BioMed Central launches a new open access journal today –EvoDevo. The journal will publish articles providing novel insights into the translation of genotype to phenotype in a phylogenetic context, and promote understanding of the pattern and process of morphological evolution.EvoDevoboasts an impressive internationalEditorial Boardcomposed of experts in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo).

In their inauguraleditorial, Editors-in-ChiefMark MartindaleandMax Telforddiscuss the importance of the publishing niche that the journal will fill.

“It is an exciting time to be an evolutionary developmental biologist and I am thrilled to be involved in promoting a transdisciplinary approach to understanding the two greatest mysteries of life: how functional organisms arise through their own developmental process, and how this process changes over evolutionary time to give rise to novel forms,” says Mark Martindale. Max Telford adds, “Exciting new opportunities for understanding the patterns and processes of organismal evolution are coming thick and fast from the diverse fields that characterise evo-devo”.

Also published today, Michael Boyle and Elaine Seaver demonstrate howFoxA and GATA456 transcription factorsare part of an ancient patterning mechanism that was deployed during early evolution of the metazoan through-gut. In addition, John Finnerty and colleagues report the first evidence for aPRD-class homeobox clusterthat appears to have been conserved since the time of the cnidarian-bilaterian ancestor, and Ralf Janssen and Graham Budd present findings suggestingconserved mechanisms of Hox gene regulationacross arthropods.

If you are attending theEuropean Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biologymeeting in Paris starting tomorrow, please look out for our postcards and copies of the inaugural editorial on the BioMed Central stand.

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