Genetics Society of America
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GENETICS publishes high-quality genetics and genomics research that expands scientific boundaries—we’ve been building the field since 1916. With its broad readership, rich history, and responsive editors, GENETICS brings the latest in publishing innovations to the communities it serves. We invite you to submit your research and discover the fast turnaround times and helpful review process for yourself.
Get your useful data out into the world by publishing in G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. G3 publishes high quality foundational research, particularly studies that generate useful genetic information, such as mutant screens, single gene studies, genome maps, genome sequence data, GWAS and QTL studies, software, data resources, and new methods. The Editorial Board of G3 believes that rapid dissemination of such data lays the foundation for many important insights.
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Genes to Genomes, the GSA blog, features news from the GSA community, highlights from the GSA journals, and posts from staff and guest authors about careers, professional development, science policy, publishing, education, outreach, equity and inclusion, and the intersections of science, art, and culture. Propose a guest post yourself and start a conversation!
In March 2016, GENETICS launched WormBook, a comprehensive compendium of review articles presenting the current state of knowledge in C. elegans research. WormBook articles span the breadth of the biology, genetics, genomics, and evolutionary biology of C. elegans. Find historical WormBook articles published as the online companion to WormBase here. This page contains the full list of all historical and GSA-published WormBook articles, organized by section.
Sara McPherson Career Development SubcommitteeQueen’s University What is your research interest? What organism do you work with, and what do you want to do in the future? My research interests involve the genetic underpinnings of...
AbstractBrook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) are experiencing genomic erosion and demographic declines across the southern portion of their native distribution. A regionally representative reference genome is necessary to support conservation genomic initiatives for this species. While Brook Trout exhibit substantial phylogenetic structure across their range, only a single reference genome from Northeastern Canada (ASM2944872v1) is currently used to guide range-wide analyses. Consequently, reference bias is expected to cause erroneous sequence alignment and spurious variant detection for...
AbstractRandom variation in reproductive success–genetic drift–profoundly shapes genetic diversity and evolutionary trajectories. The strength of drift depends on the variance in descendant number, σ2d, which governs key evolutionary outcomes: for instance, the establishment probability of a beneficial mutation scales inversely with σ2d. However, whether σ2d itself evolves over long timescales has remained unclear, because allele-frequency fluctuations depend on drift only through the effective population size, Ne = N/σ2d, which blends census population size with descendant-number...
