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Annual Review of Genetics

Annual Review of Genetics publishes review articles covering significant developments in genetics, including biochemical, behavioral, cell, and developmental genetics; evolutionary and population genetics; chromosome structure and transmission; gene function and expression; mutation and repair; genomics; immunogenetics; and related genetics of viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants, animals, and humans. The journal has been published since 1967 and is active.

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Impact Factor 8.6
Quartile Q1
Open Access Type Closed
ISSN 0066-4197
eISSN 1545-2948
Invitation Only Yes

Submission Instructions

Annual Review of Genetics is an invitation-only journal. Submissions are accepted by invitation from the editorial board only. The following article types are accepted:

Invited Reviews

Cover Letter Cover Letter requirements are not specified.
Abstract Abstract requirements are not specified.
Manuscript Invited Reviews must include an Acknowledgments section for contributors who do not meet authorship criteria and for any AI use, with targeted AI use also disclosed where pertinent in the article such as in a figure caption.
References References in Invited Reviews must exist and support the cited content, source publications should be cited in close proximity to discussion of others’ findings or theories, unpublished non-peer-reviewed material should be avoided when possible and identified as unpublished and not peer reviewed if cited, and direct quotations must include quotation marks and page numbers or be set off as extracts for several consecutive sentences.
Figures & Tables Invited Reviews may include only reused figures for which permission has been obtained, the source of reused material must be credited at the end of the figure caption, grouped images from different sources must be explicitly identified in the figure arrangement and caption, and any nonlinear image adjustments must be disclosed in the caption.
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Recent Publications

Design Principles and Architecture of Cellular Nutrient Signaling

Gaurav Singh, Kaveri Vaidya, Sunil Laxman

10.1146/annurev-genet-012026-084152
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Organization of Ribosomal RNA Genes in Eukaryotes

Austen R.D. Ganley, Sylvie Hermann-Le Denmat

10.1146/annurev-genet-011626-023157
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Dynamic Centromeres Under Epigenetic Constraint

Emma M. Anderson, Barbara G. Mellone

10.1146/annurev-genet-012826-084425
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Mitochondrial DNA Inheritance and Germline Purifying Selection: Insights From Drosophila

Zhe Chen, Hong Xu

10.1146/annurev-genet-011626-033825
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Genomic Imprinting: Common Threads Uniting Diverse Biological Systems

Robyn A. Emmerson, Rebecca A. Mosher

10.1146/annurev-genet-012626-101213
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Research Topics

Chromosomal and Genetic Variations RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms CRISPR and Genetic Engineering DNA Repair Mechanisms Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Bacteriophages and microbial interactions Animal Genetics and Reproduction Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms RNA Research and Splicing Evolution and Genetic Dynamics Mitochondrial Function and Pathology RNA modifications and cancer Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Microtubule and mitosis dynamics Plant Molecular Biology Research Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation Fungal and yeast genetics research Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities Protist diversity and phylogeny Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms Genetic diversity and population structure