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88 days from submission to acceptance
12 days from acceptance to publication

Mobile DNA is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles providing novel insights into DNA rearrangements in all organisms, ranging from transposition and other types of recombination mechanisms to patterns and processes of mobile element and host genome evolution. In addition, the journal will consider articles on the utility of mobile genetic elements in biotechnological methods and protocols.

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Editors-in-Chief
Marlene Belfort, University at Albany, USA
Cédric Feschotte, Cornell University, USA 
Haig Kazazian, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA 
Henry Levin, NIH, USA
Associate Editors
Irina Arkhipova, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, USA
Orsolya Barabas, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
Gael Cristofari, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France 
Adam Ewing, Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland, Australia
Clément Gilbert, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, France 
Molly G Hammell, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Damon R Lisch, Purdue University, USA
Joe Peters, Cornell University, USA
Phoebe Rice The University of Chicago, USA 

Reviews Editors
Michael Chandler, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
John Goodier, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA 
Adam Roberts, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Social Media and Preprint Editor
Alexander Suh, Uppsala University, Sweden
Editorial Board
Wenfeng An,  South Dakota State University, USA 
Peter Atkinson, University of California Riverside, USA
Mark Batzer, Louisiana State University, USA 
Jeffrey Bennetzen, University of Georgia, USA 
Casey Bergman, University of Georgia, USA
Mireille Betermier, Centre de Genetique Moleculaire, France 
Jef Boeke, NYU Langone Medical Center, USA 
Stephane Boissinot, New York University - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 
Miguel Branco, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Alex Bortvin, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA
Déborah Bourc’his, Institut Curie, France
Guillaume Bourque, McGill University, Canada 
John Brookfield, University of Nottingham, UK 
Juergen Brosius, University of Muenster, Germany 
Kathleen Burns, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA 
Frederic Bushman, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Pierre Capy, Université Paris-Sud, France 
Ronald Chalmers, Nottingham University, UK 
Ling-Ling Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Richard Cordaux, Université de Poitiers, France 
Joan Curcio, New York State Department of Health, USA 
Prescott Deininger, Tulane University, USA 
Jean-Marc Deragon, Universite de Perpignan, France 
Keith Derbyshire, New York State Department of Health, USA 
Scott Devine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA 
Fred Dyda, NIH, USA 
Astrid Engel, Tulane University, USA
Geoffrey Faulkner, Mater Medical Research Institute, Australia 
Anthony Furano, NIH, USA 
Jose Luis Garcia-Perez, University of Edinburgh, UK
David Garfinkel, University of Georgia, USA
Brandon Gaut, University of California Irvine, USA
Jeffrey Han, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA
Rasika Harshey, University of Texas at Austin, USA 
Kenji Ichiyanagi, Kyushu University, Japan 
Zoltan Ivics, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Germany 
Zsuzsanna Izsvak, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany 
Reid Johnson, UCLA, USA
I King Jordan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 
Koichi Kawakami, NIH, Japan 
Kenji K Kojima, Genetic Information Research Institute (GIRI), USA
Alan Lambowitz, University of Texas, USA 
David Largaespada, University of Minnesota, USA 
E Alice Lee, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Pascale Lesage, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, France 
Todd Macfarlan, NIH, USA
Dixie Mager, BC Cancer Agency, Canada 
Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester, USA
Sandy Martin, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, USA 
Didier Mazel, Institut Pasteur, France 
Marie Mirouze, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), France
John Moran, University of Michigan Medical School, USA 
Mitchell O'Connell, University of Rochester, USA
Marjorie Oettinger Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Norihiro Okada, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 
Ellen Pritham, University of Utah, USA 
David Ray, Texas Tech University, USA 
Suzanne Sandmeyer, University of California Irvine, USA 
Gerald Schumann, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Germany 
Haruhiko Siomi, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
Mikiko Siomi, University of Tokyo, Japan 
R Keith Slotkin, The Ohio State University, USA
Chantal Vaury, CNRS, INSERM, France 
Cristina Vieira, Université Lyon, France 
Jean-Nicolas Volff, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France 
Oliver Weichenrieder, Max Planck Institut for Developmental Biology, Germany 
Holly Wichman, University of Idaho, USA 
Jinchuan Xing Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA 
Steven Zimmerly, University of Calgary, Canada
Emeritus Editors
Nancy Craig, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA 
Thomas Eickbush, University of Rochester, USA 
Daniel Voytas, University of Minnesota, USA