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  1. The process of crop domestication has long been a major area of research to gain insights into the history of human civilization and to understand the process of evolution. Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) is ...

    Authors: Yunsheng Wang, Muhammad Qasim Shahid, Shunquan Lin, Chengjie Chen and Chen Hu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:354
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  2. Climate change poses a multi-dimensional threat to food and agricultural systems as a result of increased risk to animal growth, development, health, and food product quality. This study was designed to charac...

    Authors: Kent M. Reed, Kristelle M. Mendoza, Juan E. Abrahante, Natalie E. Barnes, Sandra G. Velleman and Gale M. Strasburg
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:352
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  3. Auxin/indole-3-acetic acid (Aux/IAA) family genes encode short-lived nuclear proteins that mediate the responses of auxin-related genes and are involved in several plant developmental ...

    Authors: Kaidong Liu, Changchun Yuan, Shaoxian Feng, Shuting Zhong, Haili Li, Jundi Zhong, Chenjia Shen and Jinxiang Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:351
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  4. Most tailed bacteriophages (phages) feature linear dsDNA genomes. Characterizing novel phages requires an understanding of complete genome sequences, including the definition of genome physical ends.

    Authors: Cheng-Han Chung, Michael H. Walter, Luobin Yang, Shu-Chuan (Grace) Chen, Vern Winston and Michael A. Thomas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:350
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  5. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) control multiple biological processes including the innate immune responses by negative post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. As there were no studies on the role(s) of miRNAs ...

    Authors: Rune Andreassen, Nardos Tesfaye Woldemariam, Ine Østråt Egeland, Oleg Agafonov, Hilde Sindre and Bjørn Høyheim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:349
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  6. Autoinflammatory diseases in dogs are characterized by complex disease processes with varying clinical signs. In Shar-Pei, signs of inflammation including fever and arthritis are known to be related with a bre...

    Authors: Julia Metzger, Anna Nolte, Ann-Kathrin Uhde, Marion Hewicker-Trautwein and Ottmar Distl
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:348
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  7. Excessive accumulation of adipose tissue in cultured fish is an outstanding problem in aquaculture. To understand the development of adiposity, it is crucial to identify the genes which expression is associate...

    Authors: Marta Bou, Jerôme Montfort, Aurélie Le Cam, Cécile Rallière, Véronique Lebret, Jean-Charles Gabillard, Claudine Weil, Joaquim Gutiérrez, Pierre-Yves Rescan, Encarnación Capilla and Isabel Navarro
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:347
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  8. Among viruses, bacteriophages are a group of special interest due to their capacity of infecting bacteria that are important for biotechnology and human health. Composting is a microbial-driven process in whic...

    Authors: Deyvid Amgarten, Layla Farage Martins, Karen Cristina Lombardi, Luciana Principal Antunes, Ana Paula Silva de Souza, Gianlucca Gonçalves Nicastro, Elliott Watanabe Kitajima, Ronaldo Bento Quaggio, Chris Upton, João Carlos Setubal and Aline Maria da Silva
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:346
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  9. The genetic diversity of Neotropical fish fauna is underrepresented in public databases. This distortion is evident for the order Siluriformes, in which the suborders Siluroidei and Loricarioidei share equival...

    Authors: Daniel Andrade Moreira, Paulo Andreas Buckup, Carolina Furtado, Adalberto Luis Val, Renata Schama and Thiago Estevam Parente
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:345
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  10. Chlamydia abortus (formerly Chlamydophila abortus) is an economically important livestock pathogen, causing ovine enzootic abortion (OEA), and can also cause zoonotic infections in hum...

    Authors: H. M. B. Seth-Smith, Leonor Sánchez Busó, M. Livingstone, M. Sait, S. R. Harris, K. D. Aitchison, Evangelia Vretou, V. I. Siarkou, K. Laroucau, K. Sachse, D. Longbottom and N. R. Thomson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:344
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  11. Bacterial small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) play important roles in sensing environment changes through sRNA-target mRNA interactions. However, the current strategy for detecting sRNA-mRNA interactions usually com...

    Authors: Tao Liu, Kaiyu Zhang, Song Xu, Zheng Wang, Hanjiang Fu, Baolei Tian, Xiaofei Zheng and Wuju Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:343
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  12. Glucose-6-phosphate (G6pc) is a key enzyme involved in the regulation of the glucose homeostasis. The present study aims at revisiting and clarifying the evolutionary history of g6pc genes in vertebrates.

    Authors: Lucie Marandel, Stéphane Panserat, Elisabeth Plagnes-Juan, Eva Arbenoits, José Luis Soengas and Julien Bobe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:342
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  13. Tilapias are the second most farmed fishes in the world and a sustainable source of food. Like many other fish, tilapias are sexually dimorphic and sex is a commercially important trait in these fish. In this ...

    Authors: Matthew A. Conte, William J. Gammerdinger, Kerry L. Bartie, David J. Penman and Thomas D. Kocher
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:341
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  14. Biotrophic fungal plant pathogens cause billions of dollars in losses to North American crops annually. The model for functional investigation of these fungi is Ustilago maydis. Its 20.5 Mb annotated genome seque...

    Authors: Michael E. Donaldson, Lauren A. Ostrowski, Kristi M. Goulet and Barry J. Saville
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:340
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  15. Fungal plant pathogens belonging to the genus Venturia cause damaging scab diseases of members of the Rosaceae. In terms of economic impact, the most important of these are V. inaequalis, which infects apple, and...

    Authors: Cecilia H. Deng, Kim M. Plummer, Darcy A. B. Jones, Carl H. Mesarich, Jason Shiller, Adam P. Taranto, Andrew J. Robinson, Patrick Kastner, Nathan E. Hall, Matthew D. Templeton and Joanna K. Bowen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:339
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  16. Previous studies examining post-feeding organ regeneration in the Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) have identified thousands of genes that are significantly differentially regulated during this process....

    Authors: Audra L. Andrew, Blair W. Perry, Daren C. Card, Drew R. Schield, Robert P. Ruggiero, Suzanne E. McGaugh, Amit Choudhary, Stephen M. Secor and Todd A. Castoe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:338
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  18. N 6 -methyladenosine (m6A) is the most prevalent internal form of modification in messenger RNA in higher eukaryotes a...

    Authors: Xuelian Tao, Jianning Chen, Yanzhi Jiang, Yingying Wei, Yan Chen, Huaming Xu, Li Zhu, Guoqing Tang, Mingzhou Li, Anan Jiang, Surong Shuai, Lin Bai, Haifeng Liu, Jideng Ma, Long Jin, Anxiang Wen…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:336
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  19. Genomic selection (GS) uses information from genomic signatures consisting of thousands of genetic markers to predict complex traits. As such, GS represents a promising approach to accelerate tree breeding, wh...

    Authors: Patrick R.N. Lenz, Jean Beaulieu, Shawn D. Mansfield, Sébastien Clément, Mireille Desponts and Jean Bousquet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:335
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  20. Examination of complex biological systems has long been achieved through methodical investigation of the system’s individual components. While informative, this strategy often leads to inappropriate conclusion...

    Authors: Sarah L. Grady, Stephanie A. Malfatti, Thusitha S. Gunasekera, Brian K. Dalley, Matt G. Lyman, Richard C. Striebich, Michael B. Mayhew, Carol L. Zhou, Oscar N. Ruiz and Larry C. Dugan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:334
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  21. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by targeting specific mRNAs. However, the possible role of miRNAs in the ovary differentiation and development of fish is n...

    Authors: Fang Wang, Yongfang Jia, Po Wang, Qianwen Yang, QiYan Du and ZhongJie Chang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:333
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  22. The benefit of increasing genomic sequence data to the scientific community depends on easy-to-use, scalable bioinformatics support. CloVR-Comparative combines commonly used bioinformatics tools into an intuit...

    Authors: Sonia Agrawal, Cesar Arze, Ricky S. Adkins, Jonathan Crabtree, David Riley, Mahesh Vangala, Kevin Galens, Claire M. Fraser, Hervé Tettelin, Owen White, Samuel V. Angiuoli, Anup Mahurkar and W. Florian Fricke
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:332
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  23. Parasitoid resistance in Drosophila varies considerably, among and within species. An immune response, lamellocyte-mediated encapsulation, evolved in a subclade of Drosophila and was subsequently lost in at least...

    Authors: Laura Salazar-Jaramillo, Kirsten M. Jalvingh, Ammerins de Haan, Ken Kraaijeveld, Henk Buermans and Bregje Wertheim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:331
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  24. ABC transporter superfamily is one of the largest and ubiquitous groups of proteins. Because of their role in detoxification, insect ABC transporters have gained more attention in recent years. In this study, ...

    Authors: Lixia Tian, Tianxue Song, Rongjun He, Yang Zeng, Wen Xie, Qingjun Wu, Shaoli Wang, Xuguo Zhou and Youjun Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:330
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  25. The phenomenon of immune priming, i.e. enhanced protection following a secondary exposure to a pathogen, has now been demonstrated in a wide range of invertebrate species. Despite accumulating phenotypic evide...

    Authors: Jenny M. Greenwood, Barbara Milutinović, Robert Peuß, Sarah Behrens, Daniela Esser, Philip Rosenstiel, Hinrich Schulenburg and Joachim Kurtz
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:329
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  27. DNA elimination is developmentally programmed in a wide variety of eukaryotes, including unicellular ciliates, and leads to the generation of distinct germline and somatic genomes. The ciliate Paramecium tetraure...

    Authors: Frédéric Guérin, Olivier Arnaiz, Nicole Boggetto, Cyril Denby Wilkes, Eric Meyer, Linda Sperling and Sandra Duharcourt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:327
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  28. Mitochondrial dysfunction is linked to numerous pathological states, in particular related to metabolism, brain health and ageing. Nuclear encoded gene polymorphisms implicated in mitochondrial functions can b...

    Authors: Julien Marquis, Gregory Lefebvre, Yiannis A. I. Kourmpetis, Mohamed Kassam, Frédéric Ronga, Umberto De Marchi, Andreas Wiederkehr and Patrick Descombes
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:326
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  29. Sugarcane smut caused by Sporisorium scitamineum leads to a significant reduction in cane yield and sucrose content. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in regulating plant responses to biotic stress. The p...

    Authors: Yachun Su, Yuye Zhang, Ning Huang, Feng Liu, Weihua Su, Liping Xu, Waqar Ahmad, Qibin Wu, Jinlong Guo and Youxiong Que
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:325
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  30. Genomic characterization of rotavirus (RoV) has not been adopted at large-scale due to the complexity of obtaining sequences for all 11 segments, particularly when feces are used as starting material.

    Authors: Tran Thi Ngoc Dung, Pham Thanh Duy, October M. Sessions, Uma K. Sangumathi, Voong Vinh Phat, Pham Thi Thanh Tam, Nguyen Thi Nguyen To, Tran My Phuc, Tran Thi Hong Chau, Nguyen Ngoc Minh Chau, Ngoc Nguyen Minh, Guy E. Thwaites, Maia A. Rabaa and Stephen Baker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:324
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  31. Despite the significance of chicken as a model organism, our understanding of the chicken transcriptome is limited compared to human. This issue is common to all non-human vertebrate annotations due to the dif...

    Authors: Richard I. Kuo, Elizabeth Tseng, Lel Eory, Ian R. Paton, Alan L. Archibald and David W. Burt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:323
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  33. High-resolution microarray technology is routinely used in basic research and clinical practice to efficiently detect copy number variants (CNVs) across the entire human genome. A new generation of arrays comb...

    Authors: Rajini R. Haraksingh, Alexej Abyzov and Alexander Eckehart Urban
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:321
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  34. The extensive use of antibiotics in medicine has raised serious concerns about biosafety. However, the effect of antibiotic application on the adaptive evolution of microorganisms, especially to probiotic bact...

    Authors: Jicheng Wang, Xiao Dong, Yuyu Shao, Huiling Guo, Lin Pan, Wenyan Hui, Lai-Yu Kwok, Heping Zhang and Wenyi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:320
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  35. The function of the prion protein, involved in the so-called prion diseases, remains a subject of intense debate and the possibility that it works as a pleiotropic protein through the interaction with multiple...

    Authors: J. A. Macedo, D. Schrama, I. Duarte, E. Tavares, J. Renaut, M. E. Futschik, P. M. Rodrigues and E. P. Melo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:319
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  36. Paspalum notatum Flügge is a subtropical grass native to South America, which includes sexual diploid and apomictic polyploid biotypes. In the past decade, a number of apomixis-associa...

    Authors: Juan Pablo A. Ortiz, Santiago Revale, Lorena A. Siena, Maricel Podio, Luciana Delgado, Juliana Stein, Olivier Leblanc and Silvina C. Pessino
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:318
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  37. For most pathogens, iron (Fe) homeostasis is crucial for maintenance within the host and the ability to cause disease. The primary transcriptional regulator that controls intracellular Fe levels is the Fur (fe...

    Authors: Lydgia A. Jackson, Michael Day, Jennie Allen, Edgar Scott II and David W. Dyer
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:317
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  39. Numerous studies have highlighted the elevated degree of comorbidity associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These comorbid conditions may add further impairments to individuals with autism and are sub...

    Authors: Leticia Diaz-Beltran, Francisco J. Esteban, Maya Varma, Alp Ortuzk, Maude David and Dennis P. Wall
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:315
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  40. miRNAs play essential roles in the modulation of cellular functions via degradation and/or translation attenuation of target mRNAs. They have been surveyed in a single ascidian genus, Ciona. Recently, an annotate...

    Authors: Kai Wang, Christelle Dantec, Patrick Lemaire, Takeshi A. Onuma and Hiroki Nishida
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:314
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  42. Authors: Angie D. Ambers, Jennifer D. Churchill, Jonathan L. King, Monika Stoljarova, Harrell Gill-King, Mourad Assidi, Muhammad Abu-Elmagd, Abdelbaset Buhmeida, Mohammed Al-Qahtani and Bruce Budowle
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:312
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2016 17:750

  43. The mountain pine beetle (MPB, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) is a highly destructive pest of pine forests in western North America. During flight to a new host tree and initiation of feeding, mountain pine bee...

    Authors: J. A. Nadeau, J. Petereit, R. L. Tillett, K. Jung, M. Fotoohi, M. MacLean, S. Young, K. Schlauch, G. J. Blomquist and C. Tittiger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:311
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  44. Molecular adaptation to the severe environments present during the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has attracted the attention of researchers. The divergence of the three specialization groups of schizotho...

    Authors: Wei Chi, Xufa Ma, Jiangong Niu and Ming Zou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:310
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  45. Protein lysine succinylation is an important post-translational modification and plays a critical regulatory role in almost every aspects of cell metabolism in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Common wheat is ...

    Authors: Yumei Zhang, Guangyuan Wang, Limin Song, Ping Mu, Shu Wang, Wenxing Liang and Qi Lin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:309
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  46. Codon usage bias (CUB) is an important evolutionary feature in genomes that has been widely observed in many organisms. However, the synonymous codon usage pattern in the genome of T. multiceps remains to be clar...

    Authors: Xing Huang, Jing Xu, Lin Chen, Yu Wang, Xiaobin Gu, Xuerong Peng and Guangyou Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:308
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  47. Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.), including japonica and indica, is unarguable the most important crop in Asia as well as worldwide. However, a decisive conclusion of its origination and domestication proc...

    Authors: Yang Yuan, Qijun Zhang, Shuiyun Zeng, Longjiang Gu, Weina Si, Xiaohui Zhang, Dacheng Tian, Sihai Yang and Long Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:307
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  48. The Andean cultivar Paloma is resistant to Mesoamerican and Andean races of Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, the fungal pathogen that causes the destructive anthracnose disease in common bean. Remarkably, Paloma is...

    Authors: Sandra Aparecida de Lima Castro, Maria Celeste Gonçalves-Vidigal, Thiago Alexandre Santana Gilio, Giselly Figueiredo Lacanallo, Giseli Valentini, Vanusa da Silva Ramos Martins, Qijian Song, Marta Zulema Galván, Oscar P. Hurtado-Gonzales and Marcial Antonio Pastor-Corrales
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:306
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  49. The quantitative relations between RNA and protein are fundamental to biology and are still not fully understood. Across taxa, it was demonstrated that the protein-to-mRNA ratio in steady state varies in a dir...

    Authors: Kobi Perl, Kathy Ushakov, Yair Pozniak, Ofer Yizhar-Barnea, Yoni Bhonker, Shaked Shivatzki, Tamar Geiger, Karen B. Avraham and Ron Shamir
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:305
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