Welcome to Heredity
Heredity is an official journal of the Genetics Society, and publishes original research in all areas of genetics, with a particular focus on population, evolutionary and quantitative aspects, animal and plant breeding and cytogenetics. Primary research papers are complemented by Reviews covering currently developing areas and News and Commentary articles keeping researchers and students abreast of hot topics.
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Volume 103, No 5
November 2009
ISSN: 0018-067X
EISSN: 1365-2540
2008 impact factor 3.823*
39/138 Genetics & Heredity
Managing editor:
R Butlin
*2008 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2009)
FEATURED ARTICLES
NEWS AND COMMENTARY
Evaluating dosage compensation on the chicken Z chromosome: should effective dosage compensation eliminate sexual bias? FREENEWS AND COMMENTARY
One hundred years after Bateson: a pair of incompatible genes underlying hybrid sterility between yeast species FREENEWS AND COMMENTARY
From the detection of population structure to the reconstruction of population history: the historical reading of the human genome FREEORIGINAL ARTICLE
Estimating gametic introgression rates in a risk assessment context: a case study with Scots pine relicts FREEREVIEW
The chromosomal polymorphism of Drosophila subobscura: a microevolutionary weapon to monitor global change FREENEWS
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Juan Ranea and colleagues discuss a recent study by Zhu et al (2007) which applies an ingenious method to systematically identify the loss of genes that had been long established in the human lineage over the last 75 million years. Read "Winning by Losing in the Human Genome?" FREE on the Heredity Forum!
A new article from Nature Reviews Genetics: The genetics of inbreeding depression
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Research and Reviews
Latest research highlights and reviews from the NPG family of journals
- Regulation of tissue homeostasis by NF-κB signalling: implications for inflammatory diseases - this content is FREE Source: Nature Reviews Immunology
- Sequential Therapy or Triple Therapy for Helicobacter pylori Source: The American Journal of Gastroenterology
- Long aftershock sequences within continents and implications for earthquake hazard assessment Source: Nature
