Heredity
Overview
Heredity is a renowned scientific journal that focuses on the study of genetics and evolution. It publishes cutting-edge research articles, reviews, and commentaries, covering a wide range of topics including inheritance, gene expression, population genetics, and molecular evolution. With its rigorous peer-review process and interdisciplinary approach, Heredity serves as a valuable resource for scientists and researchers in the field of genetics.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Heredity (Edinb)
Start
1947
End
Continuing
Frequency
Monthly
p-ISSN
0018-067X
e-ISSN
1365-2540
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Specialty
Genetics
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 1773
135
SJR / Ranks: 3559
1039
CiteScore / Ranks: 2824
7.10
JIF / Ranks: 2461
3.8
Recent Articles
1.
Milhaven M, Garg A, Versoza C, Pfeifer S
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40082647
The rate of spontaneous (de novo) germline mutation is a key parameter in evolutionary biology, impacting genetic diversity and contributing to the evolution of populations and species. Mutation rates themselves...
2.
Yang S, Zheng C, Xia C, Kang J, Gu L
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40075226
Although depression significantly impacts fitness, some hypotheses suggest that it may offer a survival benefit. However, there has been limited systematic investigation into the selection pressures acting on genes associated...
3.
Bergelova B, Gvozdik V, Knytl M
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40025138
Chromosomal rearrangements are fundamental evolutionary drivers leading to genomic diversification. African clawed frogs (genus Xenopus, subgenera Silurana and Xenopus) represent an allopolyploid model system with conserved chromosome numbers in species...
4.
Xu S, Neupane S, Wang H, Pham T, Snyman M, Huynh T, et al.
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39979422
The effective use of CRISPR technologies in emerging model organisms faces significant challenges in efficiently generating heritable mutations and in understanding the genomic consequences of induced DNA damages and the...
5.
Skovbjerg C, Sarup P, Wahlstrom E, Jensen J, Orabi J, Olesen L, et al.
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39962219
No abstract available.
6.
Chan K, Hime P, Brown R
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39956873
Hybridization plays a major role in the evolutionary history of many taxa and can generate confounding patterns affecting many downstream applications. In this study, we empirically demonstrate how hybridization obfuscates...
7.
Cappa E, Chen C, Klutsch J, Sebastian-Azcona J, Ratcliffe B, Wei X, et al.
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39939512
Exploring the relationship between phenotype, genotype, and environment is essential in quantitative genetics. Considering the complex genetic architecture of economically important traits, integrating genotype-by-environment interactions in a genome-wide association (GWAS)...
8.
Habig M, Patneedi S, Stam R, De Fine Licht H
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39929992
Horizontal transfer of entire chromosomes has been reported in several fungal pathogens, often significantly impacting the fitness of the recipient fungus. All documented instances of horizontal chromosome transfers (HCTs) showed...
9.
Eriksen E, Andrews A, Nielsen S, Persson P, Malca E, Onar V, et al.
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39920258
Mitonuclear discordance between species is readily documented in marine fishes. Such discordance may either be the result of past natural phenomena or the result of recent introgression from previously seperated...
10.
Baumgartner C, Jourdain E, Bonhoeffer S, Borga K, Heide-Jorgensen M, Karoliussen R, et al.
Heredity (Edinb)
. 2025 Jan;
134(2):109-119.
PMID: 39833275
Metapopulation dynamics can be shaped by foraging ecology, and thus be sensitive to shifts in prey availability. Genotyping 204 North Atlantic killer whales at 1346 loci, we investigated whether spatio-temporal...