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
Richard Meisel, University of Houston, US
Data Editor
Sebastian Lequime, University of Groningen, NL
Handling Editors
Trine Bilde, Aarhus University, DK
Andy Gardner, University of St Andrews, UK
Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer, Doñana Biological Station, Seville, ES
Rebekah Rogers, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US
Associate Editors
Diala Abu Awad, Université Paris-Saclay, FR
Joris Bertrand, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, FR
Josefa Bleu, University of Strasbourg, FR
Mozes Blom, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, DE
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
Josselin Clo, CNRS-University of Lille, FR
Tatiana Dimitriu, University of St Andrews, UK
Hilje Doekes (Junior AE), Wageningen University and Research, NL
Luke Dunning, University of Sheffield, UK
Scott Egan, Rice University, US
Carmelo Fruciano, University of Catania, IT
Tim Janicke, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle & Evolutive (CEFE), FR
Daohan “Rex” Jiang (Junior AE), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, JP
Rob Knell, University of Hull, UK
Carolin Kosiol, University of St Andrews, UK
Matthew Koski, Clemson University, SC, US
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
Lucas Marie-Orleach, Université de Tours, FR
Lizy Mittel (Junior AE), University of Edinburgh, UK
Stephen Montgomery, University of Bristol, UK
Michael Moore, University of Colorado Denver, US
Charles Mullon, University of Lausanne, CH
Rob Noble, City St Georges, University of London, UK
Benjamin Parker, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, US
Bahar Patlar, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, DE
Jitka Polechova, University of Vienna, AT
Francesca Raffini, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, IT
Patrick Rohner, University of California San Diego, US
Melissah Rowe, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NL
Supreet Saini, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IN
Sarah Schmid (Junior AE), University of Lausanne, CH
Nathaniel Sharp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, US
Melissa Toups, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA, US
Ken Toyama (Junior AE), Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, PE
Masahito Tsuboi, Lund University, SE
Nikolaos Vakirlis, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, GR
Lennart Winkler (Junior AE), Stockholm University, SE
Xiao Zhang, Tianjin Normal University, CN