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Section edited by Gustavo Goldman
This section covers the structure and function of genomes of single-celled parasites, yeasts, fungi and viruses.
Research article
Fungal pathogens of plants produce diverse repertoires of secondary metabolites, which have functions ranging from iron acquisition, defense against immune perturbation, to toxic assaults on the host. The whea...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:631
Published on: 17 August 2017
Research article
The effects of long-term environmental adaptation and the implications of major cellular malfunctions are still poorly understood for non-model but biotechnologically relevant species. In this study we perform...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:597
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research article
The cytochromes P450 (P450s) are a large superfamily of heme-containing monooxygenases involved in the oxidative metabolism of an enormous diversity of substrates. These enzymes require electrons for their act...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:540
Published on: 19 July 2017
Research article
Second generation (2G) ethanol is produced by breaking down lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars. In Brazil, sugarcane bagasse has been proposed as the lignocellulosic residue for this biofuel produ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:501
Published on: 30 June 2017
Methodology article
The 15 sibling species of the Paramecium aurelia cryptic species complex emerged after a whole genome duplication that occurred tens of millions of years ago. Given extensive knowledge of the genetics and epigene...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:483
Published on: 26 June 2017
Research article
Glycogen and trehalose are storage carbohydrates and their levels in microorganisms vary according to environmental conditions. In Neurospora crassa, alkaline pH stress highly influences glycogen levels, and in S...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:457
Published on: 9 June 2017
Research article
During must fermentation thousands of volatile aroma compounds are formed, with higher alcohols, acetate esters and ethyl esters being the main aromatic compounds contributing to floral and fruity aromas. The ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:455
Published on: 8 June 2017
Research article
Vector-borne apicomplexan parasites are a major cause of mortality and morbidity to humans and livestock globally. The most important disease syndromes caused by these parasites are malaria, babesiosis and the...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:438
Published on: 5 June 2017
Research article
Mycoviruses are viruses that naturally infect and replicate in fungi. Aspergillus fumigatus, an opportunistic pathogen causing fungal lung diseases in humans and animals, was recently shown to harbour several dif...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:416
Published on: 30 May 2017
Research article
Evidence in diverse organisms suggests that codon optimality is a major determinant of mRNA translation and degradation. Codon optimality is thought to act by modulating the efficiency of ribosome elongation. In
BMC Genomics 2017 18:364
Published on: 10 May 2017
Research Article
Fungal plant pathogens belonging to the genus Venturia cause damaging scab diseases of members of the Rosaceae. In terms of economic impact, the most important of these are V. inaequalis, which infects apple, and...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:339
Published on: 2 May 2017
Research article
Biotrophic fungal plant pathogens cause billions of dollars in losses to North American crops annually. The model for functional investigation of these fungi is Ustilago maydis. Its 20.5 Mb annotated genome seque...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:340
Published on: 2 May 2017
Research article
DNA elimination is developmentally programmed in a wide variety of eukaryotes, including unicellular ciliates, and leads to the generation of distinct germline and somatic genomes. The ciliate Paramecium tetraure...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:327
Published on: 26 April 2017
Research article
Over the past 20 years, many marine seabird populations have been gradually declining and the factors driving this ongoing deterioration are not always well understood. Avipoxvirus infections have been found i...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:298
Published on: 13 April 2017
Research Article
The absence of Argonaute genes in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus gattii R265 and other VGII strains indicates that yeasts of this genotype cannot have a functional RNAi pathway, an evolutionarily conserved gene...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:294
Published on: 12 April 2017
Research article
The economically important Ergot fungus Claviceps purpurea is an interesting biotrophic model system because of its strict organ specificity (grass ovaries) and the lack of any detectable plant defense reactions....
BMC Genomics 2017 18:273
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Cephalosporins and penicillins are the most frequently used β-lactam antibiotics for the treatment of human infections worldwide. The main industrial producers of these antibiotics are Acremonium chrysogenum and
BMC Genomics 2017 18:272
Published on: 31 March 2017
Research article
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum causes stem rot in Brassica napus, which leads to lodging and severe yield losses. Although recent studies have explored significant progress in the characteri...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:266
Published on: 29 March 2017
Research article
The order Picornavirales represents a diverse group of positive-stranded RNA viruses with small non-enveloped icosahedral virions. Recently, bats have been identified as an important reservoir of several highly p...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:249
Published on: 23 March 2017
Research article
Fusarium graminearum is one of the main causal agents of the Fusarium Head Blight, a worldwide disease affecting cereal cultures, whose presence can lead to contaminated grains with ch...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:203
Published on: 23 February 2017
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