BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Ernst Haeckel

Five years after plant taxonomists officially agreed to allow publication of new species descriptions in online-only journals, Sandy Knapp and colleagues assess the initial impact of this historic change.

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BMC Evolutionary Biology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of molecular and non-molecular evolution of all organisms, as well as phylogenetics and palaeontology.

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Christopher Foote, BioMed Central

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Maria Anisimova, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Michael Brockhurst, University of Sheffield

David Ferrier, University of St Andrews

Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University

David Liberles, Temple University

Craig Moritz, Australian National University

Herve Philippe, Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling

Arne Traulsen, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

Arndt von Haeseler, Max F Perutz Laboratories

Michael Brockhurst, Section Editor

Prof Michael Brockhurst studies real-time evolutionary dynamics of microbes. He has used experimental evolution with microbes to test evolutionary questions in adaptation, diversification, coevolution, and horizontal gene transfer. He is the Professor of Microbial Evolution at the University of Sheffield and has been a Section Editor since 2013.

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