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The paper identifies a cholinergic pathway in Drosophila midgut regeneration that triggers Ca2+ waves to heal the epithelium and prevent chronic injury.

This study evaluates the use of low-density SNP panels with imputation for genomic selection in rainbow trout to improve resistance to Flavobacterium columnare, finding comparable accuracy to high-density panels at lower cost.

The paper identifies fifteen priority loci associated with abiotic stress tolerance in chile peppers using environmental association analysis and outlier detection.

The paper investigates the association of SLC47A1 gene variant 17:19571562C>T with chronic kidney disease in Pakistani individuals and predicts functional effects of the MATE1 protein using bioinformatics tools.

The paper identifies genetic variants associated with collateral blood vessel abundance in mice, linking them to potential human disease mechanisms.

The paper evaluates using SNP data from poor-quality DNA to match STR profiles, showing similar accuracy to full-genome data with 5-10% coverage.

This paper evaluates a multiplexed plant-animal SNP array for diverse applications, showing high SNP performance across species and cost savings through pooling.

This study identifies Cdk13's role in preventing H3K9me3-heterochromatin spreading, which causes congenital heart defects, and shows a compound can alleviate these defects in mice.

This study evaluates the suitability of DNA from shed skin for genotyping-by-sequencing in reptiles, finding it viable with deeper sequencing and accounting for GC content.

This study examines the genetic diversity and demographic history of leopard seals, finding moderate diversity and evidence of population expansion linked to sea ice changes.

The paper analyzes pollen contamination and mating structure in maritime pine seed orchards using SNP markers, finding high variability in contamination rates and self-fertilization.

The paper estimates genome size, genetic diversity, and phenotypic variation in mulberry species to assess the impact of genetic variation versus ploidy on trait plasticity.

The paper introduces Gamma-SMC, a method for fast genome-wide inference of pairwise coalescence times, showing it is >14 times faster than existing methods.

The paper identifies two TSHR gene mutations in congenital hypothyroid patients and evaluates their impact on drug binding and protein stability using computational methods.

This paper introduces a universal method for generating knockout mice in multiple inbred strains using zygote electroporation, enabling efficient phenotyping for gene function and disease research.

The paper introduces the T1D Knowledge Portal, a resource for querying genetic and functional data related to type 1 diabetes to aid in hypothesis generation and target discovery.

The paper investigates how chromosome size affects transcriptional activity and finds that gene expression scales with the surface-area-to-volume ratio, suggesting active genes are located at chromosomal surfaces.

The paper identifies a genetic interaction between fust-1 and tdp-1 in C. elegans, showing they co-inhibit exon inclusion and control fertility with ceh-14.

The paper analyzes 1771 RNA-seq datasets from seven maize tissues to build a gene regulation atlas and link tissue-specific expression variation to agronomic traits.

The paper uses full-length isoform sequencing to identify a splicing defect in MFN2 causing CMT2A in a patient with undiagnosed neuropathy.