Frontiers in Zoology

《动物学前沿》是一本开放获取、同行评议的在线期刊，发表高质量的研究论文和对动物生活方方面面的评论。作为一门生物学学科，动物学有着悠久的历史。今天，由于生命科学的迅速发展，动物学有时似乎被或多或少相互独立的子学科所取代，而这些子学科之间的交流往往很少。然而，最近分子方法论进入“经典”生物学领域的进展，以及能够解释不同组织层次现象的理论的发展，已导致动物学学科的重新整合，促进了对动物学问题的更广泛研究。动物学已重新成为一门综合性学科，涵盖了动物生活中最多样化的方面，从基因层面到生态系统层面。《动物学前沿》是第一本关注动物学整体的开放获取期刊。它的目的是代表和重新统一从不同角度观察动物生活的各种学科，并为全面理解各级分析的动物现象提供基础。动物学前沿提供了一个独特的机会，发表高质量的研究和评论的动物学问题，将在国际上的任何读者免费访问。该杂志是由德国最大的国家动物学会之一的德国动物学会发起并支持的，该学会在促进高水平的动物研究方面有着100多年的悠久传统。

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 Today it occasionally appears as though, due to the rapid expansion of life sciences, zoology has been replaced by more or less independent sub-disciplines amongst which exchange is often sparse.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.