underlying natural products. Manuscripts on the evolution and ecology of trophic relationships, intra- and interspecific communication, competition, and other kinds of chemical communication in all types of organismic interactions will be considered suitable for publication. Ecological studies of trophic interactions will be considered also if they are based on the information of the transmission of natural products (e.g. fatty acids) through the food-chain. Chemoecology further publishes papers that relate to the evolution and ecology of interactions mediated by non-volatile compounds (e.g. adhesive secretions). Mechanistic approaches may include the identification, biosynthesis and metabolism of substances that carry information and the elucidation of receptor- and transduction systems using physiological, biochemical and molecular techniques. Papers describing the structure and functional morphology of organs involved in chemical communication will also be considered.

Editors-in-Chief
Günther Raspotnig
Institute of Biology
Karl-Franzens-Universität
Universitätsplatz 2
8010 Graz, Austria
Marko Rohlfs
Institute of Ecology, Population and Evolutionary Ecology Group
University of Bremen 
FB2 Biology/Chemistry 
Leobener Str. NW2
D-28359 Bremen, Germany
Associate Editors
Stefan Dötterl (Salzburg, Austria)
Patrick Fink (Magdeburg, Germany)
Catrin Günther (Auckland, New Zealand)
Almuth Hammerbacher (Pretoria, South Africa)
Stephen J. Martin (Salford, UK)
Jeremy McNeil (London, Canada)
Kerstin Reifenrath (Darmstadt, Germany)
Liliane Ruess (Berlin, Germany)
Thomas Schmitt (Würzburg, Germany)
Zain Seyd (Lexington, KY, USA)
Paulo Zarbin (Curitiba, Brazil)
Advisory Board
Manfred Ayasse (Ulm, Germany)
Oliver Betz (Tübingen, Germany)
M. Deane Bowers (Boulder, CO, USA)
Konrad Dettner (Bayreuth, Germany)
William J. Foley (Canberra, Australia)
Jonathan Gershenzon (Jena, Germany)
Astrid T. Groot (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Bill S. Hansson (Jena, Germany)
Monika Hilker (Berlin, Germany)
Andreas Jürgens (Durban, South Africa)
Thomas O. Larsen (Lyngby, Denmark)
Caroline Müller (Bielefeld, Germany)
James L. Nation (Gainsville, FL, USA)
John Romeo (Tampa, FL, USA)
Joachim Ruther (Regensburg, Germany)
Ralph Saporito (Ohio, USA)
Benoist Schaal (Dijon, France)
Stefan Scheu (Göttingen, Germany)
Stefan Schulz (Braunschweig, Germany)
Dieter Spiteller (Konstanz, Germany)
Johannes Steidle (Hohenheim, Germany)
Louise E. M. Vet (Maarssen, the Netherlands)