期刊名称：OPEN LIFE SCIENCES ISSN： 2391-5412 出版频率： Continuous publication 出版社： DE GRUYTER POLAND SP Z O O, BOGUMILA ZUGA 32A STR, WARSAW, Poland, MAZOVIA, 01-811   出版社网址： http://www.degruyter.com/ 期刊网址： http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/biol 影响因子： 0.938 主题范畴： BIOLOGY 变更情况： 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal Open Life Sciences (previously Central European Journal of Biology) is a fast growing peer-reviewed journal, devoted to scholarly research in all areas of life sciences, such as molecular biology, plant science, biotechnology, cell biology, biochemistry, biophysics, microbiology and virology, ecology, differentiation and development, genetics and many others. The content published includes research articles, communications or rapid communications, reviews or commentaries, letters to the Editor or Errata. Open Life Sciences assures top quality of published data through critical peer review and editorial involvement throughout the whole publication process. Thanks to the Open Access model of publishing, it also offers unrestricted access to published articles for all users. Aims and Scope The journal aims to become the leading and most recognizable journal in the field of life sciences, as well as to facilitate the communication and collaboration of scientists across different countries. Why read  The journal publishes research from all areas of the life sciences, including the most recent and significant findings Researchers use it to reveal data that is likely to advance the direction and the thinking of the field It is an international forum for the dissemination of research data across the entire spectrum of biology The publication is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers from different countries Why submit  The journal is included in the ISI Master Journal List, Science Citation Index Expanded and Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters) Transparent, comprehensive and fast peer review Free language-correction services for authors from non-English speaking regions Worldwide dissemination and unrestricted access to all published articles Promotion of each published article Details   DE GRUYTER OPEN Language: English Type of Publication: Journal Subjects Life Sciences > Molecular Biology Life Sciences > Biochemistry Life Sciences > Plant Science Life Sciences > Life Sciences, othe Abstracting & Indexing Open Life Sciences is covered by the following services: AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library) Baidu Scholar CABI (over 50 subsections) Celdes Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) - SciFinder CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) CNPIEC DOAJ EBSCO Discovery Service Elsevier - BIOBASE/CABS (Current Awareness in Biological Sciences) Elsevier - EMBiology Elsevier - SCOPUS Gale/Cengage Genamics JournalSeek GeoRef Google Scholar Index Copernicus J-Gate JournalTOCs Naviga (Softweco) Polish Medical Bibliography/Polish Medical Library Primo Central (ExLibris) ProQuest (relevant databases) ReadCube ResearchGate SCImago (SJR) Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest) TDOne (TDNet) Thomson Reuters - Biological Abstracts Thomson Reuters - BIOSIS Previews Thomson Reuters - Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences Thomson Reuters - Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition Thomson Reuters - Science Citation Index Expanded Thomson Reuters - Zoological Record Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb WorldCat (OCLC) Instructions to Authors Online Submission of Manuscripts Instructions for Authors Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal via online submission system Editorial Manager available for this journal at http://www.editorialmanager.com/openbiol. In case of problems, please contact the Editorial Office of this journal at Katarzyna.Michalczyk@degruyteropen.com Instructions to Authors s23915412_Instruction_for_Authors.pdf Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Mariusz Z. Ratajczak, University of Louisville, USA Managing Editor Katarzyna Michalczyk, Poland Editors CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES Biochemistry Joanna Bandorowicz-Pikula, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland Krasimir Kolev, Semmelweis University, Hungary Anna Shestakova, University of Utah School of Medicine, USA Stefan Eugen Szedlacsek, Institute of Biochemistry, Romania Biophysics and Bioinformatics Csaba Bagyinka, Biological Research Center, Hungary Jana Kasparkova, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Rituraj Purohit, Vellore Institute of Technology, India Alexandra Zahradnikova, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Biotechnology Kornel L. Kovacs, University of Szeged, Hungary Molecular Biology and Genetics Peter P. Papp, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Hungary Aleksandra Piechota-Polańczyk, Medical University of Lodz, Poland Miroslav Plohl, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia Serhiy Souchelnytskyi, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden Molecular Biology of The Cell Dorin Alexandru, "Nicolae Simionescu" Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology, Romania Jiannan Guo, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania, USA Alexander Serganov, New York University School of Medicine, USA Jernej Ule, Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), UK BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES Gene Therapy Henning Madry, Saarland University, Germany Immunology Chandra S. Bapanpally, SA Scientific Ltd., USA Microbiology Maia Kivisaar, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu University, Estonia Dmitri Mavrodi, Washington State University, USA Jan Nesvera, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Mycology Tetiana V. Andrianova, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Evgenia Bogomolova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Kylie Boyce, The University of Melbourne, Australia Phillip B. Gannibal, All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Russia Derek Peršoh, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, Mycology Dept., Germany Molecular Biology of Disease Zvonimir Koporc, University of Rijeka, Croatia Aija Line, University of Latvia, Latvia Edward A. Ratovitski, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Pavel Vodicka , Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Parasitology Thaddeus Graczyk, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA Protozoology Mark Wiser, Tulane University School of Public Health, USA Stem Cells Dominique Bonnet, London Research Institute, UK Stefan Przyborski, University of Durham, UK Ferenc Uher, National Medical Center, Hungary Thomas P. Zwaka, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Tissue/Organ Regeneration Jan A. Nolta, University of California Davis, USA Transplantation Brian L. Abbott, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA Cesar V. Borlongan, University of South Florida College of Medicine, USA Mahdi Tondar, Georgetown University, USA ANIMAL SCIENCES Invertebrates and Vertebrates Leopold Füreder, University of Innsbruck, Austria Elena Mente, University of Thessaly, Greece Andrea J. Morash, University of Tasmania & Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia Development and Differentiation Zbigniew Polanski, Jagiellonian University, Poland Tomas Slavik, Charles University, Czech Republic Michal Zurovec, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Neuroscience and Behavior Gjumrakch Aliev, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Simon Podnar, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia PLANT SCIENCES Plant Anatomy and Physiology Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Krzysztof Piątek, Poland Plant Genetics and Biotechnology Csaba Hornyik, The James Hutton Institute, Scotland, UK Samo Kreft, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Lóránt Lakatos, University of Szeged, Hungary Maria Oszvald, Eotvos University, Hungary Eva Vranová, ETH Zurich, Switzerland EVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY Ecology and Environment Robert S. Boyd, Auburn University, USA Evolutionary Biology Juozas Lazutka, Vilnius University, Lithuania Editorial Advisory Board Miguel B. Araujo, Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Spain Peter J. Artymiuk, University of Sheffield, UK Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch, University of Innsbruck, Austria Sergey Y. Bershitsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Laszlo Buday, Semmelweis University School of Medicine, Hungary Alexander B. Chetverin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Kuo-Chen Chou, Gordon Life Science Institute, China Keith A. Crandall, George Washington University in Washington, DC Olga Dontsova, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia Petr Draber, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Richard S.J. Frackowiak, University College London, UK Karl Friston, University College London, UK Mikhail S. Gelfand, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Eliane Gluckman, Hopital Saint-Louis, France Everett Peter Greenberg, University of Washington School of Medicine, USA Yi Guan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Tasuku Honjo, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan Tim Hunt, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK Miklos S.Z. Kellermayer , Pecs University Medical School, Hungary Saulius Klimasauskas, Institute of Biotechnology, Lithuania Stanislav S. Kolesnikov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Alexander A. Konstantinov, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia Oleg A. Krishtal, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine Hans Lehrach, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany Marie Lipoldova, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Mark P. Mattson, National Institutes of Health, USA Karen E. Nelson, The J. Craig Venter Institute, USA Marc Van Montagu , Ghent University, Belgium Jozef Nosek, Comenius University, Slovakia Jacek Otlewski , University of Wroclaw, Poland Krzysztof Palczewski, Case Western Reserve University, USA Miklos Palkovits, National Institute of Mental Health, USA Laurent Poirel, Hôpital de Bicetre, le Kremlin–Bicetre, France Jaanus Remme, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu University, Estonia Balazs Sarkadi, National Medical Center, Hungary Joseph Schlessinger, Yale University School of Medicine, USA Vladimir P. Torchilin, Northeastern University, USA Vladimir N. Uversky, University of South Florida College of Medicine, USA Ulrich von Andrian, Harvard Medical School, USA Technical Editor Sabina Binek, Poland Language Editors Cindy Bongard, University of Toronto, Canada Kevin J. Bown, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, UK Amanda Bresnehan, Queen's University, Canada Daniel Burke, University of Toronto, Canada Iain R. Caldwell, University of British Columbia, Canada Natalie Dawson, Center for Biological Diversity, USA Suzie Ferrie, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia Dariush Garber, University of California at Davis Medical Center, USA Caitlin Gillett, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA Perry Hartfield, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Jessica Hawthorn, University of Toronto, Canada Emma Hobbs, University College London, UK Andrea Huston, University of Toronto, Canada Melanie L. Kalischuk, Lethbridge Research Centre, Canada Melissa Lacey, University of Sheffield, UK Cayne Layton, University of Tasmania, Australia Dawn Patient, University of Cambridge, UK David A. Pike, James Cook University, Australia Matthew Price, University of Portsmouth, UK Genevieve Phillips, The University of Queensland, Australia Caitlin Quinn, Columbia University, USA Kuldeepsinh P. Rana, Colorado School of Mines, USA Bradley Rhodes, Bucknell University, USA Brent Roberts, University of British Columbia, Canada Joel Schwartz, The City University of New York, USA Efe Sezgin, National Cancer Institute, USA Katie Slattery, University of Essex, UK Sanjiv Sonkaria, KAIST/SNU, Korea Laura Southcott, University of British Columbia, Canada Hanna Valpuri Sovero, University of Illnois, USA Abigail Spear, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Melissa Ilka Stahle, Sydney University, Australia Blake Turner, University of Toronto, Canada Emma Weeks, University of Florida, USA Peter White, Colby-Sawyer College, USA David Wilson, Australian Antarctic Division, Australia Anne Vardo-Zalik, The Pennsylvania State University-York, USA Publisher DE GRUYTER OPEN Bogumiła Zuga 32A Str. 01-811 Warsaw, Poland T: +48 22 701 50 15 Editorial Contact Dr. Katarzyna Michalczyk Katarzyna.Michalczyk@degruyteropen.com