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Aims and scope

Discover Genetics and Evolution (formerly Current Genetics) is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal that supports multidisciplinary research across all fields relevant to genetics and evolution. 

The journal aims to be a resource for researchers, policy makers and the general public for recent advances in genetics and evolution science and its uses in research development and society. As a fully open access journal, we ensure that our research is highly discoverable and instantly available globally to everyone. The journal particularly welcomes work that aims to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially Life Below Water; Life on Land; Good Health and Wellbeing; and Zero Hunger. 

Topics  

Topics welcomed at Discover Genetics and Evolution include but are not limited to the following: 

Across all types of life  

  • Applied genetic technologies 
  • Bioinformatics 
  • Computational genetics 
  • Data notes 
  • Epigenomics 
  • Evolutionary genetics and phylogeny 
  • Metabolomics 
  • Methods 
  • Proteomics 
  • Transcriptomics 

 

Animal genetics and genomics 

  • Aquaculture genetics  
  • Behavioural genetics 
  • Lab animals  
  • Livestock genetics  
  • Taxonomy 

 

Human genetics and genomics 

  • Biomarkers for diagnostics 
  • Genetic epidemiology  
  • Genetic impact on diseases  
  • Genomic medicine  
  • Pharmacogenomics 
  • RNA Vaccines 

 

Microbe genetics and genomics 

  • Modifying microbe genomes  
  • Taxonomy 
  • Virulent microbe genetic typing 

 

Plant genetics and genomics 

  • Crop genetics  
  • Plant disease genetics  
  • Reproductive genetics and plant breeding  
  • Taxonomy 

 

Content Types 

Discover Genetics and Evolution welcomes a variety of article types – please see our submission guidelines for details. The journal also publishes guest-edited Topical Collections of relevance to all aspects of genetics and evolution. 

 

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