Weekly Roundup - October 23, 2015

Every week, members of the Wilson Sayres’ lab scour the most recent issues of dozens of journals for interesting and relevant (to lab research) articles. Here’s what we found the week of October 23, 2015 (apologies for the inconsistent formatting below, I'm still trying to get a handle on Wordpress's autoformatting behavior):

Sex Chromosomes

Sex bias and maternal contribution to gene expression divergence in Drosophila blastoderm embryos Paris et al. (2015) in PLoS Genetics

Rapid Y degeneration and dosage compensation in plant sex chromosomes Papadopulos et al. (2015) in PNAS

Impact of flanking chromosomal sequences on localization and silencing by the human non-coding RNA XIST Kelsey et al. (2015) in Genome Biology

An Xist-activating antisense RNA required for X-chromosome inactivation Sarkar et al. (2015) in Nature Communications

Genomics

Biased introgression of mitochondrial and nuclear genes: a comparison of diploid and haplodiploid systems Patten et al (2015) in Molecular Ecology

Genetic variation and the de novo assembly of human genomes Chaisson et al. (2015) in Nature Reviews Genetics

Molecular insights into transgenerational non-genetic inheritance of acquired behaviors

Boharcek and Mansuy (2015) in Nature Reviews Genetics

Random mono allelic expression of autosomal genes: stochastic transcription and allele-level regulation Reinius and Sandberg (2015) in Nature Reviews Genetics

Extremely high mutation rate of HIV-1 in vivo Cuevas et al. (2015) in PLoS Biology

DNA methylation landscapes of human fetal development Slieker et al. (2015) in PLoS Genetics

Population genomic structure and adaptation in the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi Assefa et al. (2015) in PNAS

The first whole genome and transcriptome of the cinereous vulture reveals adaptation in the gastric and immune defense systems and possible convergent evolution between the Old and New World vultures. Chung et al. (2015) in Genome Biology

Deep sequencing and de novo assembly of the mouse oocyte transcriptome define the contribution of transcription to the DNA methylation landscape.

Veselovska et al. (2015) in Genome Biology

Early evolution of vertebrate Mybs: an integrative perspective combining synteny, phylogenetic, and gene expression analyses. Campanini et al. (2015) in Genome Biology and Evolution

Methods

gespeR: a statistical model for deconvoluting off-target-confounded RNA interference screens.

Schmich et al. (2015) in Genome Biology

Teaser: individualized benchmarking and optimization of read mapping results for NGS data. Smolka et al. (2015) in Genome Biology

Evolutionary Biology

Fitness benefits of mate choice for compatibility in a socially monogamous species Ihle et al. (2015) in PLoS Biology

A new role of the mosquito complement-like cascade in male fertility in Anopheles gambiae Pompon and Levashina (2015) in PLoS Biology

The rise and fall of an evolutionary innovation: contrasting strategies of venom evolution in ancient and young animals Sunagar and Moran (2015) in PLoS Genetics

Electric eels use high-voltage to track fast-moving prey Catania (2015) in Nature Communications

New Zealand Passerines Help Clarify the Diversification of Major Songbird Lineages During the Oligocene Gibb et al. 2015) in Genome Biology and Evolution

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing Prum et al. (2015) in Nature

Miscellaneous

Sperm calcineurin inhibition prevents mouse fertility with implications for male contraceptive

Miyata et al. (2015) in Science Also see accompanying perspective: Towards a rapid and reversible male pill

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes Isbell et al. (2015) in Nature

Current extinction rates of reptiles and amphibians Alroy (2015) in PNAS

The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise

Lovelock et al. (2015)