Articles by Editorial Staff (374 results)

Check out the July issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! This Month’s Centennial Articles Alfred Sturtevant and George Beadle untangle inversions, pp. 1001-1003 R. Scott Hawley and Barry Ganetzky R. Scott Hawley and Barry Ganetzky introduce Sturtevant and Beadle’s 1936 Classic that explained why inversion heterozygosity in the Drosophila X…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website. Divya Sitaraman Assistant Professor (since 2014) Department of Psychological Sciences University of San Diego Lab website Research program: My long-term goal is to understand behavioral outputs…

Check out the June issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! This Month’s Centennial Articles Joshua Lederberg on bacterial recombination, pp. 613–614 Mark Johnston GENETICS Editor-in-Chief Mark Johnston introduces Joshua Lederberg’s GENETICS Classic Gene recombination and linked segregations in Escherichia coli, which describes the first genetic analysis of bacteria. Lederberg’s discovery that…

Check out the June issue of G3! Investigations Sdt97: A Point Mutation in the 5′ Untranslated Region Confers Semidwarfism in Rice Jiping Tong, Zhengshu Han, Aonan Han, Xuejun Liu, Shiyong Zhang, Binying Fu, Jun Hu, Jingping Su, Shaoqing Li, Shengjun Wang, and Yingguo Zhu G3 June 2016 6:1491-1502; Early Online April 29, 2016 doi:10.1534/g3.116.028720 Abstract…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website. Amanda Larracuente Assistant Professor (since 2015) Department of Biology University of Rochester Lab website Research program: Genomes are frequently in conflict with selfish DNAs – genetic…

Check out the the May issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! This Month’s Centennial Articles Eric Lander and David Botstein on mapping quantitative traits pp. 1–3 Gary A. Churchill Senior Editor Gary A. Churchill introduces Lander and Botstein’s 1989 Classic on mapping quantitative traits. This landmark work brought together the power…

Check out the May issue of G3! Investigations The Genetic Basis of Baculum Size and Shape Variation in Mice Nicholas G. Schultz, Jesse Ingels, Andrew Hillhouse, Keegan Wardwell, Peter L. Chang, James M. Cheverud, Cathleen Lutz, Lu Lu, Robert W. Williams, and Matthew D. Dean G3 May 2016 6:1141-1151; Early Online March 2, 2016 doi:10.1534/g3.116.027888…

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) and the Editorial Board of the journal GENETICS are pleased to announce the winners of the first Centennial Award for outstanding articles published in GENETICS in 2015. The awards were inaugurated just this year in celebration of the 100th anniversary of GENETICS. Three exceptional articles are recognized from three…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Folami Ideraabdullah Assistant Professor (since 2013) Department of Genetics University of North Carolina School of Medicine Lab website   Research program: My lab studies epigenetic mechanisms…

GSA is thankful for the more than 400 charitable contributions made to the Society over the past 15 months—a total of more than $40,000! Your donations enable GSA to support educational programs, advocacy, and media and public outreach activities that promote our field and the next generation of geneticists. You can support the Society by making…

New Faculty Profiles showcase GSA members who are establishing their first independent labs. If you’d like to be considered for a profile, please complete this form on the GSA website.   Jennifer Garrison Assistant Professor Buck Institute for Research on Aging Lab website   Research program: We study the relationship between the anatomy of neural…