Development Genes and Evolution publishes high-quality reports on all aspects of development biology and evolutionary biology. The journal reports on experimental and bioinformatics work at the systemic, cellular and molecular levels in the field of animal and plant systems, covering key aspects of the following topics:
Embryological and genetic analysis of model and non-model organisms
Genes and pattern formation in invertebrates, vertebrates and plants
Axial patterning, embryonic induction and fate maps
Cellular mechanisms of morphogenesis and organogenesis
Stem cells and regeneration
Functional genomics of developmental processes
Developmental diversity and evolution
Evolution of developmentally relevant genes
Phylogeny of animals and plants
Microevolution
Paleontology
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Editor-in-Chief

Angelika Stollewerk
Reader (Associate Professor) in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Queen Mary, University of London
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
UK
Email: a.stollewerk@qmul.ac.uk

Communicating Editors 

Caroline Brennan
Queen Mary University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
Dahua Chen
State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chao Yang District, Beijing 100101, China

Claude Desplan
Department of Biology, NYU, 1009 Main Building, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003-6688, USA

Matthias Hammerschmidt
Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Universität zu Köln, Biowissenschaftliches Zentrum, Zülpicher Straße 47b, 50674 Köln, Germany
Volker Hartenstein
Dept. of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, 621 Charles E. Young Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA

Thomas Hollemann
Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06114 Halle, Germany
Andreas Kispert
Institut für Molekularbiologie, OE5250, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
Mark Q. Martindale
Kewalo Marine Laboratoy (PBRC), University of Hawaii, 41 Ahui Street, Honolulu HI 96813, USA
Sophie Nadot
Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution (ESE), Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 360, 91405 ORSAY Cedex, France

Hiroki Nishida
Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 Japan
Siegfried Roth
Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Universität zu Köln, Biowissenschaftliches Zentrum, Zülpicher Straße 47b, 50674 Köln, Germany

Communicating Editor Topical Collection "Size & Shape"

Nico Posnien
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, Department of Developmental Biology, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany



Editorial Board

Detlev Arendt, Heidelberg, Germany
Peer Bork, Heidelberg, Germany
Thomas R. Bürglin, Huddinge, Sweden 
Vernon French, Edinburgh, UK
Gregory Gibson, Atlanta, USA
Vincent Giguere, Montreal, Canada 
Peter W.H. Holland, Oxford, UK
Vivian Irish, New Haven, USA 
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, San Diego, USA 
Herbert Jäckle, Göttingen, Germany
Patrick Lemaire, Marseille, France 
David Miller, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Rakesh K Mishra, Hyderabad, India
Lee Niswander, Aurora, USA
Nipam Patel, Berkeley, USA 
Rudolf A. Raff, Bloomington, USA 
Heinrich Reichert, Basel, Switzerland
Gerhard Scholtz, Berlin, Germany
Diethard Tautz, Plön, Germany
Greg Wray, Stony Brook, USA
Jr-Kai Yu, Taipei, Taiwan