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Investigations

Sdt97: A Point Mutation in the 5′ Untranslated Region Confers Semidwarfism in Rice

Jiping Tong, Zhengshu Han, Aonan Han, Xuejun Liu, Shiyong Zhang, Binying Fu, Jun Hu, Jingping Su, Shaoqing Li, Shengjun Wang, and Yingguo Zhu

G3 June 2016 6:1491-1502; Early Online April 29, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028720

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Several Critical Cell Types, Tissues, and Pathways Are Implicated in Genome-Wide Association Studies for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Lu Liu, Xianyong Yin, Leilei Wen, Chao Yang, Yujun Sheng, Yan Lin, Zhengwei Zhu, Changbing Shen, Yinjuan Shi, Yajie Zheng, Sen Yang, Xuejun Zhang, and Yong Cui

G3 June 2016 6:1503-1511; Early Online March 26, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.027326

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Interconnections Between RNA-Processing Pathways Revealed by a Sequencing-Based Genetic Screen for Pre-mRNA Splicing Mutants in Fission Yeast

Amy Larson, Benjamin Jung Fair, and Jeffrey A. Pleiss

G3 June 2016 6:1513-1523; Early Online March 26, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.027508

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Local Ancestry Inference in a Large US-Based Hispanic/Latino Study: Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)

Sharon R. Browning, Kelsey Grinde, Anna Plantinga, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Adrienne M. Stilp, Robert C. Kaplan, M. Larissa Avilés-Santa, Brian L. Browning, and Cathy C. Laurie

G3 June 2016 6:1525-1534; Early Online March 22, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028779

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Genomic Signatures of Experimental Adaptation to Antimicrobial Peptides in Staphylococcus aureus

Paul R. Johnston, Adam J. Dobson, and Jens Rolff

G3 June 2016 6:1535-1539; Early Online April 6, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.115.023622

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Identification and Characterization of a cis-Regulatory Element for Zygotic Gene Expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Takashi Hamaji, David Lopez, Matteo Pellegrini, and James Umen

G3 June 2016 6:1541-1548; Early Online March 26, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029181

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Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis of Mating Behavior and Male Sex Pheromones in Nasonia Wasps

Wenwen Diao, Mathilde Mousset, Gavin J. Horsburgh, Cornelis J. Vermeulen, Frank Johannes, Louis van de Zande, Michael G. Ritchie, Thomas Schmitt, and Leo W. Beukeboom

G3 June 2016 6:1549-1562; Early Online March 30, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029074

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New Software for the Fast Estimation of Population Recombination Rates (FastEPRR) in the Genomic Era

Feng Gao, Chen Ming, Wangjie Hu, and Haipeng Li

G3 June 2016 6:1563-1571; Early Online March 30, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028233

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Patterns of Genome-Wide Variation in Glossina fuscipes fuscipes Tsetse Flies from Uganda

Andrea Gloria-Soria, W. Augustine Dunn, Erich L. Telleria, Benjamin R. Evans, Loyce Okedi, Richard Echodu, Wesley C. Warren, Michael J. Montague, Serap Aksoy, and Adalgisa Caccone

G3 June 2016 6:1573-1584; Early Online March 30, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.027235

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Fungal Innate Immunity Induced by Bacterial Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns (MAMPs)

Simon Ipcho, Thomas Sundelin, Gitte Erbs, H. Corby Kistler, Mari-Anne Newman, and Stefan Olsson

G3 June 2016 6:1585-1595; Early Online March 30, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.027987

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Comparative Genomics of Interreplichore Translocations in Bacteria: A Measure of Chromosome Topology?

Supriya Khedkar and Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee

G3 June 2016 6:1597-1606; Early Online March 30, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028274

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A High-Resolution SNP Array-Based Linkage Map Anchors a New Domestic Cat Draft Genome Assembly and Provides Detailed Patterns of Recombination

Gang Li, LaDeana W. Hillier, Robert A. Grahn, Aleksey V. Zimin, Victor A. David, Marilyn Menotti-Raymond, Rondo Middleton, Steven Hannah, Sher Hendrickson, Alex Makunin, Stephen J. O’Brien, Pat Minx, Richard K. Wilson, Leslie A. Lyons, Wesley C. Warren, and William J. Murphy

G3 June 2016 6:1607-1616; Early Online March 30, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028746

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mRNA-Associated Processes and Their Influence on Exon-Intron Structure in Drosophila melanogaster

Gildas Lepennetier and Francesco Catania

G3 June 2016 6:1617-1626; Early Online March 30, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029231

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The Immature Fiber Mutant Phenotype of Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) Is Linked to a 22-bp Frame-Shift Deletion in a Mitochondria Targeted Pentatricopeptide Repeat Gene

Gregory N. Thyssen, David D. Fang, Linghe Zeng, Xianliang Song, Christopher D. Delhom, Tracy L. Condon, Ping Li, and Hee Jin Kim

G3 June 2016 6:1627-1633; Early Online March 30, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.027649

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Multi-Population Selective Genotyping to Identify Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] Seed Protein and Oil QTLs

Piyaporn Phansak, Watcharin Soonsuwon, David L. Hyten, Qijian Song, Perry B. Cregan, George L. Graef, and James E. Specht

G3 June 2016 6:1635-1648; Early Online April 2, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.027656

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Tti2 Regulates PIKK Proteins and Stress Response

Kyle S. Hoffman, Martin L. Duennwald, Jim Karagiannis, Julie Genereaux, Alexander S. McCarton, and Christopher J. Brandl

G3 June 2016 6:1649-1659; Early Online April 6, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029520

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The Histone Variant H3.3 Is Enriched at Drosophila Amplicon Origins but Does Not Mark Them for Activation

Neha P. Paranjape and Brian R. Calvi

G3 June 2016 6:1661-1671; Early Online April 6, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028068

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A Genetic Map Between Gossypium hirsutum and the Brazilian Endemic G. mustelinum and Its Application to QTL Mapping

Baohua Wang, Limei Liu, Dong Zhang, Zhimin Zhuang, Hui Guo, Xin Qiao, Lijuan Wei, Junkang Rong, O. Lloyd May, Andrew H. Paterson, and Peng W. Chee

G3 June 2016 6:1673-1685; Early Online April 2, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029116

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The Drosophila prage Gene, Required for Maternal Transcript Destabilization in Embryos, Encodes a Predicted RNA Exonuclease

Jun Cui, Yun Wei Lai, Caroline V. Sartain, Rebecca M. Zuckerman, and Mariana F. Wolfner

G3 June 2016 6:1687-1693; Early Online April 8, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028415

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Synthetic Ligands of Cannabinoid Receptors Affect Dauer Formation in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Pedro Reis Rodrigues, Tiffany K. Kaul, Jo-Hao Ho, Mark Lucanic, Kristopher Burkewitz, William B. Mair, Jason M. Held, Laura M. Bohn, and Matthew S. Gill

G3 June 2016 6:1695-1705; Early Online April 13, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.026997

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Evaluation of IRX Genes and Conserved Noncoding Elements in a Region on 5p13.3 Linked to Families with Familial Idiopathic Scoliosis and Kyphosis

Cristina M. Justice, Kevin Bishop, Blake Carrington, Jim C. Mullikin, Kandice Swindle, Beth Marosy, Raman Sood, Nancy H. Miller, and Alexander F. Wilson

G3 June 2016 6:1707-1712; Early Online April 13, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029975

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Genetic Interactions Between the Meiosis-Specific Cohesin Components, STAG3, REC8, and RAD21L

Ayobami Ward, Jessica Hopkins, Matthew Mckay, Steve Murray, and Philip W. Jordan

G3 June 2016 6:1713-1724; Early Online April 20, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029462

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Binding Sites in the EFG1 Promoter for Transcription Factors in a Proposed Regulatory Network: A Functional Analysis in the White and Opaque Phases of Candida albicans

Claude Pujol, Thyagarajan Srikantha, Yang-Nim Park, Karla J. Daniels, and David R. Soll

G3 June 2016 6:1725-1737; Early Online April 20, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029785

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Chromosome-Wide Impacts on the Expression of Incompatibilities in Hybrids of Tigriopus californicus

Christopher S. Willett, Thiago G. Lima, Inna Kovaleva, and Lydia Hatfield

G3 June 2016 6:1739-1749; Early Online April 13, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028050

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N-Ethyl-N-Nitrosourea (ENU) Mutagenesis Reveals an Intronic Residue Critical for Caenorhabditis elegans 3′ Splice Site Function in Vivo

Omar A. Itani, Stephane Flibotte, Kathleen J. Dumas, Chunfang Guo, Thomas Blumenthal, and Patrick J. Hu

G3 June 2016 6:1751-1756; Early Online April 8, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028662

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Genome Sequence and Analysis of a Stress-Tolerant, Wild-Derived Strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Used in Biofuels Research

Sean J. McIlwain, David Peris, Maria Sardi, Oleg V. Moskvin, Fujie Zhan, Kevin S. Myers, Nicholas M. Riley, Alyssa Buzzell, Lucas S. Parreiras, Irene M. Ong, Robert Landick, Joshua J. Coon, Audrey P. Gasch, Trey K. Sato, and Chris Todd Hittinger

G3 June 2016 6:1757-1766; Early Online April 20, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.029389

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Fine-Scale Crossover Rate Variation on the Caenorhabditis elegans X Chromosome

Max R. Bernstein and Matthew V. Rockman

G3 June 2016 6:1767-1776; Early Online April 15, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028001

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A Comprehensive Toolbox for Genome Editing in Cultured Drosophila melanogaster Cells

Stefan Kunzelmann, Romy Böttcher, Ines Schmidts, and Klaus Förstemann

G3 June 2016 6:1777-1785; Early Online April 13, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028241

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Mutant Screen Report

Site-Directed Genome Knockout in Chicken Cell Line and Embryos Can Use CRISPR/Cas Gene Editing Technology

Qisheng Zuo, Yinjie Wang, Shaoze Cheng, Chao Lian, Beibei Tang, Fei Wang, Zhenyu Lu, Yanqing Ji, Ruifeng Zhao, Wenhui Zhang, Kai Jin, Jiuzhou Song, Yani Zhang, and Bichun Li

G3 June 2016 6:1787-1792; Early Online March 26, 2016

doi:10.1534/g3.116.028803

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