Journal Title：Fly

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.

Fly 是第一本专注于果蝇研究的国际同行评审期刊。 Fly涵盖了广泛的生物学子学科，从发育生物学和器官发生到感觉神经生物学、昼夜节律和学习和记忆，再到性别决定、进化生物学和物种形成。我们通过提供一个可以讨论果蝇社区特定兴趣的论坛，努力成为每个与果蝇合作的研究人员的“去”资源。随着分子技术的进步，研究人员能够在许多其他生物体中操纵基因及其功能，Fly 现在还发表了使用其他昆虫模型系统来研究重要生物学问题的论文。

Fly 提供各种论文，包括原创研究文章、方法和技术进步、简要交流、评论和会议报告。此外，Fly 还提供了两种非常规类型的投稿，Counterpoints 和 Extra View 文章。对位是批判性地讨论质疑当前范式的有争议的论文的观点文章，无论是否合理。 Extra View 文章通常由 Fly 编辑征集，为即将在其他地方发表的重要论文的作者提供了扩展其原始发现并讨论其发现的更广泛影响的机会。强烈鼓励 Extra View 作者使用未包含在原始论文中或随后获得的其他数据来补充他们已发表的观察结果。