Just in time for the 2015 GSA Drosophila Research Conference, the new issue of G3 features FlyCatWalk for sorting live Drosophila based on morphometric traits, a Drosophila genome-wide association study for nutritional indices, and autosomal versus y-linked male determination in house flies. Check out the Table of Contents below!
Investigations
The FlyCatwalk: A High-Throughput Feature-Based Sorting System for Artificial Selection in Drosophila
Vasco Medici, Sibylle Chantal Vonesch, Steven N. Fry, and Ernst Hafen
G3 March 2015 5:317-327; Early Online January 2, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.114.013664
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Population Genetics of Anopheles coluzzii Immune Pathways and Genes
Susan M. Rottschaefer, Jacob E. Crawford, Michelle M. Riehle, Wamdaogo M. Guelbeogo, Awa Gneme, N’Fale Sagnon, Kenneth D. Vernick, and Brian P. Lazzaro
G3 March 2015 5:329-339; Early Online December 30, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014845
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Condensins Exert Force on Chromatin-Nuclear Envelope Tethers to Mediate Nucleoplasmic Reticulum Formation in Drosophila melanogaster
Julianna Bozler, Huy Q. Nguyen, Gregory C. Rogers, and Giovanni Bosco
G3 March 2015 5:341-352; Early Online December 30, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.015685
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hecd-1 Modulates Notch Activity in Caenorhabditis elegans
Yunting Chen and Iva Greenwald
G3 March 2015 5:353-359; Early Online December 31, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.015321
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Identification of New Players in Cell Division, DNA Damage Response, and Morphogenesis Through Construction of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Deletion Strains
Jun-Song Chen, Janel R. Beckley, Nathan A. McDonald, Liping Ren, MariaSanta Mangione, Sylvia J. Jang, Zachary C. Elmore, Nicole Rachfall, Anna Feoktistova, Christine M. Jones, Alaina H. Willet, Rodrigo Guillen, Danny A. Bitton, Jürg Bähler, Michael A. Jensen, Nick Rhind, and Kathleen L. Gould
G3 March 2015 5:361-370; Early Online December 31, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.015701
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The Evolving Puzzle of Autosomal Versus Y-linked Male Determination in Musca domestica
Ronda L. Hamm, Richard P. Meisel, and Jeffrey G. Scott
G3 March 2015 5:371-384; Early Online December 31, 2014, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014795
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Rapid and Inexpensive Whole-Genome Genotyping-by-Sequencing for Crossover Localization and Fine-Scale Genetic Mapping
Beth A. Rowan, Vipul Patel, Detlef Weigel, and Korbinian Schneeberger
G3 March 2015 5:385-398; Early Online January 13, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.114.016501
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Genetic Markers for Western Corn Rootworm Resistance to Bt Toxin
Lex E. Flagel, Shilpa Swarup, Mao Chen, Christopher Bauer, Humphrey Wanjugi, Matthew Carroll, Patrick Hill, Meghan Tuscan, Raman Bansal, Ronald Flannagan, Thomas L. Clark, Andrew P. Michel, Graham P. Head, and Barry S. Goldman
G3 March 2015 5:399-405; Early Online January 7, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.114.016485
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Comparison of T7E1 and Surveyor Mismatch Cleavage Assays to Detect Mutations Triggered by Engineered Nucleases
Léna Vouillot, Aurore Thélie, and Nicolas Pollet
G3 March 2015 5:407-415; Early Online January 7, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.114.015834
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A Genome-Wide Association Study for Nutritional Indices in Drosophila
Robert L. Unckless, Susan M. Rottschaefer, and Brian P. Lazzaro
G3 March 2015 5:417-425; Early Online January 12, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.114.016477
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Linkage Analysis and Map Construction in Genetic Populations of Clonal F1 and Double Cross
Luyan Zhang, Huihui Li, and Jiankang Wang
G3 March 2015 5:427-439; Early Online January 15, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.114.016022
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Evolutionary Consequences of DNA Methylation on the GC Content in Vertebrate Genomes
Carina F. Mugal, Peter F. Arndt, Lena Holm, and Hans Ellegren
G3 March 2015 5:441-447; Early Online January 15, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.114.015545
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A Genome-Wide Association Study of Resistance to Stripe Rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) in a Worldwide Collection of Hexaploid Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Marco Maccaferri, Junli Zhang, Peter Bulli, Zewdie Abate, Shiaoman Chao, Dario Cantu, Eligio Bossolini, Xianming Chen, Michael Pumphrey, and Jorge Dubcovsky
G3 March 2015 5:449-465; Early Online January 20, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.114.014563
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Mutant Screen Report
Identification of Nonviable Genes Affecting Touch Sensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans Using Neuronally Enhanced Feeding RNA Interference
Xiaoyin Chen, Margarete Diaz Cuadros, and Martin Chalfie
G3 March 2015 5:467-475; Early Online January 9, 2015, doi:10.1534/g3.114.015776
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