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.
We treat authors as colleagues, not adversaries. Your time is important—and so is your research. Peer editors oversee the review process and give you clear guidance on how to address any reviewer comments; our helpful editorial staff keep the process moving and on time. We make it easy to submit: no formatting requirements on initial submission. Our dedicated editors work hard to keep time to first decision at around a month. And because we’re agile and community-driven, we’ve long been at the forefront of publishing innovations.
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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.
Irini Topalidou, recipient of the 2026 GSA Mentorship Award, emphasizes the important role staff scientists play in academic research and mentoring.
AbstractFalcons (genus Falco) are a rapidly diversified bird clade, with 38 species evolving over the past ∼7.5 million years. Despite their ecological and evolutionary significance, high-quality genomic resources remain limited. Here, we present two chromosome-level genome assemblies for Falco peregrinus and Falco biarmicus, enabling detailed analyses of genome architecture, gene content, transposable elements (TEs), and structural variation. Using PacBio HiFi sequencing, we generated highly contiguous assemblies (N50: 60.76-77.83 Mb) with >97% BUSCO completeness. Comparative analyses...
AbstractFor more than a century, scientists have worked to characterize, understand, and predict the consequences of mutations. For almost as long, scientists—always on the lookout for general principles—have categorized these mutations, hoping that putting them into labeled boxes might help reveal the molecular logic that governs mutational effects. Here, I will dive into one of these boxes, labeled “gain-of-function”, a term that will ring familiar to undergraduates, (clinical) geneticists, and virologists alike. I will emerge...
