Science & Publishing

Multiparental populations (MPPs) have brought a new era in mapping complex traits, as well as new analytical challenges. To face these challenges and encourage innovation, the GSA journals launched the ongoing Multiparental Populations series in 2014. This month’s issues of GENETICS and G3 feature a bumper 16 MPP articles, timed to celebrate a new easy-to-use…

As in real estate, so in cell biology: location is key. Knowing where a protein localizes in a cell gives insight into its function, and new research published in G3 describes a method to accurately identify a protein’s subcellular localization through high-throughput microscopy and machine learning. To determine a protein’s subcellular localization, researchers can tag…

Illuminating the cover of the May issue of G3 is a lake-dwelling filter feeder no more than a couple millimeters long. This microcrustacean—Daphnia pulex, also known as the water flea—is an important model organism, especially in ecological genetics. But despite Daphnia’s status as a model organism, no one had examined its population genomics until now.…

In the ruins of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant—an area deemed unsafe for humans for the next 20,000 years after a catastrophic failure—life thrives. Fungi that reside there, along with other organisms that can survive large radiation doses, must have strategies to cope with the DNA-damaging effects of living at a meltdown site. In the…

Check out the May issue of GENETICS by looking at the highlights or the full table of contents! ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS Bivariate analysis of age-related macular degeneration progression using genetic risk scores, pp. 119-133 Ying Ding, Yi Liu, Qi Yan, Lars G. Fritsche, Richard J. Cook, Traci Clemons, Rinki Ratnapriya, Michael L. Klein, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Anand Swaroop, Emily…

Check out the May issue of G3! Table of Contents Investigations Accurate Classification of Protein Subcellular Localization from High-Throughput Microscopy Images Using Deep Learning Tanel Pärnamaa, Leopold Parts G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics May 2017 7: 1385-1392; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.116.033654 Genotype Calling from Population-Genomic Sequencing Data Takahiro Maruki, Michael Lynch G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics May 2017 7:…

Two highly similar genes that contribute to drug resistance in a pathogenic yeast have been co-evolving as tandem duplicates for the past 134 million years—while maintaining distinct functions. This is the conclusion of a paper in the April issue of GENETICS by Lamping et al. that examines the evolutionary effects of ectopic gene conversion. Evolutionary…

The GSA Journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, are proud to present our annual Spotlight booklets for research published in 2016. Each Spotlight is a showcase of the excellent research and scholarship published over the course of the year, along with a selection of striking images submitted by our authors. Browse the 2016 GENETICS Spotlight. Browse the 2016 G3 Spotlight. GENETICS SPOTLIGHT CITATIONS 2016 EDITORS’…

Congratulations to the winners of the Editors’ Choice Awards for outstanding articles published in GENETICS in 2016! 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: quantitative genetics, molecular genetics, and population and evolutionary…

When a horse is born with naked foal syndrome (NFS), it will likely die early. This genetic skin condition affects the Akhal-Teke horse breed from Turkmenistan, which is known for its speed, endurance, and intelligence. Worryingly, the incidence of NFS seems to be increasing. Although breeders have been aware of NFS for over 75 years,…

Thanks to more than a hundred years of working with Drosophila melanogaster, geneticists have many powerful tools for precisely manipulating its genes. It has also become a model system for studying speciation and molecular evolution together with the other members of the melanogaster species group: D. simulans, D. mauritiana, D. yakuba, and D. santomea. However,…