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Allan Spradling
The 2008 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
Genetics 2008 178: 1123–1124
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Nancy Hopkins
The 2008 Genetics Society of America Medal
Genetics 2008 178: 1125–1128
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Susan Dutcher
The 2008 George W. Beadle Award
Genetics 2008 178: 1129–1130
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Jeff Sekelsky
The 2008 Genetics Society of America Award for Excellence in Education
Genetics 2008 178: 1131–1133
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Jeremy W. Thorner
The 2008 Novitski Prize
Genetics 2008 178: 1135–1136
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James F. Crow
Joshua Lederberg, 1925–2008: A Tribute
Genetics 2008 178: 1139–1140
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Franklin W. Stahl and Henriette M. Foss
But See KITANI (1978)
Genetics 2008 178: 1141–1145
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Xiangzhong Zheng and Amita Sehgal
Probing the Relative Importance of Molecular Oscillations in the Circadian Clock
Genetics 2008 178: 1147–1155
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Kenna R. Mills Shaw, Katie Van Horne, Hubert Zhang, and Joann Boughman
Essay Contest Reveals Misconceptions of High School Students in Genetics Content
Genetics 2008 178: 1157–1168
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Ranjan Tamuli and Durgadas P. Kasbekar
Dominant Suppression of Repeat-Induced Point Mutation in Neurospora crassa by a Variant Catalytic Subunit of DNA Polymerase-
Genetics 2008 178: 1169–1176
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Nicole C. Riddle, Wilson Leung, Karmella A. Haynes, Howard Granok, Jo Wuller, and Sarah C. R. Elgin
An Investigation of Heterochromatin Domains on the Fourth Chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster
Genetics 2008 178: 1177–1191
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Erin D. Strome, Xiaowei Wu, Marek Kimmel, and Sharon E. Plon
Heterozygous Screen in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Identifies Dosage-Sensitive Genes That Affect Chromosome Stability
Genetics 2008 178: 1193–1207
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Peter V. Decker, David Y. Yu, Masayoshi Iizuka, Qifeng Qiu, and M. Mitchell Smith
Catalytic-Site Mutations in the MYST Family Histone Acetyltransferase Esa1
Genetics 2008 178: 1209–1220
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Jana E. Stone, Regan Gealy Ozbirn, Thomas D. Petes, and Sue Jinks-Robertson
Role of Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen Interactions in the Mismatch Repair-Dependent Processing of Mitotic and Meiotic Recombination Intermediates in Yeast
Genetics 2008 178: 1221–1236
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Dongliang Wu, Leana M. Topper, and Thomas E. Wilson
Recruitment and Dissociation of Nonhomologous End Joining Proteins at a DNA Double-Strand Break in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Genetics 2008 178: 1237–1249
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Tony J. Getz, Stephen A. Banse, Lisa S. Young, Allison V. Banse, Johanna Swanson, Grace M. Wang, Barclay L. Browne, Henriette M. Foss, and Franklin W. Stahl
Reduced Mismatch Repair of Heteroduplexes Reveals "Non"-interfering Crossing Over in Wild-Type Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Genetics 2008 178: 1251–1269
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Valeria Specchia, Clara Benna, Gabriella Margherita Mazzotta, Alberto Piccin, Mauro A. Zordan, Rodolfo Costa, and Maria Pia Bozzetti
aubergine Gene Overexpression in Somatic Tissues of aubergine^sting Mutants Interferes With the RNAi Pathway of a yellow Hairpin dsRNA in Drosophila melanogaster
Genetics 2008 178: 1271–1282
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Arvinder Khokhar, Nan Chen, Ji-Ping Yuan, Yishi Li, Gary N. Landis, Gregory Beaulieu, Harminder Kaur, and John Tower
Conditional Switches for Extracellular Matrix Patterning in Drosophila melanogaster
Genetics 2008 178: 1283–1293
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Su-Chiung Fang and James G. Umen
A Suppressor Screen in Chlamydomonas Identifies Novel Components of the Retinoblastoma Tumor Suppressor Pathway
Genetics 2008 178: 1295–1310
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Sarah J. Sweeney, Paula Campbell, and Giovanni Bosco
Drosophila sticky/citron kinase Is a Regulator of Cell-Cycle Progression, Genetically Interacts With Argonaute 1 and Modulates Epigenetic Gene Silencing
Genetics 2008 178: 1311–1325
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Nicholas R. De Lay and John E. Cronan
Genetic Interaction Between the Escherichia coli AcpT Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase and the YejM Inner Membrane Protein
Genetics 2008 178: 1327–1337
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Allison R. Phillips, Anongpat Suttangkakul, and Richard D. Vierstra
The ATG12-Conjugating Enzyme ATG10 Is Essential for Autophagic Vesicle Formation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Genetics 2008 178: 1339–1353
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Michael J. Hynes, Sandra L. Murray, Gillian S. Khew, and Meryl A. Davis
Genetic Analysis of the Role of Peroxisomes in the Utilization of Acetate and Fatty Acids in Aspergillus nidulans
Genetics 2008 178: 1355–1369
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Kiranmai S. Kocherlakota, Jian-min Wu, Jeffrey McDermott, and Susan M. Abmayr
Analysis of the Cell Adhesion Molecule Sticks-and-Stones Reveals Multiple Redundant Functional Domains, Protein-Interaction Motifs and Phosphorylated Tyrosines That Direct Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila melanogaster
Genetics 2008 178: 1371–1383
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David J. Casso, Songmei Liu, D. David Iwaki, Stacey K. Ogden, and Thomas B. Kornberg
A Screen for Modifiers of Hedgehog Signaling in Drosophila melanogaster Identifies swm and mts
Genetics 2008 178: 1399–1413
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Danielle F. Kelleher, Carlos Egydio de Carvalho, Alana V. Doty, Marnie Layton, Andy T. Cheng, Laura D. Mathies, Dave Pilgrim, and Eric S. Haag
Comparative Genetics of Sex Determination: Masculinizing Mutations in Caenorhabditis briggsae
Genetics 2008 178: 1415–1429
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Christian E. Rocheleau, Kevin Cullison, Kai Huang, Yelena Bernstein, Annina C. Spilker, and Meera V. Sundaram
The Caenorhabditis elegans ekl (Enhancer of ksr-1 Lethality) Genes Include Putative Components of a Germline Small RNA Pathway
Genetics 2008 178: 1431–1443
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Qingchun Cai, Yinyan Sun, Xinxin Huang, Cong Guo, Yuxia Zhang, Zuoyan Zhu, and Hong Zhang
The Caenorhabditis elegans PcG-like Gene sop-2 Regulates the Temporal and Sexual Specificities of Cell Fates
Genetics 2008 178: 1445–1456
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Weihuan Cao, Ho-Juhn Song, Tina Gangi, Anju Kelkar, Isha Antani, Dan Garza, and Mary Konsolaki
Identification of Novel Genes That Modify Phenotypes Induced by Alzheimer's β-Amyloid Overexpression in Drosophila
Genetics 2008 178: 1457–1471
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Kosuke M. Teshima and Hideki Innan
Neofunctionalization of Duplicated Genes Under the Pressure of Gene Conversion
Genetics 2008 178: 1385–1398
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Rick J. Stoffels and Hamish G. Spencer
An Asymmetric Model of Heterozygote Advantage at Major Histocompatibility Complex Genes: Degenerate Pathogen Recognition and Intersection Advantage
Genetics 2008 178: 1473–1489
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Pierre Faubet and Oscar E. Gaggiotti
A New Bayesian Method to Identify the Environmental Factors That Influence Recent Migration
Genetics 2008 178: 1491–1504
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Hie Lim Kim and Yoko Satta
Population Genetic Analysis of the N-Acylsphingosine Amidohydrolase Gene Associated With Mental Activity in Humans
Genetics 2008 178: 1505–1515
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Bjarki Eldon and John Wakeley
Linkage Disequilibrium Under Skewed Offspring Distribution Among Individuals in a Population
Genetics 2008 178: 1517–1532
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Denis Houzelstein, Isabelle R. Gonçalves, Annie Orth, François Bonhomme, and Pierre Netter
Lgals6, a 2-Million-Year-Old Gene in Mice: A Case of Positive Darwinian Selection and Presence/Absence Polymorphism
Genetics 2008 178: 1533–1545
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Hanhui Kuang, Herman J. van Eck, Delphine Sicard, Richard Michelmore, and Eviatar Nevo
Evolution and Genetic Population Structure of Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola) and Its RGC2 Resistance Gene Cluster
Genetics 2008 178: 1547–1558
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R. Bergsma, E. Kanis, E. F. Knol, and P. Bijma
The Contribution of Social Effects to Heritable Variation in Finishing Traits of Domestic Pigs (Sus scrofa)
Genetics 2008 178: 1559–1570
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W. Joseph Dickinson
Synergistic Fitness Interactions and a High Frequency of Beneficial Changes Among Mutations Accumulated Under Relaxed Selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Genetics 2008 178: 1571–1578
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A. D. Peters
A Combination of cis and trans Control Can Solve the Hotspot Conversion Paradox
Genetics 2008 178: 1579–1593
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Joanna L. Kelley and Willie J. Swanson
Dietary Change and Adaptive Evolution of enamelin in Humans and Among Primates
Genetics 2008 178: 1595–1603
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Jacob L. Mueller, Jon R. Linklater, Kristipati Ravi Ram, Tracey Chapman, and Mariana F. Wolfner
Targeted Gene Deletion and Phenotypic Analysis of the Drosophila melanogaster Seminal Fluid Protease Inhibitor Acp62F
Genetics 2008 178: 1605–1614
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Noga Qvit-Raz, Edouard Jurkevitch, and Shimshon Belkin
Drop-Size Soda Lakes: Transient Microbial Habitats on a Salt-Secreting Desert Tree
Genetics 2008 178: 1615–1622
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Jay F. Storz, Federico G. Hoffmann, Juan C. Opazo, and Hideaki Moriyama
Adaptive Functional Divergence Among Triplicated -Globin Genes in Rodents
Genetics 2008 178: 1623–1638
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A. Ojeda, L.-S. Huang, J. Ren, A. Angiolillo, I.-C. Cho, H. Soto, C. Lemús-Flores, S. M. Makuza, J. M. Folch, and M. Pérez-Enciso
Selection in the Making: A Worldwide Survey of Haplotypic Diversity Around a Causative Mutation in Porcine IGF2
Genetics 2008 178: 1639–1652
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Daniel M. Stoebel, Antony M. Dean, and Daniel E. Dykhuizen
The Cost of Expression of Escherichia coli lac Operon Proteins Is in the Process, Not in the Products
Genetics 2008 178: 1653–1660
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Asher D. Cutter
Multilocus Patterns of Polymorphism and Selection Across the X Chromosome of Caenorhabditis remanei
Genetics 2008 178: 1661–1672
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John M. Marshall
The Impact of Dissociation on Transposon-Mediated Disease Control Strategies
Genetics 2008 178: 1673–1682
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Meng-Shin Shiao, Ben-Yang Liao, Manyuan Long, and Hon-Tsen Yu
Adaptive Evolution of the Insulin Two-Gene System in Mouse
Genetics 2008 178: 1683–1691
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Stéphane Bentolila, Leah E. Elliott, and Maureen R. Hanson
Genetic Architecture of Mitochondrial Editing in Arabidopsis thaliana
Genetics 2008 178: 1693–1708
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Hyun Min Kang, Noah A. Zaitlen, Claire M. Wade, Andrew Kirby, David Heckerman, Mark J. Daly, and Eleazar Eskin
Efficient Control of Population Structure in Model Organism Association Mapping
Genetics 2008 178: 1709–1723
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Muhammad Imtiaz, Francis C. Ogbonnaya, Jason Oman, and Maarten van Ginkel
Characterization of Quantitative Trait Loci Controlling Genetic Variation for Preharvest Sprouting in Synthetic Backcross-Derived Wheat Lines
Genetics 2008 178: 1725–1736
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Jian Yang, Weiren Wu, and Jun Zhu
Mapping Interspecific Genetic Architecture in a Host–Parasite Interaction System
Genetics 2008 178: 1737–1743
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Benjamin Stich, Jens Möhring, Hans-Peter Piepho, Martin Heckenberger, Edward S. Buckler, and Albrecht E. Melchinger
Comparison of Mixed-Model Approaches for Association Mapping
Genetics 2008 178: 1745–1754
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Reinmar Hager, James M. Cheverud, and Jason B. Wolf
Maternal Effects as the Cause of Parent-of-Origin Effects That Mimic Genomic Imprinting
Genetics 2008 178: 1755–1762
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Bing Liu, Alberto de la Fuente, and Ina Hoeschele
Gene Network Inference via Structural Equation Modeling in Genetical Genomics Experiments
Genetics 2008 178: 1763–1776
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Zdenek Trachtulec, Cestmir Vlcek, Ondrej Mihola, Sona Gregorova, Vladana Fotopulosova, and Jiri Forejt
Fine Haplotype Structure of a Chromosome 17 Region in the Laboratory and Wild Mouse
Genetics 2008 178: 1777–1784
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Britt A. Johnson, Natsuyo Aoyama, Nicole H. Friedell, Sakae Ikeda, and Akihiro Ikeda
Genetic Modification of the Schisis Phenotype in a Mouse Model of X-Linked Retinoschisis
Genetics 2008 178: 1785–1794
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Ioannis M. Stylianou, Jason P. Affourtit, Keith R. Shockley, Robert Y. Wilpan, Fadi A. Abdi, Sanjeev Bhardwaj, Jarod Rollins, Gary A Churchill, and Beverly Paigen
Applying Gene Expression, Proteomics and Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Analysis for Complex Trait Gene Identification
Genetics 2008 178: 1795–1805
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Janelle S. Ayres, Nancy Freitag, and David S. Schneider
Identification of Drosophila Mutants Altering Defense of and Endurance to Listeria monocytogenes Infection
Genetics 2008 178: 1807–1815
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Andrea Riebler, Leonhard Held, and Wolfgang Stephan
Bayesian Variable Selection for Detecting Adaptive Genomic Differences Among Populations
Genetics 2008 178: 1817–1829
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Patricia J. Wittkopp, Belinda K. Haerum, and Andrew G. Clark
Independent Effects of cis- and trans-regulatory Variation on Gene Expression in Drosophila melanogaster
Genetics 2008 178: 1831–1835
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CORRIGENDA
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CORRIGENDA
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CORRIGENDA
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