Articles tagged Evolution
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The GSA Journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, are proud to present highlights from research published in 2024. The excellent research and scholarship published over the course of the year is being viewed, downloaded, and cited, which means it’s contributing to the field and helping push knowledge forward. We invite you to browse these papers, which have been grouped…

Researchers evaluate the accuracy of common statistical methods to identify recent genetic ancestry in GENETICS.

A new associate editor is joining GENETICS in statistical genetics and genomics. We’re excited to welcome Lei Sun to the editorial team. Lei SunAssociate EditorLei Sun is a Professor in Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of Toronto. She studied mathematics at Fudan University and obtained her PhD in statistics from the University of Chicago…

An international collaboration reveals the genetic secrets of endangered species. Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, University of Connecticut undergraduates have published the first full map of the unusual tree’s DNA in G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. The butternut is…

A new associate editor is joining GENETICS in population and evolutionary genetics. We’re excited to welcome Konrad Lohse to the editorial team. Konrad LohseAssociate Editor Konrad Lohse is a population geneticist interested in learning about evolution in natural populations from genomic data. After a BSc at the University of St Andrews, he obtained a PhD…

A new associate editor is joining GENETICS in the population and evolutionary genetics section. We’re excited to welcome Thomas Lenormand to the editorial team. Thomas Lenormand Associate Editor Thomas Lenormand is Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique research director at the CEFE laboratory. He is an evolutionary geneticist, combining mathematical theory, statistical developments, laboratory experiments,…

A new associate editor is joining GENETICS. We’re excited to welcome William Gilliland to the editorial team. William Gilliland Associate Editor I have been a faculty at DePaul University in Chicago since 2009. I study female meiosis in Drosophila, and I’m most interested in topics like the movement of chromosomes through prometaphase I, the population…

Several new editors are joining the GSA Journals. We’re excited to welcome Ricardo Zayas to the GENETICS editorial board under the Molecular Genetics of Development section, and on the G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics board, we welcome Polly Campbell, Kevin Vogel, Joe Parker, and Ricardo Mallarino. Ricardo Zayas Associate Editor Ricardo Zayas is a Professor of Biology at…

Three new editors are joining GSA journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. We’re excited to welcome Arash Bashirullah, Noah Whiteman, and Yun Li to their roles as Senior Advisory Editor for GENETICS, Genome Report Senior Editor for G3, and Associate Editor for GENETICS, respectively. Arash Bashirullah Senior Advisory Editor, GENETICS Dr. Arash Bashirullah is a Professor…

On scientific laws, classic dances, and a new study about molecular evolution…in reverse.

Congratulations to the winners of the Editors’ Choice Awards for outstanding articles published in GENETICS in 2021! The journal’s Editorial Board considered a diverse range of articles, finding many papers worthy of recognition. After much deliberation, they settled on one exceptional article for each of the three award categories: molecular genetics, population and evolutionary genetics,…