Acta Zoologica: Morphology and Evolution is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 published since 1920 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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 and Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is a Danish non-governmental science Academy, founded 13 November 1742 by permission of the King Christian VI, as a historical Collegium Antiquitatum...

. Originally it was entitled just Acta Zoologica and only changed its name in the early 21st Century. It is one of the world's leading zoological

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

 journals. It focuses on animal development, structure and function, including physiological organization. It has primarily published zoological and physiological original research, but occasionally it has published review articles.

At the end of the 20th Century, Acta Zoologica became predominant in the field of animal structure from the cellular to the whole organism level, which caused the addition of its subtitle morphology and evolution in 2002. Increasingly, it has focused on animal development, with emphasis on the functional, comparative and phylogenetic aspects. The editors in chief

Editor in chief

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 are Graham Budd

Graham Budd

Graham Edward Budd is a British palaeontologist, Professor of paleobiology at Uppsala University.Budd’s research primarily has focused on the anatomy and evolutionary significance of Paleozoic arthropods and in the integration of palaeontology into evolutionary developmental biology...

 and Lennart Olsson

Lennart Olsson

Lennart Olsson, born 1961, is a Swedish zoologist and embryologist, professor of comparative zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany.Olsson focuses his research primarily on the embryological development of the vertebrate head...

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