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  1. The phlebotomine sand fly Phlebotomus perniciosus (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) is a major Old World vector of the protozoan Leishmania infantum, the etiological agent of visceral and cutaneous leishmania...

    Authors: V. Petrella, S. Aceto, F. Musacchia, V. Colonna, M. Robinson, V. Benes, G. Cicotti, G. Bongiorno, L. Gradoni, P. Volf and M. Salvemini
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:847
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. CRISPR genome-editing technology makes it possible to quickly and cheaply delete non-protein-coding regulatory elements. We present a vector system adapted for this purpose called DECKO (Double Excision CRISPR...

    Authors: Estel Aparicio-Prat, Carme Arnan, Ilaria Sala, Núria Bosch, Roderic Guigó and Rory Johnson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:846
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2016 17:215

  3. The Myxozoa, a group of oligocellular, obligate endoparasites, has long been poorly understood in an evolutionary context. Recent genome-level sequencing techniques such as RNA-seq have generated large amounts...

    Authors: Jonathan Foox, Maurice Ringuette, Sherwin S. Desser and Mark E. Siddall
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:840
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  4. Bats are able to employ an astonishingly complex vocal repertoire for navigating their environment and conveying social information. A handful of species also show evidence for vocal learning, an extremely rar...

    Authors: Pedro Rodenas-Cuadrado, Xiaowei Sylvia Chen, Lutz Wiegrebe, Uwe Firzlaff and Sonja C. Vernes
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:836
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  5. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that are important regulators of gene expression, and play major roles in plant development and their response to the environment. Root extracts from Panax notoginsen...

    Authors: Rongchang Wei, Deyou Qiu, Iain W. Wilson, Huan Zhao, Shanfa Lu, Jianhua Miao, Shixin Feng, Longhua Bai, Qinghua Wu, Dongping Tu, Xiaojun Ma and Qi Tang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:835
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  6. The populations of the Arabian Peninsula remain the least represented in public genetic databases, both in terms of single nucleotide variants and of larger genomic mutations. We present the first high-resolut...

    Authors: Khalid A. Fakhro, Noha A. Yousri, Juan L. Rodriguez-Flores, Amal Robay, Michelle R. Staudt, Francisco Agosto-Perez, Jacqueline Salit, Joel A. Malek, Karsten Suhre, Amin Jayyousi, Mahmoud Zirie, Dora Stadler, Jason G. Mezey and Ronald G. Crystal
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:834
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  7. 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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  8. Bifidobacterial genome analysis has provided insights as to how these gut commensals adapt to and persist in the human GIT, while also revealing genetic diversity among members of a given bifidobacterial (sub)...

    Authors: A. O’Callaghan, F. Bottacini, M. O’Connell Motherway and D. van Sinderen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:832
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  9. The Coronator Group currently encompasses six morphologically similar species (Culex camposi Dyar, Culex coronator Dyar and Knab, Culex covagarciai Forattini, Culex usquatus Dyar, Culex usquatissimus Dyar, and Cu...

    Authors: Bruna Demari-Silva, Peter G. Foster, Tatiane M. P. de Oliveira, Eduardo S. Bergo, Sabri S. Sanabani, Rodrigo Pessôa and Maria Anice M. Sallum
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:831
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  10. Control of malaria is threatened by emerging parasite resistance to artemisinin and derivative drug (ART) therapies. The molecular detail of how Plasmodium malaria parasites respond to ART and how this could cont...

    Authors: Philip J. Shaw, Sastra Chaotheing, Pavita Kaewprommal, Jittima Piriyapongsa, Chayaphat Wongsombat, Nattida Suwannakitti, Pongpisid Koonyosying, Chairat Uthaipibull, Yongyuth Yuthavong and Sumalee Kamchonwongpaisan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:830
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  12. Papillary Thyroid Cancer (PTC) is the most prevalent type of endocrine cancer. Its incidence has rapidly increased in recent decades but little is known regarding its complete microRNA transcriptome (miRNome)....

    Authors: Manuel Saiselet, David Gacquer, Alex Spinette, Ligia Craciun, Myriam Decaussin-Petrucci, Guy Andry, Vincent Detours and Carine Maenhaut
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:828
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  13. Yeasts show remarkable variation in the organization of their mitochondrial genomes, yet there is little experimental data on organellar gene expression outside few model species. Candida albicans is interesting ...

    Authors: Adam Kolondra, Karolina Labedzka-Dmoch, Joanna M. Wenda, Katarzyna Drzewicka and Pawel Golik
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:827
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  14. The variability in gene organization and architecture of green algal mitochondrial genomes is only recently being studied on a finer taxonomic scale. Sequenced mt genomes from the chlorophycean orders Volvocal...

    Authors: Audrey A. Farwagi, Karolina Fučíková and Hilary A. McManus
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:826
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  15. The New Zealand glowworm is the larva of a carnivorous fungus gnat that produces bioluminescence to attract prey. The bioluminescent system of the glowworm is evolutionarily distinct from other well-characteri...

    Authors: Miriam L. Sharpe, Peter K. Dearden, Gregory Gimenez and Kurt L. Krause
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:825
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  16. The technical progress in the last decade has made it possible to sequence millions of DNA reads in a relatively short time frame. Several variant callers based on different algorithms have emerged and have ma...

    Authors: Guiyan Ni, Tim M. Strom, Hubert Pausch, Christian Reimer, Rudolf Preisinger, Henner Simianer and Malena Erbe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:824
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  17. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) is an essential enzyme of the plant antioxidant system that responds to oxidative stresses caused by adverse conditions. Banana is an important staple and economic crop in tropical a...

    Authors: Xin Feng, Zhongxiong Lai, Yuling Lin, Gongti Lai and Conglong Lian
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:823
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  18. The transcription factor farnesoid X receptor (FXR) governs bile acid and energy homeostasis, is involved in inflammation, and has protective functions in the liver. In the present study we investigated the ef...

    Authors: Ewa Szalowska, Tessa E. Pronk and Ad ACM Peijnenburg
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:822
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  20. In small mammals brown adipose tissue (BAT) plays a predominant role in regulating energy expenditure (EE) via adaptive thermogenesis. New-born babies require BAT to control their body temperature, however its...

    Authors: Isabelle Güller, Sarah McNaughton, Tamsyn Crowley, Vicente Gilsanz, Shingo Kajimura, Matthew Watt and Aaron P. Russell
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:820
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Insects subsisting on nutritionally unbalanced diets have evolved long-term mutualistic relationships with intracellular symbiotic bacteria (endosymbionts). The endosymbiont population load undergoes changes a...

    Authors: Florent Masson, Yves Moné, Aurélien Vigneron, Agnès Vallier, Nicolas Parisot, Carole Vincent-Monégat, Séverine Balmand, Marie-Christine Carpentier, Anna Zaidman-Rémy and Abdelaziz Heddi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:819
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  22. The entire world is facing a deteriorating environment. Understanding the mechanisms underlying plant responses to external abiotic stresses is important for breeding stress-tolerant crops and herbages. Phytoh...

    Authors: Zhenyan Miao, Wei Xu, Daofeng Li, Xiaona Hu, Jiaxing Liu, Rongxue Zhang, Zongyong Tong, Jiangli Dong, Zhen Su, Liwei Zhang, Min Sun, Wenjie Li, Zhenglin Du, Songnian Hu and Tao Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:818
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  24. Marek’s disease (MD) is a lymphoproliferative disease of poultry induced by Marek’s disease virus (MDV), a highly oncogenic alphaherpesvirus. Identifying the underlying genes conferring MD genetic resistance i...

    Authors: Hans H. Cheng, Sudeep Perumbakkam, Alexis Black Pyrkosz, John R. Dunn, Andres Legarra and William M. Muir
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:816
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  25. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a new class of regulatory molecules with roles in diverse biological processes. While much effort has been invested in the analysis of lncRNAs from established plant models Arab...

    Authors: Chunying Kang and Zhongchi Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:815
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  26. Recent advances in the analysis of high-throughput expression data have led to the development of tools that scaled-up their focus from single-gene to gene set level. For example, the popular Gene Set Enrichme...

    Authors: Lionel Spinelli, Sabrina Carpentier, Frédéric Montañana Sanchis, Marc Dalod and Thien-Phong Vu Manh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:814
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  27. Variation in environment, management practices, nutrition or selection objectives has led to a variety of different choices being made in the use of genetic material between countries. Differences in genome-le...

    Authors: Jeremy T. Howard, Mekonnen Haile-Mariam, Jennie E. Pryce and Christian Maltecca
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:813
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  28. The transgenic rodent mutation reporter assay provides an efficient approach to identify mutagenic agents in vivo. A major advantage of this assay is that mutant reporter transgenes can be sequenced to provide in...

    Authors: Marc A. Beal, Rémi Gagné, Andrew Williams, Francesco Marchetti and Carole L. Yauk
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:812
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  29. The regulation of endometrial inflammation has important consequences for the resumption of bovine fertility postpartum. All cows experience bacterial influx into the uterus after calving; however a significan...

    Authors: Cathriona Foley, Aspinas Chapwanya, John J. Callanan, Ronan Whiston, Raúl Miranda-CasoLuengo, Junnan Lu, Wim G. Meijer, David J. Lynn, Cliona O’ Farrelly and Kieran G. Meade
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:811
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2015 16:1050

  30. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a chromosomal region that regulates immune responsiveness in vertebrates. This region is one of the most important for disease resistance because it has been assoc...

    Authors: N. Siva Subramaniam, EF Morgan, JD Wetherall, MJ Stear and DM Groth
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:810
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  31. The reconstruction of context-specific metabolic models from easily and reliably measurable features such as transcriptomics data will be increasingly important in research and medicine. Current reconstruction...

    Authors: Maria Pires Pacheco, Elisabeth John, Tony Kaoma, Merja Heinäniemi, Nathalie Nicot, Laurent Vallar, Jean-Luc Bueb, Lasse Sinkkonen and Thomas Sauter
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:809
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  32. Originating from Northeast Asia, the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas has been introduced into a large number of countries for aquaculture purpose. Following introduction, the Pacific oyster has turned into an in...

    Authors: Rossana Sussarellu, Arnaud Huvet, Sylvie Lapègue, Virgile Quillen, Christophe Lelong, Florence Cornette, Lasse Fast Jensen, Nicolas Bierne and Pierre Boudry
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:808
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  34. Milk exosomes are a rich source of microRNAs (miRNAs) that are protected from degradation. Ingestion of milk and subsequent absorption of miRNAs into recipient cells by endocytosis may play a role in the regul...

    Authors: Jiajie Sun, Kshama Aswath, Steven G. Schroeder, John D. Lippolis, Timothy A. Reinhardt and Tad S. Sonstegard
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:806
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  35. Organelle retention is a form of mixotrophy that allows organisms to reap metabolic benefits similar to those of photoautotrophs through capture of algal prey and sequestration of their plastids. Mesodinium rubru...

    Authors: Erica Lasek-Nesselquist, Jennifer H. Wisecaver, Jeremiah D. Hackett and Matthew D. Johnson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:805
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  36. Development of molecular markers such as SSR (simple sequence repeat), DArT (diversity arrays technology) and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) is fundamental for linkage map construction and QTL mapping. H...

    Authors: Gaofeng Zhou, Qisen Zhang, Cong Tan, Xiao-qi Zhang and Chengdao Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:804
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  38. Evolution optimizes a living system at both the genome and transcriptome levels. Few studies have investigated transcriptome evolution, whereas many studies have explored genome evolution in experimentally evo...

    Authors: Bei-Wen Ying, Yuki Matsumoto, Kazuki Kitahara, Shingo Suzuki, Naoaki Ono, Chikara Furusawa, Toshihiko Kishimoto and Tetsuya Yomo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:802
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  39. Cereal cyst nematode Heterodera avenae, an important soil-borne pathogen in wheat, causes numerous annual yield losses worldwide, and use of resistant cultivars is the best strategy for control. However, target g...

    Authors: Ling-An Kong, Du-Qing Wu, Wen-Kun Huang, Huan Peng, Gao-Feng Wang, Jiang-Kuan Cui, Shi-Ming Liu, Zhi-Gang Li, Jun Yang and De-Liang Peng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:801
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  40. The large and complex genome of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L., ~17 Gb) requires high resolution genome maps with saturated marker scaffolds to anchor and orient BAC contigs/ sequence scaffolds for whole genom...

    Authors: Ajay Kumar, Raed Seetan, Mohamed Mergoum, Vijay K. Tiwari, Muhammad J. Iqbal, Yi Wang, Omar Al-Azzam, Hana Šimková, Ming-Cheng Luo, Jan Dvorak, Yong Q. Gu, Anne Denton, Andrzej Kilian, Gerard R. Lazo and Shahryar F. Kianian
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:800
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  41. Schizochytrium limacinum SR21 is a potential industrial strain for docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) production that contains more than 30–40 % DHA among its total fatty acids.

    Authors: Chao Ye, Weihua Qiao, Xiaobin Yu, Xiaojun Ji, He Huang, Jackie L. Collier and Liming Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:799
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  42. Elaeis guineensis is the world’s leading source of vegetable oil, and the demand is still increasing. Oil palm breeding would benefit from marker-assisted selection but genetic studies...

    Authors: Sébastien Tisné, Marie Denis, David Cros, Virginie Pomiès, Virginie Riou, Indra Syahputra, Alphonse Omoré, Tristan Durand-Gasselin, Jean-Marc Bouvet and Benoît Cochard
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:798
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  43. Ivermectin has been proposed as a novel malaria transmission control tool based on its insecticidal properties and unique route of acquisition through human blood. To maximize ivermectin’s effect and identify ...

    Authors: Jonathan A. Seaman, Haoues Alout, Jacob I. Meyers, Mark D. Stenglein, Roch K. Dabiré, Saul Lozano-Fuentes, Timothy A. Burton, Wojtek S. Kuklinski, William C. Black IV and Brian D. Foy
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:797
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  44. Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), an iconic Australian marsupial, are being heavily impacted by the spread of Chlamydia pecorum, an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen. Koalas vary in their response to this ...

    Authors: Katrina M. Morris, Marina Mathew, Courtney Waugh, Beata Ujvari, Peter Timms, Adam Polkinghorne and Katherine Belov
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:796
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  45. The oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is a major cultivated crop and the world’s largest source of edible vegetable oil. The genus Elaeis comprises two species E. guineensis, the commercial African oil palm and

    Authors: Thierry Beulé, Mawussé DT Agbessi, Stephane Dussert, Estelle Jaligot and Romain Guyot
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:795
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  46. Mycobacterium yongonense, as a novel member of the M. avium complex (MAC), was recently reported to be isolated from human specimens in South Korea and Italy. Due to its close relatedn...

    Authors: Byoung-Jun Kim, Kijeong Kim, Bo-Ram Kim, Yoon-Hoh Kook and Bum-Joon Kim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:794
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  47. Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) are endogenous non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that are transcribed from ‘intergenic’ regions of the genome and may play critical roles in regulating gene expression through ...

    Authors: Chunyan Fan, Zhiqiang Hao, Jiahong Yan and Guanglin Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:793
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  48. The avian eggshell membranes surround the egg white and provide a structural foundation for calcification of the eggshell which is essential for avian reproduction; moreover, it is also a natural biomaterial w...

    Authors: Jingwen Du, Maxwell T. Hincke, Megan Rose-Martel, Christelle Hennequet-Antier, Aurelien Brionne, Larry A. Cogburn, Yves Nys and Joel Gautron
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:792
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  49. Interpreting large-scale studies from microarrays or next-generation sequencing for further experimental testing remains one of the major challenges in quantitative biology. Combining expression with physical ...

    Authors: Marius Garmhausen, Falko Hofmann, Viktor Senderov, Maria Thomas, Benjamin A. Kandel and Bianca Hermine Habermann
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:790
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  50. Despite the relevance of the eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-stress response as an integrator of multiple stress signals into an adaptive response, knowledge about these ER-mediated cytoprotective pathwa...

    Authors: Priscila Alves Silva, José Cleydson F. Silva, Hanna DN Caetano, Joao Paulo B. Machado, Giselle C. Mendes, Pedro AB Reis, Otavio JB Brustolini, Maximiller Dal-Bianco and Elizabeth PB Fontes
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:783
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