Director of IMG cordially congratulates the authors of the papers evaluated by the IMG Council as the best ones in 2016:

Original Papers

1^st position:
Hron T, Farkašová H, Padhi A, Pačes J, Elleder D: Life history of the oldest lentivirus: characterization of ELVgv integrations in the dermopteran genome. Mol Biol Evol 2016 33(10): 2659-69.

2^nd position:
Urban V, Dobrovolna J, Hühn D, Fryzelkova J, Bartek J, Janscak P: RECQ5 helicase promotes resolution of conflicts between replication and transcription in human cells. J Cell Biol 2016 214(4): 401-15.

3^rd position:
Antosova B, Smolikova J, Klimova L, Lachova J, Bendova M, Kozmikova I, Machon O, Kozmik Z: The Gene Regulatory Network of Lens Induction Is Wired through Meis-Dependent Shadow Enhancers of Pax6. PLoS Genet 2016 12(12): e1006441.

Review

1^st position:
Svoboda J: On board a raft or boat in retroviruses sea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016 113(15): 3927 -31.

2^nd position:
Forejt J: Genetics: Asymmetric breaks in DNA cause sterility. Nature 2016 530(7589): 167-8.

congratulation