期刊名称：GENOME
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Published since 1957, this is an international cytogenetics bimonthly journal which publishes reports in the fields of population, evolutionary and developmental genetics, mutagenesis, genetics and cytogenetics of animals, plants and fungi. Reports are based on the most advanced techniques available. Associate editors in Australia, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, U.K., and U.S.A. receive and handle manuscripts directly facilitating the rapid processing of papers.
Instructions to Authors
Genome publishes, in English or French, scientific reports on the mechanisms of genetics, cytogenetics, and evolution. The reports are expected to be based on the most advanced techniques that are appropriate for the experiments. Traditionally, Genome publishes a significant number of articles concerned with the basic aspects of heredity and evolution in fungi, plants, and animals of societal importance. Reports that solely address quality improvement are referred to more suitable journals. Associate editors in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States receive and handle manuscripts directly and thereby promote rapid processing of papers. Authors are requested to suggest suitable referees and to submit their names, addresses, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address, with the manuscript. Manuscripts may be sent to the Editor or to an appropriate member of the Editorial Board. When submitting a manuscript to an associate editor, a copy of the covering letter, the title page, and the abstract should be sent to the Editor.
Ethics
Authors must give assurance that no part of their manuscript reporting original work is being considered for publication, in whole or in part, by another journal. The corresponding author must affirm that all the authors have read and approved of the manuscript. In the case of multiple authors, it is preferred to report individual contributions in the Acknowledgements section.
Conflict of interest
The Editor recognizes that authors and peer reviewers may have real or perceived conflicts of interest arising from intellectual, personal, or financial circumstances of their research. Submitted manuscripts should include full disclosure of funding sources for the research and the letter of transmission should include an explanation of any real or perceived conflicts of interest that may arise during the peer review process.
Policies
All Authors, Canadian or international, who describe experiments on animals are required to give assurance in the manuscript that the animals were cared for in accordance with the principles and guidelines of the Canadian Council on Animal Care (see Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals, Vol. 1 (2nd ed., 1993) and Vol. 2 (1984); this guide is available from the Canadian Council on Animals Care, Constitution Square, Tower 2, Suite 315, 350 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1R 1B1, Canada.
Authors who describe experiments on humans are required to provide assurance in the manuscript that the appropriate standards for human experimentation have been followed, that the experiment has been reviewed and approved by thir institution's ethics review commitee, and that the subjects have given informed consent prior to participating in the study.
Types of articles
Articles report original results or concepts. Notes are brief scientific reports of a preliminary nature consisting of a title, abstract, text, and references. The materials and methods are included in the text or figure legends. The length should not exceed 4 printed pages or 12 typed manuscript pages. Techniques is a section of the Journal devoted to short reports on significant new techniques in cytogenetics. Comments offer amplification, alternate explanations, or corrections of original papers, preferably through the presentation of new evidence. Reviews are published by invitation. All contributions are evaluated by referees. Suggestions for review topics and authors should be addressed to
Dr. R.S. Singh
Associate Editor, Genome
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
E-mail: singh@mcmaster.ca
Submission of data to databases
Authors of manuscripts reporting nucleic acid sequences must submit the relevant data to the GenBank, EMBL, or DDBJ databases, whichever is most convenient. Data can be submitted by electronic mail or on diskette. Details regarding submission can be obtained from the relevant databases. Electronic mail addresses are as follows:
GenBank: gb-sub@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
EMBL: datasubs@embl-heidelberg.de
DDBJ: ddbjsub@ddbj.nig.ac.jp
The mailing address for GenBank is
GenBank Submissions
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bldg. 38A, Room 8N-803
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894, U.S.A.
The accession number of the sequence must be applied for before publication.
The manuscript
Publication is facilitated if the authors carefully check the symbols, abbreviations, and technical terms for accuracy, consistency, and readability and ensure that manuscripts and illustrations meet the Journal requirements outlined below. NRC Research Press maintains the right to preserve the technical quality of the Journal. Authors are requested to refer to a recent issue of the Journal for details of layout, especially for tables and reference list.
General ?All parts of the manuscript, including the references, footnotes, tables, and captions for illustrations should be typewritten, double-spaced, on one side only of white paper 8.5 ?11 in., with margins of 1 in. Use capital letters only when the letters or words should appear in capitals in the printed paper. The original typescript and two clear copies are required of both the original and final versions of the manuscript. Double-sided copies are not acceptable. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered. The first page should have only the title, the authors?names, the authors?affiliation(s), the telephone and fax numbers and E-mail address of the corresponding author, and any necessary footnotes. The manuscript will include the abstract(s) (p. 2) and the main body of the text, followed by, in order, acknowledgements, references, any appendices, tables, and figure captions. Tables and figure captions should be typed on separate pages in numerical order. Manuscripts that do not conform to this preferred format may be returned to the author for correction before review.
Spelling should follow that of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary or the Oxford English Dictionary. Authors are responsible for consistency in spelling.
Abbreviations, nomenclature, and symbols for units of measurement should conform to international recommendations. SI units (Système international d’unités) should be used or SI equivalents should be given. This system is explained and other useful information is given in the Metric Practice Guide (2000) published by CSA International (178 Rexdale Blvd., Toronto, ON M9W 1R3, Canada). For practical reasons, some exceptions to SI units are allowed. As a general guide for biological terms, The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers: Scientific Style and Format (6th edition, 1994), published by the Council of Biology Editors, Inc. (Chicago, IL 60603, U.S.A.), is recommended. Biochemical nomenclature and abbreviations should follow the recommendations of the International Union of Biochemistry, such as those on enzyme nomenclature (Enzyme Nomenclature: Recommendations (1992) of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Academic Press, San Diego, Calif.)). Abbreviations and contractions of the names of substances, procedures, etc., must be defined the first time they occur. Symbols and unusual Greek characters should be identified clearly, and superscripts and subscripts should be legible and carefully placed.
An abstract of not more than 200 words, typed on a separate page, is required for each article or note. References should not be included unless they are absolutely essential and complete bibliographic information is given. Authors who can submit abstracts in both fluent English and fluent French are encouraged to do so. Authors should provide three to five key words, which should be placed directly below the abstract.
References ?The author is responsible for verifying each reference against the original article. Each reference must be cited in the text, using the surnames of the authors and the year, for example, (Green 1970) or Green and Brown (1981). Depending on the sentence construction, the names may or may not be in parentheses, but the year always is. If there are three or more authors, the citation should give the name of the first author followed by et al. (e.g., Green et al. 1969). If references occur that are not uniquely identified by the authors?names and year, use a, b, c, etc., after the year, for example, Green 1983a, 1983b; Green and Brown 1978a, 1978b, for the text citation and in the reference list.
The reference list must be double-spaced and placed at the end of the text. References should follow the form used in current issues of the Journal. Articles submitted or in preparation may be mentioned as footnotes but should not appear in the references. Papers “in press?may be listed among the references. Authors must give assurance to the Editors that the paper has been accepted for publication. Volume and page numbers can be completed at the proof stage.
The names of serials are abbreviated in the form given in CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index, Chemical Abstracts Service, P.O. Box 3012, Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A.) or in BIOSIS?/SUP> Serial Sources (BIOSIS, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-1399, U.S.A.). In doubtful cases, authors should write out the name of the serial in full.
Footnotes to material in the text should not be used unless they are unavoidable, but their use is encouraged in tables. Where used in the text, footnotes should be cited in the manuscript by superscript Arabic numbers (except in the tables, see below) and should be numbered serially beginning with any that appear on the title page. Each footnote should be typed on the manuscript page upon which the reference is made; footnotes should not be included in the list of references.
Equations should be clearly typed; triple spacing should be used if superscripts and (or) subscripts are involved. Superscripts and subscripts should be legible and carefully placed. Distinguish between lowercase l and the numeral one, and between capital O and the numeral zero. A letter or symbol should represent only one entity and be used consistently throughout the paper. Each variable must be defined in the text, or in a List of symbols to appear after the reference list. Variables representing vectors, matrices, vector matrices, and tensors must be clearly identified. Numbers identifying equations must be in square brackets and placed flush with the left margin. In numbering, no distinction is made between mathematical and chemical equations.
Each table should have an Arabic number and a brief title and be referred to in the text. Column headings and descriptive matter in tables should be brief. A copy of the Journal should be consulted to see how tables are set up and where the lines in them are placed. Footnotes in tables should be designated by symbols (*, ? ? ? ll, ? #) or superscript lowercase italic letters. Descriptive material not designated by a footnote may be placed under a table as a Note. Tables should be typed on separate pages and placed after the reference list.
Appendices ?Figures and tables used in an appendix should be numbered sequentially but separately from those used in the main body of the paper, for example, Fig. A1, Table A1, etc.
Supplemental material ?The National Research Council of Canada maintains a depository in which supplementary material may be placed, either at the request of the author or suggestion of the Editor. Such material may include extensive tables of data, detailed calculations, and maps not essential for understanding and evaluating the paper. Such material must be clearly marked when the manuscript is submitted. Tables and figures should be numbered in sequence separate from those published with the paper (e.g., Fig. D1, Table D1). The supplemental material should be referred to by footnotes. Copies of material in the depository may be purchased from the Depository of Unpublished Data, CISTI, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada.
Illustrations
Provide photographic reproductions, laser printouts, or the original artwork (no larger than 11 x 17 in.) of each illustration. Provide the original set of illustrations and three sets of copies for review purposes.
Each figure or group of figures should be planned to fit, after appropriate reduction, into the area of either one or two columns of text. The maximum finished size of a one-column illustration is 8.8 x 23.9 cm (3.5 x 9.4 in.) and that of a two-column illustration is 18.2 x 23.9 cm (7.2 x 9.4 in.). The figures (including halftones) must be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, and each one must be referred to in the text and must be self-explanatory. All terms, abbreviations, and symbols must correspond with those in the text. Only essential labelling should be used, with detailed information given in the caption. Each illustration must be identified by the figure number and the authors?names on the back of the page or in the left-hand corner, well away from the illustration area.
Line drawings should be made with black ink or computer-generated in black on high-quality white paper or other comparable material. For computer-generated graphics, supply a laser print at the highest resolution available. Photocopies are not acceptable.
All lines must be sufficiently thick (0.5 points minimum) to reproduce well, and all symbols, superscripts, subscripts, and decimal points must be in good proportion to the rest of the drawing and large enough to allow for any necessary reduction without loss of detail. Avoid small open symbols; these tend to fill in upon reproduction. Lettering produced by dot matrix printers or typewriters, or by hand, is not acceptable. The same font style and lettering sizes should be used for all figures of similar size in any one paper.
Maps must have very clear, bold patterns and must show longitudes and latitudes (or UTM coordinates) and a scale. All place names and geographic features on Quebec maps must be in French only, with proper accents and capitalization.
Photographs should be continuous tone on glossy paper. Prints must be of high quality, on glossy paper, with strong contrast. The copies for reproduction should only show essential features, be trimmed, and mounted on thin flexible white bristol board with no space between those arranged in groups. A photograph, or group of them, should be planned to fit into the area of either one or two columns of text with no further reduction. Electron micrographs or photomicrographs should include a scale bar directly on the print. The best results will be obtained if the authors match the contrast and density of all figures arranged as a single plate.
Color illustrations will be at the author’s expense. Further details on prices are available from the Managing Editor of the Journal.
NRC Research Press prefers the submission of electronic illustration files for accepted manuscripts and will use these electronic files whenever possible. If electronic files are not available, paper versions of the figures will be scanned. Note that the scanner will easily reproduce flaws (e.g., correction fluid, smudges). Submission of noncontinuous (screened) photographs and scanned illustrations printed out on laser printers is not recommended as moirés develop; a moir?is a noticeable, unwanted pattern generated by rescanning or rescreening an illustration that already contains a dot pattern.
Preparation of electronic illustration files
Authors must supply electronic graphic files and high-quality hard-copy originals. Electronic files (i.e., figure number and figure content) should match the originals. On the disk label, identify (i) the software application and version and (ii) file name(s), size, and extension. If you have compressed your files, indicate what compression format was used. PC or Macintosh versions of True Type or Type 1 fonts should be used. Do not use bitmap or nonstandard fonts. Electronic graphics can be accepted on the following disks: 3.5-in. disks, 100-MB Zip cartridge, and CD-ROM.
The preferred graphic application of NRC Research Press is CorelDraw! For other applications that can be used, see the "Electronic graphics list" at http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/ps/rp2_prog_e?gen_graphics_e.html
All figures should be submitted at their final published size. For figures with several parts (e.g., a, b, c, d, etc.) created using the same software application, assemble them into one file rather than sending several files.
Remember that the more complex your artwork becomes, the greater the possibility for problems at output time. Avoid complicated textures and shadings, especially in vector illustration programs; this increases the chance for a poor-quality final product.
Bitmap (raster) files ?Bitmaps are image files produced using a grid format in which each square (or pixel) is set to one level of black, colour, or grey. A bitmap (rasterized) file is broken down into the number of pixels or picture elements per inch (ppi). Pixels per inch is sometimes referred to as dots per inch (dpi). The higher the resolution of an image, the larger the number of pixels contained within the rectangular grid.
The proper resolution should be used when submitting bitmap artwork. The minimum requirements for resolution are 600 dpi for line art and finelines (line art with fine lines or shading), 300 dpi for halftones and colour, and 600 dpi for combinations (halftones with lettering outside the photo area).
All color files submitted must be as CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). These colors are used in full-colour commerical printing. RGB graphics (red, green, and blue; colours specifically used to produce an image on a monitor) will not print correctly.
Vector files ?Vector files are image files produced using elements such as lines and shapes. Typically these files are used for line drawings.
Bitmaps inside vector files ?Bitmaps can be imported into vector/draw applications only for the purpose of adding and overlaying information, lines, text, etc. Bitmaps should not be resized, cropped, rotated, or otherwise manipulated after importing.
The publication process
Submission ?Manuscripts may be sent to the Editor or to an appropriate member of the editorial Board (see Notice to Authors in each issue of the Journal). Once a paper has been accepted, subsequent correspondence should be with NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada.
Submission of electronic copy ?Authors are requested to submit the final accepted manuscript only, both in hard copy format and on disk. Hard copy of the final version of the manuscript should be submitted in triplicate. For figures, the original and two good photographic copies are required or, in the case of computer graphics, three original printouts. Photocopies are not acceptable. Electronic text files and figure files should be submitted on separate disks. All disks must be labeled clearly with the authors?names. Text (including tables) should be provided in a word-processing format (any form of WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, or TeX is preferable, IBM compatible or Macintosh). TeX macros for preparing papers for submissions are available at ftp:// ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/nrc/, ftp:// ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/nrc/, and ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/ macros/latex/contrib/supported/nrc/. Identify the word-processing software, version number, and type of computer used (IBM or Macintosh). For figures, see the section "Preparation of Electronic Illustration Files". Include a statement in the letter accompanying the manuscript that the version on the disk exactly matches the final hard copy version.
Permission to reprint ?Whenever a manuscript contains material (tables, figures, charts, etc.) that is protected by copyright, it is the obligation of the author to secure written permission from the holder of the copyright to reproduce the material for both the print and electronic formats. These letters must accompany the submitted manuscript.
Proofs ?A galley proof, illustration proofs, the copyedited manuscript, and a reprint order form are sent to the corresponding author. Galley proofs must be checked very carefully, as they will not be proofread by NRC Research Press, and must be returned within 48 hours of receipt. The proof stage is not the time to make extensive corrections, additions, or deletions. The cost of changes introduced by the author and deemed to be excessive will be charged to the author.
Reprints ?If reprints are desired, the reprint order form must be filled out completely and returned with payment (cheque, credit card number, purchase order number, or journal voucher) together with the corrected proofs and manuscript. Orders submitted after the Journal has been printed are subject to considerably higher prices. The Journal does not provide free reprints, and reprints are not mailed until a purchase order number or payment is received.
Copyright transfer ?All authors are required to complete a copyright transfer form assigning all rights to NRC. A completed and signed Assignment of copyright form (available from the Editorial Office, the first issue of each volume, or the Web site of NRC Research Press) must accompany the final version of a manuscript.
Requests for permission to reproduce or republish the paper, in whole or in part, should be sent to NRC Research Press.
NRC Research Press
National Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Canada
Fax: 613-952-7656
E-mail: research.press@nrc.gc.ca
URL: http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Revised January 2003
Editorial Board
Editor:
P.B. Moens
Department of Biology
York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
Telephone: (416) 736-5358
Fax: (416) 736-5731
E-mail: genome@yorku.ca
Assitant to the Editor:
Alistair Coulthard
Editorial Board:
General and Molecular Genetics
J.B. Bell
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada
Telephone: 780-492-5382
Fax: 780-492-1903
E-mail: jbell@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
Plant Molecular Genetics
F. Belzile
1243 Pavillon C.-E. Marchand
Universit?Laval
Québec, QC G1K 7P4, Canada
Telephone: 418-656-2131, Ext. 5763
Fax: 418-656-7176
E-mail: fbelzile@rsvs.ulaval.ca
Department of Biology
A. Civetta
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Ave.
Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9
Telephone: 204-786-9436
Fax: 204-774-4134
E-mail: a.civetta@uwinnipeg.ca
(Population genetics, QTL mapping Molecular evolution, Sexual selection/Génétique des populations, cartographie de QTL, évolution moléculaire, sélection sexuelle)
Molecular Cytogenetics, Chromatin genomics, and epigenetics
J.H. de Jong
Department of Genetics
Wageningen University
Arboretumlaan 4
6703 BD Wageningen
The Netherlands
Telephone: 31-317-482618
Fax: 31-317-483146
E-mail: Hans.deJong@genetics.dpw.wau.nl
Molecular Research Group
P. Donini
Head,
NIAB (ex-National Institute of Agricultural Botany)
Huntingdon Rd., Cambridge CB3 0LE, U.K.
Telephone: 44-1223-342338
Fax: 44-1223-277602
E-mail: paolo.donini@niab.com
(Cereal genetic, Plant molecular genetics, Plant molecular breeding, Biodiversity, Genome evolution, Classican and molecular genetics/Génétique des céréales, génétique moléculaire des plantes, sélection végétale moléculaire, biodiversit? évolution des génomes, cytogénétique moléculaire et classique)
Molecular Genetics
B. Golding
Department of Biology
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Telephone: 905-525-9140, Ext. 24829
E-mail: golding@mcmaster.ca
Fungal Genetics
A.J.F. Griffiths
Botany Department
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1W5, Canada
Telephone: 604-822-5629
Fax: 604-822-6089
E-mail: agriff@unixg.ubc.ca
Cytogenetics
J.P. Gustafson
205 Curtis Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A.
Telephone: 573-882-7318
Fax: 573-875-5359
E-mail: pgus@showme.missouri.edu
Biology of the Nucleus, Matrix, Lamina
R. Hancock
Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de l'Universit?Laval
Hôtel-Dieu Hospital
9 rue MacMahon
Québec, QC G1R 2J6, Canada
Telephone: 418-691-5151
Fax: 418-691-5562
E-mail: ronald.hancock@crhdq.ulaval.ca
Chromosome Structure, Polytene Chromosomes
A.J. Hilliker
Department of Biology
York University
North York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Telephone: 416-736-5243
Fax: 416-736-5371
E-mail: hilliker@yorku.ca
Cytogenetics
G. Jenkins
Institute of Biological Sciences
University of Wales
Sir George Stapledon Building
Aberystwyth
Dyfed SY23 3DD, U.K.
Telephone: 44-1970-622234
Fax: 44-1970-622307
E-mail: gmj@aber.ac.uk
Plant and Animal Molecular Cytogenetics
T. Schwarzacher
Department of Biology
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
Telephone: 44-116-252-3381
Fax: 44-116-252-2791
E-mail: ts32@le.ac.uk
Plant Molecular Genetics and Cytogenetics
G.J. Scoles
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada
Telephone: 306-966-4957
Fax: 306-966-5015
E-mail: graham.scoles@usask.ca
Reviews and Population Genetics
R.S. Singh
Department of Biology
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Telephone: 905-525-9140, Ext. 24378
Fax: 905-522-6066
E-mail: singh@mcmaster.ca
Molecular Cytogenetics
W. Traut
Institut für Biologie der Medizinischen
Universität zu Lübeck
Ratzeburger Allee 160
D-23538 Lübeck
Germany
Telephone: 49-451-500-4100
Fax: 49-451-500-4034
E-mail: traut@molbio.mu-luebeck.de
Mammalian Genetics and Cytogenetics
S. Varmuza
Department of Zoology
University of Toronto
25 Harbord Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3G5, Canada
Telephone: 416-978-2759
Fax: 416-978-8532
E-mail: svarmuza@zoo.utoronto.ca
DNA Profiling, DNA Forensic Science
B.N. White
Natural Resources DNA Profiling and Forensic Centre
Trent University
Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada
Telephone: 705-748-1256
Fax: 705-748-1625
E-mail: BWhite@Trentu.ca
If authors are unsure as to the appropriate editorial board member, they should submit their paper to the editor of the journal at the following address:
P.B. Moens
Department of Biology
York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Telephone: 416-736-5358
Fax: 416-736-5731
E-mail: genome@yorku.ca
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