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  1. Caenorhabditis elegans can endure long periods of environmental stress by altering their development to execute a quiescent state called “dauer”. Previous work has implicated LKB1 - the causative gene in the auto...

    Authors: Pratik Kadekar, Rita Chaouni, Emily Clark, Anna Kazanets and Richard Roy
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:462
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  2. Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for plants. Utilization of Fe deficiency-tolerant rootstock is an effective strategy to prevent Fe deficiency problems in fruit trees production. Malus halliana is an apple...

    Authors: Yan-xiu Wang, Ya Hu, Yan-fang Zhu, Abdul Wahid Baloch, Xu-mei Jia and Ai-xia Guo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:461
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  3. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been found to play a vital role in several gene regulatory networks involved in the various biological processes in plants related to stress response. However, systematic an...

    Authors: Liang Chen, Shilai Shi, Ninfei Jiang, Hira Khanzada, Ghulam Mustafa Wassan, Changlan Zhu, Xiaosong Peng, Jie Xu, Yujin Chen, Qiuying Yu, Xiaopeng He, Junru Fu, Xiaorong Chen, Lifang Hu, Linjuan Ouyang, Xiaotang Sun…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:460
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  4. Along with trophoblast elongation (Days 10 to 12), estradiol is secreted in increasing amounts for recognition of pregnancy. Endometrial secretions driven by ovarian progesterone and conceptus signals are esse...

    Authors: Shuqin Zeng, Jochen Bick, Susanne E. Ulbrich and Stefan Bauersachs
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:459
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  5. The marine dinoflagellate, Symbiodinium, is a well-known photosynthetic partner for coral and other diverse, non-photosynthetic hosts in subtropical and tropical shallows, where it comprises an essential componen...

    Authors: Eiichi Shoguchi, Girish Beedessee, Ipputa Tada, Kanako Hisata, Takeshi Kawashima, Takeshi Takeuchi, Nana Arakaki, Manabu Fujie, Ryo Koyanagi, Michael C. Roy, Masanobu Kawachi, Michio Hidaka, Noriyuki Satoh and Chuya Shinzato
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:458
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  7. Nitrogen (N) is a key macronutrient required for plant growth and development. In this study, watermelon plants were grown under hydroponic conditions at 0.2 mM N, 4.5 mM N, and 9 mM N for 14 days.

    Authors: Muhammad Azher Nawaz, Chen Chen, Fareeha Shireen, Zhuhua Zheng, Hamza Sohail, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Amjad Ali, Zhilong Bie and Yuan Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:456
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  8. Gene order and location in chromosomes of species are non-random. Neighboring gene pairs tend to display some similarities, such as co-expression and co-modification. However, the contribution of linear proxim...

    Authors: Shuaibin Lian, Tianliang Liu, Shengli Jing, Hongyu Yuan, Zaibao Zhang and Lin Cheng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:455
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  9. Bananas (Musa spp.) are the most important fruit crops worldwide due to their high nutrition value. Fusarium wilt of banana, caused by fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 (Foc 4), is...

    Authors: Zhihao Cheng, Xiang Yu, Shuxia Li and Qiong Wu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:454
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  10. In streptococci of the mitis group, competence for natural transformation is a transient physiological state triggered by competence stimulating peptides (CSPs). Although low transformation yields and the abse...

    Authors: G. Salvadori, R. Junges, H. A. Åmdal, T. Chen, D. A. Morrison and F. C. Petersen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:453
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  11. Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have helped identify large numbers of genetic loci that significantly associate with increased risk of developing diseases. However, translating genetic knowledge into un...

    Authors: Raffaele Ferrari, Demis A. Kia, James E. Tomkins, John Hardy, Nicholas W. Wood, Ruth C. Lovering, Patrick A. Lewis and Claudia Manzoni
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:452
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  12. Cottonseed is one of the most important raw materials for plant protein, oil and alternative biofuel for diesel engines. Understanding the complex genetic basis of cottonseed traits is requisite for achieving ...

    Authors: Xiongming Du, Shouye Liu, Junling Sun, Gengyun Zhang, Yinhua Jia, Zhaoe Pan, Haitao Xiang, Shoupu He, Qiuju Xia, Songhua Xiao, Weijun Shi, Zhiwu Quan, Jianguang Liu, Jun Ma, Baoyin Pang, Liru Wang…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:451
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  13. It is well known that development of prostate cancer (PC) can be attributed to somatic mutations of the genome, acquired within proto-oncogenes or tumor-suppressor genes. What is less well understood is how ge...

    Authors: Jean M. Winter, Natasha L. Curry, Derek M. Gildea, Kendra A. Williams, Minnkyong Lee, Ying Hu and Nigel P. S. Crawford
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:450
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  14. Identification of genomic regions that have been targets of selection may shed light on the genetic history of livestock populations and help to identify variation controlling commercially important phenotypes...

    Authors: Mahdi Mokhber, Mohammad Moradi-Shahrbabak, Mostafa Sadeghi, Hossein Moradi-Shahrbabak, Alessandra Stella, Ezequiel Nicolzzi, Javad Rahmaninia and John L. Williams
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:449
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  15. Following the publication of this article [1], the authors noticed found that they incorrectly reported the BUSCO completeness for the PhyloFish brown trout and European whitefish transcriptomes. This was due ...

    Authors: Madeleine Carruthers, Andrey A. Yurchenko, Julian J. Augley, Colin E. Adams, Pawel Herzyk and Kathryn R. Elmer
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:448
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2018 19:32

  18. The greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) is a member of the Family Lemuridae that is unique in their dependency on bamboo as a primary food source. This Critically Endangered species lives in small forest patche...

    Authors: Melissa T. R. Hawkins, Ryan R. Culligan, Cynthia L. Frasier, Rebecca B. Dikow, Ryan Hagenson, Runhua Lei and Edward E. Louis Jr
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:445
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  19. Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) has become the standard method for interrogating plant methylomes at base resolution. However, deep WGBS measurements remain cost prohibitive for large, complex genomes...

    Authors: Aaron Taudt, David Roquis, Amaryllis Vidalis, René Wardenaar, Frank Johannes and Maria Colomé-Tatché
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:444
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  20. The role of PPARα in gene regulation in mouse liver is well characterized. However, less is known about the role of PPARα in human liver. The aim of the present study was to better characterize the impact of P...

    Authors: Montserrat A. de la Rosa Rodriguez, Go Sugahara, Guido J. E. J. Hooiveld, Yuji Ishida, Chise Tateno and Sander Kersten
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:443
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  21. Following the publication of this article [1], the authors noticed that Fig. 3 was missing. In that figure, one of the numbers corresponding to the Halomonas chemoreceptors was missing: namely, chemoreceptor 0707...

    Authors: Ana Florencia Gasperotti, María Victoria Revuelta, Claudia Alicia Studdert and María Karina Herrera Seitz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:442
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2018 19:266

  22. Due to the advancement in high throughput technology, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is routinely being incorporated along with phenotypic information into genetic evaluation. However, this approach ofte...

    Authors: El Hamidi A. Hay, Yuri T. Utsunomiya, Lingyang Xu, Yang Zhou, Haroldo H. R. Neves, Roberto Carvalheiro, Derek M. Bickhart, Li Ma, Jose Fernando Garcia and George E. Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:441
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  23. Effective target therapies for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) have not been identified so far. One of the reasons may be the genetic evolution from primary (PR) to recurrent (REC) tumors. We aim to iden...

    Authors: C. Peraldo-Neia, P. Ostano, G. Cavalloni, Y. Pignochino, D. Sangiolo, L. De Cecco, E. Marchesi, D. Ribero, A. Scarpa, A. M. De Rose, A. Giuliani, F. Calise, C. Raggi, P. Invernizzi, M. Aglietta, G. Chiorino…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:440
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  24. Kudzu, Pueraria montana var. lobata, is a woody vine native to Southeast Asia that has been introduced globally for cattle forage and erosion control. The vine is highly invasive in its introduced areas, includin...

    Authors: Matthew S. Haynsen, Mohammad Vatanparast, Gouri Mahadwar, Dennis Zhu, Roy Z. Moger-Reischer, Jeff J. Doyle, Keith A. Crandall and Ashley N. Egan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:439
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  25. Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are widely used to treat fertility issues in humans and for the production of embryos in mammalian livestock. The use of these techniques, however, is not without conse...

    Authors: Alan M. O’Doherty, Paul McGettigan, Rachelle E. Irwin, David A. Magee, Dominic Gagne, Eric Fournier, Abdullah Al-Naib, Marc-André Sirard, Colum P. Walsh, Claude Robert and Trudee Fair
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:438
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  26. Coexistence and transition of diverse sex determination strategies have been revealed in some ectothermic species, but the variation between males caused by different sex determination strategies and the under...

    Authors: Yao-Jun Zhu, Xi-Yin Li, Jun Zhang, Zhi Li, Miao Ding, Xiao-Juan Zhang, Li Zhou and Jian-Fang Gui
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:437
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  27. Brown rots are important fungal diseases of stone and pome fruits. They are caused by several Monilinia species but M. fructicola, M. laxa and M. fructigena are the most common all over the world. Although they h...

    Authors: Rita M. De Miccolis Angelini, Domenico Abate, Caterina Rotolo, Donato Gerin, Stefania Pollastro and Francesco Faretra
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:436
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  28. Lung cancer is a very heterogeneous disease that can be pathologically classified into different subtypes including small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC), lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), lung squamous cell carcinoma (L...

    Authors: Shu Zhang, Mingfa Li, Hongbin Ji and Zhaoyuan Fang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:435
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc are capable of forming symbioses with a wide range of organism, including a diverse assemblage of cyanolichens. Only certain lineages of Nostoc appear to be able to form a close,...

    Authors: Andrey N. Gagunashvili and Ólafur S. Andrésson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:434
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  30. Post-transcriptional regulation is crucial for the control of eukaryotic gene expression and might contribute to adaptive divergence. The three prime untranslated regions (3’ UTRs), that are located downstream...

    Authors: Peiwen Xiong, C. Darrin Hulsey, Axel Meyer and Paolo Franchini
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:433
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. CCHCR1 (Coiled-Coil α-Helical Rod protein 1) is a putative psoriasis candidate gene with the risk alleles CCHCR1*WWCC and *Iso3, the latter inhibiting the translation of isoform 1. CCHCR1 was recently shown to be...

    Authors: Mari H. Tervaniemi, Shintaro Katayama, Tiina Skoog, H. Annika Siitonen, Jyrki Vuola, Kristo Nuutila, Kristiina Tammimies, Sari Suomela, Esko Kankuri, Juha Kere and Outi Elomaa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:432
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  32. Rapid evolution of phosphorylation sites could provide raw materials of natural selection to fit the environment by rewiring the regulation of signal pathways. However, a large part of phosphorylation sites wa...

    Authors: Benpeng Miao, Qingyu Xiao, Weiran Chen, Yixue Li and Zhen Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:431
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  33. Feed intake and body weight gain are economically important inputs and outputs of beef production systems. The purpose of this study was to discover differentially expressed genes that will be robust for feed ...

    Authors: Brittney N. Keel, Christina M. Zarek, John W. Keele, Larry A. Kuehn, Warren M. Snelling, William T. Oliver, Harvey C. Freetly and Amanda K. Lindholm-Perry
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:430
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  34. Microdeletion of chromosome 22q11 is associated with significant developmental anomalies, including disruption of the cardiac outflow tract, thymic/parathyroid aplasia and cleft palate. Amongst the genes withi...

    Authors: Maria Zoupa, Guilherme Machado Xavier, Stephanie Bryan, Ioannis Theologidis, Matthew Arno and Martyn T. Cobourne
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:429
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  35. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading non-infectious cause of death in infants. Monozygotic (MZ) twins share nearly all of their genetic variants before and after birth. Nevertheless, MZ twins are some...

    Authors: Guoliang Lyu, Chao Zhang, Te Ling, Rui Liu, Le Zong, Yiting Guan, Xiaoke Huang, Lei Sun, Lijun Zhang, Cheng Li, Yu Nie and Wei Tao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:428
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  36. Aloe vera is a perennial, succulent, drought-resistant plant that exhibits many pharmacological characteristics such as wound healing ability against skin burns, anti-ulcer, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-vi...

    Authors: Pragati Choudhri, Muniya Rani, Rajender S. Sangwan, Ravinder Kumar, Anil Kumar and Vinod Chhokar
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:427
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  37. Genome mining tools have enabled us to predict biosynthetic gene clusters that might encode compounds with valuable functions for industrial and medical applications. With the continuously increasing number of...

    Authors: Martina Adamek, Mohammad Alanjary, Helena Sales-Ortells, Michael Goodfellow, Alan T. Bull, Anika Winkler, Daniel Wibberg, Jörn Kalinowski and Nadine Ziemert
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:426
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  38. The PIWI/piRNA pathway is a conserved machinery important for germ cell development and fertility. This piRNA-guided molecular machinery is best known for repressing derepressed transposable elements (TE) duri...

    Authors: Kai-Wei Chang, Yen-Tzu Tseng, Yi-Chen Chen, Chih-Yun Yu, Hung-Fu Liao, Yi-Chun Chen, Yu-Fan Evan Tu, Shinn-Chih Wu, I-Hsuan Liu, Marina Pinskaya, Antonin Morillon, Bertrand Pain and Shau-Ping Lin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:425
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2018 19:480

  39. Aberrant DNA methylation patterns of genes required for development are common in in vitro produced embryos. In this regard, we previously identified altered DNA methylation patterns of in vivo developed blast...

    Authors: Dessie Salilew-Wondim, Mohammed Saeed-Zidane, Michael Hoelker, Samuel Gebremedhn, Mikhaël Poirier, Hari Om Pandey, Ernst Tholen, Christiane Neuhoff, Eva Held, Urban Besenfelder, Vita Havlicek, Franca Rings, Eric Fournier, Dominic Gagné, Marc-André Sirard, Claude Robert…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:424
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  40. Following the publication of this article [1], the authors noticed that Figs. 2, 3 and 4 were in the incorrect order and thus had incorrect captions.

    Authors: Hadrien Máté de Gérando, François Wasels, Angélique Bisson, Benjamin Clement, Frédérique Bidard, Etienne Jourdier, Ana María López-Contreras and Nicolas Lopes Ferreira
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:423
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2018 19:242

  41. Vertebrates use different pigmentation strategies to adapt to various environments. A large amount of research has been done on disclosing the mechanisms of pigmentation strategies in vertebrates either under ...

    Authors: Wei Zhu, Lusha Liu, Xungang Wang, Xinyu Gao, Jianping Jiang and Bin Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:422
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  42. Scylla paramamosain (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae: Syclla De Hann) is a commercially important mud crab distributed along the coast of southern China and other Indo-Pacific countries (Lin Z, Hao M, Zhu D, et a...

    Authors: Huan Wang, Lei Tang, Hongling Wei, Junkai Lu, Changkao Mu and Chunlin Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:421
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  43. Parasitoid wasps are well-known natural enemies of major agricultural pests and arthropod borne diseases. The parasitoid wasp Macrocentrus cingulum (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) has been widely used to control the no...

    Authors: Chuanlin Yin, Meizhen Li, Jian Hu, Kun Lang, Qiming Chen, Jinding Liu, Dianhao Guo, Kang He, Yipei Dong, Jiapeng Luo, Zhenkun Song, James R. Walters, Wenqing Zhang, Fei Li and Xuexin Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:420
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  44. The main bottleneck for genomic studies of tumors is the limited availability of fresh frozen (FF) samples collected from patients, coupled with comprehensive long-term clinical follow-up. This shortage could ...

    Authors: Noa Bossel Ben-Moshe, Shlomit Gilad, Gili Perry, Sima Benjamin, Nora Balint-Lahat, Anya Pavlovsky, Sharon Halperin, Barak Markus, Ady Yosepovich, Iris Barshack, Einav Nili Gal-Yam, Eytan Domany, Bella Kaufman and Maya Dadiani
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:419
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  45. Transporter proteins mediate the translocation of substances across the membranes of living cells. Many transport processes are energetically expensive and the cells use 20 to 60% of their energy to power the ...

    Authors: Behrooz Darbani, Douglas B. Kell and Irina Borodina
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:418
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  46. Molecular regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis plays an essential role in the fine tuning of seasonal estrus in Capra hircus. Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) are emerging as key regulators in sexua...

    Authors: Emanuele Capra, Barbara Lazzari, Stefano Frattini, Stefania Chessa, Beatrice Coizet, Andrea Talenti, Bianca Castiglioni, Paolo Ajmone Marsan, Paola Crepaldi, Giulio Pagnacco, John L. Williams and Alessandra Stella
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:417
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  47. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized almost all fields of biology, agriculture and medicine, and is widely utilized to analyse genetic variation. Over the past decade, the NGS pipeline has been ...

    Authors: Kuan Feng, Justin Costa and Jeremy S. Edwards
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:416
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  48. Thinning supplies of natural resources increase attention to sustainable microbial production of bio-based fuels. The strain Clostridium beijerinckii NRRL B-598 is a relatively well-described butanol producer reg...

    Authors: Karel Sedlar, Pavlina Koscova, Maryna Vasylkivska, Barbora Branska, Jan Kolek, Kristyna Kupkova, Petra Patakova and Ivo Provaznik
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:415
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  49. Azadirachtin, one of the most promising botanical insecticides, has been widely used for pest control. Azadirachtin induces apoptosis in insect cell lines, including Sf9, SL-1 and BTI-Tn-5B1–4. Mitochondrial a...

    Authors: Benshui Shu, Jianwen Jia, Jingjing Zhang, Veeran Sethuraman, Xin Yi and Guohua Zhong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:413
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  50. Collaborative projects such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) have generated various -omics and clinical data on cancer. Many computational tools have been developed to facilitate the study of the molecular ch...

    Authors: Wenjie Sun, Ting Duan, Panmeng Ye, Kelie Chen, Guanling Zhang, Maode Lai and Honghe Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:405
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