Journal subject areas

The journal subject areas were defined by the following index terms below. These terms represented the keywords to be chosen for assignment of submitted manuscripts to individual topic editors.

• Anatomy and embryology
• Animal welfare and husbandry
• Behaviour
• Cognition and communication
• Conservation
• Ecology and biogeography
• Evolution, phylogeny and palaeontology
• Genetics
• Immunology
• Infection biology
• Neurosciences
• Pathology
• Physiology
• Reproductive biology
• Stem cell biology