NEW YORK, July 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
First published articles now
available for free online on ScienceDirect
How does oxygen control insect body size? What influence does
genetics have on insects' social structure? Articles published in
the first issue of Current Opinion in Insect Science -
launched today - aims to answer these and more questions.
Current Opinion in Insect Science is the latest title in
Elsevier's Current Opinion journal series. It is a review journal
that aims to provide specialists with a unique platform to keep
up-to-date with the expanding volume of information published in
the field of insect science. First articles published are now
available for free on ScienceDirect.
Professor David Denlinger
(Ohio State University, Columbus, OH,
USA) and Dr. Jeff Harvey
(Netherlands Institute of Ecology) lead the editorial board.
"Initially I was reluctant to launch a new journal as there are
so many out there already," said Denlinger. "I soon realized the
unique niche defined by Elsevier's Current Opinion series however.
This addition to the series offers an exciting way to keep the
growing community of insect scientists up to date on diverse hot
topics affecting our field."
"Following the success of the Molecular Insect Science
conference held in Amsterdam in
2011, we started to develop the idea of a new Current Opinion title
that could encompass the expanding amount of research in the insect
science discipline," said Dale
Seaton, Executive Publisher Biological Sciences at Elsevier.
"With David and Jeff's leadership we have assembled a series of
topical reviews from the world's leading scientists that will
provide essential reading updates for the insect research
community."
The first issue of Current Opinion in Insect Science is
available for free on ScienceDirect
For more information about Current Opinion in Insect
Science, or to submit an article, go to:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cois
About the editors
David Denlinger is a
Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio
State University. He has published more than 300
peer-reviewed articles and has co-edited several books. He was the
co-editor of the Journal of Insect Physiology. Denlinger's
recent research has focused on molecular and physiological
mechanisms regulating insect diapause and cold hardiness.
Jeff Harvey is a senior
scientist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and former
Associate Editor of Nature. Harvey's research focuses on life
history strategies in parasitoids and hyperparasitoids,
plantherbivore-parasitoid interactions and community ecology;
science and advocacy.
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