The Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB) is a peer-reviewed, international journal established in 1987 and owned by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. We publish in partnership with Oxford University Press, a not-for-profit organisation. Funds raised by publishing in JEB help to support ESEB initiatives, including conferences, student grants, research networks, travel awards and more.
At JEB, we seek to publish articles that advance our understanding of the evolutionary process and are of interest to a broad evolutionary readership. As such, we will prioritise robust and well-executed studies that ask novel questions and/or provide new insights, generalisable across taxonomic groups. We are happy to publish negative results as long as these provide robust new findings, but will not normally publish studies that replicate previous results in the same or different taxa (unless doing so provides genuinely novel insights). We consider submissions describing research from across the field of evolutionary biology, including evolutionary genetics and genomics, molecular evolution and phylogenetics, life histories, evolutionary ecology, development or morphology. We cover both micro- and macro-evolution, as well as empirical, computational and theoretical work.
The multidisciplinary role of the journal and its international focus is reflected in our Editorial Board. Our Special Issues, guest edited by field experts, bring together contemporary research with the same “bottom-up” approach that characterises ESEB congresses – a defining feature of our society and our journal is that the science should be driven by the evolution community.
We are currently a hybrid journal offering both subscription-based and Open Access publication. ESEB members receive a 30% discount on Open Access publishing. Membership of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology includes on-line subscription to the journal (to become a member visit our membership page).
Manuscripts can be submitted online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jeb. We look forward to receiving your paper!
Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Max Reuter, University College London, UK
Managing Editor
Nicola Cook, University of St Andrews, UK
Email: jeb.office@eseb.org
Commissioning Editor
Luke Holman, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Data Editor
Sebastian Lequime, University of Groningen, NL
Handling Editors
Rebekah Rogers, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US
Xiang-Yi Li Richter, University of Neuchâtel, CH
Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), MX
John Hunt, University of Western Sydney, AU
Associate Editors
Diala Abu Awad, Université Paris-Saclay, FR
Frédéric Austerlitz, Université Paris Cité (CNRS), FR
Neda Barghi, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, AT
Trine Bilde, Aarhus University, DK
Josefa Bleu, University of Strasbourg, FR
Loreta Brandao De Freitas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, BR
Ignacio Bravo, CNRS (Montpellier), FR
Pau Carazo, Universitat de Valencia, ES
Christopher Cooney, University of Sheffield, UK
Salvatore Cozzolino, University of Naples, IT
Mitch Cruzan, Portland State University, US
Carmelo Fruciano, CNR-IRBIM (Messina), IT
Juan Diego Gaitan-Espitia, University of Hong Kong, CN
Jenna Gallie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, DE
Bengt Hansson, Lund University, SE
Kavita Jain, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, IN
Louise Johnson, University of Reading, UK
Imroze Khan, Ashoka University, IN
Jun Kitano, National Insitute of Genetics, JP
Chris Klingenberg, University of Manchester, UK
Carolin Kosiol, University of St Andrews, UK
Krushnamegh Kunte, National Centre for Biological Sciences, IN
Erica Larson, University of Denver, US
Arnaud Le Rouzic, Université Paris-Saclay, FR
Carita Lindstedt-Kareksela, University of Helsinki, FI
Wen-Juan Ma, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE
Stephen Montgomery, University of Bristol, UK
Charles Mullon, University of Lausanne, CH
Nicola Nadeau, University of Sheffield, UK
Clarisse Palma da Silva, State University of Campinas, BR
Alexander Papadopulos, University of Bangor, UK
Darren Parker, University of Bangor, UK
Natalie Pilakouta, University of St Andrews, UK
Mark Ravinet, University of Oslo, NO
Melissah Rowe, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NL
Yuval Sapir, Tel Aviv University, IL
Masahito Tsuboi, Lund University, SE
Craig Walling, University of Edinburgh, UK
Qi Zhou, Zhejiang University, CN