The emerging role of transcriptional regulation in the oocyte-to-zygote transition

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PLOS Genetics: published March 5, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008602

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PLOS Genetics: published March 2, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008198

Inhibition of the oligosaccharyl transferase in Caenorhabditis elegans that compromises ER proteostasis suppresses p38-dependent protection against pathogenic bacteria

Dae-Eun Jeong, Yujin Lee, Seokjin Ham, Dongyeop Lee, Sujeong Kwon, Hae-Eun H. Park, Sun-Young Hwang, Joo-Yeon Yoo, Tae-Young Roh, Seung-Jae V. Lee

PLOS Genetics: published March 4, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008617

The SNAP hypothesis: Chromosomal rearrangements could emerge from positive Selection during Niche Adaptation

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PLOS Genetics: published March 4, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008615

Murine cytomegalovirus infection exacerbates complex IV deficiency in a model of mitochondrial disease

Nicola Ferreira, Christopher E. Andoniou, Kara L. Perks, Judith A. Ermer, Danielle L. Rudler, Giulia Rossetti, Ambika Periyakaruppiah, Jamie K. Y. Wong, Oliver Rackham, Peter G. Noakes, Mariapia A. Degli-Esposti, Aleksandra Filipovska

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Disentangling group specific QTL allele effects from genetic background epistasis using admixed individuals in GWAS: An application to maize flowering

Simon Rio, Tristan Mary-Huard, Laurence Moreau, Cyril Bauland, Carine Palaffre, Delphine Madur, Valérie Combes, Alain Charcosset

PLOS Genetics: published March 4, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008241

The Lid/KDM5 histone demethylase complex activates a critical effector of the oocyte-to-zygote transition

Daniela Torres-Campana, Shuhei Kimura, Guillermo A. Orsi, Béatrice Horard, Gérard Benoit, Benjamin Loppin

PLOS Genetics: published March 5, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008543

Histone H4 dosage modulates DNA damage response in the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata via homologous recombination pathway

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PLOS Genetics: published March 5, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008620

FLS2 is a CDK-like kinase that directly binds IFT70 and is required for proper ciliary disassembly in Chlamydomonas

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Transcription-replication conflicts as a source of common fragile site instability caused by BMI1-RNF2 deficiency

Anthony Sanchez, Angelo de Vivo, Peter Tonzi, Jeonghyeon Kim, Tony T. Huang, Younghoon Kee

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Recessive missense LAMP3 variant associated with defect in lamellar body biogenesis and fatal neonatal interstitial lung disease in dogs

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The influence of rare variants in circulating metabolic biomarkers

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Global mistranslation increases cell survival under stress in Escherichia coli

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Long transposon-rich centromeres in an oomycete reveal divergence of centromere features in Stramenopila-Alveolata-Rhizaria lineages

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Drosophila insulin-like peptide 2 mediates dietary regulation of sleep intensity

Elizabeth B. Brown, Kreesha D. Shah, Richard Faville, Benjamin Kottler, Alex C. Keene

PLOS Genetics: published March 11, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008270

Non-lethal exposure to H₂O₂ boosts bacterial survival and evolvability against oxidative stress

Alexandro Rodríguez-Rojas, Joshua Jay Kim, Paul R. Johnston, Olga Makarova, Murat Eravci, Christoph Weise, Regine Hengge, Jens Rolff

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A fly model establishes distinct mechanisms for synthetic CRISPR/Cas9 sex distorters

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Quantitative genetic analysis deciphers the impact of cis and trans regulation on cell-to-cell variability in protein expression levels

Michael D. Morgan, Etienne Patin, Bernd Jagla, Milena Hasan, Lluís Quintana-Murci, John C. Marioni

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A kinesin Klp10A mediates cell cycle-dependent shuttling of Piwi between nucleus and nuage

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The alarmones (p)ppGpp are part of the heat shock response of Bacillus subtilis

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Cell cycle transcriptomics of Capsaspora provides insights into the evolution of cyclin-CDK machinery

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Modeling cancer genomic data in yeast reveals selection against ATM function during tumorigenesis

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Autophagy compensates for defects in mitochondrial dynamics

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GLP-1 Notch—LAG-1 CSL control of the germline stem cell fate is mediated by transcriptional targets lst-1 and sygl-1

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E2f5 is a versatile transcriptional activator required for spermatogenesis and multiciliated cell differentiation in zebrafish

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