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Investigations

Genetic Architecture of Resistance to Stripe Rust in a Global Winter Wheat Germplasm Collection

Peter Bulli, Junli Zhang, Shiaoman Chao, Xianming Chen, and Michael Pumphrey

G3 August 2016 6:2237-2253; Early Online May 25, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028407

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Meiotic Interactors of a Mitotic Gene TAO3 Revealed by Functional Analysis of its Rare Variant

Saumya Gupta, Aparna Radhakrishnan, Rachana Nitin, Pandu Raharja-Liu, Gen Lin, Lars M. Steinmetz, Julien Gagneur, and Himanshu Sinha

G3 August 2016 6:2255-2263; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029900

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Detecting Recombination Hotspots from Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium

Jeffrey D. Wall and Laurie S. Stevison

G3 August 2016 6:2265-2271; Early Online May 25, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029587

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Accumulation of Deleterious Mutations Near Sexually Antagonistic Genes

Tim Connallon and Crispin Y. Jordan

G3 August 2016 6:2273-2284; Early Online May 25, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031161

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Diversifying Selection Between Pure-Breed and Free-Breeding Dogs Inferred from Genome-Wide SNP Analysis

Magorzata Pilot, Tadeusz Malewski, Andre E. Moura, Tomasz Grzybowski, Kamil Oleski, Stanisaw Kamiski, Fernanda Ruiz Fadel, Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, Osama B. Mohammed, and Wiesaw Bogdanowicz

G3 August 2016 6:2285-2298; Early Online May 27, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029678

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Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposon Content in Eight Diploid Sunflower Species Inferred from Next-Generation Sequence Data

Hannah M. Tetreault and Mark C. Ungerer

G3 August 2016 6:2299-2308; Early Online May 27, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029082

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Characterization of a Single Genomic Locus Encoding the Clustered Protocadherin Receptor Diversity in Xenopus tropicalis

Hakki E. Etlioglu, Wei Sun, Zengjin Huang, Wei Chen, and Dietmar Schmucker

G3 August 2016 6:2309-2318; Early Online June 3, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.027995

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Genetic Regulation of Transcriptional Variation in Natural Arabidopsis thaliana Accessions

Yanjun Zan, Xia Shen, Simon K. G. Forsberg, and örjan Carlborg

G3 August 2016 6:2319-2328; Early Online May 25, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030874

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Prospects of Genomic Prediction in the USDA Soybean Germplasm Collection: Historical Data Creates Robust Models for Enhancing Selection of Accessions

Diego Jarquin, James Specht, and Aaron Lorenz

G3 August 2016 6:2329-2341; Early Online May 31, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031443

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A Genome-Wide Association Study for Regulators of Micronucleus Formation in Mice

Rebecca E. McIntyre, Jérôme Nicod, Carla Daniela Robles-Espinoza, John Maciejowski, Na Cai, Jennifer Hill, Ruth Verstraten, Vivek Iyer, Alistair G. Rust, Gabriel Balmus, Richard Mott, Jonathan Flint, and David J. Adams

G3 August 2016 6:2343-2354; Early Online May 27, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030767

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flyDIVaS: A Comparative Genomics Resource for Drosophila Divergence and Selection

Craig E. Stanley, Jr. and Rob J. Kulathinal

G3 August 2016 6:2355-2363; Early Online May 25, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031138

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The Use of Targeted Marker Subsets to Account for Population Structure and Relatedness in Genome-Wide Association Studies of Maize (Zea mays L.)

Angela H. Chen and Alexander E. Lipka

G3 August 2016 6:2365-2374; Early Online May 27, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029090

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Septate Junction Proteins Play Essential Roles in Morphogenesis Throughout Embryonic Development in Drosophila

Sonia Hall and Robert E. Ward IV

G3 August 2016 6:2375-2384; Early Online June 3, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031427

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A Population of Deletion Mutants and an Integrated Mapping and Exome-seq Pipeline for Gene Discovery in Maize

Shangang Jia, Aixia Li, Kyla Morton, Penny Avoles-Kianian, Shahryar F. Kianian, Chi Zhang, and David Holding

G3 August 2016 6:2385-2395; Early Online June 3, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030528

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A Genome-Wide Screen for Dendritically Localized RNAs Identifies Genes Required for Dendrite Morphogenesis

Mala Misra, Hendia Edmund, Darragh Ennis, Marissa A. Schlueter, Jessica E. Marot, Janet Tambasco, Ida Barlow, Sara Sigurbjornsdottir, Renjith Mathew, Ana Maria Vallés, Waldemar Wojciech, Siegfried Roth, Ilan Davis, Maria Leptin, and Elizabeth R. Gavis

G3 August 2016 6:2397-2405; Early Online June 3, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030353

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A Genetic Screen for Mutants with Supersized Lipid Droplets in Caenorhabditis elegans

Shiwei Li, Shibin Xu, Yanli Ma, Shuang Wu, Yu Feng, Qingpo Cui, Lifeng Chen, Shuang Zhou, Yuanyuan Kong, Xiaoyu Zhang, Jialei Yu, Mengdi Wu, and Shaobing O. Zhang

G3 August 2016 6:2407-2419; Early Online June 3, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030866

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Whole Genome Analysis of 132 Clinical Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strains Reveals Extensive Ploidy Variation

Yuan O. Zhu, Gavin Sherlock, and Dmitri A. Petrov

G3 August 2016 6:2421-2434; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029397

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Transcriptome Profiling Identifies Multiplexin as a Target of SAGA Deubiquitinase Activity in Glia Required for Precise Axon Guidance During Drosophila Visual Development

Jingqun Ma, Kaelan J. Brennan, Mitch R. D’Aloia, Pete E. Pascuzzi, and Vikki M. Weake

G3 August 2016 6:2435-2445; Early Online June 3, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031310

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MeSH-Informed Enrichment Analysis and MeSH-Guided Semantic Similarity Among Functional Terms and Gene Products in Chicken

Gota Morota, Timothy M. Beissinger, and Francisco Peñagaricano

G3 August 2016 6:2447-2453; Early Online June 3, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031096

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Neurons That Underlie Drosophila melanogaster Reproductive Behaviors: Detection of a Large Male-Bias in Gene Expression in fruitless-Expressing Neurons

Nicole R. Newell, Felicia N. New, Justin E. Dalton, Lauren M. McIntyre, and Michelle N. Arbeitman

G3 August 2016 6:2455-2465; Early Online May 31, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.115.019265

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A Combination of CRISPR/Cas9 and Standardized RNAi as a Versatile Platform for the Characterization of Gene Function

Sebastian Wissel, Anja Kieser, Tetsuo Yasugi, Peter Duchek, Elisabeth Roitinger, Joseph Gokcezade, Victoria Steinmann, Ulrike Gaul, Karl Mechtler, Klaus Förstemann, Jürgen A. Knoblich, and Ralph A. Neumüller

G3 August 2016 6:2467-2478; Early Online June 8, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028571

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Mutations in Dnaaf1 and Lrrc48 Cause Hydrocephalus, Laterality Defects, and Sinusitis in Mice

Seungshin Ha, Anna M. Lindsay, Andrew E. Timms, and David R. Beier

G3 August 2016 6:2479-2487; Early Online June 3, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030791

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Relationships Between RNA Polymerase II Activity and Spt Elongation Factors to Spt^– Phenotype and Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Ping Cui, Huiyan Jin, Manjula Ramya Vutukuru, and Craig D. Kaplan

G3 August 2016 6:2489-2504; Early Online June 3, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030346

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Whole Genome Sequencing Identifies a Novel Factor Required for Secretory Granule Maturation in Tetrahymena thermophila

Cassandra Kontur, Santosh Kumar, Xun Lan, Jonathan K. Pritchard, and Aaron P. Turkewitz

G3 August 2016 6:2505-2516; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028878

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Expanding CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing Capacity in Zebrafish Using SaCas9

Yan Feng, Cheng Chen, Yuxiang Han, Zelin Chen, Xiaochan Lu, Fang Liang, Song Li, Wei Qin, and Shuo Lin

G3 August 2016 6:2517-2521; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031914

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Genetic Analysis of Kernel Traits in Maize-Teosinte Introgression Populations

Zhengbin Liu, Arturo Garcia, Michael D. McMullen, and Sherry A. Flint-Garcia

G3 August 2016 6:2523-2530; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030155

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Synthetic Physical Interactions Map Kinetochore-Checkpoint Activation Regions

Guðjón Ólafsson and Peter H. Thorpe

G3 August 2016 6:2531-2542; Early Online June 8, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031930

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A Meiotic Drive Element in the Maize Pathogen Fusarium verticillioides Is Located Within a 102 kb Region of Chromosome V

Jay Pyle, Tejas Patel, Brianna Merrill, Chabu Nsokoshi, Morgan McCall, Robert H. Proctor, Daren W. Brown, and Thomas M. Hammond

G3 August 2016 6:2543-2552; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029728

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Using Sequence Variants in Linkage Disequilibrium with Causative Mutations to Improve Across-Breed Prediction in Dairy Cattle: A Simulation Study

Irene van den Berg, Didier Boichard, Bernt Guldbrandtsen, and Mogens S. Lund

G3 August 2016 6:2553-2561; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.027730

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Variation and Evolution in the Glutamine-Rich Repeat Region of Drosophila

Argonaute-2

William H. Palmer and Darren J. Obbard

G3 August 2016 6:2563-2572; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031880

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Genomic and Transcriptomic Associations Identify a New Insecticide Resistance Phenotype for the Selective Sweep at the Cyp6g1 Locus of Drosophila melanogaster

Paul Battlay, Joshua M. Schmidt, Alexandre Fournier-Level, and Charles Robin

G3 August 2016 6:2573-2581; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031054

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Evolution of the Insertion-Deletion Mutation Rate Across the Tree of Life

Way Sung, Matthew S. Ackerman, Marcus M. Dillon, Thomas G. Platt, Clay Fuqua, Vaughn S. Cooper, and Michael Lynch

G3 August 2016 6:2583-2591; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030890

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Crosses Heterozygous for Hybrid Neurospora Translocation Strains Show Transmission Ratio Distortion Disfavoring Homokaryotic Ascospores Made Following Alternate Segregation

Dev Ashish Giri, Selvam Rekha, and Durgadas P. Kasbekar

G3 August 2016 6:2593-2600; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030627

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Chromosome-End Knockoff Strategy to Reshape Alkaloid Profiles of a Fungal Endophyte

Simona Florea, Timothy D. Phillips, Daniel G. Panaccione, Mark L. Farman, and Christopher L. Schardl

G3 August 2016 6:2601-2610; Early Online June 22, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029686

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Assessing Predictive Properties of Genome-Wide Selection in Soybeans

Alencar Xavier, William M. Muir, and Katy Martin Rainey

G3 August 2016 6:2611-2616; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.032268

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Comparative Analysis of Regions with Distorted Segregation in Three Diploid Populations of Potato

Norma C. Manrique-Carpintero, Joseph J. Coombs, Richard E. Veilleux, C. Robin Buell, and David S. Douches

G3 August 2016 6:2617-2628; Early Online June 24, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030031

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Mutant Screen Report

A Genetic Mosaic Screen Reveals Ecdysone-Responsive Genes Regulating Drosophila Oogenesis

Elizabeth T. Ables, Grace H. Hwang, Danielle S. Finger, Taylor D. Hinnant, and Daniela Drummond-Barbosa

G3 August 2016 6:2629-2642; Early Online May 25, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028951

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RNAi Screen Identifies Novel Regulators of RNP Granules in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germ Line

Megan P. Wood, Angela Hollis, Ashley L. Severance, Megan L. Karrick, and Jennifer A. Schisa

G3 August 2016 6:2643-2654; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031559

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Identification of Functional Domains in the Cohesin Loader Subunit Scc4 by a Random Insertion/Dominant Negative Screen

Michal Shwartz, Avi Matityahu, and Itay Onn

G3 August 2016 6:2655-2663; Early Online June 8, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031674

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Phenotypes Associated with Second Chromosome P Element Insertions in Drosophila melanogaster

Lily Kahsai, Gillian H. Millburn, and Kevin R. Cook

G3 August 2016 6:2665-2670; Early Online June 17, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.030940

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A Chromatin-Focused siRNA Screen for Regulators of p53-Dependent Transcription

Morgan A. Sammons, Jiajun Zhu, and Shelley L. Berger

G3 August 2016 6:2671-2678; Early Online June 22, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.031534

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