Investigations

• Demonstration of a Simple Epitope Tag Multimerization Strategy for Enhancing the Sensitivity of Protein Detection Using Drosophila vAChT

  Kole V. Tison, Hannah M. McKinney, R. Steven Stowers
• A Few Stickleback Suffice for the Transport of Alleles to New Lakes

  Jared Galloway, William A. Cresko, Peter Ralph
• Accelerated Evolution of Limb-Related Gene Hoxd11 in the Common Ancestor of Cetaceans and Ruminants (Cetruminantia)

  Jun Li, Songyang Shang, Na Fang, Yubo Zhu, Junpeng Zhang, David M. Irwin, Shuyi Zhang, Zhe Wang
• Synaptonemal Complex-Deficient Drosophila melanogaster Females Exhibit Rare DSB Repair Events, Recurrent Copy-Number Variation, and an Increased Rate of de Novo Transposable Element Movement

  Danny E. Miller
• Optimized Genetic Testing for Polledness in Multiple Breeds of Cattle

  Imtiaz A. S. Randhawa, Brian M. Burns, Michael R. McGowan, Laercio R. Porto-Neto, Ben J. Hayes, Ryan Ferretti, Karen M. Schutt, Russell E. Lyons
• Genetic Control and Geo-Climate Adaptation of Pod Dehiscence Provide Novel Insights into Soybean Domestication

  Jiaoping Zhang, Asheesh K. Singh
• Inflammation-Induced Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing in Mouse Alveolar Macrophages

  William J. Janssen, Thomas Danhorn, Chelsea Harris, Kara J. Mould, Frank Fang-Yao Lee, Brenna R. Hedin, Angelo D’Alessandro, Sonia M. Leach, Scott Alper
• Simulation-Based Evaluation of Three Methods for Local Ancestry Deconvolution of Non-model Crop Species Genomes

  Aurélien Cottin, Benjamin Penaud, Jean-Christophe Glaszmann, Nabila Yahiaoui, Mathieu Gautier
• Optimizing Low-Cost Genotyping and Imputation Strategies for Genomic Selection in Atlantic Salmon

  Smaragda Tsairidou, Alastair Hamilton, Diego Robledo, James E. Bron, Ross D. Houston
• Evaluation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Wine Yeast Competitive Fitness in Enologically Relevant Environments by Barcode Sequencing

  Simon A. Schmidt, Radka Kolouchova, Angus H. Forgan, Anthony R. Borneman
• A Novel Site-Specific Integration System for Genetic Modification of Aspergillus flavus

  Fang Tao, Kai Zhao, Qianqian Zhao, Fangzhi Xiang, Guomin Han
• QTL Mapping of Intestinal Neutrophil Variation in Threespine Stickleback Reveals Possible Gene Targets Connecting Intestinal Inflammation and Systemic Health

  Emily A. Beck, Mark C. Currey, Clayton M. Small, William A. Cresko
• Comparative Transcriptome Profiling Reveals Compatible and Incompatible Patterns of Potato Toward Phytophthora infestans

  Yanfeng Duan, Shaoguang Duan, Miles R. Armstrong, Jianfei Xu, Jiayi Zheng, Jun Hu, Xinwei Chen, Ingo Hein, Guangcun Li, Liping Jin
• SapTrap Assembly of Caenorhabditis elegans MosSCI Transgene Vectors

  Xintao Fan, Sasha De Henau, Julia Feinstein, Stephanie I. Miller, Bingjie Han, Christian Frøkjær-Jensen, Erik E. Griffin
• A Comprehensive Genome-Wide and Phenome-Wide Examination of BMI and Obesity in a Northern Nevadan Cohort

  Karen A. Schlauch, Robert W. Read, Vincent C. Lombardi, Gai Elhanan, William J. Metcalf, Anthony D. Slonim, the 23andMe Research Team, Joseph J. Grzymski
• Quantitative Genomic Dissection of Soybean Yield Components

  Alencar Xavier, Katy M. Rainey
• Contingent Convergence: The Ability To Detect Convergent Genomic Evolution Is Dependent on Population Size and Migration

  James R. Whiting, Bonnie A. Fraser
• Genomic Predictive Ability for Foliar Nutritive Traits in Perennial Ryegrass

  Sai Krishna Arojju, Mingshu Cao, M. Z. Zulfi Jahufer, Brent A. Barrett, Marty J. Faville
• Horizontal Transfer and Gene Loss Shaped the Evolution of Alpha-Amylases in Bilaterians

  Andrea Desiderato, Marcos Barbeitos, Clément Gilbert, Jean-Luc Da Lage
• Prevalence and Implications of Contamination in Public Genomic Resources: A Case Study of 43 Reference Arthropod Assemblies

  Clementine M. Francois, Faustine Durand, Emeric Figuet, Nicolas Galtier
• Genetic Analysis of the Transition from Wild to Domesticated Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)

  Corrinne E. Grover, Mi-Jeong Yoo, Meng Lin, Matthew D. Murphy, David B. Harker, Robert L. Byers, Alexander E. Lipka, Guanjing Hu, Daojun Yuan, Justin L. Conover, Joshua A. Udall, Andrew H. Paterson, Michael A. Gore, Jonathan F. Wendel
• Origin and Evolution of Two Independently Duplicated Genes Encoding UDP- Glucose: Glycoprotein Glucosyltransferases in Caenorhabditis and Vertebrates

  Diego A. Caraballo, Lucila I. Buzzi, Carlos P. Modenutti, Ana Acosta-Montalvo, Olga A. Castro, María S. Rossi
• Novel Bayesian Networks for Genomic Prediction of Developmental Traits in Biomass Sorghum

  Jhonathan P. R. dos Santos, Samuel B. Fernandes, Scott McCoy, Roberto Lozano, Patrick J. Brown, Andrew D.B. Leakey, Edward S. Buckler, Antonio A. F. Garcia, Michael A. Gore
• The Impact of Non-additive Effects on the Genetic Correlation Between Populations

  Pascal Duenk, Piter Bijma, Mario P. L. Calus, Yvonne C. J. Wientjes, Julius H. J. van der Werf
• Interaction Between Induced and Natural Variation at oil yellow1 Delays Reproductive Maturity in Maize

  Rajdeep S. Khangura, Bala P. Venkata, Sandeep R. Marla, Michael V. Mickelbart, Singha Dhungana, David M. Braun, Brian P. Dilkes, Gurmukh S. Johal
• A Screen for Gene Paralogies Delineating Evolutionary Branching Order of Early Metazoa

  Albert Erives, Bernd Fritzsch
• Assessment of a Split Homing Based Gene Drive for Efficient Knockout of Multiple Genes

  Nikolay P. Kandul, Junru Liu, Anna Buchman, Valentino M. Gantz, Ethan Bier, Omar S. Akbari
• Tripsazea, a Novel Trihybrid of Zea mays, Tripsacum dactyloides, and Zea perennis

  Xu Yan, Mingjun Cheng, Yingzheng Li, Zizhou Wu, Yang Li, Xiaofeng Li, Ruyu He, Chunyan Yang, Yanli Zhao, Huaxiong Li, Xiaodong Wen, Ping Zhang, Ebenezer Sam, Tingzhao Rong, Jianmei He, Qilin Tang
• Stress Resistance Screen in a Human Primary Cell Line Identifies Small Molecules That Affect Aging Pathways and Extend Caenorhabditis elegans’ Lifespan

  Peichuan Zhang, Yuying Zhai, James Cregg, Kenny Kean-Hooi Ang, Michelle Arkin, Cynthia Kenyon
• Wnt Signaling Drives Ectopic Gene Expression and Larval Arrest in the Absence of the Caenorhabditis elegans DREAM Repressor Complex

  Jerrin R. Cherian, Katherine V. Adams, Lisa N. Petrella