Genetics is a monthly scientific journal publishing investigations bearing on heredity, genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. Genetics is published by the Genetics Society of America. It has a delayed open access policy, and makes articles available online without a subscription after 12 months have elapsed since first publication. Since 2010, it is published online-only. George Harrison Shull was the founding editor of Genetics in 1916.
Editors-in-Chief
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! Editor-in-Chief !! Term
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| George Harrison Shull || 1916–1925
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| Donald F. Jones || 1926–1935
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| L. C. Dunn || 1936–1939
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| Marcus Morton Rhoades || 1940–1946
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| Curt Stern || 1947–1951
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| R. A. Brink and James F. Crow || 1952–1956
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| Clarence Paul Oliver and Wilson Stone || 1957–1962
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| David D. Perkins || 1963–1967
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| F. W. Caspari || 1968–1972
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| D.R. Stadler || 1973–1976
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| G. Lefevre || 1977–1981
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| John W. Drake || 1982–1996
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| Elizabeth W. Jones || 1996–2008
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| Mark Johnston || 2008–2021
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| Howard Lipshitz || 2021–present
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