About this journal

Please note, from 2022 the Print ISSN is not in active use as this journal is no longer published in print.

Aims & Scope: Fly is the first international peer-reviewed journal to focus on Drosophila research. Fly covers a broad range of biological sub-disciplines, ranging from developmental biology and organogenesis to sensory neurobiology, circadian rhythm and learning and memory, to sex determination, evolutionary biology and speciation. We strive to become the “to go” resource for every researcher working with Drosophila by providing a forum where the specific interests of the Drosophila community can be discussed. With the advance of molecular technologies that enable researchers to manipulate genes and their functions in many other organisms, Fly is now also publishing papers that use other insect model systems used to investigate important biological questions.

Fly offers a variety of papers, including Original Research Articles, Methods and Technical Advances, Brief Communications, Reviews and Meeting Reports. In addition, Fly also features two unconventional types of contributions, Counterpoints and Extra View articles. Counterpoints are opinion pieces that critically discuss controversial papers questioning current paradigms, whether justified or not. Extra View articles, which generally are solicited by Fly editors, provide authors of important forthcoming papers published elsewhere an opportunity to expand on their original findings and discuss the broader impact of their discovery. Extra View authors are strongly encouraged to complement their published observations with additional data not included in the original paper or acquired subsequently.

All types of papers will be peer-reviewed.

Please note that Fly converted to a full Open Access journal from Volume 16 (2022).

Editor-in-Chief
Howard Jacobs
Tampere University, Finland

Associate Editors

Mariana Wolfner - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Editorial Board
David Arnosti - Michigan State University, US
William Ballard – University of New South Wales, Australia
Andreas Bergmann – University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
Grace Boekhoff-Falk – University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
John Brookfield – University of Nottingham, UK
Rodolfo Costa – University of Padua, Italy
Rachel Cox – Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, US
Peter Dearden – University of Otago, New Zealand
Julian Dow – University of Glasgow, UK
Damian Dowling – Monash University, Australia
Dominique Ferrandon – Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IBMC), Strasbourg, France
Matthew Freeman – University of Oxford, UK
Rafael Garesse – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain
Elizabeth Gavis - Princeton University, US
Cayetano Gonzalez – Institute for Research in Biomedicine - IRB Barcelona, Spain
Stephen Goodwin – University of Oxford, UK
Stephen Gregory – University of Adelaide, Australia
Paul Hardin – Texas A&M University, US
Hector Herranz– University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ville Hietakangas – University of Helsinki, Finland
Frank Hirth – Kings College London, UK
Dan Hultmark – Umeå University, Sweden
Tatsushi Igaki – Kyoto University, Japan
Daniel Kalderon – Columbia University, US
Justin Kumar – Indiana University Bloomington, US
Estee Kurant – University of Haifa, Israel
Charalambos Kyriacou – University of Leicester, UK
Eric Lai – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US
Jan Larsson – Umeå University, Sweden
Paul Lasko – McGill University, Canada
Won-Jae Lee – Seoul National University, South Korea
Carlos Machado – University of Maryland, US
Richard Mann – Columbia University, US
Johanna Mappes – University of Jyvaskylä, Finland
Steven Marygold – University of Cambridge, UK
Victoria Meller – Wayne State University, US
Pawel Michalak – Virginia Tech, US
Adrian Moore – RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN BSI), Japan
Ryusuke Niwa – University Tsukuba, Japan
Patrick O'Grady – Cornell University, US
Cahir O'Kane – University of Cambridge, UK
Leo Pallanck – University Washington, US
Michael Pankratz – University of Bonn, Germany
Linda Partridge – Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Aging, Germany
Norbert Perrimon – Harvard University, US
Ilaria Rebay – The University of Chicago, US
Lluis Ribas de Pouplana – Institute for Research in Biomedicine - IRB Barcelona, Spain
Charles Robin – The University of Melbourne, Australia
Michael Rosbash – Brandeis University, US
Alberto Sanz – University of Glasgow, UK
Makoto Sato – Kanazawa University, Japan
Oren Schuldiner – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Benny Shilo – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Osamu Shimmi – University of Tartu, Estonia
Neal Silverman – University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
Marla Sokolowski – University of Toronto, Canada
Yan Song – Peking University, China
David Stein – University of Texas at Austin, US
Aurelio Teleman – German Cancer Research Center - DKFZ, Heidelberg Germany
John Tower – University of Southern California, US
Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan - National Centre for Biological Sciences - NCBS Banfalore, India
Pelin Volkan – Duke University, US
Scott Waddell – University of Oxford, UK
David Walker – University of California, Los Angeles, US
Jing Wang – University of California, San Diego, US
Alexander Whitworth – University of Cambridge, UK
Bing Zhang – University of Missouri, US
Kai Zinn – California Institute of Technology, US