January 2004 Table of Contents

INVESTIGATIONS

• Drift Increases the Advantage of Sex in RNA Bacteriophage Φ6

  Art Poon, Lin Chao

  Genetics January 2004 166: 19-24; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.19
• Strong Positive Selection and Recombination Drive the Antigenic Variation of the PilE Protein of the Human Pathogen Neisseria meningitidis

  T. Daniel Andrews, Takashi Gojobori

  Genetics January 2004 166: 25-32; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.25
• Chl1p, a DNA Helicase-Like Protein in Budding Yeast, Functions in Sister-Chromatid Cohesion

  Robert V. Skibbens

  Genetics January 2004 166: 33-42; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.33
• Population Genetics of the Wild Yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus

  Louise J. Johnson, Vassiliki Koufopanou, Matthew R. Goddard, Richard Hetherington, Stefanie M. Schäfer, Austin Burt

  Genetics January 2004 166: 43-52; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.43
• The Yeast Splicing Factor Prp40p Contains Functional Leucine-Rich Nuclear Export Signals That Are Essential for Splicing

  Mark W. Murphy, Brian L. Olson, Paul G. Siliciano

  Genetics January 2004 166: 53-65; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.53
• Fus1p Interacts With Components of the Hog1p Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase and Cdc42p Morphogenesis Signaling Pathways to Control Cell Fusion During Yeast Mating

  Bryce Nelson, Ainslie B. Parsons, Marie Evangelista, Karen Schaefer, Kathy Kennedy, Steven Ritchie, Tracey L. Petryshen, Charles Boone

  Genetics January 2004 166: 67-77; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.67
• REP3-Mediated Silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Laurie Ann Papacs, Yu Sun, Erica L. Anderson, Jianjun Sun, Scott G. Holmes

  Genetics January 2004 166: 79-87; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.79
• Genetic Evidence of a Role for Membrane Lipid Composition in the Regulation of Soluble NEM-Sensitive Factor Receptor Function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Alison Coluccio, Maria Malzone, Aaron M. Neiman

  Genetics January 2004 166: 89-97; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.89
• Marker-Based Cloning of the Region Containing the UhAvr1 Avirulence Gene From the Basidiomycete Barley Pathogen Ustilago hordei

  R. Linning, D. Lin, N. Lee, M. Abdennadher, D. Gaudet, P. Thomas, D. Mills, J. W. Kronstad, G. Bakkeren

  Genetics January 2004 166: 99-111; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.99
• REN1 Is Required for Development of Microconidia and Macroconidia, but Not of Chlamydospores, in the Plant Pathogenic Fungus Fusarium oxysporum

  Toshiaki Ohara, Iori Inoue, Fumio Namiki, Hitoshi Kunoh, Takashi Tsuge

  Genetics January 2004 166: 113-124; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.113
• Incomplete Penetrance and Variable Expressivity of a Growth Defect as a Consequence of Knocking Out Two K⁺ Transporters in the Euascomycete Fungus Podospora anserina

  Hervé Lalucque, Philippe Silar

  Genetics January 2004 166: 125-133; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.125
• The Podospora rmp1 Gene Implicated in Nucleus-Mitochondria Cross-Talk Encodes an Essential Protein Whose Subcellular Location Is Developmentally Regulated

  Véronique Contamine, Denise Zickler, Marguerite Picard

  Genetics January 2004 166: 135-150; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.135
• sel-7, a Positive Regulator of lin-12 Activity, Encodes a Novel Nuclear Protein in Caenorhabditis elegans

  Jiabin Chen, Xiajun Li, Iva Greenwald

  Genetics January 2004 166: 151-160; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.151
• eat-2 and eat-18 Are Required for Nicotinic Neurotransmission in the Caenorhabditis elegans Pharynx

  James P. McKay, David M. Raizen, Alexander Gottschalk, William R. Schafer, Leon Avery

  Genetics January 2004 166: 161-169; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.161
• The sys-1 and sys-3 Genes Cooperate With Wnt Signaling to Establish the Proximal-Distal Axis of the Caenorhabditis elegans Gonad

  Kellee R. Siegfried, Ambrose R. Kidd, Michael A. Chesney, Judith Kimble

  Genetics January 2004 166: 171-186; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.171
• A Mosaic Genetic Screen Reveals Distinct Roles for trithorax and Polycomb Group Genes in Drosophila Eye Development

  Florence Janody, Jeffrey D. Lee, Neal Jahren, Dennis J. Hazelett, Aude Benlali, Grant I. Miura, Irena Draskovic, Jessica E. Treisman

  Genetics January 2004 166: 187-200; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.187
• Knockouts of Kekkon1 Define Sequence Elements Essential for Drosophila Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibition

  Diego Alvarado, Amy H. Rice, Joseph B. Duffy

  Genetics January 2004 166: 201-211; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.201
• Conservation of an Inhibitor of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, Kekkon1, in Dipterans

  Frederick A. Derheimer, Christina M. MacLaren, Brandon P. Weasner, Diego Alvarado, Joseph B. Duffy

  Genetics January 2004 166: 213-224; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.213
• Genetic Dissection of itpr Gene Function Reveals a Vital Requirement in Aminergic Cells of Drosophila Larvae

  Rohit Joshi, K. Venkatesh, R. Srinivas, Shalima Nair, Gaiti Hasan

  Genetics January 2004 166: 225-236; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.225
• Pleiotropic Effect of Disrupting a Conserved Sequence Involved in a Long-Range Compensatory Interaction in the Drosophila Adh Gene

  John F. Baines, John Parsch, Wolfgang Stephan

  Genetics January 2004 166: 237-242; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.237
• The P Cytotype in Drosophila melanogaster: A Maternally Transmitted Regulatory State of the Germ Line Associated With Telomeric P Elements

  Michael J. Simmons, John D. Raymond, Jarad B. Niemi, Jeremy R. Stuart, Peter J. Merriman

  Genetics January 2004 166: 243-254; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.243
• Establishment and Maintenance of the P Cytotype Associated With Telomeric P Elements in Drosophila melanogaster

  Jarad B. Niemi, John D. Raymond, Ryan Patrek, Michael J. Simmons

  Genetics January 2004 166: 255-264; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.255
• Evolution of Autosomal Suppression of the Sex-Ratio Trait in Drosophila

  Suzana Casaccia Vaz, Antonio Bernardo Carvalho

  Genetics January 2004 166: 265-277; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.265
• The Drosophila GAGA Factor Is Required for Dosage Compensation in Males and for the Formation of the Male-Specific-Lethal Complex Chromatin Entry Site at 12DE

  Anthony J. Greenberg, Judith L. Yanowitz, Paul Schedl

  Genetics January 2004 166: 279-289; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.279
• No Evidence for an Association Between Common Nonsynonymous Polymorphisms in Delta and Bristle Number Variation in Natural and Laboratory Populations of Drosophila melanogaster

  Anne Genissel, Tomi Pastinen, Andrea Dowell, Trudy F. C. Mackay, Anthony D. Long

  Genetics January 2004 166: 291-306; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.291
• First-Generation Linkage Map of the Gray, Short-Tailed Opossum, Monodelphis domestica, Reveals Genome-Wide Reduction in Female Recombination Rates

  Paul B. Samollow, Candace M. Kammerer, Susan M. Mahaney, Jennifer L. Schneider, Scott J. Westenberger, John L. VandeBerg, Edward S. Robinson

  Genetics January 2004 166: 307-329; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.307
• Velvet, a Dominant Egfr Mutation That Causes Wavy Hair and Defective Eyelid Development in Mice

  Xin Du, Koichi Tabeta, Kasper Hoebe, Haiquan Liu, Navjiwan Mann, Suzanne Mudd, Karine Crozat, Sosathya Sovath, Xiaohua Gong, Bruce Beutler

  Genetics January 2004 166: 331-340; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.331
• Optimal Designs for Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping and Candidate Gene Association Tests in Livestock Populations

  Alessandra Stella, Paul J. Boettcher

  Genetics January 2004 166: 341-350; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.341
• The Allele Frequency Spectrum in Genome-Wide Human Variation Data Reveals Signals of Differential Demographic History in Three Large World Populations

  Gabor T. Marth, Eva Czabarka, Janos Murvai, Stephen T. Sherry

  Genetics January 2004 166: 351-372; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.351
• Multilocus Analysis of Variation and Speciation in the Closely Related Species Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata

  Sebastián E. Ramos-Onsins, Barbara E. Stranger, Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Montserrat Aguadé

  Genetics January 2004 166: 373-388; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.373
• A 3347-Locus Genetic Recombination Map of Sequence-Tagged Sites Reveals Features of Genome Organization, Transmission and Evolution of Cotton (Gossypium)

  Junkang Rong, Colette Abbey, John E. Bowers, Curt L. Brubaker, Charlene Chang, Peng W. Chee, Terrye A. Delmonte, Xiaoling Ding, Juan J. Garza, Barry S. Marler, Chan-hwa Park, Gary J. Pierce, Katy M. Rainey, Vipin K. Rastogi, Stefan R. Schulze, Norma L. Trolinder, Jonathan F. Wendel, Thea A. Wilkins, T. Dawn Williams-Coplin, Rod A. Wing, Robert J. Wright, Xinping Zhao, Linghua Zhu, Andrew H. Paterson

  Genetics January 2004 166: 389-417; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.389
• High-Density Linkage Mapping Revealed Suppression of Recombination at the Sex Determination Locus in Papaya

  Hao Ma, Paul H. Moore, Zhiyong Liu, Minna S. Kim, Qingyi Yu, Maureen M. M. Fitch, Terry Sekioka, Andrew H. Paterson, Ray Ming

  Genetics January 2004 166: 419-436; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.419
• An Internal Rearrangement in an Arabidopsis Inverted Repeat Locus Impairs DNA Methylation Triggered by the Locus

  Stacey Melquist, Judith Bender

  Genetics January 2004 166: 437-448; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.437
• The Dominance of the Herbicide Resistance Cost in Several Arabidopsis thaliana Mutant Lines

  Fabrice Roux, Jacques Gasquez, Xavier Reboud

  Genetics January 2004 166: 449-460; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.449
• Identification of Wheat Chromosomal Regions Containing Expressed Resistance Genes

  Muharrem Dilbirligi, Mustafa Erayman, Devinder Sandhu, Deepak Sidhu, Kulvinder S. Gill

  Genetics January 2004 166: 461-481; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.461
• Formation of Unreduced Megaspores (Diplospory) in Apomictic Dandelions (Taraxacum officinale, s.l.) Is Controlled by a Sex-Specific Dominant Locus

  Peter J. van Dijk, J. M. Tanja Bakx-Schotman

  Genetics January 2004 166: 483-492; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.483
• Recombination Within a Nucleotide-Binding-Site/Leucine-Rich-Repeat Gene Cluster Produces New Variants Conditioning Resistance to Soybean Mosaic Virus in Soybeans

  A. J. Hayes, S. C. Jeong, M. A. Gore, Y. G. Yu, G. R. Buss, S. A. Tolin, M. A. Saghai Maroof

  Genetics January 2004 166: 493-503; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.493
• Linkage Disequilibrium Testing When Linkage Phase Is Unknown

  Daniel J. Schaid

  Genetics January 2004 166: 505-512; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.505
• Developmental Associations Between Traits: Covariance and Beyond

  Sean H. Rice

  Genetics January 2004 166: 513-526; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.513
• Impact of Nonrandom Mating on Genetic Variance and Gene Flow in Populations With Mass Selection

  Leopoldo Sánchez, John A. Woolliams

  Genetics January 2004 166: 527-535; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.527
• Inference on Recombination and Block Structure Using Unphased Data

  Carsten Wiuf

  Genetics January 2004 166: 537-545; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.537
• In Silico Study of Transcriptome Genetic Variation in Outbred Populations

  Miguel Pérez-Enciso

  Genetics January 2004 166: 547-554; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.547
• Estimating Effective Population Size or Mutation Rate With Microsatellites

  Hongyan Xu, Yun-Xin Fu

  Genetics January 2004 166: 555-563; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.555
• The Effect of Genetic Conflict on Genomic Imprinting and Modification of Expression at a Sex-Linked Locus

  Hamish G. Spencer, Marcus W. Feldman, Andrew G. Clark, Anton E. Weisstein

  Genetics January 2004 166: 565-579; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.565
• A Bivalent Polyploid Model for Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci in Outcrossing Tetraploids

  Rongling Wu, Chang-Xing Ma, George Casella

  Genetics January 2004 166: 581-595; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.581
• Influence of Dominance, Leptokurtosis and Pleiotropy of Deleterious Mutations on Quantitative Genetic Variation at Mutation-Selection Balance

  Xu-Sheng Zhang, Jinliang Wang, William G. Hill

  Genetics January 2004 166: 597-610; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.597
• Controlling the Proportion of False Positives in Multiple Dependent Tests

  R. L. Fernando, D. Nettleton, B. R. Southey, J. C. M. Dekkers, M. F. Rothschild, M. Soller

  Genetics January 2004 166: 611-619; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.611
• Bayesian Estimation of Genomic Distance

  Richard Durrett, Rasmus Nielsen, Thomas L. York

  Genetics January 2004 166: 621-629; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.166.1.621