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  1. Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is predominantly an autopolyploid plant with a variable ploidy level, frequent aneuploidy and a large genome that hampers investigation of its organization. Genetic architecture studies...

    Authors: Thiago Willian Almeida Balsalobre, Guilherme da Silva Pereira, Gabriel Rodrigues Alves Margarido, Rodrigo Gazaffi, Fernanda Zatti Barreto, Carina Oliveira Anoni, Cláudio Benício Cardoso-Silva, Estela Araújo Costa, Melina Cristina Mancini, Hermann Paulo Hoffmann, Anete Pereira de Souza, Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia and Monalisa Sampaio Carneiro
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:72
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  2. Isoflavonoids are a class of specialized metabolites found predominantly in legumes. They play a role in signaling for symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria and inhibiting pathogen infection.

    Authors: Mehran Dastmalchi, Patrick Chapman, Jaeju Yu, Ryan S. Austin and Sangeeta Dhaubhadel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:70
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  3. Colletotrichum graminicola and C. sublineola cause anthracnose leaf and stalk diseases of maize and sorghum, respectively. In spite of their close evolutionary relationship, the two species a...

    Authors: E. A. S. Buiate, K. V. Xavier, N. Moore, M. F. Torres, M. L. Farman, C. L. Schardl and L. J. Vaillancourt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:67
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2018 19:686

  4. Genetic structure in many widely-distributed broadcast spawning marine invertebrates remains poorly understood, posing substantial challenges for their fishery management, conservation and aquaculture. Under t...

    Authors: Monal M. Lal, Paul C. Southgate, Dean R. Jerry, Cyprien Bosserelle and Kyall R. Zenger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:66
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  5. Although many algorithms are now available that aim to characterize different classes of structural variation, discovery of balanced rearrangements such as inversions remains an open problem. This is mainly du...

    Authors: Marzieh Eslami Rasekh, Giorgia Chiatante, Mattia Miroballo, Joyce Tang, Mario Ventura, Chris T. Amemiya, Evan E. Eichler, Francesca Antonacci and Can Alkan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:65
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  6. The effects of nutrition on testis mass in the sexually mature male have long been known, however, the cellular and molecular processes of the testis response to nutrition was not fully understood.

    Authors: Yongjuan Guan, Guanxiang Liang, Graeme B. Martin and Le Luo Guan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:64
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  7. A high-density genetic map is essential for de novo genome assembly, fine mapping QTL for important complex traits, comparative genomic studies and understanding the mechanisms of genome evolution. Although a ...

    Authors: Le Wang, Bin Bai, Peng Liu, Shu Qing Huang, Zi Yi Wan, Elaine Chua, Baoqing Ye and Gen Hua Yue
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:63
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  8. Drought stress is one of the most severe problem limited agricultural productivity worldwide. It has been reported that plants response to drought-stress by sophisticated mechanisms at both transcriptional and...

    Authors: Qiansi Chen, Meng Li, Zhongchun Zhang, Weiwei Tie, Xia Chen, Lifeng Jin, Niu Zhai, Qingxia Zheng, Jianfeng Zhang, Ran Wang, Guoyun Xu, Hui Zhang, Pingping Liu and Huina Zhou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:62
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  9. Transcription factors (TFs) often interact with one another to form TF complexes that bind DNA and regulate gene expression. Many databases are created to describe known TF complexes identified by either mamma...

    Authors: Chia-Chun Yang, Min-Hsuan Chen, Sheng-Yi Lin, Erik H. Andrews, Chao Cheng, Chun-Chi Liu and Jeremy J.W. Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:61
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  10. Fistular leaves frequently appear in Allium species, and previous developmental studies have proposed that the process of fistular leaf formation involves programmed cell death. However, molecular evidence for th...

    Authors: Siyuan Zhu, Shouwei Tang, Zhijian Tan, Yongting Yu, Qiuzhong Dai and Touming Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:60
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  11. Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is one of the most important horticultural species, which includes several taxonomic groups. With the advent of next-generation sequencing, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers are...

    Authors: Stefano Pavan, Angelo Raffaele Marcotrigiano, Elena Ciani, Rosa Mazzeo, Vito Zonno, Valentino Ruggieri, Concetta Lotti and Luigi Ricciardi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:59
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  12. Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), an important source of edible oil and protein, is widely grown in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Genetic improvement of yield-related traits is essential for...

    Authors: Huaiyong Luo, Xiaoping Ren, Zhendong Li, Zhijun Xu, Xinping Li, Li Huang, Xiaojing Zhou, Yuning Chen, Weigang Chen, Yong Lei, Boshou Liao, Manish K. Pandey, Rajeev K. Varshney, Baozhu Guo, Xiangguo Jiang, Fei Liu…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:58
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  13. The study of epigenetic processes and mechanisms present a dynamic approach to assess complex individual variation in obesity susceptibility. However, few studies have examined epigenetic patterns in preschool...

    Authors: Kathryn Tully Oelsner, Yan Guo, Sophie Bao-Chieu To, Amy L. Non and Shari L. Barkin
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:57
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  14. Mouse fetuses up to 16 day of embryonic development and nude (Foxn1- deficient) mice are examples of animals that undergo regenerative (scar-free) skin healing. The expression of transcription factor Foxn1 in ...

    Authors: Anna Kur-Piotrowska, Marta Kopcewicz, Leslie P. Kozak, Pawel Sachadyn, Anna Grabowska and Barbara Gawronska-Kozak
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:56
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  15. Transposable elements (TEs) are prominent features in many plant genomes, and patterns of TEs in closely related rice species are thus proposed as an ideal model to study TEs roles in the context of plant geno...

    Authors: Xukai Li, Kai Guo, Xiaobo Zhu, Peng Chen, Ying Li, Guosheng Xie, Lingqiang Wang, Yanting Wang, Staffan Persson and Liangcai Peng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:55
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  16. Pyrethrins are monoterpenoids and consist of either a chrysanthemic acid or pyrethric acid with a rethrolone moiety. Natural pyrethrins are safe and eco-friendly while possessing strong insecticidal properties...

    Authors: Sana Khan, Swati Upadhyay, Feroz Khan, Sudeep Tandon, Rakesh Kumar Shukla, Sumit Ghosh, Vikrant Gupta, Suchitra Banerjee and Laiq ur Rahman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:54
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  17. Single-cell RNA-Seq can be a valuable and unbiased tool to dissect cellular heterogeneity, despite the transcriptome’s limitations in describing higher functional phenotypes and protein events. Perhaps the mos...

    Authors: Quin F. Wills, Esther Mellado-Gomez, Rory Nolan, Damien Warner, Eshita Sharma, John Broxholme, Benjamin Wright, Helen Lockstone, William James, Mark Lynch, Michael Gonzales, Jay West, Anne Leyrat, Sergi Padilla-Parra, Sarah Filippi, Chris Holmes…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:53
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  18. MiRNAs are essential regulators of skeletal muscle development and homeostasis. To date, the role and regulation of miRNAs in myogenesis have been mostly studied in tissue culture and during embryogenesis. How...

    Authors: Séverine Lamon, Evelyn Zacharewicz, Lauren C. Butchart, Liliana Orellana, Jasmine Mikovic, Miranda D. Grounds and Aaron P. Russell
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:52
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  19. Sorghum is mainly used as a human food and beverage source, playing an important role in the production of ethanol and other bio-industrial products. Thus it is regarded as a model crop for energy plants. Gene...

    Authors: Guisu Ji, Qingjiang Zhang, Ruiheng Du, Peng Lv, Xue Ma, Shu Fan, Suying Li, Shenglin Hou, Yucui Han and Guoqing Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:51
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  20. DNA and RNA fractions from whole blood, serum and plasma are increasingly popular analytes that are currently under investigation for their utility in the diagnosis and staging of disease. Small non-coding rib...

    Authors: Yan Guo, Kasey Vickers, Yanhua Xiong, Shilin Zhao, Quanhu Sheng, Pan Zhang, Wanding Zhou and Charles R. Flynn
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:50
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  21. The development of long-read sequencing technologies, such as single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing by PacBio, has produced a revolution in the sequencing of small genomes. Sequencing organelle genomes u...

    Authors: Aboozar Soorni, David Haak, David Zaitlin and Aureliano Bombarely
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:49
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  22. Echovirus 14 (E-14) causes various clinical recognized syndromes, mostly with gastrointestinal syndrome and paralysis. The current study summarized the Shandong E-14 strains isolated from a 26-year acute flacc...

    Authors: Peng Chen, Yan Li, Zexin Tao, Haiyan Wang, Xiaojuan Lin, Yao Liu, Suting Wang, Nan Zhou, Pei Wang and Aiqiang Xu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:48
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  24. All extant seed plants are successful paleopolyploids, whose genomes carry duplicate genes that have survived repeated episodes of diploidization. However, the survival of gene duplicates is biased with respec...

    Authors: Hugo V. S. Rody, Gregory J. Baute, Loren H. Rieseberg and Luiz O. Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:46
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  26. Barley seed proteins are of prime importance to the brewing industry, human and animal nutrition and in plant breeding for cultivar identification. To obtain comprehensive proteomic data from seeds, total prot...

    Authors: Ramamurthy Mahalingam
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:44
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  27. Measuring genome-wide changes in transcript abundance in circulating peripheral whole blood is a useful way to study disease pathobiology and may help elucidate the molecular mechanisms of disease, or discover...

    Authors: Casey P. Shannon, Robert Balshaw, Virginia Chen, Zsuzsanna Hollander, Mustafa Toma, Bruce M. McManus, J. Mark FitzGerald, Don D. Sin, Raymond T. Ng and Scott J. Tebbutt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:43
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  28. Sunflower Verticillium wilt (SVW) is a vascular disease caused by root infection with Verticillium dahliae (V. dahlia). It is a serious threat to the yield and quality of sunflower. However, chemical and agronomi...

    Authors: Shuchun Guo, Yongchun Zuo, Yanfang Zhang, Chengyan Wu, Wenxia Su, Wen Jin, Haifeng Yu, Yulin An and Qianzhong Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:42
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  29. Bifidobacteria are among the first anaerobic bacteria colonizing the gut. Bifidobacteria require iron for growth and their iron-sequestration mechanisms are important for their fitness and possibly inhibit ent...

    Authors: Pamela Vazquez-Gutierrez, Marc J. A. Stevens, Peter Gehrig, Simon Barkow-Oesterreicher, Christophe Lacroix and Christophe Chassard
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:41
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  30. The chloroplast genome of Gracilaria firma was sequenced in view of its role as an economically important marine crop with wide industrial applications. To date, there are only 15 chloroplast genomes published fo...

    Authors: Poh-Kheng Ng, Showe-Mei Lin, Phaik-Eem Lim, Li-Chia Liu, Chien-Ming Chen and Tun-Wen Pai
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:40
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  31. Starch is the principle constituent of potato tubers and is of considerable importance for food and non-food applications. Its metabolism has been subject of extensive research over the past decades. Despite i...

    Authors: Jessica K. Van Harsselaar, Julia Lorenz, Melanie Senning, Uwe Sonnewald and Sophia Sonnewald
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:37
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  33. Xanthomonas translucens pathovars differ in their individual host ranges among Poaceae. As the causal agent of bacterial wilt in Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), X. transluc...

    Authors: Lena Hersemann, Daniel Wibberg, Jochen Blom, Alexander Goesmann, Franco Widmer, Frank-Jörg Vorhölter and Roland Kölliker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:35
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  34. Lipopolysaccharide (endotoxin, LPS) is a strong inducer of the innate immune response. It is widespread in our environment, e.g. in house dust and contributes to asthma. Compared to humans, horses are even mor...

    Authors: Alicja Pacholewska, Eliane Marti, Tosso Leeb, Vidhya Jagannathan and Vincent Gerber
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:34
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  35. Finding a source from which high-energy-density biofuels can be derived at an industrial scale has become an urgent challenge for renewable energy production. Some microorganisms can produce free fatty acids (...

    Authors: Olaa Motwalli, Magbubah Essack, Boris R. Jankovic, Boyang Ji, Xinyao Liu, Hifzur Rahman Ansari, Robert Hoehndorf, Xin Gao, Stefan T. Arold, Katsuhiko Mineta, John A. C. Archer, Takashi Gojobori, Ivan Mijakovic and Vladimir B. Bajic
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:33
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  36. The oriental armyworm Mythimna separata (Walk) is a serious migratory pest; however, studies on its olfactory response and its underlying molecular mechanism are limited. To gain insights to the olfactory mechani...

    Authors: Yue-qiu He, Bo Feng, Qian-shuang Guo and Yongjun Du
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:32
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  37. Methylation of cytosine in genomic DNA is a well-characterized epigenetic modification involved in many cellular processes and diseases. Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS), such as MethylC-seq and post-b...

    Authors: Hidehiro Toh, Kenjiro Shirane, Fumihito Miura, Naoki Kubo, Kenji Ichiyanagi, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Mitinori Saitou, Mikita Suyama, Takashi Ito and Hiroyuki Sasaki
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:31
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  39. Endurance exercise training, especially the high-intensity training, exhibits a strong influence on the immune system. However, the mechanisms underpinning the immune-regulatory effect of exercise remain uncle...

    Authors: Dongmei Liu, Ru Wang, Ana R. Grant, Jinming Zhang, Paul M. Gordon, Yuqin Wei and Peijie Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:29
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  40. Transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi from its tick vector to a vertebrate host requires extensive reprogramming of gene expression. Small regulatory RNAs (sRNA) have emerged in the last decade as important regula...

    Authors: Niko Popitsch, Ivana Bilusic, Philipp Rescheneder, Renée Schroeder and Meghan Lybecker
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:28
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  42. UK Biobank is a large prospective cohort study in the UK established by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Wellcome Trust to enable approved researchers to investigate the role of genetic factors, envi...

    Authors: Samantha Welsh, Tim Peakman, Simon Sheard and Rachael Almond
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:26
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  43. DNA methylation has been found to associate with disease, aging and environmental exposure, but it is unknown how genome, environment and disease influence DNA methylation dynamics in childhood.

    Authors: Cheng-Jian Xu, Marc Jan Bonder, Cilla Söderhäll, Mariona Bustamante, Nour Baïz, Ulrike Gehring, Soesma A. Jankipersadsing, Pieter van der Vlies, Cleo C. van Diemen, Bianca van Rijkom, Jocelyne Just, Inger Kull, Juha Kere, Josep Maria Antó, Jean Bousquet, Alexandra Zhernakova…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:25
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  44. Chromatin conformation capture techniques have evolved rapidly over the last few years and have provided new insights into genome organization at an unprecedented resolution. Analysis of Hi-C data is complex a...

    Authors: Charalampos Lazaris, Stephen Kelly, Panagiotis Ntziachristos, Iannis Aifantis and Aristotelis Tsirigos
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:22
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  45. Powdery mildew (PM) is one of the most severe fungal diseases of cucurbits, but the molecular mechanisms underlying PM resistance in cucumber remain elusive. In this study, we developed a PM resistant segment ...

    Authors: Qiang Xu, Xuewen Xu, Yang Shi, Xiaohua Qi and Xuehao Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:21
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  46. The Asian corn borer (ACB), Ostrinia furnacalis (Guenée), has become the most damaging insect pest of corn in Asia. However, the lack of genome or transcriptome information heavily hinders our further understandi...

    Authors: Li Cui, Changhui Rui, Daibin Yang, Zhenying Wang and Huizhu Yuan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:20
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  47. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly used in diagnostics and surveillance of infectious diseases. A major application for WGS is to use the data for identifying outbreak clusters, and there is therefo...

    Authors: Johanne Ahrenfeldt, Carina Skaarup, Henrik Hasman, Anders Gorm Pedersen, Frank Møller Aarestrup and Ole Lund
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:19
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  49. Complex insertions and deletions (indels) from next-generation sequencing (NGS) data were prone to escape detection by currently available variant callers as shown by large-scale human genomics studies. Somati...

    Authors: Chun Hang Au, Anskar Y. H. Leung, Ava Kwong, Tsun Leung Chan and Edmond S. K. Ma
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:16
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  50. Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important cereal crop for dryland areas in the United States and for small-holder farmers in Africa. Natural variation of sorghum grain composition (protein, fat, and s...

    Authors: Davina H. Rhodes, Leo Hoffmann Jr., William L. Rooney, Thomas J. Herald, Scott Bean, Richard Boyles, Zachary W. Brenton and Stephen Kresovich
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18:15
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