Check out the January issue of G3!
Table of Contents
Investigations
The CgHaa1-Regulon Mediates Response and Tolerance to Acetic Acid Stress in the Human Pathogen Candida glabrata
Ruben T. Bernardo, Diana V. Cunha, Can Wang, Leonel Pereira, Sónia Silva, Sara B. Salazar, Markus S. Schröder, Michiyo Okamoto, Azusa Takahashi-Nakaguchi, Hiroji Chibana, Toshihiro Aoyama, Isabel Sá-Correia, Joana Azeredo, Geraldine Butler, and Nuno Pereira Mira
G3 January 2017 7:1-18; Early Online November 4, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.034660
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Using Next-Generation Sequencing for DNA Barcoding: Capturing Allelic Variation in ITS2
Jana Batovska, Noel O. I. Cogan, Stacey E. Lynch, and Mark J. Blacket
G3 January 2017 7:19-29; Early Online October 31, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.036145
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Small RNA Sequencing in Cells and Exosomes Identifies eQTLs and 14q32 as a Region of Active Export
Emily K. Tsang, Nathan S. Abell, Xin Li, Vanessa Anaya, Konrad J. Karczewski, David A. Knowles, Raymond G. Sierra, Kevin S. Smith, and Stephen B. Montgomery
G3 January 2017 7:31-39; Early Online October 31, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.036137
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Bayesian Genomic Prediction with Genotype x Environment Interaction Kernel Models
Jaime Cuevas, José Crossa, Osval A. Montesinos-López, Juan Burgueo, Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez, and Gustavo de los Campos
G3 January 2017 7:41-53; Early Online October 28, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.035584
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Assortative Mating and Linkage Disequilibrium
Philip W. Hedrick
G3 January 2017 7:55-62; Early Online October 26, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.034967
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The Phenotypic Plasticity of Duplicated Genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the Origin of Adaptations
Florian Mattenberger, Beatriz Sabater-Muñoz, Christina Toft, and Mario A. Fares
G3 January 2017 7:63-75; Early Online October 31, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.035329
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Cytogenetic and Molecular Characterization of B-Genome Introgression Lines of Brassica napus L.
Inderpreet Dhaliwal, Annaliese S. Mason, Shashi Banga, Sakshi Bharti, Beerpal Kaur, Allison Mary Gurung, Phillip Anthony Salisbury, Jacqueline Batley, and Surinder Singh Banga
G3 January 2017 7:77-86; Early Online November 7, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.036442
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Efficient Screening of CRISPR/Cas9-Induced Events in Drosophila Using a Co-CRISPR Strategy
Nanci S. Kane, Mehul Vora, Krishna J. Varre, and Richard W. Padgett
G3 January 2017 7:87-93; Early Online October 28, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.036723
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Candida albicans Is Resistant to Polyglutamine Aggregation and Toxicity
Michelle D. Leach, TaeHyung Kim, Sonja E. DiGregorio, Cathy Collins, Zhaolei Zhang, Martin L. Duennwald, and Leah E. Cowen
G3 January 2017 7:95-108; Early Online November 2, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.035675
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A New Chicken Genome Assembly Provides Insight into Avian Genome Structure
Wesley C. Warren, LaDeana W. Hillier, Chad Tomlinson, Patrick Minx, Milinn Kremitzki, Tina Graves, Chris Markovic, Nathan Bouk, Kim D. Pruitt, Francoise Thibaud-Nissen, Valerie Schneider, Tamer A. Mansour, C. Titus Brown, Aleksey Zimin, Rachel Hawken, Mitch Abrahamsen, Alexis B. Pyrkosz, Mireille Morisson, Valerie Fillon, Alain Vignal, William Chow, Kerstin Howe, Janet E. Fulton, Marcia M. Miller, Peter Lovell, Claudio V. Mello, Morgan Wirthlin, Andrew S. Mason, Richard Kuo, David W. Burt, Jerry B. Dodgson, and Hans H. Cheng
G3 January 2017 7:109-117; Early Online November 14, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.035923
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Imputation-Based Fine-Mapping Suggests That Most QTL in an Outbred Chicken Advanced Intercross Body Weight Line Are Due to Multiple, Linked Loci
Monika Brandt, Muhammad Ahsan, Christa F. Honaker, Paul B. Siegel, and örjan Carlborg
G3 January 2017 7:119-128; Early Online October 31, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.036012
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The Neurospora Transcription Factor ADV-1 Transduces Light Signals and Temporal Information to Control Rhythmic Expression of Genes Involved in Cell Fusion
Rigzin Dekhang, Cheng Wu, Kristina M. Smith, Teresa M. Lamb, Matthew Peterson, Erin L. Bredeweg, Oneida Ibarra, Jillian M. Emerson, Nirmala Karunarathna, Anna Lyubetskaya, Elham Azizi, Jennifer M. Hurley, Jay C. Dunlap, James E. Galagan, Michael Freitag, Matthew S. Sachs, and Deborah Bell-Pedersen
G3 January 2017 7:129-142; Early Online November 16, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.034298
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iSeq: A New Double-Barcode Method for Detecting Dynamic Genetic Interactions in Yeast
Mia Jaffe, Gavin Sherlock, and Sasha F. Levy
G3 January 2017 7:143-153; Early Online November 7, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.034207
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The Physical Genome Mapping of Anopheles albimanus Corrected Scaffold Misassemblies and Identified Interarm Rearrangements in Genus Anopheles
Gleb N. Artemov, Ashley N. Peery, Xiaofang Jiang, Zhijian Tu, Vladimir N. Stegniy, Maria V. Sharakhova, and Igor V. Sharakhov
G3 January 2017 7:155-164; Early Online November 7, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.034959
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Regulatory Architecture of Gene Expression Variation in the Threespine Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus
Victoria L. Pritchard, Heidi M. Viitaniemi, R. J. Scott McCairns, Juha Merilä, Mikko Nikinmaa, Craig R. Primmer, and Erica H. Leder
G3 January 2017 7:165-178; Early Online November 11, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.033241
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Cfs1p, a Novel Membrane Protein in the PQ-Loop Family, Is Involved in Phospholipid Flippase Functions in Yeast
Takaharu Yamamoto, Konomi Fujimura-Kamada, Eno Shioji, Risa Suzuki, and Kazuma Tanaka
G3 January 2017 7:179-192; Early Online November 9, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.035238
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CRISPR/Cas9-Induced Double-Strand Break Repair in Arabidopsis Nonhomologous End-Joining Mutants
Hexi Shen, Gary D. Strunks, Bart J. P. M. Klemann, Paul J. J. Hooykaas, and Sylvia de Pater
G3 January 2017 7:193-202; Early Online November 18, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.035204
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Analysis of Ribosome-Associated mRNAs in Rice Reveals the Importance of Transcript Size and GC Content in Translation
Dongyan Zhao, John P. Hamilton, Michael Hardigan, Dongmei Yin, Tao He, Brieanne Vaillancourt, Mauricio Reynoso, Germain Pauluzzi, Scott Funkhouser, Yuehua Cui, Julia Bailey-Serres, Jiming Jiang, C. Robin Buell, and Ning Jiang
G3 January 2017 7:203-219; Early Online November 14, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.036020
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Time-Course Analysis of Gene Expression During the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hypoxic Response
Nasrine Bendjilali, Samuel MacLeon, Gurmannat Kalra, Stephen D. Willis, A. K. M. Nawshad Hossian, Erica Avery, Olivia Wojtowicz, and Mark J. Hickman
G3 January 2017 7:221-231; Early Online November 9, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.034991
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Dissecting Gene Expression Changes Accompanying a Ploidy-Based Phenotypic Switch
Gareth A. Cromie, Zhihao Tan, Michelle Hays, Eric W. Jeffery, and Aimée M. Dudley
G3 January 2017 7:233-246; Early Online November 11, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.036160
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Multiplex shRNA Screening of Germ Cell Development by in Vivo Transfection of Mouse Testis
Nicholas R. Y. Ho, Abul R. Usmani, Yan Yin, Liang Ma, and Donald F. Conrad
G3 January 2017 7:247-255; Early Online November 16, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.036087
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Caenorhabditis elegans DAF-2 as a Model for Human Insulin Receptoropathies
David A. Bulger, Tetsunari Fukushige, Sijung Yun, Robert K. Semple, John A. Hanover, and Michael W. Krause
G3 January 2017 7:257-268; Early Online November 16, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.037184
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First in Vivo Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transcriptomes Reveal Mechanisms of Host Exploitation, Host-Specific Gene Expression, and Expressed Genotype Shifts
Amy R. Ellison, Graziella V. DiRenzo, Caitlin A. McDonald, Karen R. Lips, and Kelly R. Zamudio
G3 January 2017 7:269-278; Early Online November 16, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.035873
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One-Cell Doubling Evaluation by Living Arrays of Yeast, ODELAY!
Thurston Herricks, David J. Dilworth, Fred D. Mast, Song Li, Jennifer J. Smith, Alexander V. Ratushny, and John D. Aitchison
G3 January 2017 7:279-288; Early Online November 16, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.037044
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Correlations of Genotype with Climate Parameters Suggest Caenorhabditis elegans Niche Adaptations
Kathryn S. Evans, Yuehui Zhao, Shannon C. Brady, Lijiang Long, Patrick T. McGrath, and Erik C. Andersen
G3 January 2017 7:289-298; Early Online November 18, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.035162
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Genotyping-by-Sequencing-Based Investigation of the Genetic Architecture Responsible for a ~Sevenfold Increase in Soybean Seed Stearic Acid
Crystal B. Heim and Jason D. Gillman
G3 January 2017 7:299-308; Early Online November 18, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.035741
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Mutant Screen Report
Identification of Genes Mediating Drosophila Follicle Cell Progenitor Differentiation by Screening for Modifiers of GAL4::UAS Variegation
Ming-Chia Lee, Andrew D. Skora, and Allan C. Spradling
G3 January 2017 7:309-318; Early Online November 18, 2016
doi:10.1534/g3.116.036038
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Corrigendum
Corrigendum
G3 January 2017 7:319;
doi:10.1534/g3.116.037358
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