Infection Genetics and Evolution

期刊简介：(aka Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases -- MEEGID)Infectious diseases constitute one of the main challenges to medical science in the coming century. The impressive development of molecular megatechnologies and of bioinformatics have greatly increased our knowledge of the evolution, transmission and pathogenicity of infectious diseases. Research has shown that host susceptibility to many infectious diseases has a genetic basis. Furthermore, much is now known on the molecular epidemiology, evolution and virulence of pathogenic agents, as well as their resistance to drugs, vaccines, and antibiotics. Equally, research on the genetics of disease vectors has greatly improved our understanding of their systematics, has increased our capacity to identify target populations for control or intervention, and has provided detailed information on the mechanisms of insecticide resistance.However, the genetics and evolutionary biology of hosts, pathogens and vectors have tended to develop as three separate fields of research. This artificial compartmentalisation is of concern due to our growing appreciation of the strong co-evolutionary interactions among hosts, pathogens and vectors.Infection, Genetics and Evolution and its companion congress [MEEGID](http://www.meegidconference.com/) (for Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases) are the main forum acting for the cross-fertilization between evolutionary science and biomedical research on infectious diseases.Infection, Genetics and Evolution is the only journal that welcomes articles dealing with the genetics and evolutionary biology of hosts, pathogens and vectors, and coevolution processes among them in relation to infection and disease manifestation. All infectious models enter the scope of the journal, including pathogens of humans, animals and plants, either parasites, fungi, bacteria, viruses or prions. The journal welcomes articles dealing with genetics, population genetics, genomics, postgenomics, gene expression, evolutionary biology, population dynamics, mathematical modeling and bioinformatics. We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services .

【译文】（又名《分子流行病学和感染性疾病进化遗传学杂志》-- MEEGID）感染性疾病是未来一个世纪医学科学面临的主要挑战之一。分子巨技术和生物信息学的令人瞩目的进步极大地增加了我们对感染性疾病的进化、传播和致病性的了解。研究表明，许多感染性疾病的主体的易感性具有遗传基础。此外，关于病原体的分子流行病学、进化和致病性以及它们对药物、疫苗和抗生素的耐药性现在也了解很多。同样，关于疾病传播者的遗传学研究也极大地提高了我们对它们的系统学的理解，增加了我们识别控制或干预目标人群的能力，并提供了关于杀虫剂抗性机制的详细信息。然而，宿主、病原体和传播者的遗传学和进化生物学往往作为三个独立的研究领域发展。由于我们越来越重视宿主、病原体和传播者之间强烈的协同进化相互作用，这种人为的分割令人担忧。感染、遗传学和进化及其配套大会[MEEGID](http://www.meegidconference.com/)（分子流行病学和感染性疾病进化遗传学）是进化科学与感染性疾病生物医学研究之间交流的主要论坛。感染、遗传学和进化是唯一欢迎处理宿主、病原体和传播者的遗传学、进化生物学以及它们之间与感染和疾病表现相关的协同进化过程的杂志。所有感染模型都进入该杂志的范围，包括人类、动物和植物的病原体，无论是寄生虫、真菌、细菌、病毒还是朊病毒。该杂志欢迎处理遗传学、群体遗传学、基因组学、后基因组学、基因表达、进化生物学、群体动力学、数学建模和生物信息学的文章。我们还提供许多作者福利，如免费PDF、宽松的版权政策、Elsevier出版物的特别折扣等。请点击此处了解更多关于我们的作者服务。