Welcome to Heredity
Heredity is an official journal of the Genetics Society, and publishes original research in all areas of genetics, complemented by News & Commentary articles and reviews keeping researchers and students abreast of hot topics.
To hear about the research in the words of the scientists themselves, listen to the Heredity podcasts.
Check the Heredity forum for debate on hot articles or to air your views on anything published in the journal.
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Volume 101, No 5
November 2008
ISSN: 0018-067X
EISSN: 1365-2540
2007 impact factor 4.065*
38/132 Genetics & Heredity
Managing editor:
R Nichols
* Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters, 2008
FEATURED ARTICLES
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Lost in the zygote: the dilution of paternal mtDNA upon fertilizationORIGINAL ARTICLE
Wolbachia modification of sperm does not always require residence within developing spermORIGINAL ARTICLE
A Fisher scoring algorithm for the weighted regression method of QTL mappingORIGINAL ARTICLE
Vivipary as a tool to analyze late embryogenic events in maizeNEWS
Latest comments on the Heredity Forum
Neil Howell and colleagues respond to an earlier commentary in Heredity (Heredity 100, 1-2) on mtDNA rate measurement and join in the molecular clock debate. Read this comment FREE now on the Heredity Forum!
Welcome to the Heredity Podcasts
Each month Elli Leadbeater and Steve Le Comber present a free audio show. The podcast features interviews with the people behind the science and a digest of breaking news from Heredity editor Richard Nichols at Queen Mary University of London
Heredity Podcast
A new article from Nature Reviews Genetics: Epistasis — the essential role of gene interactions in the structure and evolution of genetic systems
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Research and Reviews
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