The Journal of Heredity (not to be confused with the journal Heredity

Heredity (journal)

Heredity is a scientific journal concerned with heredity in a biological sense, i.e. genetics. It was founded by R.A. Fisher and C. D. Darlington in 1947. It is the official journal of The Genetics Society....

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Scientific journal

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 concerned with heredity

Heredity

Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring . This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism. Through heredity, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause some species to evolve...

 in a biological sense, i.e. genetics

Genetics

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

. It was established in 1910 as the American Breeders' Magazine of the American Breeder's Association, both of which changed names in 1915 to the Journal of Heredity (volume 5) and the American Genetic Association

American Genetic Association

The American Genetic Association , formerly the American Breeders' Association, founded 1903, is a USA-based learned society dedicated to the study of genetics. It publishes the Journal of Heredity-History:...

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Abstracting and indexing

The Journal of Heredity is indexed in Science Citation Index

Science Citation Index

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, Current Contents

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/Life Sciences, MEDLINE

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 (Index Medicus

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), EMBASE

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, BIOSIS Previews

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, and Chemical Abstracts Service

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Article types

The journal publishes articles in the following categories:

• Research articles
  Empirical
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• Brief Communications
• Computer Notes
• Letters
  Letter to the editor
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and, on invitation:

• Book review
  Book review
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• Review article
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• Perspectives
• Symposium Articles