A new Dialogue & Debate article by Jeffrey Endelman and Julie Dawson describes additive and dominance effects to promote proper use of these quantitative genetics terminologies.  Find out more in the August issue of #G3journal 🔗 buff.ly/GKZnel7

The Felsenstein pruning algorithm (1973) is the backbone of phylogenetic inference, but what actually is the transition operator along a phylogeny? Read the latest article in the August issue of #GENETICS, where @colinhl.bsky.social answers this question. 🔗 buff.ly/aVGvAfu

The August #G3Journal cover features a Pignut hickory (Carya glabra) in the McCarty Woods Conservation Area on the University of Florida campus. Shan et al. assembled and annotated the first high-quality reference genome for C. glabra. 1/3🧵

The August GENETICS cover shows fluorescence microscopy of genetically engineered Cryptococcus neoformans cells expressing a plasma membrane-tethered Hog1 MAPK fusion (red), with Hoechst-stained nuclei (blue). 1/2🧵

⏰ TODAY: Career Development Workshop on Increasing Transparency in the Academic Job Market! Join @nafisajadavji.bsky.social and Amanda Haage for a discussion on faculty hiring, expectations, and navigating academic careers. 2–3 p.m. EDT. 🔗Register and join: buff.ly/YE8q2EA

The latest #GENETICS study provides the first demonstration that population structure can increase the rate of adaptive evolution by creating the possibility for synchronized dispersal and sexual reproduction. 🔗 buff.ly/7ykl4vf

Don’t miss 2026 Edward Novitski Prize recipient Michael O’Connor on August 11 to learn how a 30-year quest to understand the shrew gene is shedding new light on Drosophila embryonic development. 🔗https://buff.ly/uvGHncW

A genetic system leveraging components of a selfish supergene produces efficient sex ratio distortion in mice. This highly effective approach marks a major advance in animal #breeding and can easily be transferred to farm animals. Learn more in the August issue of #GENETICS 🔗 buff.ly/EtYokAY

Are you an undergrad, grad student, or postdoc seeking financial assistance to attend #Dros27? Several opportunities are now open! Read application or nomination instructions for each. Note that some require 1–2 recommendation letters you'll want to request with time. Learn more: buff.ly/ZKwSLDd

Find out more in #GENETICS about a structured-coalescent model, its parameters, and its applications in genetic analyses of multiple unlinked loci in pedigree analysis. 🔗 buff.ly/OnbC237

The August issue of #G3journal features a #Drosophila model of human myopathies 🪰 💪 Read here about how fly indirect flight muscles can help dissect Zasp protein function, reveal redundancy in Z-disc assembly, and provide mechanistic insight into conserved mutations. 🔗 buff.ly/8lDFuWD

How can a tiny worm shape a scientific career? Join 2026 GSA Mentorship Award recipient @irinakitop.bsky.social of @fredhutch.org on August 20 at 1:00 p.m. EDT as she shares how C. elegans has guided discoveries, collaborations, and approaches to mentorship. 🔗https://buff.ly/iUmQCCQ

⚒️🪰 Discover a new toolkit for eRNA transcription in the August issue of #G3journal This versatile tool allows for testing enhancer activity, insulator mechanisms, and non-coding transcription in genomic contexts in fixed and live whole #Drosophila embryos. 📷️ Christine Mau 🔗 buff.ly/L5DG6yv

In #GENETICS, @joannamasel.bsky.social and the team describe how we define fitness changes with context and propose a conceptual scheme where short-term and long-term fitness are best operationalized via organismal vital rates and genetic lineages, respectively. 🔗 buff.ly/S0UK9Mn

On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵

🐛 Caterpillars of Lonomia #moths envenomate people in Latin America every year. In the July issue of #G3journal, @diler.bsky.social, @nkwhiteman.bsky.social present a genome assembly of Lonomia casanarensis that will help improve antivenoms and develop novel bioactive compounds. 🔗 buff.ly/Mqa35Tv

Aphanomyces root rot (ARR), caused by the oomycete Aphanomyces euteiches, is one of the most devastating diseases of alfalfa in North America. New QTL analysis presented in the July issue of #G3journal identifies distinct genetic sources of ARR resistance. 🔗 buff.ly/xRedQ4f 📷️ Bruna Bucciarelli

🧠 Explore the #CRISPR screening results in the July issue of #GENETICS that identify TRIM27 as a destabilizer of Retinoic acid-induced 1 (RAI1) and as a potential therapeutic target in Smith–Magenis syndrome, a human neurodevelopmental disorder. 🔗 buff.ly/Q7pjMXP 📷️ credit: Yu Cheng Lin

Thank you to everyone advocating for genetics research. The GSA Board of Directors submitted a public comment to OMB on the proposed "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance." Your voice remains essential. Read GSA’s comment here: buff.ly/QFuNpw2

🪰 The latest #Drosophila study in #GENETICS characterizes genetic factors contributing to drive strength in a sample of inbred lines, providing novel insights into the complex dynamics of Segregation Distorter chromosomes and their suppressors. 🔗 buff.ly/1FkZ5zq

The July issue of #GENETICS features a comprehensive analysis of widely used variant calling tools and their performance in simulated genomes of the reference and non-reference inbred laboratory #mouse strains, providing benchmarks and practical guidance. 🐁 🔗 buff.ly/eQv7vQE

The July issue of #G3journal features a computational model to understand and quantify the demographic history of #Anopheles gambiae that helps detect population splits, effective population size changes, growth, and migration rates in #mosquitoes from Guinea and Burkina Faso. 🔗 buff.ly/8Rs0sTf

🪰 🔀 Do differences in crossover-associated RING finger protein (COR) dosage affect crossover number during #Drosophila #meiosis? Find out more in the July issue of #G3journal, where @jeffsekelsky.bsky.social and the team address this question 🔗 buff.ly/zR8X1R1

Two ways to share your data with #G3Journal: Genome Reports for high-quality genome assemblies, variation, and comparative analyses & Omics Reports for multi-sample datasets across transcriptomics, proteomics, and more. 🔗 Submit your paper: buff.ly/V55WMYb

🥭 A new feature article in the July issue of #G3journal describes how the genomic prediction accuracy in mango is primarily governed by the evolutionary structure of the traits rather than by the choice of prediction model. 🔗 buff.ly/WtZSZ9i

Discover neural posterior estimation methods that combines the principled uncertainty quantification of Bayesian methods with the computational efficiency and automatic feature extraction abilities of #deeplearning. More in the July issue of #GENETICS 🔗 buff.ly/qSCFDvo

Check out a novel method for studying Phase 2 meiotic recombination in #buddingyeast that uncovers interactions between RAD54, TID1, and PIF1. Read more in #GENETICS about how this assay can be applied to other recombination genes to understand double-stranded break repair.  🔗 buff.ly/mY5XxxX

📢 Reminder! Join the next Career Development Workshop in 1 week, on Aug. 5 (2–3 p.m. EDT) for Increasing Transparency in the Academic Job Market. Learn how faculty hiring works in North America and get practical tips for navigating the process. 🔗Register: buff.ly/kE4ZDDA @nafisajadavji.bsky.social

Meet three of our #Dros27 plenary speakers! 🧠 Vanessa Auld 🪰 @nabroderick.bsy.social 🧬 Don Fox From glial biology to host-microbe interactions to genome stability and regeneration, they'll bring exciting science to Philadelphia. 🔗https://buff.ly/7IBPyFM

The July issue of #GENETICS features a population-scale pangenome resource for a suboscine passerine bird that allows for the characterization of the genome-wide abundance, diversity, and distribution of structural variants within this species. @scottvedwards.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/gmqi7od