About Eukaryotic Cell

Eukaryotic Cell (EC) focuses on eukaryotic microbiology and presents reports of basic research on simple eukaryotic microorganisms such as yeasts, fungi, algae, protozoa, and social amoebae. The journal also covers viruses of these organisms and their organelles and their interactions with other living systems, where the focus is on the eukaryotic cell. Topics include, but are not limited to:

 • Guest Commentaries
 • Minireviews
 • Basic biology
 • Molecular and cellular biology
 • Mechanisms, and control, of developmental pathways
 • Structure and form inherent in basic biological processes
 • Cellular architecture
 • Metabolic physiology
 • Comparative genomics, biochemistry, and evolution
 • Population dynamics
 • Ecology

• Instructions to Authors (January issue)
  
• Guest Commentaries
  
• Minireviews
  
• Articles

Monthly. 2,700 pages in 2008. In 2008, EC will be an Online-only journal ISSN: 1535-9786. Previous print ISSN: 1535-9778.

EC has an impact factor of 3.707 according to the Institute for Scientific Information's 2006 Journal Citation Reports. It is ranked #19 out of 88 journals in the Microbiology category.