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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. 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...

    Authors: Stela Virgilio, Fernanda Barbosa Cupertino, Daniela Luz Ambrosio and Maria Célia Bertolini

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:457

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  2. 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 ...

    Authors: Inês Mendes, Isabelle Sanchez, Ricardo Franco-Duarte, Carole Camarasa, Dorit Schuller, Sylvie Dequin and Maria João Sousa

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:455

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  3. 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...

    Authors: Laetitia Lempereur, Stephen D. Larcombe, Zeeshan Durrani, Tulin Karagenc, Huseyin Bilgin Bilgic, Serkan Bakirci, Selin Hacilarlioglu, Jane Kinnaird, Joanne Thompson, William Weir and Brian Shiels

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:438

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  4. 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...

    Authors: Selin Özkan, Irina Mohorianu, Ping Xu, Tamas Dalmay and Robert H. A. Coutts

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:416

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  5. 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

    Authors: Yuriko Harigaya and Roy Parker

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:364

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2017 18:704

  6. 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...

    Authors: Michael E. Donaldson, Lauren A. Ostrowski, Kristi M. Goulet and Barry J. Saville

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:340

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  7. 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...

    Authors: Cecilia H. Deng, Kim M. Plummer, Darcy A. B. Jones, Carl H. Mesarich, Jason Shiller, Adam P. Taranto, Andrew J. Robinson, Patrick Kastner, Nathan E. Hall, Matthew D. Templeton and Joanna K. Bowen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:339

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  8. 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...

    Authors: Frédéric Guérin, Olivier Arnaiz, Nicole Boggetto, Cyril Denby Wilkes, Eric Meyer, Linda Sperling and Sandra Duharcourt

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:327

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  9. 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...

    Authors: Subir Sarker, Shubhagata Das, Jennifer L. Lavers, Ian Hutton, Karla Helbig, Jacob Imbery, Chris Upton and Shane R. Raidal

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:298

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  10. 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...

    Authors: Patrícia Aline Gröhs Ferrareze, Rodrigo Silva Araujo Streit, Francine Melise dos Santos, Augusto Schrank, Livia Kmetzsch, Marilene Henning Vainstein and Charley Christian Staats

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:294

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  11. 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....

    Authors: Birgitt Oeser, Sabine Kind, Selma Schurack, Thomas Schmutzer, Paul Tudzynski and Janine Hinsch

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:273

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  12. 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

    Authors: Dominik Terfehr, Tim A. Dahlmann and Ulrich Kück

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:272

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  13. 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...

    Authors: Shirin Seifbarghi, M. Hossein Borhan, Yangdou Wei, Cathy Coutu, Stephen J. Robinson and Dwayne D. Hegedus

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:266

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  14. 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...

    Authors: Claude Kwe Yinda, Roland Zell, Ward Deboutte, Mark Zeller, Nádia Conceição-Neto, Elisabeth Heylen, Piet Maes, Nick J. Knowles, Stephen Mbigha Ghogomu, Marc Van Ranst and Jelle Matthijnssens

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:249

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  16. The oomycete Phytophthora infestans causes the devastating late blight diseases of potato and tomato. P. infestans uses spores for dissemination and infection, like many other filamentous eukaryotic plant pathoge...

    Authors: Audrey M. V. Ah-Fong, Kyoung Su Kim and Howard S. Judelson

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:198

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  17. Among twenty amino acids, methionine has a special role as it is coded by the translation initiation codon and methionyl-tRNAi (Met-tRNAi) is required for the assembly of the translation initiation complex. Th...

    Authors: Ke Zou, Qi Ouyang, Hao Li and Jiashun Zheng

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:189

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  19. The fungal species complex Colletotrichum gloeosporioides sensu lato contains over 20 plant-interacting species. These species exhibit different life styles (e.g., endophytes, foliar and fruit pathogens) and show...

    Authors: Xiaofei Liang, Xianglin Tian, Wenkui Liu, Tingyu Wei, Wei Wang, Qiuyue Dong, Bo Wang, Yanan Meng, Rong Zhang, Mark L. Gleason and Guangyu Sun

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:171

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  20. Ochromonas is a genus of mixotrophic chrysophytes that is found ubiquitously in many aquatic environments. Species in this genus can be important consumers of bacteria but vary in thei...

    Authors: Alle A. Y. Lie, Zhenfeng Liu, Ramon Terrado, Avery O. Tatters, Karla B. Heidelberg and David A. Caron

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:163

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  21. Pisolithus microcarpus (Cooke & Massee) G. Cunn is a gasteromycete that produces closed basidiocarps in symbiosis with eucalypts and acacias. The fungus produces a complex basidiocarp ...

    Authors: Maíra de Freitas Pereira, André Narvaes da Rocha Campos, Thalita Cardoso Anastacio, Emmanuelle Morin, Sérgio Hermínio Brommonschenkel, Francis Martin, Annegret Kohler and Maurício Dutra Costa

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:157

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  22. Nucleosome plays a role in transcriptional regulation through occluding the binding of proteins to DNA sites. Nucleosome occupancy varies among different cell types. Identification of such variation will help ...

    Authors: Lingjie Liu, Jianming Xie, Xiao Sun, Kun Luo, Zhaohui Steve Qin and Hongde Liu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:135

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  23. Currently in China, the trend of Plasmodium vivax cases imported from Southeast Asia was increased especially in the China-Myanmar border area. Driven by the increase in P. vivax cases and stronger need for vacci...

    Authors: Shen-Bo Chen, Yue Wang, Kokouvi Kassegne, Bin Xu, Hai-Mo Shen and Jun-Hu Chen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:131

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  24. Alternative splicing (AS) regulation is extensive and shapes the functional complexity of higher organisms. However, the contribution of alternative splicing to fungal biology is not well studied.

    Authors: Lirong Jin, Guanglin Li, Dazhao Yu, Wei Huang, Chao Cheng, Shengjie Liao, Qijia Wu and Yi Zhang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:130

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  25. Quiescent cells have a low level of gene activity compared to growing cells. Using a yeast model for cellular quiescence, we defined the genome-wide profiles of three species of histone methylation associated ...

    Authors: Conor P. Young, Cory Hillyer, Karsten Hokamp, Darren J. Fitzpatrick, Nikifor K. Konstantinov, Jacqueline S. Welty, Scott A. Ness, Margaret Werner-Washburne, Alastair B. Fleming and Mary Ann Osley

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:107

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  26. The food spoilage yeast species Zygosaccharomyces bailii exhibits an extraordinary capacity to tolerate weak acids, in particular acetic acid. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the transcription factor Haa1 (ScHaa1) i...

    Authors: Margarida Palma, Paulo Jorge Dias, Filipa de Canaveira Roque, Laura Luzia, Joana Fernandes Guerreiro and Isabel Sá-Correia

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:75

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  27. Colletotrichum graminicola and C. sublineola cause anthracnose leaf and stalk diseases of maize and sorghum, respectively. In spite of their close evolutionary relationship, the two species a...

    Authors: E. A. S. Buiate, K. V. Xavier, N. Moore, M. F. Torres, M. L. Farman, C. L. Schardl and L. J. Vaillancourt

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:67

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2018 19:686

  28. The cyclic peptide toxins of Amanita mushrooms, such as α-amanitin and phalloidin, are encoded by the “MSDIN” gene family and ribosomally biosynthesized. Based on partial genome sequence and PCR analysis, some me...

    Authors: Jane A. Pulman, Kevin L. Childs, R. Michael Sgambelluri and Jonathan D. Walton

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:1038

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  29. The Fusarium graminearum species complex is composed of many distinct fungal species that cause several diseases in economically important crops, including Fusarium Head Blight of wheat. Despite being closely rel...

    Authors: Sean Walkowiak, Owen Rowland, Nicolas Rodrigue and Rajagopal Subramaniam

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:1014

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  30. The switch from photosynthetic or predatory to parasitic life strategies by apicomplexans is accompanied with a reductive evolution of genomes and losses of metabolic capabilities. Cryptosporidium is an extreme e...

    Authors: Shiyou Liu, Dawn M. Roellig, Yaqiong Guo, Na Li, Michael A. Frace, Kevin Tang, Longxian Zhang, Yaoyu Feng and Lihua Xiao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:1006

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  31. Entomopathogenic fungi such as Beauveria bassiana are promising biological agents for control of malaria mosquitoes. Indeed, infection with B. bassiana reduces the lifespan of mosquitoes in the laboratory and in ...

    Authors: Claudio A. Valero-Jiménez, Luigi Faino, Daphne Spring in’t Veld, Sandra Smit, Bas J. Zwaan and Jan A. L. van Kan

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:986

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  32. The Rhynchosporium species complex consists of hemibiotrophic fungal pathogens specialized to different sweet grass species including the cereal crops barley and rye. A sexual stage has not been described, but se...

    Authors: Daniel Penselin, Martin Münsterkötter, Susanne Kirsten, Marius Felder, Stefan Taudien, Matthias Platzer, Kevin Ashelford, Konrad H. Paskiewicz, Richard J. Harrison, David J. Hughes, Thomas Wolf, Ekaterina Shelest, Jenny Graap, Jan Hoffmann, Claudia Wenzel, Nadine Wöltje…

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:953

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  33. Yeast-to-hypha transition is a major morphological change in fungi. Molecular regulators and pathways that are involved in this process have been extensively studied in model species, including Saccharomyces cere...

    Authors: M. Nigg and L. Bernier

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:920

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  34. The class Tremellomycete (Agaricomycotina) encompasses more than 380 fungi. Although there are a few edible Tremella spp., the only species with current biotechnological use is the astaxanthin-producing yeast Pha...

    Authors: Nicolás Bellora, Martín Moliné, Márcia David-Palma, Marco A. Coelho, Chris Todd Hittinger, José P. Sampaio, Paula Gonçalves and Diego Libkind

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:901

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  36. Babesia microti is an emerging tick-borne apicomplexan parasite with increasing geographic range and incidence in the United States. The rapid expansion of B. microti into its current ...

    Authors: Giovanna Carpi, Katharine S. Walter, Choukri Ben Mamoun, Peter J. Krause, Andrew Kitchen, Timothy J. Lepore, Ankit Dwivedi, Emmanuel Cornillot, Adalgisa Caccone and Maria A. Diuk-Wasser

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:888

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  37. Pathogenic members of the Fusarium oxysporum species complex are responsible for vascular wilt disease on many important crops including legumes, where they can be one of the most destructive disease causing necr...

    Authors: Louise F. Thatcher, Angela H. Williams, Gagan Garg, Sally-Anne G. Buck and Karam B. Singh

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:860

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  38. Malaria parasites of the genus Plasmodium possess large hyper-variable families of antigen-encoding genes. These are often variantly-expressed and are major virulence factors for immune evasion and the maintenanc...

    Authors: Adam Stanton, Lynne M. Harris, Gemma Graham and Catherine J. Merrick

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:859

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  39. Soil microorganisms are key determinants of soil fertility and plant health. Soil phytopathogenic fungi are one of the most important causes of crop losses worldwide. Microbial biocontrol agents have been exte...

    Authors: Michele Perazzolli, Noemí Herrero, Lieven Sterck, Luisa Lenzi, Alberto Pellegrini, Gerardo Puopolo, Yves Van de Peer and Ilaria Pertot

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:838

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  40. African trypanosomes cause lethal diseases in humans and animals and escape host immune attack by switching the expression of Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) genes. The expressed VSGs are located at the ends o...

    Authors: Sebastian Hutchinson, Lucy Glover and David Horn

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:806

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  41. The ascomycetous family Chaetomiaceae (class Sordariomycetes) includes numerous soilborn, saprophytic, endophytic and pathogenic fungi which can adapt to various growth conditions and living niches by providing a...

    Authors: Marcel Zámocký, Hakim Tafer, Katarína Chovanová, Ksenija Lopandic, Anna Kamlárová and Christian Obinger

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:763

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  42. Brucellosis is a bacterial disease caused by Brucella infection. In the late fifties, Brucella suis vaccine strain S2 with reduced virulence was obtained by serial transfer of a virulent B. suis biovar 1 strain i...

    Authors: Dong-dong Di, Hai Jiang, Li-li Tian, Jing-li Kang, Wen Zhang, Xin-ping Yi, Feng Ye, Qi Zhong, Bo Ni, You-yu He, Lin Xia, Yao Yu, Bu-yun Cui, Xiang Mao and Wei-xing Fan

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:741

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  43. The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas disease, depends upon a cell surface-expressed trans-sialidase (ts) to avoid activation of complement-mediated lysis and to enhance intracellula...

    Authors: D. Brent Weatherly, Duo Peng and Rick L. Tarleton

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:729

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  44. Copy number variants (CNVs) are a class of structural variants (SVs) and are defined as fragments of DNA that are present at variable copy number in comparison with a reference genome. Recent advances in bioin...

    Authors: Jacob L. Steenwyk, John S. Soghigian, John R. Perfect and John G. Gibbons

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:700

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  47. Eukaryotes display remarkable genome plasticity, which can include supernumerary chromosomes that differ markedly from the core chromosomes. Despite the widespread occurrence of supernumerary chromosomes in fu...

    Authors: Adriaan Vanheule, Kris Audenaert, Sven Warris, Henri van de Geest, Elio Schijlen, Monica Höfte, Sarah De Saeger, Geert Haesaert, Cees Waalwijk and Theo van der Lee

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:670

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  48. Rust fungi are an important group of plant pathogens that cause devastating losses in agricultural, silvicultural and natural ecosystems. Plants can be protected from rust disease by resistance genes encoding ...

    Authors: Claire Anderson, Muhammad Adil Khan, Ann-Maree Catanzariti, Cameron A. Jack, Adnane Nemri, Gregory J. Lawrence, Narayana M. Upadhyaya, Adrienne R. Hardham, Jeffrey G. Ellis, Peter N. Dodds and David A. Jones

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:667

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  49. Exposure of the budding Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an alkaline environment produces a robust transcriptional response involving hundreds of genes. Part of this response is triggered by an almost immediate burst ...

    Authors: Alicia Roque, Silvia Petrezsélyová, Albert Serra-Cardona and Joaquín Ariño

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:662

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  50. Understanding the regulation mechanism of var gene expression is crucial for explaining antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum. Recent work observed that while all var genes produce transcripts, only a few

    Authors: Chengqi Wang, Swamy R. Adapa, Justin Gibbons, Stephen Sutton and Rays H. Y. Jiang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:652

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