Contact chemoreception, magnetic maps, thermoregulation by a superorganism, and, thanks to Einstein, an all-time record: the Editors' and Readers' Choice Awards 2023

Günther K H Zupanc; Wolfgang Rössler; Eric J Warrant; Uwe Homberg; Kentaro Arikawa; Charlotte Helfrich-Förster; Peter M Narins; Andrea Megela Simmons

doi:10.1007/s00359-022-01609-3

Contact chemoreception, magnetic maps, thermoregulation by a superorganism, and, thanks to Einstein, an all-time record: the Editors' and Readers' Choice Awards 2023

J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2023 May;209(3):337-340. doi: 10.1007/s00359-022-01609-3.

Authors

Günther K H Zupanc¹, Wolfgang Rössler², Eric J Warrant³, Uwe Homberg⁴, Kentaro Arikawa⁵, Charlotte Helfrich-Förster⁶, Peter M Narins⁷, Andrea Megela Simmons⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. g.zupanc@northeastern.edu.
² Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology (Zoology II), Biocentre, University of Würzburg, 97074, Würzburg, Germany.
³ Department of Biology, University of Lund, 22362, Lund, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Biology, Philipps-University of Marburg, 35032, Marburg, Germany.
⁵ Research Center for Integrative Evolutionary Studies, SOKENDAI, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0193, Japan.
⁶ Neurobiology and Genetics, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, 97074, Würzburg, Germany.
⁷ Departments of Integrative Biology and Physiology, and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
⁸ Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA.

PMID: 36598579
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-022-01609-3

Abstract

During the 99 years of its history, the Journal of Comparative Physiology A has published many of the most influential papers in comparative physiology and related disciplines. To celebrate this achievement of the journal's authors, annual Editors' Choice Awards and Readers' Choice Awards are presented. The winners of the 2023 Editors' Choice Awards are 'Contact chemoreception in multi‑modal sensing of prey by Octopus' by Buresch et al. (J Comp Physiol A 208:435-442, 2022) in the Original Paper category; and 'Magnetic maps in animal navigation' by Lohmann et al. (J Comp Physiol A 208:41-67, 2022) in the Review/Review-History Article category. The winners of the 2023 Readers' Choice Awards are 'Coping with the cold and fighting the heat: thermal homeostasis of a superorganism, the honeybee colony' by Stabentheiner et al. (J Comp Physiol A 207:337-351; 2021) in the Original Paper category; and 'Einstein, von Frisch and the honeybee: a historical letter comes to light' by Dyer et al. (J Comp Physiol A 207:449-456, 2021) in the Review/Review-History category.

Keywords: Albert Einstein; Editors’ Choice Awards; Journal of Comparative Physiology A; Karl von Frisch; Readers’ Choice Awards.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Animals
Awards and Prizes*
Bees
Body Temperature Regulation
Magnetic Phenomena