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Genomic Prediction Accounting for Residual Heteroskedasticity

Zhining Ou, Robert J. Tempelman, Juan P. Steibel, Catherine W. Ernst, Ronald O. Bates, and Nora M. Bello

G3 January 2016 6:1-13; Early Online November 12, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022897

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Comparative Genomics of an Emerging Amphibian Virus

Brendan Epstein and Andrew Storfer

G3 January 2016 6:15-27; Early Online November 3, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023762

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Haplotype Detection from Next-Generation Sequencing in High-Ploidy-Level Species: 45S rDNA Gene Copies in the Hexaploid Spartina maritima

Julien Boutte, Benoît Aliaga, Oscar Lima, Julie Ferreira de Carvalho, Abdelkader Ainouche, Jiri Macas, Mathieu Rousseau-Gueutin, Olivier Coriton, Malika Ainouche, and Armel Salmon

G3 January 2016 6:29-40; Early Online November 3, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023242

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Disease Variant Landscape of a Large Multiethnic Population of Moyamoya Patients by Exome Sequencing

Lorelei D. Shoemaker, Michael J. Clark, Anil Patwardhan, Gemma Chandratillake, Sarah Garcia, Rong Chen, Alexander A. Morgan, Nan Leng, Scott Kirk, Richard Chen, Douglas J. Cook, Michael Snyder, and Gary K. Steinberg

G3 January 2016 6:41-49; Early Online November 3, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.020321

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A Novel Saccharomyces cerevisiae FG Nucleoporin Mutant Collection for Use in Nuclear Pore Complex Functional Experiments

Rebecca L. Adams, Laura J. Terry, and Susan R. Wente

G3 January 2016 6:51-58; Early Online November 3, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023002

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Chemically Induced Oncogenesis in the Peripheral Nervous System Is Suppressed in Congenic BDIX.BDIV-Mss1 and –Mss7 Rats

Bernd Koelsch, Linda van den Berg, Christine Fischer, Bettina Winzen-Reichert, Andrea Kutritz, and Andrea Kindler-Röhrborn

G3 January 2016 6:59-65; Early Online November 3, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.021170

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Target Enrichment Improves Mapping of Complex Traits by Deep Sequencing

Jianjun Guo, Jue Fan, Bernard A. Hauser, and Seung Y. Rhee

G3 January 2016 6:67-77; Early Online November 3, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023671

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Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci Underlying Function-Valued Traits Using Functional Principal Component Analysis and Multi-Trait Mapping

Il-Youp Kwak, Candace R. Moore, Edgar P. Spalding, and Karl W. Broman

G3 January 2016 6:79-86; Early Online November 3, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024133

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Identification of a Novel Nematotoxic Protein by Challenging the Model Mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea with a Fungivorous Nematode

David Fernando Plaza, Stefanie Sofia Schmieder, Anna Lipzen, Erika Lindquist, and Markus Künzler

G3 January 2016 6:87-98; Early Online November 19, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023069

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Using Ancient Samples in Projection Analysis

Melinda A. Yang and Montgomery Slatkin

G3 January 2016 6:99-105; Early Online November 6, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023788

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The Genomic Signature of Population Reconnection Following Isolation: From Theory to HIV

Nicolas Alcala, Jeffrey D. Jensen, Amalio Telenti, and S`éverine Vuilleumier

G3 January 2016 6:107-120; Early Online November 6, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024208

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Disruption of Methionine Metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster Impacts Histone Methylation and Results in Loss of Viability

Mengying Liu, Valerie L. Barnes, and Lori A. Pile

G3 January 2016 6:121-132; Early Online November 6, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024273

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Genome-Wide Mutational Signature of the Chemotherapeutic Agent Mitomycin C in Caenorhabditis elegans

Annie S. Tam, Jeffrey S.C. Chu, and Ann M. Rose

G3 January 2016 6:133-140; Early Online November 12, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.021915

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Comprehensive Transcriptome Analysis of Six Catfish Species from an Altitude Gradient Reveals Adaptive Evolution in Tibetan Fishes

Xiuhui Ma, Wei Dai, Jingliang Kang, Liandong Yang, and Shunping He

G3 January 2016 6:141-148; Early Online November 12, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024448

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Genome-Wide Estimates of Mutation Rates and Spectrum in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Indicate CpG Sites are Highly Mutagenic Despite the Absence of DNA Methylation

Megan G. Behringer and David W. Hall

G3 January 2016 6:149-160; Early Online November 12, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022129

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Genomic Analysis of ATP Efflux in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Theodore W. Peters, Aaron W. Miller, Cendrine Tourette, Hannah Agren, Alan Hubbard, and Robert E. Hughes

G3 January 2016 6:161-170; Early Online November 19, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023267

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On the Consequences of Purging and Linkage on Fitness and Genetic Diversity

Diego Bersabé, Armando Caballero, Andrés Pérez-Figueroa, and Aurora García-Dorado

G3 January 2016 6:171-181; Early Online November 12, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.023184

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Gene Expression and Chromatin Modifications Associated with Maize Centromeres

Hainan Zhao, Xiaobiao Zhu, Kai Wang, Jonathan I. Gent, Wenli Zhang, R. Kelly Dawe, and Jiming Jiang

G3 January 2016 6:183-192; Early Online November 12, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022764

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Identification of a Classical Mutant in the Industrial Host Aspergillus niger by Systems Genetics: LaeA Is Required for Citric Acid Production and Regulates the Formation of Some Secondary Metabolites

Jing Niu, Mark Arentshorst, P. Deepa S. Nair, Ziyu Dai, Scott E. Baker, Jens C. Frisvad, Kristian F. Nielsen, Peter J. Punt, and Arthur F.J. Ram

G3 January 2016 6:193-204; Early Online November 13, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.024067

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SNPTracker: A Swift Tool for Comprehensive Tracking and Unifying dbSNP rs IDs and Genomic Coordinates of Massive Sequence Variants

Jia-En Deng, Pak C. Sham, and Miao-Xin Li

G3 January 2016 6:205-207; Early Online November 19, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.021832

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Mitochondrial-Nuclear Epistasis Impacts Fitness and Mitochondrial Physiology of Interpopulation Caenorhabditis briggsae Hybrids

Chih-Chiun Chang, Joel Rodriguez, and Joseph Ross

G3 January 2016 6:209-219; Early Online November 19, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.022970

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An Examination of Dynamic Gene Expression Changes in the Mouse Brain During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

Surjyendu Ray, Ruei-Ying Tzeng, Lisa M. DiCarlo, Joseph L. Bundy, Cynthia Vied, Gary Tyson, Richard Nowakowski, and Michelle N. Arbeitman

G3 January 2016 6:221-233; Early Online November 23, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.115.020982

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