Aims & Scope
Aims
Biology (ISSN 2079-7737) is an international, peer-reviewed, quick-refereeing open access journal of Biological Science published semimonthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, research papers and communications in all areas of biology and at the interface of related disciplines. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Electronic files regarding the full details of the experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material.
Subject Areas
This journal covers all topics related to Biology. More detail about the journal and its scope is available in the first editorial (https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/1/1/1/). Research fields of interest include but are not limited to:
| • biochemistry • biodiversity • bioinformatics • biophysics • biostatistics • cell biology • conservation biology • developmental biology • ecology • education in biology • evolutionary biology • genetics and genomics • immunology • marine biology |
• medical biology • microbiology • molecular biology • neurobiology • paleontology • parasitology • physiology • plant biology • radiation biology • reproductive biology • structural biology • theoretical biology and biomathematics • zoology |
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Copyright / Open Access
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© 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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