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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
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    Transcriptional coregulation in cis around a contact insulation site revealed by single-molecule microscopy

    Maciej A Kerlin, Ilham Aboulfath-Ladid ... Antoine Coulon
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Kinesin Autoinhibition Requires Elbow Phosphorylation

    Guanghan Chen, Zhengyang Guo ... Guangshuo Ou
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Molecular requirements for C. elegans transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of pathogen avoidance

    Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca S Moore ... Coleen T Murphy
    Deviating from established protocols is the most likely reason why Gainey et al. (2024) could not reproduce earlier results in a Caenorhabditis elegans transgenerational inheritance paradigm, and the earlier findings are also supported by tests with over 30 new genes.
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Rapid and Inducible Mislocalization of Endogenous TDP43 in a Novel Human Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Johanna Ganssauge, Sophie Hawkins ... Akshay Bhinge
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    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Transcriptional pattern enriched for synaptic signaling is associated with shorter survival of patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer

    Arkajyoti Bhattacharya, Thijs S Stutvoet ... Rudolf SN Fehrmann
    Independent component analysis of ovarian cancer transcriptomes reveals distinct transcriptional patterns associated with overall survival.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The robust, high-throughput, and temporally regulated roxCre and loxCre reporting systems for genetic modifications in vivo

    Mengyang Shi, Jie Li ... Bin Zhou
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Seasonally migratory songbirds have different historic population size characteristics than resident relatives

    Kevin Winker, Kira Delmore
    Paleodemographic analyses in a hypothesis-testing framework show that the major life-history trait of seasonal migration has strong effects on long-term effective population sizes in a clade of songbirds.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Drosophila epidermal cells are intrinsically mechanosensitive and modulate nociceptive behavioral outputs

    Jiro Yoshino, Sonali S Mali ... Jay Z Parrish
    Epidermal mechanosensory responses contribute to acute detection of noxious mechanical stimuli and promote a form of prolonged mechanical hypersensitivity.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Molecular and spatial transcriptomic classification of midbrain dopamine neurons and their alterations in a LRRK2G2019S model of Parkinson’s disease

    Zachary Gaertner, Cameron Oram ... Rajeshwar Awatramani
    A high-resolution atlas of the mouse dopaminergic system was obtained using single-nuclei RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics revealing molecular changes in a prodromal model of Parkinson's disease.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Rtf1 HMD domain facilitates global histone H2B monoubiquitination and regulates morphogenesis and virulence in the meningitis-causing pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

    Yixuan Jiang, Ying Liang ... Youbao Zhao
    Rtf1 HMD is related to H2B ubiquitination and its downstream H3K4 methylation in both C. neoformans and C. deneoformans, thereby affecting its yeast-to-hypha transition and virulence.
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