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  1. Seasonal estrus is a critical limiting factor of animal fecundity, and it involves changes in both ovarian biology and hormone secretion in different seasons. Previous studies indicate that two classes of smal...

    Authors: Ran Di, Jianning He, Shuhui Song, Dongmei Tian, Qiuyue Liu, Xiaojun Liang, Qing Ma, Min Sun, Jiandong Wang, Wenming Zhao, Guiling Cao, Jinxin Wang, Zhimin Yang, Ying Ge and Mingxing Chu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:899
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  2. Stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici; Pst) and powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici; Bgt) are important diseases of wheat (Triticum aestivum) worldwide. Similar mechanisms and gene transcr...

    Authors: Hong Zhang, Yongzheng Yang, Changyou Wang, Min Liu, Hao Li, Ying Fu, Yajuan Wang, Yingbin Nie, Xinlun Liu and Wanquan Ji
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:898
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  3. Mammalian spermatozoa must undergo capacitation, before becoming competent for fertilization. Despite its importance, the fundamental molecular mechanisms of capacitation are poorly understood. Therefore, in t...

    Authors: Woo-Sung Kwon, Md Saidur Rahman, June-Sub Lee, Jin Kim, Sung-Jae Yoon, Yoo-Jin Park, Young-Ah You, Seongsoo Hwang and Myung-Geol Pang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:897
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  4. The genome-wide association (GWA) approach represents an alternative to biparental linkage mapping for determining the genetic basis of trait variation. Both approaches rely on recombination to re-arrange the ...

    Authors: Fabio Cericola, Ezio Portis, Sergio Lanteri, Laura Toppino, Lorenzo Barchi, Nazzareno Acciarri, Laura Pulcini, Tea Sala and Giuseppe Leonardo Rotino
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:896
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  5. Understanding the molecular basis of domestication can provide insights into the processes of rapid evolution and crop improvement. Here we demonstrated the processes of carrot domestication and identified gen...

    Authors: Jun Rong, Youri Lammers, Jared L Strasburg, Natasha S Schidlo, Yavuz Ariyurek, Tom J de Jong, Peter G L Klinkhamer, Marinus J M Smulders and Klaas Vrieling
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:895
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  6. Aspergillus fumigatus produces a number of secondary metabolites, one of which, gliotoxin, has been shown to exhibit anti-fungal activity. Thus, A. fumigatus must be able to protect itself against gliotoxin. Inde...

    Authors: Grainne O’Keeffe, Stephen Hammel, Rebecca A Owens, Thomas M Keane, David A Fitzpatrick, Gary W Jones and Sean Doyle
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:894
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  7. Cryptic prophages are genetically defective in their induction and propagation, and are simply regarded as genetic remnants. There are several putative cryptic WO prophages in the sequenced Wolbachia genomes. Whe...

    Authors: Guan-Hong Wang, Li-Ming Niu, Guang-Chang Ma, Jin-Hua Xiao and Da-Wei Huang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:893
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  8. Citrus shoot tips abscise at an anatomically distinct abscission zone (AZ) that separates the top part of the shoots into basal and apical portions (citrus self-pruning). Cell separation occurs only at the AZ,...

    Authors: Jin-Zhi Zhang, Kun Zhao, Xiao-Yan Ai and Chun-Gen Hu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:892
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  9. Many plant-pathogenic fungi have a tendency towards genome size expansion, mostly driven by increasing content of transposable elements (TEs). Through comparative and evolutionary genomics, five members of the Le...

    Authors: Jonathan Grandaubert, Rohan GT Lowe, Jessica L Soyer, Conrad L Schoch, Angela P Van de Wouw, Isabelle Fudal, Barbara Robbertse, Nicolas Lapalu, Matthew G Links, Bénédicte Ollivier, Juliette Linglin, Valérie Barbe, Sophie Mangenot, Corinne Cruaud, Hossein Borhan, Barbara J Howlett…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:891
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  10. Inherited developmental diseases can cause severe animal welfare and economic problems in dairy cattle. The use of a small number of bulls for artificial insemination (AI) carries a risk that recessive defects...

    Authors: Heli Venhoranta, Hubert Pausch, Krzysztof Flisikowski, Christine Wurmser, Juhani Taponen, Helena Rautala, Alexander Kind, Angelika Schnieke, Ruedi Fries, Hannes Lohi and Magnus Andersson
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:890
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  11. Genome-wide profiling of single-nucleotide polymorphisms is receiving increasing attention as a method of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis in humans and of commercial genotyping of pre-transfer embryos in ca...

    Authors: Habib A Shojaei Saadi, Christian Vigneault, Mehdi Sargolzaei, Dominic Gagné, Éric Fournier, Béatrice de Montera, Jacques Chesnais, Patrick Blondin and Claude Robert
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:889
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  13. We have recently developed several homozygous families of transgenic rainbow trout harbouring cecropin P1 transgene. These fish exhibit resistance characteristic to infection by Aeromonas salmonicida and infectio...

    Authors: Jay H Lo, Chun-Mean Lin, Maria J Chen and Thomas T Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:887
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  15. Kutzneria is a representative of a rarely observed genus of the family Pseudonocardiaceae. Kutzneria species were initially placed in the Streptosporangiaceae genus and later reconsidered to be an independent gen...

    Authors: Yuriy Rebets, Bogdan Tokovenko, Igor Lushchyk, Christian Rückert, Nestor Zaburannyi, Andreas Bechthold, Jörn Kalinowski and Andriy Luzhetskyy
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:885
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  16. Atlantic salmon have been subject to domestication for approximately ten generations, beginning in the early 1970s. This process of artificial selection will have created various genetic differences between wi...

    Authors: Beatrix Bicskei, James E Bron, Kevin A Glover and John B Taggart
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:884
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  17. Neurons display a highly polarized architecture. Their ability to modify their features under intracellular and extracellular stimuli, known as synaptic plasticity, is a key component of the neurochemical basi...

    Authors: Chantal Francis, Shreedhar Natarajan, Miler T Lee, Mugdha Khaladkar, Peter T Buckley, Jai-Yoon Sul, James Eberwine and Junhyong Kim
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:883
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  19. High-throughput DNA sequencing produces vast amounts of data, with millions of short reads that usually have to be mapped to a reference genome or newly assembled. Both reference-based mapping and de novo assembl...

    Authors: Andreas Steiner, David Stucki, Mireia Coscolla, Sonia Borrell and Sebastien Gagneux
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:881
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  20. Gene expression changes induced by carcinogens may identify differences in molecular function between target and non-target organs. Target organs for benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) carcinogenicity in mice (lung, spleen and...

    Authors: Jie Zuo, Daniel S Brewer, Volker M Arlt, Colin S Cooper and David H Phillips
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:880
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  21. Accurate analysis of whole-gene expression and individual-exon expression is essential to characterize different transcript isoforms and identify alternative splicing events in human genes. One of the omic techno...

    Authors: Alberto Risueño, Beatriz Roson-Burgo, Anna Dolnik, Jesus M Hernandez-Rivas, Lars Bullinger and Javier De Las Rivas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:879
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  22. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression by binding to mRNA transcripts in various biological processes. In mammals and birds, miRNAs are known to play vital parts in both host immune defense and viral infe...

    Authors: Bao-cun Zhang, Jian Zhang and Li Sun
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:878
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  23. It has been shown in a number of metagenomic studies that the addition and removal of specific genes have allowed microbiomes to adapt to specific environmental conditions by losing and gaining specific functi...

    Authors: Leyden Fernandez, Josep M Mercader, Mercè Planas-Fèlix and David Torrents
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:877
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  24. Molecular heterogeneity of tumors suggests the presence of multiple different subclones that may limit response to targeted therapies and contribute to acquisition of drug resistance, but its quantification ha...

    Authors: Tingting Jiang, Weiwei Shi, René Natowicz, Sophia N Ononye, Vikram B Wali, Yuval Kluger, Lajos Pusztai and Christos Hatzis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:876
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  26. A great number of studies have investigated changes induced by morphine exposure in gene expression using several experimental models. In this study, we examined gene expression changes during chronic exposure...

    Authors: M Javier Herrero-Turrión, Iván Rodríguez-Martín, Roger López-Bellido and Raquel E Rodríguez
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:874
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  27. Durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) is a tetraploid cereal grown in the medium to low-precipitation areas of the Mediterranean Basin, North America and South-West Asia. Genomics applications in durum wheat have th...

    Authors: Marco Maccaferri, Maria Angela Cane’, Maria C Sanguineti, Silvio Salvi, Maria C Colalongo, Andrea Massi, Fran Clarke, Ron Knox, Curtis J Pozniak, John M Clarke, Tzion Fahima, Jorge Dubcovsky, Steven Xu, Karim Ammar, Ildikó Karsai, Gyula Vida…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:873
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  28. Sand rice (Agriophyllum squarrosum) is an annual desert plant adapted to mobile sand dunes in arid and semi-arid regions of Central Asia. The sand rice seeds have excellent nutrition value and have been historica...

    Authors: Pengshan Zhao, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Yong Shi, Xin Zhao, Guoxiong Chen, Toni Gabaldón and Xiao-Fei Ma
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:872
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  29. Sinopodophyllum hexandrum is an endangered medicinal herb, which is commonly present in elevations ranging between 2,400–4,500 m and is sensitive to temperature. Medicinal property of the species is attributed to...

    Authors: Anita Kumari, Heikham Russiachand Singh, Ashwani Jha, Mohit Kumar Swarnkar, Ravi Shankar and Sanjay Kumar
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:871
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  30. Small, secreted signaling peptides work in parallel with phytohormones to control important aspects of plant growth and development. Genes from the C-TERMINALLY ENCODED PEPTIDE (CEP) family produce such peptid...

    Authors: Huw A Ogilvie, Nijat Imin and Michael A Djordjevic
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:870
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  31. Hair represents an evolutionary innovation that appeared early on mammalian evolutionary history, and presumably contributed significantly to the rapid radiation of the group. An interesting event in hair evol...

    Authors: Mariana F Nery, José Ignacio Arroyo and Juan C Opazo
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:869
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  32. Aberrant DNA methylation is a hallmark of many cancers. Classically there are two types of endometrial cancer, endometrioid adenocarcinoma (EAC), or Type I, and uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC), or Ty...

    Authors: Bo Zhang, XiaoYun Xing, Jing Li, Rebecca F Lowdon, Yan Zhou, Nan Lin, Baoxue Zhang, Vasavi Sundaram, Katherine B Chiappinelli, Ian S Hagemann, David G Mutch, Paul J Goodfellow and Ting Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:868
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  33. The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) has become an important model species for studying both contemporary and parallel evolution. In particular, differential adaptation to freshwater and marine env...

    Authors: Anne-Laure Ferchaud, Susanne H Pedersen, Dorte Bekkevold, Jianbo Jian, Yongchao Niu and Michael M Hansen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:867
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  34. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is grown throughout the world and comprises roughly 50% of the grain legumes consumed worldwide. Despite this, genetic resources for common beans have been lacking. Next generatio...

    Authors: Jamie A O’Rourke, Luis P Iniguez, Fengli Fu, Bruna Bucciarelli, Susan S Miller, Scott A Jackson, Philip E McClean, Jun Li, Xinbin Dai, Patrick X Zhao, Georgina Hernandez and Carroll P Vance
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:866
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  35. Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) is a bacterium causing severe pneumonia in immunocompromised hosts and is often associated with sepsis. With the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria, there is a need for new effective...

    Authors: Karin Vered, Caroline Durrant, Richard Mott and Fuad A Iraqi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:865
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  36. Unambiguous human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing is important in transplant matching and disease association studies. High-resolution HLA typing that is not restricted to the peptide-binding region can decreas...

    Authors: Philip K Ehrenberg, Aviva Geretz, Karen M Baldwin, Richard Apps, Victoria R Polonis, Merlin L Robb, Jerome H Kim, Nelson L Michael and Rasmi Thomas
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:864
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  37. Pneumococcus is a major human pathogen and the polysaccharide capsule is considered its main virulence factor. Nevertheless, strains lacking a capsule, named non-typeable pneumococcus (NT), are maintained in n...

    Authors: Débora A Tavares, Alexandra S Simões, Hester J Bootsma, Peter WM Hermans, Hermínia de Lencastre and Raquel Sá-Leão
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:863
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  39. The genus Liposcelis (Psocoptera: Troctomorpha) has more than 120 species with a worldwide distribution and they pose a risk for global food security. The organization of mitochondrial (mt) genomes varies between...

    Authors: Shi-Chun Chen, Dan-Dan Wei, Renfu Shao, Jun-Xia Shi, Wei Dou and Jin-Jun Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:861
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  40. The liver plays a central role in the maintenance of homeostasis and health in general. However, there is substantial inter-individual variation in hepatic gene expression, and although numerous genetic factor...

    Authors: Marc Jan Bonder, Silva Kasela, Mart Kals, Riin Tamm, Kaie Lokk, Isabel Barragan, Wim A Buurman, Patrick Deelen, Jan-Willem Greve, Maxim Ivanov, Sander S Rensen, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Marcel G Wolfs, Jingyuan Fu, Marten H Hofker, Cisca Wijmenga…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:860
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  41. Gene expression regulation is one of the fundamental mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity and is expected to respond to selection in conditions favoring phenotypic response. The observation that many organisms ...

    Authors: Lev Y Yampolsky, Erliang Zeng, Jacqueline Lopez, Patricia J Williams, Kenneth B Dick, John K Colbourne and Michael E Pfrender
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:859
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  43. Because they represent the earliest divergences of the Chlorophyta, the morphologically diverse unicellular green algae making up the prasinophytes hold the key to understanding the nature of the first viridip...

    Authors: Claude Lemieux, Christian Otis and Monique Turmel
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:857
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  44. Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is the basic source for dietary energy of 500 million people in the world. In Brazil, Erinnyis ello ello (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) is a major pest of cassava crops and a bottleneck for...

    Authors: Daniel Mendes Pereira Ardisson-Araújo, Fernando Lucas de Melo, Miguel de Souza Andrade, William Sihler, Sonia Nair Báo, Bergmann Morais Ribeiro and Marlinda Lobo de Souza
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:856
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  45. The Bacillus genus of Firmicutes bacteria is ubiquitous in nature and includes one of the best characterized model organisms, B. subtilis, as well as medically significant human pathogens, the most notorious bein...

    Authors: Julianne H Grose, Garrett L Jensen, Sandra H Burnett and Donald P Breakwell
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:855
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Genomics 2014 15:1184

  46. Cotton is a major fibre crop grown worldwide that suffers extensive damage from chewing insects, including the cotton boll weevil larvae (Anthonomus grandis). Transcriptome analysis was performed to understand th...

    Authors: Sinara Artico, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves, Osmundo Brilhante Oliveira-Neto, Leonardo Lima Pepino de Macedo, Sylvia Silveira, Maria Fátima Grossi-de-Sa, Adriana Pinheiro Martinelli and Marcio Alves-Ferreira
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:854
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  47. Cyclic nucleotide-gated channels (CNGCs) are Ca2+-permeable cation transport channels, which are present in both animal and plant systems. They have been implicated in the uptake of both essential and toxic catio...

    Authors: Zarqa Nawaz, Kaleem Ullah Kakar, Mumtaz A Saand and Qing-Yao Shu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:853
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  48. Members of the genus Paenibacillus are important plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria that can serve as bio-reactors. Paenibacillus polymyxa promotes the growth of a variety of economically important crops. Our l...

    Authors: Alexander W Eastman, David E Heinrichs and Ze-Chun Yuan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:851
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  49. The crisis of Misidentified and contaminated cell lines have plagued the biological research community for decades. Some repositories and journals have heeded calls for mandatory authentication of human cell l...

    Authors: John P Didion, Ryan J Buus, Zohreh Naghashfar, David W Threadgill, Herbert C Morse III and Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:847
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  50. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate embryonic development and cell fate decision in various ways, such as modulation of chromatin modification and post-transcription regulation of gene expression. However,...

    Authors: Kunshan Zhang, Kefei Huang, Yuping Luo and Siguang Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:845
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