Journal of Experimental Biology
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Journal of Experimental Biology is the leading journal in comparative physiology
JEB is proud to sponsor the 2026 International Congress for Neuroethology at the University of Bristish Columbia, Canada icn2026vancouver.com
In her Conversation Nadja Møbjerg discusses how microscopic tardigrades are 8-legged marine creatures that have made their home on land and how they cope with desiccation, freezing in glaciers and have even survived being sent into space doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Most animals don't come to the rescue when their colleagues are in trouble, but some ants will come running when they notice a friend in need. Now, Jaimes-Nino & co show that these aiding individuals express some immune genes differently than other ants doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Cockroaches rely heavily on their sense of smell, making them a great model for studying the neural basis of olfaction. In their Review, Mizunami & co discuss the mechanisms by which cockroaches detect pheromones and compare it to that of other insects doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Issue 13 has closed and issue 14 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The front cover image, by Deborah I. Lutterschimd, edited by by Robin Merlino, shows a red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) eating a worm after emerging from winter dormancy
Read the full research from @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
As feeding fin whales expel water from their mouths, krill could build up clogging the baleen sieves, but if that happened it would take 16mins to empty whale mouths, not 31s. The whales must be doing something to keep the krill afloat to stop clogging journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Pleasing to see Mona Samadi’s recent poster at #SEBConference. Women now represent 55% of JEB’s editors. We review our ed board annually & continue to focus on gender/non-binary representation and geographic diversity journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/ed...
Congratulations to Colin Brauner, of the University of British Columbia, winner of the JEB sponsored Award for Excellence at the 16th International Congress on the Biology of Fish #ICBF2026
Congratulations to Rachel Tran, Alexander Casadei-Ferreira and Morgane Taillades who won first, second & third place in the JEB sponsored R McNeill Alexander Biomechanics Poster Award at the #SEBconference in Florence
JEB is proud to be sponsoring the 16th International Congress on the Biology of Fish 2026 in Vancouver, Canada. Make sure you stop by to meet the Editors during the poster session 14 July icbf2026.com
There are many reasons to publish with JEB and one of them is the integrity at the core of the journal. Our strong ethical approach to publishing and fair and rigorous peer review means that every article meets the high standards expected by our readers tinyurl.com/yc8ah7zh
Read this month's Editor's Choice, Zebra finch parent warning chirrups reprogamme chick brains for heat stroke protection journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
High temperatures are stressful for animals and stress can affect learning and memory, but it turns out that the memories of zebra finches that have been stressed by randomly fluctuating temperatures during their early lives are fine doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
If you're at the @sebiology.bsky.social #SEBConference on Tuesday 7 July make sure you come to the JEB Meet the Editors session with lunch at 13:00 to say hello and pick up JEB goodies, including our 2026 ‘limited edition’ T-shirt
Sunburn is a serious problem for tadpoles in Australia with short intense exposures being 3 times more lethal than weaker doses. Now it turns out that strong sunburn causes 47% more DNA damage, leading to the massive increase in tadpole death toll @craigefranklin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Issue 12 has closed The cover image shows Alan M. Wilson FRS (1964-2026) with his telemetry equipment at the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust research camp. Alan was a passionate advocate for JEB, championing grant schemes supporting the community journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...
JEB is proud to be sponsoring the 9th SPBI Congres de Physiologie at Biologie Integrative in Strasbourg, France societedephysiologie.org/2026/05/27/9...
In her ECR Spotlight, Ishani Mukherjee talks about studying wild zebrafish along the Ganges, India, during her PhD & how a fascination with fish grouping took her to James Liao's lab where she revealed that the energetic cost of escape is not diminished in groups doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Congratulations to Rob Boddington of the University of Bristol & Anuja Joseph of Macquarie University for winning the 2nd and 3rd place prizes for the JEB sponsored Best Student Full Length Talk at #ASSAB2026
Congratulations to Oakleigh Wilson of UniSC for winning first prize in the JEB sponsored Best Student Full Length Talk at #ASSAB2026 for her talk Surely There’s An Easier Way: Reinvestigating Unsupervised Clustering For Behavioural Classification In Animal-Borne Accelerometry
The deadline for submitting articles for the Integrative Biology of Reproduction Special Issue is 30 June Find out about pre-submission enquires, the guest editors, article types and the topics covered at bit.ly/3ZT42hY
It's hard to tell whether fish behave the same in the lab as they do in the real world & now in an impressive study James Liao & co reveal that red drum don't just take advantage of free rides from the water, their biological needs take priority doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
In their affectionate Obituary for Alan Wilson FRS bsky.app/profile/roya..., Andrew Biewener, Glen Lichtwark and Craig Franklin reflect on his extraordinary abilities as an intrepid biologist, engineer, community builder and fierce champion of JEB journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
JEB is proud to be sponsoring the annual @animbehav.bsky.social Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference at Flinders University, Australia www.assab.org/assab-2026
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As the planet warms, yellow fever mosquitos are venturing northward, but their ability to stay there depends on how well they handle the cold. In their recent article, De Nicola & co show that growing up in shorter autumnal days makes mosquitos better at coping with the cold doi.org/10.1242/jeb....