[3][4] When the journal ran into financial trouble, George Parker Bidder II, the founder of The Company of Biologists, rescued it in 1925.

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[6] Journal of Experimental Biology publishes original research articles, methods and techniques, and reviews in the field of comparative physiology.

[7] The journal currently publishes papers on a wide range of subjects from biomechanics and metabolic physiology, to neurophysiology and neuroethology.