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The paper creates a hypomorphic allele of the Drosophila melanogaster corolla gene by replacing it with its D. mauritiana ortholog, revealing defects in SC maintenance and crossover distribution while avoiding severe phenotypes.

The paper investigates the genetic basis of twin and single spots in tobacco, finding that they arise primarily from deletions, translocations, and aneuploidy rather than homologous recombination.

The paper studies the source of RS3 microsatellite length polymorphism in humans by recapitulating it in yeast and finding it results from recombination.

This study analyzes the population genomics of Staphylococcus haemolyticus to understand its transition from commensal to pathogenic states.

The paper improves intra-European ancestry prediction by selecting informative genetic markers using machine learning, achieving higher accuracy than existing marker panels.

The paper generates intestinal organoids from pediatric IBD patients and controls to study epithelial phenotypes linked to genetic drivers of the disease, identifying gene expression patterns and pathways associated with inflammation.

The paper develops a model for marker-assisted selection in common bean to improve resistance to root-knot nematodes by identifying QTLs and candidate genes.

This study develops an ETP-specific knockout mouse model to demonstrate ETP's critical role in kidney fibrosis during ischemia-reperfusion injury.

The paper benchmarks four colocalization methods using protein QTL data to assess their reliability and consistency in detecting shared genetic causes.

The paper re-evaluates phage-plasmids (PPs) across 5 million sequences, finding they are rare, more virulent, and lack antibiotic resistance genes.

The paper reduces error rates in population-scale whole-genome sequencing by applying genotype-level quality control, demonstrating its effectiveness using UK Biobank and All of Us datasets.

This study identifies ORB2 as a regulator of maternal mRNAs during the Drosophila MZT, showing its ZZ domain mediates repression through interactions with post-transcriptional regulators.

This study develops and validates a gene expression signature using qPCR to assess the age of porcine wounds, finding that 14 genes can reflect wound age but are not sufficient for forensic use alone.

This study shows that crossover interference is stronger in male than female house mice meiosis and provides the first estimate of non-interfering crossovers in females, finding a lower proportion compared to males.

This study investigates how ILP4 and InR regulate Paclitaxel-induced hypersensitivity in Drosophila larvae, revealing a genetic separation between these factors and a disconnect between hypersensitivity and neuronal morphology.

The paper analyzes interchromosomal linkage disequilibrium in wheat breeding families to detect sign epistasis, finding 19 regions with strong disequilibrium that support the hypothesis over additive selection.

This study combines ESEM imaging and DNA barcoding to rapidly and reliably identify insect larvae for forensic applications, showing high sequence identity with the target species and significant PCR product yield differences among extraction methods.

The paper identifies a novel Sh1 allele in corn that synergizes with waxy1 to alter carbohydrate metabolism, resulting in a waxy-sweet texture in maize kernels.

This study shows that biased kinship estimation in structured populations leads to heritability estimation bias, with Popkin being the only unbiased estimator.