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In Drosophila, genomic CRISPR/Cas9 expression necessary for CRISPR-based gene drives harbors fitness costs presumably caused by off-target effects, which can be minimized by using a high-fidelity version of Cas9.

How does a protein at the cell wall determine if a newly encountered fungus is safe to fuse with?

Genetic variants acting between biologically related metabolite pairs often reflect biology local to the traits and have effect directions contrasting those of upstream or downstream variants, which can result in striking, biologically interpretable heterogeneity in genetic correlation across the genome.

Kipferl, a ZAD zinc finger protein from Drosophila, determines the chromatin binding specificity of the heterochromatin protein variant Rhino, defining piRNA clusters and preventing Rhino sequestration by selfish Satellite repeats.

A relative of the tur, wild goat species now endemic to the Caucasus, lived at least 14,000 years ago in southern Turkey.

The depletion of a new class of putative histone methyltransferases, including MET-2, SET-6, SET-19, SET-20, SET-21, SET-32, and SET-33, induced synergistic lifespan extension in daf-2 animals to an average lifespan nearly three times that of wild-type animals.

A genome-wide association study using whole-genome sequencing data identifies the first known susceptibility genes for posterior urethral valves, the most common cause of kidney failure in boys, implicating the transcription factor TBX5 and planar cell polarity gene PTK7.

HGF derived from fibroblasts is critical for complete muscularization of the mammalian diaphragm, and loss-of-function experiments reveal that partial muscularization of the diaphragm is not sufficient to cause congenital diaphragmatic hernias.

The yeast VARP homolog forms a new sorting nexin complex that promotes its own membrane recruitment through GEF activity and regulates the distribution of endosomal proteins.

The absence of negative selection observed in most cancer genomes can be explained by the intrinsic genome-wide linkage in somatic evolution and creates a substantial proteotoxic load.