Oyster sex, a watermelon map, coconut transcriptome, and a primate lice endosymbiont genome in the new issue of G3 online now! Also tools for C. elegans RNAi and predictive histone acetylation patterns. Check out the Table of Contents below:

G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics  November 2014

Distinct and Predictive Histone Lysine Acetylation Patterns at Promoters, Enhancers, and Gene Bodies

Nisha Rajagopal, Jason Ernst, Pradipta Ray, Jie Wu, Michael Zhang, Manolis Kellis and Bing Ren

G3 November 2014 4:2051-2063; Early Online August 12, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013565

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Polymorphism Identification and Improved Genome Annotation of Brassica rapa Through Deep RNA Sequencing

Upendra Kumar Devisetty, Michael F. Covington, An V. Tat, Saradadevi Lekkala and Julin N. Maloof

G3 November 2014 4:2065-2078; Early Online August 12, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.012526

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The Genetic Architecture of Coordinately Evolving Male Wing Pigmentation and Courtship Behavior in Drosophila elegans and Drosophila gunungcola

Shu-Dan Yeh and John R. True
G3 November 2014 4:2079-2093; Early Online August 27, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013037

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No Detectable Effect of the DNA Methyltransferase DNMT2 on Drosophila Meiotic Recombination

Caiti S. Smukowski Heil
G3 November 2014 4:2095-2100; Early Online August 27, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.012393

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A Test of Double Interspecific Introgression of Nucleoporin Genes in Drosophila

Kyoichi Sawamura, Kazunori Maehara, Yoko Keira, Hiroyuki O. Ishikawa, Takeshi Sasamura, Tomoko Yamakawa and Kenji Matsuno
G3 November 2014 4:2101-2106; Early Online August 28, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014027

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Novel X-Linked Genes Revealed by Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Green Anole, Anolis carolinensis

Michail Rovatsos, Marie Altmanová, Martina Johnson Pokorná and Lukáš Kratochvíl
G3 November 2014 4:2107-2113; Early Online August 28, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014084

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Characterization of Novel Sorghum brown midrib Mutants from an EMS-Mutagenized Population

Scott E. Sattler, Ana Saballos, Zhanguo Xin, Deanna L. Funnell-Harris, Wilfred Vermerris and Jeffrey F. Pedersen
G3 November 2014 4:2115-2124; Early Online September 2, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014001

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A Method for Sporulating Budding Yeast Cells That Allows for Unbiased Identification of Kinase Substrates Using Stable Isotope Labeling by Amino Acids in Cell Culture

Ray Suhandynata, Jason Liang, Claudio. P. Albuquerque, Huilin Zhou and Nancy M. Hollingsworth
G3 November 2014 4:2125-2135; Early Online August 27, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013888

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Clone Mapper: An Online Suite of Tools for RNAi Experiments in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nishant Thakur, Nathalie Pujol, Laurent Tichit and Jonathan J. Ewbank
G3 November 2014 4:2137-2145; Early Online September 2, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013052

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De Novo
Transcriptome Sequence Assembly from Coconut Leaves and Seeds with a Focus on Factors Involved in RNA-Directed DNA Methylation

Ya-Yi Huang, Chueh-Pai Lee, Jason L. Fu, Bill Chia-Han Chang, Antonius J. M. Matzke and Marjori Matzke
G3 November 2014 4:2147-2157; Early Online September 4, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013409

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Reference Genes for Expression Studies in Hypoxia and Hyperglycemia Models in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells

Sherin Bakhashab, Sahira Lary, Farid Ahmed, Hans-Juergen Schulten, Ayat Bashir, Fahad W. Ahmed, Abdulrahman L. Al-Malki, Hasan S. Jamal, Mamdooh A. Gari and Jolanta U. Weaver
G3 November 2014 4:2159-2165; Early Online September 5, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013102

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CRISPR/Cas9 Mediates Efficient Conditional Mutagenesis in Drosophila

Zhaoyu Xue, Menghua Wu, Kejia Wen, Menda Ren, Li Long, Xuedi Zhang and Guanjun Gao
G3 November 2014 4:2167-2173; Early Online September 5, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014159

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Transvection-Based Gene Regulation in Drosophila Is a Complex and Plastic Trait

Xinyang Bing, Teresa Z. Rzezniczak, Jack R. Bateman and Thomas J. S. Merritt
G3 November 2014 4:2175-2187; Early Online September 11, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.012484

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Genome Sequence of Candidatus Riesia pediculischaeffi, Endosymbiont of Chimpanzee Lice, and Genomic Comparison of Recently Acquired Endosymbionts from Human and Chimpanzee Lice

Bret M. Boyd, Julie M. Allen, Valérie de Crécy-Lagard and David L. Reed
G3 November 2014 4:2189-2195; Early Online September 11, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.012567

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Whole-Genome Expression Analysis in the Third Instar Larval Midgut of Drosophila melanogaster

Thomas W. R. Harrop, Stephen L. Pearce, Phillip J. Daborn and Philip Batterham
G3 November 2014 4:2197-2205; Early Online September 5, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013870

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Genomic Analysis of the Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) Reveals Possible Conservation of Vertebrate Sex Determination in a Mollusc

Na Zhang, Fei Xu and Ximing Guo

G3 November 2014 4:2207-2217; Early Online September 11, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013904

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High-Resolution Genetic Map for Understanding the Effect of Genome-Wide Recombination Rate on Nucleotide Diversity in Watermelon

Umesh K. Reddy, Padma Nimmakayala, Amnon Levi, Venkata Lakshmi Abburi, Thangasamy Saminathan, Yan. R. Tomason, Gopinath Vajja, Rishi Reddy, Lavanya Abburi, Todd C. Wehner, Yefim Ronin and Abraham Karol
G3 November 2014 4:2219-2230; Early Online September 15, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.012815

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The Genome of the Chicken DT40 Bursal Lymphoma Cell Line

János Molnár, Ádám Póti, Orsolya Pipek, Marcin Krzystanek, Nnennaya Kanu, Charles Swanton, Gábor E. Tusnády, Zoltan Szallasi, István Csabai and Dávid Szüts
G3 November 2014 4:2231-2240; Early Online September 15, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013482

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Drosophila
Protamine-Like Mst35Ba and Mst35Bb Are Required for Proper Sperm Nuclear Morphology but Are Dispensable for Male Fertility

Samantha Tirmarche, Shuhei Kimura, Laure Sapey-Triomphe, William Sullivan, Frédéric Landmann and Benjamin Loppin
G3 November 2014 4:2241-2245; Early Online September 17, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.012724

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The DExH Box Helicase Domain of Spindle-E Is Necessary for Retrotransposon Silencing and Axial Patterning During Drosophila Oogenesis

Kristen M. Ott, Tram Nguyen and Caryn Navarro
G3 November 2014 4:2247-2257; Early Online September 19, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014332

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Structures of Naturally Evolved CUP1 Tandem Arrays in Yeast Indicate That These Arrays Are Generated by Unequal Nonhomologous Recombination

Ying Zhao, Pooja K. Strope, Stanislav G. Kozmin, John H. McCusker, Fred S. Dietrich, Robert J. Kokoska and Thomas D. Petes
G3 November 2014 4:2259-2269; Early Online September 17, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.012922

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Flow Cytometry of Microencapsulated Colonies for Genetics Analysis of Filamentous Fungi

Lidia Delgado-Ramos, Ana T. Marcos, María S. Ramos-Guelfo, Leyre Sánchez-Barrionuevo, Francis Smet, Sebastián Chávez and David Cánovas
G3 November 2014 4:2271-2278; Early Online September 19, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014357

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Efficient CRISPR/Cas9 Plasmids for Rapid and Versatile Genome Editing in Drosophila

Joseph Gokcezade, Grzegorz Sienski and Peter Duchek
G3 November 2014 4:2279-2282; Early Online September 17, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014126

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The Genetic Architecture of Seed Composition in Soybean Is Refined by Genome-Wide Association Scans Across Multiple Populations

Justin N. Vaughn, Randall L. Nelson, Qijian Song, Perry B. Cregan and Zenglu Li
G3 November 2014 4:2283-2294; Early Online September 22, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013433

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