­2019 PLOS Genetics Research Prize: Fruit fly school – language and dialects for communicating a threat

Gregory S. Barsh, Gregory P. Copenhaver, Elapulli Sankaranarayanan Prakash, Daniela C. Zarnescu

PLOS Genetics: published September 12, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008381

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NME5 frameshift variant in Alaskan Malamutes with primary ciliary dyskinesia

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Pleiotropic role of Drosophila phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase in autophagy and lysosome homeostasis

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Monitoring the interplay between transposable element families and DNA methylation in maize

Jaclyn M. Noshay, Sarah N. Anderson, Peng Zhou, Lexiang Ji, William Ricci, Zefu Lu, Michelle C. Stitzer, Peter A. Crisp, Candice N. Hirsch, Xiaoyu Zhang, Robert J. Schmitz, Nathan M. Springer

PLOS Genetics: published September 9, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008291

Effector gene reshuffling involves dispensable mini-chromosomes in the wheat blast fungus

Zhao Peng, Ely Oliveira-Garcia, Guifang Lin, Ying Hu, Melinda Dalby, Pierre Migeon, Haibao Tang, Mark Farman, David Cook, Frank F. White, Barbara Valent, Sanzhen Liu

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Integrating transcriptomic network reconstruction and eQTL analyses reveals mechanistic connections between genomic architecture and Brassica rapa development

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An approximate full-likelihood method for inferring selection and allele frequency trajectories from DNA sequence data

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PLOS Genetics: published September 13, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008384

The type IV pilus protein PilU functions as a PilT-dependent retraction ATPase

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PLOS Genetics: published September 16, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008393

Temperature preference can bias parental genome retention during hybrid evolution

Caiti S. Smukowski Heil, Christopher R. L. Large, Kira Patterson, Angela Shang-Mei Hickey, Chiann-Ling C. Yeh, Maitreya J. Dunham

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Environmental and epigenetic regulation of Rider retrotransposons in tomato

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The monothiol glutaredoxin GrxD is essential for sensing iron starvation in Aspergillus fumigatus

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Reduction of mRNA export unmasks different tissue sensitivities to low mRNA levels during Caenorhabditis elegans development

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Dosage regulation, and variation in gene expression and copy number of human Y chromosome ampliconic genes

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Chromosome-wide co-fluctuation of stochastic gene expression in mammalian cells

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PLOS Genetics: published September 16, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008389

Imputation of canine genotype array data using 365 whole-genome sequences improves power of genome-wide association studies

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RNAi-mediated depletion of the NSL complex subunits leads to abnormal chromosome segregation and defective centrosome duplication in Drosophila mitosis

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Expression of a novel class of bacterial Ig-like proteins is required for IncHI plasmid conjugation

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In eubacteria, unlike eukaryotes, there is no evidence for selection favouring fail-safe 3’ additional stop codons

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New insight into bacterial social communication in natural host: Evidence for interplay of heterogeneous and unison quorum response

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Unisexual reproduction promotes competition for mating partners in the global human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans

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The inference of sex-biased human demography from whole-genome data

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Native American admixture recapitulates population-specific migration and settlement of the continental United States

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European Roma groups show complex West Eurasian admixture footprints and a common South Asian genetic origin

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Novel roles of ER stress in repressing neural activity and seizures through Mdm2- and p53-dependent protein translation

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