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  1. Somatic mosaicism denotes the presence of genetically distinct populations of somatic cells in one individual who has developed from a single fertilised oocyte. Mosaicism may result from a mutation that occurs...

    Authors: Olga Žilina, Marina Koltšina, Raivo Raid, Ants Kurg, Neeme Tõnisson and Andres Salumets
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:703
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  3. One of the major challenges in developmental biology is to understand the regulatory events that generate neuronal diversity. During Drosophila embryonic neural lineage development, cellular temporal identity is ...

    Authors: Jermaine Ross, Alexander Kuzin, Thomas Brody and Ward F. Odenwald
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:700
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  4. Crocus sativus stigmas form rich source of apocarotenoids like crocin, picrocrocin and saffranal which besides imparting color, flavour and aroma to saffron spice also have tremendous ...

    Authors: Shoib Ahmad Baba, Tabasum Mohiuddin, Swaraj Basu, Mohit Kumar Swarnkar, Aubid Hussain Malik, Zahoor Ahmed Wani, Nazia Abbas, Anil Kumar Singh and Nasheeman Ashraf
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:698
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  5. The diarrhea-causing protozoan Giardia intestinalis makes up a species complex of eight different assemblages (A-H), where assemblage A and B infect humans. Comparative whole-genome analyses of three of these ass...

    Authors: Johan Ankarklev, Oscar Franzén, Dimitra Peirasmaki, Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist, Marianne Lebbad, Jan Andersson, Björn Andersson and Staffan G. Svärd
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:697
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  7. A human isolate of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (M. paratuberculosis 43525) was sequenced and compared genomically to other mycobacterial pathogens. M. paratuberculosis 43525 was recently isolated ...

    Authors: Verlaine J. Timms, Karl A. Hassan, Hazel M. Mitchell and Brett A. Neilan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:695
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  8. Assembly and function of neuronal synapses require the coordinated expression of a yet undetermined set of genes. Although roughly a thousand genes are expected to be important for this function in Drosophila mel...

    Authors: Flavio Pazos Obregón, Cecilia Papalardo, Sebastián Castro, Gustavo Guerberoff and Rafael Cantera
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:694
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  9. Small RNA (sRNA) play pivotal roles in reproductive development, and their biogenesis and action mechanisms are well characterised in angiosperm plants; however, corresponding studies in conifers are very limi...

    Authors: Shi-Hui Niu, Chang Liu, Hu-Wei Yuan, Pei Li, Yue Li and Wei Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:693
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  10. Developing drought-tolerant rice varieties with higher yield under water stressed conditions provides a viable solution to serious yield-reduction impact of drought. Understanding the molecular regulation of t...

    Authors: Boon Huat Cheah, Kalaivani Nadarajah, Mayur Dashrath Divate and Ratnam Wickneswari
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:692
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  11. Transcriptional control of mitochondrial metabolism is essential for cellular function. A better understanding of this process will aid the elucidation of mitochondrial disorders, in particular of the many gen...

    Authors: Robin van der Lee, Radek Szklarczyk, Jan Smeitink, Hubert J M Smeets, Martijn A. Huynen and Rutger Vogel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:691
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  12. Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is a major cause of disease impacting animal health. The bone marrow is the reservoir of immature immune cells; however, it has not been examined to date for gene expressi...

    Authors: Hongyan Sun, Peng Liu, Lisa K. Nolan and Susan J. Lamont
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:690
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  13. Authors: Theresa Mikalsen, Torunn Pedersen, Rob Willems, Teresa M. Coque, Guido Werner, Ewa Sadowy, Willem van Schaik, Lars Bogø Jensen, María Victoria Francia, Arnfinn Sundsfjord and Kristin Hegstad
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:689
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  14. Salmonella Typhimurium is frequently isolated from foodborne infection cases in Hong Kong, but the lack of genome sequences has hindered in-depth epidemiological and phylogenetic studi...

    Authors: Chi Keung Cheng, Man Kit Cheung, Wenyan Nong, Patrick Tik Wan Law, Jing Qin, Julia Mei-Lun Ling, Kai Man Kam, William Man Wai Cheung and Hoi Shan Kwan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:688
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  15. The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is widely distributed throughout many parts of Asia. This study aims to investigate the complexity of Malaysian Ophiophagus hannah (MOh) venom for a better understanding of kin...

    Authors: Choo Hock Tan, Kae Yi Tan, Shin Yee Fung and Nget Hong Tan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:687
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  16. Candida auris is a multidrug resistant, emerging agent of fungemia in humans. Its actual global distribution remains obscure as the current commercial methods of clinical diagnosis mis...

    Authors: Sharanya Chatterjee, Shuba Varshini Alampalli, Rishi Kumar Nageshan, Sivarajan T. Chettiar, Sangeeta Joshi and Utpal S. Tatu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:686
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  17. Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SQR9 is a plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) with outstanding abilities to enhance plant growth and to control soil-borne diseases. Root exudates is...

    Authors: Nan Zhang, Dongqing Yang, Dandan Wang, Youzhi Miao, Jiahui Shao, Xuan Zhou, Zhihui Xu, Qing Li, Haichao Feng, Shuqing Li, Qirong Shen and Ruifu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:685
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  18. The present study aimed to explore the impact of dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on aspects of the metabolism of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). The effects of diets containing increasing levels of DHA (1 g kg−...

    Authors: Brett D. Glencross, Christian De Santis, Beatrix Bicskei, John B. Taggart, James E. Bron, Monica B. Betancor and Douglas R. Tocher
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:684
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  19. Data availability expectations have changed over the years in scientific publishing, nowhere more so than in the field of genomics. This field has spearheaded openness and transparency via public and structure...

    Authors: Ross L. Tellam, Paul Rushton, Peter Schuerman, Irene Pala and Derek Anane
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:626
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  20. The fungal cell wall forms a compact network whose integrity is essential for cell morphology and viability. Thus, fungal cells have evolved mechanisms to elicit adequate adaptive responses when cell wall inte...

    Authors: Raúl García, Javier Botet, José Manuel Rodríguez-Peña, Clara Bermejo, Juan Carlos Ribas, José Luis Revuelta, César Nombela and Javier Arroyo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:683
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  21. Prions diseases are fatal neurodegenerative diseases of mammals. While the molecular responses to prion infection have been extensively characterized in the laboratory mouse, little is known in other rodents. ...

    Authors: Allen Herbst, Anthony Ness, Chad J. Johnson, Debbie McKenzie and Judd M. Aiken
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:682
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  22. Cellular differentiation programs are controlled, to a large extent, by the combinatorial functioning of specific transcription factors. Cortical projection neurons constitute the major excitatory neuron popul...

    Authors: Efil Bayam, Gulcan Semra Sahin, Gizem Guzelsoy, Gokhan Guner, Alkan Kabakcioglu and Gulayse Ince-Dunn
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:681
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  23. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of RNAs that do not encode proteins. Recently, lncRNAs have gained special attention for their roles in various biological process and diseases.

    Authors: Murukarthick Jayakodi, Je Won Jung, Doori Park, Young-Joon Ahn, Sang-Choon Lee, Sang-Yoon Shin, Chanseok Shin, Tae-Jin Yang and Hyung Wook Kwon
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:680
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  24. Sex in fish is plastic and in several species can be influenced by environmental factors. In sensitive species, elevated temperatures have a masculinizing effect. Previous studies on the effects of temperature...

    Authors: Noelia Díaz and Francesc Piferrer
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:679
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  25. The fungus Cronartium ribicola (Cri) is an economically and ecologically important forest pathogen that causes white pine blister rust (WPBR) disease on five-needle pines. To cause stem cankers and kill white pin...

    Authors: Jun-Jun Liu, Rona N. Sturrock, Richard A. Sniezko, Holly Williams, Ross Benton and Arezoo Zamany
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:678
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  26. Tunisian local cattle populations are at risk of extinction as they were massively crossed with imported breeds. Preservation of indigenous livestock populations is important because each of them comprises a u...

    Authors: Slim Ben Jemaa, Mekki Boussaha, Mondher Ben Mehdi, Jun Heon Lee and Seung-Hwan Lee
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:677
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  27. The metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcription 1 (Malat1) is a highly conserved long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) gene. Previous studies showed that Malat1 is abundantly expressed in many tissues and i...

    Authors: Xian-Yong Ma, Jian-Hui Wang, Jing-Lan Wang, Charles X Ma, Xiao-Chun Wang and Feng-Song Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:676
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  28. While RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) is becoming a powerful technology in transcriptome profiling, one significant shortcoming of the first-generation RNA-seq protocol is that it does not retain the strand specifici...

    Authors: Shanrong Zhao, Ying Zhang, William Gordon, Jie Quan, Hualin Xi, Sarah Du, David von Schack and Baohong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:675
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  29. Insect pest control is challenged by insecticide resistance and negative impact on ecology and health. One promising pest specific alternative is the generation of transgenic plants, which express double stran...

    Authors: Julia Ulrich, Van Anh Dao, Upalparna Majumdar, Christian Schmitt-Engel, Jonas Schwirz, Dorothea Schultheis, Nadi Ströhlein, Nicole Troelenberg, Daniela Grossmann, Tobias Richter, Jürgen Dönitz, Lizzy Gerischer, Gérard Leboulle, Andreas Vilcinskas, Mario Stanke and Gregor Bucher
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:674
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  30. Aflatoxin is a potent carcinogen that can contaminate grain infected with the fungus Aspergillus flavus. However, resistance to aflatoxin accumulation in maize is a complex trait with low heritability. Here, two ...

    Authors: Juliet D. Tang, Andy Perkins, W. Paul Williams and Marilyn L. Warburton
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:673
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  31. The recent discovery that methylated cytosines are converted to 5-hydroxymethylated cytosines (5hmC) by the family of ten-eleven translocation enzymes has sparked significant interest on the genomic location, ...

    Authors: Jeffrey A. Gross, Alain Pacis, Gary G. Chen, Luis B. Barreiro, Carl Ernst and Gustavo Turecki
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:672
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  32. Crop improvement always involves selection of specific alleles at genes controlling traits of agronomic importance, likely resulting in detectable signatures of selection within the genome of modern soybean (Glyc...

    Authors: Zixiang Wen, John F. Boyse, Qijian Song, Perry B. Cregan and Dechun Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:671
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  33. Large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) is an important commercial fish in China and East-Asia. The annual product of the species from the aqua-farming industry is about 90 thousand tons. In spite of its econo...

    Authors: Shijun Xiao, Jiongtang Li, Fengshou Ma, Lujing Fang, Shuangbin Xu, Wei Chen and Zhi Yong Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:670
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  34. Cyanobacteria are well known for the production of a range of secondary metabolites. Whilst recent genome sequencing projects has led to an increase in the number of publically available cyanobacterial genomes...

    Authors: Melinda L. Micallef, Paul M. D’Agostino, Deepti Sharma, Rajesh Viswanathan and Michelle C. Moffitt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:669
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  35. African weakly-electric fishes of the family Mormyridae are able to produce and perceive weak electric signals (typically less than one volt in amplitude) owing to the presence of a specialized, muscle-derived...

    Authors: Francesco Lamanna, Frank Kirschbaum, Isabelle Waurick, Christoph Dieterich and Ralph Tiedemann
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:668
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  36. Insertion sequences (IS) are small transposable elements, commonly found in bacterial genomes. Identifying the location of IS in bacterial genomes can be useful for a variety of purposes including epidemiologi...

    Authors: Jane Hawkey, Mohammad Hamidian, Ryan R. Wick, David J. Edwards, Helen Billman-Jacobe, Ruth M. Hall and Kathryn E. Holt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:667
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  37. An understanding of linkage disequilibrium (LD) structures in the human genome underpins much of medical genetics and provides a basis for disease gene mapping and investigating biological mechanisms such as r...

    Authors: Reuben J. Pengelly, William Tapper, Jane Gibson, Marcin Knut, Rick Tearle, Andrew Collins and Sarah Ennis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:666
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  38. Numerous signal molecules, including proteins and mRNAs, are transported through the architecture of plants via the vascular system. As the connection between leaves and other organs, the petiole and stem are ...

    Authors: Tian Lin, Coralie C. Lashbrook, Sung Ki Cho, Nathaniel M. Butler, Pooja Sharma, Usha Muppirala, Andrew J. Severin and David J. Hannapel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:665
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  39. A rapid worldwide increase in the number of human infections caused by the extremely antibiotic resistant bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is prompting alarm. One potential treatment solution to the current...

    Authors: Danielle L. Peters, Karlene H. Lynch, Paul Stothard and Jonathan J. Dennis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:664
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  40. Transcriptomics analyses of bacteria (and other organisms) provide global as well as detailed information on gene expression levels and, consequently, on other processes in the cell. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) h...

    Authors: Anne de Jong, Sjoerd van der Meulen, Oscar P. Kuipers and Jan Kok
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:663
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  41. Protein aggregation and its pathological effects are the major cause of several neurodegenerative diseases. In Huntington’s disease an elongated stretch of polyglutamines within the protein Huntingtin leads to...

    Authors: Katharina Papsdorf, Christoph J. O. Kaiser, Adrian Drazic, Stefan W. Grötzinger, Carmen Haeßner, Wolfgang Eisenreich and Klaus Richter
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:662
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  42. Blood-sucking lice in the genera Pediculus and Pthirus are obligate ectoparasites of great apes. Unlike most bilateral animals, which have 37 mitochondrial (mt) genes on a single circular chromosome, the sucking ...

    Authors: Kate E. Herd, Stephen C. Barker and Renfu Shao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:661
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  43. Molecular marker-assisted breeding provides an efficient tool to develop improved crop varieties. A major challenge for the broad application of markers in marker-assisted selection is that the marker phenotyp...

    Authors: Huaan Yang, Jianbo Jian, Xuan Li, Daniel Renshaw, Jonathan Clements, Mark W. Sweetingham, Cong Tan and Chengdao Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:660
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  44. Kalmegh (Andrographis paniculata) has been widely exploited in traditional medicine for the treatment of infectious diseases and health disorders. Ent-labdane-related diterpene (ent-LRD) specialized (i.e., second...

    Authors: Anchal Garg, Lalit Agrawal, Rajesh Chandra Misra, Shubha Sharma and Sumit Ghosh
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:659
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  45. Pedunculate oak, Quercus robur is an abundant forest tree species that hosts a large and diverse community of beneficial ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMFs), whereby ectomycorrhiza (EM) formation is stimulated by mycorr...

    Authors: Florence Kurth, Lasse Feldhahn, Markus Bönn, Sylvie Herrmann, François Buscot and Mika T. Tarkka
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:658
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  46. Lophophora williamsii (commonly named peyote) is a small, spineless cactus with psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline. Peyote utilizes crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), an a...

    Authors: Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Flor Zamudio-Hernández, Claudia Anahí Pérez-Torres, Victor A. Albert, Enrique Ramírez-Chávez, Jorge Molina-Torres, Araceli Fernández-Cortes, Carlos Calderón-Vázquez, José Luis Olivares-Romero, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella and Luis Herrera-Estrella
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:657
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  47. The genetic mechanisms of speciation and adaptation in the marine environment are not well understood. The rockfish genus Sebastes provides a unique model system for studying adaptive evolution because of the ext...

    Authors: Joseph Heras, Kelly McClintock, Shinichi Sunagawa and Andres Aguilar
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:656
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  48. The host response to influenza A infections is strongly influenced by host genetic factors. Animal models of genetically diverse mouse strains are well suited to identify host genes involved in severe patholog...

    Authors: Esther Wilk, Ashutosh K. Pandey, Sarah Rebecca Leist, Bastian Hatesuer, Matthias Preusse, Claudia Pommerenke, Junxi Wang and Klaus Schughart
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:655
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  49. Brassica napus is the third leading source of vegetable oil in the world after soybean and oil palm. The accumulation of gene sequences, especially expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from ...

    Authors: Tao Ke, Huihui Cao, Junyan Huang, Fan Hu, Jin Huang, Caihua Dong, Xiangdong Ma, Jingyin Yu, Han Mao, Xi Wang, Qiuhong Niu, Fengli Hui and Shengyi Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:653
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  50. Cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.), renowned for their excellent health benefits, are an important berry crop. Here, we performed transcriptome sequencing of one cranberry cultivar, from fruits at two diffe...

    Authors: Haiyue Sun, Yushan Liu, Yuzhuo Gai, Jinman Geng, Li Chen, Hongdi Liu, Limin Kang, Youwen Tian and Yadong Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:652
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