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Zoological Letters is an open access journal that publishes new and important findings in the zoological sciences. As a sister journal to Zoological Science, Zoological Letters covers a wide range of basic fields of zoology, from taxonomy to bioinformatics. We also welcome submissions of paleontology reports as part of our effort to contribute to the development of new perspectives in evolutionary zoology. Our goal is to serve as a global publishing forum for fundamental researchers in all fields of zoology.

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Editor-in-Chief
Shigeru Kuratani, Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan
Associate Editors
Ann Burke, Wesleyan University, USA 
Takema Fukatsu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan 
Masaki Hoso, Kyoto University, Japan 
Susumu Hyodo, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kazuo Inaba, University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Naoki Irie, University of Tokyo, Japan 
Robert Jenkins, Kanazawa University, Japan
Hiroshi Kajihara, Hokkaido University, Japan 
Jun Kitano, National Institute of Genetics, Japan 
Zhu Min, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China
Yasunori Murakami, Ehime University, Japan 
Kiyoshi Naruse, National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan 
Rich Schneider, University of California at San Francisco, USA 
Yi-Hsien Su, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Guojie Zhang, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Editorial Board
Kiyokazu Agata. Kyoto University, Japan 
Hitoshi Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan 
Clare Baker, University of Cambridge, UK 
Cheng Ming, Chuong University of Southern California, USA 
Toshihiko Fujita, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan 
Shoji Fukamachi, Japan Women's University, Japan 
Frietson Galis, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands
Anthony Graham, Kings College London, UK
James Hanken, Harvard University, USA 
Peter WH Holland, University of Oxford, UK 
Pung-Pung Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 
Masato Kinoshita, Kyoto University, Japan 
Takashi Makino, Tohoku University, Japan 
Masafumi Matsui, Kyoto University, Japan 
Kenji Matsuura, Kyoto University, Japan 
Loreta Medina, University of Lleida, Spain 
Takeshi Miura, Ehime University, Japan 
Teruaki Nishikawa, Toho University, Japan 
Tadashi Nomura, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan 
Hideharu Numata, Kyoto University, Japan 
Sonoko Ogawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Clifton Ragsdale, The University of Chicago, USA 
Michael Richardson, Leiden University, Netherlands 
Luigia Santella, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy 
Nori Satoh Okinawa, Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan 
Hitoshi Sawada, Nagoya University, Japan 
Matthias Starck, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany 
Per Sundberg, University of Gothenberg, Sweden 
Yoshio Takei, The University of Tokyo, Japan 
Koji Tamura, Tohoku University, Japan 
Akihisa Terakita, Osaka City University, Japan 
Kenji Tomioka, Okayama University, Japan 
Mathilakath M Vijayan, University of Calgary, Canada 
Gunter Wagner, Yale University, USA 
Christoph Winkler, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Nobuhiko Yamamoto, Osaka University, Japan 
Masakane Yamashita, Hokkaido University, Japan