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Myrmecological News is an independent, international non-profit journal devoted to ant research. In a lively mix of research and review articles, all fields of myrmecology are covered. Manuscripts are reviewed by at least two independent expert referees prior to acceptance. Turn-around times are brief (for volume 12, primary editorial decisions based on peer reviews were made after 29 days on average). Myrmecological News is printed at least once a year. In the online version articles are published online as soon as they are ready. Articles hat ensue changes of zoological nomenclature are published online only after publication of the print version because under the current version of the ICZN online publications are not taxonomically significant.
In detail, research areas covered by Myrmecological News (published and commissioned contributions) include:
• behaviour
• biogeography and faunistics
• checklists
• cognition and learning
• comparative morphology
• community ecology
• conservation biology and bioindication
• cytogenetics
• ecology and evolution of symbioses
• fragmentation ecology
• immune research
• interspecific hybridisation
• invasion biology
• methodology in community quantification
• neurobiology
• niche ecology
• orientation and navigation
• phenology
• phylogeny and phylogeography
• population genetics
• sensory physiology
• signal chemistry
• social evolution
• social parasitism
• sociogenomics
• stable isotopes
• taxonomy
• tools for routine identification
Page charges are 10 € per black/white and the first colour page, and 25 € for each additional colour page. ÖGEF is happy to 100 % cover costs for articles which deal with the Palaearctic Region or with general myrmecological aspects (but due to their statutes cannot extend sponsoring to other faunal regions); additionally, undergraduate students as well as any authors from developing countries are invited to apply for exemptions.
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Aims and scope