Arabidopsis plants deficient in the organellar helicase RADA are severely impaired in their development and fertility, correlating with increased mitochondrial genome recombination involving small repeats and accumulation of recombination-generated subgenomes. The picture is a scanning electron microscope image showing that no pollen attaches to the stigmatic papillae cells of the mutant, explaining its very low fertility. See Chevigny et al.
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Research Articles
The anterior Hox gene ceh-13 and elt-1/GATA activate the posterior Hox genes nob-1 and php-3 to specify posterior lineages in the C. elegans embryo
PLOS Genetics: published May 2, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010187
Assessing in vivo mutation frequencies and creating a high-resolution genome-wide map of fitness costs of Hepatitis C virus
PLOS Genetics: published May 2, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010179
Intellectual disability-associated disruption of O-GlcNAc cycling impairs habituation learning in Drosophila
PLOS Genetics: published May 2, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010159
A practical problem with Egger regression in Mendelian randomization
PLOS Genetics: published May 4, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010166
Intestine-to-neuronal signaling alters risk-taking behaviors in food-deprived Caenorhabditis elegans
PLOS Genetics: published May 5, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010178
Sex-heterogeneous SNPs disproportionately influence gene expression and health
PLOS Genetics: published May 5, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010147
Dnmt1a is essential for gene body methylation and the regulation of the zygotic genome in a wasp
PLOS Genetics: published May 6, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010181
Polygenic score accuracy in ancient samples: Quantifying the effects of allelic turnover
PLOS Genetics: published May 6, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010170
Elucidation of host and symbiont contributions to peptidoglycan metabolism based on comparative genomics of eight aphid subfamilies and their Buchnera
PLOS Genetics: published May 6, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010195
RecombineX: A generalized computational framework for automatic high-throughput gamete genotyping and tetrad-based recombination analysis
PLOS Genetics: published May 9, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010047
Mice lacking the mitochondrial exonuclease MGME1 develop inflammatory kidney disease with glomerular dysfunction
PLOS Genetics: published May 9, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010190
A Bayesian model selection approach to mediation analysis
PLOS Genetics: published May 9, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010184
RADA-dependent branch migration has a predominant role in plant mitochondria and its defect leads to mtDNA instability and cell cycle arrest
PLOS Genetics: published May 12, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010202
A hominoid-specific endogenous retrovirus may have rewired the gene regulatory network shared between primordial germ cells and naïve pluripotent cells
PLOS Genetics: published May 12, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009846
Shared genetic loci between depression and cardiometabolic traits
PLOS Genetics: published May 13, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010161
Epigenetic and transcriptional dysregulation in CD4+ T cells in patients with atopic dermatitis
PLOS Genetics: published May 16, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009973
Structure and kinase activity of bacterial cell cycle regulator CcrZ
PLOS Genetics: published May 16, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010196
Robust inference of bi-directional causal relationships in presence of correlated pleiotropy with GWAS summary data
PLOS Genetics: published May 16, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010205
TFAP2 paralogs facilitate chromatin access for MITF at pigmentation and cell proliferation genes
PLOS Genetics: published May 17, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010207
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Local chromatin context regulates the genetic requirements of the heterochromatin spreading reaction
PLOS Genetics: published May 18, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010201
Biology and engineering of integrative and conjugative elements: Construction and analyses of hybrid ICEs reveal element functions that affect species-specific efficiencies
PLOS Genetics: published May 18, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009998
MDM2 E3 ligase activity is essential for p53 regulation and cell cycle integrity
PLOS Genetics: published May 19, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010171
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Ustilago maydis telomere protein Pot1 harbors an extra N-terminal OB fold and regulates homology-directed DNA repair factors in a dichotomous and context-dependent manner
PLOS Genetics: published May 19, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010182
Increased genetic contribution to wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic
PLOS Genetics: published May 19, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010135
A novel membrane complex is required for docking and regulated exocytosis of lysosome-related organelles in Tetrahymena thermophila
PLOS Genetics: published May 19, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010194
Crosstalk between guanosine nucleotides regulates cellular heterogeneity in protein synthesis during nutrient limitation
PLOS Genetics: published May 20, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009957
PRC1 chromatin factors strengthen the consistency of neuronal cell fate specification and maintenance in C. elegans
PLOS Genetics: published May 23, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010209
Divergent transcriptional and transforming properties of PAX3-FOXO1 and PAX7-FOXO1 paralogs
PLOS Genetics: published May 23, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009782
Population bottlenecks constrain host microbiome diversity and genetic variation impeding fitness
PLOS Genetics: published May 23, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010206
Early midcell localization of Escherichia coli PBP4 supports the function of peptidoglycan amidases
PLOS Genetics: published May 23, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010222
Genome size distributions in bacteria and archaea are strongly linked to evolutionary history at broad phylogenetic scales
PLOS Genetics: published May 23, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010220
Regulation of PDF receptor signaling controlling daily locomotor rhythms in Drosophila
PLOS Genetics: published May 23, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010013
Competence shut-off by intracellular pheromone degradation in salivarius streptococci
PLOS Genetics: published May 25, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010198
Production of 3′,3′-cGAMP by a Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus promiscuous GGDEF enzyme, Bd0367, regulates exit from prey by gliding motility
PLOS Genetics: published May 27, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010164
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Shade suppresses wound-induced leaf repositioning through a mechanism involving PHYTOCHROME KINASE SUBSTRATE (PKS) genes
PLOS Genetics: published May 27, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010213
Daf-16 mediated repression of cytosolic ribosomal protein genes facilitates a hypoxia sensitive to hypoxia resistant transformation in long-lived germline mutants
PLOS Genetics: published May 27, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009672
An unexpected role for the conserved ADAM-family metalloprotease ADM-2 in Caenorhabditis elegans molting
PLOS Genetics: published May 31, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010249
Genetic characterization of outbred Sprague Dawley rats and utility for genome-wide association studies
PLOS Genetics: published May 31, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010234
Major sex differences in allele frequencies for X chromosomal variants in both the 1000 Genomes Project and gnomAD
PLOS Genetics: published May 31, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010231
Corrections
Correction: Specific Hsp100 Chaperones Determine the Fate of the First Enzyme of the Plastidial Isoprenoid Pathway for Either Refolding or Degradation by the Stromal Clp Protease in Arabidopsis
PLOS Genetics: published May 9, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010216
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Correction: Chondroitin/dermatan sulfate glycosyltransferase genes are essential for craniofacial development
PLOS Genetics: published May 24, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010242
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Opinion Piece
Perspectives on rigor and reproducibility in single cell genomics
PLOS Genetics: published May 10, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010210