Journal of Anatomy

Published on behalf of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Edited by:
Gillian Morriss-Kay

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 3/17 (Anatomy & Morphology)
Impact Factor: 2.547

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Journal of Anatomy publishes original papers, invited review articles and book reviews. Its main focus is on contributions to understanding development, evolution and function through a broad range of anatomical approaches. Articles covering bioinformatics and other topics that clarify or provide tools for functional anatomical understanding will also be sympathetically considered. Priority will be given to experimental studies, to contributions based on molecular and cell biology, and on the application of modern functional imaging techniques. Studies that are essentially descriptive anatomy will only be published if the Editors consider that they are of functional significance.

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Journal of Anatomy archive - free online!
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NIH-funded authors and Journal of Anatomy

From April 2008, the NIH is mandating grantees to deposit their peer-reviewed author manuscripts in PubMed Central, to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. The NIH mandate applies to all articles based on research that has been wholly or partially funded by the NIH and that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. In order to help authors comply with the NIH mandate, for papers accepted for publication in Journal of Anatomy after this date Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted manuscript (incorporating all amendments made during peer review, but prior to the publisher's copy-editing and typesetting) of articles by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central at the point of acceptance by the journal. This version will then be made publicly available in PubMed Central 12 months after publication. Following the deposit Wiley-Blackwell authors will receive further communications from the NIH with respect to the submission. For further information, see here. 

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Free content:
Journal of Anatomy review articles are all available to read free of charge online. In addition, all content more than three years old, back until 1997, is free to download. Read the journal online.

Highlighted articles:
Where tendons and ligaments meet bone: attachment sites ('entheses') in relation to exercise and/or mechanical load
M. Benjamin, H. Toumi, J. R. Ralphs, G. Bydder, T. M. Best, S. Milz
Factors influencing osteological changes in the hands and fingers of rock climbers
Adam D. Sylvester, Angi M. Christensen, Patricia A. Kramer
From nociception to pain perception: imaging the spinal and supraspinal pathways
Jonathan Brooks, Irene Tracey
Muscle architecture of biceps brachii, triceps brachii and supraspinatus in the horse
J. C. Watson, A. M. Wilson
Morphological and physiological interactions of NG2-glia with astrocytes and neurons
Rebekah Wigley, Niki Hamilton, Akiko Nishiyama, Frank Kirchhoff, Arthur M. Butt
Cell-matrix biology in vascular tissue engineering
Simon Stephan, Stephen G. Ball, Matthew Williamson, Daniel V. Bax, Amanda Lomas, C. Adrian Shuttleworth, Cay M. Kielty
Insight into the evolution of avian flight from a new clade of Early Cretaceous ornithurines from China and the morphology of Yixianornis grabaui
Julia A. Clarke, Zhonghe Zhou, Fucheng Zhang
The lectin Dolichos biflorus agglutinin is a sensitive indicator of branching morphogenetic activity in the developing mouse metanephric collecting duct system
Lydia Michael, Derina E. Sweeney, Jamie A. Davies
The development of the neural crest in the human
Ronan O'Rahilly, Fabiola Müller

Links to other relevant sites:
American Association of Anatomists
British Association for Psychopharmacology
British Society for Neuroendocrinology
The Biochemical Society
Biosciences Federation
British Association of Clinical Anatomists
Spanish Society of Anatomy
British Society for Immunology
British Society for Developmental Biology
British Society for Proteome Research
European Brain and Behaviour Society