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Multicellular invertebrate genomics

This section covers all aspects of the structure and function of the genomes of invertebrate multicellular organisms.

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  1. Apoptosis is an important process for an organism’s innate immune system to respond to pathogens, while also allowing for cell differentiation and other essential life functions. Caspases are one of the key pr...

    Authors: Susanne Vogeler, Stefano Carboni, Xiaoxu Li and Alyssa Joyce

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:80

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  2. Although around 1% of cytosines in bees’ genomes are known to be methylated, less is known about methylation’s effect on bee behavior and fitness. Chemically altered DNA methylation levels have shown clear cha...

    Authors: María I. Pozo, Benjamin J. Hunt, Gaby Van Kemenade, Jose M. Guerra-Sanz, Felix Wäckers, Eamonn B. Mallon and Hans Jacquemyn

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:73

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  3. In the light of dengue being the fastest growing transmissible disease, there is a dire need to identify the mechanisms regulating the behaviour of the main vector Aedes aegypti. Disease transmission requires the...

    Authors: Sharon Rose Hill, Tanvi Taparia and Rickard Ignell

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:71

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  4. The lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica is a serious pest of stored grains. Fumigation and contact insecticides play a major role in managing this pest globally. While insects are developing genetic resistan...

    Authors: Maria K. Sakka, Maria Riga, Panagiotis Ioannidis, Georgia V. Baliota, Martha Tselika, Rajeswaran Jagadeesan, Manoj K. Nayak, John Vontas and Christos G. Athanassiou

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:65

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  5. The red sea urchin Mesocentrotus franciscanus is an ecologically important kelp forest herbivore and an economically valuable wild fishery species. To examine how M. franciscanus responds to its environment on a ...

    Authors: Juliet M. Wong and Gretchen E. Hofmann

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:32

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  6. The pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis (L. stagnalis) has been widely used as a model organism in neurobiology, ecotoxicology, and parasitology due to the relative simplicity of its central nervous system (CNS). Howeve...

    Authors: Nancy Dong, Julia Bandura, Zhaolei Zhang, Yan Wang, Karine Labadie, Benjamin Noel, Angus Davison, Joris M. Koene, Hong-Shuo Sun, Marie-Agnès Coutellec and Zhong-Ping Feng

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:18

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  7. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as an important class of transcriptional regulators in cellular processes. The past decades have witnessed great progress in lncRNA studies in a variety of organisms....

    Authors: Longsheng Xing, Yu Xi, Xi Qiao, Cong Huang, Qiang Wu, Nianwan Yang, Jianyang Guo, Wanxue Liu, Wei Fan, Fanghao Wan and Wanqiang Qian

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:4

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  8. In marine invertebrate life cycles, which often consist of planktonic larval and benthonic adult stages, settlement of the free-swimming larva to the sea floor in response to environmental cues is a key life c...

    Authors: Xitan Hou, Zhenkui Qin, Maokai Wei, Zhong Fu, Ruonan Liu, Li Lu, Shumiao Bai, Yubin Ma and Zhifeng Zhang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:892

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  9. Planarians reliably regenerate all body parts after injury, including a fully functional head and central nervous system. But until now, the expression dynamics and functional role of miRNAs and other small RN...

    Authors: Zhonghong Cao, David Rosenkranz, Suge Wu, Hongjin Liu, Qiuxiang Pang, Xiufang Zhang, Baohua Liu and Bosheng Zhao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:876

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  10. Gonad development and differentiation is an essential function for all sexually reproducing species, and many aspects of these developmental processes are highly conserved among the metazoa. However, the mecha...

    Authors: Jun Li, Yinyin Zhou, Zihua Zhou, Chuanxu Lin, Jinkuan Wei, Yanpin Qin, Zhiming Xiang, Haitao Ma, Yang Zhang, Yuehuan Zhang and Ziniu Yu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:872

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  11. The parasitoid wasp, Trichogramma dendrolimi, can enter diapause at the prepupal stage. Thus, diapause is an efficient preservation method during the mass production of T. dendrolimi. Previous studies on diapause...

    Authors: Xue Zhang, Wenmei Du, Junjie Zhang, Zhen Zou and Changchun Ruan

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:864

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  12. Ammonia is one of the most common toxicological environment factors affecting shrimp health. Although ammonia tolerance in shrimp is closely related to successful industrial production, few genetic studies of ...

    Authors: Digang Zeng, Chunling Yang, Qiangyong Li, Weilin Zhu, Xiuli Chen, Min Peng, Xiaohan Chen, Yong Lin, Huanling Wang, Hong Liu, Jingzhen Liang, Qingyun Liu and Yongzhen Zhao

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:857

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  13. The common cutworm, Spodoptera litura Fabricius is a leaf and fruit feeding generalist insect of the order Lepidoptera and a destructive agriculture pest. The broad host range of the herbivore is due to its abili...

    Authors: Vinod Kumar Prajapati, Mahendra Varma and Jyothilakshmi Vadassery

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:819

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  14. The gut microbiome can influence life history traits associated with host fitness such as fecundity and longevity. In most organisms, these two life history traits are traded-off, while they are positively lin...

    Authors: Matteo Antoine Negroni, Francisca H. I. D. Segers, Fanny Vogelweith and Susanne Foitzik

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:816

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  15. Arachnids are important components of cave ecosystems and display many examples of troglomorphisms, such as blindness, depigmentation, and elongate appendages. Little is known about how the eyes of arachnids a...

    Authors: Guilherme Gainett, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Charlotte R. Kanzler, Jakob T. Zehms, John M. Zern, Shlomi Aharon, Efrat Gavish-Regev and Prashant P. Sharma

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:811

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  16. Scylla paramamosain is one of the commercially crucial marine crustaceans belonging to the genus Scylla, which is commonly distributed along the coasts of China, Vietnam, and Japan. Genomic and transcriptomic dat...

    Authors: Na Li, Junming Zhou, Huan Wang, Changkao Mu, Ce Shi, Lei Liu and Chunlin Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:775

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  17. Recent sequencing projects on early-diverging metazoans such as cnidarians, have unveiled a rich innate immunity gene repertoire; however, little is known about immunity gene regulation in the host’s early res...

    Authors: François Seneca, David Davtian, Laurent Boyer and Dorota Czerucka

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:768

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  18. Patterns of gene expression can be dramatically different between males and females of the same species, in part due to genes on sex chromosomes. Here we test for sex differences in early transcriptomic respon...

    Authors: Ning Li, Ben A. Flanagan, MacKenzie Partridge, Elaine J. Huang and Suzanne Edmands

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:759

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  19. The root lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans is a migratory plant-parasitic nematode responsible for economically important losses in a wide number of crops. Despite the importance of P. penetrans, the molecul...

    Authors: Paulo Vieira, Jonathan Shao, Paramasivan Vijayapalani, Thomas R. Maier, Clement Pellegrin, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, Thomas J. Baum and Lev G. Nemchinov

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:738

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  20. Homeobox-containing genes encode crucial transcription factors involved in animal, plant and fungal development, and changes to homeobox genes have been linked to the evolution of novel body plans and morpholo...

    Authors: Yiqian Li, Wenyan Nong, Tobias Baril, Ho Yin Yip, Thomas Swale, Alexander Hayward, David E. K. Ferrier and Jerome H. L. Hui

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:713

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  21. Nematode model organisms such as Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus are powerful systems for studying the evolution of gene function at a mechanistic level. However, the identification of P. pacifi...

    Authors: Marina Athanasouli, Hanh Witte, Christian Weiler, Tobias Loschko, Gabi Eberhardt, Ralf J. Sommer and Christian Rödelsperger

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:708

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  22. The population genetics of U.S. honey bee stocks remain poorly characterized despite the agricultural importance of Apis mellifera as the major crop pollinator. Commercial and research-based breeding programs hav...

    Authors: Perot Saelao, Michael Simone-Finstrom, Arian Avalos, Lelania Bilodeau, Robert Danka, Lilia de Guzman, Frank Rinkevich and Philip Tokarz

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:704

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  23. Copepods are fundamental components of pelagic food webs, but reports on how molecular responses link to reproductive success in natural populations are still scarce. We present a de novo transcriptome assembl...

    Authors: Ennio Russo, Chiara Lauritano, Giuliana d’Ippolito, Angelo Fontana, Diana Sarno, Eric von Elert, Adrianna Ianora and Ylenia Carotenuto

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:693

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  24. Nervous systems originated before the split of Proto- and Deuterostomia, more than 600 million years ago. Four animal phyla (Cnidaria, Placozoa, Ctenophora, Porifera) diverged before this split and studying th...

    Authors: Thomas L. Koch and Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:666

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  25. Albino mutations are commonly observed in the animal kingdom, including in bivalves. In the black-lipped pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera, albino specimens are characterized by total or partial absence of colo...

    Authors: Pauline Auffret, Jérémy Le Luyer, Manaarii Sham Koua, Virgile Quillien and Chin-Long Ky

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:662

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  26. The AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is an intracellular fuel sensor for lipid and glucose metabolism. In addition to the short-term regulation of metabolic enzymes by phosphorylation, AMPK may also exert l...

    Authors: Heng Jiang, Nan Zhang, Caihong Ji, Xiangkun Meng, Kun Qian, Yang Zheng and Jianjun Wang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:655

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  27. Crustaceans express several classes of receptor genes in their antennules, which house olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) and non-olfactory chemosensory neurons. Transcriptomics studies reveal that candidate che...

    Authors: Mihika T. Kozma, Hanh Ngo-Vu, Matthew T. Rump, Yuriy V. Bobkov, Barry W. Ache and Charles D. Derby

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:649

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  28. SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling genes are required for normal acute responses to alcohol in C. elegans and are associated with alcohol use disorder in two human populations. In an effort to discover the downstream g...

    Authors: Laura D. Mathies, Jonathan H. Lindsay, Amal P. Handal, GinaMari G. Blackwell, Andrew G. Davies and Jill C. Bettinger

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:646

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  29. Plant viruses maintain intricate interactions with their vector and non-vector insects and can impact the fitness of insects. However, the details of their molecular and cellular mechanisms have not been studi...

    Authors: Dandan Li, Chi Zhang, Zeqian Tong, Dan Su, Gaisheng Zhang, Shize Zhang, Huiyan Zhao and Zuqing Hu

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:638

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  30. Since 2008, the aquaculture production of Crassostrea gigas was heavily affected by mass mortalities associated to Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) microvariants worldwide. Transcriptomic studies revealed the major...

    Authors: Umberto Rosani, Miriam Abbadi, Timothy Green, Chang-Ming Bai, Edoardo Turolla, Giuseppe Arcangeli, K. Mathias Wegner and Paola Venier

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:620

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  31. Aedes aegypti is the principle vector of many arboviruses, including dengue virus and Zika virus, which are transmitted when an infected female mosquito takes a blood meal in order to initiate vitellogenesis. Dur...

    Authors: Heather Eggleston and Zach N. Adelman

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:604

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  32. Mud crab, Scylla paramamosain, a euryhaline crustacean species, mainly inhabits the Indo-Western Pacific region. Wild mud crab spawn in high-salt condition and the salinity reduced with the growth of the hatching...

    Authors: Yin Zhang, Qingyang Wu, Shaobin Fang, Shengkang Li, Huaiping Zheng, Yueling Zhang, Mhd Ikhwanuddin and Hongyu Ma

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:559

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  33. Coral reefs are among the most diverse, complex and densely populated marine ecosystems. To survive, morphologically simple and sessile cnidarians have developed mechanisms to catch prey, deter predators and c...

    Authors: Oshra Yosef, Yotam Popovits, Assaf Malik, Maya Ofek-Lalzer, Tali Mass and Daniel Sher

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:548

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  34. The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is a highly dangerous invasive vector of numerous medically important arboviruses including dengue, chikungunya and Zika. In four decades it has spread from tropical So...

    Authors: Ludvik M. Gomulski, Mosè Manni, Davide Carraretto, Tony Nolan, Daniel Lawson, José M. Ribeiro, Anna R. Malacrida and Giuliano Gasperi

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:547

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  35. Many insects can develop differential biotypes on variable host plants, but the underlying molecular factors and mechanisms are not well understood. To address this issue, transcriptome profiling analyses were...

    Authors: Da Wang, Deguang Liu, Xiaoqin Shi, Yujing Yang, Na Zhang and Zheming Shang

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:546

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  36. The development of genome-wide genotyping resources has provided terrestrial livestock and crop industries with the unique ability to accurately assess genomic relationships between individuals, uncover the ge...

    Authors: Jarrod L. Guppy, David B. Jones, Shannon R. Kjeldsen, Agnes Le Port, Mehar S. Khatkar, Nicholas M. Wade, Melony J. Sellars, Eike J. Steinig, Herman W. Raadsma, Dean R. Jerry and Kyall R. Zenger

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:541

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  37. Manila clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) is a worldwide commercially important marine bivalve species. In recent years, however, microbial diseases caused high economic losses and have received increasing attention....

    Authors: Kunyin Jiang, Hongtao Nie, Dongdong Li and Xiwu Yan

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:531

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  38. Whilst adaptive facultative sex allocation has been widely studied at the phenotypic level across a broad range of organisms, we still know remarkably little about its genetic architecture. Here, we explore th...

    Authors: Bart A. Pannebakker, Nicola Cook, Joost van den Heuvel, Louis van de Zande and David M. Shuker

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:499

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  40. Cestoda is a class of endoparasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). During the course of their evolution cestodes have evolved some interesting aspects, such as their increased reproductive cap...

    Authors: Gabriela Prado Paludo, Claudia Elizabeth Thompson, Kendi Nishino Miyamoto, Rafael Lucas Muniz Guedes, Arnaldo Zaha, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, Martin Cancela and Henrique Bunselmeyer Ferreira

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:487

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  41. The pearl oyster Pinctada fucata martensii is an economically valuable shellfish for seawater pearl production, and production of pearls depends on its growth. To date, the molecular mechanisms of the growth of t...

    Authors: Hua Zhang, Hanzhi Xu, Huiru Liu, Xiaolan Pan, Meng Xu, Gege Zhang and Maoxian He

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:481

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  43. Despite being one of the primary mechanisms of gene expression regulation in eukaryotes, alternative splicing is often overlooked in ecotoxicogenomic studies. The process of alternative splicing facilitates th...

    Authors: Sneha Suresh, Teresa J. Crease, Melania E. Cristescu and Frédéric J. J. Chain

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:433

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  45. Parasites employ proteases to evade host immune systems, feed and replicate and are often the target of anti-parasite strategies to disrupt these interactions. Myxozoans are obligate cnidarian parasites, alter...

    Authors: Ashlie Hartigan, Anush Kosakyan, Hana Pecková, Edit Eszterbauer and Astrid S. Holzer

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:404

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  46. Most of our understanding on the social behavior and genomics of bees and other social insects is centered on the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera. The genus Apis, however, is a highly derived branch comprising ...

    Authors: Flávia C. de Paula Freitas, Anete P. Lourenço, Francis M. F. Nunes, Alexandre R. Paschoal, Fabiano C. P. Abreu, Fábio O. Barbin, Luana Bataglia, Carlos A. M. Cardoso-Júnior, Mário S. Cervoni, Saura R. Silva, Fernanda Dalarmi, Marco A. Del Lama, Thiago S. Depintor, Kátia M. Ferreira, Paula S. Gória, Michael C. Jaskot…

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:386

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  49. Genetic association studies that seek to explain the inheritance of complex traits typically fail to explain a majority of the heritability of the trait under study. Thus, we are left with a gap in the map fro...

    Authors: Benjamin R. Harrison, Lu Wang, Erika Gajda, Elise V. Hoffman, Brian Y. Chung, Scott D. Pletcher, Daniel Raftery and Daniel E. L. Promislow

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:341

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  50. Salivary cell secretion (SCS) plays a critical role in blood feeding by medicinal leeches, making them of use for certain medical purposes even today.

    Authors: Vladislav V. Babenko, Oleg V. Podgorny, Valentin A. Manuvera, Artem S. Kasianov, Alexander I. Manolov, Ekaterina N. Grafskaia, Dmitriy A. Shirokov, Alexey S. Kurdyumov, Dmitriy V. Vinogradov, Anastasia S. Nikitina, Sergey I. Kovalchuk, Nickolay A. Anikanov, Ivan O. Butenko, Olga V. Pobeguts, Daria S. Matyushkina, Daria V. Rakitina…

    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:331

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