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Instructions to Authors
Genes & Genetic Systems (GGS) is the official journal of the
Genetics Society of Japan, which was published bimonthly from1918 until 2023. As one of the most time-honored scientificjournals in the world, GGS is now transitioned to aninternational, peer-reviewed Open Access journal. All articles in
GGS undergo peer review and, upon acceptance, are immediately
and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
AIMS & SCOPE
Genes & Genetic Systems is an international peer-reviewed Open
Access journal. It publishes important original papers and review
articles that address a wide range of fields in genetics. These
include general genetics, molecular genetics, cell genetics,
developmental genetics, behavioral genetics, ecological genetics,
chemical genetics, epigenetics, cytogenetics, population genetics,
evolutionary genetics, and molecular evolution. GGS also
welcomes papers in the following fields, if they are related togenetics: genome-wide research, bioinformatics, systems biology,
database, genetic bioresources, and technical advances (in bothexperimental and in silico methods). GGS maintains the highest
standards of scientific and publication ethics. Articles areavailable freely online to a diverse global audience.
MANUSCRIPT TYPESGGS publishes a range of manuscript types, all of which are
subject to rigorous peer review.
Full Papers
Full Papers are full-length research articles on important andcomprehensive original research. There is no minimum or
maximum length.
Short Communications
Short Communications are short reports of the results of studies
that are of sufficient interest to justify publication. They must be
no longer than 15,000 characters (including spaces but excluding
the title page and references) and 4 display items (i.e., figures ortables). Figure legends must be included in the character count.
The text of Short Communications should not be divided into
sections, such as Introduction, Results and Discussion.
Methods, Technology, and Resources
GGS welcomes manuscripts that describe genetic or analytic
methods, tools or resources that are likely to have a broad impact.
They can be full-length research articles or Short Communications.
The method or resource needs to be novel or be a significant
advance to an existing method or resource. The necessary reagentsor resources need to be available upon request. All Methods,
Technology and Resources are peer reviewed in the same way as
Full Papers and Short Communications.
Reviews and Minireviews
Reviews and Minireviews summarize literature on a specialized
topic, discuss any challenges in that field of research, and present
a perspective on the future of the field. There is no minimum or
maximum length for Reviews but Minireviews must be less than
3,000 words (excluding References). Reviews and Minireviews areusually invited and managed by the Reviews Editor; recipients of
the Genetics Society of Japan’s Young Scientist Award are also
invited to collaborate with distinguished researchers to prepare a
Minireview for consideration.
GGS will also consider submissions without an invitation.
Interested authors should contact the Reviews Editor or one of the
Editors in the related field before submission. All Reviews andMinireviews are peer reviewed to the same rigorous standard as
Full Papers and Short Communications.
Brief Reports
Brief Reports are short articles that describe topics related to
selected important papers that have recently been published. The
Brief Reports Editors will invite the authors of such original
papers to contribute to this type of manuscript. The manuscript
should include additional insights, new interpretations, genetic
models, or supporting data that were not presented in the original
paper due to space limitations. The format of Brief Reports follows
that of Short Communications, except for their shorter length.
Meeting Reports
Meeting Reports summarize a meeting on a genetics-related topic.
Interested authors should contact one of the Editors in the related
field before submission. All Meeting Reports are peer reviewed tothe same rigorous standard as Full Papers and Short Communications.
JOURNAL & ETHICS POLICIESGGS strives to uphold the highest research and publishingstandards. This comprehensive suite of policies covers the main
responsibilities of the authors, reviewers, editors and publisher.
Before submitting a manuscript to GGS, authors must ensure thatthey have read and complied with the following policies.
Author Responsibilities
Submission
GGS welcomes manuscript submissions from authors anywhere in
the world. Submission to GGS implies that all authors have readand approved the manuscript, have agreed to its submission, andhave the right to publish their work. Submission to GGS also
implies that all authors have read and complied with the GGS
policies on publication and scientific ethics. Authors of submitted
manuscripts acknowledge that GGS editors reserve the right toreject or retract any manuscript that they believe may breach anyof these policies.
Duplicate submission
Submission to GGS implies that the manuscript has not beenpreviously published (in part or in whole, in any language), is notin press, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Authors must inform the editors if any related manuscripts areunder consideration, in press or published elsewhere. The
availability of a manuscript on a publicly accessible preprint
server does not constitute prior publication (see ‘Preprints’). If
authors choose to submit their manuscript elsewhere before a final
decision has been made on its suitability for publication in GGS,
they should first withdraw it from GGS.
Originality
Submission to GGS implies that the manuscript is original work.
The journal uses iThenticate software to screen manuscripts forunoriginal material. By submitting a manuscript to the journal,
the authors agree to this screening. The Editors will reject orretract the manuscript if there is evidence that the manuscript
contains an unacceptable level of unoriginal material.
Preprints
To support the wide dissemination of research, authors may post
their research manuscripts on community-recognized preprint
servers, either before or alongside submission to GGS. This policy
applies only to the original version of a manuscript that describes
primary research. Any version of a manuscript that has beenrevised in response to reviewers’ comments, accepted for
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server. Instead, forward links to the published manuscript should
be posted on the preprint server.
Scooping
When assessing the novelty of a manuscript submitted to GGS,
the editors will not be influenced by other manuscripts that are
posted on community-recognized preprint servers after the date ofsubmission to GGS (or after the date of posting on a preprint
server, if the manuscript is submitted to GGS within 4 months).
Authorship
GGS follows the guidelines of the International Committee ofMedical Journal Editors (ICMJE) for authorship andcontributorship1) and the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT)2)
is used to indicate each author’s contributions.
1) http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/rolesandresponsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authorsandcontributors.html
2) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aJxrQXYHW5U6By3
KEAHrx1Iho6ioeh3ohNsRMwsoGPM/edit
Submission to GGS implies that all authors have seen andapproved the author list. Changes to the author list after
manuscript submission – such as the insertion or removal of
author names, or a rearrangement of author order – must be
approved by all authors and the editor.
Authors are those who have made substantial contributions to thework; have agreed to be held accountable for their own
contributions to the work; can identify which co-authors are
responsible for other parts of the work; have confidence in the
integrity of the work; and have reviewed and approved the final
manuscript. Contributors who do not qualify for authorship may
be included in the Acknowledgments section instead.
Image integrity
Authors may digitally manipulate or process images, but only if
the adjustments are kept to a minimum, are applied to the entire
image, meet community standards, and are clearly described in
the manuscript. All images in a manuscript must accuratelyreflect the original data on which they are based. Authors must
not move, remove, add or enhance individual parts of an image.
The editors reserve the right to request original, unprocessed
images from the authors. Failure to provide requested images may
result in a manuscript being rejected or retracted.
Reproducing copyrighted material
If a manuscript includes material that is not under the authors’
own copyright, the authors must obtain permission from the
copyright holder(s) to reproduce it.
If a manuscript includes previously published material, theauthors must obtain permission from the copyright owners andthe publisher of the original work to reproduce it. The authors
must cite the original work in their manuscript. Copies of all
reproduction permissions must be included with the manuscript
when it is first submitted.
Availability of data and materials
For large-scale experiments, accessibility to raw data is necessary
for publication. If public repositories are available, authors are
expected to use these repositories. If not, the authors should
provide the raw data as Supplementary information.
Authors must disclose the source of publicly available data andmaterials, such as public repositories or commercial manufacturers, by including accession numbers or company details in theirmanuscript, as appropriate. Authors may make their own data
and materials available in Supplementary information, or bylinking from their manuscript to relevant community-recognizedpublic databases or digital repositories. All data sets must be
made available in full to the editors and reviewers during the peerreview process and must be made publicly available by the date of
publication. Authors commit to preserving their data sets for atleast 10 years from the date of publication in GGS. Please also
refer to the relevant sections below in relation to nucleotide
sequence and microarray data.
GGS encourages authors to grant reasonable requests fromcolleagues to share any data, materials and experimental
protocols described in their manuscript.
Authors describing unique research materials, such as strains,gene clones and computer programs, must agree to provide themto researchers who request them.
Animal/human experimentation
Authors of manuscripts describing experiments involving humans
or materials derived from humans must demonstrate that thework was carried out in accordance with the principles describedin the Declaration of Helsinki, its revisions, and any guidelines
approved by the authors’ institutions. A brief statement
identifying the institutional and/or licensing committee thatapproved the study must be included in the Methods section,
including, where relevant, the procedures for obtaining informed
consent from participants regarding participation in theundertaking and publication of the research.
Authors describing experiments with animals must indicate thatthe research was approved by a Review Committee at their
institute, or confirm that the experiments were performed inaccordance with accepted guidelines. Authors must include in the
Methods section a brief statement identifying the institutional
and/or licensing committee that approved the experiments.
Sample collection
Manuscripts describing the collection of plant, soil, water,archaeological, geological, paleontological or wildlife samples or
specimens should include detailed information on theirprovenance and collection methods. Authors must include astatement in their manuscript describing the relevant ethics
guidelines, local laws and collection permits under which theresearch was conducted.
Conflicts of interest
In the interests of transparency, GGS requires all authors to
declare any conflicts of interest in relation to their submitted
manuscript. A conflict of interest exists when there are actual,
perceived or potential circumstances that could influence anauthor’s ability to conduct or report research impartially.
Potential conflicts include (but are not limited to) competing
commercial or financial interests, commercial affiliations,consulting roles, or ownership of stock or equity. Authors should
list all funding sources for their work in the Acknowledgments
section of their manuscript. All authors are required to disclose
any association that poses a conflict of interest in connection withthe submitted manuscript.
Confidentiality
GGS maintains the confidentiality of all unpublished manuscripts.
By submitting their manuscript to GGS, the authors warrant thatthey will keep all correspondence about their manuscript (from the
Editorial Office, editors and reviewers) strictly confidential.
Editor / Publisher Responsibilities
Editorial and peer-review process
GGS employs single-blind peer review. When a manuscript is
submitted to GGS, it is assigned to the Managing Editor, who
performs the initial evaluation. Manuscripts that do not fit GGS’s
scope or are not deemed suitable for publication are rejectedwithout review. The Managing Editor allocates each of theremaining manuscript to a Handling Editor, who oversees thepeer review process.
The Handling Editor initially evaluates whether or not themanuscript forwarded by the Managing Editor should be sent out
for review and may reject it without review at his/ her discretion.
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selects two appropriate reviewers to provide their assessment of
the manuscript. Reviewers are selected based on their expertise,
reputation, and previous experience as peer reviewers. The
deadline for submission of the reviewers’ reports varies by article
type, but it is typically two weeks.
Once the reviewers’ reports have been received, the Handling
Editor determines whether the manuscript requires revision.
Authors who are asked to revise their manuscript must do so
within 8 weeks, unless authors request postponement of the resubmission and the request is approved by the Editors. Otherwise,
it may be treated as a new submission. The Handling Editor may
send revised manuscripts to external reviewers for their feedback
or may use his or her own judgment to assess the validity and rigorof changes to the original manuscript.
The Handling Editor responsible for the manuscript then makes a
final decision on the manuscript’s suitability for publication in
GGS. The Editor-in-Chief, the Managing Editor and Handling
Editor discuss the decision on individual manuscripts where it isdeemed necessary to do so. The members of the Advisory Board
act in advisory roles, making suggestions to improve the journal.
Reviewer suggestions
When submitting a manuscript to GGS, authors may suggest
possible reviewers that they would like included in or excluded
from the peer-review process. The Handling Editor may consider
these suggestions but is under no obligation to follow them. The
selection, invitation, and assignment of peer reviewers is at the
Handling Editor’s sole discretion.
Reviewer reports
It is GGS policy to transmit reviewers’ comments to the authors
in their original form. However, GGS reserves the right to edit
reviewers’ comments, without consulting the reviewers, if they
contain offensive language, confidential information, or
recommendations for publication.
Editorial independence
The Genetics Society of Japan has granted the GGS Editorial
Board complete and sole responsibility for all editorial decisions.
The Society’s executive will not become involved in editorial
decisions, except in cases of a fundamental breakdown of theprocess.
Editorial decisions are based only on a manuscript’s scientificmerit and are kept completely separate from the other interests ofGGS. The authors’ ability to pay any publication charges has no
bearing on whether a manuscript is accepted for publication in
GGS.
Appeals
Authors who believe that an editorial decision has been made inerror may lodge an appeal with the Editorial Office. Appeals are
only considered if the authors provide detailed evidence of amisunderstanding or mistake by a reviewer or editor. Appeals are
considered carefully by a Managing Editor and the Editor-in-Chief,
whose decision is final.
Confidentiality
GGS maintains the confidentiality of all unpublished manuscripts.
Editors will not:• disclose a reviewer’s identity unless the reviewer makes arequest for such disclosure• discuss the manuscript or its contents with anyone notdirectly involved with the manuscript or its peer review• use any data or information from the manuscript in their own
work or publications• use information obtained from the peer-review process toprovide an advantage to themselves or anyone else, or todisadvantage any individual or organization.
Conflicts of interest
A conflict of interest exists when there are actual, perceived or
potential circumstances that could influence an editor’s ability to

act impartially when assessing a manuscript. Such circumstancesmight include having a personal or professional relationship with
an author, working on the same topic or in direct competition with
an author, or having a financial stake in the work or its
publication.
Members of the GGS Editorial Board undertake to declare any
conflicts of interest when handling manuscripts. An editor who
declares a conflict of interest is replaced by a new editor.
Corrigenda and retractions
GGS recognizes the importance of maintaining the integrity of
published literature.
A published article that contains an error may be corrected
through the publication of a Corrigendum. Corrigenda describe
errors that significantly affect the scientific integrity of apublication, the reputation of the authors, or the journal itself.
Authors who wish to correct a published article should contact the
Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Office with full details of theerror(s) and their requested changes. In cases where co-authors
disagree over a correction, the Editor-inChief or the Managing
Editor responsible for the manuscript may consult the Editorial
Board or external peer reviewers for advice. If a Corrigendum ispublished, any dissenting authors will be noted in the text.
A published article that contains invalid or unreliable results or
conclusions, has been published elsewhere, or has infringed codesof conduct (covering research or publication ethics) may beretracted. Individuals who believe that a published article should
be retracted are encouraged to contact the GGS Editorial Officewith full details of their concerns. The Editor-in-Chief will
investigate further and contact the authors of the publishedarticle for their response. In cases where coauthors disagree overa Retraction, the Editor-in-Chief may consult the Editorial Boardor external peer reviewers for advice. If a Retraction is published,
any dissenting authors will be noted in the text.
The decision to publish a Corrigendum or Retraction is made at
the sole discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.
Editors’ own publications in GGS
Any member of the GGS Editorial Board who is an author on asubmitted manuscript is automatically excluded from the peerreview process within the GGS online manuscript submission andtracking system. They are able to see their manuscript as an
author but not as an editor, thereby maintaining theconfidentiality of peer review.
A manuscript authored by an editor of GGS will be subjected tothe same high standards of peer review and editorial decision
making as any manuscript submitted to GGS.
Responding to potential ethical breaches
GGS will respond to allegations of ethical breaches by following
its own policies and, where possible, the guidelines formulated by
the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) 3).
3) https://publicationethics.org
Long-term digital archiving
J-STAGE preserves its full digital library, including GGS, with
Portico in a dark archive (see https://www.portico.org/
publishers/jstage/ ). In the event that the material becomes
unavailable at J-STAGE, it will be released and made available byPortico.
Reviewer Responsibilities
Confidentiality
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discuss the manuscript or its contents with anyone notdirectly involved in the review process• involve anyone else in the review (for example, a postdoc or
PhD student) without first requesting permission from the
Editor• use any data or information from the manuscript in their own
work or publications• use information obtained from the peer-review process toprovide an advantage to themselves or anyone else, or todisadvantage any individual or organization.
Reviewer conflicts of interest
A conflict of interest exists when there are actual, perceived or
potential circumstances that could influence a reviewer’s ability toassess a manuscript impartially. Such circumstances might
include having a personal or professional relationship with anauthor, working on the same topic or in direct competition with anauthor, having a financial stake in the work or its publication, or
having seen previous versions of the manuscript.
Editors try to avoid conflicts of interest when inviting reviewers,
but it is not always possible to identify potential bias. Reviewers
are asked to declare any conflicts of interest to the Editor, who will
determine the best course of action.

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OPEN ACCESS, COPYRIGHT AND PUBLICATIONCHARGESGGS is fully Open Access and uses a Creative Commons (CC)license to allow users to use, reuse and build upon the material
published in the journal without charge or the need to ask priorpermission from the publisher or author.
Copyright and licensing
The copyright of accepted articles is retained by the authors;authors are required to sign a License to Publish Form (LPF) thatprovides GGS rights to publish the article under the Creative
Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International license. The LPF
is sent with the galley proofs.
The CC BY license lets others copy, distribute, remix, and build
upon the article, even commercially, provided the original source
and authors are credited (see http://creativecommons.
org/licenses/by/4.0/ ).
Article Processing Charges (APCs)
The APC for each article for general members of the Genetics
Society of Japan is ¥100,000, while the APC for non-members is¥300,000. The APC for senior members and Education members
is ¥50,000. The APCs are waived for invited Reviews. Each priceincludes consumption tax. The author shall be responsible for any
transfer fees incurred in paying the APC. The exact amount will
be indicated on the invoice issued upon acceptance of the paper.
There is no submission fee.
Self-archiving (Green Open Access) policy
Self-archiving, also known as Green Open Access, enables authors
to deposit a copy of their manuscript in an online repository. GGS
encourages authors of original research manuscripts to upload
their article to an institutional or public repository immediately
after publication in GGS, in line with the terms of the relevant
license.
Publication Charge Assistance Program
Authors with insufficient funding to pay the fee may be eligible fora fee waiver.
GGS has created a Publication Charge Assistance (PCA) program
so that publication fees do not prohibit the publication of excellent
work from authors with insufficient funding. GGS will grant a

waiver to authors under demonstrated financial pressure –whether because of their local economy, career stage, or a lack offunding.
Authors must apply for a PCA upon the initial submission of theirmanuscript via the cover letter. Applicants must provide valid
justification (such as details about their financial situation) to
qualify for assistance. GGS considers applications on a case-bycase basis and decisions are usually sent to applicants within 10
business days. Requests made during the review process or after
acceptance will not be considered. Authors cannot apply for
waivers via email or make direct requests to journal editors.
GGS acceptance and publication decisions are based solely on theeditorial criteria. Journal editors and reviewers are not involvedin the fee-waiver decision-making process.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Initial online submission: A manuscript and a cover lettershould be submitted electronically via the GGS website(https://www.editorialmanager.com/ggs/ ). The original or revisedmanuscript text may be uploaded as a PDF or Microsoft Word file,
but a Word file is required for the final manuscript text. You will
receive an ID and a password with which you can monitor the
progress of the paper during the review process.
Final manuscript submission: After the paper has been
accepted for publication, the corresponding author is requested tosend a final version of the manuscript to the Editor-in-Chief. The
text should be prepared using Microsoft Word (.DOC or .DOCX).
Tables should be placed at the end of the text in the same file.
Figures should be saved in one of the following formats: Word(.DOC or .DOCX), Power Point (.PPT or .PPTX), JPEG (.JPG),
TIFF (.TIFF), EPS (.EPS), or high-resolution PDF (.PDF). The
figure legends should be listed on a separate sheet(s).
Supplementary information files should be sent as separate files(PDF format). No file should exceed 20 Mb.
If you encounter any problems with online submission, pleasecontact the Editor-in-Chief or the Office of the Genetic Society ofJapan (see the ‘Contact us’ section for details).
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
English standard
Manuscripts should be written in clear, grammatically correct
English. Authors whose native language is not English arestrongly encouraged to have their manuscript checked by a native
English speaker or by an editing service prior to submission. If amanuscript is not clear due to poor English, it may be returned tothe authors without peer review.
Style and format
Full papers should be arranged in the following order: (i) Title
page, (ii) Abstract, (iii) Main body, (iv) References, (v) Tables, (vi)Legends to Figures, and (vii) Figures. The main body should be
divided into sections: Introduction, Results, Discussion, andMaterials and Methods, in this order. The section titles should be
written in a centered, boldface, uppercase heading, such as
INTRODUCTION. Each section, except for the Introduction, canbe divided into subsections. The first paragraph of the subsection
should begin with a leftaligned, boldface heading that starts withan uppercase letter and finishes without a period.
The main body of Short Communications should not be divided
into sections such as Introduction, Results, Discussion andMaterials and Methods.
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no specific style for Reviews, Minireviews or Meeting Reports.
Please refer to previously published articles for further guidance.
Title pageThe title page should comprise: (i) the title of the manuscript, (ii)
name(s) of the author(s), (iii) academic or professional
affiliation(s), (iv) address(es) including city, prefecture/state, zip
code, country, (v) any footnotes referring to the above items, (vi) a
running title (not exceeding 50 letters including spaces), (vii) up
to five keywords (do not capitalize words unless they are proper
names), and (viii) the name of the corresponding author, his/her
telephone and E-mail address.
Abbreviations and units
Genus or species names, names of genes, mathematical formulae,
and other terms requiring special symbols should be appropriately
indicated by the use of italics, boldface letters, superscripts, andsubscripts.
Abstract
The abstract should state the scope of the work and the principal
findings in no more than 300 words. References should not be
included.
Introduction
The Introduction should provide sufficient backgroundinformation to allow the reader to understand the purpose of thestudy and its relationship with other research in related fields,
although it should not include an extensive review of the literature.
Results
This section includes the results of the experiments. The Resultsand Discussion sections may be combined if this helps readers tounderstand and evaluate the study. Tables and figures, including
photographs and videos, can be used to present the experimental
results (see below). Excessive explanations of the data presented
in tables and figures should be avoided.
Discussion
The Discussion should be concise and should deal with theinterpretation of the results. Novel models or hypotheses may be
proposed in this section only if they are suggested by the results
obtained in the experiments. Do not repeat the description of theexperimental results in this section.
Materials and Methods
The description of the methods should be brief, but it must include
sufficient details to allow the experiments to be repeated. The
sources of unusual chemicals, plants, water, soils, microbial
strains, animals or equipment should be described, and thelocation (city, country) of the company should be provided inparentheses. If hazardous materials or dangerous procedures areused in the experiments and the precautions related to theirhandling are not widely recognized, it is recommended that theauthors provide the necessary details.

ens). DOI should be shown at the end of each article if it isavailable. Personal communications and unpublished data orreports should be mentioned in parentheses in the text but should
not be included in the reference list. List all contributors byinitials and last name; do not use et al. In the reference list, pleaseadhere to the formats in the following examples. For articles withmore than ten authors, list the first ten names and then add “etal.”Journal articles
Tajima, F. (1989) Statistical method for testing the neutral
mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism. Genetics 123, 585–
595. DOI: 10.1093/genetics/123.3.585
Saitou, N., and Nei, M. (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new
method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol.
Biol. Evol. 4, 406–425. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.
a040454
Sarojam, R., Sappl, P. G., Goldshmidt, A., Efroni, I., Floyd, S. K.,
Eshed, Y., and Bowman, J. L. (2010) Differentiating Arabidopsis
shoots from leaves by combined YABBY activities. Plant Cell 22,
2113–2130.
Sasaki, T., Matsumoto, T., Yamamoto, K., Sakata, K., Baba, T.,
Katayose, Y., Wu, J., Niimura, Y., Cheng, Z., Nagamura, Y., et al.
(2002) The genome sequence and structure of rice chromosome 1.
Nature 420, 312–316.
Books
Steeves, T. A., and Sussex, I. M. (1989) Patterns in Plant
Development. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511626227
Nakazaki, T., Naito, K., Okumoto, Y., and Tanisaka, T. (2008)
Active transoposons in rice. In Rice Biology in the Genomics Era.
(eds.: Hirano, H.-Y., Hirai, A., Sano, Y., and Sasaki, T.), pp. 69–79.
Springer, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-54074250-0_6
TablesTables should be placed after the References. Tables should be
provided with their descriptions on the same sheet.
FiguresFigures should be prepared electronically and saved in one offollowing formats: MS Word (.DOC or .DOCX), MS Power Point(.PPT or .PPTX), JPEG (.JPG), TIFF (.TIFF), EPS (.EPS),
Illustrator (.ai), or high-resolution PDF (.PDF). Figures should be
provided separately at the end of the manuscript. Figure legends
should be placed after the Tables.

Acknowledgments
This section should be brief. All authors should list all funding
sources for their work in the Acknowledgments section.

Supplementary information
Supplementary information gives authors the opportunity toprovide raw data, which would be impossible or impractical toinclude in the printed version. Supplementary information can
include text, tables and figures. The formats of the tables andfigures should be the same as those of the manuscript, but figurelegends should be placed below the figures they refer to.
Supplementary information files must be submitted in PDF
format together with the main manuscript. Authors must indicate
the number of Supplementary information files in the cover letter.
Supplementary information will be made available online after
acceptance of the manuscript.

References
References should be cited in the text by the author(s) and year,
and listed at the end of the text with the names of the authors
arranged alphabetically. Use of EndNote is highly recommended
for the preparation of references (The GGS style for EndNote canbe downloaded from the link (https:// gsj3.org/ggs/ggs/GGS_1307D.

Nucleotide sequence deposition
New nucleotide sequence data must be submitted and depositedin the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases, and an accession
number must be obtained before the paper can be accepted for
publication. Submission to any one of the three collaborating
databanks is sufficient to ensure data entry in all. The accession

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number should be included in the manuscript, e.g., as a footnote
on the title page: “Note: Nucleotide sequence data reported areavailable in the DDBJ/EMBL/ GenBank databases under theaccession number(s)---.” If requested by the author, the database
will withhold release of data until publication.
The database URLs are:
DDBJ(https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ddbj/submission-e.html), EMBL
via WEBIN (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Submission/ webin.html ),GenBank via BankIt (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BankIt/ ), or by
the stand-alone submission tool Sequin(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sequin/).
For special types of submissions (e.g. genomes and bulk submissions), please use the contact information below to enquire about
the availability of alternative submission systems.

Database Contact Information
DDBJ: Bioinformation and DDBJ Center, National Instituteof Genetics, Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, JAPAN.
Tel: +81(0)-55-981-6853; e-mail: ddbj@ddbj.nig.ac.jp; https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/contact-e.html ; https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.
jp/index-e.html
EMBL: EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Submissions, European
Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)1223 495 000;
fax: 44 (0)1223 495 114; e-mail: datasubs@ebi.ac.uk; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/
GenBank: National Center for Biotechnology Information,
National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockwille Pike, Bethesda, MD
20894, U.S.A. e-mail: info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov; http://www.ncbi.nlm.
nih.gov
Microarray data deposition
GGS now requires the submission of microarray data to one of thefollowing International Public Gene Expression Databases:
ArrayExpress (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/ ), Gene
Expression Omnibus (GEO) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ ),or Genomic Expression Archive (GEA) (https:// www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/gea/index-e.html ). An accession number for microarray data
must be obtained before publication and should be included in the
text of the manuscript.
Footnotes
Footnotes should be avoided whenever possible. If absolutely
necessary, they should be numbered and placed at the bottom of
the page in question.
ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts that are accepted for publication are copyedited andtypeset by the GGS production team before publication. All
communication regarding accepted manuscripts is with thecorresponding author.
Proofs
Proofreading will be limited to the correction of typographicalerrors. Any additional cost incurred due to authors making
changes at the proofreading stage will be charged to the authors.
Press and Media
Accepted manuscripts are under embargo until 9:00 am (Japantime) two days before the early online publication.
Contact us
Manuscripts and correspondence concerning editorial mattersshould be addressed directly to one of the editors of the disciplineof the paper or to:

Dr. Hiroshi Masuya
Editor-in-Chief
RIKEN BioResource Research Center
3-1-1 Kouyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
E-mail: hiroshi.masuya@riken.jp
Or
Dr. Satoko Maki
Senior Editorial Manager
Genes & Genetic Systems
The Genetics Society of Japan
National Institute of Genetics
1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
Telephone: +81-55-981-6736, e-mail: ggs-editor1@gsj3.org