Understanding how reproductive barriers arise, what their nature is, and how they strengthen as speciation progresses remains a major challenge in evolutionary biology. The remarkable evolutionary his...

Heredity - Improved Bayesian inference of hybrids using genome sequences

Heredity - The Genetics Society: looking back but moving forwards

Heredity - The Genetics Society: looking back but moving forwards

Heredity is the official journal of the Genetics Society. It covers a broad range of topics within the field of genetics, and publishes articles describing ...

In 2025, the annual meeting of the Population Genetics Group (PopGroup) returned to Sheffield, U.K., for the third time. The timing could not have been mor

See more information on the new Heredity special issue on functional and adaptive effects of genomic structural variation.

Heredity - Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species

Heredity - Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population

Heredity - Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region

Heredity - Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish

Heredity - Rapid evolution of a large structural polymorphism during a bacterial epidemic

We are pleased to announce the winners of the annual prize for the best student-led paper in Heredity for 2025. As before the quality of papers was very high ...