動(dòng)物學(xué)是一本致力于實(shí)驗(yàn)和比較動(dòng)物科學(xué)的雜志。它提供了一個(gè)共同的論壇，所有科學(xué)家采取明確的有機(jī)體為導(dǎo)向和綜合的方法來(lái)研究動(dòng)物的形式，功能，發(fā)展和進(jìn)化。該雜志邀請(qǐng)論文采取比較或?qū)嶒?yàn)方法的行為和神經(jīng)生物學(xué)，功能形態(tài)學(xué)，進(jìn)化和發(fā)展，生態(tài)生理學(xué)和細(xì)胞生物學(xué)。由于越來(lái)越多的人認(rèn)識(shí)到動(dòng)物只存在于與共生體的伙伴關(guān)系中，動(dòng)物學(xué)鼓勵(lì)提交論文，重點(diǎn)分析作為宏觀宿主的整體生物或元有機(jī)體與許多微生物和真核生物的協(xié)同相互依賴(lài)關(guān)系。

Zoology is a journal devoted to experimental and comparative animal science. It presents a common forum for all scientists who take an explicitly organism oriented and integrative approach to the study of animal form, function, development and evolution.The journal invites papers that take a comparative or experimental approach to behavior and neurobiology, functional morphology, evolution and development, ecological physiology, and cell biology. Due to the increasing realization that animals exist only within a partnership with symbionts, Zoology encourages submissions of papers focused on the analysis of holobionts or metaorganisms as associations of the macroscopic host in synergistic interdependence with numerous microbial and eukaryotic species.