Genetics and Genomics

Genetics and Genomics

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    The recombination landscape of introgression in yeast

    Enrique J. Schwarzkopf, Nathan Brandt, Caiti Smukowski Heil
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    Mitochondrial genomes of Pleistocene megafauna retrieved from recent sediment layers of two Siberian lakes

    Peter Andreas Seeber, Laura Batke ... Laura S Epp
    Abundant mitochondrial DNA of long-extinct large mammals in recent sediment of Siberian lakes suggests complex taphonomic redistribution.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Is competition for cellular resources a driver of complex trait heritability?

    Olivier Naret, Yuval Simons ... Jonathan K Pritchard
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    Mono-methylated histones control PARP-1 in chromatin and transcription

    Gbolahan Bamgbose, Guillaume Bordet ... Alexei Tulin
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    Meta-Research: understudied genes are lost in a leaky pipeline between genome-wide assays and reporting of results

    Reese AK Richardson, Heliodoro Tejedor Navarro ... Thomas Stoeger
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Gene expression plasticity followed by genetic change during colonization in a high-elevation environment

    Huishang She, Yan Hao ... Yanhua Qu
    An integrative approach allows investigations of the relationship between an initial plasticity and the subsequent adaptive evolution during rapid adaptive modification of complex systems in the wild.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Random genetic drift sets an upper limit on mRNA splicing accuracy in metazoans

    Florian Bénitière, Anamaria Necsulea, Laurent Duret
    Variation in the rate of alternative splicing across animals are mainly driven by differences in the rate of splicing errors.

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    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
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    National Cancer Institute, United States
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    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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