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May
  • May: Vol 373, Issue 1747 Theme issue ‘Self-organization in cell biology’ compiled and edited by Timo Betz and Roland Wedlich-Söldner
  • May: Vol 373, Issue 1746 Theme issue ‘Collective movement ecology’ compiled and edited by Andrew M. Berdahl, Dora Biro, Peter A.H. Westley and Colin J. Torney
  • May: Vol 373, Issue 1745 Theme issue ‘Anthropogenic resource subsidies and host–parasite dynamics in wildlife’ compiled and edited by Daniel J. Becker, Richard J. Hall, Kristian M. Forbes, Raina K. Plowright and Sonia M. Altizer
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  • April: Vol 373, Issue 1744 Theme issue ‘Diverse perspectives on diversity: multi-disciplinary approaches to taxonomies of individual differences’ compiled and edited by Irina Trofimova, Trevor W. Robbins, William H. Sulis and Jana Uher
  • April: Vol 373, Issue 1743 Theme issue ‘Bridging cultural gaps: interdisciplinary studies in human cultural evolution’ compiled and edited by Oren Kolodny, Marcus W. Feldman and Nicole Creanza
March
  • March: Vol 373, Issue 1742 Discussion meeting issue ‘Of mice and mental health: facilitating dialogue between basic and clinical neuroscientists’ compiled and edited by Amy L. Milton and Emily Holmes
  • March: Vol 373, Issue 1741 Theme issue ‘Understanding diversity in telomere dynamics’ compiled and edited by Pat Monaghan, Dan Eisenberg, Lea Harrington and Dan Nussey
February
  • February: Vol 373, Issue 1740 Discussion meeting issue ‘The origins of numerical abilities’ compiled and edited by Brian Butterworth, Charles R. Gallistel and Giorgio Vallortigara
  • February: Vol 373, Issue 1739 Discussion meeting issue ‘The Rhynie cherts: our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited’ compiled and edited by Dianne Edwards, Liam Dolan and Paul Kenrick
January
  • January: Vol 373, Issue 1738 Theme issue ‘Heat shock proteins as modulators and therapeutic targets of chronic disease: an integrated perspective’ compiled and edited by Gregory L. Blatch, Adrienne L. Edkins, John T. Price and A. Graham Pockley
  • January: Vol 373, Issue 1737 Discussion meeting issue ‘Extracellular vesicles and the tumour microenvironment’ compiled and edited by David R.F. Carter, Andrew Devitt, Aled Clayton, Stuart Hunt and Daniel W. Lambert

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Volume 373, issue 1747
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