After 60 years of mystery, researchers have identified the pathogen responsible for White Fat Cell Disease. Water fleas of the genus Daphnia have long been...

EcologyEvolutionG3 JournalModel Organisms

We are delighted to announce the finalists for the James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award! All finalists will speak at the Crow Award session...

Complex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsCrow AwardEarly Career ScientistsEvolutionPEQGPopulation Genetics

Get creative for the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference.   Show your creative side, and inspire the population, evolutionary, and quantitative genetics community by...

Art & CultureComplex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsEvolutionPEQGPopulation Genetics

Recent evolution of simple germ–soma division in a green alga sheds light on the early stages of complex multicellular life. Among evolution’s greatest innovations are...

Cell BiologyEvolutionFundamental ResearchG3 JournalPlants

Archaeologists have long known how to extract millennia-old stories from a single tooth buried in an ancient ruin—and now geneticists have the tools to join...

AgricultureEvolutionFundamental ResearchGenetics JournalHeredityHuman Evolution and VariationPopulation GeneticsPrimates

The fastest-evolving genes in eukaryotes commonly encode reproductive proteins—and the rate at which genes for male reproductive proteins change, in particular, often vastly outstrips the...

C. elegansEvolutionFundamental ResearchG3 Journal

When a noni fruit ripens, it stinks like old cheese—or even vomit. Familiar to many in the form of expensive juices sold as health supplements,...

DrosophilaEcologyEvolutionFundamental ResearchG3 JournalGene ExpressionPlants

The Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is awarded to an individual member of the Genetics Society of America for lifetime achievement in the field of genetics....

Awards & PrizesEvolutionGSA AwardsPopulation Genetics

The Genetics Society of America Medal is awarded to an individual for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the last 15 years. Recipients...

Awards & PrizesEvo-DevoEvolutionFishGSA Awards

Inheriting an extra chromosome can sometimes be disastrous, but in the September issue of G3, Linder et al. investigate a chromosome duplication that helps yeast...

AneuploidyChromosomesEvolutionFungiG3 JournalGene ExpressionYeast