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Cover: Photo from a dissecting microscope showing part of a Bugula neritina (Bryozoa) colony. Each zooid produces a single embryo at a time, which is brooded inside an ovicell (white spherical structure on each zooid). Burgess and Marshall (pp. 2329−2336) show that colonies can adjust the phenotypes of their offspring in response to the water temperature that colonies experience while brooding larvae. Importantly, whether such maternal effects (or phenotypic plasticity more generally) are adaptive is not straightforward − it depends on the relative importance of hard vs soft selection and the predictability of environmental variation. Photo credit: S. C. Burgess. - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
Announcing the 2024 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize shortlist and winner
Every year JEB celebrates early-career researchers through the Outstanding Paper Prize. We recognise the shortlisted ECRS that contributed to 11 remarkable studies published in 2024 and congratulate the winner, Elise Laetz, from University of Groningen. See how else JEB supports and promotes ECRs.
Inside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with Hans-Otto Pörtner
During the past two decades, Hans-Otto Pörtner has steered climate change policy as a co-Chair of IPCC Working Group II. He tells us about the experience in this Perspective.
Photosynthesis turns symbiotic sea anemone's tentacles toward sun
Snakelocks sea anemones point their tentacles, packed with symbiotic algae, toward the sun so their lodgers can photosynthesize, and now Vengamanaidu Modepalli & colleagues have discovered that photosynthesis by the algae guides their host's tentacles towards the sun.
History of our journals
As our publisher, The Company of Biologists, turns 100 years old, read about JEB’s history and explore the journey of each of our sister journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.
