The GSA Journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, are proud to present our annual Spotlight booklets for research published in 2015. Each Spotlight is a showcase of the excellent research and scholarship published over the course of the year, along with a selection of striking images submitted by our authors.
Browse the 2015 GENETICS Spotlight.
Browse the 2015 G3 Spotlight.
GENETICS SPOTLIGHT CITATIONS
CENTENNIAL AWARD: MOLECULAR GENETICS
Allelic Imbalance Is a Prevalent and Tissue-Specific Feature of the Mouse Transcriptome
Stefan F. Pinter, David Colognori, Brian J. Beliveau, Ruslan I. Sadreyev, Bernhard Payer, Eda Yildirim, Chao-ting Wu, Jeannie T. Lee
Genetics June, 2015 vol. 200:537-549
CENTENNIAL AWARD: QUANTITATIVE GENETICS
Armando Caballero, Albert Tenesa, Peter D. Keightley
Genetics December, 2015 201:1601-1613
CENTENNIAL AWARD: POPULATION & EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS
Rohan Maddamsetti, Richard E. Lenski, Jeffrey E. Barrick
Genetics June, 2015 200:619-631
DEVELOPMENTAL & BEHAVIORAL GENETICS
Balint Z. Kacsoh, Julianna Bozler, Sassan Hodge, Mani Ramaswami, Giovanni Bosco
GENETICS April 2015 199:1143-1157
GENETICS OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Dominance Genetic Variance for Traits Under Directional Selection in Drosophila serrata
Jacqueline L. Sztepanacz and Mark W. Blows
Genetics May 2015 200:371-384
GENE EXPRESSION
Catherine Hermant, Antoine Boivin, Laure Teysset, Valérie Delmarre, Amna Asif-Laidin, Marius van den Beek, Christophe Antoniewski, Stéphane Ronsseray
Genetics December 2015 201:1381-1396
Aisha Ellahi, Deborah M. Thurtle, Jasper Rine
Genetics June 2015 200:505-521
GENOME & SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Akil Hamza, Erik Tammpere, Megan Kofoed, Christelle Keong, Jennifer Chiang, Guri Giaever, Corey Nislow, Philip Hieter
Genetics November 2015 201:1263-1274
GENOME INTEGRITY
Dafang Wang, Chuanhe Yu, Tao Zuo, Jianbo Zhang, David F. Weber, Thomas Peterson
Genetics November 2015 201:925-935
PERSPECTIVES
What Do You Mean, “Epigenetic”?
Carrie Deans and Keith A. Maggert
Genetics April 2015 199:887-896
POPULATION & EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS
The Evolutionarily Stable Distribution of Fitness Effects
Daniel P. Rice, Benjamin H. Good, Michael M. Desai
Genetics May 2015 200:321-329
Allele Sharing and Evidence for Sexuality in a Mitochondrial Clade of Bdelloid Rotifers
Ana Signorovitch, Jae Hur, Eugene Gladyshev, Matthew Meselson
Genetics June 2015 200:581-590
STATISTICAL GENETICS & GENOMICS
Nicholas A. Furlotte, Eleazar Eskin
Genetics May 2015 200:59-68
REVIEWS
Genetic Diversity and Societally Important Disparities
Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan T. L. Kang
Genetics September 2015 201:1-12
METHODS, TECHNOLOGY, & RESOURCES
Jordan D. Ward
Genetics February 1, 2015 vol. 199 no. 2 363-377
Dramatic Enhancement of Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 Through Improved Guide RNA Design
Behnom Farboud, Barbara J. Meyer
Genetics April 1, 2015 vol. 199 no. 4 959-971
Alexandre Paix, Andrew Folkmann, Dominique Rasoloson, Geraldine Seydoux
Genetics September 1, 2015 vol. 201 no. 1 47-54
Streamlined Genome Engineering with a Self-Excising Drug Selection Cassette
Daniel J. Dickinson, Ariel M. Pani, Jennifer K. Heppert, Christopher D. Higgins, Bob Goldstein
Genetics August 1, 2015 vol. 200 no. 4 1035-1049
Efficient Genome Editing in Caenorhabditis elegans with a Toolkit of Dual-Marker Selection Cassettes
Adam D. Norris, Hyun-Min Kim, Mónica P. Colaiácovo, John A. Calarco
Genetics October 1, 2015 vol. 201 no. 2 449-458
Xiangyang Chen, Mu Li, Xuezhu Feng, Shouhong Guang
Genetics December 1, 2015 vol. 201 no. 4 1295-1306
ON THE COVER
The Functional Basis of Wing Patterning in Heliconius Butterflies: The Molecules Behind Mimicry
Marcus R. Kronforst, Riccardo Papa
Genetics May 1, 2015 200:1-19
G3 SPOTLIGHT CITATIONS
MUTANT SCREEN REPORTS
A Genetic Screen for Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mutants That Fail to Enter Quiescence
Lihong Li, Shawna Miles, and Linda L. Breeden
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics August 2015 5:1783-1795
INVESTIGATIONS
Fillip Port, Nadine Muschalik, and Simon L. Bullock
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics July 2015 5:1493-1502
Global Diversity Lines–A Five-Continent Reference Panel of Sequenced Drosophila melanogaster Strains
Jennifer K. Grenier, J. Roman Arguello, Margarida Cardoso Moreira, Srikanth Gottipati, Jaaved Mohammed, Sean R. Hackett, Rachel Boughton, Anthony J. Greenberg, and Andrew G. Clark
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics April 2015 5:593-603
A Genomic Selection Index Applied to Simulated and Real Data
Jesus Ceron-Rojas, José Crossa, Vivi N. Arief, Kaye Basford, Jessica Rutkoski, Diego Jarquín, Gregorio Alvarado, Yoseph Beyene, Kassa Semagn, and Ian DeLacy
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics October 2015 5:2155-2164
Fingerprinting Soybean Germplasm and Its Utility in Genomic Research
Qijian Song, David L. Hyten, Gaofeng Jia, Charles V. Quigley, Edward W. Fickus, Randall L. Nelson, and Perry B. Cregan
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics October 2015 5:1999-2006
International Cassava Genetic Map Consortium (ICGMC)
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics January 2015 5:133-144
Jun-Song Chen, Janel R. Beckley, Nathan A. McDonald, Liping Ren, MariaSanta Mangione, Sylvia J. Jang, Zachary C. Elmore, Nicole Rachfall, Anna Feoktistova, Christine M. Jones, Alaina H. Willet, Rodrigo Guillen, Danny A. Bitton, Jürg Bähler, Michael A. Jensen, Nick Rhind, and Kathleen L. Gould
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics March 2015 5:361-370
The Nature, Extent, and Consequences of Genetic Variation in the opa Repeats of Notch in Drosophila
Clinton Rice, Danielle Beekman, Liping Liu, and Albert Erives
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics November 2015 5:2405-2419
Quantitative Genetics of Migration-Related Traits in Rainbow and Steelhead Trout
Benjamin C. Hecht, Jeffrey J. Hard, Frank P. Thrower, and Krista M. Nichols
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics May 2015 5:873-889
Analysis of Circadian Rhythms in the Basal Filamentous Ascomycete Pyronema confluens
Stefanie Traeger and Minou Nowrousian
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics October 2015 5:2061-2071
Martha Nigg, Jérôme Laroche, Christian R. Landry, and Louis Bernier
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics November 2015 5:2487-2495
SMRT Sequencing for Parallel Analysis of Multiple Targets and Accurate SNP Phasing
Xiaoge Guo, Kevin Lehner, Karen O’Connell, Jenny Zhang, Sandeep S. Dave, and Sue Jinks-Robertson
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics December 2015 5:2801-2808
Marion Dubarry, Conor Lawless, A. Peter Banks, Simon Cockell, and David Lydall
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics October 2015 5:2187-2197
Erik C. Andersen, Tyler C. Shimko, Jonathan R. Crissman, Rajarshi Ghosh, Joshua S. Bloom, Hannah S. Seidel, Justin P. Gerke, and Leonid Kruglyak
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics May 2015 5:911-920
A Multifunctional Mutagenesis System for Analysis of Gene Function in Zebrafish
Helen Ngoc Bao Quach, Shijie Tao, Pavle Vrljicak, Adita Joshi, Hua Ruan, Rashmi Sukumaran, Gaurav K. Varshney, Matthew C. LaFave, The Ds Screen Team, Shawn M. Burgess, Christoph Winkler, Alexander Emelyanov, Sergey Parinov, and Karuna Sampath
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics June 2015 5:1283-1299
Whole-Exome Sequencing and Targeted Copy Number Analysis in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
Christian R. Marshall, Stephen W. Scherer, Maimoona A. Zariwala, Lynette Lau, Tara A. Paton, Tracy Stockley, Rebekah K. Jobling, Peter N. Ray, Michael R. Knowles, FORGE Canada Consortium, David A. Hall, Sharon D. Dell, and Raymond H. Kim
G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics August 2015 5:1775-1781
ON THE COVER
Benjamin R. Evans, Andrea Gloria-Soria, Lin Hou, Carolyn McBride, Mariangela Bonizzoni, Hongyu Zhao, and Jeffrey R. Powell
G3:Genes|Genomes|Genetics May 2015 5:711-718
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