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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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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.
The Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award supports conference-attendance costs for undergraduate GSA members who are presenting research at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference. #Dros26 will be held in Chicago, Illinois from March 4-8, 2026. Victoria Finnerty, who died in February 2011,...
AbstractOctopamine (OA), the insect analog of noradrenaline, plays important roles in diverse behavioral and physiological processes, from modulating fight-or-flight behavior to regulating post-mating ovulation. In Drosophila, six OA receptors have been identified: Oamb, Octα2R, Octβ1R, Octβ2R, Octβ3R, and Oct-TyrR, and they have been linked to different behavioral and physiological processes. Here, we investigated the evolutionary characteristics of these receptors across Drosophila species. We found that OA receptors are generally found as single-copy genes. Notably, Octβ2R...
AbstractF-statistics are commonly used to assess hybridization, admixture or introgression between populations or deeper evolutionary lineages. Using simulations, we find that network complexity had a large impact on the accuracy to infer the network structure from f -statistics. Networks recovered accurately had one reticulation, or had their reticulations in “large” cycles of at least 4 nodes in all subnetworks. But accuracy was extremely poor to infer complex networks, in which a reticulation is part of...
