**About the Editors**

#### **Leopoldo Iannuzzi**

Leopoldo Iannuzzi is an accomplished researcher and academic in Agricultural Science, with expertise in animal production. He has held various prestigious positions, including Research Director and Associate of the National Research Council's Institute of Animal Production Systems in Mediterranean Environments (ISPAAM) in Italy. He has also coordinated international scientific committees focused on standardizing banded karyotypes of domestic bovids and shared his expertise as an invited speaker in 23 international and two national meetings on animal cytogenetics and gene mapping. His research interests include clinical cytogenetics, evolutionary cytogenetics, molecular cytogenetics, environmental cytogenetics, and chromosome characterization. He has explored chromosome abnormalities' relationships and reproduction in clinical cytogenetics, studied chromosome relationships among species using chromosome banding and FISH-mapping techniques in evolutionary cytogenetics, and constructed detailed cytogenetic maps in domestic animals using molecular cytogenetics. He has also examined the effects of environmental mutagens on animal chromosomes in environmental cytogenetics and worked on constructing standard banded karyotypes in bovids using high-resolution chromosome banding in chromosome characterization. Iannuzzi has published 371 papers, 210 of which were in international journals. He has 5,774 citations on Google Scholar and an H-index of 39. Since 2018, he has 1,591 citations and has a H-index of 19 for that period. His i10-index stands at 149 overall, and 39 since 2018. Overall, Iannuzzi's contributions to animal cytogenetics have been significant.

#### **Pietro Parma**

Pietro Parma is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences—Production, Landscape, Agroenergy at the University of Milano, Milano. He holds a degree in Agricultural Sciences, with a major in the Genetics of Animal Production. Parma's research primarily focuses on the Genetics of sex determination in mammals, where he identifies and characterizes genetic factors involved in the process of sex determination. Additionally, he has researched Clinical cytogenetics, identifying and characterizing chromosomal anomalies present in subjects with anomalies attributable to the reproductive aspect. Furthermore, he has also worked in the area of Molecular cytogenetics, utilizing technologies such as FISH, Array-CGH, and NGS sequencing for the molecular characterization of chromosomal abnormalities. Parma's work has received significant attention, with 1689 citations and 89 documents indexed in Scopus. His H-index stands at 21.
