abstract：:Differential gene expression across cell types underlies development and cell physiology in multicellular organisms. Caenorhabditis elegans is a powerful, extensively used model to address these biological questions. A remaining bottleneck relates to the difficulty to obtain comprehensive tissue-specific gene transcri...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Gómez-Saldivar G,Osuna-Luque J,Semple JI,Glauser DA,Jarriault S,Meister P

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental toxicants are chemicals that negatively affect human health. Although there are numerous ways to limit exposure, the ubiquitous nature of certain environmental toxicants makes it impossible to avoid them entirely. Consequently, scientists are continuously working toward developing strategies for combatin...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bradford BR,Briand NE,Fassnacht N,Gervasio ED,Nowakowski AM,FitzGibbon TC,Maurina S,Benjamin AV,Kelly M,Checchi PM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small regulatory RNAs, such as small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and PIWI-interacting RNAs, regulate splicing, transcription, and genome integrity in many eukaryotes. In Caenorhabditis elegans, siRNAs bind nuclear Argonautes (AGOs), which interact with homologous premessenger RNAs to recruit downstream silencing effecto...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wan G,Yan J,Fei Y,Pagano DJ,Kennedy S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological basis of exercise behavior is increasingly relevant for maintaining healthy lifestyles. Various quantitative genetic studies and selection experiments have conclusively demonstrated substantial heritability for exercise behavior in both humans and laboratory rodents. In the "High Runner" selection exper...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hillis DA,Yadgary L,Weinstock GM,Pardo-Manuel de Villena F,Pomp D,Fowler AS,Xu S,Chan F,Garland T Jr

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polarized partitioning of proteins in cells underlies asymmetric cell division, which is an important driver of development and cellular diversity. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae divides asymmetrically, like many other cells, to generate two distinct progeny cells. A well-known example of an asymmetric...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Herrero E,Stinus S,Bellows E,Berry LK,Wood H,Thorpe PH

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic drift is an important evolutionary force of strength inversely proportional to Ne , the effective population size. The impact of drift on genome diversity and evolution is known to vary among species, but quantifying this effect is a difficult task. Here we assess the magnitude of variation in drift power amon...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Galtier N,Rousselle M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caenorhabditis elegans' behavioral states, like those of other animals, are shaped by its immediate environment, its past experiences, and by internal factors. We here review the literature on C. elegans behavioral states and their regulation. We discuss dwelling and roaming, local and global search, mate finding, sle...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Flavell SW,Raizen DM,You YJ

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporally spaced genetic data allow for more accurate inference of population genetic parameters and hypothesis testing on the recent action of natural selection. In this work, we develop a novel likelihood-based method for jointly estimating selection coefficient and allele age from time series data of allele freque...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： He Z,Dai X,Beaumont M,Yu F

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid male sterility (HMS) contributes to reproductive isolation commonly observed among house mouse (Mus musculus) subspecies, both in the wild and in laboratory crosses. Incompatibilities involving specific Prdm9 alleles and certain Chromosome (Chr) X genotypes are known determinants of fertility and HMS, and previ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Widmayer SJ,Handel MA,Aylor DL

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoter proximal pausing (PPP) of RNA polymerase II has emerged as a crucial rate-limiting step in the regulation of gene expression. Regulation of PPP is brought about by complexes 7SK snRNP, P-TEFb (Cdk9/cycT), and the negative elongation factor (NELF), which are highly conserved from Drosophila to humans. Here, we...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Nagarkar S,Wasnik R,Govada P,Cohen S,Shashidhara LS

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkably complex patterns of aneuploidy have been observed in the genomes of many eukaryotic cell types, ranging from brewing yeasts to tumor cells. Such aberrant karyotypes are generally thought to take shape progressively over many generations, but evidence also suggests that genomes may undergo faster modes of ev...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Heasley LR,Watson RA,Argueso JL

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dravet syndrome is a developmental epileptic encephalopathy caused by pathogenic variation in SCN1A To characterize the pathogenic substitution (p.H939R) of a local individual with Dravet syndrome, fibroblast cells from the individual were reprogrammed to pluripotent stem cells and differentiated into neurons. Sodium ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Dyment DA,Schock SC,Deloughery K,Tran MH,Ure K,Nutter LMJ,Creighton A,Yuan J,Banderali U,Comas T,Baumann E,Jezierski A,Care4Rare Canada Consortium,.,Boycott KM,Mackenzie AE,Martina M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific recombinases are widely used tools for analysis of genetics, development, and cell biology, and many schemes have been devised to alter gene expression by recombinase-mediated DNA rearrangements. Because the FRT and lox target sites for the commonly used FLP and Cre recombinases are asymmetrical, and mus...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Titen SWA,Johnson MTB,Capecchi M,Golic KG

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many genetic variants identified in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are associated with multiple, sometimes seemingly unrelated, traits. This motivates multi-trait association analyses, which have successfully identified novel associated loci for many complex diseases. While appealing, most existing methods foc...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Wu C

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant breeders make selection decisions based on multiple traits, such as yield, plant height, flowering time, and disease resistance. A commonly used approach in multi-trait genomic selection is index selection, which assigns weights to different traits relative to their economic importance. However, classical index ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Moeinizade S,Kusmec A,Hu G,Wang L,Schnable PS

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a genetic mutation is passed down across generations, it distinguishes those genomes that have inherited it from those that have not, providing a glimpse of the genealogical tree relating the genomes to each other at that site. Statistical summaries of genetic variation therefore also describe the underlying geneal...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Ralph P,Thornton K,Kelleher J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas nonlinear relationships between genes are acknowledged, there exist only a few methods for estimating nonlinear gene coexpression networks or gene regulatory networks (GCNs/GRNs) with common deficiencies. These methods often consider only pairwise associations between genes, and are, therefore, poorly capable ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Kontio JAJ,Rinta-Aho MJ,Sillanpää MJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Genetics Society of America (GSA) Medal recognizes researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the past 15 years. The 2019 GSA Medal is awarded to Bonnie L. Bassler of Princeton University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in recognition of her groundbreaking studies of ba...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bassler BL

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many complex human traits exhibit differences between sexes. While numerous factors likely contribute to this phenomenon, growing evidence from genome-wide studies suggest a partial explanation: that males and females from the same population possess differing genetic architectures. Despite this, mapping gene-by-sex (...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Funkhouser SA,Vazquez AI,Steibel JP,Ernst CW,Los Campos G

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate limb serves as an experimental paradigm to study mechanisms that regulate development of the stereotypical skeletal elements. In this study, we simultaneously inactivated Sall4 using Hoxb6Cre and Plzf in mouse embryos, and found that their combined function regulates development of the proximal-anterior...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Chen KQ,Tahara N,Anderson A,Kawakami H,Kawakami S,Nishinakamura R,Pandolfi PP,Kawakami Y

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are used widely for detecting quantitative trait loci, or for searching for causal variants of diseases. Nevertheless, structural variations such as copy-number variants (CNVs) represent a large part of natural genetic diversity, and contribute significantly to trait variation. N...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Falque M,Jebreen K,Paux E,Knaak C,Mezmouk S,Martin OC

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome biogenesis is tightly regulated through stress-sensing pathways that impact genome stability, aging and senescence. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, ribosomal RNAs are transcribed from rDNA located on the right arm of chromosome XII. Numerous studies reveal that rDNA decondenses into a puff-like structure during ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Shen D,Skibbens RV

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional (3D) organization of chromosomes can influence transcription. However, the frequency and magnitude of these effects remain debated. To determine how changes in chromosome positioning affect transcription across thousands of genes with minimal perturbation, we characterized nuclear organization an...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Di Stefano M,Di Giovanni F,Pozharskaia V,Gomar-Alba M,Baù D,Carey LB,Marti-Renom MA,Mendoza M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past century has seen substantial theoretical and empirical progress on the genetic basis of adaptation. Over this same period, a pressing need to prevent the evolution of drug resistance has uncovered much about the potential genetic basis of persistence in declining populations. However, we have little theory to...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Osmond MM,Otto SP,Martin G

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The challenges of breeding autotetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum) have motivated the development of alternative breeding strategies. A common approach is to obtain uniparental dihaploids from a tetraploid of interest through pollination with S. tuberosum Andigenum Group (formerly S. phureja) cultivars. The mechanis...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Amundson KR,Ordoñez B,Santayana M,Tan EH,Henry IM,Mihovilovich E,Bonierbale M,Comai L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrulation is fundamental to the development of multicellular animals. Along with neurulation, gastrulation is one of the major processes of morphogenesis in which cells or whole tissues move from the surface of an embryo to its interior. Cell internalization mechanisms that have been discovered to date in Caenorhab...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Goldstein B,Nance J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell surface immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) proteins play important roles in the development and function of the nervous system . Here we define the role of a Caenorhabditis elegans IgSF protein, RIG-3, in the function of the AVA command interneuron. This study reveals that RIG-3 regulates the abundance of the glut...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Bhardwaj A,Pandey P,Babu K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life-history traits or "fitness components"-such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span-are the major phenotypic determinants of Darwinian fitness. Analyzing the evolution and genetics of these phenotypic targets of selection is central to our understanding ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Flatt T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous models suggested that regulation of telomere length in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Tel1(ATM) and Mec1(ATR) would parallel the established pathways regulating the DNA damage response. Here, we provide evidence that telomere length regulation differs from the DNA damage response in both the Tel1 and Mec1 pathwa...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Keener R,Connelly CJ,Greider CW

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lineage specification in early development is the basis for the exquisitely precise body plan of multicellular organisms. It is therefore critical to understand cell fate decisions in early development. Moreover, for regenerative medicine, the accurate specification of cell types to replace damaged/diseased tissue is ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Smith KN,Miller SC,Varani G,Calabrese JM,Magnuson T

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In meiosis, multiple different DNA sequence motifs help to position homologous recombination at hotspots in the genome. How do the seemingly disparate cis-acting regulatory modules each promote locally the activity of the basal recombination machinery? We defined molecular mechanisms of action for five different hotsp...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Mukiza TO,Protacio RU,Davidson MK,Steiner WW,Wahls WP

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F1 hybrids between mouse inbred strains PWD and C57BL/6 represent the most thoroughly genetically defined model of hybrid sterility in vertebrates. Hybrid male sterility can be fully reconstituted from three components of this model, the Prdm9 gene, intersubspecific homeology of Mus musculus musculus and Mus musculus ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Lustyk D,Kinský S,Ullrich KK,Yancoskie M,Kašíková L,Gergelits V,Sedlacek R,Chan YF,Odenthal-Hesse L,Forejt J,Jansa P

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The additive genomic variance in linear models with random marker effects can be defined as a random variable that is in accordance with classical quantitative genetics theory. Common approaches to estimate the genomic variance in random-effects linear models based on genomic marker data can be regarded as estimating ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Schreck N,Piepho HP,Schlather M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossovers (COs) between homologous chromosomes are critical for meiotic chromosome segregation and form in the context of the synaptonemal complex (SC), a meiosis-specific structure that assembles between aligned homologs. During Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis, central region components of the SC (SYP proteins) are e...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Cahoon CK,Helm JM,Libuda DE

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A subset of cancers rely on telomerase-independent mechanisms to maintain their chromosome ends. The predominant "alternative lengthening of telomeres" pathway appears dependent on homology-directed repair (HDR) to maintain telomeric DNA. However, the molecular changes needed for cells to productively engage in telome...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Hu Y,Bennett HW,Liu N,Moravec M,Williams JF,Azzalin CM,King MC

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex structure and repetitive nature of eukaryotic ribosomal DNA (rDNA) is a challenge for genome assembly, thus the consequences of sequence variation in rDNA remain unexplored. However, renewed interest in the role that rDNA variation may play in diverse cellular functions, aside from ribosome production, hig...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Sanchez JC,Ollodart A,Large CRL,Clough C,Alvino GM,Tsuchiya M,Crane M,Kwan EX,Kaeberlein M,Dunham MJ,Raghuraman MK,Brewer BJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As multi-individual population-scale data become available, more complex modeling strategies are needed to quantify genome-wide patterns of nucleotide usage and associated mechanisms of evolution. Recently, the multivariate neutral Moran model was proposed. However, it was shown insufficient to explain the distributio...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Borges R,Szöllősi GJ,Kosiol C

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of haplotype blocks has been shown to be useful in genetics. Fields of application range from the detection of regions under positive selection to statistical methods that make use of dimension reduction. We propose a novel approach ("HaploBlocker") for defining and inferring haplotype blocks that focuses ...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Pook T,Schlather M,de Los Campos G,Mayer M,Schoen CC,Simianer H

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell diversity in multicellular organisms relies on coordination between cell proliferation and the acquisition of cell identity. The equilibrium between these two processes is essential to assure the correct number of determined cells at a given time at a given place. Using genetic approaches and correlative microsco...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Simon F,Ramat A,Louvet-Vallée S,Lacoste J,Burg A,Audibert A,Gho M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Condensins are evolutionarily conserved protein complexes that are required for chromosome segregation during cell division and genome organization during interphase. In Caenorhabditis elegans, a specialized condensin, which forms the core of the dosage compensation complex (DCC), binds to and represses X chromosome t...

journal_title：Genetics

authors： Street LA,Morao AK,Winterkorn LH,Jiao CY,Albritton SE,Sadic M,Kramer M,Ercan S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00