Gene Expression Patterns- a new journal in the Brain Research series

Announcement – Call for Papers Gene Expression Patterns– a new journal in the Brain Research series EDITOR Wayne N. Frankel The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA EDITORIAL BOARD Susan L. Ackerman (Bar Harbor, ME, USA) Kevin G. Becker (Baltimore, MD, USA) Mark G. Erlander (San Diego, CA, USA) Achim Gossler (Hannover, Germany) Luis de Lecea (La Jolla, CA, USA) Chris Li (Boston, MA, USA) James I. Morgan (Memphis, TN, USA) Hitoshi Okamoto (Saitama, Japan)

Nipam Patel (Chicago, IL, USA) ¨ Tomas Pieler (Gottingen, Germany) Luis Puelles (Murcia, Spain) Martin Ringwald (Bar Harbor, ME, USA) Richard Jay Smeyne (Memphis, TN, USA) William G. Wadsworth (Piscataway, NJ, USA) Andreas Zimmer (Bonn, Germany)

The Editors of Brain Research and Elsevier Science are pleased to announce the launch of a new journal in the Brain Research series devoted to the rapid publication of high quality papers reporting novel patterns of expression of genes during development, maturity and aging of the central nervous system. The review process will be very fast – facilitated through electronic submission and review on the WWW using SMARTWorksE. Accepted papers will be published online on the Brain Research Interactive website within 10 days of acceptance! Print publication will follow in the next available issue of Gene Expression Patterns. Additional relevant electronic files containing data sets, QuickTime movies, etc., as well as links to relevant databases can be appended to the online version of the articles. All color illustrations considered relevant by the Editors will be reproduced free of charge also in the print journal. Accepted articles will enjoy high visibility, both in print and on the WWW: • distributed as part of the Brain Research full-set subscription (print edition and online through ScienceDirect (http: / / www.sciencedirect.com)) • freely accessible on the Brain Research Interactive website (http: / / www.bres-interactive.com) • included in Neuroscion (http: / / www.neuroscion.com) • included in alerting service Contents Direct (http: / / www.elsevier.com / locate / ContentsDirect) Further, a ‘Figure of the Month’ selected from one of the published articles will be featured on the BRI website, along with the reference to the paper and a set of key words to allow easy retrieval by web search engines. Further details including the ‘Guidelines for Authors’ may be found on the web: http: / / www.elsevier.com / locate / bres-gep

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