EDITORS ALEXANDER S. GRAPHODATSKY is Head of the Research Department of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on cytogenetics, genome diversity, and evolution of mammals. POLINA L. PERELMAN is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology and at Novosibirsk State University, Russia. STEPHEN J. O'BRIEN is Director of Research at Nova Southeastern University, USA and Chief Scientific Officer at the Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He previously served as Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute, USA.

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