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Investigations

Comparative Phylogenomics of Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Species

Emily Whiston and John W. Taylor

G3 February 2016 6:235-244; Early Online November 27, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022806

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An RNAi-Based Candidate Screen for Modifiers of the CHD1 Chromatin Remodeler and Assembly Factor in Drosophila melanogaster

Sharon Kim, Lakshmi Bugga, Eugenie S. Hong, Rebecca Zabinsky, Rebecca G. Edwards, Parimal A. Deodhar, and Jennifer A. Armstrong

G3 February 2016 6:245-254; Early Online November 23, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.021691

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A RAB3GAP1 SINE Insertion in Alaskan Huskies with Polyneuropathy, Ocular Abnormalities, and Neuronal Vacuolation (POANV) Resembling Human Warburg Micro Syndrome 1 (WARBM1)

Michaela Wiedmer, Anna Oevermann, Stephanie E. Borer-Germann, Daniela Gorgas, G. Diane Shelton, Michaela Drögemüller, Vidhya Jagannathan, Diana Henke, and Tosso Leeb

G3 February 2016 6:255-262; Early Online November 23, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022707

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The Mouse Universal Genotyping Array: From Substrains to Subspecies

Andrew P. Morgan, Chen-Ping Fu, Chia-Yu Kao, Catherine E. Welsh, John P. Didion, Liran Yadgary, Leeanna Hyacinth, Martin T. Ferris, Timothy A. Bell, Darla R. Miller, Paola Giusti-Rodriguez, Randal J. Nonneman, Kevin D. Cook, Jason K. Whitmire, Lisa E. Gralinski, Mark Keller, Alan D. Attie, Gary A. Churchill, Petko Petkov, Patrick F. Sullivan, Jennifer R. Brennan, Leonard McMillan, and Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena

G3 February 2016 6:263-279; Early Online December 18, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022087

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argyle: An R Package for Analysis of Illumina Genotyping Arrays

Andrew P. Morgan

G3 February 2016 6:281-286; Early Online December 18, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023739

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SAGA DUB-Ubp8 Deubiquitylates Centromeric Histone Variant Cse4

Claudia Canzonetta, Stefano Vernarecci, Michele Iuliani, Cristina Marracino, Claudia Belloni, Paola Ballario, and Patrizia Filetici

G3 February 2016 6:287-298; Early Online November 27, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024877

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The wavy Mutation Maps to the Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate 3-Kinase 2 (IP3K2) Gene of Drosophila and Interacts with IP3R to Affect Wing Development

Derek M. Dean, Luana S. Maroja, Sarah Cottrill, Brent E. Bomkamp, Kathleen A. Westervelt, and David L. Deitcher

G3 February 2016 6:299-310; Early Online November 27, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024307

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Quantitative Trait Locus and Genetical Genomics Analysis Identifies Putatively Causal Genes for Fecundity and Brooding in the Chicken

Martin Johnsson, Kenneth B. Jonsson, Leif Andersson, Per Jensen, and Dominic Wright

G3 February 2016 6:311-319; Early Online December 4, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024299

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The Extent of mRNA Editing Is Limited in Chicken Liver and Adipose, but Impacted by Tissular Context, Genotype, Age, and Feeding as Exemplified with a Conserved Edited Site in COG3

Pierre-François Roux, Laure Frésard, Morgane Boutin, Sophie Leroux, Christophe Klopp, Anis Djari, Diane Esquerré, Pascal GP Martin, Tatiana Zerjal, David Gourichon, Frédérique Pitel, and Sandrine Lagarrigue

G3 February 2016 6:321-335; Early Online December 4, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022251

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An Amphiphysin-Like Domain in Fus2p Is Required for Rvs161p Interaction and Cortical Localization

Richard A. Stein, Jean A. Smith, and Mark D. Rose

G3 February 2016 6:337-349; Early Online December 17, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023960

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Chromoanasynthetic Genomic Rearrangement Identified in a N-Ethyl-N-Nitrosourea (ENU) Mutagenesis Screen in Caenorhabditis elegans

Omar A. Itani, Stephane Flibotte, Kathleen J. Dumas, Donald G. Moerman, and Patrick J. Hu

G3 February 2016 6:351-356; Early Online December 1, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024257

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Effects of DNA Methylation and Chromatin State on Rates of Molecular Evolution in Insects

Karl M. Glastad, Michael A. D. Goodisman, Soojin V. Yi, and Brendan G. Hunt

G3 February 2016 6:357-363; Early Online December 4, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023499

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Dynamics of Dark-Fly Genome Under Environmental Selections

Minako Izutsu, Atsushi Toyoda, Asao Fujiyama, Kiyokazu Agata, and Naoyuki Fuse

G3 February 2016 6:365-376; Early Online December 4, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023549

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Genetic Mapping of Resistance to Meloidogyne arenaria in Arachis stenosperma: A New Source of Nematode Resistance for Peanut

Soraya C. M. Leal-Bertioli, Márcio C. Moretzsohn, Philip A. Roberts, Carolina Ballén-Taborda, Tereza C. O. Borba, Paula A. Valdisser, Rosana P. Vianello, Ana Cláudia G Araújo, Patricia M. Guimarães, and David J. Bertioli

G3 February 2016 6:377-390; Early Online December 12, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023044

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Genetic Determinants of RNA Editing Levels of ADAR Targets in Drosophila melanogaster

Yerbol Z. Kurmangaliyev, Sammi Ali, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin

G3 February 2016 6:391-396; Early Online December 12, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024471

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Diversity and Divergence of Dinoflagellate Histone Proteins

Georgi K. Marinov and Michael Lynch

G3 February 2016 6:397-422; Early Online December 8, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023275

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MicroRNA Maturation and MicroRNA Target Gene Expression Regulation Are Severely Disrupted in Soybean dicer-like1 Double Mutants

Shaun J. Curtin, Jean-Michel Michno, Benjamin W. Campbell, Javier Gil-Humanes, Sandra M. Mathioni, Reza Hammond, Juan J. Gutierrez-Gonzalez, Ryan C. Donohue, Michael B. Kantar, Andrew L. Eamens, Blake C. Meyers, Daniel F. Voytas, and Robert M. Stupar

G3 February 2016 6:423-433; Early Online December 17, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022137

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Tying Down Loose Ends in the Chlamydomonas Genome: Functional Significance of Abundant Upstream Open Reading Frames

Frederick R. Cross

G3 February 2016 6:435-446; Early Online December 23, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023119

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FASTmC: A Suite of Predictive Models for Nonreference-Based Estimations of DNA Methylation

Adam J. Bewick, Brigitte T. Hofmeister, Kevin Lee, Xiaoyu Zhang, David W. Hall, and Robert J. Schmitz

G3 February 2016 6:447-452; Early Online December 17, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025668

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Formation of Extrachromosomal Circular DNA from Long Terminal Repeats of Retrotransposons in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Henrik D. Møller, Camilla E. Larsen, Lance Parsons, Anders Johannes Hansen, Birgitte Regenberg, and Tobias Mourier

G3 February 2016 6:453-462; Early Online December 17, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025858

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Genome-Wide Analysis of the TORC1 and Osmotic Stress Signaling Network in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Jeremy Worley, Arron Sullivan, Xiangxia Luo, Matthew E. Kaplan, and Andrew P. Capaldi

G3 February 2016 6:463-474; Early Online December 17, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025882

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Back to Acid Soil Fields: The Citrate Transporter SbMATE Is a Major Asset for Sustainable Grain Yield for Sorghum Cultivated on Acid Soils

Geraldo Carvalho, Jr, Robert Eugene Schaffert, Marcos Malosetti, Joao Herbert Moreira Viana, Cicero Bezerra Menezes, Lidianne Assis Silva, Claudia Teixeira Guimaraes, Antonio Marcos Coelho, Leon V. Kochian, Fred A. van Eeuwijk, and Jurandir Vieira Magalhaes

G3 February 2016 6:475-484; Early Online December 17, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.025791

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Mutant Screen Report

A Genome-Wide Screen with Nicotinamide to Identify Sirtuin-Dependent Pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

John S. Choy, Bayan Qadri, Leah Henry, Kunal Shroff, Olatomiwa Bifarin, and Munira A. Basrai

G3 February 2016 6:485-494; Early Online December 8, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022244

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