Dianhui Zhu

TL;DR: The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel is described, a community resource for analysis of population genomics and quantitative traits, which reveals reduced polymorphism in centromeric autosomal regions and the X chromosomes, evidence for positive and negative selection, and rapid evolution of the X chromosome.

TL;DR: Results from an initial reference genome sequencing of 178 microbial genomes allow for ~40% of random sequences from the microbiome of the gastrointestinal tract to be associated with organisms based on the match criteria used, suggesting that the authors are still far from saturating microbial species genetic data sets.

TL;DR: An integrated genotyping strategy was used to identify 4,853,802 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 1,296,080 non-SNP variants and identified 16 polymorphic inversions in the DGRP, finding variation in genome size and many quantitative traits are significantly associated with inversions.

TL;DR: Improved honey bee genome assembly with a new gene annotation set and a number of genes similar to that of other insect genomes are reported, contrary to what was suggested in OGSv1.0.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the genetic architecture of three Drosophila life history traits in the sequenced inbred lines of the melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP) and a large outbred, advanced intercross population derived from 40 DGRP lines (Flyland).