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  1. Species of Bryopsidales form ecologically important components of seaweed communities worldwide. These siphonous macroalgae are composed of a single giant tubular cell containing millions of nuclei and chlorop...

    Authors: Frederik Leliaert and Juan M Lopez-Bautista
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:204
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  2. Silk has numerous unique properties that make it a staple of textile manufacturing for several thousand years. However, wider applications of silk in modern have been stalled due to limitations of traditional ...

    Authors: Yang Dong, Fangyin Dai, Yandong Ren, Hui Liu, Lei Chen, Pengcheng Yang, Yanqun Liu, Xin Li, Wen Wang and Hui Xiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:203
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2017 18:548

  3. The flower colour of agricultural products is very important for their commercial value, which is mainly attributed to the accumulation of anthocyanins. Light is one of the key environmental factors that affec...

    Authors: Yan Hong, Xingjiao Tang, He Huang, Yuan Zhang and Silan Dai
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:202
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  4. Egg quality is an important aspect in rainbow trout farming. Post-ovulatory aging is one of the most important factors affecting egg quality. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are the major regulators in various biological p...

    Authors: Hao Ma, Gregory M Weber, Mark A Hostuttler, Hairong Wei, Lei Wang and Jianbo Yao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:201
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  5. Salt stress is one of the most representative abiotic stresses that severely affect plant growth and development. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are well known for their significant involvement in plant responses to abiot...

    Authors: Xiaochuan Sun, Liang Xu, Yan Wang, Rugang Yu, Xianwen Zhu, Xiaobo Luo, Yiqin Gong, Ronghua Wang, Cecilia Limera, Keyun Zhang and Liwang Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:197
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  6. Columnaris causes severe mortalities among many different wild and cultured freshwater fish species, but understanding of host resistance is lacking. Catfish, the primary aquaculture species in the United Stat...

    Authors: Xin Geng, Jin Sha, Shikai Liu, Lisui Bao, Jiaren Zhang, Ruijia Wang, Jun Yao, Chao Li, Jianbin Feng, Fanyue Sun, Luyang Sun, Chen Jiang, Yu Zhang, Ailu Chen, Rex Dunham, Degui Zhi…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:196
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  7. Advanced selection technologies have been developed and continually optimized to improve traits of agricultural importance; however, these methods have been primarily applied without knowledge of underlying bi...

    Authors: Nan Zhou, William R Lee and Behnam Abasht
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:195
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  8. Traditionally, Chinese indigenous sheep were classified geographically and morphologically into three groups: Mongolian, Kazakh and Tibetan. Herein, we aimed to evaluate the population structure and genome sel...

    Authors: Caihong Wei, Huihua Wang, Gang Liu, Mingming Wu, Jiaxve Cao, Zhen Liu, Ruizao Liu, Fuping Zhao, Li Zhang, Jian Lu, Chousheng Liu and Lixin Du
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:194
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  9. Insertion sequences (ISs) are approximately 1 kbp long “jumping” genes found in prokaryotes. ISs encode the protein Transposase, which facilitates the excision and reinsertion of ISs in genomes, making these s...

    Authors: Theoden Vigil-Stenman, John Larsson, Johan A A Nylander and Birgitta Bergman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:193
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  10. Cassava, Manihot esculenta Crantz, is one of the most important crops world-wide representing the staple security for more than one billion of people. The development of dense genetic and physical maps, as the ba...

    Authors: Johana Carolina Soto, Juan Felipe Ortiz, Laura Perlaza-Jiménez, Andrea Ximena Vásquez, Luis Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Boby Mathew, Jens Léon, Adriana Jimena Bernal, Agim Ballvora and Camilo Ernesto López
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:190
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  11. Kelp (Saccharina japonica) has been intensively cultured in China for almost a century. Its genetic improvement is comparable with that of rice. However, the development of its molecular tools is extremely limite...

    Authors: Ning Zhang, Linan Zhang, Ye Tao, Li Guo, Juan Sun, Xia Li, Nan Zhao, Jie Peng, Xiaojie Li, Liang Zeng, Jinsa Chen and Guanpin Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:189
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  12. Comparative genomics provides insights into the diversification of bacterial species. Bacterial speciation usually takes place with lasting homologous recombination, which not only acts as a cohering force bet...

    Authors: Chao-Li Huang, Pei-Hua Pu, Hao-Jen Huang, Huang-Mo Sung, Hung-Jiun Liaw, Yi-Min Chen, Chien-Ming Chen, Ming-Ban Huang, Naoki Osada, Takashi Gojobori, Tun-Wen Pai, Yu-Tin Chen, Chi-Chuan Hwang and Tzen-Yuh Chiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:188
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  13. Dairy cattle breeding objectives are in general similar across countries, but environment and management conditions may vary, giving rise to slightly different selection pressures applied to a given trait. Thi...

    Authors: Jeremy T Howard, Christian Maltecca, Mekonnen Haile-Mariam, Ben J Hayes and Jennie E Pryce
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:187
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  14. The cladoceran crustacean Daphnia pulex produces female offspring by parthenogenesis under favorable conditions, but in response to various unfavorable external stimuli, it produces male offspring (environmental ...

    Authors: Kenji Toyota, Hitoshi Miyakawa, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Shuji Shigenobu, Yukiko Ogino, Norihisa Tatarazako, Shinichi Miyagawa and Taisen Iguchi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:186
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  15. Mycoheterotrophic orchids are achlorophyllous plants that obtain carbon and nutrients from their mycorrhizal fungi. They often show strong preferential association with certain fungi and may obtain nutrients f...

    Authors: Tsunglin Liu, Ching-Min Li, Yue-Lun Han, Tzen-Yuh Chiang, Yu-Chung Chiang and Huang-Mo Sung
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:185
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  16. Compensatory growth is accelerated compared with normal growth and occurs when growth-limiting conditions are overcome. Most animals, especially fish, are capable of compensatory growth, but the mechanisms rem...

    Authors: Libo He, Yongyan Pei, Yao Jiang, Yongming Li, Lanjie Liao, Zuoyan Zhu and Yaping Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:184
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  17. The biological and clinical consequences of the tight interactions between host and microbiota are rapidly being unraveled by next generation sequencing technologies and sophisticated bioinformatics, also refe...

    Authors: Florian Plaza Onate, Jean-Michel Batto, Catherine Juste, Jehane Fadlallah, Cyrielle Fougeroux, Doriane Gouas, Nicolas Pons, Sean Kennedy, Florence Levenez, Joel Dore, S Dusko Ehrlich, Guy Gorochov and Martin Larsen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:183
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  18. The Pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus) is a member of the Characiform family native to the Prata Basin (South America) and a target for the aquaculture industry. A limitation for the development of a selective breedi...

    Authors: Edson A Mareco, Daniel Garcia de la Serrana, Ian A Johnston and Maeli Dal-Pai-Silva
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:182
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  19. Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are molecular chaperones that are involved in many normal cellular processes and stress responses, and heat shock factors (Hsfs) are the transcriptional activators of Hsps. Hsfs and Hsp...

    Authors: Jin Zhang, Bobin Liu, Jianbo Li, Li Zhang, Yan Wang, Huanquan Zheng, Mengzhu Lu and Jun Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:181
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  21. Changes in DNA methylation are among the mechanisms contributing to the ageing process. We sought to identify ageing-associated DNA methylation changes at single-CpG-site resolution in blood leukocytes and to ...

    Authors: Saara Marttila, Laura Kananen, Sergei Häyrynen, Juulia Jylhävä, Tapio Nevalainen, Antti Hervonen, Marja Jylhä, Matti Nykter and Mikko Hurme
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:179
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  22. MADS-box transcription factors (TFs) are important in floral organ specification as well as several other aspects of plant growth and development. Studies on stress resistance-related functions of MADS-box gen...

    Authors: Gopal Saha, Jong-In Park, Hee-Jeong Jung, Nasar Uddin Ahmed, Md. Abdul Kayum, Mi-Young Chung, Yoonkang Hur, Yong-Gu Cho, Masao Watanabe and Ill-Sup Nou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:178
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  23. This study aimed to identify markers for muscle growth rate and the different cellular contributors to cattle muscle and to link the muscle growth rate markers to specific cell types.

    Authors: Bing Guo, Paul L Greenwood, Linda M Cafe, Guanghong Zhou, Wangang Zhang and Brian P Dalrymple
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:177
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  24. New strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that cause diarrhea in humans by seafood ingestion periodically emerge through continuous evolution in the ocean. Influx and expansion in the Southern Chilean ocean of a hig...

    Authors: David E Loyola, Cristell Navarro, Paulina Uribe, Katherine García, Claudia Mella, Diego Díaz, Natalia Valdes, Jaime Martínez-Urtaza and Romilio T Espejo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:176
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  25. Enterococcus faecalis is a multifaceted microorganism known to act as a beneficial intestinal commensal bacterium. It is also a dreaded nosocomial pathogen causing life-threatening infections i...

    Authors: Melanie Zischka, Carsten T Künne, Jochen Blom, Dominique Wobser, Türkân Sakιnç, Kerstin Schmidt-Hohagen, P Wojtek Dabrowski, Andreas Nitsche, Johannes Hübner, Torsten Hain, Trinad Chakraborty, Burkhard Linke, Alexander Goesmann, Sonja Voget, Rolf Daniel, Dietmar Schomburg…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:175
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  26. The animal gastrointestinal tract contains a complex community of microbes, whose composition ultimately reflects the co-evolution of microorganisms with their animal host and the diet adopted by the host. Alt...

    Authors: Bo Xu, Weijiang Xu, Junjun Li, Liming Dai, Caiyun Xiong, Xianghua Tang, Yunjuan Yang, Yuelin Mu, Junpei Zhou, Junmei Ding, Qian Wu and Zunxi Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:174
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  27. Asian corn borer (ACB), Ostrinia furnacalis (Guenée), is the major insect pest of maize in China and countries of East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Australasia. ACB can develop strong resistance to the tra...

    Authors: Li-Na Xu, Yue-Qin Wang, Zhen-Ying Wang, Ben-Jin Hu, Ying-Hui Ling and Kang-Lai He
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:173
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  28. Pakistan covers a key geographic area in human history, being both part of the Indus River region that acted as one of the cradles of civilization and as a link between Western Eurasia and Eastern Asia. This r...

    Authors: Muhammad Ilyas, Jong-Soo Kim, Jesse Cooper, Young-Ah Shin, Hak-Min Kim, Yun Sung Cho, Seungwoo Hwang, Hyunho Kim, Jaewoo Moon, Oksung Chung, JeHoon Jun, Achal Rastogi, Sanghoon Song, Junsu Ko, Andrea Manica, Ziaur Rahman…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:172
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  29. Fish species often exhibit significant sexual dimorphism for commercially important traits. Accordingly, the control of phenotypic sex, and in particular the production of monosex cultures, is of particular in...

    Authors: Christos Palaiokostas, Michaël Bekaert, Mohd GQ Khan, John B Taggart, Karim Gharbi, Brendan J McAndrew and David J Penman
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:171
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  30. The impact of gene annotation quality on functional and comparative genomics makes gene prediction an important process, particularly in non-model species, including many fungi. Sets of homologous protein sequ...

    Authors: Alison C Testa, James K Hane, Simon R Ellwood and Richard P Oliver
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:170
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  31. Halogeton glomeratus (H. glomeratus) is an extreme halophyte that is widely distributed in arid regions, including foothills, the Gobi desert of northwest China, and the marginal loess of Centr...

    Authors: Juncheng Wang, Baochun Li, Yaxiong Meng, Xiaole Ma, Yong Lai, Erjing Si, Ke Yang, Panrong Ren, Xunwu Shang and Huajun Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:169
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  32. The main goal of our study was to investigate the implementation, prospects, and limits of marker imputation for quantitative genetic studies contrasting map-independent and map-dependent algorithms. We used a...

    Authors: Sang He, Yusheng Zhao, M Florian Mette, Reiner Bothe, Erhard Ebmeyer, Timothy F Sharbel, Jochen C Reif and Yong Jiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:168
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  33. The methylotrophic, Crabtree-negative yeast Pichia pastoris is widely used as a heterologous protein production host. Strong inducible promoters derived from methanol utilization genes or constitutive glycolytic ...

    Authors: Roland Prielhofer, Stephanie P Cartwright, Alexandra B Graf, Minoska Valli, Roslyn M Bill, Diethard Mattanovich and Brigitte Gasser
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:167
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  34. The brown ghost knifefish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus) is a weakly electric teleost fish of particular interest as a versatile model system for a variety of research areas in neuroscience and biology. The comprehe...

    Authors: Joseph P Salisbury, Ruxandra F Sîrbulescu, Benjamin M Moran, Jared R Auclair, Günther KH Zupanc and Jeffrey N Agar
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:166
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  35. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are a major economic threat to pig production globally, with serogroups O8, O9, O45, O101, O138, O139, O141, O149 and O157 implicated as the leading diarrhoeal pathogens af...

    Authors: Ethan Wyrsch, Piklu Roy Chowdhury, Sam Abraham, Jerran Santos, Aaron E Darling, Ian G Charles, Toni A Chapman and Steven P Djordjevic
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:165
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  37. The ability to identify regions of the genome inherited with a dominant trait in one or more families has become increasingly valuable with the wide availability of high throughput sequencing technology. While...

    Authors: Adam P Levine, Thomas M F Connor, D Deren Oygar, Guy H Neild, Anthony W Segal, Patrick H Maxwell and Daniel P Gale
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:163
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  38. Cellular processes underlying memory formation are evolutionary conserved, but natural variation in memory dynamics between animal species or populations is common. The genetic basis of this fascinating phenom...

    Authors: Katja M Hoedjes, Hans M Smid, Elio GWM Schijlen, Louise EM Vet and Joke JFA van Vugt
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:162
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  39. Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), the causative bacterium of Johne’s disease in dairy cattle, is widespread in the Canadian dairy industry and has significant economic and anim...

    Authors: Christina Ahlstrom, Herman W Barkema, Karen Stevenson, Ruth N Zadoks, Roman Biek, Rowland Kao, Hannah Trewby, Deb Haupstein, David F Kelton, Gilles Fecteau, Olivia Labrecque, Greg P Keefe, Shawn L B McKenna and Jeroen De Buck
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:161
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  40. The DHFR negative CHO DXB11 cell line (also known as DUX-B11 and DUKX) was historically the first CHO cell line to be used for large scale production of heterologous proteins and is still used for production o...

    Authors: Christian Schrøder Kaas, Claus Kristensen, Michael J Betenbaugh and Mikael Rørdam Andersen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:160
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  41. P. vietnamensis var. fuscidiscus, called “Yesanqi” in Chinese, is a new variety of P. vietnamensis, which was first found in Jinping County, the southern part of Yunnan Province, China. Compare...

    Authors: Guang-Hui Zhang, Chun-Hua Ma, Jia-Jin Zhang, Jun-Wen Chen, Qing-Yan Tang, Mu-Han He, Xiang-Zeng Xu, Ni-Hao Jiang and Sheng-Chao Yang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:159
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  43. Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes (TILLING) is a powerful reverse genetics approach for functional genomics studies. We used high-throughput sequencing, combined with a two-dimensional pooling strateg...

    Authors: Yufang Guo, Brian Abernathy, Yajuan Zeng and Peggy Ozias-Akins
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:157
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  44. Klinefelter Syndrome (KS) is the most common abnormality of sex chromosomes (47,XXY) and represents the first genetic cause of male infertility. Mechanisms leading to KS testis degeneration are still not compl...

    Authors: Marco D’Aurora, Alberto Ferlin, Marta Di Nicola, Andrea Garolla, Luca De Toni, Sara Franchi, Giandomenico Palka, Carlo Foresta, Liborio Stuppia and Valentina Gatta
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:156
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  45. A high-throughput genotyping platform is needed to enable marker-assisted breeding in the allo-octoploid cultivated strawberry Fragaria × ananassa. Short-read sequences from one diploid and 19 octoploid accession...

    Authors: Nahla V Bassil, Thomas M Davis, Hailong Zhang, Stephen Ficklin, Mike Mittmann, Teresa Webster, Lise Mahoney, David Wood, Elisabeth S Alperin, Umesh R Rosyara, Herma Koehorst-vanc Putten, Amparo Monfort, Daniel J Sargent, Iraida Amaya, Beatrice Denoyes, Luca Bianco…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:155
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  46. Histone epigenome data determined by chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) is used in identifying transcript regions and estimating expression levels. However, this estimation does not always cor...

    Authors: Sho Maekawa, Naoto Imamachi, Takuma Irie, Hidenori Tani, Kyoko Matsumoto, Rena Mizutani, Katsutoshi Imamura, Miho Kakeda, Tetsushi Yada, Sumio Sugano, Yutaka Suzuki and Nobuyoshi Akimitsu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:154
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  47. The community composition of the human microbiome is known to vary at distinct anatomical niches. But little is known about the nature of variations, if any, at the genome/sub-genome levels of a specific micro...

    Authors: Vinod Kumar Gupta, Narendrakumar M Chaudhari, Suchismitha Iskepalli and Chitra Dutta
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:153
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  48. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are multifunctional detoxification enzymes that play important roles in insects. The completion of several insect genome projects has enabled the identification and characterizat...

    Authors: Yanchun You, Miao Xie, Nana Ren, Xuemin Cheng, Jianyu Li, Xiaoli Ma, Minming Zou, Liette Vasseur, Geoff M Gurr and Minsheng You
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:152
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  49. Leishmania use exosomes to communicate with their mammalian hosts and these secreted vesicles appear to contribute to pathogenesis by delivering protein virulence factors to macrophages. In other eukaryotes, ...

    Authors: Ulrike Lambertz, Mariana E Oviedo Ovando, Elton JR Vasconcelos, Peter J Unrau, Peter J Myler and Neil E Reiner
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2015 16:151
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