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  1. Dimorphic seeds from Suaeda aralocaspica exhibit different germination behaviors that are thought to be a bet-hedging strategy advantageous in harsh and unpredictable environments. To understand the molecular mec...

    Authors: Lei Wang, Hong-Ling Wang, Lan Yin and Chang-Yan Tian
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:806
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. The evidence for epigenome-wide associations between smoking and DNA methylation continues to grow through cross-sectional studies. However, few large-scale investigations have explored the associations using ...

    Authors: Rory Wilson, Simone Wahl, Liliane Pfeiffer, Cavin K. Ward-Caviness, Sonja Kunze, Anja Kretschmer, Eva Reischl, Annette Peters, Christian Gieger and Melanie Waldenberger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:805
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  3. In recent years, a rapidly increasing number of RNA transcripts has been generated by thousands of sequencing projects around the world, creating enormous volumes of transcript data to be analyzed. An importan...

    Authors: Hugo W. Schneider, Taina Raiol, Marcelo M. Brigido, Maria Emilia M. T. Walter and Peter F. Stadler
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:804
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  4. Our understanding of the molecular mechanisms implementing pubertal maturation of the testis in vertebrates is incomplete. This topic is relevant in Atlantic salmon aquaculture, since precocious male puberty n...

    Authors: K. O. Skaftnesmo, R. B. Edvardsen, T. Furmanek, D. Crespo, E. Andersson, L. Kleppe, G. L. Taranger, J. Bogerd, R. W. Schulz and A. Wargelius
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:801
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  5. Akkermansia muciniphila is one of the most dominant bacteria that resides on the mucus layer of intestinal tract and plays key role in human health, however, little is known about its ...

    Authors: Xianfeng Guo, Shenghui Li, Jiachun Zhang, Feifan Wu, Xiangchun Li, Dan Wu, Min Zhang, Zihao Ou, Zhuye Jie, Qiulong Yan, Peng Li, Jiangfeng Yi and Yongzheng Peng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:800
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  6. If unmanaged, high rates of inbreeding in livestock populations adversely impact their reproductive fitness. In beef cattle, historical selection strategies have increased the frequency of several segregating ...

    Authors: Jesse L. Hoff, Jared E. Decker, Robert D. Schnabel and Jeremy F. Taylor
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:799
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  7. Genotypes not directly measured in genetic studies are often imputed to improve statistical power and to increase mapping resolution. The accuracy of standard imputation techniques strongly depends on the simi...

    Authors: Maria Kabisch, Ute Hamann and Justo Lorenzo Bermejo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:798
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  8. Nanobodies are single-domain antibodies that contain the unique structural and functional properties of naturally-occurring heavy chain in camelidae. As a novel class of antibody, they show many advantages com...

    Authors: Jing Zuo, Jian Li, Rongxin Zhang, Longsheng Xu, Hanhan Chen, Xiaohuan Jia, Zhipeng Su, Linhong Zhao, Xing Huang and Wei Xie
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:797
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  10. The New Zealand collembolan genus Holacanthella contains the largest species of springtails (Collembola) in the world. Using Illumina technology we have sequenced and assembled a draft genome and transcriptome fr...

    Authors: Chen Wu, Melissa D. Jordan, Richard D. Newcomb, Neil J. Gemmell, Sarah Bank, Karen Meusemann, Peter K. Dearden, Elizabeth J. Duncan, Sefanie Grosser, Kim Rutherford, Paul P. Gardner, Ross N. Crowhurst, Bernd Steinwender, Leah K. Tooman, Mark I. Stevens and Thomas R. Buckley
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:795
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  12. Trypanosomatids are a group of protozoan parasites that includes the etiologic agents of important human illnesses as Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. These parasites have a significant dis...

    Authors: Rafael Luis Kessler, Daniela Parada Pavoni, Marco Aurelio Krieger and Christian Macagnan Probst
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:793
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  13. Our main purpose was to evaluate the expression of plastic and evolved genes involved in ecological speciation in the noctuid moth Spodoptera frugiperda, the fall armyworm (FAW); and to demonstrate how host plant...

    Authors: Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão, Renato Jun Horikoshi, Daniel Bernardi, Celso Omoto, Antonio Figueira and Marcelo Mendes Brandão
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:792
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  14. Haynaldia villosa (H. villosa) has been recognized as a species potentially useful for wheat improvement. The availability of its genomic sequences will boost its research and applicat...

    Authors: Jin Xiao, Keli Dai, Lian Fu, Jan Vrána, Marie Kubaláková, Wentao Wan, Haojie Sun, Jing Zhao, Chunyan Yu, Yufeng Wu, Michael Abrouk, Haiyan Wang, Jaroslav Doležel and Xiue Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:791
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  15. Propionibacterium freudenreichii is an industrially important bacterium granted the Generally Recognized as Safe (the GRAS) status, due to its long safe use in food bioprocesses. Despi...

    Authors: Paulina Deptula, Pia K. Laine, Richard J. Roberts, Olli-Pekka Smolander, Helena Vihinen, Vieno Piironen, Lars Paulin, Eija Jokitalo, Kirsi Savijoki, Petri Auvinen and Pekka Varmanen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:790
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  16. Accurate inference of genetic ancestry is of fundamental interest to many biomedical, forensic, and anthropological research areas. Genetic ancestry memberships may relate to genetic disease risks. In a genome...

    Authors: Jinyoung Byun, Younghun Han, Ivan P. Gorlov, Jonathan A. Busam, Michael F. Seldin and Christopher I. Amos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:789
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  18. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies are increasingly applied to analyse complex microbial ecosystems by mRNA sequencing of whole communities, also known as metatranscriptome sequencing. This approach...

    Authors: Daniela Beisser, Nadine Graupner, Lars Grossmann, Henning Timm, Jens Boenigk and Sven Rahmann
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:787
    Content type: Software Published on:

  19. The regulatory roles of long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) in humans have been revealed through the use of advanced sequencing technology. Recently, three possible scenarios of lincRNA origins have been...

    Authors: Wan-Hsin Liu, Zing Tsung-Yeh Tsai and Huai-Kuang Tsai
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:786
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  20. Gene order changes, under rearrangements, insertions, deletions and duplications, have been used as a new type of data source for phylogenetic reconstruction. Because these changes are rare compared to sequenc...

    Authors: Lingxi Zhou, Yu Lin, Bing Feng, Jieyi Zhao and Jijun Tang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 7):760
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 7

  21. Colon cancer is a leading cause of worldwide cancer death. It has become clear that microRNAs (miRNAs) play a role in the progress of colon cancer and understanding the effect of miRNAs on tumorigenesis could ...

    Authors: Jia Wen, Andrew Quitadamo, Benika Hall and Xinghua Shi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 7):756
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 7

  22. Identifying rare germline and somatic variants associated with cancer progression is an important research topic in cancer genomics. Although many approaches are proposed for rare variant association study, th...

    Authors: Yu Geng, Zhongmeng Zhao, Xuanping Zhang, Wenke Wang, Xingjian Cui, Kai Ye, Xiao Xiao and Jiayin Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 7):753
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 7

  23. One of the major challenges in the analysis of gene expression data is to identify local patterns composed of genes showing coherent expression across subsets of experimental conditions. Such patterns may prov...

    Authors: Jiří Kléma, František Malinka and Filip železný
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 7):752
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 7

  24. Cost-effective high-throughput sequencing technologies, together with efficient mapping and variant calling tools, have made it possible to identify somatic variants for cancer study. However, integrating soma...

    Authors: Vinaya Vijayan, Siu-Ming Yiu and Liqing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 7):748
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 7

  25. Recently, researchers have tried to integrate various dynamic information with static protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks to construct dynamic PPI networks. The shift from static PPI networks to dynamic...

    Authors: Yijia Zhang, Hongfei Lin, Zhihao Yang, Jian Wang and Yiwei Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 7):743
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 7

  26. Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are short peptides (5–30 amino acids) that can enter almost any cell without significant damage. On account of their high delivery efficiency, CPPs are promising candidates for...

    Authors: Leyi Wei, Jijun Tang and Quan Zou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 7):742
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 7

  28. The reduced cost of sequencing has made de novo sequencing and the assembly of draft microbial genomes feasible in any ordinary biology lab. However, the process of finishing and completing the genome remains ...

    Authors: Nobuaki Kono, Masaru Tomita and Kazuharu Arakawa
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:784
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  29. Sterile and fertile flowers are important evolutionary developmental phenotypes in angiosperm flowers. The development of floral organs, critical in angiosperm reproduction, is regulated by microRNAs (miRNAs)....

    Authors: Weixing Li, Zhichong He, Li Zhang, Zhaogeng Lu, Jing Xu, Jiawen Cui, Li Wang and Biao Jin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:783
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  30. After cereals, root and tuber crops are the main source of starch in the human diet. Starch biosynthesis was certainly a significant target for selection during the domestication of these crops. But domesticat...

    Authors: Roland Akakpo, Nora Scarcelli, Hana Chaïr, Alexandre Dansi, Gustave Djedatin, Anne-Céline Thuillet, Bénédicte Rhoné, Olivier François, Karine Alix and Yves Vigouroux
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:782
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  31. Asparagine is a very important nitrogen transport and storage compound in plants due to its high nitrogen/carbon ratio and stability. Asparagine intracellular concentration depends on a balance between asparag...

    Authors: Margarita García-Calderón, Carmen M. Pérez-Delgado, Alfredo Credali, José M. Vega, Marco Betti and Antonio J. Márquez
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:781
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  32. The intramuscular fat content (IMF) refers to the amount of fat within muscles, including the sum of phospholipids mainly found in cell membranes, triglycerides and cholesterol, and is determined both by hyper...

    Authors: Yuding Wang, Cai Ma, Yi Sun, Yi Li, Li Kang and Yunliang Jiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:780
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  33. Trichoderma harzianum is used in biotechnology applications due to its ability to produce powerful enzymes for the conversion of lignocellulosic substrates into soluble sugars. Active ...

    Authors: Jaire Alves Ferreira Filho, Maria Augusta Crivelente Horta, Lilian Luzia Beloti, Clelton Aparecido dos Santos and Anete Pereira de Souza
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:779
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  34. The role of histone modifications in the DNA damage response has been extensively studied in non-plant systems, including mammals and yeast. However, there is a lack of detailed evidence showing how chromatin ...

    Authors: Xiucai Pan, Yuan Fang, Xueming Yang, Dongyang Zheng, Lifen Chen, Lei Wang, Jin Xiao, Xiu-e Wang, Kai Wang, Zhukuan Cheng, Hengxiu Yu and Wenli Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:778
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  35. Molecular characterization is important for efficient utilization of germplasm and development of improved varieties. In the present study, we investigated the genetic purity, relatedness and population struct...

    Authors: Berhanu Tadesse Ertiro, Kassa Semagn, Biswanath Das, Michael Olsen, Maryke Labuschagne, Mosisa Worku, Dagne Wegary, Girum Azmach, Veronica Ogugo, Tolera Keno, Beyene Abebe, Temesgen Chibsa and Abebe Menkir
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:777
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  36. Deciphering the genetic architecture of a species is a good way to understand its evolutionary history, but also to tailor its profile for breeding elite cultivars with desirable traits. Aligning QTLs from div...

    Authors: Nadia Raboanatahiry, Hongbo Chao, Liangxing Guo, Jianping Gan, Jun Xiang, Mingli Yan, Libin Zhang, Longjiang Yu and Maoteng Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:776
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  37. The harsh environment on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau gives Tibetan hulless barley (Hordeum vulgare var. nudum) great ability to resist adversities such as drought, salinity, and low temperature, and makes it a go...

    Authors: Junjun Liang, Xin Chen, Guangbing Deng, Zhifen Pan, Haili Zhang, Qiao Li, Kaijun Yang, Hai Long and Maoqun Yu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:775
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  38. Do miRNAs contribute to specify the germ-band type and the body structure in the insect embryo? Our goal was to address that issue by studying the changes in miRNA expression along the ontogeny of the German c...

    Authors: Guillem Ylla, Maria-Dolors Piulachs and Xavier Belles
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:774
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Sugarcane is an emerging dual-purpose biofuel crop for energy and sugar production, owing to its rapid growth rate, high sucrose storage in the stems, and high lignocellulosic yield. It has the highest biomass...

    Authors: Ching Man Wai, Jisen Zhang, Tyler C. Jones, Chifumi Nagai and Ray Ming
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:773
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  40. Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing diversifies protein products and affects many biological processes. Arabidopsis thaliana Serine/Arginine-rich 45 (SR45), regulates pre-mRNA splicing by interacting with other regul...

    Authors: Xiao-Ning Zhang, Yifei Shi, Jordan J. Powers, Nikhil B. Gowda, Chong Zhang, Heba M. M. Ibrahim, Hannah B. Ball, Samuel L. Chen, Hua Lu and Stephen M. Mount
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:772
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  41. Sugarcane smut caused by Sporisorium scitamineum is one of the most severe fungal diseases in the sugarcane industry. Using a molecular biological technique to mine sugarcane resistance genes can provide gene res...

    Authors: Feng Liu, Tingting Sun, Ling Wang, Weihua Su, Shiwu Gao, Yachun Su, Liping Xu and Youxiong Que
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:771
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  42. The Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus is a highly invasive species and competent vector of several arboviruses (e.g. dengue, chikungunya, Zika) and parasites (e.g. dirofilaria) of public health importance. Co...

    Authors: Fabrizio Lombardo, Marco Salvemini, Carmine Fiorillo, Tony Nolan, Laurence J. Zwiebel, José M. Ribeiro and Bruno Arcà
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:770
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health problem and drug resistance compromises the efforts to control this disease. Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an important drug used in both first and second line treatment regi...

    Authors: Patricia Sheen, David Requena, Eduardo Gushiken, Robert H. Gilman, Ricardo Antiparra, Bryan Lucero, Pilar Lizárraga, Basilio Cieza, Elisa Roncal, Louis Grandjean, Arnab Pain, Ruth McNerney, Taane G. Clark, David Moore and Mirko Zimic
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:769
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  44. The impact of nutritional status and diet composition on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) in fish remains largely unknown. To identify biomarkers of interest in nutritional studies, herein we o...

    Authors: Jonás I. Silva-Marrero, Alberto Sáez, Albert Caballero-Solares, Ivan Viegas, María Pilar Almajano, Felipe Fernández, Isabel V. Baanante and Isidoro Metón
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:768
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  45. Cashmere growth is a seasonal and cyclic phenomenon under the control of photoperiod and multiple stimulatory and inhibitory signals. Beyond relevant coding genes, microRNA (miRNA) and long non coding RNA (lnc...

    Authors: Shanhe Wang, Wei Ge, Zhixin Luo, Yang Guo, Beilei Jiao, Lei Qu, Zhiying Zhang and Xin Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:767
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  46. Wheat is one of the three major cereals that have been domesticated to feed human populations. The composition of the wheat grain determines the functional properties of wheat including milling efficiency, bre...

    Authors: Parimalan Rangan, Agnelo Furtado and Robert J. Henry
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:766
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  47. In our previous study, Citrobacter werkmanii BF-6 was isolated from an industrial spoilage sample and demonstrated an excellent ability to form biofilms, which could be affected by various environmental factors. ...

    Authors: Gang Zhou, Hong Peng, Ying-si Wang, Xiao-mo Huang, Xiao-bao Xie and Qing-shan Shi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:765
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  48. How pathogen genomes evolve to support distinct lifestyles is not well-understood. The oomycete Phytophthora infestans, the potato blight agent, is a largely biotrophic pathogen that feeds from living host cells,...

    Authors: Audrey M. V. Ah-Fong, Jolly Shrivastava and Howard S. Judelson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:764
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  49. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein kinase (LRR-RLK) is the largest gene family of receptor-like protein kinases (RLKs) and actively participates in regulating the growth, development, signal transductio...

    Authors: Jiangmei Sun, Leiting Li, Peng Wang, Shaoling Zhang and Juyou Wu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:763
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  50. The bulldog calf syndrome is a lethal form of the inherited congenital chondrodysplasias. Among the progeny of the polled Holstein bull Energy P cases of lethal chondrodysplasia were observed. Pedigrees of the...

    Authors: Sina Reinartz, Hartmut Mohwinkel, Christian Sürie, Maren Hellige, Karsten Feige, Deborah Eikelberg, Andreas Beineke, Julia Metzger and Ottmar Distl
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:762
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