During the online submission process, you will be given the opportunity to suggest or exclude editors to handle your paper. Please see below for information about the scientific background of each editor.

Andrew A. Biewener

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA

Areas of expertise: Biomechanics and animal locomotion, both terrestrial and flight; scaling; neuromotor control and function; skeletal biomechanics; bone remodelling; adaptation to exercise.

Michael H. Dickinson

Department of Biology, University of Washington, USA

Areas of expertise: Biomechanics and locomotion of invertebrates, particularly insects; sensory and motor physiology and related behaviours; olfaction; vision; mechanoreception; neurobiology.

Julian A. T. Dow

IBLS Division of Molecular Genetics, University of Glasgow, UK

Areas of expertise: Functional genomics and systems biology; Drosophila genetics; insect physiology; ion transport; cell signalling; osmoregulation.

Craig E. Franklin

School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia

Areas of expertise: Vertebrate ecophysiology; responses/plasticity of organisms to environmental change, including temperature, salinity, pH and PO₂ ; acclimation/acclimatisation/adaptation; thermal biology; conservation physiology; integrative physiology; animal performance/fitness.

Hans H. Hoppeler

Department of Anatomy, University of Bern, Switzerland

Areas of expertise: Muscle morphology and physiology; energetics; scaling; exercise in vertebrates; respiration; molecular physiology; biomechanics.

Ken Lukowiak

Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada

Areas of expertise: Causal neuronal mechanisms of adaptive behaviour; neuronal mechanisms of associative learning, physiology and biophysics; effects of stress on behaviour; neuroscience and respiratory research; learning; memory.

Steve F. Perry

Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Canada

Areas of expertise: Heart function; fish physiology; respiratory physiology; cardiovascular physiology; acid-base balance; stress responses; ionic regulation; calcium balance; osmotic regulation; kidney function; molecular biology of fish gill/kidney ion transporters; control of breathing; hypoxia.

Raul K. Suarez

Department of Biological Sciences, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Areas of expertise: Ecological physiology; metabolic physiology; biochemical adaptation; hypoxia; energetics of animal locomotion; metabolic regulation; bioenergetics.

Janis C. Weeks

Department of Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, USA

Areas of expertise: Neurophysiology; neural and synaptic plasticity; role of hormones in the organisation of neural circuits; programmed cell death; behaviour; molecular biology.