Science & Publishing

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…

G3 welcomes new Associate Editors Gustavo de los Campos, Christian Marshall, Chad Myers, Jeff Ross-Ibarra, Tanja Slotte, and Marilyn Warburton!   GUSTAVO DE LOS CAMPOS University of Alabama at Birmingham The academic interests of Gustavo de los Campos center on statistical learning methods with emphasis on applications in quantitative genetics. He completed two MS and a…

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…

Laboratory zebrafish hide a dirty little secret. Although the tiny fish have proven to be a vital model of vertebrate development and disease genetics, zebrafish reproduction—at least in the lab—has wildly variable outcomes. Offspring sex ratios can vary from extremely male-biased to extremely female-biased, depending on which breeding pairs serve as parents. The reason for…

One of the major risk factors for autoimmune diseases is being born with two copies of the X chromosome. For example, women—who typically carry two Xs—face around ten times the risk of lupus, while men with lupus are around 15 times more likely than the general population to carry two Xs and a Y (Klinefelter…

In the early 1970s, a couple of hundred wild rats near the Siberian city of Novosibirsk were rounded up by scientists for an ambitious experiment to understand how animals evolve during domestication. Dimitry Belyaev and his colleagues—known for their related project on domesticating foxes—split the rats into two groups. With one group, the researchers tried to replicate…

With genomic data from hundreds of thousands of people accumulating, geneticists are now able to mine these data for very rare, but very informative genetic variants, including loss-of-function alleles. For example, across the enormous “reference set” of human exomes announced at the 2014 American Society for Human Genetics Meeting, on average there’s a variant every six bases. In the first of our reports from the ASHG…

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…

Mammal domestication is a hot topic, with many groups releasing detailed genetic studies of different models of domestication. This week we’ll look at the genetics of cat colors and follow up on the recently published domestication syndrome hypothesis. Next week we’ll feature new research on experimental rat domestication. Stay tuned! Does your cat have a…

Today we announced good news for our authors who use the bioRxiv preprint server! In partnership with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the GSA journals GENETICS and G3 are rolling out a new feature that allows authors to submit their manuscript for peer review at one of our journals and, if they choose, simultaneously post it…

The November issue of GENETICS is out today! Check out the highlights below or the full Table of Contents here. Genetic influences on brain gene expression in rats selected for tameness and aggression, pp. 1277–1290 Henrike O. Heyne, Susann Lautenschläger, Ronald Nelson, François Besnier, Maxime Rotival, Alexander Cagan, Rimma Kozhemyakina, Irina Z. Plyusnina, Lyudmila Trut, Örjan…