Acta Zoologica

Published on behalf of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Edited by:
Graham Budd and Lennart Olsson

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 43/125 Zoology
Impact Factor: 1.333

Published regularly since 1920, Acta Zoologica has retained its position as one of the world's leading journals in the field of animal organization, development, structure and function. Each issue publishes original research of interest to zoologists and physiologists worldwide, in the field of animal structure (from the cellular to the organismic level) and development with emphasis on functional, comparative and phylogenetic aspects. Occasional review articles are also published, as well as book reviews.

Published by Blackwell Publishing for The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Acta Zoologica incorporates an extensive International Advisory Council ensuring that only papers of the highest quality are accepted for publication.

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Forty years of early vertebrates: papers from the 11th International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates.
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Top Articles:
Click on the links below to read the most downloaded and most highly cited articles from Acta Zoologica in 2008

Most cited articles published in 2008:
Morphological adaptation of an invasive American mink population in Mediterranean areas of Spain Melero, Palazón, Gosàlbez
Invertebrate and protozoan epibionts on the velvet swimming crab Liocarcinus puber (Linnaeus, 1767) from Scotland Fernandez-Leborans, Gabilondo
The biology and functional morphology of Arca noae (Bivalvia: Arcidae) from the Adriatic Sea, Croatia, with a discussion on the evolution of the bivalve mantle margin Morton, Peharda
Morphology and histology of the male reproductive system of the mangrove land crab Ucides cordatus (L.) (Crustacea, Brachyura, Ocypodidae) Castilho, Ostrensky, Pie, Boeger
Comparative growth in the postnatal skull of the extant North American turtle Pseudemys texana (Testudinoidea: Emydidae) Bever

Most downloaded articles published in 2008:
Gonad morphology and type of sexuality in Parastacus defossus Faxon 1898, a burrowing, intersexed crayfish from southern Brazil (Decapoda: Parastacidae) Noro, López-Greco, Buckup
Chromosomes, RAPDs and evolutionary trends of the Neotropical fish Mimagoniates microlepis (Teleostei: Characidae: Glandulocaudinae) from coastal and continental regions of the Atlantic forest, Southern Brazil Torres, Motta, Nardino, Adam, Ribeiro
Comparative growth in the postnatal skull of the extant North American turtle Pseudemys texana (Testudinoidea: Emydidae) Bever
The biology and functional morphology of Arca noae (Bivalvia: Arcidae) from the Adriatic Sea, Croatia, with a discussion on the evolution of the bivalve mantle margin Morton, Peharda
Heterochronic shifts during early cranial neural crest cell migration in two ranid frogs Mitgutsch, Piekarski, Olsson, Haas

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