General and Comparative Endocrinology publishes articles
concerned with the many complexities of vertebrate and invertebrate endocrine systems at the sub-molecular, molecular, cellular and organismal
levels of analysis. Although by no means comprehensive, submission of manuscripts in the following areas of endocrine science are encouraged:
• endocrine regulation and interactions in physiological processes ("systems" biology - reproduction, body fluid homeostasis, skeletal
and calcium homeostasis; gastrointestinal function; integumentary function; neurophysiology; cardiovascular function etc); •
endocrine pharmacology; • the role of gene expression in endocrine systems; • behavioral endocrinology; •
developmental endocrinology; • growth factors; • endocrine- environmental interactions; • immuno-endocrine
interactions; • neuroendocrinology, neuropeptides, neurotransmitters; • hormonal receptors; • endocrine genomics
(endocrinomics - proteomics, glyconomics, lipidomics); • molecular evolution of hormones and gene families.
Manuscripts
that advance understanding within and between these broad disciplines are especially encouraged.
The European Society for Comparative
Endocrinology, The Division of Comparative Endocrinology of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, the Asia and Oceania
Society for Comparative Endocrinology and the Japan Society for Comparative Endocrinology are affiliated to General and Comparative Endocrinology.
General and Comparative Endocrinology will consider for publication of research articles that address endocrinology in its widest
sense, i.e. both among, and within, living organisms - vertebrate, invertebrate and plant - including their evolutionary antecedents.
Original and novel information in acute, and in the longer term, evolutionary adaptive homeostasis are of especial interest to the journal.
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General and Comparative Endocrinology will consider for peer review the following general categories of manuscript:
Research Reports;
Communications in Endocrinomics;
Endocrine techniques;
Review and Mini-Review articles;
The journal
will also consider manuscripts for publication that take a more classical approach to the study of endocrinology. Historical reviews
may also be considered for publication. Finally the journal is interested in publishing special issues on a range of topics that are
not restricted to proceedings of meetings, selected topics and trends in comparative endocrinology. Please contact the Editors-in-Chief
about any of these types of publication.
Research Reports describing hypothesis-driven projects in comparative endocrinology
constitute the majority of the articles published in the journal. Research Reports should have the following sections: a brief Abstract
that contains a concise statement of the results obtained; Keywords listed immediately after the Abstract; Introduction; Methods; Results;
Discussion; Acknowledgments; and References.
Communications in Genomics, in Proteomics, or on Techniques provide the author
with a venue for presenting new data on gene sequences, hormone/neuropeptide structures, or technical innovations relevant to comparative
endocrinologists. Short Communications in Genomics, in Proteomics, or on Techniques are limited to 10 double-spaced typed pages and three
illustrations. These manuscripts should include the following sections: Abstract, Introduction, Results/Discussion, Methods, and References.
Review and Mini-Review Articles are intended to provide a detailed state-of-the-art view of subject areas in comparative
endocrinology. The Editor for Reviews will provide authors with guidelines for the format and length of these research report-sized manuscripts.
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Chang, C.-Y.,
Liu, Y.X., Zhu, Y.T., Zhu, H.H., 1985. The reproductive endocrinology of Amphioxus. In: Carlick, D.G., Korner, P.I. (Eds.), Frontiers
in Physiological Research. Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, pp. 79-86.
Ganesh, C.B., Yajurvedi, H.N., 2002. Corticotropin-releasing
factor antagonist attenuates stress-induced inhibition of seasonal ovarian recrudescence in the lizard Mabuya carinata. Gen.
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