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    We are pleased to announce the winners of the annual prize for the best student-led paper in Heredity for 2024. Always a challenge to select a winner with so many great submissions, but the award for this year goes to Kate Rick from The University of Western Australia.

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  • Biological invasions are a huge issue in contemporary biology. In this episode we hear from Teun Everts and Rein Brys, who are studying the American Bullfrog invasion of Belgium.

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    This special issue in Heredity follows the inaugural UK Worm Meetings organised under the Genetics Society’s C. elegans Special Interest Group. Click here for more information on the special issue.

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    This special issue in Heredity highlights this exciting frontier of genomic research, shedding light on the elusive links between SV genotype and phenotype. Click here for more information on the special issue.

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Special Issue: Mendel’s laws of heredity on his 200th birthday: What have we learned by considering exceptions?

This Special Issue celebrates Mendel’s 200th birthday by focusing on exceptions to the Mendelian ‘laws’. Discovery in science is often driven forward more by exceptions than by rules. In genetics, Mendel’s laws of heredity provide the basic ‘rules’. Recent decades have seen an explosion in discoveries that violate these rules, which has driven the field of genetics forward. Indeed, these ‘exceptions’ can shape patterns of inheritance and can have important impacts on evolutionary processes. Genetics Society Executives: Jason B. Wolf, Department of Biology & Biochemistry and The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, UK Anne C Ferguson-Smith,, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK Alexander Lorenz, Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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