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Genetics 2008 178: 0
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Vicki Chandler and Mary Alleman
Paramutation: Epigenetic Instructions Passed Across Generations
Genetics 2008 178: 1839–1844
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Meng Chen, Misook Ha, Erika Lackey, Jianlin Wang, and Z. Jeffrey Chen
RNAi of met1 Reduces DNA Methylation and Induces Genome-Specific Changes in Gene Expression and Centromeric Small RNA Accumulation in Arabidopsis Allopolyploids
Genetics 2008 178: 1845–1858
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Michael L. Robbins, Rajandeep S. Sekhon, Robert Meeley, and Surinder Chopra
A Mutator Transposon Insertion Is Associated With Ectopic Expression of a Tandemly Repeated Multicopy Myb Gene pericarp color1 of Maize
Genetics 2008 178: 1859–1874
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Wang Han, Prema Sundaram, Himanshu Kenjale, James Grantham, and Lisa Timmons
The Caenorhabditis elegans rsd-2 and rsd-6 Genes Are Required for Chromosome Functions During Exposure to Unfavorable Environments
Genetics 2008 178: 1875–1893
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Holly LaFerriere, Douglas J. Guarnieri, Divya Sitaraman, Soeren Diegelmann, Ulrike Heberlein, and Troy Zars
Genetic Dissociation of Ethanol Sensitivity and Memory Formation in Drosophila melanogaster
Genetics 2008 178: 1895–1902
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Daniel J. Wright, Ewen Munro, Mark Corbett, Adam J. Bentley, Nigel J. Fullwood, Stephen Murray, and Clive Price
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Actin Cytoskeletal Component Bsp1p Has an Auxiliary Role in Actomyosin Ring Function and in the Maintenance of Bud-Neck Structure
Genetics 2008 178: 1903–1914
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J. Sybenga, H. Verhaar, and D. G. A. Botje
Epigenetic Control May Explain Large Within-Plant Heterogeneity of Meiotic Behavior in Telocentric Trisomics of Rye
Genetics 2008 178: 1915–1926
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Manal A. Alaamery and Charles S. Hoffman
Schizosaccharomyces pombe Hsp90/Git10 Is Required for Glucose/cAMP Signaling
Genetics 2008 178: 1927–1936
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Anton Svetlanov, Frederic Baudat, Paula E. Cohen, and Bernard de Massy
Distinct Functions of MLH3 at Recombination Hot Spots in the Mouse
Genetics 2008 178: 1937–1945
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Min Zhao, Przemyslaw Szafranski, Chad Albert Hall, and Scott Goode
Basolateral Junctions Utilize Warts Signaling to Control Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Proliferation Crucial For Migration and Invasion of Drosophila Ovarian Epithelial Cells
Genetics 2008 178: 1947–1971
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Caroline Spike, Nicole Meyer, Erica Racen, April Orsborn, Jay Kirchner, Kathleen Kuznicki, Christopher Yee, Karen Bennett, and Susan Strome
Genetic Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans GLH Family of P-Granule Proteins
Genetics 2008 178: 1973–1987
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Katherine L. Bates, Matthew Higley, and Anthea Letsou
Raw Mediates Antagonism of AP-1 Activity in Drosophila
Genetics 2008 178: 1989–2002
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Margarita E. Kaplow, Adam H. Korayem, and Tadmiri R. Venkatesh
Regulation of Glia Number in Drosophila by Rap/Fzr, an Activator of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex, and Loco, an RGS Protein
Genetics 2008 178: 2003–2016
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Jun Cui, Katharine L. Sackton, Vanessa L. Horner, Kritika E. Kumar, and Mariana F. Wolfner
Wispy, the Drosophila Homolog of GLD-2, Is Required During Oogenesis and Egg Activation
Genetics 2008 178: 2017–2029
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Erica G. Bakker, M. Brian Traw, Christopher Toomajian, Martin Kreitman, and Joy Bergelson
Low Levels of Polymorphism in Genes That Control the Activation of Defense Response in Arabidopsis thaliana
Genetics 2008 178: 2031–2043
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R. Bergero, D. Charlesworth, D. A. Filatov, and R. C. Moore
Defining Regions and Rearrangements of the Silene latifolia Y Chromosome
Genetics 2008 178: 2045–2053
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Jeremiah W. Busch, Julia Sharma, and Daniel J. Schoen
Molecular Characterization of Lal2, an SRK-Like Gene Linked to the S-Locus in the Wild Mustard Leavenworthia alabamica
Genetics 2008 178: 2055–2067
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J.-F. Lefebvre and D. Labuda
Fraction of Informative Recombinations: A Heuristic Approach to Analyze Recombination Rates
Genetics 2008 178: 2069–2079
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Qiang Xu, Xiaopeng Wen, and Xiuxin Deng
Genomic Organization, Rapid Evolution and Meiotic Instability of Nucleotide-Binding-Site-Encoding Genes in a New Fruit Crop, "Chestnut Rose"
Genetics 2008 178: 2081–2091
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Asher D. Cutter, James D. Wasmuth, and Nicole L. Washington
Patterns of Molecular Evolution in Caenorhabditis Preclude Ancient Origins of Selfing
Genetics 2008 178: 2093–2104
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Lukasz Jasnos, Katarzyna Tomala, Dorota Paczesniak, and Ryszard Korona
Interactions Between Stressful Environment and Gene Deletions Alleviate the Expected Average Loss of Fitness in Yeast
Genetics 2008 178: 2105–2111
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Amanda L. Seyfert, Melania E. A. Cristescu, Linda Frisse, Sarah Schaack, W. Kelley Thomas, and Michael Lynch
The Rate and Spectrum of Microsatellite Mutation in Caenorhabditis elegans and Daphnia pulex
Genetics 2008 178: 2113–2121
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Sharon R. Browning
Estimation of Pairwise Identity by Descent From Dense Genetic Marker Data in a Population Sample of Haplotypes
Genetics 2008 178: 2123–2132
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Qiong Zhao, Anne-Céline Thuillet, Nathan K. Uhlmann, Allison Weber, J. Antoni Rafalski, Stephen M. Allen, Scott Tingey, and John Doebley
The Role of Regulatory Genes During Maize Domestication: Evidence From Nucleotide Polymorphism and Gene Expression
Genetics 2008 178: 2133–2143
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Sofia Zabalou, Angeliki Apostolaki, Savvas Pattas, Zoe Veneti, Charalampos Paraskevopoulos, Ioannis Livadaras, George Markakis, Terry Brissac, Hervé Merçot, and Kostas Bourtzis
Multiple Rescue Factors Within a Wolbachia Strain
Genetics 2008 178: 2145–2160
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Douda Bensasson, Magdalena Zarowiecki, Austin Burt, and Vassiliki Koufopanou
Rapid Evolution of Yeast Centromeres in the Absence of Drive
Genetics 2008 178: 2161–2167
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Elie S. Dolgin and Brian Charlesworth
The Effects of Recombination Rate on the Distribution and Abundance of Transposable Elements
Genetics 2008 178: 2169–2177
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Leen De Gelder, Julia J. Williams, José M. Ponciano, Masahiro Sota, and Eva M. Top
Adaptive Plasmid Evolution Results in Host-Range Expansion of a Broad-Host-Range Plasmid
Genetics 2008 178: 2179–2190
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Jenny Bangham, Kang-Wook Kim, Claire L. Webster, and Francis M. Jiggins
Genetic Variation Affecting Host–Parasite Interactions: Different Genes Affect Different Aspects of Sigma Virus Replication and Transmission in Drosophila melanogaster
Genetics 2008 178: 2191–2199
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Paul Schliekelman
Statistical Power of Expression Quantitative Trait Loci for Mapping of Complex Trait Loci in Natural Populations
Genetics 2008 178: 2201–2216
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Pär K. Ingvarsson, M. Victoria Garcia, Virginia Luquez, David Hall, and Stefan Jansson
Nucleotide Polymorphism and Phenotypic Associations Within and Around the phytochrome B2 Locus in European Aspen (Populus tremula, Salicaceae)
Genetics 2008 178: 2217–2226
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Tom Druet, Sébastien Fritz, Mekki Boussaha, Slim Ben-Jemaa, François Guillaume, David Derbala, Diana Zelenika, Doris Lechner, Céline Charon, Didier Boichard, Ivo G. Gut, André Eggen, and Mathieu Gautier
Fine Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Female Fertility in Dairy Cattle on BTA03 Using a Dense Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Map
Genetics 2008 178: 2227–2235
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Jake Stout, Ethan Romero-Severson, Max O. Ruegger, and Clint Chapple
Semidominant Mutations in Reduced Epidermal Fluorescence 4 Reduce Phenylpropanoid Content in Arabidopsis
Genetics 2008 178: 2237–2251
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Matthieu Simon, Olivier Loudet, Stéphanie Durand, Aurélie Bérard, Dominique Brunel, François-Xavier Sennesal, Mylène Durand-Tardif, Georges Pelletier, and Christine Camilleri
Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping in Five New Large Recombinant Inbred Line Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana Genotyped With Consensus Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers
Genetics 2008 178: 2253–2264
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A. E. Melchinger, H. F. Utz, and C. C. Schön
Genetic Expectations of Quantitative Trait Loci Main and Interaction Effects Obtained With the Triple Testcross Design and Their Relevance for the Analysis of Heterosis
Genetics 2008 178: 2265–2274
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Jane P. Kenney-Hunt, Bing Wang, Elizabeth A. Norgard, Gloria Fawcett, Doug Falk, L. Susan Pletscher, Joseph P. Jarvis, Charles Roseman, Jason Wolf, and James M. Cheverud
Pleiotropic Patterns of Quantitative Trait Loci for 70 Murine Skeletal Traits
Genetics 2008 178: 2275–2288
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Daniel Gianola and Johannes B. C. H. M. van Kaam
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces Regression Methods for Genomic Assisted Prediction of Quantitative Traits
Genetics 2008 178: 2289–2303
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Oscar González-Recio, Daniel Gianola, Nanye Long, Kent A. Weigel, Guilherme J. M. Rosa, and Santiago Avendaño
Nonparametric Methods for Incorporating Genomic Information Into Genetic Evaluations: An Application to Mortality in Broilers
Genetics 2008 178: 2305–2313
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Lars Rönnegård, Francois Besnier, and Örjan Carlborg
An Improved Method for Quantitative Trait Loci Detection and Identification of Within-Line Segregation in F₂ Intercross Designs
Genetics 2008 178: 2315–2326
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Hossein Jafary, Giorgia Albertazzi, Thierry C. Marcel, and Rients E. Niks
High Diversity of Genes for Nonhost Resistance of Barley to Heterologous Rust Fungi
Genetics 2008 178: 2327–2339
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Susan T. Harbison and Amita Sehgal
Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Sleep in Drosophila melanogaster
Genetics 2008 178: 2341–2360
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Chris Baskerville, Marisa Segal, and Steven I. Reed
The Protease Activity of Yeast Separase (Esp1) Is Required for Anaphase Spindle Elongation Independently of Its Role In Cleavage of Cohesin
Genetics 2008 178: 2361–2372
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Philippe Deschamps, Hervé Moreau, Alexandra Z. Worden, David Dauvillée, and Steven G. Ball
Early Gene Duplication Within Chloroplastida and Its Correspondence With Relocation of Starch Metabolism to Chloroplasts
Genetics 2008 178: 2373–2387
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Michael Klutstein, Hezi Shaked, Amir Sherman, Naomi Avivi-Ragolsky, Efrat Shema, Drora Zenvirth, Avraham A. Levy, and Giora Simchen
Functional Conservation of the Yeast and Arabidopsis RAD54-Like Genes
Genetics 2008 178: 2389–2397
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Guillaume Octobre, Alexander Lorenz, Josef Loidl, and Jürg Kohli
The Rad52 Homologs Rad22 and Rti1 of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Are Not Essential for Meiotic Interhomolog Recombination, but Are Required for Meiotic Intrachromosomal Recombination and Mating-Type-Related DNA Repair
Genetics 2008 178: 2399–2412
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Yuzhong Cheng and Howard A. Nash
Visual Mutations Reveal Opposing Effects of Illumination on Arousal in Drosophila
Genetics 2008 178: 2413–2416
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Badri Padhukasahasram, Paul Marjoram, Jeffrey D. Wall, Carlos D. Bustamante, and Magnus Nordborg
Exploring Population Genetic Models With Recombination Using Efficient Forward-Time Simulations
Genetics 2008 178: 2417–2427
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Sankar Subramanian
Nearly Neutrality and the Evolution of Codon Usage Bias in Eukaryotic Genomes
Genetics 2008 178: 2429–2432
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Sébastien Ducrocq, Delphine Madur, Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras, Létizia Camus-Kulandaivelu, Monika Kloiber-Maitz, Thomas Presterl, Milena Ouzunova, Domenica Manicacci, and Alain Charcosset
Key Impact of Vgt1 on Flowering Time Adaptation in Maize: Evidence From Association Mapping and Ecogeographical Information
Genetics 2008 178: 2433–2437
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