The Journal of Genetics is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 in the field of genetics

Genetics

Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

 and evolution

Evolution

Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...

. It was founded in 1910 by the British

United Kingdom

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 geneticists William Bateson

William Bateson

William Bateson was an English geneticist and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge...

 and Reginald Punnett

Reginald Punnett

Professor Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes...

 and is one of the oldest genetics journals. It was later edited by J.B.S. Haldane, who emigrated to India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 in 1957, and continued publishing the journal from there.

On Haldane's death in 1964, his second wife Helen Spurway

Helen Spurway

Helen Spurway was a biologist and the second wife of J. B. S. Haldane. She emigrated to India in 1957 along with Haldane and conducted research in field biology along with Suresh Jayakar and others....

 continued to publish the journal with Madhav Gadgil

Madhav Gadgil

Madhav Gadgil is an Indian ecologist.-Biography:He was born in Maharashtra studied biology at University of Poona and University of Bombay before doing a Ph.D. thesis in the area of mathematical ecology at Harvard University...

, H. Sharat Chandra, and Suresh Jayakar

Suresh Jayakar

Suresh Dinker Jayakar was an Indian biologist who pioneered in the use of quantitative approaches in genetics and biology....

 as editors until Spurway died in 1977 and the journal ceased publication. With the permission of Naomi Mitchison

Naomi Mitchison

Naomi May Margaret Mitchison, CBE was a Scottish novelist and poet. She was appointed CBE in 1981; she was also entitled to call herself Lady Mitchison, CBE since 5 October 1964 .- Childhood and family background :Naomi Margaret Haldane was...

, Haldane's sister, it was revived in 1985 and has been published by the Indian Academy of Sciences

Indian Academy of Sciences

The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Sir C. V. Raman, and was registered as a Society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meeting of Fellows, held on the same day, elected Professor Raman as President, and adopted...

 in Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

, currently in collaboration with Springer Verlag, since then. All volumes published between 1910 and 1994 (vol. 1-73) are available free on the website of the Indian Academy of Sciences.