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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  28. 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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  30. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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