Frontiers in Zoology

期刊简介：Frontiers in Zoology is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal publishing high quality research articles and reviews on all aspects of animal life.As a biological discipline, zoology has one of the longest histories. Today it occasionally appears as though, due to the rapid expansion of life sciences, zoology has been replaced by more or less independent sub-disciplines amongst which exchange is often sparse. However, the recent advance of molecular methodology into "classical" fields of biology, and the development of theories that can explain phenomena on different levels of organisation, has led to a re-integration of zoological disciplines promoting a broader than usual approach to zoological questions. Zoology has re-emerged as an integrative discipline encompassing the most diverse aspects of animal life, from the level of the gene to the level of the ecosystem.Frontiers in Zoology is the first open access journal focusing on zoology as a whole. It aims to represent and re-unite the various disciplines that look at animal life from different perspectives and at providing the basis for a comprehensive understanding of zoological phenomena on all levels of analysis. Frontiers in Zoology provides a unique opportunity to publish high quality research and reviews on zoological issues that will be internationally accessible to any reader at no cost.The journal was initiated and is supported by the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, one of the largest national zoological societies with more than a century-long tradition in promoting high-level zoological research.

【译文】《动物学前沿》是一本开放获取、同行评审的在线期刊，发表高质量的研究文章和评论，涵盖动物生活的各个方面。作为一门生物学科，动物学拥有悠久的历史。今天，由于生命科学领域的快速扩张，动物学似乎被或多或少独立的子学科所取代，这些子学科之间的交流往往很少。然而，分子方法最近在“经典”生物学领域的进步，以及可以解释不同组织层次现象的理论的发展，导致了动物学科的重整，促进了比以往更广泛的动物学问题研究方法。动物学作为一门综合学科重新出现，涵盖了动物生活的最多样化的方面，从基因水平到生态系统水平。《动物学前沿》是第一本专注于整个动物学的开放获取期刊。它旨在代表和重新联合从不同角度研究动物生活的各个学科，并为全面理解所有分析层次的动物学现象提供基础。动物学前沿为发表高质量的研究和评论提供了独特的机遇，这些研究和评论将无成本地被任何读者在国际上获取。该期刊由德国动物学会发起并支持，这是最大的国家动物学会之一，拥有超过一个世纪的传统，致力于促进高级动物学研究。