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  1. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is considered a staple food in a number of developing countries. Several diseases attack the crop leading to substantial economic losses around the globe. However, the crop has ra...

    Authors: Asma Rahmanzadeh, Bahman Khahani, S. Mohsen Taghavi, Moein Khojasteh and Ebrahim Osdaghi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2022 23:680
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  2. Probiotic bifidobacteria in combination with prebiotic carbohydrates have documented positive effects on human health regarding gastrointestinal disorders and improved immunity, however the selective routes of...

    Authors: Joakim M Andersen, Rodolphe Barrangou, Maher Abou Hachem, Sampo J Lahtinen, Yong Jun Goh, Birte Svensson and Todd R Klaenhammer
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:312
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  3. Ticks secrete a cement cone composed of many salivary proteins, some of which are rich in the amino acid glycine in order to attach to their hosts' skin. Glycine-rich proteins (GRPs) are a large family of hete...

    Authors: Sandra R Maruyama, Elen Anatriello, Jennifer M Anderson, José M Ribeiro, Lucinda G Brandão, Jesus G Valenzuela, Beatriz R Ferreira, Gustavo R Garcia, Matias PJ Szabó, Sonal Patel, Richard Bishop and Isabel KF de Miranda-Santos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:363
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  4. Identification of parasite genes that underlie traits such as drug resistance and host specificity is challenging using classical linkage mapping approaches. Extreme QTL (X-QTL) methods, originally developed b...

    Authors: Frédéric D Chevalier, Claudia LL Valentim, Philip T LoVerde and Timothy JC Anderson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:617
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  5. Neural-endocrine-immune (NEI) system is a major modulation network among the nervous, endocrine and immune system and weights greatly in maintaining homeostasis of organisms during stress and infection. Some m...

    Authors: Hao Chen, Lingling Wang, Zhi Zhou, Zhanhui Hou, Zhaoqun Liu, Weilin Wang, Dahai Gao, Qiang Gao, Mengqiang Wang and Linsheng Song
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:942
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  6. Two-component systems (TCS) play critical roles in sensing and responding to environmental cues. Azospirillum is a plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium living in the rhizosphere of many important crops. Despite ...

    Authors: Stéphanie Borland, Anne Oudart, Claire Prigent-Combaret, Céline Brochier-Armanet and Florence Wisniewski-Dyé
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:833
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  7. Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans gains energy from the oxidation of ferrous iron and various reduced inorganic sulfur compounds at very acidic pH. Although an initial model for the electron pathways involved in iro...

    Authors: Raquel Quatrini, Corinne Appia-Ayme, Yann Denis, Eugenia Jedlicki, David S Holmes and Violaine Bonnefoy
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2009 10:394
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  8. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) posttranscriptionally down-regulate gene expression by binding target mRNAs. Analysis of the evolution of miRNA binding sites is helpful in understanding the co-evolution between miRNAs and ...

    Authors: Xingyi Guo, Yijie Gui, Yu Wang, Qian-Hao Zhu, Chris Helliwell and Longjiang Fan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:454
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  9. Microsporidia are well known models of extreme nuclear genome reduction and compaction. The smallest microsporidian genomes have received the most attention, but genomes of different species range in size from...

    Authors: Bryony AP Williams, Renny CH Lee, James J Becnel, Louis M Weiss, Naomi M Fast and Patrick J Keeling
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:200
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  10. The high-affinity K+ transporter (HAK) family plays a vital role in K+ uptake and transport as well as in salt and drought stress responses. In the present study, we identified 22 HAK genes in each Medicago trunc...

    Authors: Qian Li, Wenxuan Du, Xinge Tian, Wenbo Jiang, Bo Zhang, Yuxiang Wang and Yongzhen Pang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2022 23:791
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  12. Severe equine asthma is a naturally occurring lung inflammatory disease of mature animals characterized by neutrophilic inflammation, bronchoconstriction, mucus hypersecretion and airway remodeling. Exacerbati...

    Authors: Laurence Tessier, Olivier Côté, Mary Ellen Clark, Laurent Viel, Andrés Diaz-Méndez, Simon Anders and Dorothee Bienzle
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:708
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  13. Transcriptomics analyses of bacteria (and other organisms) provide global as well as detailed information on gene expression levels and, consequently, on other processes in the cell. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) h...

    Authors: Anne de Jong, Sjoerd van der Meulen, Oscar P. Kuipers and Jan Kok
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:663
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  14. The detection of protein complexes is of great significance for researching mechanisms underlying complex diseases and developing new drugs. Thus, various computational algorithms have been proposed for protei...

    Authors: Rongquan Wang, Caixia Wang, Liyan Sun and Guixia Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:637
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  15. Cupriavidus strain STM 6070 was isolated from nickel-rich soil collected near Koniambo massif, New Caledonia, using the invasive legume trap host Mimosa pudica. STM 6070 is a heavy metal-tolerant strain that is h...

    Authors: Agnieszka Klonowska, Lionel Moulin, Julie Kaye Ardley, Florence Braun, Margaret Mary Gollagher, Jaco Daniel Zandberg, Dora Vasileva Marinova, Marcel Huntemann, T. B. K. Reddy, Neha Jacob Varghese, Tanja Woyke, Natalia Ivanova, Rekha Seshadri, Nikos Kyrpides and Wayne Gerald Reeve
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:214
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  16. Selenoprotein S (SelS) protects the functional integrity of the endoplasmic reticulum against the deleterious effects of metabolic stress. SEPS1/SelS polymorphisms have been involved in the increased release of p...

    Authors: Alfonso Martínez, Jose Luis Santiago, Jezabel Varadé, Ana Márquez, José Ramón Lamas, Juan Luis Mendoza, Hermenegildo de la Calle, Manuel Díaz-Rubio, Emilio G de la Concha, Benjamín Fernández-Gutiérrez and Elena Urcelay
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2008 9:329
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  17. Chlamydia (C.) gallinacea is a recently identified bacterium that mainly infects domestic chickens. Demonstration of C. gallinacea in human atypical pneumonia suggests its zoonotic pot...

    Authors: Weina Guo, Martina Jelocnik, Jing Li, Konrad Sachse, Adam Polkinghorne, Yvonne Pannekoek, Bernhard Kaltenboeck, Jiansen Gong, Jinfeng You and Chengming Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:949
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  18. Several mutations were present in the genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae linezolid-resistant strains but the role of several of these mutations had not been experimentally tested. To analyze the role of these mut...

    Authors: Dewan S Billal, Jie Feng, Philippe Leprohon, Danielle Légaré and Marc Ouellette
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2011 12:512
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  19. Jatropha curcas is an oil-bearing plant, and has seeds with high oil content (~ 40%). Several advantages, such as easy genetic transformation and short generation duration, have led to the emergence of J. curcas

    Authors: Xuan Zhang, Bang-Zhen Pan, Maosheng Chen, Wen Chen, Jing Li, Zeng-Fu Xu and Changning Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 9):958
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 9

  20. Genomic regions of autozygosity (ROA) arise when an individual is homozygous for haplotypes inherited identical-by-descent from ancestors shared by both parents. Over the past decade, they have gained importan...

    Authors: Alexandra Blant, Michelle Kwong, Zachary A. Szpiech and Trevor J. Pemberton
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:928
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  21. Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a severe invasive disease of humans and animals. Initial screening of a B. pseudomallei signature-tagged mutagenesis li...

    Authors: Natalie R. Lazar Adler, Elizabeth M. Allwood, Deanna Deveson Lucas, Paul Harrison, Stephen Watts, Alexandra Dimitropoulos, Puthayalai Treerat, Priyangi Alwis, Rodney J. Devenish, Mark Prescott, Brenda Govan, Ben Adler, Marina Harper and John D. Boyce
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:331
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  22. The different regions of a genome do not evolve at the same rate. For example, comparative genomic studies have suggested that the sex chromosomes and the regions harbouring the immune defence genes in the Maj...

    Authors: Biao Wang, Robert Ekblom, Ignas Bunikis, Heli Siitari and Jacob Höglund
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:180
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  23. Hybridization, which can quickly merge two or more divergent genomes and form new allopolyploids, is an important technique in fish genetic breeding. However, the merged subgenomes must adjust and coexist with...

    Authors: Wuhui Li, Shi Wang, Jie Hu, Chenchen Tang, Chang Wu, Junmei Liu, Li Ren, Chengfei Sun, Junjian Dong, Shaojun Liu and Xing Ye
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2021 22:362
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  24. There is interest in improving the flavor of commercial strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) varieties. Fruit flavor is shaped by combinations of sugars, acids and volatile compounds. Many efforts seek to use genomic...

    Authors: Alan H Chambers, Jeremy Pillet, Anne Plotto, Jinhe Bai, Vance M Whitaker and Kevin M Folta
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:217
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  25. (1,3;1,4)-β-Glucan is an important component of the cell walls of barley grain as it affects processability during the production of alcoholic beverages and has significant human health benefits when consumed ...

    Authors: Kelly Houston, Joanne Russell, Miriam Schreiber, Claire Halpin, Helena Oakey, Jennifer M Washington, Allan Booth, Neil Shirley, Rachel A Burton, Geoffrey B Fincher and Robbie Waugh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:907
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  26. A high-density genetic linkage map is essential for QTL fine mapping, comparative genome analysis, identification of candidate genes and marker-assisted selection for economic traits in aquaculture species. Th...

    Authors: Xiu Feng, Xiaomu Yu, Beide Fu, Xinhua Wang, Haiyang Liu, Meixia Pang and Jingou Tong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2018 19:230
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  27. Limited information is available on aluminum (Al)-toxicity-responsive proteins in woody plant roots. Seedlings of ‘Xuegan’ (Citrus sinensis) and ‘Sour pummelo’ (Citrus grandis) were treated for 18 weeks with nutr...

    Authors: Huan-Xin Jiang, Lin-Tong Yang, Yi-Ping Qi, Yi-Bin Lu, Zeng-Rong Huang and Li-Song Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:949
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  28. The Djallonke sheep is well adapted to harsh environmental conditions, and is relatively resistant to Haemonchosis and resilient to animal trypanosomiasis. The larger Sahelian sheep, which cohabit the same reg...

    Authors: M. Yaro, K. A. Munyard, E. Morgan, R. J. N. Allcock, M. J. Stear and D. M. Groth
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:816
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  29. Evolution equipped Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predatory bacteria to invade other bacteria, digesting and replicating, sealed within them thus preventing nutrient-sharing with organisms in the surrounding environm...

    Authors: Laura Hobley, Thomas R Lerner, Laura E Williams, Carey Lambert, Rob Till, David S Milner, Sarah M Basford, Michael J Capeness, Andrew K Fenton, Robert J Atterbury, Maximilian ATS Harris and R Elizabeth Sockett
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2012 13:670
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  30. The pPT23A family of plasmids appears to be indigenous to the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae and these plasmids are widely distributed and widely transferred among pathovars of P. syringae and related specie...

    Authors: José A. Gutiérrez-Barranquero, Francisco M. Cazorla, Antonio de Vicente and George W. Sundin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:365
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  31. Folsomia candida is a model in soil biology, belonging to the family of Isotomidae, subclass Collembola. It reproduces parthenogenetically in the presence of Wolbachia, and exhibits re...

    Authors: Anna Faddeeva-Vakhrusheva, Ken Kraaijeveld, Martijn F. L. Derks, Seyed Yahya Anvar, Valeria Agamennone, Wouter Suring, Andries A. Kampfraath, Jacintha Ellers, Giang Le Ngoc, Cornelis A. M. van Gestel, Janine Mariën, Sandra Smit, Nico M. van Straalen and Dick Roelofs
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:493
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  32. Ammonium (NH4+) is a key nitrogen source supporting plant growth and development. Proteins in the ammonium transporter (AMT) family mediate the movement of NH4+ across the cell membrane. Although several studies ...

    Authors: Lei Fang, Miaomiao Wang, Xiao Chen, Jianrong Zhao, Jianfei Wang and Jianjian Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:158
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  33. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple genetic loci for C-reactive protein (CRP) and lipids, of which some overlap. We aimed to identify genetic pleiotropy among CRP and lipids in orde...

    Authors: Symen Ligthart, Ahmad Vaez, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Ronald Stolk, André G. Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Oscar H. Franco and Abbas Dehghan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:443
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  34. As a population genetic tool, mitochondrial DNA is commonly divided into the ~ 1-kb control region (CR), in which single nucleotide variant (SNV) diversity is relatively high, and the coding region, in which s...

    Authors: Emily C. Patterson, Gurdeep Matharu Lall, Rita Neumann, Barbara Ottolini, Chiara Batini, Federico Sacchini, Aiden P. Foster, Jon H. Wetton and Mark A. Jobling
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:690
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  35. Domestication and centuries of selective breeding have changed genomes of sheep breeds to respond to environmental challenges and human needs. The genomes of local breeds, therefore, are valuable sources of ge...

    Authors: Andrey A. Yurchenko, Tatiana E. Deniskova, Nikolay S. Yudin, Arsen V. Dotsev, Timur N. Khamiruev, Marina I. Selionova, Sergey V. Egorov, Henry Reyer, Klaus Wimmers, Gottfried Brem, Natalia A. Zinovieva and Denis M. Larkin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20(Suppl 3):294
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 20 Supplement 3

  36. Olfactory receptor (OR) genes are the largest multi-gene family in the mammalian genome, with 874 in human and 1483 loci in mouse (including pseudogenes). The expansion of the OR gene repertoire has occurred t...

    Authors: If H. A. Barnes, Ximena Ibarra-Soria, Stephen Fitzgerald, Jose M. Gonzalez, Claire Davidson, Matthew P. Hardy, Deepa Manthravadi, Laura Van Gerven, Mark Jorissen, Zhen Zeng, Mona Khan, Peter Mombaerts, Jennifer Harrow, Darren W. Logan and Adam Frankish
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2020 21:196
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  37. Since the completion of the rat reference genome in 2003, whole-genome sequencing data from more than 40 rat strains have become available. These data represent the broad range of strains that are used in rat ...

    Authors: Roel Hermsen, Joep de Ligt, Wim Spee, Francis Blokzijl, Sebastian Schäfer, Eleonora Adami, Sander Boymans, Stephen Flink, Ruben van Boxtel, Robin H van der Weide, Tim Aitman, Norbert Hübner, Marieke Simonis, Boris Tabakoff, Victor Guryev and Edwin Cuppen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:357
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  38. 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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  39. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can protect plants against pathogenic microbes through a diversity of mechanisms including competition for nutrients, production of antibiotics, and stimulation of t...

    Authors: Roeland L. Berendsen, Marcel C. van Verk, Ioannis A. Stringlis, Christos Zamioudis, Jan Tommassen, Corné M. J. Pieterse and Peter A. H. M. Bakker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:539
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  40. Phenomena such as incomplete lineage sorting, horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication and subsequent sub- and neo-functionalisation can result in distinct local phylogenetic relationships that are discordan...

    Authors: Neda Zamani, Pamela Russell, Henrik Lantz, Marc P Hoeppner, Jennifer RS Meadows, Nagarjun Vijay, Evan Mauceli, Federica di Palma, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Patric Jern and Manfred G Grabherr
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14:347
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  41. Pine wilt disease (PWD) is a worldwide threat to pine forests, and is caused by the pine wood nematode (PWN) Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. Bacteria are known to be associated with PWN and may have an important role...

    Authors: Claudia S. L. Vicente, Francisco X. Nascimento, Yoriko Ikuyo, Peter J. A. Cock, Manuel Mota and Koichi Hasegawa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:301
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  42. Self-incompatibility (SI) is a reproductive protection mechanism that plants acquired during evolution to prevent self-recession. As the female determinant of SI specificity, SRK has been shown to be the only rec...

    Authors: Chenggang Xiang, Hongzheng Tao, Tiantao Wang, Hengling Meng, Dejun Guan, He Li, Xiang Wei and Wei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2023 24:402
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  43. Free circulating DNA (fcDNA) has many potential clinical applications, due to the non-invasive way in which it is collected. However, because of the low concentration of fcDNA in blood, genome-wide analysis ca...

    Authors: Kristina Warton, Vita Lin, Tina Navin, Nicola J Armstrong, Warren Kaplan, Kevin Ying, Brian Gloss, Helena Mangs, Shalima S Nair, Neville F Hacker, Robert L Sutherland, Susan J Clark and Goli Samimi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:476
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  44. Dense SNP genotypes are often combined with complex trait phenotypes to map causal variants, study genetic architecture and provide genomic predictions for individuals with genotypes but no phenotype. A single...

    Authors: I. M. MacLeod, P. J. Bowman, C. J. Vander Jagt, M. Haile-Mariam, K. E. Kemper, A. J. Chamberlain, C. Schrooten, B. J. Hayes and M. E. Goddard
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17:144
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  45. Calcineurin B-like proteins (CBLs) are major Ca2+ sensors that interact with CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs) to regulate growth and development in plants. The CBL-CIPK network is involved in stress respon...

    Authors: Xiao Ma, Wen-Xian Gai, Yi-Ming Qiao, Muhammad Ali, Ai-Min Wei, De-Xu Luo, Quan-Hui Li and Zhen-Hui Gong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:775
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  46. Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is known to have functions beyond fibrinolysis in acute ischemic stroke, such as blood brain barrier disruption. To further delineate tPA functions in the blood, we examined ...

    Authors: Glen C Jickling, Xinhua Zhan, Bradley P Ander, Renée J Turner, Boryana Stamova, Huichun Xu, Yingfang Tian, Dazhi Liu, Ryan R Davis, Paul A Lapchak and Frank R Sharp
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2010 11:254
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  47. The saprophagous and coprophagous maggots of the drone fly Eristalis tenax (Insecta, Diptera) have evolved the unique ability to survive in aquatic habitats with extreme microbial stress such as drains, sewage po...

    Authors: Boran Altincicek and Andreas Vilcinskas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2007 8:326
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  48. APOBEC1 (A1) enzymes are cytidine deaminases involved in RNA editing. In addition to this activity, a few A1 enzymes have been shown to be active on single stranded DNA. As two human ssDNA cytidine deaminases ...

    Authors: Vincent Caval, Wenjuan Jiao, Noémie Berry, Pierre Khalfi, Emmanuelle Pitré, Valérie Thiers, Jean-Pierre Vartanian, Simon Wain-Hobson and Rodolphe Suspène
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2019 20:858
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  49. A complete understanding of barnacle adhesion remains elusive as the process occurs within and beneath the confines of a rigid calcified shell. Barnacle cement is mainly proteinaceous and several individual pr...

    Authors: Zheng Wang, Dagmar H. Leary, Jinny Liu, Robert E. Settlage, Kenan P. Fears, Stella H. North, Anahita Mostaghim, Tara Essock-Burns, Sarah E. Haynes, Kathryn J. Wahl and Christopher M. Spillmann
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:859
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  50. The Caenorhabditis elegans genome encodes ten proteins that share sequence similarity with the Hedgehog signaling molecule through their C-terminal autoprocessing Hint/Hog domain. These proteins contain novel N-t...

    Authors: Limin Hao, Robert Johnsen, Gilbert Lauter, David Baillie and Thomas R Bürglin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2006 7:280
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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