期刊名称：ANIMAL GENETICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Animal Genetics reports frontline research on the immunogenetics, biochemical genetics and molecular genetics of economically important and domestic animals. It reports current research on genetic variation at the level of single genes, their products and functions in economically important and domestic species of animals. In addition to the conventional areas of blood groups, protein polymorphism and gene mapping, the Journal encompasses advances in rapidly developing areas such as DNA polymorphism.
Animal Genetics publishes full-length Original Articles, Short Communications for extra rapid publication, and commissioned and submitted mini-reviews as well as notes on technical advances relevant to the subject. Brief Notes of molecular genetic markers are also accepted for rapid publication, and are an increasingly popular feature of the Journal.
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Other Relevant Sites:
Roslin Institute, Edinburgh |
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Indexed/Abstracted in |
- Animal Breeding Abstracts
- Biological Abstracts
- Current Contents Life Sciences
- FO: VM
- Science Citation Index
- Index Medicus
- Index Veterinarius
- Veterinary Bulletin
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Print ISSN: 0268-9146
Online ISSN: 1365-2052
Issues per Volume: Bi-monthly |
Instructions to Authors
General
The manuscript must be accompanied by a completed manuscript submittal form. Copies of the manuscript submittal form can also be obtained from the Editors. Authors are encouraged to publish in English using British spelling. Manuscripts must be grammatically and linguistically correct and authors whose native language is not English are advised to seek the help of a native English-speaking colleague in preparing the manuscript. The Editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that are not prepared in accordance with these instructions. Papers must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere, and on acceptance they become the copyright of the journal.
Copyright
Authors will be required to assign copyright in their paper to the International Society for Animal Genetics. Copyright Assignment is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned. Papers subject to government or Crown copyright are exempt from this requirement. To assist authors the editorial office will supply an appropriate copyright assignment form. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here.
Author material archive policy
Please note that unless specifically requested, Blackwell Publishing will dispose of all hardcopy or electronic material submitted two months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the editorial office or production editor as soon as possible if you have not yet done so. Arrangement of the Manuscript
Four hard copies of the manuscript including all figures and tables should be submitted and these should be typed with a wide margin, double spaced on standard A4 (300 mm x 2l0 mm) or American quarto (8.5" ?11") paper. The lines should be numbered. Authors should retain one copy of the text, tables and illustrations as the editors cannot accept responsibility for damage to or loss of manuscripts.
Spelling should conform to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English and units of measurement, symbols and abbreviations with those in Units, Symbols and Abbreviations (4th edn, 1988), published and supplied by the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1M 8AE. This specifies the use of SI (Systéme International) units.
Full research manuscripts should consist of the following sections - title page, Summary, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References, tables, legends to figures. Full research manuscripts should normally not exceed 5000 words in length, including all figures, legends, etc., i.e. approximately five journal pages in total.
Short communications should consist of the following sections - title page, Summary, Keywords, main text, Acknowledgements, References, tables, legends to figures. Short communications must not exceed 1500 words and two figures and/or tables.
Brief notes are restricted to half a printed page, which corresponds to approximately 500 words. Only two copies of these manuscripts and accompanying figures need to be submitted.
Please click here if you wish to view an example of a full paper, short communication or brief notes. Disks
Animal Genetics encourages the submission of accepted articles on 3.5" disks. This may enable a paper to be published more rapidly than if provided as a hard copy only. Please do not send disks with original submissions. All disks should be accompanied by a hard copy of the paper together with details of the type of computer used, the software employed and the disk system, if known. Electronic manuscripts should be prepared as follows:
- DOS or Windows operating system and Word Perfect or Word for Windows word-processing packages should be used
- the disk and hard copy must be exact final versions
- data on disk should preferably be divided into separate files for text, references, figure legends and tables
- leave the right-hand margin unjustified
- turn the hyphenation option off
- use tabs, not spaces, to separate data in tables
- clearly label the disk with your name, the short title of paper, and the computer software used.
Particular attention should be taken to ensure that any articles submitted in this form adhere to the Journal style.
Title Page
The title page should include a short but informative title of the paper, the initials and surnames of each author followed by his or her department, institution, city, post code and country. The fax, telephone number and email address of the corresponding author should also be included. Any changes of address should be given in footnotes. The author to whom reprint requests should be addressed must be indicated (preferably the corresponding author). Acknowledgements of funding and institutions paper reference number should not appear on the title page.
Summary
Full papers and short communications should include a summary of not more than 250 words. The abstract should summarize the main findings of the study and be comprehensible before the rest of the paper is read. Abbreviations and references should not be used in the abstract.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements should follow the main text but precede the list of references. Personal acknowledgements should precede those of institutions and agencies.
References
References in the text should follow the Harvard system in style, i.e. name followed by date, Brown & Smith (1966); if there are three or more authors, Brown et al. (1966). References at the end of the text should be listed in alphabetical order of (first) authors, giving both the full title of the paper and full name of the journal, and should appear as follows:
Giger U., Reilly M.P., Asakura T., Baldwin C.J. & Harvey J.W. (1986) Autosomal recessive phosphofructokinase deficiency in English springer spaniel dogs. Animal Genetics 17, 15-23.
McKeam T.J. (1980) Method for growing hybridomas in rats or mice. In: Monoclonal Antibodies (ed. by R.H. Kennet, T.J. McKearn & K.B. Bechtol), pp. 403-4. Plenum Press, New York.
Personal communications (K. MacPherson, personal communication) must be authorized in writing by those involved, and unpublished data should be cited in the text as (unpublished data). References to manuscripts submitted, but not yet accepted, should be cited in the text as (M. Bruce & A. Laing, in preparation) and should not be included in the list of references.
For brief notes, citations in the text should be by number, and an abbreviated format should be used for references at the end of the text, i.e. a maximum of two authors should be listed, the title of the article should be omitted and abbreviated journal titles should be used, e.g. 1 Giger et al. (1986) Anim Genet 17, 15-23.
Illustrations
Illustrations should be labelled with the figure number and authors name in soft pencil on the back, identifying the top edge. Lettering on graphs and other illustrations should be horizontal wherever possible. Photographs should be glossy bromide prints of good contrast, well matched for tonal range and mounted on card with a transparent overlay for protection. Both photographs and line drawings should be at least twice the final size. After reduction, they should fit one of three widths: single column (70 mm), double column (144 mm) or single column plus margin (106 mm). Line diagrams should be drawn with black ink on tracing paper or white card, or supplied as glossy prints.
It is the policy of Animal Genetics for authors to pay the full cost for the reproduction of their colour artwork. Therefore, please note that if there is colour artwork in your manuscript when it is accepted for publication, Blackwell Publishing require you to complete and return a colour work agreement form before your paper can be published. This form can be downloaded as a PDF* here. If you are unable to download the form, please contact the Production Editor at: Production Editor ?Animal Genetics, Blackwell Publishing, 101 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3ES, UK and they will be able to email or FAX a form to you. Once completed, please return the form to the Production Editor at the above address.
Any article received by Blackwell Publishing with colour work will not be published until the form has been returned.
* To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this program, it is available as a free download from the following web address:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Electronic Artwork
We would like to receive your artwork in electronic form. Please save vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) in Encapsulated Postscript Format (EPS), and bitmap files (e.g. half-tones) in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). Ideally, vector graphics that have been saved in metafile (.YVMF) or pict (.PCT) format should be embedded within the body of the text file. See detailed information on our completed digital illustration standards.
In the full-text online edition of the journal, figure legends may be truncated in abbreviated links to the full-screen version. Therefore, the first 100 characters of any legend should inform the reader of key aspects of the figure.
Supplementary material
Supplementary material can be published as web materials on the Animal Genetics web site at the Editors' discretion. In order to provide long term access to such supplementary information the Editors will generally prefer to see the material mounted on the Animal Genetics web site rather than on authors' sites. Supplementary materials may include details of allele frequencies underlying genetic diversity studies, primer sequences for multiple genetic markers or relevant multimedia files. The supplementary material will be accessible by hot links from the on-line version of Animal Genetics. Authors are responsible for the preparation of supplementary material, which should be supplied in a format that will be most accessible by readers (e.g. PDF or Word for text and TIFF/EPS for figures).
Accession Numbers
New nucleotide data must be submitted and deposited in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases and an accession number obtained before the paper can be accepted for publication. Submission to any one of the three collaborating databanks is sufficient to ensure data entry in all. The accession number should be included on the manuscript submittal form and in the manuscript. In addition, the authors must provide a hard copy of GenBanks accession approval. If requested, the database will withhold release of data until publication. The most convenient method for submitting sequence data is by World Wide Web.
Contact Information for Nucleotide Sequence:
DDBJ: Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan
National Institute of Genetics, 111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, JAPAN; telephone: +81 559 81 6853; fax: +81 559 81 6849; e-mail: ddbj@ddbj.nig.ac.jp web URL: www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp
EMBL: EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Submission, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD U.K.; telephone: +44 1223 494400; fax: +44 1223 494472; e-mail: datasubs@ebi.ac.uk web URL: www.ebi.ac.uk
GenBank: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bldg. 38A, Rm 8N-803 Bethesda, MD 20894, U.S.A.; telephone: +1 301 496 2475; fax: +1 301 480 9241;
e-mail: info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov web URL: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
For special types of submission (e.g. genomes, bulk submission, etc) additional submission protocols are available from the above sites.
Protein sequences, which have been determined by direct sequencing of the protein, must be submitted to SWISS-PROT at the EMBL outstation - The European Bioinformatics Institute and the accession number included on the manuscript submittal form and in the manuscript . Please note that accession numbers are not provided, IN ADVANCE, for protein sequences that are the result of nucleic acid sequences. These translations will automatically be forwarded to us from the EMBL nucleotide database and are assigned SWISS-PROT accession numbers on incorporation into TrEMBL.
Results from characterization experiments should also be submitted to SWISS-PROT at the EBI. This can include such information as function, subcellular location, subunit etc.
Contact Information for Protein Sequence:
SWISS-PROT submissions, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, U.K.; telephone: +44 1223 494400; fax: +44 1223 494472;
e-mail: datasubs@ebi.ac.uk (for sequence submissions); update@ebi.ac.uk (for characterization information); web URL: www.ebi.ac.uk
Figures illustrating sequence data will not generally be published, unless key features of the sequence need to be highlighted. Manuscripts containing sequence data will generally only be published if other data are included (e.g. evidence of polymorphism expression studies or chromosome assignments).
Policy
It is understood that by publishing a paper in Animal Genetics the authors agree to make available to other scientists engaged in academic (non-profit) research any of the nucleic acids, antibodies, cells, etc., that are not available from commercial suppliers and are required to substantiate the scientific conclusions of the paper. The International Society for Animal Genetics encourages the free exchange of research materials and data and fosters the standardization of nomenclature for genetic variants through such exchanges.
Ethical Standards
The journal will not accept for publication papers that describe experiments showing lack of concern for present ethical and welfare standards. The Editors decision in this regard is final.
Detailed instructions for authors are published annually (Animal Genetics 2002, 33, 85-87). Manuscripts that are not prepared in accordance with these detailed instructions and/or that are not accompanied by a completed manuscript submittal form will be returned to authors. Revision of the manuscript must be received by the editor within three months or the revision will be considered a new submission.
Offprints
The publishers will supply 25 free offprints of all papers except brief notes to the corresponding author. Additional offprints may be obtained at prevailing rates, provided that the order is placed when the proof is returned. Proofs
Proofs will be sent via e-mail as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file. Therefore, the corresponding author should supply their email address when they submit their manuscript. The e-mail server must be able to accept attachments up to 4 MB in size. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following Web site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. In your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs; proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available.
Online Early
Animal Genetics is covered by Blackwell Publishing’s OnlineEarly service. OnlineEarly articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. OnlineEarly articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors?final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of OnlineEarly articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so OnlineEarly articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article. More information about DOIs can be found at: http://www.doi.org/faq.html.
Brief Notes
Brief notes are now published in Animal Genetics and report information such as polymorphisms with map assignments, negative associations between a polymorphism and a trait, and genetic diversity data. These manuscripts should not exceed 500 words as they must accommodate a single column, i.e. half an A4 journal page. The format approximately follows that of the former Molecular Genetic Marker report, including reference formatting. Subheadings are adapted to the specific information.
Brief notes should be submitted to the Editors with a completed manuscript submission form as outlined above.
Editorial Board
Editors
Alan L. Archibald, Roslin Institute, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9PS, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 131 527 4200
Fax: +44 (0) 131 440 0434
email: Animal.Genetics@bbsrc.ac.uk
Noelle E. Cockett, Utah State University, Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences, UMC 4700, Logan, Utah 84322, USA
Tel: +1 (435) 797 3903
Fax: +1 (435) 797 3904
email: fanoelle@cc.usu.edu
Editorial Board
Leif Andersson, Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala, Sweden
email: leif.andersson@bmc.uu.se
Ernest Bailey, Department of Veterinary Science, M.H. Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546-0099, USA
email: ebailey@uky.edu
Stephen Bishop, Roslin Institute, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9PS, UK
email: stephen.bishop@bbsrc.ac.uk
Daniel G. Bradley, Department of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
email: dbradley@mail.tcd.ie
David W. Burt, Roslin Insitute, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9PS, UK
email: dave.burt@bbsrc.ac.uk
Hans H. Cheng, USDA, ARS, ADOL, 3606 East Mount Hope Road, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
email: hcheng@pilot.msu.edu
Ruedi Fries, Lehrstuhl für Tierzucht, Technische Universität München, Alte Akademie 12 D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
email: ruedi.fries@tierzucht.tum.de
Olivier Hanotte, International Livestock Research Institute, P.O. Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
email: o.hanotte@cgiar.org
Brian W. Kirkpatrick, University of Wisconsin, Department of Animal Sciences, 646 Animal Science Building, 1675 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI
53706, USA
email: kirkpat@calshp.cals.wisc.edu
Joan K. Lunney, Immunology and Disease Resistance Laboratory, ANRI, ARS, USDA Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
email: jlunney@anri.barc.usda.gov
Denis Milan, Laboratoire de Genetique Cellulaaire, Centre INRA dde Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, 31326, France
email: milan@toulouse.inra.fr
Caird Rexroad III, USDA/ARS, National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, P.O. Box 100, Kearneysville, WV 25430, USA
email: CRexroad@ncccwa.ars.usda.gov
Gary Rohrer, USDA/ARS, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, P.O. Box 166, Clay Center, NE 68933-0166, USA
email: rohrer@email.marc.usda.gov
Antonin Stratil, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Science of Czech Republic, Rumburska 89, 277 21 Libechov, Czech Republic
email: stratil@iapg.cas.cz
Yoshikazu Sugimoto, Shirakawa Institute of Animal Genetics, Odakura, Nishigo, Nishishirakawa, Fukushima, 961-8061 Japan
email: kazusugi@siag.or.jp
Jeremy Taylor, Department of Animal Science, S135 ASRC, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-5300, USA
email: taylorjerr@missouri.edu
Manuscripts should be sent to either of the Editors:
A.L. Archibald
The Editor
Animal Genetics
Roslin Institute
Roslin
Midlothian, EH25 9PS
Scotland
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 131 527 4200
Fax: +44 (0) 131440 0434
E-mail: Animal.Genetics@BBSRC.AC.UK
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Dr Noelle E. Cockett
Utah State University
Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences
UMC 4700
Logan
Utah 84322
USA
Tel: +1 (435) 797 3903
Fax: +1 (435) 797 3904
E-mail: fanoelle@cc.usu.edu
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