<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Dear connectionists, <br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Sientific reports accepts papers for the collection "Biological Modularity". </div><div><br></div><div>Please see below. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap!important"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.nature.com/collections/bedecebdgf/how-to-submit" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/collections/bedecebdgf/how-to-submit
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);list-style:none;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;white-space:normal"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;display:inline-block;margin-bottom:8px;font-weight:700">Collection </span></p><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 16px;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal"><font size="2">Biological modularity</font></h1><dl style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;width:761.25px;display:flex;color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:normal"><div style="margin:0px 32px 24px 0px;padding:0px 32px 0px 0px;box-sizing:inherit;border-right:1px solid rgb(213,213,213)"><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Submission status</dt><dd style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Open</dd></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;border-right:none"><dt style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Submission deadline</dt><dd style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit">08 March 2023</dd></div></dl>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 28px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;white-space:normal">Modularity has become a central concept in biological sciences, stemming from the notion that biological systems can be conceptualised as intricate networks, which in turn are often divided into sets of strongly interacting parts that are relatively autonomous with respect to each other. Modularity has strong evolutionary implications, and has been applied at various scales, from gene regulation and cell metabolism, to organism development, morphogenesis and functional anatomy, to neural circuits and behaviour, and species’ or whole community interactions.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px;padding:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;white-space:normal">This Collection will bring together original research advancing our understanding of modularity, as well as its application in various biological fields, including multidisciplinary studies.</p>
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Alireza Valizadeh
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Neurophysics lab, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Zanjan, Iran</span>
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