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  1. Organisms utilize a multitude of mechanisms for responding to changing environmental conditions, maintaining their functional homeostasis and to overcome stress situations. One of the most important mechanisms...

    Authors: Vinicius A. C. Abreu, Sintia Almeida, Sandeep Tiwari, Syed Shah Hassan, Diego Mariano, Artur Silva, Jan Baumbach, Vasco Azevedo and Richard Röttger
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:452
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  3. Terpenoids are abundant in the foliage of Eucalyptus, providing the characteristic smell as well as being valuable economically and influencing ecological interactions. Quantitative and qualitative inter- and int...

    Authors: Carsten Külheim, Amanda Padovan, Charles Hefer, Sandra T Krause, Tobias G Köllner, Alexander A Myburg, Jörg Degenhardt and William J Foley
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:450
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  4. Clostridium difficile and C. sordellii are two anaerobic, spore forming, gram positive pathogens with a broad host range and the ability to cause lethal infections. Despite strong similarities ...

    Authors: Joy Scaria, Haruo Suzuki, Christopher P. Ptak, Jenn-Wei Chen, Yongzhang Zhu, Xiao-Kui Guo and Yung-Fu Chang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:448
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  5. Aliivibrio wodanis and Moritella viscosa have often been isolated concurrently from fish with winter-ulcer disease. Little is known about the interaction between the two bacterial species and h...

    Authors: Erik Hjerde, Christian Karlsen, Henning Sørum, Julian Parkhill, Nils Peder Willassen and Nicholas R. Thomson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:447
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  6. Banana and plantain (Musa spp.) comprise an important part of diets for millions of people around the globe. Low temperature is one of the key environmental stresses which greatly affects the global banana produc...

    Authors: Qiao-Song Yang, Jie Gao, Wei-Di He, Tong-Xin Dou, Li-Jie Ding, Jun-Hua Wu, Chun-Yu Li, Xin-Xiang Peng, Sheng Zhang and Gan-Jun Yi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:446
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  7. The amphinomid polychaete Hermodice carunculata is a cosmopolitan and ecologically important omnivore in coral reef ecosystems, preying on a diverse suite of reef organisms and potentially acting as a vector for ...

    Authors: Shaadi Mehr, Aida Verdes, Rob DeSalle, John Sparks, Vincent Pieribone and David F Gruber
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:445
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  9. Due to the absence of transcription initiation regulation of protein coding genes transcribed by RNA polymerase II, posttranscriptional regulation is responsible for the majority of gene expression changes in ...

    Authors: Pablo Smircich, Guillermo Eastman, Saloe Bispo, María Ana Duhagon, Eloise P Guerra-Slompo, Beatriz Garat, Samuel Goldenberg, David J Munroe, Bruno Dallagiovanna, Fabiola Holetz and Jose R Sotelo-Silveira
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:443
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  10. Amplified gene families on sex chromosomes can harbour genes with important biological functions, especially relating to fertility. The Y-linked heat shock transcription factor (HSFY) family has become amplified ...

    Authors: Benjamin M Skinner, Kim Lachani, Carole A Sargent, Fengtang Yang, Peter Ellis, Toby Hunt, Beiyuan Fu, Sandra Louzada, Carol Churcher, Chris Tyler-Smith and Nabeel A Affara
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:442
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  11. Hematophagy arose independently multiple times during metazoan evolution, with several lineages of vampire animals particularly diversified in invertebrates. However, the biochemistry of hematophagy has been s...

    Authors: Maria Vittoria Modica, Fabrizio Lombardo, Paolo Franchini and Marco Oliverio
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:441
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  12. In climacteric fruit-bearing species, the onset of fruit ripening is marked by a transient rise in respiration rate and autocatalytic ethylene production, followed by rapid deterioration in fruit quality. In n...

    Authors: Montserrat Saladié, Joaquin Cañizares, Michael A. Phillips, Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion, Christian Larrigaudière, Yves Gibon, Mark Stitt, John Edward Lunn and Jordi Garcia-Mas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:440
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  13. Multipartite mitochondrial genomes are very rare in animals but have been found previously in two insect orders with highly rearranged genomes, the Phthiraptera (parasitic lice), and the Psocoptera (booklice/b...

    Authors: Aaron M. Dickey, Vivek Kumar, J. Kent Morgan, Antonella Jara-Cavieres, Robert G. Shatters Jr., Cindy L. McKenzie and Lance S. Osborne
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:439
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  14. In rectal cancer, total mesorectal excision surgery combined with preoperative (chemo)radiotherapy reduces local recurrence rates but does not improve overall patient survival, a result that may be due to the ...

    Authors: Inès J Goossens-Beumer, Jan Oosting, Wim E Corver, Marjolein JFW Janssen, Bart Janssen, Wilbert van Workum, Eliane CM Zeestraten, Cornelis JH van de Velde, Hans Morreau, Peter JK Kuppen and Tom van Wezel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:438
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  15. The Generation Scotland Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS) includes 23,960 participants from across Scotland with records for many health-related traits and environmental covariates. Genotypes at ~700 K SN...

    Authors: Carmen Amador, Jennifer Huffman, Holly Trochet, Archie Campbell, David Porteous, James F Wilson, Nick Hastie, Veronique Vitart, Caroline Hayward, Pau Navarro and Chris S Haley
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:437
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  16. Lampreys are extant representatives of the jawless vertebrate lineage that diverged from jawed vertebrates around 500 million years ago. Lamprey genomes contain information crucial for understanding the evolut...

    Authors: Jianfeng Ren, Yu-Wen Chung-Davidson, Chu-Yin Yeh, Camille Scott, Titus Brown and Weiming Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:436
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  17. Recent technological advances in atmospheric plasmas have made the creation of non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma (NTP) possible for utilization in the medical field. Although accumulated evidence suggest...

    Authors: Jue Hou, Jie Ma, K. N. Yu, Wei Li, Cheng Cheng, Lingzhi Bao and Wei Han
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:435
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  18. Rapid and accurate retrieval of whole genome sequences of human pathogens from disease vectors or animal reservoirs will enable fine-resolution studies of pathogen epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics. Ho...

    Authors: Giovanna Carpi, Katharine S. Walter, Stephen J. Bent, Anne Gatewood Hoen, Maria Diuk-Wasser and Adalgisa Caccone
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:434
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  19. Authors: Amir M Hossini, Matthias Megges, Alessandro Prigione, Bjoern Lichtner, Mohammad R Toliat, Wasco Wruck, Friederike Schröter, Peter Nuernberg, Hartmut Kroll, Eugenia Makrantonaki, Christos C Zouboulis and James Adjaye
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:433
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Genomics 2015 16:84

  20. Drought is one of major abiotic stresses constraining crop productivity worldwide. To adapt to drought stress, plants have evolved sophisticated defence mechanisms. Wild barley germplasm is a treasure trove of...

    Authors: Nanbo Wang, Jing Zhao, Xiaoyan He, Hongyan Sun, Guoping Zhang and Feibo Wu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:432
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  21. Domestic goats (Capra hircus) have been selected to play an essential role in agricultural production systems, since being domesticated from their wild progenitor, bezoar (Capra aegagrus). A detailed understandin...

    Authors: Yang Dong, Xiaolei Zhang, Min Xie, Babak Arefnezhad, Zongji Wang, Wenliang Wang, Shaohong Feng, Guodong Huang, Rui Guan, Wenjing Shen, Rowan Bunch, Russell McCulloch, Qiye Li, Bo Li, Guojie Zhang, Xun Xu…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:431
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  22. Fusarium head blight (FHB) and Septoria tritici blotch (STB) severely impair wheat production. With the aim to further elucidate the genetic architecture underlying FHB and STB resistance, we phenotyped 1604 E...

    Authors: Vilson Mirdita, Guozheng Liu, Yusheng Zhao, Thomas Miedaner, C. Friedrich H. Longin, Manje Gowda, Michael Florian Mette and Jochen C. Reif
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:430
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  23. The Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia Kurdjumov, is one of the most important pests of small grains throughout the temperate regions of the world. This phytotoxic aphid causes severe systemic damage symptoms i...

    Authors: Scott J Nicholson, Michael L Nickerson, Michael Dean, Yan Song, Peter R Hoyt, Hwanseok Rhee, Changhoon Kim and Gary J Puterka
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:429
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  24. Pine moths (Lepidoptera; Bombycoidea; Lasiocampidae: Dendrolimus spp.) are among the most serious insect pests of forests, especially in southern China. Although COI barcodes (a standardized portion of the mitoch...

    Authors: Jie Qin, Yanzhou Zhang, Xin Zhou, Xiangbo Kong, Shujun Wei, Robert D Ward and Ai-bing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:428
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  26. Oxidative stress caused by ground level ozone is a contributor to yield loss in a number of important crop plants. Soybean (Glycine max) is considered to be ozone sensitive, and current research into its response...

    Authors: Adam Whaley, Jaime Sheridan, Sajedeh Safari, Amy Burton, Kent Burkey and Jessica Schlueter
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:426
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  28. The genome of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori encodes a large number of DNA methyltransferases (MTases), some of which are shared among many strains, and oth...

    Authors: Woon Ching Lee, Brian P Anton, Susana Wang, Primo Baybayan, Siddarth Singh, Meredith Ashby, Eng Guan Chua, Chin Yen Tay, Fanny Thirriot, Mun Fai Loke, Khean Lee Goh, Barry J Marshall, Richard J Roberts and Jamuna Vadivelu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:424
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  29. MiRNAs and phasiRNAs are negative regulators of gene expression. These small RNAs have been extensively studied in plant model species but only 10 mature microRNAs are present in miRBase version 21, the most u...

    Authors: Damien Formey, Luis Pedro Iñiguez, Pablo Peláez, Yong-Fang Li, Ramanjulu Sunkar, Federico Sánchez, José Luis Reyes and Georgina Hernández
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:423
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  30. Increasingly high amounts of heterogeneous and valuable controlled biomolecular annotations are available, but far from exhaustive and scattered in many databases. Several annotation integration and prediction...

    Authors: Marco Masseroli, Arif Canakoglu and Massimiliano Quigliatti
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16(Suppl 6):S5
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 6

  31. Identifying key microRNAs (miRNAs) contributing to the genesis and development of a particular disease is a focus of many recent studies. We introduce here a rank-based algorithm to detect miRNA regulatory act...

    Authors: Loredana Martignetti, Bruno Tesson, Anna Almeida, Andrei Zinovyev, Gordon C Tucker, Thierry Dubois and Emmanuel Barillot
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16(Suppl 6):S4
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 6

  32. The study of RNA has been dramatically improved by the introduction of Next Generation Sequencing platforms allowing massive and cheap sequencing of selected RNA fractions, also providing information on strand...

    Authors: Mattia D'Antonio, Paolo D'Onorio De Meo, Matteo Pallocca, Ernesto Picardi, Anna Maria D'Erchia, Raffaele A Calogero, Tiziana Castrignanò and Graziano Pesole
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16(Suppl 6):S3
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 6

  33. Dynamic expression data, nowadays obtained using high-throughput RNA sequencing, are essential to monitor transient gene expression changes and to study the dynamics of their transcriptional activity in the ce...

    Authors: Tiziana Sanavia, Francesca Finotello and Barbara Di Camillo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16(Suppl 6):S2
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 6

  34. Detection of RNA structure similarities is still one of the major computational problems in the discovery of RNA functions. A case in point is the study of the new appreciated long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), e...

    Authors: Giulia Fiscon, Paola Paci and Giulio Iannello
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16(Suppl 6):S1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 6

  35. Acinetobacter baumannii is a major health problem. The most common infection caused by A. baumannii is hospital acquired pneumonia, and the associated mortality rate is approximately 50 %. Neit...

    Authors: Jose Antonio Méndez, Jesús Mateos, Alejandro Beceiro, María Lopez, María Tomás, Margarita Poza and Germán Bou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:422
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  36. Despite evidence of an association between variants at the apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1) locus and a spectrum of related kidney diseases, underlying biological mechanisms remain unknown. An earlier preliminary s...

    Authors: Amy R. Bentley, Jasmin Divers, Daniel Shriner, Ayo P. Doumatey, Orlando M. Gutiérrez, Adebowale A. Adeyemo, Barry I. Freedman and Charles N. Rotimi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:421
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  38. Streptococcus agalactiae, or Group B Streptococcus, is a leading cause of neonatal infections and an increasing cause of infections in adults with underlying diseases. In an effort to reconstru...

    Authors: Isabelle Rosinski-Chupin, Elisabeth Sauvage, Odile Sismeiro, Adrien Villain, Violette Da Cunha, Marie-Elise Caliot, Marie-Agnès Dillies, Patrick Trieu-Cuot, Philippe Bouloc, Marie-Frédérique Lartigue and Philippe Glaser
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:419
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  39. Host genetic makeup plays a role in early gut microbial colonization and immune programming. Interactions between gut microbiota and host cells of the mucosal layer are of paramount importance for a proper dev...

    Authors: Dirkjan Schokker, Gosse Veninga, Stephanie A. Vastenhouw, Alex Bossers, Freddy M. de Bree, Lucia M. T. E. Kaal-Lansbergen, Johanna M. J. Rebel and Mari A. Smits
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:418
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  40. Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae causes pleuropneumonia in pigs, a disease which is associated with high morbidity and mortality, as well as impaired animal welfare. To obtain in-depth understan...

    Authors: Louise Brogaard, Kirstine Klitgaard, Peter MH Heegaard, Mette Sif Hansen, Tim Kåre Jensen and Kerstin Skovgaard
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:417
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  41. The desiccation-tolerant moss Bryum argenteum is an important component of the Biological Soil Crusts (BSCs) found in the Gurbantunggut desert. Desiccation tolerance is defined as the ability to revive from the a...

    Authors: Bei Gao, Daoyuan Zhang, Xiaoshuang Li, Honglan Yang, Yuanming Zhang and Andrew J. Wood
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:416
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  42. The laboratory mouse is the most commonly used model for studying variation in complex traits relevant to human disease. Here we present the whole-genome sequences of two inbred strains, LG/J and SM/J, which a...

    Authors: Igor Nikolskiy, Donald F Conrad, Sung Chun, Justin C Fay, James M Cheverud and Heather A Lawson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:415
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  43. Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium are typical enterococcal bacterial pathogens. Antibiotic resistance means that the identification of novel E. faecalis and E. faecium phages again...

    Authors: Xianglilan Zhang, Yahui Wang, Shasha Li, Xiaoping An, Guangqian Pei, Yong Huang, Hang Fan, Zhiqiang Mi, Zhiyi Zhang, Wei Wang, Yubao Chen and Yigang Tong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:414
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  44. Ocimum sanctum L. (O. tenuiflorum) family-Lamiaceae is an important component of Indian tradition of medicine as well as culture around the world, and hence is known as “Holy basil” in India. T...

    Authors: Shubhra Rastogi, Alok Kalra, Vikrant Gupta, Feroz Khan, Raj Kishori Lal, Anil Kumar Tripathi, Sriram Parameswaran, Chellappa Gopalakrishnan, Gopalakrishna Ramaswamy and Ajit Kumar Shasany
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:413
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  45. Previously, we identified a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) for host response to Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome virus (PRRSV) infection in high linkage disequilibrium (LD) with SNP rs808003...

    Authors: James E. Koltes, Eric Fritz-Waters, Chris J. Eisley, Igseo Choi, Hua Bao, Arun Kommadath, Nick V. L. Serão, Nicholas J. Boddicker, Sam M. Abrams, Martine Schroyen, Hyelee Loyd, Chris K. Tuggle, Graham S. Plastow, Leluo Guan, Paul Stothard, Joan K. Lunney…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:412
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  46. The dense phytoplankton blooms that characterize productive regions and seasons in the oceans are dominated, from high to low latitudes and from coast line to open ocean, by comparatively few, often cosmopolit...

    Authors: Chiara Lauritano, Ida Orefice, Gabriele Procaccini, Giovanna Romano and Adrianna Ianora
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:411
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  47. Marine microbial protists, in particular, dinoflagellates, produce polyketide toxins with ecosystem-wide and human health impacts. Species of Gambierdiscus produce the polyether ladder compounds ciguatoxins and m...

    Authors: Gurjeet S. Kohli, Uwe John, Rosa I. Figueroa, Lesley L. Rhodes, D. Tim Harwood, Marco Groth, Christopher J. S. Bolch and Shauna A. Murray
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:410
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  48. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers have a wide range of applications in crop genetics and genomics. Due to their polyploidy nature, many important crops, such as wheat, cotton and rapeseed contain a ...

    Authors: Guangqin Cai, Qingyong Yang, Bin Yi, Chuchuan Fan, Chunyu Zhang, David Edwards, Jacqueline Batley and Yongming Zhou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:409
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  50. The box jellyfish, Chironex fleckeri, is the largest and most dangerous cubozoan jellyfish to humans. It produces potent and rapid-acting venom and its sting causes severe localized and systemic effects that are ...

    Authors: Diane L Brinkman, Xinying Jia, Jeremy Potriquet, Dhirendra Kumar, Debasis Dash, David Kvaskoff and Jason Mulvenna
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:407
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