Genetics Society of America

Congrats to our 2026 GSA Award recipients! They have made significant contributions to science, including scientific discoveries, mentoring, creation of community resources, & education. Learn more: buff.ly/i94u0GD Join us in celebrating their accomplishments.👏 1/3🧵⬇️

New research in #GENETICS shows how Rho GTPase signaling regulates synaptic transmission in the #Celegans egg-laying circuit, identifying Rho-1 signals downstream of Trio RhoGEF to promote egg laying. 🔗 buff.ly/kCp1PYs

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT @nature_of_words, @aeharkess, and the team present a highly contiguous, chromosome-scale, haplotype-resolved genome assembly for the southern live oak. Discover the American Campus Tree Genomes program in this #G3journal paper: 🔗 buff.ly/9FpZvYX

Learn about a new simulation methodology in #G3journal that is designed to increase recombination rate in #breeding programs and to determine the effect of recombination on genetic gain using phenotypic and genomic selection. 🔗 buff.ly/vQrCTBr

What is the mutation rate in natural vs laboratory populations? What are the typical divergence times among and within species? In #GENETICS, Wei et al. analyzed the evolution of clonal #Celegans genotypes collected and sequenced in Santeuil wood, France. buff.ly/R2e8bLV

The genetics community has lost a pioneering and often provocative force. J. Craig Venter, a key figure in sequencing the human genome and advancing synthetic biology, has died at age 79. 🔗: buff.ly/UwAs6WL

A detailed characterization of polyadenylation profiles in 45 #yeast strains carrying mutations in proteins involved in chromatin, mRNA splicing, cleavage, mRNA stability, and RNA binding, reveals processes that are affected. Learn more in #GENETICS: 🔗 buff.ly/8mfOM9P

A quantitative genetics model incorporates the influence of indirect maternal and paternal as well as parent-of-origin genetic effects on the additive genetic variance. Learn more in #GENETICS: 🔗 buff.ly/Y7GK1Ag

Learn more about a new modeling approach in #GENETICS that maps one state space to another, enabling the computation of the inverse instantaneous coalescence rate (IICR) using Q-matrices of different dimensions. 🔗 buff.ly/kq9f3Ms

The April issue of #G3journal features the first-ever reference genome of a parasitic fly, Istocheta aldrichi—a crucial resource in conservation efforts, as it is used as a biological control agent for the invasive Japanese beetle in North America. 🪰🧬 buff.ly/WzBV2Bx

Please join us in congratulating 2026 GSA Early Career Medal recipient @MExpositoAlonso of @UCBerkeley!🎉 Recognized for pioneering research on plant adaptation, genetic diversity, and climate change, he is shaping the future of biodiversity science. 🔗: buff.ly/2moemZs

Read the latest report in the April issue of #G3journal, which uses genetic mapping and CRISPR mutants to isolate Pid3 as a resistance gene for fungal Rice blast disease in rice cultivar Wanhui 66. 🌾 🧬 🔗 buff.ly/vAigSdT

Check out an important benchmarking study in the April issue of #G3journal 🛠️ Wang et al. compared computational tools used for cross-omics label transfer from scRNA-seq to scATAC-seq data and studied the impact of data and method properties on results. buff.ly/4E5ijVz

🎂 Happy birthday to Charles Woodworth, born April 28! He first bred Drosophila in captivity and proposed fruit flies as a model organism in 1901. More than a century later, the global fly community is still building on that vision. 👀 Got your eyes on #Dros27? Stay tuned!

A new report in the April issue of #G3journal reveals that #Drosophila males depend on visual cues to determine the anterior–posterior body axis of females, driving specific spatial patterns of distinct behavioral courtship elements. 🪰 💕 #flycourtship buff.ly/0zsLdLY

New in #GENETICS from @HainerLab: The nucleosome remodelers esBAF and INO80 selectively influence subcompartment identity and enhancer–promoter communication at key regulatory loci during higher-order chromatin organization in mice. 🔗 buff.ly/0eU5xg0

📖 Read this important perspective piece in the April issue of #GENETICS that outlines the limitations of Mendelism in genotype-phenotype mapping and advocates for new experimental paradigms to understand context-dependent genetic effects. 🔗 buff.ly/4OAZJS2

A genetic screen in #yeast reveals unusual, hypermorphic properties of Yta7—a chromatin remodeling factor and histone chaperone—variants and highlights the importance of nucleosome remodelers in establishing centromeric chromatin. Learn more in #GENETICS: buff.ly/58t1wOd

Happy #DNADay26! 🧬 On April 25, 1953, publication of DNA’s double helix structure changed science and opened new frontiers in genetics and genomics. Ready to share your field-changing research? #GENETICS and #G3Journal are ready for you: buff.ly/yPalen5

New data in #GENETICS show that at least 2 different populations of ligand-gated heteromeric acetylcholine receptors with different stoichiometries and properties coexist at the #Celegans neuromuscular junctions. 🔗 buff.ly/9V33jOP

⚒️ New mutant lines help uncover a molecular mechanism of abnormal oocyte (ao)—a #Drosophila maternal-effect lethal gene—function that is distinct from histone gene repression. 🪰 Learn more in #GENETICS from @HarmitMalik and @LeilaRieder labs: 🔗 buff.ly/OsHz5Ps