Analysis of insulin-like signaling in C. elegans reveals extensive positive and negative feedback regulation. The insulin-like signaling system of nematode worms is comparable to that...

CaenorhabditisDevelopmentGene ExpressionGenetics Journal

Programmed ribosomal frameshifting has translational costs that may influence codon usage bias. The genetic code has some redundancy—the same amino acid is often encoded by...

Data & DatabasesEvolutionG3 JournalGene ExpressionYeast

Offshoot of the modENCODE project provides crucial data and strains for understanding gene regulation. Following a multidisciplinary effort spanning six institutions, researchers working on the modERN...

C. elegansData & DatabasesDrosophilaGene ExpressionGenetics JournalModel Organism DatabasesModel Organisms

Photosensitive alternative splicing of a malt fly circadian clock gene varies between northern and southern populations. Over the course of a day, most organisms undergo...

DrosophilaEvolutionFundamental ResearchG3 JournalGene ExpressionInsects

Although foxes look cuddly, these wild animals are equipped with sharp bites—and temperaments to match. Fear not, however, if you’re dying to get close to...

BioinformaticsDomesticationG3 JournalGene ExpressionNeuroscience

Fruit fly mutants can sometimes be grisly. Ecdysteroid hormones control aspects of fly development, including molting and metamorphosis; because aberrations in these genes lead to...

DevelopmentDrosophilaGene ExpressionGenetics Journal

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce that Job Dekker of the University of Massachusetts Medical School is the recipient of the...

Awards & PrizesChromosomesFundamental ResearchGene ExpressionGSA Awards

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,...

DrosophilaEcologyEvolutionFundamental ResearchG3 JournalGene ExpressionPlants

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...

Fundamental ResearchFungiG3 JournalGene ExpressionHuman DiseaseMicrobesYeast

Inheriting an extra chromosome can sometimes be disastrous, but in the September issue of G3, Linder et al. investigate a chromosome duplication that helps yeast...

AneuploidyChromosomesEvolutionFungiG3 JournalGene ExpressionYeast