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Biologists rely on animal models to answer important questions that can’t be addressed with cells in a dish. Often, these animals are deliberately inbred; a less diverse population of animals means that data obtained from experiments with these animals will be less noisy and easier to interpret, so fewer animals are needed for meaningful results.…

Beer, doughnuts, and genetics textbooks have one thing in common: they were all made possible by collaborations between humans and yeast. Our fungal ally Saccharomyces cerevisiae resides not only in breweries, bakeries, and laboratories, but also sometimes in our own bodies—where, on rare occasions, it betrays us. S. cerevisiae is increasingly being reported as an…

The fastest-evolving genes in eukaryotes commonly encode reproductive proteins—and the rate at which genes for male reproductive proteins change, in particular, often vastly outstrips the rate of change across the genome as a whole. A recent paper in G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics describes an unusual exception: the amino acid sequences of the most abundant sperm proteins in…

Check out the February issue of G3! Table of Contents Genome Reports Whole Genome Sequencing of Hulunbuir Short-Tailed Sheep for Identifying Candidate Genes Related to the Short-Tail Phenotype Dafu Zhi, Lai Da, Moning Liu, Chen Cheng, Yukun Zhang, Xin Wang, Xiunan Li, Zhipeng Tian, Yanyan Yang, Tingyi He, Xin Long, Wei Wei, Guifang Cao G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics…

When a noni fruit ripens, it stinks like old cheese—or even vomit. Familiar to many in the form of expensive juices sold as health supplements, this pungent fruit is engaged in a slow-motion arms race with would-be insect pests. Fruit flies are unable to feast on noni—scientific name Morinda citrifolia—because the fruit is dosed with…

Check out the January issue of G3! Table of Contents Genome Report Reference Assembly and Annotation of the Pyrenophora teres f. teres Isolate 0-1 Nathan A. Wyatt, Jonathan K. Richards, Robert S. Brueggeman, Timothy L. Friesen G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics January 2018 8: 1-8; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.300196 Mutant Screen Reports Mapping Second Chromosome Mutations to Defined Genomic Regions in…

In the 1980s, scientists first noticed circles of DNA interspersed among the normally linear chromosomes of eukaryotic nuclei. Little is known about these molecules, which are called extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA). Variation in eccDNA appears to be biologically significant; development of an organism often comes with increased numbers of eccDNA, for example, and certain types…

The yeast Candida albicans lives on and even inside many of us. Most of the time, its silent presence goes unnoticed, but this fungus can turn on its host, causing infections ranging in severity from annoying to life-threatening. For the yeast to become pathogenic, some of the C. albicans must transform from small, round cells…

Check out the December issue of G3! Table of Contents Software and Data Resources ARSDA: A New Approach for Storing, Transmitting and Analyzing Transcriptomic Data Xuhua Xia G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics December 2017 7: 3839-3848; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.300271 rSalvador: An R Package for the Fluctuation Experiment Qi Zheng G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics December 2017 7: 3849-3856; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.300120 Investigations…

Check out the November issue of G3! Table of Contents Mutant Screen Report Genetic Screening for EMS-Induced Maize Embryo-Specific Mutants Altered in Embryo Morphogenesis Dale C. Brunelle, Janice K. Clark, William F. Sheridan G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics November 2017 7: 3559-3570; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.300293 Genomic Selection Genomic Prediction Within and Across Biparental Families: Means and Variances of Prediction Accuracy…

Over three centuries, as many as a million enslaved people were shipped to the Colombian port of Cartagena. From this hub of the slave trade, European colonists took Africans to labor in many places across the Americas, including the gold mines of the Chocó region. Today, people from Chocó often proudly identify as Afro-Colombian, while…