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  1. The search for new bioactive natural compounds with anticancer activity is still of great importance. Even though their potential for diagnostics and treatment of cancer has already been proved, the availabili...

    Authors: Linda Petijová, Jana Henzelyová, Júlia Kuncová, Martina Matoušková and Eva Čellárová
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:555
  2. Sperm storage capacity (SSC) determines the duration of fertility in hens and is an important reproduction trait that cannot be ignored in production. Currently, the genetic mechanism of SSC is still unclear in h...

    Authors: Ruitang Chai, Cong Xiao, Zhuliang Yang, Wenya Du, Ke Lv, Jiayi Zhang and Xiurong Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:554
  3. Development of the human pancreas requires the precise temporal control of gene expression via epigenetic mechanisms and the binding of key transcription factors. We quantified genome-wide patterns of DNA meth...

    Authors: Ailsa MacCalman, Elisa De Franco, Alice Franklin, Christine S. Flaxman, Sarah J. Richardson, Kathryn Murrall, Joe Burrage, Emma M. Walker, Noel G. Morgan, Andrew T. Hattersley, Emma L. Dempster, Eilis Hannon, Aaron R. Jeffries, Nick D. L. Owens and Jonathan Mill
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:553
  4. The disputed phylogenetic position of Aerides flabellata Rolfe ex Downie, due to morphological overlaps with related species, was investigated based on evidence of complete chloroplast (cp) genomes. The structura...

    Authors: Kaifeng Tao, Lei Tao, Jialin Huang, Hanning Duan, Yan Luo and Lu Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:552
  5. Because number of matured muscle fibers in poultry does not increase after birth, the meat yield is mainly determined during embryogenesis. We previously indicated breast muscle grew rapidly from 18th day afte...

    Authors: Lihong Gu, Jile Chen, Chengjun Hu, Dingfa Wang, Shuqian Huan, Guang Rong, Renlong Lv and Tieshan Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:551
  6. Salinity is a significant abiotic stress that affects plants from germination through all growth stages. This study was aimed to determine the morpho-physiological and genetic variations in BC1F2, BC2F1 and F3 ge...

    Authors: Kritika Sharma, Shikha Yashveer, Vikram Singh, Sudhir Sharma, Mandeep Redhu and Mehdi Rahimi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:550
  7. Despite Spirochetales being a ubiquitous and medically important order of bacteria infecting both humans and animals, there is extremely limited information regarding their bacteriophages. Of the genus Treponema,...

    Authors: Rachel Ridgway, Hanshuo Lu, Tim R. Blower, Nicholas James Evans and Stuart Ainsworth
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:549
  8. Gibel carp (Carassius gibelio) is a cyprinid fish that originated in eastern Eurasia and is considered as invasive in European freshwater ecosystems. The populations of gibel carp in Europe are mostly composed of...

    Authors: Florian Jacques, Tomáš Tichopád, Martin Demko, Vojtěch Bystrý, Kristína Civáňová Křížová, Mária Seifertová, Kristýna Voříšková, Md Mehedi Hasan Fuad, Lukáš Vetešník and Andrea Šimková
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:548
  9. Environmental temperature is critical in regulating biological functions in fish. S. prenanti is a kind of cold-water fish, but of which we have little knowledge about the metabolic adaptation and physiological r...

    Authors: Aiyu Wang, Run Zhang, Xianshu Zhang, Chunjie Chen, Quan Gong, Linjie Wang and Yan Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:547
  10. Purple flowering stalk (Brassica rapa var. purpuraria) is a widely cultivated plant with high nutritional and medicinal value and exhibiting strong adaptability during growing. Mitochondrial (mt) play important r...

    Authors: Yihui Gong, Xin Xie, Guihua Zhou, Meiyu Chen, Zhiyin Chen, Peng Li and Hua Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:546
  11. Several single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) pipelines exist, each offering its own advantages. Among them and described here is vSNP that has been developed over the past decade and is specifically tailored t...

    Authors: Jessica Hicks, Tod Stuber, Kristina Lantz, Mia Torchetti and Suelee Robbe-Austerman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:545
  12. In the realm of multi-environment prediction, when the goal is to predict a complete environment using the others as a training set, the efficiency of genomic selection (GS) falls short of expectations. Genoty...

    Authors: Osval A. Montesinos-López, Andrew W. Herr, José Crossa, Abelardo Montesinos-López and Arron H. Carter
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:544
  13. Recent studies on co-transformation of the growth regulator, TaGRF4-GIF1 chimera (Growth Regulating Factor 4-GRF Interacting Factor 1), in cultivated wheat varieties (Triticum aestivum), showed improved regenerat...

    Authors: Zhenyu Yang, Meili Zhao, Xiaojie Zhang, Lili Gu, Jian Li, Feng Ming, Meina Wang and Zhicai Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:543
  14. Homopolymer (HP) sequencing is error-prone in next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays, and may induce false insertion/deletions and substitutions. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of dichromatic an...

    Authors: HuiJuan Chen, Bing Wang, LiLi Cai, YiRan Zhang, YingShuang Shu, Wen Liu, Xue Leng, JinCheng Zhai, BeiFang Niu, QiMing Zhou and ShuNan Cao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:542
  15. Flight can drastically enhance dispersal capacity and is a key trait defining the potential of exotic insect species to spread and invade new habitats. The phytophagous European spongy moths (ESM, Lymantria dispa...

    Authors: Gwylim S. Blackburn, Christopher I. Keeling, Julien Prunier, Melody A. Keena, Catherine Béliveau, Richard Hamelin, Nathan P. Havill, Francois Olivier Hebert, Roger C. Levesque, Michel Cusson and Ilga Porth
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:541
  16. The citral-type is the most common chemotype in Cinnamomum bodinieri Levl (C. bodinieri), which has been widely used in the daily necessities, cosmetics, biomedicine, and aromatic areas due to their high citral c...

    Authors: Qingyan Ling, Beihong Zhang, Yanbo Wang, Zufei Xiao, Jiexi Hou, Qingqing Liu, Jie Zhang, Changlong Xiao, Zhinong Jin and Yuanqiu Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:540
  17. Squamous promoter binding protein-like (SPL) genes encode plant-specific transcription factors (TFs) that play essential roles in modulating plant growth, development, and stress response. Pea (Pisum sativum L.) ...

    Authors: Long Li, Jian bo Xu, Zhi wen Zhu, Rui Ma, Xiao zong Wu and Yu ke Geng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:539
  18. Mitochondrial diseases (MDs) can be caused by single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and structural variants (SVs) in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA). Presently, identifying deletions in small to medium-sized frag...

    Authors: Yan Lin, Jiayin Wang, Ran Xu, Zhe Xu, Yifan Wang, Shirang Pan, Yan Zhang, Qing Tao, Yuying Zhao, Chuanzhu Yan, Zhenhua Cao and Kunqian Ji
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:538
  19. Authors: Rick Masonbrink, Tom R. Maier, Usha Muppirala, Arun S. Seetharam, Etienne Lord, Parijat S. Juvale, Jeremy Schmutz, Nathan T. Johnson, Dmitry Korkin, Melissa G. Mitchum, Benjamin Mimee, Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, Matthew Hudson, Andrew J. Severin and Thomas J. Baum
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:537

    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2019 20:119

  20. The formation of pharmacologically active components in medicinal plants is significantly impacted by DNA methylation. However, the exact mechanisms through which DNA methylation regulates secondary metabolism...

    Authors: Jing Dong, Xuelei Zhao, Xin Song, Shuo Wang, Xueying Zhao, Baoxiang Liang, Yuehong Long and Zhaobin Xing
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:536
  21. Setae on the pad lamellae of the Japanese gecko Gekko japonicus (Schlegel, 1836), a vital epidermal derivative, are primarily composed of cornified beta-proteins (CBPs) and play a pivotal role in adhesion and cli...

    Authors: Longjie Xia, Chao Li, Shengnan Chen, Linna Lyu, Wenli Xie, Jie Yan, Kaiya Zhou and Peng Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:535
  22. Maedi-visna virus (MVV) is a lentivirus that infects monocyte/macrophage lineage cells in sheep, goats, and wild ruminants and causes pneumonia, mastitis, arthritis, and encephalitis. The immune response to MV...

    Authors: Xiaona Shi, Yufei Zhang, Sixu Chen, Xiaoyue Du, Pei Zhang, Xujie Duan, Hui Fang and Shuying Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:534
  23. Environmental stress factors, such as biotic and abiotic stress, are becoming more common due to climate variability, significantly affecting global maize yield. Transcriptome profiling studies provide insight...

    Authors: Rita K Hayford, Olivia C Haley, Ethalinda K Cannon, John L Portwood II, Jack M Gardiner, Carson M Andorf and Margaret R Woodhouse
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:533
  24. Rye (Secale cereale L.) is one of the major cereal crop species in the Triticeae family and is known to be most tolerant to diverse abiotic stresses, such as cold, heat, osmotic, and salt stress. The EPIDERMAL PA...

    Authors: Lin Zhiling, Du Wenhua and Zhao Fangyuan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:532
  25. Skeletal muscle development and fat deposition have important effects on meat quality. The study of regulating skeletal muscle development and fat deposition is of great significance in improving the quality o...

    Authors: Mingyue Shi, Shuai Yang, Xiaolei Zhao, Di Sun, Yifei Li, Jingxian Yang, Meng Li, Chunbo Cai, Xiaohong Guo, Bugao Li, Chang Lu and Guoqing Cao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:530
  26. The colonization of land and the diversification of terrestrial plants is intimately linked to the evolutionary history of their symbiotic fungal partners. Extant representatives of these fungal lineages inclu...

    Authors: Anna Rosling, Shadi Eshghi Sahraei, Faheema Kalsoom Khan, Alessandro Desirò, Abigail E Bryson, Stephen J Mondo, Igor V Grigoriev, Gregory Bonito and Marisol Sánchez-García
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:529
  27. Direct RNA sequencing (dRNA-seq) on the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) platforms can produce reads covering up to full-length gene transcripts, while containing decipherable information about RNA base modi...

    Authors: Wang Liu-Wei, Wiep van der Toorn, Patrick Bohn, Martin Hölzer, Redmond P. Smyth and Max von Kleist
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:528
  28. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complicated neurodegenerative disease. Neuron-glial cell interactions are an important but not fully understood process in the progression of AD. We used bioinformatic methods to ...

    Authors: Jieqiong Xie, Yating Lan, Cuihua Zou, Jingfeng He, Qi Huang, Jingyi Zeng, Mika Pan, Yujia Mei, Jiefeng Luo and Donghua Zou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:526
  29. The Rh blood group system is characterized by its complexity and polymorphism, encompassing 56 different antigens. Accurately predicting the presence of the C antigen using genotyping methods has been challeng...

    Authors: Lin-Nan Shao, Zi-Wei Zheng, Shi-Hang Zhou, Wen-Qian Song, Yue-Xin Xia and Xiao-Hua Liang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:525
  30. The filamentous temperature-sensitive H protease (ftsH) gene family belongs to the ATP-dependent zinc metalloproteins, and ftsH genes play critical roles in plant chloroplast development and photosynthesis.

    Authors: Jiabao Wang, Lu Liu, Rui Luo, Qi Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Fenglou Ling and Piwu Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:524
  31. Members of the Planctomycetota phylum harbour an outstanding potential for carbohydrate degradation given the abundance and diversity of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) encoded in their genomes. However, ma...

    Authors: Dominika Klimek, Malte Herold and Magdalena Calusinska
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:523
  32. Assessing the genetic structure of local varieties and understanding their genetic data are crucial for effective management and preservation. However, the genetic differences among local breeds require furthe...

    Authors: Ruiyi Lin, Huihuang Li, Weilong Lin, Fan Yang, Xinguo Bao, Chengfu Pan, Lianjie Lai and Weimin Lin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:522
  33. Citrus is a major fruit crop, and RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data can be utilized to investigate its gene functions, heredity, evolution, development, and the detection of genes linked to essential traits or res...

    Authors: Chang Liu, Tingting Li, Licao Cui, Nian Wang, Guiyan Huang and Ruimin Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:521
  34. Increasing evidence points to an active role of oviductal extracellular vesicles (oEVs) in the early embryo-maternal dialogue. However, it remains unclear whether oEVs contribute to the recognition of the pres...

    Authors: Meriem Hamdi, José María Sánchez, Beatriz Fernandez-Fuertes, Diogo Ribeiro Câmara, Heinrich Bollwein, Dimitrios Rizos, Stefan Bauersachs and Carmen Almiñana
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:520
  35. Recent advancements in high-throughput genomics and targeted therapies have provided tremendous potential to identify and therapeutically target distinct mutations associated with cancers. However, to date the...

    Authors: Adam X. Miranda, Justin Kemp, Brad A. Davidson, Sara Erika Bellomo, Verda E. Miranda, Alexandra Manoni, Caterina Marchiò, Sarah Croessmann, Ben H. Park and Emily Hodges
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:519
  36. Morchella spongiola is a highly prized mushroom for its delicious flavor and medical value and is one of the most flourishing, representative, and dominant macrofungi in the Qilian Mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet ...

    Authors: Qing Meng, Zhanling Xie, Hongyan Xu, Jing Guo, Qingqing Peng, Yanyan Li, Jiabao Yang, Deyu Dong, Taizhen Gao and Fan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:518
  37. Like all other species, fungi are susceptible to infection by viruses. The diversity of fungal viruses has been rapidly expanding in recent years due to the availability of advanced sequencing technologies. Ho...

    Authors: Xiang Lu, Ziyuan Dai, Jiaxin Xue, Wang Li, Ping Ni, Juan Xu, Chenglin Zhou and Wen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:517
  38. Increasing evidence of brain-immune crosstalk raises expectations for the efficacy of novel immunotherapies in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the lack of methods to examine brain tissues makes it difficult to e...

    Authors: Eun Ji Lee, Minseok Suh, Hongyoon Choi, Yoori Choi, Do Won Hwang, Sungwoo Bae and Dong Soo Lee
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:516
  39. In aquaculture, sturgeons are generally maintained in the confined spaces, which not only hinders sturgeon movement, but also threatens their flesh quality that seriously concerned by aquaculture industry. As ...

    Authors: Shiyong Yang, Jiajin Zhang, Zihan Xu, Wuyuntana Shao, Xiaojian Pang, Datian Li, Xiaoli Huang, Wei Luo, Zongjun Du, Yunkun Li, Jiayun Wu and Xiaogang Du
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:514
  40. Aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) are a family of enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of aldehyde molecules into the corresponding carboxylic acid, regulate the balance of aldehydes and protect plants from the p...

    Authors: Haijing Gu, Zongjin Pan, Mengxue Jia, Hui Fang, Junyi Li, Yingxiao Qi, Yixuan Yang, Wenxiang Feng, Xin Gao, Allah Ditta, Muhammad K.R. Khan, Wei Wang, Yunying Cao and Baohua Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:513
  41. Bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme requires sigma70 factors to start transcription by identifying promoter elements. Cyanobacteria possess multiple sigma70 factors to adapt to a wide variety of ecological nic...

    Authors: Marine Gevin, Amel Latifi and Emmanuel Talla
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:512
  42. Domesticated safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is a widely cultivated edible oil crop. However, despite its economic importance, the genetic basis underlying key traits such as oil content, resistance to biotic...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Dong, Xiaojie Wang, Naveed Ahmad, Yepeng Sun, Yuanxin Wang, Xiuming Liu, Na Yao, Yang Jing, Linna Du, Xiaowei Li, Nan Wang, Weican Liu, Fawei Wang, Xiaokun Li and Haiyan Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:510
  43. The increase in temperatures due to the current climate change dramatically affects crop cultivation, resulting in yield losses and altered fruit quality. Tomato is one of the most extensively grown and consum...

    Authors: Salvatore Graci, Riccardo Aiese Cigliano and Amalia Barone
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:509
  44. Conducting genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for reproductive traits in Hanwoo cattle, including age at first calving (AFC), calving interval (CI), gestation length (GL), and number of artificial insemina...

    Authors: Md Azizul Haque, Yun-Mi Lee, Jae-Jung Ha, Shil Jin, Byoungho Park, Nam-Young Kim, Jeong-Il Won and Jong-Joo Kim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2024 25:496

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