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.
Free online issue
Volume 103, No 6
December 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
Wolf of a different colour FREENEWS AND COMMENTARY
How fat is the tail? FREEREVIEW
A combinational theory for maintenance of sex FREEORIGINAL ARTICLE
Evaluation of algorithms used to order markers on genetic maps FREEORIGINAL ARTICLE
Sex-specific quantitative trait loci linked to autoresuscitation failure in SWR/J mice FREENEWS
Welcome to the Heredity Podcasts
Listen to the free audio show presented by Steve Le Comber and Elizabeth McCarthy. The podcast features interviews with the people behind the science and a digest of breaking news from former Heredity managing editor Richard Nichols at Queen Mary University of London.
Heredity Podcast
A new article from Nature Reviews Genetics: Vertebrate limb bud development: moving towards integrative analysis of organogenesis
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Research and Reviews
Latest research highlights and reviews from the NPG family of journals
