Editorial Board

Associate Editor
Sophie Nicod, PhD, Springer Nature, UK

Editorial Quality Editor
Danielle Talbot, BSc, MRes, PhD, Springer Nature, UK

Manuscript Editors
Harshal Dhondge, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Vaishnavi Nimbalkar, MSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, M.Tech, B.Tech, Springer Nature, India

Senior Editorial Board Members
Jacqueline Smith, The Roslin Institute, UK
Keiichi Mochida, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
Stefan Wiemann, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
Theo H. M. Smits, Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Rongling Wu, Penn State Health Cancer Institute, USA
Li Ma, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland, USA
Cesar Martins, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Roland Kölliker, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Editorial Board Members
Charles Addo-Quaye, Ph.D., Metro State University, USA
Karthikeyan Adhimoolam, Jeju National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
Ahmed Afzal, Ohio State University, USA
Sheikh Firdous Ahmad, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India
Syed Ahmad, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Hiroshi Akashi, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Yusuf Akhter, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India
Khawla Al-Kuraya, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Saudi Arabia
Tiziana Alberio, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Emidio Albertini, University of Perugia, Italy
Alexandre Almeida, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Eduardo Andrés-León, Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine Lopez-Neyra IPBLN-CSIC, Spain
Andrea Angius, Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, Italy
Muhammad Anwar, Hainan University, China
Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan-60800, Pakistan, Pakistan
Vladimir Babenko, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Russia
Ekaterina Badaeva, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
J. Antonio Baeza, Clemson University, USA
Raffaella Maria Balestrini, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Italy
Miguel Baltazar-Soares, University of Turku, Finland
Priyanka Banerjee, Texas A&M University, USA
Raman Bansal, United States Department of Agriculture- Agricultural Research Service, USA
Endre Barta, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hungary
Steven Batinovic, Yokohama National University, Japan
Stefan Bauersachs, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Nora Benhabiles, CEA, Institut List, France
Madan Bhattacharyya, Iowa State University, USA
Fernando Biase, Auburn University, USA
Derek Bickhart, Hendrix Genetics, USA
Maria Assunta Biscotti, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Jeffrey Lawrence Blanchard, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Christoph Bleidorn, University of Goettingen, Germany
Emanuele Bosi, University of Pisa, Italy
Elizabeth Boulding, University of Guelph, Canada
James Brown, University of California, USA
Susan J Brown, Kansas State University, USA
Hikmet Budak, Montana BioAg. Inc., USA
Matthew E. R. Butchbach, Nemours/Albert I. DuPont Hospital for Children, USA
Anzhelika Butenko, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Diogo Cabral-de-Mello, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Bernarda Calla, United States Department of Agriculture- Agricultural Research Service, USA
Michael Callanan, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Hector Candela, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
Angela Canovas, University of Guelph, Canada
Huiluo Cao, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yunpeng Cao, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet, University of Almería, Spain
Stanialus Antony Ceasar, Division of Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Cochin, Kelara, India
Chrispin Chaguza, Yale University, USA
Cheong Xin Chan, University of Queensland, Australia
Sumit Chanda, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, USA
Hao-Xun Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Yanjie Chao, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Changbin Chen, Arizona State University, USA
Chih-Chieh Chen, Institute of Medical Science and Technology, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Fei Chen, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Guoqing Chen, China National Rice Research Institute, China
Ningbo Chen, Northwest Agricultural and Technology University, China
Xing Chen, China University of Mining and Technology, China
Zhongxue Chen, Arizona State University, USA
Anne-Marie Chevre, INRA, France
Parveen Chhuneja, Punjab Agricultural University, India
Tzen-Yuh Chiang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Chih-Hung Chou, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Trees-Juen Chuang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Alberto Civetta, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Gavin Conant, North Carolina State University, USA
Alessandra Crisà, Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Italy
Claudio Cucini, University of Siena, Italy
Fa Cui, Ludong University, China
Malay Das, Presidency University, India
Sofia Das, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Brian Davis, Texas A&M University, USA
Marcos De Donato, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Pieter De Maayer, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Arun Prabhu Dhanapal, University of Missouri, USA
Douglas Domingues, The University of São Paulo, Brazil
Bo Dong, Ocean University of China, China
Elizabeth Duncan, University of Leeds, UK
Adam Dupuy, University of Iowa, USA
Tushar K Dutta, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India
Dan Eisenberg, University of Washington, USA
Stephen Ekker, Mayo Clinic, USA
Mohamed A. El-Esawi, Tanta University, Egypt
Hany El-Shemy, Cairo University, Egypt
Greg Elgar, MRC NIMR, UK
Peter Ellis, University of Kent, UK
Laura Elnitski, National Institutes of Health, USA
Scott Emrich, University of Tennessee, USA
Carl Ernst, McGill University, Canada
Fugui Fang, Anhui Agricultural University, China
Xiu Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ye Feng, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Daniel Förster, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Germany
Jennifer Freeman, Purdue University, USA
Chunxiang Fu, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yong-Bi Fu, Plant Gene Resources of Canada, Canada
Ryo Fujimoto, Kobe University, Japan
Atsushi Fukushima, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
Vijay Gahlaut, CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, India
Margarida Gama-Carvalho, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Victor PJ Gannon, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada
Dongying Gao, USDA-ARS Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, USA
Giuliano Gasperi, University of Pavia, Italy
Marco Gerdol, University of Trieste, Italy
Daniel H Geschwind, UCLA School of Medicine, USA
Tapash Chandra Ghosh, Bose Institute, India
Guri Giaever, University of Toronto, Canada
Steven Gill, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA
Cristina Giuliani, University of Bologna, Italy
Binsheng Gong, US Food and Drug Administration, USA
Anna Grandone, Universita degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Dariusz Grzebelus, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
Om Prakash Gupta, ICAR, India
Artur Gurgul, National Research Institute of Animal Production, Poland
James Hane, Curtin University, Australia
Paul Harrison, McGill University, Canada
Jennifer Harrow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Einat Hazkani-Covo, Open University of Israel, Israel
Ruifeng He, Washington State University, USA
Isabel Henriques, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Catherine A Hill, Purdue University, USA
Heinz Himmelbauer, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain
Jonathan Houseley, The Babraham Institute, UK
Jianfei Hu, National Institutes of Health, USA
Di Huang, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, USA
Eveline M. Ibeagha-Awemu, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Adriana Ibelli, Embrapa Swine and Poultry, Brazil
Akihiro Ikeda, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
Takuya Imamura, Hiroshima University, Japan
Andres Iriarte, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Mekala Janaki Ramaiah, KL University, India
Sumit Jangra, University of Florida, USA
Diego Jarquin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Daniel Jeffares, University College London, UK
Uday Jha, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India
Linghuo Jiang, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, China
Xiao-Long Jiang, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, China
Chen Jiao, Zhejiang University, China
Jingjing Jin, PhD, Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of CNTC, China
Xiaoye Jin, Guizhou Medical University, China
Xingliang Jin, University of Sydney, Australia
Victor Jin, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Gökhan Karakülah, Dokuz Eylul University Health Campus, Turkey
Miljana Kecmanovic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Serbia
Brittney Keel, USDA, ARS, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, USA
Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki, University of Ulm, Germany
Naoya Kenmochi, University of Miyazaki, Japan
Birgit Kersten, Thunen Institute of Forest Genetics, Germany
Jung Han Kim, Marshall University, USA
Michail Kotsyfakis, Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Paula X. Kover, University of Bath, UK
Johannes Krause, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Srikanth Krishnamoorthy, Cornell University, USA
Alper Kucukural, UMass Medical School, USA
Anuj Kumar, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Gokhlesh Kumar, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
Naveen Kumar, National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, India
Anne Kupczok, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Michał Tomasz Kwiatek, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
Ping Lan, Institute of Soil Science, China
Alessandra Lanubile, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Nguyen Quoc Khanh Le, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Elisabeth Le-Bihan-Duval, Unite de Recherches Avicoles, France
Mingfeng Li, Yale University, USA
Jun Li, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, China
Changxi Li, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and University of Alberta, Canada
Libei Li, PhD, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Shuxian Li, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, USA
Xiangtao Li, Jilin University, China
Amanda Lindholm-Perry, USDA-ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, USA
Xiaoming Liu, University of South Florida, USA
George E Liu, Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, ARS, USA
Zhanjiang Liu, Syracuse University, USA
Ching-Ti Liu, Boston University School of Public Health, USA
Manyuan Long, University of Chicago, USA
Damar Lopez-Arredondo, Texas Tech University, USA
Joan Lunney, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, USA
Qin Ma, Ohio State University, USA
Reza Maali-Amiri, University of Tehran, Iran
Anil Madugundu, MedGenome Labs Ltd., India
Padmanabhan Mahadevan, University of Tampa, USA
Antonio Marco, University of Essex, UK
Federico Martinelli, University of Florence, Italy
Ichiro Matsumoto, Monell Chemical Senses Center, USA
Rodney Mauricio, University of Georgia, USA
Klaus Mayer, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany
Gerald Mboowa, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Ethiopia
Prabina Kumar Meher, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, India
Alessio Mengoni, University of Florence, Italy
Xiangyang Miao, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Cristina Miceli, University of Camerino, Italy
Reyazul Rouf Mir, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, India
Ryo Miyazaki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Vindhya Mohindra, Ph.D., ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, India
Mazahar Moin, Ph.D., International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Teopics, India
Gota Morota, Virginia Polytechnic Institute University, USA
Ali Movahedi, Nanjing Forestry University, China
Joann Mudge, National Center for Genome Resources, USA
Bernd Mueller-Roeber, University of Potsdam, Germany
Supratim Mukherjee, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, USA
John Mulley, Bangor University, United Kingdom
John Isaac Murray, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Satoshi Nagai, Fisheries Research Agency of Japan, National Research Institute of Environment and Inland Sea, Japan
Jamal Nasir, University of Northampton, United Kingdom
Sheila Nathan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Artem Nedoluzhko, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia
Enrico Negrisolo, University of Padova, Italy
Nguyen Hong Nguyen, University of the Sunshine Coast, Autralia
Deng-Ke Niu, Beijing Normal University, China
German Nudelman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Atsushi Ogura, Nagahama Institute of Bioscience and technology, Japan
Christos Ouzounis, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece
Amit Pandey, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research- Ahmedabad, India
Shree Pandey, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
Victoria Pando-Robles, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Mexico
Bharat Panwar, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA
Roberto Papa, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Argyris Papantonis, University Medical School Goettingen, Germany
Mark Parcells, University of Delaware, USA
Heidi Parker, NHGRI/National Institutes of Health, USA
Juan J. Pasantes, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Youri Pavlov, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Francisco Peñagaricano, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Ricardo Perez-Enriquez, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C. (CIBNOR), Mexico
José E. Pérez-Ortín, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
David Peris, University of Oslo, Norway
Elena Perrin, University of Florence, Italy
Amornrat Phongdara, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Ernesto Picardi, University of Bari, Italy
Arthur Pightling, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, USA
Daniel Piñero, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Katarzyna Piórkowska, National Research Institute of Animal Production, Poland
Alejandro Pironti, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
David Plachetzki, University of New Hampshire, USA
Eugenia Poliakov, NIH, USA
Estella Poloni, University of Geneva, Switzerland
François Pompanon, University of Grenoble, France
Bernard Pope, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Boas Pucker, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Deirdre Purfield, Munster Technological University, Ireland
Youxiong Que, College of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Parimalan Rangan, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, India
Milind Ratnaparkhe, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, India
Domenico Rau, University of Sassari, Italy
Terje Raudsepp, Texas A&M University, USA
Dmitry Ravcheev, Universite du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Umesh Reddy, West Virginia State University, USA
James Reecy, Iowa State University, USA
Bernhard Renard, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Deivendran Rengaraj, Zhejiang University, China
Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón, Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory, Brazil
Guy-Franck Richard, Institut Pasteur, France
Stephen Richards, University of California Davis, USA
Oscar Riera-Lizarazu, Texas A&M University College Station, USA
Camila Duarte Ritter, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Elisson Romanel, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Ajaya Kumar Rout, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, India
Amit Roy, Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic
Julio Rozas, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Zhi Ruan, Zhejiang University, China
Manuel Ruiz, CIRAD, France
Paul Rushton, South Dakota State University, USA
Sachin Rustgi, Washington State University, USA
Carlos Saavedra, Instituto de Acuicultura Torre de la Sal - CSIC, Spain
Richard Saffery, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia
Juan Sainz, Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Spain
Mohamed Salem, University of Maryland, USA
Diego San Mauro, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Carlos Schrago, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Xiaojian Shao, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Michael Shapero, Affymetrix, USA
De-Li Shi, Sorbonne University, France
Andrey Shkoporov, University College Cork, Ireland
Fabiano Sillo, University of Torino, Italy
Abhishek Singh, National Forensic Sciences University, India
Amit Singh, University of Dayton, USA
Deepti Singh, Cornell University, USA
Baoxing Song, Ph.D., Northwest A&F University, China
Jingyuan Song, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, China
Qijian Song, Agricultural Research Service, USA
Weibin Song, China Agricultural University, China
Jose Sotelo-Silveira, University of the Republic, Uruguay
Braulio Soto-Cerda, Agriaquaculture Nutritional Genomic Center (CGNA), Chile
Shanmuga Sozhamannan, Critical Reagents Program, MCS/JPEO, USA
Benjamin Stich, Heinrich Heine University, Institute for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Plants, Germany
Paul Stothard, University of Alberta, Canada
Giovanni Stracquadanio, University of Edinburgh, UK
Eva Stukenbrock, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany
Tina Summerfield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Xiulian Sun, Wuhan Institute of Virology, China
Dongxiao Sun, China Agricultural University, China
Congjiao Sun, China Agricultural University, China
Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California, USA
Francesco Sunseri, Department AGRARIA - University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Mudasir Ahmad Syed, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and AH, Sher-e-kashmir university of agricultural sciences and technology of Kashmir, India
Nilesh Tannu, The University of Texas, USA
Min Tao, Hunan Normal University, China
Paulo José Pereira Lima Teixeira, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur, France
Huajing Teng, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, China
Peter Teske, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Jens Tetens, University of Goettingen, Germany
Fabiano Thompson, UFRJ, Brazil
Chao Tong, Arizona State University, USA
Lam-Son Tran, Texas Tech University, USA
George Trendelenburg, University Medicine Göttingen, Germany
William Ka Fai Tse, Kyushu University, Japan
Arif Uddin, Moinul Hoque Choudhury Memorial Science College, Assam University, Silchar, India
Yoshinobu Uemoto, Tohoku University, Japan
Cemal Ün, Ege University, Turkey
Turgay Unver, Cankiri Karatekin University, Turkey
Eric Vallender, University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA
Claudio Valverde, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes - CONICET, Argentina
Marie-Anne Van Sluys, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Thiago M Venancio, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Brazil
Mario Ventura, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, USA
Ankit Verma, University of Cambridge, UK
Praveen Chandra Verma, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, India
Nagarjun Vijay, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India
Christian Voolstra, University of Konstanz, Germany
Patrik Waldmann, University of Oulu, Finland
Dirk Walther, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
Chengshu Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dapeng Wang, Imperial College London, UK
Kai Wang, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Zuoheng Anita Wang, Yale University, USA
Yachun Wang, China Agricultural University, China
Baohua Wang, School of Life Scences, Nantong University, China
Maojun Wang, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Robert Waterhouse, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Cahochun Wei, Sc.D, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Zhi Wei, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Leyi Wei, Shandong University, China
Alessandro Weisz, University of Salerno, Italy
Charles Wondji, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Cen Wu, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, USA
Jian Wu, Ph.D., China Agricultural University, China
Gerald Wyckoff, University of Missouri, USA
Junfeng Xia, Anhui University, China
Daoquan Xiang, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Zijun Xiong, BGI-Group, China
Anlong Xu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Dongdong Xu, Zhejiang Marine Fisheries Research Institute, China
Guoqiang Xu, Soochow University, China
Zhenyu Xuan, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ning Yang, China Agricultural University, China
Pingfang Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yanfang Yang, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China
Rajesh Yarra, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, USA
Chao Ye, Nanjing Normal University, China, People's Republic
Guoyou Ye, Indian Institute of Rice Research, India
Kaixiong Ye, University of Georgia, USA
Guoqiang Yi, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Hengfu Yin, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China
Dongliang Yu, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China
Jun Yu, Beijing Institute of Genomics, China
Yihui Yuan, Hainan University, China
Li Yuanfeng, Ph.D., National Center for Protein Sciences Beijing; Beijing protein research center, China
Vyacheslav Yurchenko, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Andrey Yurchenko, Institut Gustave Roussy, France
Nicolae Radu Zabet, University of Essex, UK
Marc Zapatka, German Cancer Research Center, Germany
Shuai Zeng, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Bo Zhang, South Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Province Laboratory, China
Chuan Xi Zhang, Institute Of Insect Science, Zhejiang University, China
Shihua Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Zhe Zhang, South China Agricultural University, China
Baolong Zhang, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Science, China
Hongbin Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA
Jinfa Zhang, New Mexico State University, USA
Lei Zhang, Jiangsu Normal University, China
Yuan-Ming Zhang, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Zhao Zhang, China Agricultural University, China
Ziding Zhang, China Agricultural University, China
Fengli Zhao, Ph.D., China National Rice Research Institute, China
Hansheng Zhao, International Center for Bamboo and Rattan, China
Na Zhao, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory-Zhanjiang, China
Qi Zhao, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, China
Beiwen Zheng, Zhejiang University, China
Daoqiong Zheng, Zhejiang University, China
Huajun Zheng, Shanghai Institute for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Technologies, China
Bo Zhou, Northeast Forestry University, China
Ji-Yuan Zhou, Southern Medical University, China
Meiliang Zhou, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Dongxiao Zhu, Wayne State University, USA
Andrea Zuccolo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Editorial Advisors
Leonid Bystrykh, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Alexei Fedorov, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA
Anna Malacrida, University of Pavia, Italy
Peer Bork, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Roger Bumgarner, University of Washington, USA
Jean-Michel Claverie, CNRS, France
Antoine Danchin, Institut Pasteur, France
Joel Dudley, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Takashi Gojobori, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Trevor Hawkins, Amersham Biosciences, USA
Des G Higgins, University College Dublin, Ireland
Eivind Hovig, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Norway
Stuart K Kim, Stanford University Medical School, USA
Adam Kuspa, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Edison Liu, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Paul Lyons, University of Cambridge, UK
Arcady Mushegian, National Science Foundation, USA 
Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School, USA 
John Quackenbush, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
J Sunil Rao, Case Western Reserve University, USA
David Relman, Stanford University, USA
Igor Rogozin, National Institutes of Health, USA
Steven Salzberg, University of Maryland, USA 
Mark Stitt, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany 
Marc Vidal, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
K Vijayraghavan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Martin Vingron, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany 
Mengge Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
James L Weber, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, USA
Huntington Willard, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA
Richard K Wilson, Washington University School of Medicine, US

Statistical Advisors
Joseph Beyene, McMaster University, Canada 
Marco Bink, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Guy Brock, University of Louisville, USA
Douglas Curran-Everett, National Jewish Health, USA
Chindo Hicks, University of Mississippi Medical Centre, USA
Carl Lombard, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
Cavan Reilly, University of Minnesota, USA
Alex Sanchez-Pla, University of Barcelona, Spain
Xiangfeng Wang, University of Arizona, USA
Kui Zhang, Michigan Technology University, USA