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Eukaryote microbial genomics

This section covers the structure and function of genomes of single-celled parasites, yeasts, fungi and viruses.

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  1. The RNA interference (RNAi) pathway is a gene regulation mechanism that utilizes small RNA (sRNA) and Argonaute (Ago) proteins to silence target genes. Our previous work identified a functional RNAi pathway in...

    Authors: Hanbang Zhang, Gretchen M. Ehrenkaufer, Neil Hall and Upinder Singh

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:879

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  2. The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to an urgent need for scalable methods for clinical diagnostics and viral tracking. Next generation sequencing technologies have enabled large-scale genomic surveillance of...

    Authors: Daryl M. Gohl, John Garbe, Patrick Grady, Jerry Daniel, Ray H. B. Watson, Benjamin Auch, Andrew Nelson, Sophia Yohe and Kenneth B. Beckman

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:863

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  3. Rhodotorula glutinis is recognized as a biotechnologically important oleaginous red yeast, which synthesizes numerous meritorious compounds with wide industrial usages. One of the most notable properties of R. gl...

    Authors: Chun-Ji Li, Die Zhao, Ping Cheng, Li Zheng and Guo-Hui Yu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:834

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  4. Fish gut microbial assemblages play a crucial role in the growth rate, metabolism, and immunity of the host. We hypothesized that the gut microbiota of rainbow trout was correlated with breeding program based ...

    Authors: Pratima Chapagain, Donald Walker, Tim Leeds, Beth M. Cleveland and Mohamed Salem

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:820

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  5. Amoebozoa is a eukaryotic supergroup composed of unicellular and multicellular amoebic protozoa (e.g. Acanthamoeba, Dictyostelium, and Entamoeba). They are model organisms for studies in cellular and evolutionary...

    Authors: Tetsuro Kawano-Sugaya, Shinji Izumiyama, Yasuaki Yanagawa, Yumiko Saito-Nakano, Koji Watanabe, Seiki Kobayashi, Kumiko Nakada-Tsukui and Tomoyoshi Nozaki

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:813

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  6. Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Berk.) is a well-known entomopathogenic and medicinal fungus. It parasitizes and mummifies the underground ghost moth larvae to produce a fruiting body named Chinese cordyceps. Specific f...

    Authors: Miaomiao Li, Qian Meng, Huan Zhang, Ruihao Shu, Yanni Zhao, Peipei Wu, Xuan Li, Guiling Zhou, Qilian Qin and Jihong Zhang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:789

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  7. Unveiling fungal genome structure and function reveals the potential biotechnological use of fungi. Trichoderma harzianum is a powerful CAZyme-producing fungus. We studied the genomic regions in T. harzianum IOC3...

    Authors: Jaire A. Ferreira Filho, Maria Augusta C. Horta, Clelton A. dos Santos, Deborah A. Almeida, Natália F. Murad, Juliano S. Mendes, Danilo A. Sforça, Claudio Benício C. Silva, Aline Crucello and Anete P. de Souza

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:757

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  8. With 9730 protein-coding genes and a nearly complete gene knockout strain collection, Neurospora crassa is a major model organism for filamentous fungi. Despite this abundance of information, the phenotypes of th...

    Authors: Alexander J. Carrillo, Ilva E. Cabrera, Marko J. Spasojevic, Patrick Schacht, Jason E. Stajich and Katherine A. Borkovich

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:755

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  9. Scenedesmus obliquus belongs to green microalgae and is widely used in aquaculture as feed, which is also explored for lipid production and bioremediation. However, genomic studies of this microalga have been ver...

    Authors: Bai-Ling Chen, Wuttichai Mhuantong, Shih-Hsin Ho, Jo-Shu Chang, Xin-Qing Zhao and Feng-Wu Bai

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:743

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  10. Members of the F. oxysporium species complex (FOSC) in the f. sp. apii (Foa) are pathogenic on celery and those in f. sp. coriandrii (Foci) are pathogenic on coriander (=cilantro). Foci was first reported in Cali...

    Authors: Peter Henry, Sukhwinder Kaur, Quyen Anh Tran Pham, Radwan Barakat, Samuel Brinker, Hannah Haensel, Oleg Daugovish and Lynn Epstein

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:730

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  11. Flammulina filiformis (previously known as Asian F. velutipes) is a popular commercial edible mushroom. Many bioactive compounds with medicinal effects, such as polysaccharides and sesquiterpenoids, have been iso...

    Authors: Juan Chen, Jia-Mei Li, Yan-Jing Tang, Ke Ma, Bing Li, Xu Zeng, Xiao-Bin Liu, Yang Li, Zhu-Liang Yang, Wei-Nan Xu, Bao-Gui Xie, Hong-Wei Liu and Shun-Xing Guo

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:719

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  12. Symbiosis is central to ecosystems and has been an important driving force of the diversity of life. Close and long-term interactions are known to develop cooperative molecular mechanisms between the symbiotic...

    Authors: Mieko Kono, Yoshiaki Kon, Yoshihito Ohmura, Yoko Satta and Yohey Terai

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:671

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  13. Necrotrophic effector proteins secreted by fungal pathogens are important virulence factors that mediate the development of disease in wheat. Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Ptr), the causal agent of wheat tan spot...

    Authors: Paula Moolhuijzen, Pao Theen See and Caroline S. Moffat

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:645

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  14. Blue mold is a globally important and economically impactful postharvest disease of apples caused by multiple Penicillium spp. There are currently four postharvest fungicides registered for blue mold control, and...

    Authors: Franz J. Lichtner, Verneta L. Gaskins, Kerik D. Cox and Wayne M. Jurick II

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:574

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  15. Laurel wilt caused by Raffaelea lauricola is a lethal vascular disease of North American members of the Lauraceae plant family. This fungus and its primary ambrosia beetle vector Xyleborus glabratus originated fr...

    Authors: Yucheng Zhang, Junli Zhang, Dan Vanderpool, Jason A. Smith and Jeffrey A. Rollins

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:570

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  17. Picophytoplankton are abundant and can contribute greatly to primary production in eutrophic lakes. Mychonastes species are among the common eukaryotic picophytoplankton in eutrophic lakes. We used third-generati...

    Authors: Changqing Liu, Xiaoli Shi, Fan Wu, Mingdong Ren, Guang Gao and Qinglong Wu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:477

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  18. Beauveria bassiana (B. bassiana) is a famous entomopathogenic fungus that could parasitize on hundreds of insect species, which are being used as an environmentally friendly mycoinsecticide. Nevertheless, the pos...

    Authors: Zhengkun Zhang, Yang Lu, Wenjing Xu, Li Sui, Qian Du, Yangzhou Wang, Yu Zhao and Qiyun Li

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:451

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  19. Most diversity in the eukaryotic tree of life is represented by microbial eukaryotes, which is a polyphyletic group also referred to as protists. Among the protists, currently sequenced genomes and transcripto...

    Authors: Henning Onsbring, Alexander K. Tice, Brandon T. Barton, Matthew W. Brown and Thijs J. G. Ettema

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:448

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  20. Amanitin-producing mushrooms, mainly distributed in the genera Amanita, Galerina and Lepiota, possess MSDIN gene family for the biosynthesis of many cyclopeptides catalysed by prolyl oligopeptidase (POP). Recentl...

    Authors: Zhengmi He, Pan Long, Fang Fang, Sainan Li, Ping Zhang and Zuohong Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:440

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  22. Secondary metabolites as natural products from endophytic fungi are important sources of pharmaceuticals. However, there is currently little understanding of endophytic fungi at the omics levels about their po...

    Authors: Jin-Tao Cheng, Fei Cao, Xin-Ai Chen, Yong-Quan Li and Xu-Ming Mao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:424

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  23. DNA replication in trypanosomatids operates in a uniquely challenging environment, since most of their genomes are constitutively transcribed. Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease, presents ...

    Authors: Christiane Bezerra de Araujo, Julia Pinheiro Chagas da Cunha, Davi Toshio Inada, Jeziel Damasceno, Alex Ranieri Jerônimo Lima, Priscila Hiraiwa, Catarina Marques, Evonnildo Gonçalves, Milton Yutaka Nishiyama-Junior, Richard McCulloch and Maria Carolina Elias

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:414

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  24. Plasmodium parasites undergo several major developmental transitions during their complex lifecycle, which are enabled by precisely ordered gene expression programs. Transcriptomes from the 48-h blood stages of t...

    Authors: Lia Chappell, Philipp Ross, Lindsey Orchard, Timothy J. Russell, Thomas D. Otto, Matthew Berriman, Julian C. Rayner and Manuel Llinás

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:395

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  25. Researchers often measure changes in gene expression across conditions to better understand the shared functional roles and regulatory mechanisms of different genes. Analogous to this is comparing gene express...

    Authors: Alexander L. Cope, Brian C. O’Meara and Michael A. Gilchrist

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:370

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  26. Increased contamination of European and Asian wheat and barley crops with “emerging” mycotoxins such as enniatins or beauvericin, produced by Fusarium avenaceum and Fusarium tricinctum, suggest that these phyloge...

    Authors: Nadia Ponts, Charlotte Gautier, Jérôme Gouzy, Laetitia Pinson-Gadais, Marie Foulongne-Oriol, Christine Ducos, Florence Richard-Forget, Jean-Michel Savoie, Chen Zhao and Gérard Barroso

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:358

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  27. The wide variation in the size of fungal genomes is well known, but the reasons for this size variation are less certain. Here, we present a chromosome-scale assembly of ectophytic Peltaster fructicola, a surface...

    Authors: Bo Wang, Xiaofei Liang, Mark L. Gleason, Tom Hsiang, Rong Zhang and Guangyu Sun

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:321

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  28. Ashbya gossypii naturally overproduces riboflavin and has been utilized for industrial riboflavin production. To improve riboflavin production, various approaches have been developed. In this study, to investigat...

    Authors: Tatsuya Kato, Junya Azegami, Ami Yokomori, Hideo Dohra, Hesham A. El Enshasy and Enoch Y. Park

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:319

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  29. The apicomplexan parasite Theileria parva causes a livestock disease called East coast fever (ECF), with millions of animals at risk in sub-Saharan East and Southern Africa, the geographic distribution of T. parv...

    Authors: Kyle Tretina, Roger Pelle, Joshua Orvis, Hanzel T. Gotia, Olukemi O. Ifeonu, Priti Kumari, Nicholas C. Palmateer, Shaikh B. A. Iqbal, Lindsay M. Fry, Vishvanath M. Nene, Claudia A. Daubenberger, Richard P. Bishop and Joana C. Silva

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:279

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  30. The stripe rust pathogen, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), threats world wheat production. Resistance to Pst is often overcome by pathogen virulence changes, but the mechanisms of variation are not clea...

    Authors: Yuxiang Li, Chongjing Xia, Meinan Wang, Chuntao Yin and Xianming Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:247

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  31. The creation of arrays of yeast strains each encoding a different protein with constant tags is a powerful method for understanding how genes and their proteins control cell function. As genetic tools become m...

    Authors: Lisa K. Berry, Grace Heredge Thomas and Peter H. Thorpe

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:221

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  32. All retroviruses, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), must integrate a DNA copy of their genomes into the genome of the infected host cell to replicate. Although integrated retroviral DNA, known as a...

    Authors: Daria W. Wells, Shuang Guo, Wei Shao, Michael J. Bale, John M. Coffin, Stephen H. Hughes and Xiaolin Wu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:216

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  34. Sporobolomyces pararoseus is regarded as an oleaginous red yeast, which synthesizes numerous valuable compounds with wide industrial usages. This species hold biotechnological interests in biodiesel, food and cos...

    Authors: Chun-Ji Li, Die Zhao, Bing-Xue Li, Ning Zhang, Jian-Yu Yan and Hong-Tao Zou

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:181

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  35. The filamentous fungus Fusarium graminearum causes devastating crop diseases and produces harmful mycotoxins worldwide. Understanding the complex F. graminearum transcriptional regulatory networks (TRNs) is vital...

    Authors: Li Guo, Mengjie Ji and Kai Ye

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:179

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  36. Recently, a new strain of Cercospora sojina (Race15) has been identified, which has caused the breakdown of resistance in most soybean cultivars in China. Despite this serious yield reduction, little is known abo...

    Authors: Xin Gu, Junjie Ding, Wei Liu, Xiaohe Yang, Liangliang Yao, Xuedong Gao, Maoming Zhang, Shuai Yang and Jingzhi Wen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:172

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  37. Penicillium italicum (blue mold) is one of citrus pathogens causing undesirable citrus fruit decay even at strictly-controlled low temperatures (< 10 °C) during shipping and storage. P. italicum isolates with con...

    Authors: Tingfu Zhang, Qianwen Cao, Na Li, Deli Liu and Yongze Yuan

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:156

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  38. Cotton Verticillium wilt is one of the most devastating diseases for cotton production in the world. Although this diseases have been widely studied at the molecular level from pathogens, the molecular basis of V...

    Authors: Xinyu Zhang, Wenhan Cheng, Zhidi Feng, Qianhao Zhu, Yuqiang Sun, Yanjun Li and Jie Sun

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:155

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  39. Anthocyanins are common substances with many agro-food industrial applications. However, anthocyanins are generally considered to be found only in natural plants. Our previous study isolated and purified the f...

    Authors: Congfan Bu, Qian Zhang, Jie Zeng, Xiyue Cao, Zhaonan Hao, Dairong Qiao, Yi Cao and Hui Xu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:29

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  40. The broad host range pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum infects over 400 plant species and causes substantial yield losses in crops worldwide. Secondary metabolites are known to play important roles in the virulen...

    Authors: Carolyn Graham-Taylor, Lars G. Kamphuis and Mark C. Derbyshire

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:7

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  41. Whole-genome shotgun sequencing, which stitches together millions of short sequencing reads into a single genome, ushered in the era of modern genomics and led to a rapid expansion of the number of genome sequ...

    Authors: Kelsi A. Lindblad, Jananan S. Pathmanathan, Sandrine Moreira, John R. Bracht, Robert P. Sebra, Elizabeth R. Hutton and Laura F. Landweber

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1037

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  42. Rumen ciliates play important roles in rumen function by digesting and fermenting feed and shaping the rumen microbiome. However, they remain poorly understood due to the lack of definitive direct evidence wit...

    Authors: Lingling Wang, Anas Abu-Doleh, Johanna Plank, Umit V. Catalyurek, Jeffrey L. Firkins and Zhongtang Yu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:1008

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  43. Flammulina velutipes has been recognized as a useful basidiomycete with nutritional and medicinal values. Ergosterol, one of the main sterols of F. velutipes is an important precursor of novel anticancer and anti...

    Authors: Ruihong Wang, Pengda Ma, Chen Li, Lingang Xiao, Zongsuo Liang and Juane Dong

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:999

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  44. Stem rust is an economically important disease of wheat and barley. However, studies to gain insight into the molecular basis of these host-pathogen interactions have primarily focused on wheat because of its ...

    Authors: Roshan Sharma Poudel, Jonathan Richards, Subidhya Shrestha, Shyam Solanki and Robert Brueggeman

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:985

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  45. Seeds of plants are a confirmation of their next generation and come associated with a unique microbia community. Vertical transmission of this microbiota signifies the importance of these organisms for a heal...

    Authors: Garima Raj, Mohammad Shadab, Sujata Deka, Manashi Das, Jilmil Baruah, Rupjyoti Bharali and Narayan C. Talukdar

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:924

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  46. Malaria pathogenesis relies on sexual gametocyte forms of the malaria parasite to be transmitted between the infected human and the mosquito host but the molecular mechanisms controlling gametocytogenesis rema...

    Authors: Riëtte van Biljon, Roelof van Wyk, Heather J. Painter, Lindsey Orchard, Janette Reader, Jandeli Niemand, Manuel Llinás and Lyn-Marie Birkholtz

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:920

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  47. Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen which is responsible for widespread nosocomial infections. It encompasses a fungus specific serine/threonine protein phosphatase gene, CaPPZ1 that is involved in cati...

    Authors: Krisztina Szabó, Ágnes Jakab, Szilárd Póliska, Katalin Petrényi, Katalin Kovács, Lama Hasan Bou Issa, Tamás Emri, István Pócsi and Viktor Dombrádi

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:873

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  48. The protozoan pathogen Toxoplasma gondii has the unique ability to develop a chronic infection in the brain of its host by transitioning from the fast growing tachyzoite morphology to latent bradyzoite morphology...

    Authors: Andrew L. Garfoot, Gary M. Wilson, Joshua J. Coon and Laura J. Knoll

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:859

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  49. Enzymatic plant biomass degradation by fungi is a highly complex process and one of the leading challenges in developing a biobased economy. Some industrial fungi (e.g. Aspergillus niger) have a long history of u...

    Authors: Claire Khosravi, Joanna E. Kowalczyk, Tania Chroumpi, Evy Battaglia, Maria-Victoria Aguilar Pontes, Mao Peng, Ad Wiebenga, Vivian Ng, Anna Lipzen, Guifen He, Diane Bauer, Igor V. Grigoriev and Ronald P. de Vries

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:853

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  50. The Metarhizium genus harbors important entomopathogenic fungi. These species have been widely explored as biological control agents, and strategies to improve the fungal virulence are under investigation. Thus, ...

    Authors: Nicolau Sbaraini, Reinaldo Bellini, Augusto Bartz Penteriche, Rafael Lucas Muniz Guedes, Ane Wichine Acosta Garcia, Alexandra Lehmkuhl Gerber, Marilene Henning Vainstein, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, Augusto Schrank and Charley Christian Staats

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:836

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