Uncharted territories: Solving the mysteries of male meiosis in flies

LingSze Lee, Leah F. Rosin

PLOS Genetics: published March 15, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011185

Opticool: Cutting-edge transgenic optical tools

Kelli D. Fenelon, Julia Krause, Theodora Koromila

PLOS Genetics: published March 22, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011208

Meiotic prophase length modulates Tel1-dependent DNA double-strand break interference

Luz María López Ruiz, Dominic Johnson, William H. Gittens, George G. B. Brown, Rachal M. Allison, Matthew J. Neale

PLOS Genetics: published March 1, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011140

Extreme restructuring of cis-regulatory regions controlling a deeply conserved plant stem cell regulator

Danielle Ciren, Sophia Zebell, Zachary B. Lippman

PLOS Genetics: published March 4, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011174

Divergent role of Mitochondrial Amidoxime Reducing Component 1 (MARC1) in human and mouse

Eriks Smagris, Lisa M. Shihanian, Ivory J. Mintah, Parnian Bigdelou, Yuliya Livson, Heather Brown, Niek Verweij, Charleen Hunt, Reid O’Brien Johnson, Tyler J. Greer, Suzanne A. Hartford, George Hindy, Luanluan Sun, Jonas B. Nielsen, Gabor Halasz, Luca A. Lotta, Andrew J. Murphy, Mark W. Sleeman, Viktoria Gusarova

PLOS Genetics: published March 4, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011179

Protein subcellular relocalization and function of duplicated flagellar calcium binding protein genes in honey bee trypanosomatid parasite

Xuye Yuan, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki

PLOS Genetics: published March 4, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011195

Chimeric systems composed of swapped Tra subunits between distantly-related F plasmids reveal striking plasticity among type IV secretion machines

Kouhei Kishida, Yang Grace Li, Natsumi Ogawa-Kishida, Pratick Khara, Abu Amar M. Al Mamun, Rachel E. Bosserman, Peter J. Christie

PLOS Genetics: published March 4, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011088

Basement membrane diversification relies on two competitive secretory routes defined by Rab10 and Rab8 and modulated by dystrophin and the exocyst complex

Cynthia Dennis, Pierre Pouchin, Graziella Richard, Vincent Mirouse

PLOS Genetics: published March 4, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011169

An epigenetic timer regulates the transition from cell division to cell expansion during Arabidopsis petal organogenesis

Ruirui Huang, Vivian F. Irish

PLOS Genetics: published March 5, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011203

Genome evolution and divergence in cis-regulatory architecture is associated with condition-responsive development in horned dung beetles

Phillip L. Davidson, Armin P. Moczek

PLOS Genetics: published March 5, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011165

RNA cis-regulators are important for Streptococcus pneumoniae in vivo success

Indu Warrier, Ariana Perry, Sara M. Hubbell, Matthew Eichelman, Tim van Opijnen, Michelle M. Meyer

PLOS Genetics: published March 5, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011188

New insights into the all-testis differentiation in zebrafish with compromised endogenous androgen and estrogen synthesis

Yonglin Ruan, Xuehui Li, Xinyi Wang, Gang Zhai, Qiyong Lou, Xia Jin, Jiangyan He, Jie Mei, Wuhan Xiao, Jianfang Gui, Zhan Yin

PLOS Genetics: published March 7, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011170

Cis-regulatory polymorphism at fiz ecdysone oxidase contributes to polygenic evolutionary response to malnutrition in Drosophila

Fanny Cavigliasso, Mikhail Savitsky, Alexey Koval, Berra Erkosar, Loriane Savary, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Julijana Ivanisevic, Vladimir L. Katanaev, Tadeusz J. Kawecki

PLOS Genetics: published March 7, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011204

The PP2A-like phosphatase Ppg1 mediates assembly of the Far complex to balance gluconeogenic outputs and enables adaptation to glucose depletion

Shreyas Niphadkar, Lavanya Karinje, Sunil Laxman

PLOS Genetics: published March 7, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011202

Long-read sequencing for fast and robust identification of correct genome-edited alleles: PCR-based and Cas9 capture methods

Christopher V. McCabe, Peter D. Price, Gemma F. Codner, Alasdair J. Allan, Adam Caulder, Skevoulla Christou, Jorik Loeffler, Matthew Mackenzie, Elke Malzer, Joffrey Mianné, Krystian J. Nowicki, Edward J. O’Neill, Fran J. Pike, Marie Hutchison, Benoit Petit-Demoulière, Michelle E. Stewart, Hilary Gates, Sara Wells, Nicholas D. Sanderson, Lydia Teboul

PLOS Genetics: published March 8, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011187

The regulation of methylation on the Z chromosome and the identification of multiple novel Male Hyper-Methylated regions in the chicken

Andrey Höglund, Rie Henriksen, Allison M. Churcher, Carlos M. Guerrero-Bosagna, Alvaro Martinez-Barrio, Martin Johnsson, Per Jensen, Dominic Wright

PLOS Genetics: published March 8, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010719

Succinate utilisation by Salmonella is inhibited by multiple regulatory systems

Nicolas Wenner, Xiaojun Zhu, Will P. M. Rowe, Kristian Händler, Jay C. D. Hinton

PLOS Genetics: published March 8, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011142

A single amino acid polymorphism in natural Metchnikowin alleles of Drosophila results in systemic immunity and life history tradeoffs

Jessamyn I. Perlmutter, Joanne R. Chapman, Mason C. Wilkinson, Isaac Nevarez-Saenz, Robert L. Unckless

PLOS Genetics: published March 11, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011155

Ecdysone-controlled nuclear receptor ERR regulates metabolic homeostasis in the disease vector mosquito Aedes aegypti

Dan-Qian Geng, Xue-Li Wang, Xiang-Yang Lyu, Alexander S. Raikhel, Zhen Zou

PLOS Genetics: published March 11, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011196

A negative feedback loop is critical for recovery of RpoS after stress in Escherichia coli

Sophie Bouillet, Issam Hamdallah, Nadim Majdalani, Arti Tripathi, Susan Gottesman

PLOS Genetics: published March 11, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011059

Transposition of HOPPLA in siRNA-deficient plants suggests a limited effect of the environment on retrotransposon mobility in Brachypodium distachyon

Michael Thieme, Nikolaos Minadakis, Christophe Himber, Bettina Keller, Wenbo Xu, Kinga Rutowicz, Calvin Matteoli, Marcel Böhrer, Bart Rymen, Debbie Laudencia-Chingcuanco, John P. Vogel, Richard Sibout, Christoph Stritt, Todd Blevins, Anne C. Roulin

PLOS Genetics: published March 12, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011200

A fatty acid anabolic pathway in specialized-cells sustains a remote signal that controls egg activation in Drosophila

Mickael Poidevin, Nicolas Mazuras, Gwénaëlle Bontonou, Pierre Delamotte, Béatrice Denis, Maëlle Devilliers, Perla Akiki, Delphine Petit, Laura de Luca, Priscilla Soulie, Cynthia Gillet, Claude Wicker-Thomas, Jacques Montagne

PLOS Genetics: published March 14, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011186

Functional labeling of individualized postsynaptic neurons using optogenetics and trans-Tango in Drosophila (FLIPSOT)

Allison N. Castaneda, Ainul Huda, Iona B. M. Whitaker, Julianne E. Reilly, Grace S. Shelby, Hua Bai, Lina Ni

PLOS Genetics: published March 14, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011190

INSIDER: Interpretable sparse matrix decomposition for RNA expression data analysis

Kai Zhao, Sen Huang, Cuichan Lin, Pak Chung Sham, Hon-Cheong So, Zhixiang Lin

PLOS Genetics: published March 14, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011189

P53 and BCL-2 family proteins PUMA and NOXA define competitive fitness in pluripotent cell competition

Jose A. Valverde-Lopez, Lin Li-Bao, Rocío Sierra, Elisa Santos, Giovanna Giovinazzo, Covadonga Díaz-Díaz, Miguel Torres

PLOS Genetics: published March 15, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011193

Genome biology and evolution of mating-type loci in four cereal rust fungi

Zhenyan Luo, Alistair McTaggart, Benjamin Schwessinger

PLOS Genetics: published March 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011207

Gene dosage of independent dynein arm motor preassembly factors influences cilia assembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Gervette M. Penny, Susan K. Dutcher

PLOS Genetics: published March 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011038

Subscaling of a cytosolic RNA binding protein governs cell size homeostasis in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas

Dianyi Liu, Cristina Lopez-Paz, Yubing Li, Xiaohong Zhuang, James Umen

PLOS Genetics: published March 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010503

Altered Fhod3 expression involved in progressive high-frequency hearing loss via dysregulation of actin polymerization stoichiometry in the cuticular plate

Ely Cheikh Boussaty, Yuzuru Ninoyu, Leonardo R. Andrade, Qingzhong Li, Ryu Takeya, Hideki Sumimoto, Takahiro Ohyama, Karl J. Wahlin, Uri Manor, Rick A. Friedman

PLOS Genetics: published March 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011211

A quantitative genetic model of background selection in humans

Vince Buffalo, Andrew D. Kern

PLOS Genetics: published March 20, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011144

Reciprocal regulation of enterococcal cephalosporin resistance by products of the autoregulated yvcJ-glmR-yvcL operon enhances fitness during cephalosporin exposure

Dušanka Djorić, Samantha N. Atkinson, Christopher J. Kristich

PLOS Genetics: published March 21, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011215

DNAJB1-PRKACA fusion protein-regulated LINC00473 promotes tumor growth and alters mitochondrial fitness in fibrolamellar carcinoma

Rosanna K. Ma, Pei-Yin Tsai, Alaa R. Farghli, Alexandria Shumway, Matt Kanke, John D. Gordan, Taranjit S. Gujral, Khashayar Vakili, Manabu Nukaya, Leila Noetzli, Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly, Wendy Broom, Joeva Barrow, Praveen Sethupathy

PLOS Genetics: published March 21, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011216

Recombination, admixture and genome instability shape the genomic landscape of Saccharomyces cerevisiae derived from spontaneous grape ferments

Chris M. Ward, Cristobal A. Onetto, Steven Van Den Heuvel, Kathleen M. Cuijvers, Laura J. Hale, Anthony R. Borneman

PLOS Genetics: published March 22, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011223

Compartment specific responses to contractility in the small intestinal epithelium

Taylor Hinnant, Wenxiu Ning, Terry Lechler

PLOS Genetics: published March 22, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010899

Canadian COVID-19 host genetics cohort replicates known severity associations

Elika Garg, Paola Arguello-Pascualli, Olga Vishnyakova, Anat R. Halevy, Samantha Yoo, Jennifer D. Brooks, Shelley B. Bull, France Gagnon, Celia M. T. Greenwood, Rayjean J. Hung, Jerald F. Lawless, Jordan Lerner-Ellis, Jessica K. Dennis, Rohan J. S. Abraham, Jean-Michel Garant, Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram, Steven J. M. Jones, CGEn HostSeq Initiative, Lisa J. Strug, Andrew D. Paterson, Lei Sun, Lloyd T. Elliott

PLOS Genetics: published March 22, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011192

Spoink, a LTR retrotransposon, invaded D. melanogaster populations in the 1990s

Riccardo Pianezza, Almorò Scarpa, Prakash Narayanan, Sarah Signor, Robert Kofler

PLOS Genetics: published March 26, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011201

Dmrt1 is the only male pathway gene tested indispensable for sex determination and functional testis development in tilapia

Shuangshuang Qi, Shengfei Dai, Xin Zhou, Xueyan Wei, Ping Chen, Yuanyuan He, Thomas D. Kocher, Deshou Wang, Minghui Li

PLOS Genetics: published March 27, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011210

A natural bacterial pathogen of C. elegans uses a small RNA to induce transgenerational inheritance of learned avoidance

Titas Sengupta, Jonathan St. Ange, Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca S. Moore, Renee J. Seto, Jacob Marogi, Cameron Myhrvold, Zemer Gitai, Coleen T. Murphy

PLOS Genetics: published March 28, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011178

Kombucha Tea-associated microbes remodel host metabolic pathways to suppress lipid accumulation

Rachel N. DuMez-Kornegay, Lillian S. Baker, Alexis J. Morris, Whitney L. M. DeLoach, Robert H. Dowen

PLOS Genetics: published March 28, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011003

Correction: Tissue-specific and cis-regulatory changes underlie parallel, adaptive gene expression evolution in house mice

The PLOS Genetics Staff

PLOS Genetics: published March 27, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011213

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