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  • 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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…

  • Image courtesy of Ning Wang and Takao Komatsuda. An Epiallele at cly1 Affects the Expression of Floret Closing (Cleistogamy) in Barley

    January GENETICS Highlights

    The January issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the highlights below or the full Table of Contents here. Gene expression variation in Drosophila melanogaster due to rare transposable element insertion alleles of large effect, pp. 85–93 Julie M. Cridland, Kevin R. Thornton, and Anthony D. Long Cridland et al. report the first genome-wide analysis…

  • crispr gfp worm

    December GENETICS Highlights

    The  December issue of GENETICS is out now! Check out the highlights below or the full Table of Contents here. Ectopic centromere nucleation by CENP-A in fission yeast, pp. 1433–1446 Marlyn Gonzalez, Haijin He, Qianhua Dong, Siyu Sun, and Fei Li The mechanisms protecting the cell against formation of ectopic centromeres (neocentromeres) are poorly understood. Gonzalez…

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    New in G3: Worm RNAi tools, oyster sex & primate lice endosymbionts

    Oyster sex, a watermelon map, coconut transcriptome, and a primate lice endosymbiont genome in the new issue of G3 online now! Also tools for C. elegans RNAi and predictive histone acetylation patterns. Check out the Table of Contents below: G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics  November 2014 Distinct and Predictive Histone Lysine Acetylation Patterns at Promoters, Enhancers, and Gene Bodies…

  • GSA Journals Spotlight 2013

    The GSA Journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, are proud to present our annual Spotlight booklets for research published in 2013. Each Spotlight is a showcase of the excellent research and scholarship published over the course of the year, along with a selection of striking images submitted by our authors. Browse the 2013 GENETICS Spotlight. Browse the 2013 G3 Spotlight.

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    Instagram Link Archive

    This an archive of images and related links from our Instagram account (@geneticsgsa). August 2, 2018 Our August GENETICS cover features a colorful karyotype from the Yeast Art Project. This design, made up of yeast engineered to produce different pigments, was “printed” onto a Petri dish by an acoustic droplet ejection robot. As the yeast colonies…