Changes to Physiological Entomology: New Co‐Editor and members of the Editorial Board

Abstract

With the first issue of 2015 (vol. 40:1) we celebrate the 40th consecutive year of publication of Physiological Entomology, from its inauguration by the first editor, John Brady as one of the Royal Entomological Society's new triad of journals that evolved after 50 years of prior publication of the antecedent journals Journal of Entomology (A) and earlier Proceedings of the (Royal) Entomological Society of London (1926–1976). As one of several current editorial changes, we welcome a new co-editor, Shin Goto from Osaka City University, Japan, who has recently agreed to be our first editor representing the wider interests of the journal in east and south-east Asia, as well as his own research interests into the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying environmental adaptation in insects related to diapause, circadian clock, circatidal clock, photoperiodism, and stress tolerance. Readers will recall that Shin served previously as guest editor for a dedicated issue entitled ‘Adaptations to Changing Environments’ (vol. 38:2), along with former editor Jim Hardie (now a member of the editorial board ) and Kyeong-Yeoll Lee of Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. As a major international journal, Physiological Entomology receives submissions from more than 30 different countries each year, and it is our aim that this broader editorial team (representing U.K., U.S.A. & Japan) should reflect those interests more fittingly. With the appointment of a new co-editor, it is timely also to review the composition of the editorial board. After deliberation by the editors, and consultation with the Society's Honorary Editorial Officer, Professor Lin Field, we are pleased to announce that Maya Evenden, University of Alberta, Canada; Vladimír Košt'ál, Institute of Entomology, Czech Republic; and Kenji Tomioka, Okayama University, Japan, have all agreed to add their expertise by joining us as members of the editorial board. To both the long-standing and newest members of the board, we look forward to your continuing judgement and opinions, and to the encouragement of relevant submissions from your laboratories, students, co-workers and associates. It is also a useful time to re-state the aims and broad interests of Physiological Entomology, which are reflected in the strapline ‘: from biochemistry to behaviour’, which was added in 2003. Physiological Entomology is designed primarily to serve the interests of experimentalists who work on the physiology and behaviour of insects and other arthropods, but also to retain the Royal Entomological Society's interests in the general physiology of arthropods. The subjects that it covers include, but are not limited to: chemical ecology; behavioural physiology and biochemistry, experimental analysis of behaviour; neurobiology and sensory physiology, general physiology; endocrinology, photoperiodism and circadian rhythms, and these days, of course, elements of molecular biology. We welcome both original manuscripts within the journal's remit, as well as relevant review papers. All submissions to the journal should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/phen.