Mechanisms of Development is an international journal that communicates current studies in developmental biology in any model system like animals and plants, these may focus on molecular and/or cellular mechanisms. MOD is the official journal of The International Society of Developmental Biologists (ISDB - http://www.developmental-biology.org) which supports the world-wide community of developmental biologists. 

Areas of particular interest include:
Cell and tissue morphogenesis including migration, shape and polarity, and the roles of physical forces in development
Developmental cell biology
Regulation of stem cell and progenitor maintenance and cell differentiation
Evolution of developmental mechanisms
Pre and/or post-embryonic development of tissues and organs


Manuscripts involving in vitro approaches to study mechanisms relevant to developmental biology; e.g., cell culture assays to study stem cell properties or basic cell biological mechanisms are also accepted and we also welcome studies using modelling approaches that are firmly rooted in experimental data. 

Mechanisms of Development does not publish descriptive studies of gene expression patterns and molecular screens; for submission of such studies see Gene Expression Patterns

 full-length articles describing original, high quality research and occasional invited Reviews.

Editor-in-Chief
Roberto Mayor
University College London, London, United Kingdom Email Roberto Mayor
Editors
Christian Klaembt
University of Münster Institute of Neuro- and Behavioural Biology, Münster, GermanyEmail Christian Klaembt
Didier Stainier
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany Email Didier Stainier
Editorial Board
Shinichi Aizawa
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan
Miguel Allende
University of Chile Faculty of Sciences, Santiago, Chile
Paola Bovolenta
Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Marianne Bronner
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States
Miguel Concha
University of Chile Laboratory of Experimental Ontogeny, Santiago, Chile
Sally Dunwoodie
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Australia
Oliver Hobert
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Philip Ingham
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Naihe Jing
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Ryoichiro Kageyama
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Robb Krumlauf
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Kenji Matsuno
Osaka University School of Science Graduate School of Science, Toyonaka, Japan
Fumio Matsuzaki
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
Jocelyn McDonald
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
Anming Meng
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Rakesh Mishra
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology CSIR, Hyderabad, India
Cecilia Moens
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Denise Montell
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States
Xavier Neto
University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Christof Niehrs
Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Angela Nieto
Neurosciences Institute of Alicante, San Juan de Alicante, Spain
Nancy Papalopulu
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Anna Philpott
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Yumiko Saga
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Steffen Scholpp
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dalit Sela-Donenfeld
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment, Rehovot, Israel
Sergei Sokol
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
Claudio Stern
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Andrea Streit
King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Teruko Taketo
McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Naoto Ueno
National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
Stephane Zaffran
Aix-Marseille University Faculty of Medicine, Marseille, France