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Investigations

SWEEP: A Tool for Filtering High-Quality SNPs in Polyploid Crops

Josh P. Clevenger and Peggy Ozias-Akins

G3 September 2015 5:1797-1803; Early Online July 6, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.019703

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Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of the Cosmopolitan Marine Fungus Corollospora maritima Under Two Physiological Conditions

Patricia Velez, Naholi D. Alejandri-Ramírez, María C. González, Karel J. Estrada, Alejandro Sanchez-Flores, and Tzvetanka D. Dinkova

G3 September 2015 5:1805-1814; Early Online June 26, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.019620

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How Well Do Molecular and Pedigree Relatedness Correspond, in Populations with Diverse Mating Systems, and Various Types and Quantities of Molecular and Demographic Data?

Anna M. Kopps, Jungkoo Kang, William B. Sherwin, and Per J. Palsbøll

G3 September 2015 5:1815-1826; Early Online June 30, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.019323

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Transcriptomic Analysis of Musca domestica to Reveal Key Genes of the Prophenoloxidase-Activating System

Dianxiang Li , Yongli Liang, Xianwei Wang, Lei Wang, Mei Qi, Yang Yu, and Yuanyuan Luan

G3 September 2015 5:1827-1841; Early Online July 7, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.016899

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Whole Organism Genome Editing: Targeted Large DNA Insertion via ObLiGaRe Nonhomologous End-Joining in Vivo Capture

Yutaka Yamamoto, Jacob Bliss, and Susan A. Gerbi

G3 September 2015 5:1843-1847; Early Online July 1, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.019901

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GFP Loss-of-Function Mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana

Jason L. Fu, Tatsuo Kanno, Shih-Chieh Liang, Antonius J. M. Matzke, and Marjori Matzke

G3 September 2015 5:1849-1855; Early Online July 6, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.019604

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Targeted Modification of Gene Function Exploiting Homology-Directed Repair of TALEN-Mediated Double-Strand Breaks in Barley

Nagaveni Budhagatapalli, Twan Rutten, Maia Gurushidze, Jochen Kumlehn, and Goetz Hensel

G3 September 2015 5:1857-1863; Early Online July 6, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.018762

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Enrichment of H3K9me2 on Unsynapsed Chromatin in Caenorhabditis elegans Does Not Target de Novo Sites

Yiqing Guo, Bing Yang, Yini Li, Xia Xu, and Eleanor M. Maine

G3 September 2015 5:1865-1878; Early Online July 8, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.019828

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An Updated Collection of Sequence Barcoded Temperature-Sensitive Alleles of Yeast Essential Genes

Megan Kofoed, Karissa L. Milbury, Jennifer H. Chiang, Sunita Sinha, Shay Ben-Aroya, Guri Giaever, Corey Nislow, Philip Hieter, and Peter C. Stirling

G3 September 2015 5:1879-1887; Early Online July 14, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.019174

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Comparative Genomics Reveals Chd1 as a Determinant of Nucleosome Spacing in Vivo

Amanda L. Hughes and Oliver J. Rando

G3 September 2015 5:1889-1897; Early Online July 14, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.020271

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Metabolic Impacts of Using Nitrogen and Copper-Regulated Promoters to Regulate Gene Expression in Neurospora crassa

Shouqiang Ouyang, Consuelo N. Beecher, Kang Wang, Cynthia K. Larive, and Katherine A. Borkovich

G3 September 2015 5:1899-1908; Early Online July 20, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.020073

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GABPa Binding to Overlapping ETS and CRE DNA Motifs Is Enhanced by CREB1: Custom DNA Microarrays

Ximiao He, Khund Sayeed Syed, Desiree Tillo, Ishminder Mann, Matthew T. Weirauch, and Charles Vinson

G3 September 2015 5:1909-1918; Early Online July 16, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.020248

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Reagent and Data Resources for Investigation of RNA Binding Protein Functions in Drosophila melanogaster Cultured Cells

Stephanie E. Mohr, Yanhui Hu, Kirstin Rudd, Michael Buckner, Quentin Gilly, Blake Foster, Katarzyna Sierzputowska, Aram Comjean, Bing Ye, and Norbert Perrimon

G3 September 2015 5:1919-1924; Early Online July 21, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.019364

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Rapid Identification of Chemoresistance Mechanisms Using Yeast DNA Mismatch Repair Mutants

Irene Ojini and Alison Gammie

G3 September 2015 5:1925-1935; Early Online July 21, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.020560

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Mutant Screen Report

Genetic Regulation of Dna2 Localization During the DNA Damage Response

Askar Yimit, Michael Riffle , and Grant W. Brown

G3 September 2015 5:1937-1944; Early Online July 10, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.019208

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