Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Biology maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 50 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 24 days and the median time to publication was 64 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Adam, Paul | Leoni, Barbara |
| Ambrose, R.P. Kingsly | Levin, Michael |
| Anifandis, George | Lewis, Jesse S. |
| Archer, Simon | Li, Congjun |
| Arredondo, Luis José Delaye | Li, Zhiheng |
| Balestrieri, Rosario | Ligon, Day B. |
| Becker, Donald F. | Longo, Giuseppe |
| Bilbao, Jose Ramon | Lopez, Dolores E. |
| Bjork, Bryan | Luo, Shuai |
| Blackstone, Neil | Lutz, Stefanie |
| Boczek, Nicole | Maiato, Helder |
| Bohutskyi, Pavlo | Mallo, Moises |
| Borger, Pieter | Martin, Bradley |
| Bozzaro, Salvatore | Mazzulli, Joe |
| Brand-Saberi, Beate | Mc Auley, Mark T. |
| Braun, Edward L. | McGuinness, Dagmara |
| Bricknell, Ian | McKim, Kim S. |
| Brown, Robert J. | McLoughlin, Gráinne |
| Brownstein, Zippora (Zippi) | Mehrshahi, Payam |
| Brunetti-Pierri, Nicola | Menger, Fredric |
| Campos, Francisco | Miller, Robert H. |
| Catacuzzeno, Luigi | Minenkova, Olga |
| Chain, Patrick S.G. | Møller, Anders |
| Chandaka, Giri Kumar | Mulero, Victoriano |
| Chen, Bor-Sen | Müller, Peter |
| Chen, Jinfeng | Muller, Ulrich |
| Cheon, Yong-Pil | Navarro, Pilar |
| Chiao, Ying Ann | Nawrot, Robert |
| Christina, Spry | Nemec, Antonia A. |
| Cimini, Daniela | Neumann Andersen, Mathias |
| Colley, Karen J. | Nishimura, Shin-ichiro |
| Constantinescu, Stefan | Noble, Denis |
| Creixell, Teresa Adell | Paldi, Andras |
| Curtale, Graziella | Palles, Claire |
| De Martino, Andrea | Pandhal, Jagroop |
| Den Hertog, Jeroen | Panico, Antonio |
| Dimitrakopoulos, Georgios N. | Peracchi, Alessio |
| Du, Min | Perego, Carla |
| Durston, Antony | Pesole, Graziano |
| Ellis, Ronald E. | Petro, Thomas M. |
| Fabre, Pierre | Pitto, Letizia |
| Fainsod, Abraham | Ponnambalam, Sreenivasan |
| Falconer, Robert | Pritchard, Hugh W. |
| Fernández-Méndez, Mar | Ramos-Suárez, Juan Luis |
| Figueras Huerta, Antonio | Re, Lamberto |
| Fracasso, Alessandra | Reschen, Michael Edward |
| Fuentes, Augustín | Rijkers, Ger |
| Funk, Richard | Risk, Michael J. |
| Gales, Amandine | Rizos, Dimitrios |
| Gannon, Victor P.J. | Roach, Dwayne |
| Gazouli, Maria | Roig Molina, Francisco Jose |
| Gebhardt, Christof | Roli, Andrea |
| Glazier, Douglas S. | Roos, Wynand P. |
| Gong, Shanzhong | Rutishauser, Urs Stephen |
| Green, Sara Marie Ehrenreich | Salinas, Irene |
| Gualtieri, Paolo | Salmon, Edward D. |
| Hantusch, Brigitte | Sauerwein, Helga |
| Harduin-Lepers, Anne | Schibler, Ueli |
| Hejnol, Andreas | Schmidt-Ott, Urs |
| Hiroi, Noboru | Seligmann, Hervé |
| Ho, Samuel | Shumskaya, Maria |
| Huang, Yen-Lin | Sigurdsen, Trond |
| Igamberdiev, Abir | Sitja-Bobadilla, Ariadna |
| Ishikawa, Takahiro | Smith, Robert |
| Ito, Yuji | Spanò, Stefania |
| Jain, Shalu | Stacewicz-Sapuntzakis, Maria |
| Jay Ko, ChemYong | Staehle, Mary |
| Jin, Fan | Stockan, Jenni |
| Jühling, Frank | Stone, Trevor William |
| Kaneko, Gen | Su, Tao |
| Kanno, Yuichiro | Suzuki, Yuichiro J. |
| Kaski, Juan Pablo | Syrén, Per-Olof |
| Kavaliers, Martin | Szekely, Gyorgy |
| Kawakami, Junji | Taylor, Andrew |
| Kawashima, Hiroto | Torinsson Naluai, Åsa |
| Khisamutdinov, Emil | Tosic, Predrag |
| Kieber-Emmons, Thomas | Traer, Elie |
| Kiljunen, Saija | Tsounis, Georgios |
| Kim, Jongpil | Varma, Dileep |
| Kondo, Jiro | Visintainer, Roberto |
| Korstad, John | Wang, Kai |
| Koslicki, David | Webb, Grahame |
| Koslicki, David | Wenger, Amelia |
| Krämer, Oliver H. | Wichterle, Hynek |
| Kunkle, Brian | Winuthayanon, Wipawee |
| Lackie, Peter M. | Witte, Wolfgang |
| Lafont, Frank | YUEN, Karen Wing Yee |
| Lange, Miles | Zammit, Carla |
| Lei, Lei | Ziermann, Janine |