New Genetics Section for the Animal Science Image Gallery

We are delighted to announce Dr. E. A. (Ann) Dunnington of Virginia Tech has agreed to be the Editor for a Genetics Section of the Image Gallery. Dr. Eric Wong, also at Virginia Tech, has generously offered to be the Associate Section Editor for Molecular Genetics. Together, Ann and Eric solicit the full range of modern genetics images for publication in the Image Gallery - including Animal Breeding, Quantitative Genetics, and Molecular Genetics. In addition, hopefully people will want to publish their images with historical significance, for example images of genetic abnormalities that were common in 1950 but have now virtually disappeared thanks to improvements in animal breeding.

Here follows the current sections of the Image Gallery, and the Section Editors. Nutrition and Reproduction are the most populated, because they were initiated much earlier.

Log on to the Image Gallery web site (http://anscigallery.nal.usda.gov) to sample some of the over 830 images, zip files, power points, videos and animations that may be used freely for teaching and outreach. ASAS manages the peer review of new images, and the National Agricultural Library oversees the web site. You may use a button on the home page to search on key words (eg, bull, cow, fetus, twins, etc), and another button to browse any of the sections listed above.