Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics is a Specialty Section of Frontiers in Genetics.
The technological, informational, and computational advances of the past decade have opened the door to dramatic advances in our understanding of the evolutionary and population genetics of life. In particular, next generation sequencing technology has democratized whole-genome sequencing. At long last, individual laboratories can accomplish projects that were, until recently, the purview of large-scale sequencing centers exclusively. Genome-sequence data are now available and being produced for population samples of hundreds and even thousands of individuals. Not even extinction is a guarantee against having one’s genome sequenced today.
Evolutionary and population geneticists also benefit from a growing understanding of the functional, phenotypic, and medical effects of genetic variation. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), burgeoning functional genomics technologies such as ChiP-SEQ and RNA-SEQ, and systematic catalogs of gene deletions in a variety of model organisms are examples of projects that can and should inform the study of evolutionary genetics broadly. Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics is a forum for the publication of articles on contemporary data and novel laboratory and statistical methods in molecular evolution, population genetics, population genomics, comparative genomics, ancient DNA, experimental genetics, evolutionary and developmental genetics and gene mapping. Studies on human, model organism, and natural populations are all appropriate for this Specialty Section.
Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics welcomes the following
tier 1 article types: Book Review, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge and Technology Report.
All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics, where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the Specialty Section.
All articles published in Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics will be subjected to the
Frontiers Evaluation System after online publication. Authors of the
original research articles with the highest impact, as judged by many expert readers, will be invited by the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Genetics to write a prestigious Frontiers
Focused Review - a tier 2 article. This is referred to as "
democratic tiering". The selection is based on the reader impact over a 4-month period from the date of publication. The selected high impact articles are re-written in a review style centered on the original discovery, and aim to address the wider audience across all of Genetics.