Discipline | Genetics |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Marc Tischkowitz |
Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Genetical Research |
History | 1960–present |
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Yes | |
1.059 (2017) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Genet. Res. (Camb.) |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0016-6723 (print) 1469-5073 (web) |
LCCN | 2018219050 |
OCLC no. | 239614039 |
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Genetics Research is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of human and animal genetics, reporting key findings on genomes, genes, mutations and molecular interactions, extending out to developmental, evolutionary, and population genetics as well as ethical, legal and social aspects. It was established in 1960 as Genetical Research, obtaining its current name in 2008. The founding editor-in-chief was Eric C.R. Reeve (University of Edinburgh). [1]
It is published by Cambridge University Press and the editor-in-chief is Marc Tischkowitz (University of Cambridge). According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.059, ranking it 149th out of 171 journals in the category "Genetics & Heredity". [2]
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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism. He served in the Great War, and obtained the rank of captain. Despite his lack of an academic degree in the field, he taught biology at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Institution, and University College London. Renouncing his British citizenship, he became an Indian citizen in 1961 and worked at the Indian Statistical Institute for the rest of his life.
William Bateson was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns. His 1894 book Materials for the Study of Variation was one of the earliest formulations of the new approach to genetics.
Mary Frances Lyon was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon.
Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. On February 13, 1968, Sturtevant received the 1967 National Medal of Science from President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Nature Reviews Genetics is a monthly review journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 2000 and covers the full breadth of modern genetics. The editor-in-chief is Linda Koch. The journal publishes review and perspective articles written by experts in the field subject to peer review and copy editing to provide authoritative coverage of topics. Each issue also contains Research Highlight articles – short summaries written by the editors that describe recent research papers.
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Leslie Clarence Dunn was a developmental geneticist at Columbia University. His early work with the mouse T-locus and established ideas of gene interaction, fertility factors, and allelic distribution. Later work with other model organisms continued to contribute to developmental genetics. Dunn was also an activist, helping fellow scientists seek asylum during World War II, and a critic of eugenics movements.
The Ronald Fisher bibliography contains the works published by the English statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher (1890–1962).
Florence Margaret Durham was a British geneticist at Cambridge in the early 1900s and an advocate of the theory of Mendelian inheritance, at a time when it was still controversial. She was part of an informal school of genetics at Cambridge led by her brother-in-law William Bateson. Her work on the heredity of coat colours in mice and canaries helped to support and extend Mendel's law of heredity. It is also one of the first examples of epistasis.
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Genes & Immunity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the intersection between immunology and genetics. It was established in 1999 and is published eight times per year by Springer Nature. The editors-in-chief are Thomas Brunner and Marie-Lise Gougeon. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.248, ranking it 90th out of 161 journals in the category "Immunology" and 65th out of 175 in the category "Genetics & Heredity".