May 5, 2022
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05/19/2022
Research Article
Warmerdam et al. study a BioBank population over 10 months of the pandemic and observe that genetics affected many aspects of wellbeing, but also that its impact on several phenotypes changed over time. Particularly, they find the genetic predisposition to life satisfaction had an increasing influence on perceived quality of life.
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Current IssueJune 2022
05/06/2022
Research Article
Arsala et al. study wasp wasp Nasonia vitripennis and propose that lower expression levels of methylated genes due to reduced gene body methylation is the direct effect of Nv-Dnmt1 knockdown. The disruption of methylated genes then leads to downstream dysregulation of the maternal-zygotic transition, culminating in developmental failure at gastrulation.
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05/06/2022
Research Article
Smith et al. sequence genomes from four deeply branching aphid lineages and find that despite their putative involvement in symbiont cell wall synthesis, aphid horizontally-acquired genes operate independently from one another and likely have lineage-specific functions.
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05/19/2022
Research Article
Kuppannan et al. find that a novel gene, which appears to be present only in Tetrahymena and its relatively close evolutionary relatives, plays an important role in the exocytosis pathway.
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05/09/2022
Research Article
Milenkovic et al. show that loss of the mitochondrial genome and maintenance exonuclease 1 (MGME1) leads to increased de novo formation of linear deleted mtDNA, contradicting previous report that MGME1 degrades long linear mtDNA molecules.
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05/20/2022
Research Article
Diez et al. show that a network of (pp)pGpp synthases is responsible for striking heterogeneity in protein synthesis observed during exit from rapid growth in Bacillus subtilis.
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05/10/2022
Opinion Piece
Gibson offers perspectives on five areas where the robustness of inference can be improved for the bioinformatics of single cell genomics.
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02/14/2022
Editorial
The former Natural Variation section at PLOS Genetics relaunches as Human Genetic Variation and Disease. Read the editors' reasoning behind this change.
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11/29/2021
collection
In collaboration with other PLOS journals, the collection highlights recently published research into food production systems to meet society’s demands, while preserving the natural resources and providing social and economic viability for farmers and their communities.
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10/19/2021
Collection
Curated by and introduced with an Editorial from Associate Editor Tosso Leeb, the collection presents a selection of PLOS Genetics research that exemplifies recent progress in domestic animal genetics and areas for future development.
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Five new journals unified in addressing global health and environmental challenges are now ready to receive submissions: PLOS Climate, PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, PLOS Water, PLOS Digital Health, and PLOS Global Public Health
The COVID-19 Collection highlights all content published across the PLOS journals relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.
PLOS ONE is now accepting submissions of Lab Protocols, a peer-reviewed article collaboration with protocols.io, and Study Protocols, an article that credits the work done prior to producing and publishing results.
A collection of free training and resources for peer reviewers of PLOS journals—and for the peer review community more broadly—drawn from research and interviews with staff editors, editorial board members, and experienced reviewers.
PLOS Computational Biology's "Ten Simple Rules" articles provide quick, concentrated guides for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists face in their careers.
Quanjiang Ji (ShanghaiTech University) joined the editorial board and Xiaofeng Zhu (Case Western Reserve University) was promoted as new Section Editors for the PLOS Genetics Methods section.
Congratulations to Associate Editor Michael Lichten and Consulting Editor Nicole King, who are newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences.
PLOS Genetics welcomes several new Associate Editors to our board: Melissa Wasserstein, Sudha Iyengar, Martien Groenen, Lynn M. Riddiford, Karen Avraham, Anne O'Donnell Luria, Neil Hanchard, Aimee Shen, Jan-Willem Veening, Susana Campino, & Nicolas Bierne
Congratulations to Associate Editor Harmit Malik, who was awarded the Edward Novitski Prize by the Genetics Society of America for his work on genetic conflict. Harmit has also been elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
PLOS Genetics announces a new collection on Human Genetic Admixture, introduced by a review from Korunes and Goldberg that discusses recent advances and future directions for the field.
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