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PLOS Genetics Research Prize

Published October 31, 2019 Curated Collections

Each year, you are invited to nominate your favorite PLOS Genetics Research Article for our Research Prize, an initiative that recognizes and rewards outstanding primary research. The journal’s editors look for scientific excellence and community impact when selecting the winning articles.

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Balint Z. Kacsoh, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

PLOS Genetics 2019 PLOS Genetics Research Prize: Fruit fly school – language and dialects for communicating a threat
September 12, 2019 Gregory S. Barsh, Gregory P. Copenhaver, Elapulli Sankaranarayanan Prakash, Daniela C. Zarnescu
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Balint Z. Kacsoh et al

PLOS Genetics Drosophila species learn dialects through communal living
July 19, 2018 Balint Z. Kacsoh, Julianna Bozler, Giovanni Bosco
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Felix M. Key et al

PLOS Genetics Human local adaptation of the TRPM8 cold receptor along a latitudinal cline
May 3, 2018 Felix M. Key, Muslihudeen A. Abdul-Aziz, Roger Mundry, Benjamin M. Peter, Aarthi Sekar, Mauro D’Amato, Megan Y. Dennis, Joshua M. Schmidt, Aida M. Andrés
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María Angélica Bravo Núñez et al

PLOS Genetics A suppressor of a wtf poison-antidote meiotic driver acts via mimicry of the driver’s antidote
November 26, 2018 María Angélica Bravo Núñez, Jeffrey J. Lange, Sarah E. Zanders
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Sarah M. Wignall

PLOS Biologue Nominations open for the PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2019 | PLOS Biologue
May 9, 2019 Jessica Miller

PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2018

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Timothy J. Mullen and Sarah M. Wignall

PLOS Genetics 2018 PLOS Genetics Research Prize: Bundling, stabilizing, organizing—The orchestration of acentriolar spindle assembly by microtubule motor proteins
September 13, 2018 Gregory S. Barsh, Needhi Bhalla, Francesca Cole, Gregory P. Copenhaver, Soni Lacefield, Diana E. Libuda
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Timothy J. Mullen and Sarah M. Wignall

PLOS Genetics Interplay between microtubule bundling and sorting factors ensures acentriolar spindle stability during C. elegans oocyte meiosis
September 14, 2017 Timothy J. Mullen, Sarah M. Wignall
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1006915

PLOS Genetics The population genetics of human disease: The case of recessive, lethal mutations
September 28, 2017 Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim, Ziyue Gao, Zachary Baker, José Francisco Diesel, Yuval B. Simons, Imran S. Haque, Joseph Pickrell, Molly Przeworski
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1006498

PLOS Genetics Genetic Variation in the Social Environment Contributes to Health and Disease
January 25, 2017 Amelie Baud, Megan K. Mulligan, Francesco Paolo Casale, Jesse F. Ingels, Casey J. Bohl, Jacques Callebert, Jean-Marie Launay, Jon Krohn, Andres Legarra, Robert W. Williams, Oliver Stegle
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Lukas Synek

PLOS Biologue Nominations open for the PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2018 | PLOS Biologue
May 10, 2018 Jessica Miller

PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2017

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SRUC, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, with additions by Rainer Roehe and colleagues.

PLOS Biologue Genetics and microbiome of cattle methane production: 2017 PLOS Genetics Research Prize Winning Research | PLOS Biologue
September 21, 2017 Jessica Miller
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1005846

PLOS Genetics Bovine Host Genetic Variation Influences Rumen Microbial Methane Production with Best Selection Criterion for Low Methane Emitting and Efficiently Feed Converting Hosts Based on Metagenomic Gene Abundance
February 18, 2016 Rainer Roehe, Richard J. Dewhurst, Carol-Anne Duthie, John A. Rooke, Nest McKain, Dave W. Ross, Jimmy J. Hyslop, Anthony Waterhouse, Tom C. Freeman, Mick Watson, R. John Wallace
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Yuan and colleagues

PLOS Biologue PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2017: The story behind last year’s winning research | PLOS Biologue
May 26, 2017 Jessica Miller

PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2016

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Hunter B. Fraser

PLOS Biologue PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2016: Winner Announced | PLOS Biologue
September 23, 2016 Elizabeth Taylor
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1005751

PLOS Genetics Dissecting the Genetic Basis of a Complex cis-Regulatory Adaptation
December 29, 2015 Santiago Naranjo, Justin D. Smith, Carlo G. Artieri, Mian Zhang, Yiqi Zhou, Michael E. Palmer, Hunter B. Fraser
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João Barroso-Batista

PLOS Biologue PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2016: Nominations open | PLOS Biologue
May 23, 2016 Amy Yau

PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2015

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João Barroso-Batista and colleagues

PLOS Biologue PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2015: Winner Announced | PLOS Biologue
November 19, 2015 Amy Yau
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1004182

PLOS Genetics The First Steps of Adaptation of Escherichia coli to the Gut Are Dominated by Soft Sweeps
March 6, 2014 João Barroso-Batista, Ana Sousa, Marta Lourenço, Marie-Louise Bergman, Daniel Sobral, Jocelyne Demengeot, Karina B. Xavier, Isabel Gordo
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Sarah E. Medland

PLOS Biologue Launching the PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2015 | PLOS Biologue
August 26, 2015 Amy Yau

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