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  1. The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) has undergone a recent, drastic population decline due to the highly contagious devil facial tumor disease. The tumor is one of only two naturally occurring transmissibl...

    Authors: Belinda Wright, Katrina Morris, Catherine E. Grueber, Cali E. Willet, Rebecca Gooley, Carolyn J. Hogg, Denis O’Meally, Rodrigo Hamede, Menna Jones, Claire Wade and Katherine Belov
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:791
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  2. Adventitious root (AR) formation is a critical step in vegetative propagation of most ornamental plants, such as carnation. AR formation from stem cuttings is usually divided into several stages according to p...

    Authors: Carlos Villacorta-Martín, Ana Belén Sánchez-García, Joan Villanova, Antonio Cano, Miranda van de Rhee, Jorn de Haan, Manuel Acosta, Paul Passarinho and José Manuel Pérez-Pérez
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:789
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  3. Dickeya solani is an emerging pathogen that causes soft rot and blackleg diseases in several crops including Solanum tuberosum, but little is known about its genomic diversity and evol...

    Authors: Slimane Khayi, Pauline Blin, Jacques Pédron, Teik-Min Chong, Kok-Gan Chan, Mohieddine Moumni, Valérie Hélias, Frédérique Van Gijsegem and Denis Faure
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:788
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  4. Squamosa promoter binding protein (SBP)-box family genes encode plant-specific transcription factors that control many important biological functions, including phase transition, inflo...

    Authors: Shu-Dong Zhang, Li-Zhen Ling and Ting-Shuang Yi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:787
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  5. The purpose of gene expression analysis is to look for the association between regulation of gene expression levels and phenotypic variations. This association based on gene expression profile has been used to...

    Authors: Shu-Chuan Chen, Tsung-Hsien Tsai, Cheng-Han Chung and Wen-Hsiung Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:786
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  6. DiGeorge Syndrome is a genetic abnormality involving ~3 Mb deletion in human chromosome 22, termed 22q.11.2. To better understand the non-coding regions of 22q.11.2, a small 10,000 bp non-protein-coding sequen...

    Authors: Nicholas Delihas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:785
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  7. EAV-HP is an ancient retrovirus pre-dating Gallus speciation, which continues to circulate in modern chicken populations, and led to the emergence of avian leukosis virus subgroup J causing significant economic l...

    Authors: David Wragg, Andrew S. Mason, Le Yu, Richard Kuo, Raman A. Lawal, Takele Taye Desta, Joram M. Mwacharo, Chang-Yeon Cho, Steve Kemp, David W. Burt and Olivier Hanotte
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:784
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  8. Successful animal communication depends on a receiver’s ability to detect a sender’s signal. Exemplars of adaptive sender-receiver coupling include acoustic communication, often important in the context of sea...

    Authors: Daniel J. Fergus, Ni Y. Feng and Andrew H. Bass
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:782
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  9. Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) are widely used in population genetic studies but their classical development is costly and time-consuming. The ever-increasing available DNA datasets generated by high-throughpu...

    Authors: Lua Lopez, Rodolfo Barreiro, Markus Fischer and Marcus A. Koch
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:781
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  11. The genome-wide association study (GWAS) techniques that have been used for genetic mapping in other organisms have not been successfully applied to mosquitoes, which have genetic characteristics of high nucle...

    Authors: Seth N. Redmond, Karin Eiglmeier, Christian Mitri, Kyriacos Markianos, Wamdaogo M. Guelbeogo, Awa Gneme, Alison T. Isaacs, Boubacar Coulibaly, Emma Brito-Fravallo, Gareth Maslen, Daniel Mead, Oumou Niare, Sekou F. Traore, N’Fale Sagnon, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Michelle M. Riehle…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:779
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  13. Wheat domestication is considered as one of the most important events in the development of human civilization. Wheat spikelets have undergone significant changes during evolution under domestication, resultin...

    Authors: Hongda Zou, Raanan Tzarfati, Sariel Hübner, Tamar Krugman, Tzion Fahima, Shahal Abbo, Yehoshua Saranga and Abraham B. Korol
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:777
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  15. Burkholderia cenocepacia is a soil-dwelling Gram-negative Betaproteobacterium with an important role as opportunistic pathogen in humans. Infections with B. cenocepacia are very diffic...

    Authors: Andrea M. Sass, Heleen Van Acker, Konrad U. Förstner, Filip Van Nieuwerburgh, Dieter Deforce, Jörg Vogel and Tom Coenye
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:775
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  16. Gene duplication followed by adaptive selection is a well-accepted process leading to toxin diversification in venoms. However, emergent genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic evidence now challenges this role ...

    Authors: Ranko Gacesa, Ray Chung, Simon R. Dunn, Andrew J. Weston, Adrian Jaimes-Becerra, Antonio C. Marques, André C. Morandini, Daslav Hranueli, Antonio Starcevic, Malcolm Ward and Paul F. Long
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:774
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  17. Bacterial infections comprise a global health challenge as the incidences of antibiotic resistance increase. Pathogenic potential of bacteria has been shown to be context dependent, varying in response to envi...

    Authors: Maksim Shestov, Santiago Ontañón and Aydin Tozeren
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:773
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  18. South Pacific Gyre (SPG) is the largest and clearest gyre in the world, where the concentration of surface chlorophyll a and primary production are extremely low. Aquimarina longa SW024T was isolated from surface...

    Authors: Tingting Xu, Min Yu, Heyu Lin, Zenghu Zhang, Jiwen Liu and Xiao-Hua Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:772
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  19. Transcription factors of the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) family represent exclusively in eukaryotes and have been shown to regulate diverse biological processes in plant growth and development as well as in ab...

    Authors: Dayong Li, Fuyou Fu, Huijuan Zhang and Fengming Song
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:771
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  20. The mitochondrial genome from upland cotton, G. hirsutum, was previously sequenced. To elucidate the evolution of mitochondrial genomic diversity within a single genus, we sequenced the mitochondrial genome from ...

    Authors: Mingyong Tang, Zhiwen Chen, Corrinne E. Grover, Yumei Wang, Shuangshuang Li, Guozheng Liu, Zhiying Ma, Jonathan F. Wendel and Jinping Hua
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:770
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  21. Planarians are renowned for their regenerative capacity and are an attractive model for the study of adult stem cells and tissue regeneration. In an effort to better understand the molecular mechanisms underly...

    Authors: Amy Hubert, Jordana M. Henderson, Martis W. Cowles, Kelly G. Ross, Matthew Hagen, Christa Anderson, Claudia J. Szeterlak and Ricardo M. Zayas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:769
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  22. Transposable elements are major players in genome evolution. Transposon insertion polymorphisms can translate into phenotypic differences in plants and animals and are linked to different diseases including hu...

    Authors: Elizabeth Hénaff, Luís Zapata, Josep M. Casacuberta and Stephan Ossowski
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:768
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  23. Several studies have investigated miRNA and mRNA co-expression to identify regulatory networks at the transcriptional level. A typical finding of these studies is the presence of both negative and positive miR...

    Authors: Giacomo Diaz, Fausto Zamboni, Ashley Tice and Patrizia Farci
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:767
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  24. Lactobacillus fermentum 222 and Lactobacillus plantarum 80, isolates from a spontaneous Ghanaian cocoa bean fermentation process, proved to be interesting functional starter culture st...

    Authors: Koen Illeghems, Luc De Vuyst and Stefan Weckx
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:766
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  25. Non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains are emerging as a major cause of severe pharyngitis and tonsillitis as well as invasive diseases such as endocarditis, septic arthritis, splenic abscesses and ost...

    Authors: Vartul Sangal, Jochen Blom, Iain C. Sutcliffe, Christina von Hunolstein, Andreas Burkovski and Paul A. Hoskisson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:765
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  26. Modern horses represent heterogeneous populations specifically selected for appearance and performance. Genomic regions under high selective pressure show characteristic runs of homozygosity (ROH) which repres...

    Authors: Julia Metzger, Matthias Karwath, Raul Tonda, Sergi Beltran, Lídia Águeda, Marta Gut, Ivo Glynne Gut and Ottmar Distl
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:764
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  27. Liver is an important metabolic organ that plays a critical role in lipid synthesis, degradation, and transport; however, the molecular regulatory mechanisms of lipid metabolism remain unclear in chicken. In t...

    Authors: Hong Li, Taian Wang, Chunlin Xu, Dandan Wang, Junxiao Ren, Yanmin Li, Yadong Tian, Yanbin Wang, Yuping Jiao, Xiangtao Kang and Xiaojun Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:763
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  28. The capacity of European pear fruit (Pyrus communis L.) to ripen after harvest develops during the final stages of growth on the tree. The objective of this study was to characterize changes in ‘Bartlett’ pear fr...

    Authors: Ngoc T. Nham, Sergio Tonetto de Freitas, Andrew J. Macnish, Kevin M. Carr, Trisha Kietikul, Angelo J. Guilatco, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Florence Zakharov and Elizabeth J Mitcham
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:762
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  29. Hydrocephalus in Friesian horses is a developmental disorder that often results in stillbirth of affected foals and dystocia in dams. The occurrence is probably related to a founder effect and inbreeding in th...

    Authors: Bart J. Ducro, Anouk Schurink, John W. M. Bastiaansen, Iris J. M. Boegheim, Frank G. van Steenbeek, Manon Vos-Loohuis, Isaac J. Nijman, Glen R. Monroe, Ids Hellinga, Bert W. Dibbits, Willem Back and Peter A. J. Leegwater
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:761
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  30. Studies in mice have shown that PPARα is an important regulator of lipid metabolism in liver and key transcription factor involved in the adaptive response to fasting. However, much less is known about the rol...

    Authors: Aafke W.F. Janssen, Bark Betzel, Geert Stoopen, Frits J. Berends, Ignace M. Janssen, Ad A. Peijnenburg and Sander Kersten
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:760
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  31. DapuNPV (Dasychira pudibunda nucleopolyhedrovirus), presented in this report, belongs to Alphabaculovirus group Ib. Its full, newly sequenced genome shows close relationship to baculovirus OpMNPV isolated from do...

    Authors: Martyna Krejmer, Iwona Skrzecz, Bartosz Wasag, Boguslaw Szewczyk and Lukasz Rabalski
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:759
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  32. Cronobacter sakazakii and C. malonaticus can cause serious diseases especially in infants where they are associated with rare but fatal neonatal infections such as meningitis and necro...

    Authors: P. Ogrodzki and S. Forsythe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:758
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  33. The Caldanaerobacter subterraneus species includes thermophilic fermentative bacteria able to grow on carbohydrates substrates with acetate and L-alanine as the main products. In this study, comprehensive analysi...

    Authors: FH Sant’Anna, AV Lebedinsky, TG Sokolova, FT Robb and JM Gonzalez
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:757
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  34. Feathers have diverse forms with hierarchical branching patterns and are an excellent model for studying the development and evolution of morphological traits. The complex structure of feathers allows for vari...

    Authors: Chen Siang Ng, Chih-Kuan Chen, Wen-Lang Fan, Ping Wu, Siao-Man Wu, Jiun-Jie Chen, Yu-Ting Lai, Chi-Tang Mao, Mei-Yeh Jade Lu, Di-Rong Chen, Ze-Shiang Lin, Kai-Jung Yang, Yuan-An Sha, Tsung-Che Tu, Chih-Feng Chen, Cheng-Ming Chuong…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:756
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  35. Listeria consists of both pathogenic and non-pathogenic species. Reports of similarities between the genomic content between some pathogenic and non-pathogenic species necessitates the...

    Authors: Mui Fern Tan, Cheuk Chuen Siow, Avirup Dutta, Naresh VR Mutha, Wei Yee Wee, Hamed Heydari, Shi Yang Tan, Mia Yang Ang, Guat Jah Wong and Siew Woh Choo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:755
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  36. Internal circadian (circa, about; dies, day) clocks enable organisms to maintain adaptive timing of their daily behavioral activities and physiological functions. Eukaryotic clocks consist of core transcription-t...

    Authors: Duncan Tormey, John K. Colbourne, Keithanne Mockaitis, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Jacqueline Lopez, Joshua Burkhart, William Bradshaw and Christina Holzapfel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:754
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  37. Cynanchum komarovii Al Iljinski is a xerophytic plant species widely distributing in the severely adverse environment of the deserts in northwest China. At present, the detailed transc...

    Authors: Xiaowen Ma, Ping Wang, Sihong Zhou, Yun Sun, Nana Liu, Xiaoning Li and Yuxia Hou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:753
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  38. The development of a more refined prognostic methodology for early non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is an unmet clinical need. An accurate prognostic tool might help to select patients at early stages for ad...

    Authors: Ander Aramburu, Isabel Zudaire, María J. Pajares, Jackeline Agorreta, Alberto Orta, María D. Lozano, Alfonso Gúrpide, Javier Gómez-Román, Jose A. Martinez-Climent, Jacek Jassem, Marcin Skrzypski, Milind Suraokar, Carmen Behrens, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Ruben Pio, Angel Rubio…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:752
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  39. The wide range of complex photic systems observed in birds exemplifies one of their key evolutionary adaptions, a well-developed visual system. However, genomic approaches have yet to be used to disentangle th...

    Authors: Rui Borges, Imran Khan, Warren E. Johnson, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Guojie Zhang, Erich D. Jarvis, Stephen J. O’Brien and Agostinho Antunes
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:751
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  40. Cronobacter sakazakii is a member of the genus Cronobacter that has frequently been isolated from powdered infant formula (PIF) and linked with rare but fatal neonatal infections such ...

    Authors: Naqash Masood, Karen Moore, Audrey Farbos, Konrad Paszkiewicz, Ben Dickins, Alan McNally and Stephen Forsythe
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:750
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  41. The functional repertoire of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) has been characterized in several model organisms, demonstrating that lncRNA plays important roles in fundamental biological processes. However, they re...

    Authors: Huamei Xiao, Zhuting Yuan, Dianhao Guo, Bofeng Hou, Chuanlin Yin, Wenqing Zhang and Fei Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:749
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  42. The mammary gland is a dynamic organ that undergoes dramatic physiological adaptations during the transition from late pregnancy to lactation. Investigation of the molecular basis of mammary development and fu...

    Authors: Amy M Paten, Elizabeth J Duncan, Sarah J Pain, Sam W Peterson, Paul R Kenyon, Hugh T Blair and Peter K Dearden
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:748
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  43. Genetic map based quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis is an important method for studying important horticultural traits in apple. To facilitate molecular breeding studies of fruit quality traits in apple,...

    Authors: Rui Sun, Yuansheng Chang, Fengqiu Yang, Yi Wang, Hui Li, Yongbo Zhao, Dongmei Chen, Ting Wu, Xinzhong Zhang and Zhenhai Han
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:747
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  44. As a major economic trait in chickens, egg weight (EW) receives widespread interests in breeding, production and consumption. However, limited information is available for underlying genetic architecture of lo...

    Authors: Guoqiang Yi, Manman Shen, Jingwei Yuan, Congjiao Sun, Zhongyi Duan, Liang Qu, Taocun Dou, Meng Ma, Jian Lu, Jun Guo, Sirui Chen, Lujiang Qu, Kehua Wang and Ning Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:746
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  46. Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) has emerged as a model species for the Fagaceae family with extensive genomic resources including a physical map, a dense genetic map and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for ...

    Authors: Margaret Staton, Tetyana Zhebentyayeva, Bode Olukolu, Guang Chen Fang, Dana Nelson, John E Carlson and Albert G Abbott
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:744
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  47. Pigs (Sus scrofa) provide relevant biomedical models to dissect complex diseases due to their anatomical, genetic, and physiological similarities with humans. Aberrant DNA methylation has been linked to many of t...

    Authors: Kyle M. Schachtschneider, Ole Madsen, Chankyu Park, Laurie A. Rund, Martien A. M. Groenen and Lawrence B. Schook
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:743
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  48. Inoculation of wheat plants with Puccinia triticina (Pt) spores activates a wide range of host responses. Compatible Pt interaction with susceptible Thatcher plants supports all stages of the pathogen life cycle....

    Authors: Marta Dmochowska-Boguta, Sylwia Alaba, Yuliya Yanushevska, Urszula Piechota, Elzbieta Lasota, Anna Nadolska-Orczyk, Wojciech M. Karlowski and Waclaw Orczyk
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:742
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  49. Downy mildews are the most speciose group of oomycetes and affect crops of great economic importance. So far, there is only a single deeply-sequenced downy mildew genome available, from Hyaloperonospora arabidops...

    Authors: Rahul Sharma, Xiaojuan Xia, Liliana M. Cano, Edouard Evangelisti, Eric Kemen, Howard Judelson, Stan Oome, Christine Sambles, D. Johan van den Hoogen, Miloslav Kitner, Joël Klein, Harold J. G. Meijer, Otmar Spring, Joe Win, Reinhard Zipper, Helge B. Bode…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:741
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