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Investigations
Partial Dominance, Overdominance, Epistasis and QTL by Environment Interactions Contribute to Heterosis in Two Upland Cotton Hybrids
Lianguang Shang, Yumei Wang, Shihu Cai, Xiaocui Wang, Yuhua Li, Abdugheni Abduweli, and Jinping Hua
G3 March 2016 6:499-507; Early Online December 29, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025809
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Exploring a Nonmodel Teleost Genome Through RAD Sequencing—Linkage Mapping in Common Pandora, Pagellus erythrinus and Comparative Genomic Analysis
Tereza Manousaki, Alexandros Tsakogiannis, John B. Taggart, Christos Palaiokostas, Dimitris Tsaparis, Jacques Lagnel, Dimitrios Chatziplis, Antonios Magoulas, Nikos Papandroulakis, Constantinos C. Mylonas, and Costas S. Tsigenopoulos
G3 March 2016 6:509-519; Early Online December 29, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023432
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Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Canine Family Trio Reveals a FAM83G Variant Associated with Hereditary Footpad Hyperkeratosis
Shumaila Sayyab, Agnese Viluma, Kerstin Bergvall, Emma Brunberg, Vidhya Jagannathan, Tosso Leeb, Göran Andersson, and Tomas F. Bergström
G3 March 2016 6:521-527; Early Online January 8, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025643
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Performance of Seven Tree Breeding Strategies Under Conditions of Inbreeding Depression
Harry X. Wu, Henrik R. Hallingbäck, and Leopoldo Sánchez
G3 March 2016 6:529-540; Early Online January 6, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025767
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Aberrant Activation of p38 MAP Kinase-Dependent Innate Immune Responses Is Toxic to Caenorhabditis elegans
Hilary K. Cheesman, Rhonda L. Feinbaum, Jose Thekkiniath, Robert H. Dowen, Annie L. Conery, and Read Pukkila-Worley
G3 March 2016 6:541-549; Early Online January 27, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025650
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Isolation of a Hypomorphic skn-1 Allele That Does Not Require a Balancer for Maintenance
Lanlan Tang, William Dodd, and Keith Choe
G3 March 2016 6:551-558; Early Online December 29, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023010
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Novel Heterotypic Rox Sites for Combinatorial Dre Recombination Strategies
Katherine Chuang, Eileen Nguyen, Yuri Sergeev, and Tudor C. Badea
G3 March 2016 6:559-571; Early Online December 29, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025841
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A Novel Recombinant DNA System for High Efficiency Affinity Purification of Proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Brian H. Carrick, Linxuan Hao, Philip J. Smaldino, and David R. Engelke
G3 March 2016 6:573-578; Early Online December 29, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025106
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Genetic Architecture of Conspicuous Red Ornaments in Female Threespine Stickleback
Lengxob Yong, Catherine L. Peichel, and Jeffrey S. McKinnon
G3 March 2016 6:579-588; Early Online December 29, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024505
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FW: An R Package for Finlay—Wilkinson Regression that Incorporates Genomic/Pedigree Information and Covariance Structures Between Environments
Lian Lian and Gustavo de los Campos
G3 March 2016 6:589-597; Early Online December 29, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.026328
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Genetic Correlates of Individual Differences in Sleep Behavior of Free-Living Great Tits (Parus major)
Erica F. Stuber, Christine Baumgartner, Niels J. Dingemanse, Bart Kempenaers, and Jakob C. Mueller
G3 March 2016 6:599-607; Early Online January 6, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024216
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The Effects of Both Recent and Long-Term Selection and Genetic Drift Are Readily Evident in North American Barley Breeding Populations
Ana M. Poets, Mohsen Mohammadi, Kiran Seth, Hongyun Wang, Thomas J. Y. Kono, Zhou Fang, Gary J. Muehlbauer, Kevin P. Smith, and Peter L. Morrell
G3 March 2016 6:609-622; Early Online December 29, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024349
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Suppression of F1 Male-Specific Lethality in Caenorhabditis Hybrids by cbr-him-8
Vaishnavi Ragavapuram, Emily Elaine Hill, and Scott Everet Baird
G3 March 2016 6:623-629; Early Online December 31, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025320
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Genome-Based Selection and Characterization of Fusarium circinatum-Specific Sequences
Mkhululi N. Maphosa, Emma T. Steenkamp, and Brenda D. Wingfield
G3 March 2016 6:631-639; Early Online February 17, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025817
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Vesicular Trafficking Systems Impact TORC1-Controlled Transcriptional Programs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Joanne M. Kingsbury and Maria E. Cardenas
G3 March 2016 6:641-652; Early Online January 6, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023911
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Combinatorial Cis-regulation in Saccharomyces Species
Aaron T. Spivak and Gary D. Stormo
G3 March 2016 6:653-667; Early Online January 15, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024331
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A Computational Approach to Estimating Nondisjunction Frequency in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Daniel B. Chu and Sean M. Burgess
G3 March 2016 6:669-682; Early Online January 8, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024380
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Diverse Hormone Response Networks in 41 Independent Drosophila Cell Lines
Marcus Stoiber, Susan Celniker, Lucy Cherbas, Ben Brown, and Peter Cherbas
G3 March 2016 6:683-694; Early Online January 15, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023366
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Major Improvements to the Heliconius melpomene Genome Assembly Used to Confirm 10 Chromosome Fusion Events in 6 Million Years of Butterfly Evolution
John W. Davey, Mathieu Chouteau, Sarah L. Barker, Luana Maroja, Simon W. Baxter, Fraser Simpson, Mathieu Joron, James Mallet, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra, and Chris D. Jiggins
G3 March 2016 6:695-708; Early Online January 15, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023655
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The E2F-DP1 Transcription Factor Complex Regulates Centriole Duplication in Caenorhabditis elegans
Jacqueline G. Miller, Yan Liu, Christopher W. Williams, Harold E. Smith, and Kevin F. O’Connell
G3 March 2016 6:709-720; Early Online January 15, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025577
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Identification and Characterization of Wor4, a New Transcriptional Regulator of White-Opaque Switching
Matthew B. Lohse andAlexander D. Johnson
G3 March 2016 6:721-729; Early Online January 15, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024885
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Differential Expression of Genes Involved in Host Recognition, Attachment, and Degradation in the Mycoparasite Tolypocladium ophioglossoides
C. Alisha Quandt, Yanming Di, Justin Elser, Pankaj Jaiswal, and Joseph W. Spatafora
G3 March 2016 6:731-741; Early Online January 22, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.116.027045
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Implementation of the Realized Genomic Relationship Matrix to Open-Pollinated White Spruce Family Testing for Disentangling Additive from Nonadditive Genetic Effects
Omnia Gamal El-Dien, Blaise Ratcliffe, Jaroslav Klápštê, Ilga Porth, Charles Chen, and Yousry A. El-Kassaby
G3 March 2016 6:743-753; Early Online January 22, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025957
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Genome-Wide Investigation of MicroRNAs and Their Targets in Response to Freezing Stress in Medicago sativa L., Based on High-Throughput Sequencing
Yongjun Shu, Ying Liu, Wei Li, Lili Song, Jun Zhang, and Changhong Guo
G3 March 2016 6:755-765; Early Online January 22, 2016, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025981
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