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Volume 2, Issue 5
September/October 2008

Fly is the first international peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on Drosophila research.

Fly topics in Drosophila research include: cell biology, development, gene regulation, chromosome dynamics, behavior, evolution, population biology, neurobiology, molecular biology and biochemistry, genomics and anything else that we might have left out or might come along.

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Fly cares about graduate students, which is why we invite them to submit single-author short reviews on important fly topics. Click here for more details.

Why publish in Fly?

  • Fly strives to be a definitive resource that will promote the field.

  • Average 25-day turnaround from manuscript submission to decision.

  • Flexible formats for papers: no pre-set lengths for papers; no pre-set formats; your creative ideas will be considered; papers will be considered by Fly regardless of length.

  • Lower publication costs than most journals.

  • All papers are made open access after one year. Open access may be purchased at the time of acceptance making your paper free to all readers from the day it is first published online. Optional open access can be purchased for $750 (or $500 if your library subscribes).

  • Fly is a bstracted/indexed in: Medline/PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded (available as Current Contents/Life Sciences, Zoological Record, Biological Abstract and Biosis Previews).
  • Everyone in the Fly community will see your paper. All papers are published online and can be downloaded as PDFs. Our website draws researchers by featuring Fly Jobs where you can announce or seek an open postdoc position, and FlyBay, an interactive feature where you can ask the community for a particular chromosome, reagent, transgene, plasmid, etc. On FlyBay you can also advertise if you have a tool that you would like to share.