Genome

Genome is a monthly journal of genetics and genomics published in Ottawa by Canadian Science Publishing, the house that took the title over in 2011 from the National Research Council of Canada, which had launched it in 1987 as the successor to the Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology.《基因组》（Genome）是 Canadian Science Publishing 在渥太华出版的遗传学与基因组学月刊，2011 年由该社接办，此前由国家研究理事会（National Research Council of Canada）自 1987 年办起，承接的是《Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology》的旧班底。

Papers come mostly from laboratory work on the chromosomes and genomes of animals, plants and microbes, and the pages hold cytogenetics and DNA barcoding alongside breeding-oriented genomics and phylogenomics.版面上的稿件多来自动物、植物与微生物的染色体和基因组研究，细胞遗传学与 DNA 条形码同面向育种的基因组学、系统发育基因组学共处一册。

The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9 and the five-year figure 2.2, with 3597 citations recorded against the title, a cited half-life of 15.5 years and 36.36 per cent of recent articles under gold open access.2025 年影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子 2.2，全刊当年获引 3597 次，引用半衰期 15.5 年，近作中有 36.36% 以金色开放获取发表。

Scope

• The publisher's statement of aims lists original research articles, reviews, mini-reviews, current opinions and commentaries, and names general genetics and genomics, cytogenetics, molecular and evolutionary genetics, developmental genetics, population genetics, phylogenomics and molecular identification as its ground.出版方列出的稿件类型是原创研究论文、综述与小型综述、当前观点和评论，所列方向包括普通遗传学与基因组学、细胞遗传学、分子与进化遗传学、发育遗传学、群体遗传学、系统发育基因组学以及分子鉴定。
• Ecological, comparative and functional genomics are named as newer growth areas, which is why a genome assembly and a field survey can sit in the same issue without either looking out of place.生态基因组学、比较基因组学与功能基因组学被列为新近扩展的方向，一份基因组组装与一篇野外调查因此可以同期刊出，谁也不显得突兀。
• Cytogenetics keeps a large share of the pages, with oligonucleotide-based chromosome painting used to identify the chromosomes of Medicago polymorpha and of Arachis species.细胞遗传学占有很大版面，寡核苷酸探针的染色体涂染被用来辨认 Medicago polymorpha 与花生属的染色体。
• Satellitome and repetitive-DNA work is a standing subject, from satellite mapping in Prochilodus fishes and Tc1/mariner transposons in Boana tree frogs to B chromosomes followed across populations.卫星组与重复 DNA 是常设题目，从 Prochilodus 鱼类的卫星序列定位、Boana 树蛙基因组里的转座子分布，到在群体间追踪的 B 染色体。
• Karyotype evolution runs across vertebrates, through comparative work on cuckoos and woodpeckers, the microchromosomal organisation of birds and a multiple sex-chromosome system described in boobies.核型演化横跨脊椎动物，杜鹃与啄木鸟的比较研究、鸟类微染色体的组织方式，以及鲣鸟体内多重性染色体系统的描述都在这一路。
• Molecular identification has become one of the steadiest streams, seen in a DNA barcoding library for southern African mammals built for forensic use and in barcoding surveys of Baccaurea in Southeast Asia.分子鉴定已成为最稳定的稿源之一，为南非哺乳动物建起的法医用条形码库、东南亚 Baccaurea 属的条形码调查都属此类。
• Environmental DNA appears in method papers and community reports, among them detection of the male mitochondrial genome of freshwater mussels and a conference report on standardising eDNA surveys.环境 DNA 见于方法论文与社群报告，淡水蚌类雄性线粒体基因组的检出、以及环境 DNA 调查标准化的会议报告都在其中。
• Quantitative and population genetics carry QTL mapping in Brassica napus, genomic prediction from imputed whole-genome sequence and runs of homozygosity read from reduced-representation sequencing in cattle.数量遗传与群体遗传方面，甘蓝型油菜的数量性状位点定位、用插补全基因组序列做的基因组预测，以及从简化基因组测序读出的牛群纯合片段，都排在常见题目里。
• Livestock work is regular, with candidate genes for intramuscular fat in Nellore cattle, coat-colour regions in Gir cattle and long terminal repeat polymorphisms mined from the sheep genome.家畜研究定期出现，内洛尔牛肌内脂肪的候选基因、吉尔牛毛色相关区段，以及从绵羊基因组里挖出的长末端重复序列多态性，都属于这一路。
• Plant breeding supplies a steady share, from yellow rust resistance genes in Triticum spelta and clubroot resistance carried into Brassica napus to soybean pod expression compared across Canadian environments.植物育种提供稳定稿源，斯佩耳特小麦的抗条锈病基因、转入甘蓝型油菜的根肿病抗性，以及加拿大各地环境下大豆荚组织的表达比较，都在版面上。
• Microbial genomes are read both comparatively and for utility, as with Bacillus anthracis virulence comparisons, multilocus genotypes of Campylobacter jejuni and a Kocuria flava genome mined for thiopeptide antibiotics.微生物基因组既作比较也作开发，炭疽芽孢杆菌的毒力比较、空肠弯曲菌的全球多位点基因型，以及从 Kocuria flava 基因组里找硫肽类抗生素的工作，都属此类。
• Plastid and mitochondrial genomes support phylogenomic papers, such as the chloroplast genome of Ecbolium viride placed among the Justiceae and the mitochondrial genomes of bumblebees.质体与线粒体基因组支撑系统发育基因组学论文，Ecbolium viride 的叶绿体基因组被安放进 Justiceae 族，熊蜂的线粒体基因组也以同样方式发表。
• Epigenetic work arrives through reduced representation bisulfite sequencing of DNA methylation and through reviews on the epigenetic factors behind recalcitrance in plant biotechnology.表观遗传的工作经简化代表性亚硫酸氢盐测序读出 DNA 甲基化分布，也以综述形式讨论植物生物技术中再生困难的表观遗传因素。
• Methods papers are welcome, from correcting ONT reads before assembly to reach HiFi-level quality to comparing the AVITI platform with Illumina for low-cost genotyping.方法论文受到欢迎，包括在组装前校正 ONT 读长以接近 HiFi 水平，以及把 AVITI 平台与 Illumina 用于低成本基因分型的比较。
• Conservation genetics holds a place, with mitochondrial heteroplasmy in the Canada lynx and a review tying spatial and genomic structure to adaptive potential for management.保护遗传学亦有一席，加拿大猞猁的线粒体异质性、以及把空间结构与基因组结构同管理所需适应潜力联系起来的综述，都是例子。
• Current opinions and commentaries give the title a policy voice, with pieces on the regulatory burden of Canadian plant biotechnology and on farm-level assessment of new breeding technologies.当前观点与评论让刊物有了政策发声的位置，加拿大植物生物技术的监管负担、以及新育种技术的农场层面评估，都在这类文章里讨论。

History

• The first issue of the present title is volume 29, number 1, dated February 1987, and the numbering picks up where the predecessor stopped instead of starting again at one.现名的首期是 1987 年 2 月的第 29 卷第 1 期，卷号接着前身停下的地方往下走，没有从第 1 卷重新起算。
• That predecessor, the Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology, ran from volume 1 in July 1959 to volume 28, number 6 in December 1986, under ISSN 0008-4093.前身《Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology》自 1959 年 7 月的第 1 卷办到 1986 年 12 月的第 28 卷第 6 期，ISSN 为 0008-4093。
• The Genetics Society of Canada founded that journal in 1959 and carried it into the 1980s, when publication passed to the National Research Council of Canada and the older name was retired.这份刊物由加拿大遗传学会（Genetics Society of Canada）于 1959 年创办，一直办到 1980 年代，出版事务随后转到国家研究理事会，旧名也随之中止。
• The 1987 relaunch came from the National Research Council of Canada, whose imprint stands on the title page through the 2010 volume, and the bilingual form Genome / Génome answered a country with two official languages.1987 年的改版由国家研究理事会推动，其出版印记一直留到 2010 年卷，双语题名 Genome / Génome 也照应了加拿大的两种官方语言。
• Canadian Science Publishing took the imprint in 2011, growing out of the council's research press into a company of its own, and the editorial address has stayed in Ottawa since.2011 年出版印记转到 Canadian Science Publishing，这家出版社由理事会的研究出版社独立而成，编辑部地址自此一直留在渥太华。
• Publishers of the title count its history from 1959, a 60th-anniversary editorial in 2019 worked that arithmetic, and bibliographic records keep 1987 as the first year of the current name.出版方把刊史从 1959 年算起，2019 年一篇六十周年社论正是按这个起点推算，书目记录则把 1987 年记为现名的首年。
• Six numbers a year served the volumes up to 48 in 2005, and twelve came with volume 49 in 2006, the pace entered as monthly from that year in the National Library of Medicine's serial record.2005 年第 48 卷以前每年出六期，2006 年第 49 卷起改为每年十二期，美国国家医学图书馆的连续出版物记录也自当年起标注为月刊。
• Twelve issues have held since, with volumes 66 and 67 in 2023 and 2024 each carrying numbers 1 to 12, while 2025 records in Crossref list only volume 68 without issue numbers.此后一直维持十二期，2023 年与 2024 年的第 66 卷、第 67 卷都编到第 12 期，2025 年的 Crossref 记录只落卷号 68 而不带期号。
• MEDLINE and PubMed have covered the title in full from volume 29, number 1 of February 1987, the point where the old name ended, and Index Medicus was listed alongside them.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 自 1987 年 2 月的第 29 卷第 1 期起全量收录，起点正落在旧名终止之处，Index Medicus 也一并列入。
• Early volumes kept close to Canadian agricultural genetics, with papers on chromosome pairing at five ploidy levels in Elymus trachycaulus and on the cytogenetics of seven-day-old bovine embryos.早期卷册紧贴加拿大的农业遗传学，披碱草五个倍性水平上的染色体配对、以及七日龄牛胚胎的细胞遗传学研究，都出现在那一时期的版面上。
• Melania E. Cristescu and Michael R. Donaldson took stock of the journal at sixty in 2019, and the same editors used its pages for a statement on data sharing a year later.2019 年 Melania E. Cristescu 与 Michael R. Donaldson 盘点了刊物六十年的历程，次年编辑部又借版面发表了关于数据共享的声明。^[1]
• Impact factors over five years read 2.166 in 2021, 2.449 in 2022, 2.3 in 2023, 1.7 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025, against a five-year figure of 2.2.近五年影响因子依次为 2021 年 2.166、2022 年 2.449、2023 年 2.3、2024 年 1.7、2025 年 1.9，五年影响因子为 2.2。
• A cited half-life of 15.5 years means half of the citations gathered in 2025 went to work published before 2010, much of it in the cytogenetic and breeding literature the journal helped build.15.5 年的引用半衰期意味着 2025 年所获引用的半数投向 2010 年以前的文章，其中不少落在该刊参与积累的细胞遗传与育种文献里。
• Access has loosened by degrees, and 36.36 per cent of recent articles now appear under gold open access while the rest stay behind a subscription.获取方式逐步松动，近作中 36.36% 走金色开放获取，其余仍留在订阅墙内。
• The title sits in two SCIE categories in 2025, ranked 140 of 192 in GENETICS & HEREDITY and 144 of 180 in BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY.2025 年该刊同时列在两个 SCIE 类目里，在遗传学类目 192 种中排第 140 位，在生物技术与应用微生物类目 180 种中排第 144 位。

Editors

• Melania E. Cristescu of McGill University edits the journal, appointed co-editor in 2014, and her research on cryptic species and the genomics of aquatic invertebrates sits close to its remit.主编为麦吉尔大学的 Melania E. Cristescu，2014 年以共同主编身份获任，研究集中在隐存种与水生无脊椎动物基因组学，与刊物范围贴得很近。^[2]
• Her own papers have run in the journal, among them a 2015 study on how biotic and abiotic stressors combine to change gene expression in a freshwater crustacean.她本人的论文也出现在这份刊物上，2015 年一篇讨论生物与非生物胁迫如何共同改变淡水甲壳动物基因表达的研究即属此类。
• A solo editorial of 2019 traced the concept of the genome through a century of use, and the anniversary piece she wrote with Michael R. Donaldson surveyed the journal's reach in the same year.2019 年她单独撰文，追索基因组这一概念百年来的用法，同年与 Michael R. Donaldson 合写的周年文章则盘点了刊物的覆盖面。
• A 2020 editorial signed by Cristescu and Lewis Lukens pressed authors to deposit and share the data behind their papers, and that stance has become part of the journal's expectations.2020 年她与 Lewis Lukens 联名发表社论，敦促作者提交并共享论文背后的数据，这一立场后来成为刊物对稿件的常规期待。^[3]
• Sequence deposition follows from that position, so a gene discussed in a paper is expected to carry a public database accession number rather than a supplementary file alone.序列提交由这一立场而来，论文中讨论的基因要给出公共数据库的登录号，不能只放在补充材料里。
• Article types are fixed and few, namely original research articles, reviews, mini-reviews, current opinions and commentaries, and the shorter forms carry much of the argument about policy.稿件类型固定而少，只有原创研究论文、综述与小型综述、当前观点和评论，较短的两种承载了大部分政策争论。
• Those commentaries have taken on the regulation of plant biotechnology in Canada and the farm-level consequences of new breeding technologies, subjects close to the journal's readership.这类评论讨论过加拿大植物生物技术的监管，也讨论过新育种技术在农场层面的后果，题目贴近刊物的读者群。
• Each year closes with a note of appreciation naming the reviewers, a practice that puts the referee pool on the record in a field where service goes largely unseen.每年年末登出的致谢列出当年参与评审的学者，评审队伍因此留下记录，而在这一行里这类付出大多不为人见。
• Editorial structure has been reshaped at the publisher's level, and in November 2018 the journal carried notice of a newly appointed Deputy Executive Editor-in-Chief.编辑架构在出版方层面有过调整，2018 年 11 月刊物登出一则通告，宣布新任的 Deputy Executive Editor-in-Chief 到岗。
• Files reach the Ottawa office through the publisher's online submission system, where an editor assigns referees and carries the decision through revision to acceptance.稿件经出版方的在线投稿系统送到渥太华编辑部，由编辑指定评审人，并把决定一路带到修回与录用。