Phycological Research is published by the Japanese Society of Phycology and complements the Japanese Journal of Phycology. The Journal publishes international, basic or applied, peer-reviewed research dealing with all aspects of phycology including ecology, taxonomy and phylogeny, evolution, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, morphology, physiology, new techniques to facilitate the international exchange of results. All articles are peer-reviewed by at least two researchers expert in the filed of the submitted paper. Phycological Research has been credited by the International Association for Plant Taxonomy for the purpose of registration of new non-vascular plant names (including fossils). For further information see http://bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/registration/journals/htm.

Editor-in-Chief
Kazuhiro Kogame, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Associate Editors
Daiske Honda, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University, Japan

Mitsunori Iwataki, Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, University of Tokyo, Japan

Mitsunobu Kamiya, Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan

Ulf Karsten, Institute of Biological Science, University of Rostock, Germany

Jeong Ha Kim, Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Tatyana A. Klochkova, Department of Biology, Kongju National University, Korea

Aleksandra Lewandowska, Tvarminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki, Finland

Showe-Mei Lin, Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan

Ichiro Mine, Graduate School of Kuroshio Science, Kochi University, Japan

Hideaki Miyashita, Department of Technology and Ecology, Hall of Global Environmental Research, Kyoto University, Japan

Navid Moheimani, Algae R&D Centre, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Australia

Chikako Nagasato, Muroran Marine Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Japan

Takashi Nakada, Systems Biology Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan

Kanako Naito, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan

Rei Narikawa, Department of Biological Science, Shizuoka University, Japan

Wendy Nelson, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research & SBS, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Gregory N. Nishihara, Institute of East China Sea Research, Nagasaki University, Japan

Tatsufumi Okino, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Hidekazu Suzuki, Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan

Shinya Uwai, Kobe University Research Center for Inland Seas, Kobe University, Japan

José María Vega Piqueres, Department of Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Seville, Spain

Giuseppe C. Zuccarello, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wellington, New Zealand 

Address for Editorial Correspondence
Dr Kazuhiro Kogame, Editor-in-Chief
Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science
Hokkaido University Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
(email: kogame@sci.hokudai.ac.jp)