Articles tagged Population Genetics
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Researchers evaluate the accuracy of common statistical methods to identify recent genetic ancestry in GENETICS.

A new senior editor is joining G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. We’re excited to welcome Andrew Kern to the editorial team.

A new associate editor is joining GENETICS in the Theoretical Population & Evolutionary Genetics section. We’re excited to welcome Christelle Fraïsse to the editorial team.

Yellow coloration is maladaptive in the wild but prized by breeders.

An international collaboration reveals the genetic secrets of endangered species. Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, University of Connecticut undergraduates have published the first full map of the unusual tree’s DNA in G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. The butternut is…

A new associate editor is joining GENETICS in population and evolutionary genetics. We’re excited to welcome Konrad Lohse to the editorial team. Konrad LohseAssociate Editor Konrad Lohse is a population geneticist interested in learning about evolution in natural populations from genomic data. After a BSc at the University of St Andrews, he obtained a PhD…

A new associate editor is joining GENETICS in the population and evolutionary genetics section. We’re excited to welcome Thomas Lenormand to the editorial team. Thomas Lenormand Associate Editor Thomas Lenormand is Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique research director at the CEFE laboratory. He is an evolutionary geneticist, combining mathematical theory, statistical developments, laboratory experiments,…

Bioinformatics—a scientific discipline that aims to curate, analyze, and distribute biological data—is facing a crisis: a deluge of data is overwhelming laboratories and existing infrastructure.  Biologists, especially those working in genome sciences, have recognized the importance of big data: in just two decades, the number of genome sequences has increased 10,000-fold (from 180,000 to 1.8…

When female Anopheles mosquitoes take a blood meal from someone with malaria, a tiny Plasmodium parasite enters the mosquito’s digestive tract. That parasite can invade the mosquito’s salivary tissues, so when the insect takes another blood meal, the intruder can slip into the next human host and start a new malaria infection. Malaria is a…

Congratulations to the winners of the Editors’ Choice Awards for outstanding articles published in GENETICS in 2021! The journal’s Editorial Board considered a diverse range of articles, finding many papers worthy of recognition. After much deliberation, they settled on one exceptional article for each of the three award categories: molecular genetics, population and evolutionary genetics,…

Guest post by C Brandon Ogbunu. 2022 marks the return of the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics (PEQG) Conference, organized by the Genetics Society of America. Part of the meeting’s popularity stems from being one of the few conferences that brings together leading thinkers in subfields of genetics that don’t typically overlap, across a range of…