Editors-in-Chief
Shigeru Kuratani, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Japan

Shigeru Kuratani received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology at Kyoto University. He spent the period from 1988 to 1991 working in experimental embryology in the Department of Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia before moving to the Biochemistry Department, Baylor College of Medicine, where he focused on molecular embryological research. He returned to Japan in 1994 to take a position as associate professor at the Institute of Medical Embryology and Genetics in the Kumamoto University School of Medicine. He moved to Okayama University to assume a professorship in the Department of Biology in 1997, where he remained until he was appointed team leader at the CDB in 2001. He was appointed Group Director at CDB from 2005 to 2014, Chief Scientist at RIKEN from 2014 to 2024. Since 2024, he is Senior Visiting Scientist, RIKEN BDR.

Takema Fukatsu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Takema Fukatsu received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Since 1995, he has been working at National Institute of Bioscience and Human-Technology (NIBH), Tsukuba, Japan, which has been reorganized and renamed, now being National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. Currently he is Prime Senior Researcher at the Molecular Biosystems Research Institute of AIST. Concurrently, he is Professor at the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences of the University of Tsukuba since 2011, and also Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Tokyo since 2013. He has strong background in evolutionary biology, entomology and microbiology, mainly working on insect-microbe symbiotic associations. 

Tatsuya Hirasawa, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuya Hirasawa received his M.S. and Ph.D. in paleontology from the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of Tokyo. He spent the period from 2010 to 2020 working in evolutionary developmental biology at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, where he conducted studies in comparative and experimental embryology at cellular and molecular levels. He took a position as associate professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of Tokyo in 2020, where he has promoted an integration of paleontology and evolutionary developmental biology.

Associate Editors
Ann Burke, Wesleyan University, United States of America
Masaki Hoso, Kyoto University, Japan
Susumu Hyodo, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Kazuo Inaba, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Naoki Irie, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Robert Jenkins, Kanazawa University, Japan
Hiroshi Kajihara, Hokkaido University, Japan
Hiroyasu Kamei, Kanazawa University, Japan
Jun Kitano, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Zhu Min, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China
Yasunori Murakami, Ehime University, Japan
Kiyoshi Naruse, National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan
Rich Schneider, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America
Yi-Hsien Su, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Mikiko Tanaka, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Guojie Zhang, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Editorial Board
Kiyokazu Agata, Kyoto University, Japan
Hitoshi Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan
Clare Baker, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ming Chuong, University of Southern California, United States of America
Toshihiko Fujita, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan
Shoji Fukamachi, Japan Women's University, Japan
Frietson Galis, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands
Anthony Graham, King's College London, United Kingdom
James Hanken, Harvard University, United States of America
Peter W.H. Holland, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Pung-Pung Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Masato Kinoshita, Kyoto University, Japan
Takashi Makino, Tohoku University, Japan
Masafumi Matsui, Kyoto University, Japan
Kenji Matsuura, Kyoto University, Japan
Loreta Medina, University of Lleida, Spain
Takeshi Miura, Ehime University, Japan
Teruaki Nishikawa, Toho University, Japan
Tadashi Nomura, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
Hideharu Numata, Kyoto University, Japan
Sonoko Ogawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Clifton Ragsdale, University of Chicago, United States of America
Michael Richardson, Leiden University, Netherlands
Luigia Santella, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy
Nori Satoh, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
Hitoshi Sawada, Nagoya University, Japan
Matthias Starck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Per Sundberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Yoshio Takei, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Koji Tamura, Tohoku University, Japan
Akihisa Terakita, Osaka City University, Japan
Kenji Tomioka, Okayama University, Japan
Mathilakath M. Vijayan, University of Calgary, Canada
Gunter Wagner, Yale University, United States of America
Christoph Winkler, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nobuhiko Yamamoto, Osaka University, Japan
Masakane Yamashita, Hokkaido University, Japan