Due to COVID-19, Biology Open staff are working remotely, but our editorial operations continue to run as usual. Please contact us by email at bio@biologists.com if you have any queries. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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Biology Open (BiO) is an online Open Access journal that supports the community of biologists through the publication of peer-reviewed original research across all aspects of the biological sciences. We aim to provide rapid peer review and publication of scientifically sound results and conclusions, without a requirement for perceived impact. BiO also aspires to promote a peer-review system that is timely, thorough, constructive and fair.
Authors are encouraged to submit work of appropriate scope directly to BiO. Editorial decisions are made by an international board of research-active academic Editors, led by Editor-in-Chief Steven Kelly and supported by Deputy Editors Cathy Jackson and Yishi Jin.
Recent articles
Microtubule assembly and pole coalescence: early steps in Caenorhabditis elegans oocyte meiosis I spindle assembly
Chien-Hui Chuang, Aleesa J. Schlientz, Jie Yang, Bruce Bowerman
Bowerman and colleagues document the requirements for several regulators of microtubule assembly and stability during the early steps of acentrosomal meiotic spindle assembly in C. elegans oocytes.
Bumblebees land remarkably well in red–blue greenhouse LED light conditions
Lana J. de Vries, Frank van Langevelde, Coby van Dooremalen, Ilse G. Kornegoor, Martin J. Lankheet, Johan L. van Leeuwen, Marc Naguib, Florian T. Muijres
Red–blue LED lights are being used in greenhouses to improve plant growth; the changed light spectrum may affect pollinators. The authors studied how these lights affect the landing performance of foraging bumblebees.
BiO will waive the Article Publication Charge for Research and Methods & Techniques papers that present data relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. Further information about how BiO is supporting our community through the COVID-19 pandemic can be found here.
First Person interviews
As a community journal, BiO is keen to support the next generation of biological scientists. BiO publishes 'First Person' interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in BiO, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. The authors talk about their work in and out of the lab, the journeys that led them to where they are now and the issues they feel are priorities for early-career researchers.
Would you like to be featured? Details will be sent to the first author upon acceptance of your paper in BiO. Submit your paper here.
In our latest interviews with BiO first authors, Stéphanie Cottier, Jessica Sam and Lana de Vries each tell us about the implications of their findings, project surprises and life as an early-career researcher.
Read all our First Person interviews from our archive.
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Ting Xiao, Chuihua Sun, Ying Xiao, Yunbao Li
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Qiying Liang, Peng Ma, Qi Zhang, Youjie Yin, Ping Wang, Saifei Wang, Yao Zhang, Ruolei Han, Hansong Deng
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Sarah H. Carl, Lea Duempelmann, Yukiko Shimada, Marc Bühler
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Lukas Landler, Graeme D. Ruxton, E. Pascal Malkemper
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Bjarne Kvæstad, Trond Nordtug, Andreas Hagemann
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Daniele Pellitteri-Rosa, Andrea Gazzola, Simone Todisco, Fabio Mastropasqua, Cristiano Liuzzi
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Shan Liu, Antje K. Biesemeier, Alexander V. Tschulakow, Harsh V. Thakkar, Sylvie Julien-Schraermeyer, Ulrich Schraermeyer
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Lana J. de Vries, Frank van Langevelde, Coby van Dooremalen, Ilse G. Kornegoor, Martin J. Lankheet, Johan L. van Leeuwen, Marc Naguib, Florian T. Muijres
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Debabrata Patra, Joongho Kim, Qiang Zhang, Eric Tycksen, Linda J. Sandell
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Jessica Sam, Emily J. Mercer, Ingrid Torregroza, Kelly M. Banks, Todd Evans
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Chien-Hui Chuang, Aleesa J. Schlientz, Jie Yang, Bruce Bowerman
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Pingping Ai, Xianhua Xu, Shijie Xu, Zhixia Wei, Shun Tan, Junzhe Li
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Jaroslav Fabik, Katarina Kovacova, Zbynek Kozmik, Ondrej Machon
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Stéphanie Cottier, Rabih Darwiche, Felix Meyenhofer, Mykhaylo O. Debelyy, Roger Schneiter