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 - Seizure samples reveal complex evolutionary dynamics among Southeast Asian pangolins

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 ...

Heredity - The Genetics Society: looking back but moving forwards

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 - Too big to purge: persistence of deleterious Mutations in Island populations of the European Barn Owl (Tyto alba)

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