The Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology ( IGDB ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ( CAS ) was founded in 2001 through a merger of three CAS institutes , the Institute of Genetics .The Institute of Developmental Biology and the Shijiazhuang Institute of Agricultural Modernization .The Genetic Society of China is affiliated to the institute as well as an Editorial Office , which publishes three major journals , Journal of Genetics and Genomics , Hereditas ( Beijing ) and Chinese J...