Editor-in-Chief

C. Yan Cheng

New York, NY, US

Editorial Board

R. John Aitken
Giovanna Berruti
Carla Boitani
Josephine Bowles
Julie A. Brill
Serge Carreau
Hsiao Chang Chan
Martine G. Culty
Daniel G. Cyr
Ina Dobrinski
Ronald E. Ellis
Luiz Renato França
Kevin Gribbins
Michael D. Griswold
Richard Ivell
Abraham L. Kierszenbaum
Steven W. L'Hernault
Brigitte Le Magueresse-Battistoni
Will M. Lee
Mary M. Lee
Kate L. Loveland
Wing-Yee Lui
Livia Lustig
Grant R. MacGregor
Patricia A. Martin-DeLeon
Premendu P. Mathur
Erika L. Matunis
Dolores D. Mruk
Liza O'Donnell
Peter J. O'Shaughnessy
Jon M. Oatley
Kyle E. Orwig
Charles Pineau
Scott S. Pitnick
Georges Pointis
John H. Richburg
Philippa T. Saunders
Peter N. Schlegel
Chandrima Shaha
Gillian M. Stanfield
Jorma Toppari
Laura L. Tres
Ans M.M. van Pelt
A. Wayne Vogl
William H. Walker
Helen White-Cooper
Miles F. Wilkinson
Mariana F. Wolfner
Debra J. Wolgemuth
William S.B. Yeung

Call for Papers

We are pleased to introduce our new quarterly journal, Spermatogenesis. Spermatogenesis is an international peer-reviewed journal that focuses on all aspects of spermatogenesis. Our goal is to understand the biology and regulation of spermatogenesis. These findings will provide new means for male contraceptive research and development. They will also improve male reproductive health and contribute to the therapeutic management of male infertility.

Journal topics will include:

• Differentiation of gonocytes to spermatogonia

• Regulation and biology of spermatogonial stem cells

• Regulation of spermatogonial renewals via mitosis

• Differentiation of spermatogonia

• Germ cell cycle regulation

• Meiosis and its regulation

• Role of cyclins and protein kinases (such as MAPK) in cell cycle progression and meiosis

• Regulation of spermiogenesis and spermiation

• Sertoli-germ cell interactions

• Blood-testis barrier function and regulation

• Polarity proteins, GTPases and spermatogenesis

• Epigenetics and spermatogenesis

• Impact of environmental toxicants on spermatogenesis

• Environments, lifestyles and spermatogenesis

• Comparative and evolutionary studies of spermatogenesis

• Male contraception (hormonal and nonhormonal):

Clinical and nonclinical studies

• Transcription and post-transcriptional regulation of spermatogenesis

• Genomics, proteomics and spermatogenesis

• New technologies to study spermatogenesis

Spermatogenesis will publish five general types of papers: (1) Original Research, (2) Reviews, (3) Opinion Articles, (4) Methods, Technologies and Protocols pertinent to the study of spermatogenesis and (5) Trends and Meeting Reports. Original Research papers cover topics as outlined above relating to all aspects of spermatogenesis. Reviews take several forms and are generally invited; however, unsolicited reviews on timely topics are also welcome. Opinion Articles are short mini-reviews on a very specific research topic. Methods, Technologies and Protocols give experts in the field the opportunity to provide technical updates pertinent to research in spermatogenesis. Trends are 1–2 pages articles that summarize an exciting and timely development in the field. Meeting Reports summarize important findings/opinions from national and international meetings pertinent to research in spermatogenesis.

Spermatogenesis utilizes an online submission and tracking system designed to provide better, more efficient service to authors:

http://spgen.msubmit.net

Please review our submission guidelines:

http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/spermatogenesis/guidelines

Important for Authors: Page and color charges are waived for the first four issues of Spermatogenesis, and the final version of accepted manuscripts will be posted on the website promptly. Any content posted on the website from now until January 2012 will always be free for registered users.

Presubmission inquiries are encouraged and may be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, C. Yan Cheng

(Y-Cheng@popcbr.rockefeller.edu).

To submit a manuscript to Spermatogenesis, please visit http://spgen.msubmit.net