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For almost a century, Hereditas has published original cutting-edge research and reviews. As the Official journal of the Mendelian Society of Lund, the journal welcomes research from across all areas of genetics and genomics. Topics of interest include human and medical genetics, animal and plant genetics, microbial genetics, agriculture and bioinformatics. Articles covering novel viral sequences or the use of new technology and software in genomic research are also welcomed.

Editors-in-Chief 
Stefan Baumgartner, Lund University, Sweden 
Yongyong Shi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Commissioning Editor
Shuhua Xu, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, China
Editorial Board
Lutz Bachmann, University of Oslo, Norway 
Tilman Borggrefe, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany 
Andreas Börner, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany 
Alejandro Bravo-Patiño, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico 
Robert Desalle, American Museum of Natural History, USA
Deborah A Eastman, Connecticut College, USA 
Xiaolong Fan, Beijing Normal University, China 
Katsuo Furukuba-Tokunaga, University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Ge Gao, Peking University, China
Udo Häcker, Lund University, Sweden
Mats Hansson, Lund University, Sweden 
Robert Hasterok, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland 
Pilar Hernandez, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, Spain 
Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen, UK 
Zhibin Hu, Nanjing Medical University, China
Mattias Jakobsson, Uppsala University, Sweden 
Elena Khlestkina, N I Vavilov All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, St. Petersburg, Russia 
Ralf Kölling, University of Hohenheim, Germany 
Ulf Kristoffersson, Lund University, Sweden 
Miroslaw Kwasniewski, University of Silesia, Poland 
Charlotte Lindqvist, University at Buffalo, USA
Di Liu, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jian Lu, Peking University, China 
Dieter Maier, University of Hohenheim, Germany 
Nils Mandahl, Lund University, Sweden
Franz Oswald, University of Ulm, Germany 
Diana Resendez-Perez, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico 
Douglas Ruden, Wayne State University, USA
Jakub Sawicki, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland 
Stefan Schwartz, Lund University, Sweden 
Douglas Scofield, Uppsala University, Sweden 
Max J Scott, NC State University, USA
Michel Slotman, Texas A&M University, USA
Maria Soller, Lund University, Sweden
Yi Henry Sun, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 
Fumihiko Takeuchi, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan
Huaiyu Tian, Beijing Normal University, China
Pim van Hooft, Wageningen University, Netherlands 
Kirsten Wolff, Newcastle University, UK 
Feng Zhang, Fudan University, China
Wei Zhang, Central South University, China
Fangqing Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China