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Organisms Diversity & Evolution (published by the Gesellschaft fuer Biologische Systematik, GfBS) is devoted to furthering our understanding of all aspects of organismal diversity and evolution. Papers addressing evolutionary aspects of the systematics, phylogenetics, morphology and development, taxonomy and biogeography of any group of eukaryotes, recent or fossil, are welcome. Priority is given to papers with a strong evolutionary and/or phylogenetic focus. Manuscripts presenting important methods or tools or addressing key theoretical, methodological, and philosophical principles related to the study of organismal diversity are also welcome. Species descriptions are welcome as parts of a manuscript of broader interest that strive to integrate such taxonomic information with the other areas of interest mentioned above.
Published articles are of one of the following four types:
Original article. Papers describing original, high-quality research in any of the areas mentioned above.
Methods papers. Short papers (<5 journal pages) describing new laboratory methods, bioinformatic tools, or databases that will facilitate research into organismal diversity.
Forum paper. Papers discussing issues relevant to the main areas of interest of the journal and their related science politics.
Review. Reviews of topics relevant to the journal. If you plan to submit a review, please contact the Editor-in-Chief by email at andreas.wanninger@univie.ac.at.
Emerging Discussion. If you disagree with certain statements made in a paper published in Organisms Diversity & Evolution, you may want to send an “Emerging Discussion.” Please always contact the Editor-in-Chief before submission by email at andreas.wanninger@univie.ac.at

Editor-in-Chief:
Andreas Wanninger
University of Vienna
Dept. of Integrative Zoology
Althanstr. 14
1090 Vienna
AUSTRIA
Email: andreas.wanninger@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-76300
Fax: +43-1-4277-9763

Associate Editors
Botany
Birgit Gemeinholzer, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Insecta and Nomenclature
Michael Ohl, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany

Lophotrochozoa
Andreas Wanninger, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Mycology
Dominik Begerow, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Non-insect Arthropoda
Christian Wirkner, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Non-vertebrate Deuterostomia 
Andreas Wanninger, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 

Remaining Protostomia
Tim Wollesen, EMBL Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Reviews
Andreas Wanninger, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Vertebrata
Cathrin Pfaff, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Editorial Board
Algae and Protists
Diana Lipscomb, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Gela Preisfeld, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Arthropoda
Gonzalo Giribet, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Alessandro Minelli, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Peter Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Botany
Mihai Costea, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Bostjan Surina, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
David Tank, University of Idaho, ID, USA

Deuterostomia
Maria Byrne, Discipline of Anatomy Histology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Eric J. Hilton, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, USA
Marcelo Sánchez, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Emma Teeling, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Insecta
Monika Eberhard, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
David Grimaldi, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
Nathan Lo, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Jessica Ware, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
Kazunori Yoshizawa, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
David Yeates, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Mycology
Peter Avis, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN, USA
Pradeep K. Divakar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Alfredo Justo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México
Andrew N. Miller, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA
Marco Thines, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany

Remaining Protostomia
Andreas Hejnol, Sars Internation Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
Greg Rouse, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Christiane Todt, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Rick Hochberg, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, USA