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EvoDevo becomes Developmental Biology Advances in 2026

We are pleased to announce that, starting 1 January 2026, EvoDevo will be relaunched under a new title: Developmental Biology Advances. 

This change marks an exciting new chapter, expanding the journal’s scope to encompass more aspects of developmental biology while continuing to highlight the integrative research that has defined EvoDevo. EvoDevo will continue as a dedicated section within the new title, under the name “Ecology, Evolution, and Development.” Stay tuned for more updates as we approach the relaunch. 

Paleo-Evo-Devo: A Dialogue Between the Past and Present

Guest Editors:
Shuo Wang, PhD, College of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, China
Tatsuya Hirasawa, PhD, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan

Submission Status: Open until 19 March 2026

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Deconstructing Ernst Haeckel's Biogenetic Law: Aspects of recapitulation on biological levels

Guest Editor:
Professor Andreas Hejnol, PhD, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Submission Status: Open until 07 October 2025

EvoDevo is sponsoring the Euro Evo Devo 2024 Meeting in Helsinki

Neuer Inhalt (1)EvoDevo is happy to announce its support of the Euro Evo Devo 2024 Meeting in Helsinki. Euro Evo Devo Meetings are biennial meetings of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) and a major place for researchers to present and discuss their latest findings in evolutionary developmental biology. EvoDevo’s scope is strongly aligning with the meeting and has published many seminal papers in the field. This year the journal has decided to sponsor the Symposium “Neuro-evo-devo I: Emergence of neural structures.”.

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  2. Authors: Dana J Rashid, Susan C Chapman, Hans CE Larsson, Chris L Organ, Anne-Gaelle Bebin, Christa S Merzdorf, Roger Bradley and John R Horner

    Content type: Review

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In Review: Preprint platform and more

EvoDevo has launched In Review, a new option that provides authors with on-demand information on the status of their manuscript, enables them to share their work with funders and their research community, and allows their colleagues to comment and collaborate - all whilst their manuscript is under review. Full details here.

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Featured Article: New patterns of Hox gene expression in Phoronopsis harmeri

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The authors of this research discuss the phenomenon of lack of expression of Hox gene during the early development of the phoronid Phoronopsis harmeri which indicates that the larval body develops without positional information from the Hox patterning system. They propose that a new body form was intercalated to the phoronid life cycle by precocious development of the anterior structures or by delayed development of the trunk rudiment in the ancestral phoronid larva. Read the full article

Aims and scope

EvoDevo publishes high quality articles on a broad range of topics associated with the translation of genotype to phenotype in a phylogenetic context. Understanding the history of life, the evolution of novelty and the generation of form, whether through embryogenesis, budding, or regeneration are amongst the greatest challenges in biology. We support the understanding of these processes through the many complementary approaches that characterize the field of evo-devo.

The focus of the journal is on research that promotes understanding of the pattern and process of morphological evolution.

All articles that fulfill this aim will be welcome, in particular:

  • evolution of pattern
  • formation comparative gene function/expression
  • life history evolution
  • homology and character evolution
  • comparative genomics
  • phylogenetics and palaeontology

Do you have an idea for a thematic series? Let us know!

About the Editors

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Mansi Srivastava, Harvard University, United States of America - Editor-in-Chief
Mansi is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and the Curator of Invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

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Andreas Hejnol, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany - Editor-in-Chief
Andi is Professor and Director of the Phyletic Museum and the Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary Research of the University of Jena, Germany.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Annual Journal Metrics

    Citation Impact 
    Journal Impact Factor: 3.6 (2024)    
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 3.4 (2024)   
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.323 (2024)    
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.351 (2024)

    Speed 
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 2
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 84

    Usage 2024
    Downloads: 285,496
    Altmetric mentions: 279

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ISSN: 2041-9139