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Genetics 2008 179: 0
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Douglas C. Wallace
Mitochondria as Chi
Genetics 2008 179: 727–735
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Eduardo M. Torres, Bret R. Williams, and Angelika Amon
Aneuploidy: Cells Losing Their Balance
Genetics 2008 179: 737–746
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K. T. Nishant, Aaron J. Plys, and Eric Alani
A Mutation in the Putative MLH3 Endonuclease Domain Confers a Defect in Both Mismatch Repair and Meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Genetics 2008 179: 747–755
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Eliana B. Gómez, Rebecca L. Nugent, Sebastián Laria, and Susan L. Forsburg
Schizosaccharomyces pombe Histone Acetyltransferase Mst1 (KAT5) Is an Essential Protein Required for Damage Response and Chromosome Segregation
Genetics 2008 179: 757–771
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Joshua Chang Mell, Bethany L. Wienholz, Asmaa Salem, and Sean M. Burgess
Sites of Recombination Are Local Determinants of Meiotic Homolog Pairing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Genetics 2008 179: 773–784
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Yoshie Tange and Osami Niwa
Schizosaccharomyces pombe Bub3 Is Dispensable for Mitotic Arrest Following Perturbed Spindle Formation
Genetics 2008 179: 785–792
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Andrew Miller, Bo Yang, Tiaunn Foster, and Ann L. Kirchmaier
Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen and ASF1 Modulate Silent Chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae via Lysine 56 on Histone H3
Genetics 2008 179: 793–809
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Janelle J. Bruinsma, Daniel L. Schneider, Diana E. Davis, and Kerry Kornfeld
Identification of Mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans That Cause Resistance to High Levels of Dietary Zinc and Analysis Using a Genomewide Map of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Scored by Pyrosequencing
Genetics 2008 179: 811–828
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Alexander Ungru, Moritz K. Nowack, Matthieu Reymond, Reza Shirzadi, Manoj Kumar, Sandra Biewers, Paul E. Grini, and Arp Schnittger
Natural Variation in the Degree of Autonomous Endosperm Formation Reveals Independence and Constraints of Embryo Growth During Seed Development in Arabidopsis thaliana
Genetics 2008 179: 829–841
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Helen McNeill, Gavin M. Craig, and Joseph M. Bateman
Regulation of Neurogenesis and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling by the Insulin Receptor/Target of Rapamycin Pathway in Drosophila
Genetics 2008 179: 843–853
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Jacquelyn L. Seigle, Alicia M. Celotto, and Michael J. Palladino
Degradation of Functional Triose Phosphate Isomerase Protein Underlies sugarkill Pathology
Genetics 2008 179: 855–862
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Fangfang Hu, Yan Gan, and Oscar M. Aparicio
Identification of Clb2 Residues Required for Swe1 Regulation of Clb2-Cdc28 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Genetics 2008 179: 863–874
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Kaoru Sato, Tomoko Matsuoka Matsunaga, Ryo Futahashi, Tetsuya Kojima, Kazuei Mita, Yutaka Banno, and Haruhiko Fujiwara
Positional Cloning of a Bombyx Wingless Locus flügellos (fl) Reveals a Crucial Role for fringe That Is Specific for Wing Morphogenesis
Genetics 2008 179: 875–885
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Aakanksha Singhvi, C. Andrew Frank, and Gian Garriga
The T-Box Gene tbx-2, the Homeobox Gene egl-5 and the Asymmetric Cell Division Gene ham-1 Specify Neural Fate in the HSN/PHB Lineage
Genetics 2008 179: 887–898
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Jacob A. Moorad and Timothy A. Linksvayer
Levels of Selection on Threshold Characters
Genetics 2008 179: 899–905
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Guillaume Martin and Thomas Lenormand
The Distribution of Beneficial and Fixed Mutation Fitness Effects Close to an Optimum
Genetics 2008 179: 907–916
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Jan Staelens, Debbie Rombaut, Ilse Vercauteren, Brad Argue, John Benzie, and Marnik Vuylsteke
High-Density Linkage Maps and Sex-Linked Markers for the Black Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon)
Genetics 2008 179: 917–925
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Matthieu Foll, Mark A. Beaumont, and Oscar Gaggiotti
An Approximate Bayesian Computation Approach to Overcome Biases That Arise When Using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Markers to Study Population Structure
Genetics 2008 179: 927–939
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Olivia J. Burton and Justin M. J. Travis
The Frequency of Fitness Peak Shifts Is Increased at Expanding Range Margins Due to Mutation Surfing
Genetics 2008 179: 941–950
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Daniel A. Vasco
A Fast and Reliable Computational Method for Estimating Population Genetic Parameters
Genetics 2008 179: 951–963
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Li-zhi Gao and Hideki Innan
Nonindependent Domestication of the Two Rice Subspecies, Oryza sativa ssp. indica and ssp. japonica, Demonstrated by Multilocus Microsatellites
Genetics 2008 179: 965–976
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Trevor Bedford, Ilan Wapinski, and Daniel L. Hartl
Overdispersion of the Molecular Clock Varies Between Yeast, Drosophila and Mammals
Genetics 2008 179: 977–984
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Akira Kawabe, Alan Forrest, Stephen I. Wright, and Deborah Charlesworth
High DNA Sequence Diversity in Pericentromeric Genes of the Plant Arabidopsis lyrata
Genetics 2008 179: 985–995
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L. F. de Alencar Figueiredo, C. Calatayud, C. Dupuits, C. Billot, J.-F. Rami, D. Brunel, X. Perrier, B. Courtois, M. Deu, and J.-C. Glaszmann
Phylogeographic Evidence of Crop Neodiversity in Sorghum
Genetics 2008 179: 997–1008
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Ana Llopart and Josep M. Comeron
Recurrent Events of Positive Selection in Independent Drosophila Lineages at the Spermatogenesis Gene roughex
Genetics 2008 179: 1009–1020
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Andrew D. Kern and David J. Begun
Recurrent Deletion and Gene Presence/Absence Polymorphism: Telomere Dynamics Dominate Evolution at the Tip of 3L in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans
Genetics 2008 179: 1021–1027
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Jonci N. Wolff, Sandra Gandre, Aleksander Kalinin, and Neil J. Gemmell
Delimiting the Frequency of Paternal Leakage of Mitochondrial DNA in Chinook Salmon
Genetics 2008 179: 1029–1032
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Paul Jones, Kevin Chase, Alan Martin, Pluis Davern, Elaine A. Ostrander, and Karl G. Lark
Single-Nucleotide-Polymorphism-Based Association Mapping of Dog Stereotypes
Genetics 2008 179: 1033–1044
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Nengjun Yi and Shizhong Xu
Bayesian LASSO for Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping
Genetics 2008 179: 1045–1055
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Hsin-Chou Yang, Hsin-Yi Hsieh, and Cathy S. J. Fann
Kernel-Based Association Test
Genetics 2008 179: 1057–1068
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Matthew V. Rockman and Leonid Kruglyak
Breeding Designs for Recombinant Inbred Advanced Intercross Lines
Genetics 2008 179: 1069–1078
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Deepa Sambandan, Mary Anna Carbone, Robert R. H. Anholt, and Trudy F. C. Mackay
Phenotypic Plasticity and Genotype by Environment Interaction for Olfactory Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
Genetics 2008 179: 1079–1088
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Elias Chaibub Neto, Christine T. Ferrara, Alan D. Attie, and Brian S. Yandell
Inferring Causal Phenotype Networks From Segregating Populations
Genetics 2008 179: 1089–1100
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Patrik Waldmann, Jon Hallander, Fabian Hoti, and Mikko J. Sillanpää
Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Implementation of Bayesian Analysis of Additive and Dominance Genetic Variances in Noninbred Pedigrees
Genetics 2008 179: 1101–1112
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Hannah Rajasingh, Arne B. Gjuvsland, Dag Inge Våge, and Stig W. Omholt
When Parameters in Dynamic Models Become Phenotypes: A Case Study on Flesh Pigmentation in the Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Genetics 2008 179: 1113–1118
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Dal-Hoe Koo and Jiming Jiang
Extraordinary Tertiary Constrictions of Tripsacum dactyloides Chromosomes: Implications for Karyotype Evolution of Polyploids Driven by Segmental Chromosome Losses
Genetics 2008 179: 1119–1123
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Joshua Chang Mell, Kelly Komachi, Owen Hughes, and Sean Burgess
Cooperative Interactions Between Pairs of Homologous Chromatids During Meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Genetics 2008 179: 1125–1127
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Martina Mrackova, Michael Nicolas, Roman Hobza, Ioan Negrutiu, Françoise Monéger, Alexander Widmer, Boris Vyskot, and Bohuslav Janousek
Independent Origin of Sex Chromosomes in Two Species of the Genus Silene
Genetics 2008 179: 1129–1133
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Xu-Sheng Zhang and William G. Hill
The Anomalous Effects of Biased Mutation Revisited: Mean–Optimum Deviation and Apparent Directional Selection Under Stabilizing Selection
Genetics 2008 179: 1135–1141
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