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Discover Developmental Biology is an open access journal publishing research from all fields of biological development relevant to animals, plants and microorganisms. Publication costs will be covered by Springer Nature from 1 January until 31 December 2027. Authors whose articles are accepted for publication in Discover Developmental Biology during this period will not pay an article-processing charge. Note that the APC-free period does not apply to any journal to which your article may be transferred if not accepted in Discover Developmental Biology. Standard charge: €1990/$2390/£1690.

Indexed in Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Scopus with a CiteScore 2025 of 2.5.
Considers articles from a broad range of developmental biology disciplines.
Formerly Development Genes and Evolution (2024 Impact Factor: 0.9), Discover Developmental Biology is expected to receive its first Impact Factor under the new name in 2027.
Topics include embryogenesis, microbial development, plant development genetics and more.
A journal in Springer Nature’s Discover Series: Rigorous, representative and wide-reaching.

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Selected Papers from the International Conference for the Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Marine Invertebrates

For over a century, echinoderm embryos have served as foundational model organisms in developmental biology.

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Molecular Control of Cardiac Development and Congenital Heart Disease

This proposed collection will highlight recent advances in understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate heart development and how their...

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Environmental Cues and Plant Developmental Plasticity

Plants have evolved sophisticated regulatory networks to integrate environmental signals (e.

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Comparative analysis of Asterias forbesi development reveals distinct mechanisms of hydro-vascular organ formation across sea stars
Talia Kathleen Marc
Allison Rodger
Margherita Perillo
Research Open access 16 June 2026 Article: 4
D-galactose dose-dependently exerts differential effects on life history traits and redox modulation in early adulthood in Drosophila melanogaster
Oluwasegun Davis Olatomide
Dayo Rotimi Omotoso
Rashidatu Abdulazeez
Research Open access 20 October 2026 Article: 7
Morphogenesis of the Drosophila antennal auditory structure in the pupa, with a focus on the connection between the sensory organ and the exoskeleton
Shan Jiang
Reiko Tajiri
Research Open access 02 October 2026 Article: 6
Histological development of the stomach and hepatopancreas of two laboratory-reared sesarmid crabs, Episesarma species (Decapoda: sesarmidae)
Chanyut Sudtongkong
Supparat Kong-oh
Sinlapachai Senarat
Research Open access 16 July 2026 Article: 5
Mapping micromere fate in the clitellate annelid Tubifex tubifex
Miho Moriya
Asuna Arai
Takashi Shimizu
Research Open access 23 March 2026 Article: 3

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Development Genes and Evolution is now Discover Developmental Biology and fully open access!

Development Genes and Evolution became fully open access (OA) on 1 January 2025, and moved into our Discover series as Discover Developmental Biology. We now only publish articles as Open Access, meaning content will be freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse.
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In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Developmental Biology. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:

Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review

Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level

Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.

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Electronic ISSN: 3059-3247
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Selected Papers from the International Conference for the Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Marine Invertebrates

Molecular Control of Cardiac Development and Congenital Heart Disease

Environmental Cues and Plant Developmental Plasticity

Latest articles

Comparative analysis of Asterias forbesi development reveals distinct mechanisms of hydro-vascular organ formation across sea stars

D-galactose dose-dependently exerts differential effects on life history traits and redox modulation in early adulthood in Drosophila melanogaster

Morphogenesis of the Drosophila antennal auditory structure in the pupa, with a focus on the connection between the sensory organ and the exoskeleton

Histological development of the stomach and hepatopancreas of two laboratory-reared sesarmid crabs, Episesarma species (Decapoda: sesarmidae)

Mapping micromere fate in the clitellate annelid Tubifex tubifex

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Meet us at the 2026 Annual Meeting of CSCB · ICCB & APOCB Joint Meeting

Development Genes and Evolution is now Discover Developmental Biology and fully open access!

Writing your manuscript: interactive author tutorials

Introducing In Review

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