Artem Nedoluzhko, scholarly director of the Laboratory of Paleogenomics at the European University, and Professor Antonio Baeza of Clemson University (USA) have organized a special issue for young researchers devoted to evolutionary genomics. The articles of the special issue will be published in the journal BMC Genomics (Q1, impact factor: 3.5), part of the Nature Publishing Group.
The special issue, Second Dive into Marine Genomics, will cover research related to the application of genomics techniques to describe how global human-induced climate change affects the biodiversity of marine organisms. Publications on the use of museum DNA to describe the demographic history of species and the causes of their extinction will also be examined.
Artem Nedoluzhko provided more details:
This year we successfully completed a special issue First dive into marine genomics, in which seventeen articles were published by scholarly teams from Russia, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Norway, Sweden, the United States and Canada. Given the success of the first special issue, we decided to continue it and organized a new one –Second Dive Into Marine Genomics. We invite young scientists who are taking their first steps into the study of ocean biodiversity in an era of global climate change to publish their results in our collection. Papers that use museum material and historical DNA are of particular interest.
More information about the special issue and its objectives can be found on the BMC Genomics website.
Author of the illustration: Anastasia Samoukina