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  • The icy waters of the Neumeyer Channel on the Antarctica Peninsula, and regions nearby, are home to several species of Antarctic icefish, animals that fit Darwin's phrase, a “wreck of nature.” Unique among vertebrates, icefish lack red blood cells and functional hemoglobin genes, have greatly reduced bone mineralization compared to related fish, and have lost the nearly-ubiquitous inducible heat shock response. Image courtesy of John Postlethwait, 2015 recipient of the Genetics Society of America's George W. Beadle Award.

    July GENETICS Highlights

    By Editorial Staff on July 14, 2015

    The July issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the Highlights below of the full Table of Contents here. And don’t miss the essays by winners of 2015 GSA Honors and Awards!   ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS Fine mapping causal variants with an approximate Bayesian method using marginal test statistics, pp. 719–736 Wenan Chen, Beth R.…

  • A juvenile yellow baboon rests by a tree in South Africa. In this issue of GENETICS, Atkinson et al. characterize the genetic architecture and evolvability of brain folding in primates using a pedigreed population of such baboons. Image courtesy of J. Graham Atkinson.

    June GENETICS Highlights

    By Editorial Staff on June 18, 2015

    The June issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the Highlights below or the full Table of Contents here.   ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS Cortical folding of the primate brain: an interdisciplinary examination of the genetic architecture, modularity, and evolvability of a significant neurological trait in pedigreed baboons (Genus Papio), pp. 651–665 Elizabeth G. Atkinson, Jeffrey Rogers,…

  • The hermaphroditic C. elegans germline generates sperm during larval development, followed by oogenesis in adulthood. This 3D rendering of germline chromatin includes a portion of the distal germline containing oogenic pachytene nuclei (top), as well as a portion of the proximal germline which stores the spermatids (yellow). Katherine McJunkin and Victor Ambros demonstrated that microRNAs act during embryogenesis to promote spermatogenesis and adult fecundity in C. elegans. Image courtesy of Katherine McJunkin. See McJunkin and Ambros, G3 4:1747–1754.

    New in G3: Mosquitoes, cotton, & CYCLoPs

    By Editorial Staff on June 13, 2015

    Check out the June issue of G3! MEETING REPORT Meeting Report on Experimental Approaches to Evolution and Ecology Using Yeast and Other Model Systems Audrey P. Gasch and Gaël Yvert G3 June 2015 5:1021-1023; Early Online April 22, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.018614 Full Text | Full Text (PDF) INVESTIGATIONS Analysis of RNA Interference Lines Identifies New Functions…

  • im2print

    New in G3: C. elegans quantitative genetics, mouse imprinting, and undergraduate genomics research

    By Editorial Staff on May 12, 2015

    Check out the May issue of G3! Investigations A Novel Electronic Assessment Strategy to Support Applied Drosophila Genetics Training in University Courses Maggy Fostier, Sanjai Patel, Samantha Clarke, and Andreas Prokop G3 May 2015 5:689-698; Early Online February 25, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.017509 Abstract | Full Text | Full Text (PDF) | Supporting Information Differential Regulation of…

  • Drosophila genital arch

    May GENETICS Highlights

    By Editorial Staff on May 7, 2015

    The May issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the highlights below or the full Table of Contents here. Efficient multiple-trait association and estimation of genetic correlation using the matrix-variate linear mixed model, pp. 59–68 Nicholas A. Furlotte and Eleazar Eskin Existing approaches to multiple-trait association mapping are computationally intractable for large sample sizes, limiting their…

  • April GENETICS Highlights

    By Editorial Staff on April 9, 2015

    The April issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the highlights below of the full Table of Contents here. Nascent transcription affected by RNA polymerase IV in Zea mays, pp. 1107–1125 Karl F. Erhard Jr., Joy-El R. B. Talbot, Natalie C. Deans, Allison E. McClish, and Jay B. Hollick RNA polymerase IV (Pol IV) is required…

  • Dendrites often have an elaborate branched morphology important for receiving information from other cells or the environment. Recently, RNA-binding proteins have been implicated in the regulation of dendrite development. Antonacci et al. performed a candidate genetic screen for RNA-binding proteins that regulate dendrite morphogenesis in the multidendritic PVD sensory neuron (green) in Caenorhabditis elegans. The authors identify 12 genes that code for RNA-binding proteins important for dendrite development. Importantly, orthologs of these proteins have previously been implicated in dendrite development in Drosophila, and human orthologs are expressed in the brain, suggesting that they may regulate dendrites in humans as well. Image credit: Eugenia Olesnicky.

    New in G3: Genomic selection, ortholog detection, and Drosophila lines with global diversity

    By Editorial Staff on April 8, 2015

    Check out the April issue of G3! Investigations A Bayesian Model for the Analysis of Transgenerational Epigenetic Variation Luis Varona, Sebastián Munilla, Elena Flavia Mouresan, Aldemar González-Rodríguez, Carlos Moreno, and Juan Altarriba G3 April 2015 5:477-485; Early Online January 23, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.016725 Abstract | Full Text | Full Text (PDF) | Supporting Information Identification of…

  • Drosophila affinis

    March GENETICS Highlights

    By Editorial Staff on March 6, 2015

    The March issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the highlights below of the full Table of Contents here.   Locally epistatic genomic relationship matrices for genomic association and prediction, pp. 857–871 Deniz Akdemir and Jean-Luc Jannink In breeding studies a distinction is made between the genetic value (additive + epistatic genetic effects) and…

  • Drosophila stage 10 egg chamber. DNA (blue) labels large nuclei of nurse cells and smaller follicle cells. Fluorescent in situ probes to chromosome-2 (red) and the X-chromosome (green) show condensin II mediated dispersal of chromatid fibers in nurse cells as they compact and form chromosome territories. Julianna Bozler and colleagues show that condensin II can exert mechanical forces great enough to remodel and pull nuclear envelope membrane into intra-nuclear vesicle-like structures, see Bozler et al. Image courtesy of Huy Nguyen.

    New in G3: Fruit fly CatWalk, well fed Drosophila, and house fly sex determination

    By Editorial Staff on March 4, 2015

    Just in time for the 2015 GSA Drosophila Research Conference, the new issue of G3 features FlyCatWalk for sorting live Drosophila based on morphometric traits, a Drosophila genome-wide association study for nutritional indices, and autosomal versus y-linked male determination in house flies. Check out the Table of Contents below!   Investigations The FlyCatwalk: A High-Throughput…

  • “Coordination of mesoderm migration during Drosophila gastrulation” Cross-sections of Drosophila embryos in wild-type and mutant backgrounds: brown and black depicts the migrating mesoderm (anti-Twist staining) or dual-phosphorylated form of ERK (anti-dpERK), and blue depicts gene expression of either HSPGs Trol or Syndecan. From Trisnadi and Stathopoulos. Photo credit: Nathanie Trisnadi.

    New in G3: Malaria, scoliosis, and a Mexican tetra map

    By Editorial Staff on February 11, 2015

    The new issue of G3 features Asian malarial mosquito control, familial idiopathic scoliosis, and a high-res genetic map for the Mexican tetra. Check out the Table of Contents below! Investigations Maternal Germline-Specific Genes in the Asian Malaria Mosquito Anopheles stephensi: Characterization and Application for Disease Control James K. Biedler, Yumin Qi, David Pledger, Anthony A.…

  • Brainbow zebrafish

    February GENETICS Highlights

    By Editorial Staff on February 5, 2015

    The February issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the highlights below of the full Table of Contents here.   A neuroprotective function of NSF1 sustains autophagy and lysosomal trafficking in Drosophila, pp. 511–522 Daniel T. Babcock, Wei Shen, and Barry Ganetzky The accumulation of toxic or misfolded proteins is a feature shared by several neurodegenerative…

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