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Genetics and Genomics

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    1. Genetics and Genomics
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    Lifestyles shape genome size and gene content in fungal pathogens

    Anna Fijarczyk, Pauline Hessenauer ... Christian R Landry
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Genomic privacy risks in GWAS summary statistics

    Ao Lan, Yudi Pawitan, Xia Shen
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Phenotypic impact of individual conserved neuronal microexons and their master regulators in zebrafish

    Laura Lopez-Blanch, Cristina Rodríguez-Marin ... Manuel Irimia
    A multi-level assessment of the relevance of 18 highly conserved neural zebrafish microexons showed that individual deletions of most microexons did not exhibit strong phenotypes, likely because of compensatory changes.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    JAX Animal Behavior System (JABS): A genetics informed, end-to-end advanced behavioral phenotyping platform for the laboratory mouse

    Anshul Choudhary, Brian Q Geuther ... Vivek Kumar
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Acute opioid responses are modulated by dynamic interactions of Oprm1 and Fgf12

    Paige M Lemen, Yanning Zuo ... Hao Chen
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    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance

    Lesley T MacNeil
    Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Independent validation of transgenerational inheritance of learned pathogen avoidance in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Aalimah Akinosho, Joseph Alexander ... Andres Gabriel Vidal-Gadea
    Independent replication confirms that avoidance of pathogenic PA14 learned by Caenorhabditis elegans persists through the F2 generation using standardized sodium azide immobilization choice assays, clarifying prior reproducibility concerns.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Ecology

    Microbial consortia in salt marsh sediments are sequentially buried over millennia and genomic complementarity analysis indicates an important role in complex carbon decomposition

    Joseph H Vineis, Ashley N Bulseco ... Jennifer L Bowen
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    HoxB-derived hoxba and hoxbb clusters are essential for the anterior-posterior positioning of zebrafish pectoral fins

    Morimichi Kikuchi, Renka Fujii ... Akinori Kawamura
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Mutational and Expression Profile of ZNF217, ZNF750, ZNF703 Zinc Finger Genes in Kenya Women diagnosed with Breast Cancer

    Michael Kitoi, John Gitau ... Francis Makokha
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Epigenetic inheritance in C. elegans

    Lesley T MacNeil
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    How stress can extend lifespan

    Loren Cocciolone, Valeria Uvarova, Patricija van Oosten-Hawle
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology
    3. Genetics and Genomics

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