August 2016 Table of Contents

Investigations

• Methods, Technology and Resources

  • Editing Transgenic DNA Components by Inducible Gene Replacement in Drosophila melanogaster

    Chun-Chieh Lin, Christopher J. Potter

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1613-1628; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191783

• Statistical Genetics and Genomics

  • Principles of microRNA Regulation Revealed Through Modeling microRNA Expression Quantitative Trait Loci

    Open Access

    Stefan Budach, Matthias Heinig, Annalisa Marsico

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1629-1640; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187153

• Genome Integrity and Transmission

  • Plasticity in the Meiotic Epigenetic Landscape of Sex Chromosomes in Caenorhabditis Species

    Braden J. Larson, Mike V. Van, Taylor Nakayama, JoAnne Engebrecht

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1641-1658; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191130
  • Telomere Dysfunction Triggers Palindrome Formation Independently of Double-Strand Break Repair Mechanisms

    Open Access

    Vasil Raykov, Marcus E. Marvin, Edward J. Louis, Laura Maringele

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1659-1668; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.183020
  • Restriction of Retrotransposon Mobilization in Schizosaccharomyces pombe by Transcriptional Silencing and Higher-Order Chromatin Organization

    Open Access

    Heather E. Murton, Patrick J. R. Grady, Tsun Ho Chan, Hugh P. Cam, Simon K. Whitehall

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1669-1678; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189118

• Gene Expression

  • Systematic Genetic Screen for Transcriptional Regulators of the Candida albicans White-Opaque Switch

    Matthew B. Lohse, Iuliana V. Ene, Veronica B. Craik, Aaron D. Hernday, Eugenio Mancera, Joachim Morschhäuser, Richard J. Bennett, Alexander D. Johnson

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1679-1692; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.190645
  • Promotion of Cell Viability and Histone Gene Expression by the Acetyltransferase Gcn5 and the Protein Phosphatase PP2A in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Emily L. Petty, Anne Lafon, Shannon L. Tomlinson, Bryce A. Mendelsohn, Lorraine Pillus

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1693-1707; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189506
  • Identification of Coilin Mutants in a Screen for Enhanced Expression of an Alternatively Spliced GFP Reporter Gene in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Open Access

    Tatsuo Kanno, Wen-Dar Lin, Jason L. Fu, Ming-Tsung Wu, Ho-Wen Yang, Shih-Shun Lin, Antonius J. M. Matzke, Marjori Matzke

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1709-1720; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.190751

• Cellular Genetics

  • BLIMP-1/BLMP-1 and Metastasis-Associated Protein Regulate Stress Resistant Development in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Moonjung Hyun, Jeongho Kim, Catherine Dumur, Frank C. Schroeder, Young-Jai You

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1721-1732; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.190793
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae TORC1 Controls Histone Acetylation by Signaling Through the Sit4/PP6 Phosphatase to Regulate Sirtuin Deacetylase Nuclear Accumulation

    Open Access

    Jason J. Workman, Hongfeng Chen, R. Nicholas Laribee

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1733-1746; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.188458

• Developmental and Behavioral Genetics

  • Nonautonomous Roles of MAB-5/Hox and the Secreted Basement Membrane Molecule SPON-1/F-Spondin in Caenorhabditis elegans Neuronal Migration

    Matthew P. Josephson, Adam M. Miltner, Erik A. Lundquist

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1747-1762; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.188367
  • Developmental and Cell Cycle Quiescence Is Mediated by the Nuclear Hormone Receptor Coregulator DIN-1S in the Caenorhabditis elegans Dauer Larva

    Eileen Colella, Shaolin Li, Richard Roy

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1763-1776; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191858
  • Cross-Talk Between Mitochondrial Fusion and the Hippo Pathway in Controlling Cell Proliferation During Drosophila Development

    Qiannan Deng, Ting Guo, Xiu Zhou, Yongmei Xi, Xiaohang Yang, Wanzhong Ge

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1777-1788; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.186445
  • Facilitation of Endosomal Recycling by an IRG Protein Homolog Maintains Apical Tubule Structure in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Kelly A. Grussendorf, Christopher J. Trezza, Alexander T. Salem, Hikmat Al-Hashimi, Brendan C. Mattingly, Drew E. Kampmeyer, Liakot A. Khan, David H. Hall, Verena Göbel, Brian D. Ackley, Matthew Buechner

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1789-1806; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.192559

• Population and Evolutionary Genetics

  • Refining the Use of Linkage Disequilibrium as a Robust Signature of Selective Sweeps

    Guy S. Jacobs, Timothy J. Sluckin, Toomas Kivisild

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1807-1825; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.185900
  • Estimating the Number of Subpopulations (K) in Structured Populations

    Robert Verity, Richard A. Nichols

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1827-1839; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180992
  • Contrasting Levels of Molecular Evolution on the Mouse X Chromosome

    Erica L. Larson, Dan Vanderpool, Sara Keeble, Meng Zhou, Brice A. J. Sarver, Andrew D. Smith, Matthew D. Dean, Jeffrey M. Good

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1841-1857; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.186825
  • Mutation Is a Sufficient and Robust Predictor of Genetic Variation for Mitotic Spindle Traits in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Reza Farhadifar, José Miguel Ponciano, Erik C. Andersen, Daniel J. Needleman, Charles F. Baer

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1859-1870; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.185736

• Genetics of Complex Traits

  • Genomic Prediction for Quantitative Traits Is Improved by Mapping Variants to Gene Ontology Categories in Drosophila melanogaster

    Stefan M. Edwards, Izel F. Sørensen, Pernille Sarup, Trudy F. C. Mackay, Peter Sørensen

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1871-1883; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187161
  • Simple Penalties on Maximum-Likelihood Estimates of Genetic Parameters to Reduce Sampling Variation

    Karin Meyer

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1885-1900; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.186114
  • Covariance Association Test (CVAT) Identifies Genetic Markers Associated with Schizophrenia in Functionally Associated Biological Processes

    Palle Duun Rohde, Ditte Demontis, Beatriz Castro Dias Cuyabano, The Genomic Medicine for Schizophrenia Group, Anders D. Børglum, Peter Sørensen

    Genetics August 2016 203: 1901-1913; https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189498