Editor General:

Dra. Elsa L. Camadro
Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Balcarce, Argentina
camadro.elsa@inta.gob.ar; bag.editor@sag.org.ar

Editores Asociados:

Citogenética Animal y Citogenética Vegetal

Dra. Liliana M. Mola
Depto. de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Buenos Aires, Argentina
limola@ege.fcen.uba.ar

Dra. Mariel Schneider
Dep. de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brasil
maricb@rc.unesp.br

Citogenética Vegetal

Dr. Julio R. Daviña
Instituto de Biología Subtropical, Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Posadas, Argentina
juliordavina@fceqyn.unam.edu.ar

Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución

Dra. Mariana Pires de Campos Telles
Dep. de Genética, Laboratório de Genética & Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciências Médicas e Vida, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás e Universidade Federal de Goiás. Goiás, Brasil

Dra. María Isabel Remis
Depto. de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Buenos Aires, Argentina
mariar@ege.fcen.uba.ar

Dr. Juan César Vilardi
Depto. de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Buenos Aires, Argentina
vilardi@bg.fcen.uba.ar

Genética Humana, Genética Médica, y Citogenética

Dra. María Inés Echeverría
Instituto de Genética, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Mendoza, Argentina
miecheve@fcm.uncu.edu.ar

Genética Humana

Dr. Carlos Bacino
Dept. of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine. Texas, USA
cbacino@bcm.edu

Genética Médica

Dr. José Arturo Prada Oliveira
Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Anatomía Humana y Embriología, Universidad de Cádiz. Cádiz, España
arturo.prada@uca.es

Genética Médica y Molecular

Dr. Bernardo Bertoni Jara
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República. Montevideo, República Oriental del Uruguay
bbertoni@fmed.edu.uy

Dra. Mev Domínguez Valentín
Oslo University Hospital. Oslo, Norway
mev.dominguez.valentin@rr-research.no

Genética Molecular Animal

Dr. Guillermo Giovambattista
Instituto de Genética Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. La Plata, Argentina
ggiovam@fcv.unlp.edu.ar

Genética Molecular Vegetal

Dr. Alberto Acevedo
Centro de Investigación de Recursos Naturales, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Hurlingham, Argentina
acevedo.alberto@inta.gob.ar

Dr. Andrés Zambelli
Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Balcarce, Argentina
andres.zambelli@mdp.edu.ar

Genética y Mejoramiento Animal

Dra. Liliana A. Picardi
Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Zavalla, Argentina
lpicardi@unr.edu.ar 

Dra. María Inés Oyarzábal
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Rosario, Argentina
moyazabr@unr.edu.ar 

Dr. Gustavo Rodríguez Reynoso
Universidad Agraria La Molina, y Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. Lima, Perú
gustavogr@lamolina.edu.pe

Genética y Mejoramiento Genético Vegetal

Dra. Natalia Bonamico
Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Río Cuarto, Argentina
nbonamico@ayv.unrc.edu.ar 

Dr. Ricardo W. Masuelli
Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Mendoza, Argentina
rmasuelli@fca.uncu.edu.ar

Dr. Rodomiro Ortiz
Dept. of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Science. Uppsala, Suecia
rodomiro.ortiz@slu.se

Dra. Mónica Poverene
Depto. de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Bahía Blanca, Argentina
poverene@criba.edu.ar

Dr. Pedro Rimieri
Profesional asociado y asesor científico-técnico. INTA, Pergamino. Buenos Aires, Argentina
primieri730@gmail.com

Genética de Microorganismos

Dra. Mariel Sanso
Facultad de Ciencias. Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Tandil, Argentina
msanso@vet.unicen.edu.ar

Mutagénesis

Dr. Alejandro D. Bolzán
Lab. de Citogenética y Mutagénesis, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Celular, y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. La Plata, Argentina
abolzan@imbice.gov.ar

Consultor Estadístico

Dr. David Almorza
Facultad de Ciencias del Trabajo, Depto. de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Universidad de Cádiz. Cádiz, España
david.almorza@uca.es

Secretaria de Redacción

Dra. María de las Mercedes Echeverría
Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Balcarce, Argentina
mecheverria@mdp.edu.ar

Diseño y maquetación

Lic. Mauro Salerno
maurosalerno92@gmail.com

Corrección de estilo

Dra. Gabriela Leofanti
gabrielaleofanti@gmail.com

Comité de colaboradores

Dra. Mercedes Alicia Ibañez
Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
mibanez@ayv.unrc.edu.ar

Dr. Daniel Maizon
Estación Experimental Agropecuaria “Guillermo Covas”, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, y Universidad Nacional de La Pampa. Anguil, La Pampa, Argentina
maizon.daniel@inta.gob.ar

Dra. María Andrea Tomas
Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Rafaela, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Universidad Nacional de Rafaela. Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina
tomas.maria@inta.gob.ar

Two biannual numbers per volume, in July (number 1) and December (number 2), and a supplement of number 1 with communications to the Annual Congress of SAG, the Latin American Association of Genetics (ALAG) or, sporadically, of thematic content; individual articles have continuous publication.

1. For the acceptance or rejection of a submission, the following will be taken into account: the adequacy of the content to the journal´s scope, the type and format of articles, that the manuscript is unpublished, the importance and originality of the topic, and the quality of the reported research. Authors can appeal the General Editor´s decisions regarding their submissions.  The General Editor will not review the decision regarding the acceptance of a submission unless problems are identified after the corresponding author has been notified. In the case that the General Editor discontinues his/her function, the incoming General Editor will not modified the previous decision unless serious problems are identified with the submission.

2. The reviewers have a guide at their disposal to carry out the evaluations, which is subjected to periodical adequacies when necessary. The identity of reviewers and authors is guaranteed by the double-blind reviewing system, and the submissions are kept in confidenciality during the whole process.

3. Possible complaints to the General Editor will be managed according to the flow-charts developed by COPE
   
4. Debates are promoted via the publication of opinion articles (see Types of contributions). Substained critics to the published articles will be published unless the General Editor has sufficiently convincent reasons not to do so.

All materials published in this site are open access and freely available. The complete journal (with covers) is also published in the web page of SAG, under the same policies.

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1.Original articles: they must contain original research results neither previously published in any form, except preliminary (i.e., in a scientific event) nor submitted to other journals.

2. Reviews on topics of actual interest; they can be sent directly or by invitation.

3. Short communications: as the original works, they have to be completely documented, but should be no more than two pages long. This type includes descriptions/comments on methodologies, cultivar registration, molecular sequences, information on new software, among others.

4. Book reviews: of relevance for the discipline or a particular area, published within the last two years. They should be no more than half a page long.

5. Letters to the journal: they can include debates, view points, topics of actual interest, among others. They should be no more than half a page long.

Note: All contributions have to be original and unpublished, and not simultaneously submitted to any other journal or editorial organs.

Code of Conduct

The journal adheres to the Code of Ethics established by the Intenational Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME). In compliance of this code, the journal will guarantee the scientific quality of the publications and the adequate response to the necessities of both readers and authors.

All contributions are subjected to detection of plagiarism, utilizing open access informatic tools  for that end. If either total or partial plagiarism (without the corresponding citation) is detected, the manuscript will not enter the editorial process, and the author will be immediately notified, with the reason of rejection.

The jounal is financially supported by Sociedad Argentina de Genética (SAG), a non-profit scientific organization which holds the copyright.

The journal allows the self-archiving of the published article in institutional repositories, personal web pages, and social networks of scientists and researchers.

The digital archives are preserved in the institutional repository of Universidad de Morón (UM), Buenos Aires, Argentina (https://repositorio.unimoron.edu.ar).

It has to contain title, author(s), institutional affiliation(s) and abbreviated title.

a. Title
Written in bold capital letters and centered, not exceeding 200 characters with spaces included.

b. Authors
Complete last name and name initial(s) of each author, according to the order of authorpship when there is more than one author, in capital letters and centered, indicating with superscript(s) the institutional affiliation(s) written in italics.

c. Abbreviated title
Not exceeding 50 characters , with spaces included.

d. Abstract in English
It has to include the same sections of the abstract in Spanish

e. Key words in English
They have to be equivalent to the key words in Spanish

f. Abstract in Spanish*
It has to be clear and concise, and include introduction, objectives, materials and methods, main results and conclusion, in a maximum of 250 words.

g. Key words in Sapnish*
From three to five; preferably not included in the main title

*Note: the author for correspondence can request the translation of the abstract and key words in English to Spanish to the General Editor, if Spanish is not his/her native tongue.

Main text
It has to be written in a clear and concise manner, and be easily understandable by a wide audience. Sentences do not have to start with abbrevations or numbers. One-digit numbers have to be written in letters except when they refer to results of statistical analyses or are followed by units of measure (e.g., 2 ml).

In original research contributions, the following sections have to be included: INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (if it may correspond), in bold capital letters, on the left. Subtitles have to be written in italics (not bold), on the left, using capital letters only for the first letter. Likewise, it has to be stated the responsibility of each co-author in the development of the reported research and the elaboration of the final manuscript version.

Reviews can contain subtitles (not numbered) replacing the sections, on the left, in bold.

Referentes cited in the main text
They have to include only last name(s) of the author(s) and year of publication, and be cited in the BIBLIOGRAPHY section.

Examples:
(Dimitri, 1978) or Dimitri (1978)
(Jacob y Monod, 1961) or Jacob y Monod (1961)
(Morgan et al., 1915) or Morgan et al. (1915)

Personal communications have to be cited only in the main text, e.g. Rodríguez (com. pers.) if it is written in Spanish, and Rodríguez (comm. pers.) if it is written in English.

Abbreviations
The first time they are used, abbreviated words have to be written in full, with the abbreviation in parenthesis. Common abbreviations, e.g., hour (h) or kilometer (km) can be used without any explanation.

Footnotes
When possible, they should be avoided.

Physical units, symbols and abbreviations
They have to follow the International System of Units. Units used along a text have to be uniform.

Scientif names of organims
They have to be written in italics, as has any other word in a language different from the one in use. Scientific names mentioned for the first time in each section have to be written in a complete form (genus- speciesauthor-cultivar, botanical variety o subspecies, as it may correspond). Following, generic names can be abbreviated but taking special care to avoid confusion if the name of two or more genera begin with the same letter.

Common names of organisms
They have to be accompanied by the corresponding scientific names when mentioned for the first time. For some genera, it could be useful to give, in addition, the name of the family and/or higher taxonomic category.

Reagents
Generic and common names of chemical reagents have to be written in lower case letters.

Genes
Gene designations have to be written in italics, using upper case letters for the wild type and lower case letters for the mutant type; protein designations should be written in normal, upper case letters.

It has to contain all references cited in the main text, except personal communications. . To that end, the journal has adopted the norms specified in The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London; 2010.

Examples:

a. Periodical Journal
Last name and initials of the author (if there are various authors, separated with commas), year of publication in parenthesis, title of contribution, abbreviated name of the journal, volumen, initial and final pages.
Gelvin S.B. (1998) The introduction and expression of transgenes in plants. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 9: 227-232. Johnston S.A., den Nijs T.M., Peloquin S.J., Hanneman Jr. R.E. (1980) The significance of genic balance to endosperm development in interspecific crosses. Theor. Appl. Genet. 57: 5–9.

b. Book
Last name and initials of the author (if there are various authors, separated with commas), year of publication in parenthesis, title of book, publisher and place of publication.
Baselga I.M., Blasco M.A. (1989) Mejora genética del conejo de producción de carne. Editorial Mundi-Prensa, Madrid, España.

c. Book chapter
Last name and initials of the author (if there are various authors, separated with commas), year of publication in parenthesis, title of chapter, last name and initials of the book editor(s), title of the book, editorial and place of edition.
Lenz L.W., Wimber D.E. (1959) Hybridization and inheritance in orchids. In: Withner C.L. (Ed.) The orchids, a scientific survey. Malabar Krieger, Florida, pp. 261-314.

d. Dissertations
Last name and initials of the author, year of publication in parenthesis, title of dissertation, type of dissertation, University, place of publication
Neal K.C. (1998) Characterization of the organization and paramutagenicity of the maize R-marbled allele. M.S. thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

e. Communications in scientific events (only if strictly necessary)
Lerner S.E., Arrigoni A., Rogers W.J. ¿Cuál es el rol de la variabilidad genética en la sustentabilidad del sistema trigo? Comunicaciones Libres XXXVII Congreso Argentino de Genética, 21-24 setiembre 2008, Tandil, Buenos Aires; p. 33.

f. Web pages
Aphis (2010) http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/ph_permits.html (accessed February 2010).

Note: additional or unsolicited information does not have to be included.

They have to be prepared in separated pages, numbered with Arabic numbers, and cited as such (not included) in the main text. They have to be sent in Excell and, in addition, in TIF, JPG or PDF format.

The title has to be placed above the table, written in lower case letter, with the first word begining with upper case letter; they have to be understandable by themselves, without suggesting interpretations of the data.

Units and statistical parameters have to be clearly explained either in the main body of the table or in the footnotes.

In each table, the number of lines has to be reduced to a minimum; its is usually enough to have three horizontal lines: one in the upper part below the title and above column headings, the second below column headings, and the third along the last row and above any type of table footnote. Use of vertical lines has to be avoided, except if it is strictly necessary.

Footnotes to the table have to be indicated with lower case superscripts

All tables in one work have to be (if feasible) uniform in format. Tables have to be numbered independendently of figures.

They include drawings, photographs and graphics. They have to be presented in separate pages, numbered with Arabic numbers and cited as such (not included) in the main text. Legends have to be self-explicative and located outside the figure, in the lower side, followed by the descriptions (if any).

Graphs have to represent the data in a simple and easily understandable form, and be used to summarize data in a more effective way than words.

For microphotographs, the magnification has to be indicated on them, with a bar scale; the size of the bar scale, in turn, has to be indicated in the figure legend and not in the microphotographs themselves.When the same magnification is used for several images that form one figure, it is advisable to use only one scale bar.

Figures can occupy, in width, one or both columns of a page (either 7.5 or 15.0 cm, respectively).

Preparation of figures files
Figures have to be sent in individual files in JPG or TIF format. Half-tone or photographic works have to be saved as TIF files with a minimum resolution of 300 ppi, in their final size. It is recommended that combinations of figures or artistic works containing photographs and text be saved as PDF files with 600 ppi resolution or, better, in their final size.

Authorizations
It is the sole responsability of the author(s) to obtain the corresponding authorizations from editorial offices or the like when copyright materials (e.g., figures or tables) are reproduced. 

Mathematical symbols and formulas
Special tipography, if used, has to be sent for layout purposes after manuscript acceptance