JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Journal of Cell Science is an international peer-reviewed journal in the field of cell biology that is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit charitable organisation run by biologists for the benefit of the biological community. Journal of Cell Science is committed to publishing the full range of topics in cell biology, and the single most important criterion for acceptance is scientific excellence. Articles must therefore pose and test a significant hypothesis that will provide novel perspectives and approaches to understanding cell biology, and will stimulate the interest of the broad readership of the journal (see aims and scope). All research articles published in Journal of Cell Science are subject to rigorous single-blind peer review, and editorial decisions are made by a team of research-active academics in the field, supported by an international Editorial Advisory Board. In addition to primary research articles, Journal of Cell Science publishes a range of commissioned review-based articles aimed at synthesising the latest advances in the field, putting forward new hypotheses to provoke debate and inspire new research directions, and educating newcomers to the field. For more information on publishing in Journal of Cell Science, please visit our submission, manuscript preparation, article types and journal policies pages. Journal of Cell Science offers advance posting of accepted author manuscripts on its Accepted manuscripts page, which is updated daily. Publication of the final version of record is by a continuous publication model - as soon as an article is ready to be published, it is immediately released online rather than waiting for other articles in the issue to be completed, resulting in faster access to the final version of the article. Journal of Cell Science [ISSN 1477-9137 (online); ISSN 0021-09533 (print)] is a continuation of The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (ISSN 0370-2952).