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Section edited by Shane Burgess and Jacqueline Smith
This section covers all aspects of the genomics of vertebrates, excluding humans, primates and rodents, including livestock species.
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Manipulating maternal nutrition during specific periods of gestation can result in re-programming of fetal and post-natal development. In this experiment we investigated how a feed restriction of 85% compared ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:632
Published on: 18 August 2017
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The importance of poultry as a global source of protein underpins the chicken genome and associated SNP data as key tools in selecting and breeding healthy robust birds with improved disease resistance. SNPs a...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:637
Published on: 18 August 2017
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Decades of intensive genetic selection in the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) have enabled the remarkable rapid growth of today’s broiler (meat-type) chickens. However, this enhanced growth rate was a...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:626
Published on: 16 August 2017
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Mastitis is the most prevalent disease in dairy sheep with major economic, hygienic and welfare implications. The disease persists in all dairy sheep production systems despite the implementation of improved m...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:624
Published on: 16 August 2017
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High ambient temperature is known to affect fish gonadal development and physiology in a variety of ways depending on the severity and duration of exposure; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms are poo...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:617
Published on: 15 August 2017
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The dark sleeper (Odontobutis potamophila) is an important commercial fish species which shows a sexually dimorphic growth pattern. However, the lack of sex transcriptomic data is hindering further research and g...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:613
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Genomic methods have proved to be important tools in the analysis of genetic diversity across the range of species and can be used to reveal processes underlying both short- and long-term evolutionary change. ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:609
Published on: 14 August 2017
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A better understanding of the genetic architecture underlying complex traits (e.g., the distribution of causal variants and their effects) may aid in the genomic prediction. Here, we hypothesized that the geno...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:604
Published on: 10 August 2017
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The genetic basis of muscle fat deposition in pigs is not well known. So far, we have only identified a limited number of genes involved in the absorption, transport, storage and catabolism of lipids. Such inf...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:603
Published on: 10 August 2017
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The wolf (Canis lupus) is one of the most widely distributed terrestrial mammals, because it is well adapted to various ecological niches and their corresponding pathogen environments. Immunological competence is...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:584
Published on: 7 August 2017
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Coding/functional SNPs change the biological function of a gene and, therefore, could serve as “large-effect” genetic markers. In this study, we used two bioinformatics pipelines, GATK and SAMtools, for discov...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:582
Published on: 7 August 2017
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The ricefield eel is a protogynous hermaphroditic Synbranchiform species that changes sex naturally from female to male, which offers an interesting model for studying gonadal (particularly ovarian) differenti...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:573
Published on: 3 August 2017
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To date, genome-scale analyses in the domestic horse have been limited by suboptimal single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) density and uneven genomic coverage of the current SNP genotyping arrays. The recent av...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:565
Published on: 27 July 2017
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Gibel carp is an important aquaculture species in China, and a herpesvirus, called as Carassius auratus herpesvirus (CaHV), has hampered the aquaculture development. Diverse gynogenetic clones of gibel carp have ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:561
Published on: 24 July 2017
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Sex hormones play important roles in teleost ovarian and testicular development. In zebrafish, ovarian differentiation appears to be dictated by an oocyte-derived signal via Cyp19a1a aromatase-mediated estroge...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:557
Published on: 24 July 2017
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The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) has been acknowledged as the most endangered felid species in the world. An intense contraction and fragmentation during the twentieth century left less than 100 individuals split...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:556
Published on: 21 July 2017
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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate adipose tissue metabolism, however, their function on testosterone deficiency related obesity in humans is less understood. For this research, intact and castrated male ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:542
Published on: 19 July 2017
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In Nile tilapia sex determination is governed by a male heterogametic system XX/XY either on LG1 or LG23. The latter carries a Y-specific duplicate of the amh gene, which is a testis-determining factor. Allelic v...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:531
Published on: 14 July 2017
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The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) has by far the largest body size of any elasmobranch (shark or ray) species. Therefore, it is also the largest extant species of the paraphyletic assemblage commonly referred to ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:532
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Efforts to resolve the transcribed sequences in the equine genome have focused on protein-coding RNA. The transcription of the intergenic regions, although detected via total RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), has yet ...
BMC Genomics 2017 18:511
Published on: 4 July 2017
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