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Explore a collection of top-cited content from the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, featuring papers published in 2016-2017.
Latest Issue: Arthropods
April's issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society is filled with exciting new research highlighting arthropods. This insightful issue contains papers on copepods, crustaceans, spiders, and insects.
Image from J Antonio Baeza, and Sanjeevi Prakash. "An integrative taxonomic and phylogenetic approach reveals a complex of cryptic species in the 'peppermint' shrimp 'Lysmata Wurdemanni sensu stricto'"
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Next-Generation Sequencing Virtual Issue
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has opened up an exciting range of possibilities for our understanding of evolutionary biology, making it faster and cheaper to sequence DNA. This virtual issue features recent papers demonstrating the application and use of NGS across the tree of life, published in the Biological, Botanical and Zoological journals of the Linnean Society.
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Virtual Issue: Palaeontology
This virtual issue highlights some of the classic palaeo research published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society in recent years.
Image from Xing H, Wang D, Han F, Sullivan C, Ma Q, He Y, Hone D, Yan R, Du F, Xu X (2014). "A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) with Transitional Features from the Late Cretaceous of Henan Province, China" via Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Celebrating the first female Fellows of the Linnean Society
On Wednesday 21st March 2018, the Linnean Society will celebrate its 230th anniversary, and pay tribute to the first-ever female Fellows of the Society. In recognition and celebration of some of these ground-breaking pioneers, we have compiled a virtual issue featuring entries from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, alongside some of the research they published in our journals.
100 years of the Swedish Linnaeus Society
The 23rd May 2017 marks 100 years since the founding of the Swedish Linnaeus Society (Svenska Linnésällskapet). To mark this event and the close relationship between the London and Swedish societies we are pleased to present a virtual issue showcasing recent work by Swedish researchers published in the journal.
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The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active biological society. Founded in 1788, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) whose botanical, zoological and library collections have been in its keeping since 1829.
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The Linnean Society's diverse programme of events covers everything from plant and animal diversity to remote sensing and in vitro fertilisation. Most Linnean Society meetings are open to the public as well as members of the organisation.
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Journals Archive: 1791 to 1968
Explore the archive journals from The Linnean Society of London:
- Transactions of the Linnean Society
- Transactions of the Linnean Society. 2nd Series Botany
- Transactions of the Linnean Society. 2nd Series Zoology
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society
Featured image: Nepenthes villosa from Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Volume os-22, Issue 4, 1 November 1859, Pages 415–424 [PDF]
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