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Physiological Entomology

from biochemistry to behaviour

Published on behalf of the Royal Entomological Society

Edited by:
Graham J.Goldsworthy, Jim Hardie and Robert Weaver

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 15/72 Entomology
Impact Factor: 1.533

Physiological Entomology is designed primarily to serve the interests of experimentalists who work on the behaviour of insects and other arthropods. It thus has a bias towards physiological and experimental approaches, but retains the Royal Entomological Society's traditional interest in the general physiology of arthropods. The broad subject coverage of the Journal includes:

experimental analysis of behaviour;
behavioural physiology and biochemistry;
neurobiology and sensory physiology;
general physiology;
circadian rhythms and photoperiodism.

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Online content now available back to Volume 1 (1976)
All back issues of this journal are available online. Click here to browse contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access these articles please visit our Librarian Site.

Royal Entomological Society Journal Award Scheme
The 2009 prize for the best paper published in Physiological Entomology in 2008 has been awarded to:
Vibration-mediated territoriality in the warty birch caterpillar Drepana bilineata.
Jaclyn L. Bowen, Shannon J. Mahony, Andrew C. Mason, Jayne E. Yack (2008)
Physiological Entomology (33:3), pp. 238-250

The Society operates a scheme designed to recognise the 'best papers' published over a two year period in each of its 6 journals.
Each year articles from 3 journals will be selected for this award by the Journal Editor(s) and the Journal Editorial board.
The prize consists of:

A cash sum of £300
A certificate signed by the President and Editor(s)
An award ceremony at the Annual General Meeting of the Society and dinner with the President.

The 2007 prize for the best paper published in Physiological Entomology in 2006 was awarded to:
The effect of constant darkness on the content of adipokinetic hormone, adipokinetic response and walking activity in macropterous females of Pyrrhocoris apterus (L.)
Kodrik D, Socha R, Syrova Z and Zemek R (2005)
Physiological Entomology (30:3), pp. 248-255

Special Issue: Insect and Disease - Now Available Free Online
The August 2004 issue (29:3) of Physiological Entomology is a special issue, with papers focused on Insects and Disease based on an international symposium held by the Royal Entomological Society in Aberdeen in September 2001. Many aspects of the subject area are covered from diseases of insects to insects as vectors of diseases of plants and animals, with approaches varying from the physiological and molecular to the entomological and evolutionary. Access this special issue for free online.

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our Early View feature before the print edition of this journal is published.