《遗传》是遗传学学会的官方期刊。它涵盖了遗传学领域的广泛主题，因此，论文必须解决期刊广大读者感兴趣的概念或应用问题。因此，重点应该放在可以跨系统扩展的广泛的一般教训上。该期刊特别鼓励在下列领域提交意见:群体遗传学和基因组学功能基因组学、转录组学、代谢组学和蛋白质组学表观遗传学生态遗传学进化遗传学数量遗传学适应基因组学作物和牲畜遗传学/基因组学
Heredity is the official journal of the Genetics Society. It covers a broad range of topics within the field of genetics and therefore papers must address conceptual or applied issues of interest to the journal's wide readership. The focus should thus be on broad general lessons that can be extended across systems.The journal particularly encourages submissions in the following areas:population genetics/ genomicsfunctional genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomicsepigeneticsecological geneticsevolutionary geneticsquantitative geneticsadaptation genomicscrop and livestock genetics/ genomics