Coming in January 2011

Manuscript Submission

Mobile Genetic Elements will utilize an online submission and tracking system designed to provide efficient service to authors. Through the online system, author files are automatically converted to PDFs, submissions are acknowledged by email, and authors can track their manuscript through the stages of the peer review process.

For more information see our Call for Papers. (COMING SOON)

Click here to submit your manuscript to Mobile Genetic Elements. (COMING SOON)

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Editor-in-Chief

Adam P. Roberts
University College London
Eastman Dental Institute
London, UK

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A Note to Potential Authors

Page and color charges are waived for the first six issues and the final version of accepted manuscripts will be posted on the web site promptly. Any content posted on the web site from now until January 2012 will always be free for registered users. Authors will receive a free print version of the issue containing their paper. For additional information on how to submit your manuscript please visit our Guidelines for Authors.

HINARI

Landes Bioscience gladly participates in the World Health Organizations' Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) to provide free online access to all papers published in Mobile Genetic Elements to scientists in developing countries worldwide.

Read more about the HINARI initiative.

About MGE

In January / February of 2011 we plan to launch Mobile Genetic Elements, the first international peer-reviewed journal of its kind to focus exclusively on all aspects of mobile genetic elements found throughout life.

Mobile Genetic Elements will publish four general types of papers, 1) Original Research, 2) Reviews, 3) Protocols, 4) Addenda. Original Research papers will cover important topics related to all aspects of mobile genetic elements. Reviews will take several forms and will generally be invited. We realize new developments in methodology and techniques are an important resource for the research community. Therefore, a section of the journal will allow for the reporting of the latest developments in translational applications of mobile genetic elements to the study of biological systems. Finally addenda on any aspect of mobile genetic elements will be welcome.

We will publish the following types of papers:

• Reviews (mostly invited)
• Original Research Papers
• Brief Reports (Notes)
• Methods and Protocols
• Article Addenda
• Commentaries and Views/Letters to the Editor

 

Journal topics will include:

• Sequence of novel mobile elements
• Biological functions of mobile element encoded proteins
• Recombination / transposition
• Replication
• Mobilization
• Intercellular transfer
• Transcriptional and translational regulation
• Evolution
• Cellular consequences of carriage
• Methods and protocols


Initially, we will publish bimonthly, incrementally increasing the frequency to 12 issues over several years. Each issue will appear in print and online. Submissions and peer-review will be rapid and handled online. The average time from submission to final decision (acceptance or rejection) for the current Landes Bioscience journals is one month. Once accepted, a paper is published online within three weeks.


 

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