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Volume 4(12);  December 2008
Perspective
News from Arabidopsis on the Meiotic Roles of Blap75/Rmi1 and Top3α
Charles I. White
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000306. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000306.
PMCID: PMC2588658
Interview
Taken to School: An Interview with the Honorable Judge John E. Jones, III
Jane Gitschier
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000297. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000297.
PMCID: PMC2588113
Research Articles
Practical Issues in Imputation-Based Association Mapping
Yongtao Guan and Matthew Stephens
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000279. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000279.
PMCID: PMC2585794
Topoisomerase 3α and RMI1 Suppress Somatic Crossovers and Are Essential for Resolution of Meiotic Recombination Intermediates in Arabidopsis thaliana
Frank Hartung, Stefanie Suer, Alexander Knoll, Rebecca Wurz-Wildersinn, and Holger Puchta
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000285. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000285.
PMCID: PMC2588661
Asymmetry of Chromosome Replichores Renders the DNA Translocase Activity of FtsK Essential for Cell Division and Cell Shape Maintenance in Escherichia coli
Christian Lesterlin, Carine Pages, Nelly Dubarry, Santanu Dasgupta, and François Cornet
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000288. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000288.
PMCID: PMC2585057
Loss of Kindlin-1 Causes Skin Atrophy and Lethal Neonatal Intestinal Epithelial Dysfunction
Siegfried Ussar, Markus Moser, Moritz Widmaier, Emanuel Rognoni, Christian Harrer, Orsolya Genzel-Boroviczeny, and Reinhard Fässler
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000289. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000289.
PMCID: PMC2585060
Spt2p Defines a New Transcription-Dependent Gross Chromosomal Rearrangement Pathway
Nilabja Sikdar, Soma Banerjee, Han Zhang, Stephanie Smith, and Kyungjae Myung
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000290. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000290.
PMCID: PMC2585797
Targeting the X Chromosome during Spermatogenesis Induces Y Chromosome Transmission Ratio Distortion and Early Dominant Embryo Lethality in Anopheles gambiae
Nikolai Windbichler, Philippos Aris Papathanos, and Andrea Crisanti
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000291. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000291.
PMCID: PMC2585807
Evolutionary Diversification of Plant Shikimate Kinase Gene Duplicates
Geoffrey Fucile, Shannon Falconer, and Dinesh Christendat
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000292. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000292.
PMCID: PMC2593004
The Genomic Analysis of Lactic Acidosis and Acidosis Response in Human Cancers
Julia Ling-Yu Chen, Joseph E. Lucas, Thies Schroeder, Seiichi Mori, Jianli Wu, Joseph Nevins, Mark Dewhirst, Mike West, and Jen-Tsan Chi
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000293. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000293.
PMCID: PMC2585811
Effects of cis and trans Genetic Ancestry on Gene Expression in African Americans
Alkes L. Price, Nick Patterson, Dustin C. Hancks, Simon Myers, David Reich, Vivian G. Cheung, and Richard S. Spielman
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000294. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000294.
PMCID: PMC2586034
Apoptosis Maintains Oocyte Quality in Aging Caenorhabditis elegans Females
Sara Andux and Ronald E. Ellis
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000295. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000295.
PMCID: PMC2585808
Disruption of AP1S1, Causing a Novel Neurocutaneous Syndrome, Perturbs Development of the Skin and Spinal Cord
Alexandre Montpetit, Stéphanie Côté, Edna Brustein, Christian A. Drouin, Line Lapointe, Michèle Boudreau, Caroline Meloche, Régen Drouin, Thomas J. Hudson, Pierre Drapeau, and Patrick Cossette
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000296. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000296.
PMCID: PMC2585812
Genome-Wide siRNA-Based Functional Genomics of Pigmentation Identifies Novel Genes and Pathways That Impact Melanogenesis in Human Cells
Anand K. Ganesan, Hsiang Ho, Brian Bodemann, Sean Petersen, Jayavani Aruri, Shiney Koshy, Zachary Richardson, Lu Q. Le, Tatiana Krasieva, Michael G. Roth, Pat Farmer, and Michael A. White
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000298. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000298.
PMCID: PMC2585813
Novel Low Abundance and Transient RNAs in Yeast Revealed by Tiling Microarrays and Ultra High–Throughput Sequencing Are Not Conserved Across Closely Related Yeast Species
Albert Lee, Kasper Daniel Hansen, James Bullard, Sandrine Dudoit, and Gavin Sherlock
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000299. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000299.
PMCID: PMC2601015
The Stringent Response and Cell Cycle Arrest in Escherichia coli
Daniel J. Ferullo and Susan T. Lovett
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000300. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000300.
PMCID: PMC2586660
Compensatory Interactions between Sir3p and the Nucleosomal LRS Surface Imply Their Direct Interaction
Anne Norris, Mario A. Bianchet, and Jef D. Boeke
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000301. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000301.
PMCID: PMC2587916
The Chromosomal High-Affinity Binding Sites for the Drosophila Dosage Compensation Complex
Tobias Straub, Charlotte Grimaud, Gregor D. Gilfillan, Angelika Mitterweger, and Peter B. Becker
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000302. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000302.
PMCID: PMC2586088
The Repertoire and Dynamics of Evolutionary Adaptations to Controlled Nutrient-Limited Environments in Yeast
David Gresham, Michael M. Desai, Cheryl M. Tucker, Harry T. Jenq, Dave A. Pai, Alexandra Ward, Christopher G. DeSevo, David Botstein, and Maitreya J. Dunham
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000303. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000303.
PMCID: PMC2586090
The Population Genetics of dN/dS
Sergey Kryazhimskiy and Joshua B. Plotkin
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000304. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000304.
PMCID: PMC2596312
Duplication and Gene Conversion in the Drosophila melanogaster Genome
Naoki Osada and Hideki Innan
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000305. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000305.
PMCID: PMC2588116
A Simple Screen to Identify Promoters Conferring High Levels of Phenotypic Noise
Nikki E. Freed, Olin K. Silander, Bärbel Stecher, Alex Böhm, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, and Martin Ackermann
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000307. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000307.
PMCID: PMC2588653
Shaping Skeletal Growth by Modular Regulatory Elements in the Bmp5 Gene
Catherine Guenther, Luiz Pantalena-Filho, and David M. Kingsley
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000308. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000308.
PMCID: PMC2592695
The Arabidopsis BLAP75/Rmi1 Homologue Plays Crucial Roles in Meiotic Double-Strand Break Repair
Liudmila Chelysheva, Daniel Vezon, Katia Belcram, Ghislaine Gendrot, and Mathilde Grelon
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000309. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000309.
PMCID: PMC2588655
Genetic and Computational Identification of a Conserved Bacterial Metabolic Module
Cara C. Boutte, Balaji S. Srinivasan, Jason A. Flannick, Antal F. Novak, Andrew T. Martens, Serafim Batzoglou, Patrick H. Viollier, and Sean Crosson
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000310. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000310.
PMCID: PMC2597717
Developmental Constraints on Vertebrate Genome Evolution
Julien Roux and Marc Robinson-Rechavi
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000311. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000311.
PMCID: PMC2600815
Novel Association of HK1 with Glycated Hemoglobin in a Non-Diabetic Population: A Genome-Wide Evaluation of 14,618 Participants in the Women's Genome Health Study
Guillaume Paré, Daniel I. Chasman, Alexander N. Parker, David M. Nathan, Joseph P. Miletich, Robert Y. Zee, and Paul M. Ridker
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000312. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000312.
PMCID: PMC2596965
Sexually Antagonistic “Zygotic Drive” of the Sex Chromosomes
William R. Rice, Sergey Gavrilets, and Urban Friberg
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000313. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000313.
PMCID: PMC2596966
Physcomitrella patens DCL3 Is Required for 22–24 nt siRNA Accumulation, Suppression of Retrotransposon-Derived Transcripts, and Normal Development
Sung Hyun Cho, Charles Addo-Quaye, Ceyda Coruh, M. Asif Arif, Zhaorong Ma, Wolfgang Frank, and Michael J. Axtell
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000314. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000314.
PMCID: PMC2600652
The Golgin GMAP210/TRIP11 Anchors IFT20 to the Golgi Complex
John A. Follit, Jovenal T. San Agustin, Fenghui Xu, Julie A. Jonassen, Rajeev Samtani, Cecilia W. Lo, and Gregory J. Pazour
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000315. Published online 2008 December 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000315.
PMCID: PMC2602600
Gata3 Acts Downstream of β-Catenin Signaling to Prevent Ectopic Metanephric Kidney Induction
David Grote, Sami Kamel Boualia, Abdallah Souabni, Calli Merkel, Xuan Chi, Frank Costantini, Thomas Carroll, and Maxime Bouchard
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000316. Published online 2008 December 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000316.
PMCID: PMC2597718
Ion Channel Clustering at the Axon Initial Segment and Node of Ranvier Evolved Sequentially in Early Chordates
Alexis S. Hill, Atsuo Nishino, Koichi Nakajo, Giuxin Zhang, Jaime R. Fineman, Michael E. Selzer, Yasushi Okamura, and Edward C. Cooper
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): e1000317. Published online 2008 December 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000317.
PMCID: PMC2597720
Corrections
Correction: Exploring Microbial Diversity and Taxonomy Using SSU rRNA Hypervariable Tag Sequencing
Susan M. Huse, Les Dethlefsen, Julie A. Huber, David Mark Welch, David A. Relman, and Mitchell L. Sogin
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): 10.1371/annotation/3d8a6578-ce56-45aa-bc71-05078355b851. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/annotation/3d8a6578-ce56-45aa-bc71-05078355b851.
PMCID: PMC2597897
Corrects: Susan M. Huse, et al. Exploring Microbial Diversity and Taxonomy Using SSU rRNA Hypervariable Tag Sequencing. PLoS Genet. 2008 November; 4(11): e1000255.
Correction: Hypermutable Non-Synonymous Sites Are under Stronger Negative Selection
Steffen Schmidt, Anna Gerasimova, Fyodor A. Kondrashov, Ivan A. Adzhubei, Alexey S. Kondrashov, and Shamil Sunyaev
PLoS Genet. 2008 December; 4(12): 10.1371/annotation/a81b1fab-890c-447b-a308-5bc8ca3eb21d . Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/annotation/a81b1fab-890c-447b-a308-5bc8ca3eb21d .
PMCID: PMC2605301
Corrects: Steffen Schmidt, et al. Hypermutable Non-Synonymous Sites Are under Stronger Negative Selection. PLoS Genet. 2008 November; 4(11): e1000281.
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