This 1951 JEB classic paper, written at the dawn of the Golden Age of biology by Viking physiologists August Krogh and Torkel Weis-Fogh, was a collaboration between two men at opposite ends of their careers(Krogh and Weis-Fogh, 1951). August Krogh, the only comparative respiratory physiologist to earn a Nobel Prize, mentored Weis-Fogh during the last years of his life, and died before the publication of this paper. Among biologists, Krogh is most famous for a concept that is widely applied even today (Editorial, Nature Genetics34, 345-346, 2003); that for a large number of problems, nature has provided an animal of choice on which it can be most easily studied. This was only Torkel Weis-Fogh's third paper in a series that have all become classics in the fields of flight physiology and biomechanics. Weis-Fogh (1949) had previously shown that it was possible to induce locusts to fly...
Ecosystem engineers on tropical reefs in transition
Giant barrel sponges (GSBs) remain robust to rising seawater temperatures and have rapidly populated reefs stripped of coral cover by climate change. GBSs may be poised to become the dominant habitat-forming organisms in tropical reef ecosystems of the future. In this Review, Joseph Pawlik provides an integrative and critical assessment of research on giant barrel sponges.
JEB grants to support junior faculty
Learn about the grants that we launched in 2023 to support junior faculty from two of our awardees: Erin Leonard, Early-Career Researcher (ECR) Visiting Fellowship recipient, and Pauline Fleischmann, Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grant recipient. The next deadline to apply is 28 November 2025.
Stressed salmon develop hallmarks of depression
Farmed salmon can experience high levels of CO2 and now Marco Vindas and colleagues report that fish which have experienced this form of stress show signs of fishy depression. They hope that understanding this could help farmers improve the fish's quality of life.
Extraordinary creatures: hummingbirds
Doug Altshuler and Ken Welch tell us about the extraordinary lives of hummingbirds, from their ability to hover during flight to their use of nectar as a primary food source.
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