In celebration of International Women's Day this year, we have put together a collection of papers by some prominent female geneticists who have published in Heredity. In each case, we are ...

A gene is a fundamental unit of heredity, consisting of a specific sequence of DNA that encodes the instructions for making a particular protein or set of proteins. Genes are passed down from parents ...

The genome is often thought of as a set of instructions for building an organism. When genes are active, they express proteins, so these active genes give rise to the characteristics of a cell. An ...