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  1. Zebrafish is a clinically-relevant model of heart regeneration. Unlike mammals, it has a remarkable heart repair capacity after injury, and promises novel translational applications. Amputation and cryoinjury ...

    Authors: Sophie Rodius, Petr V Nazarov, Isabel A Nepomuceno-Chamorro, Céline Jeanty, Juan Manuel González-Rosa, Mark Ibberson, Ricardo M Benites da Costa, Ioannis Xenarios, Nadia Mercader and Francisco Azuaje
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:852
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  2. Variation in hippocampal volume has been linked to significant differences in memory, behavior, and cognition among individuals. To identify genetic variants underlying such differences and associated disease ...

    Authors: David G Ashbrook, Robert W Williams, Lu Lu, Jason L Stein, Derrek P Hibar, Thomas E Nichols, Sarah E Medland, Paul M Thompson and Reinmar Hager
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:850
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  3. Leishmania infantum is the etiological agent of zoonotical visceral leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean basin. A recent outbreak in humans has been recently reported in central Spain. Leishmania spp. parasites are...

    Authors: Pedro J Alcolea, Ana Alonso, Manuel J Gómez, Marina Postigo, Ricardo Molina, Maribel Jiménez and Vicente Larraga
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:849
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  4. Homopolymeric tracts, particularly poly dA.dT, are enriched within the intergenic sequences of eukaryotic genomes where they appear to act as intrinsic regulators of nucleosome positioning. A previous study of...

    Authors: Karen Russell, Chia-Ho Cheng, Jeffrey W Bizzaro, Nadia Ponts, Richard D Emes, Karine Le Roch, Kenneth A Marx and Paul Horrocks
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:848
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  5. Non-human primates (NHPs) and humans share major biological mechanisms, functions, and responses due to their close evolutionary relationship and, as such, provide ideal animal models to study human diseases. ...

    Authors: Albert Lee, Hossein Khiabanian, Jeffrey Kugelman, Oliver Elliott, Elyse Nagle, Guo-Yun Yu, Travis Warren, Gustavo Palacios and Raul Rabadan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:846
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  6. A major constraint affecting the quality and productivity of chrysanthemum is the unusual period of low temperature occurring during early spring, late autumn, and winter. Yet, there has been no systematic inv...

    Authors: Liping Ren, Jing Sun, Sumei Chen, Jiaojiao Gao, Bin Dong, Yanan Liu, Xiaolong Xia, Yinjie Wang, Yuan Liao, Nianjun Teng, Weimin Fang, Zhiyong Guan, Fadi Chen and Jiafu Jiang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:844
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  7. Compared to other ascomycetes, the barley powdery mildew pathogen Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei (Bgh) has a large genome (ca. 120 Mbp) that harbors a relatively small number of protein-coding genes (ca. 6500). T...

    Authors: Stefan Kusch, Nahal Ahmadinejad, Ralph Panstruga and Hannah Kuhn
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:843
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  8. An annotated genomic sequence of the corn anthracnose fungus Colletotrichum graminicola has been published previously, but correct identification of gene models by means of automated gene annotation remains a cha...

    Authors: Ivo Schliebner, Rayko Becher, Marcus Hempel, Holger B Deising and Ralf Horbach
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:842
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  10. Oysters impart significant socio-ecological benefits from primary production of food supply, to estuarine ecosystems via reduction of water column nutrients, plankton and seston biomass. Little though is known...

    Authors: Michael J Stewart, Pascal Favrel, Bronwyn A Rotgans, Tianfang Wang, Min Zhao, Manzar Sohail, Wayne A O’Connor, Abigail Elizur, Joel Henry and Scott F Cummins
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:840
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  11. Proteomics and bioinformatics may help us better understand the biological adaptations occurring during bovine mastitis. This systems approach also could help identify biomarkers for monitoring clinical and su...

    Authors: Jinming Huang, Guojing Luo, Zijing Zhang, Xiuge Wang, Zhihua Ju, Chao Qi, Yan Zhang, Changfa Wang, Rongling Li, Jianbin Li, Weijun Yin, Yinxue Xu, Sonia J Moisá, Juan J Loor and Jifeng Zhong
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:839
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  12. Cotton fiber, a highly elongated, thickened single cell of the seed epidermis, is a powerful cell wall research model. Fiber length, largely determined during the elongation stage, is a key property of fiber q...

    Authors: Lei Fang, Ruiping Tian, Xinghe Li, Jiedan Chen, Sen Wang, Peng Wang and Tianzhen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:838
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  13. Four traits related to carcass performance have been identified as economically important in beef production: carcass weight, carcass fat, carcass conformation of progeny and cull cow carcass weight. Although ...

    Authors: Anthony G Doran, Donagh P Berry and Christopher J Creevey
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:837
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  14. Members of the thermophilic genus Geobacillus can grow at high temperatures and produce a battery of thermostable hemicellulose hydrolytic enzymes, making them ideal candidates for the bioconversion of biomass to...

    Authors: Pieter De Maayer, Phillip J Brumm, David A Mead and Don A Cowan
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:836
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  15. Independent transcriptome profile analyses of miRNAs or mRNAs under conditions of cadmium (Cd) stress have been widely reported in plants. However, a combined analysis of sRNA sequencing expression data with m...

    Authors: Mingfeng Tang, Donghai Mao, Liwei Xu, Dayong Li, Shuhui Song and Caiyan Chen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:835
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  17. Canine hip dysplasia (CHD) is characterised by a malformation of the hip joint, leading to osteoarthritis and lameness. Current breeding schemes against CHD have resulted in measurable but moderate responses. ...

    Authors: Enrique Sánchez-Molano, John A Woolliams, Ricardo Pong-Wong, Dylan N Clements, Sarah C Blott and Pamela Wiener
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:833
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  18. Intronless genes are a feature of prokaryotes; however, they are widespread and unequally distributed among eukaryotes and represent an important resource to study the evolution of gene architecture. Although ...

    Authors: Hanwei Yan, Cuiping Jiang, Xiaoyu Li, Lei Sheng, Qing Dong, Xiaojian Peng, Qian Li, Yang Zhao, Haiyang Jiang and Beijiu Cheng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:832
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  19. So-called 936-type phages are among the most frequently isolated phages in dairy facilities utilising Lactococcus lactis starter cultures. Despite extensive efforts to control phage proliferation and decades of r...

    Authors: James Murphy, Jochen Klumpp, Jennifer Mahony, Mary O’Connell-Motherway, Arjen Nauta and Douwe van Sinderen
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:831
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  20. E.coli ST131 is a globally disseminated clone of multi-drug resistant E. coli responsible for that vast majority of global extra-intestinal E. coli infections. Recent global genomic epidemiological studies have h...

    Authors: Abdulaziz Alqasim, Fleming Scheutz, Zhiyong Zong and Alan McNally
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:830
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  21. Commercial Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) farming is restricted by variable oocyte quality, slow growth, and early maturation of male fish. Maternally transferred components regulate early developme...

    Authors: Maren Mommens, Jorge MO Fernandes, Knut Erik Tollefsen, Ian A Johnston and Igor Babiak
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:829
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  22. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) is revolutionizing molecular epidemiology by providing new approaches to undertake whole genome sequencing (WGS) in diagnostic settings for a variety of human and veterinary pa...

    Authors: Grace Logan, Graham L Freimanis, David J King, Begoña Valdazo-González, Katarzyna Bachanek-Bankowska, Nicholas D Sanderson, Nick J Knowles, Donald P King and Eleanor M Cottam
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:828
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  24. The ability to form adventitious roots (AR) is an economically important trait that is lost during the juvenile-to-mature phase change in woody plants. Auxin treatment, which generally promotes rooting in juve...

    Authors: Mohamad Abu-Abied, David Szwerdszarf, Inna Mordehaev, Yossi Yaniv, Saar Levinkron, Mor Rubinstein, Joseph Riov, Ron Ophir and Einat Sadot
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:826
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  25. The genetic cascades underpinning vertebrate early eye morphogenesis are poorly understood. One gene family essential for eye morphogenesis encodes the retinal homeobox (Rx) transcription factors. Mutations in...

    Authors: Jun Yin, Maria E Morrissey, Lisa Shine, Ciarán Kennedy, Desmond G Higgins and Breandán N Kennedy
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:825
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  26. Oncogenic fusion genes underlie the mechanism of several common cancers. Next-generation sequencing based RNA-seq analyses have revealed an increasing number of recurrent fusions in a variety of cancers. Howev...

    Authors: Waibhav D Tembe, Stephanie JK Pond, Christophe Legendre, Han-Yu Chuang, Winnie S Liang, Nancy E Kim, Valerie Montel, Shukmei Wong, Timothy K McDaniel, David W Craig and John D Carpten
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:824
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  27. High density genotyping data are indispensable for genomic analyses of complex traits in animal and crop species. Maize is one of the most important crop plants worldwide, however a high density SNP genotyping...

    Authors: Sandra Unterseer, Eva Bauer, Georg Haberer, Michael Seidel, Carsten Knaak, Milena Ouzunova, Thomas Meitinger, Tim M Strom, Ruedi Fries, Hubert Pausch, Christofer Bertani, Alessandro Davassi, Klaus FX Mayer and Chris-Carolin Schön
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:823
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  28. Metarhizium anisopliae is an entomopathogenic fungus used in the biological control of some agricultural insect pests, and efforts are underway to use this fungus in the control of insect-borne human diseases. A ...

    Authors: Charley Christian Staats, Ângela Junges, Rafael Lucas Muniz Guedes, Claudia Elizabeth Thompson, Guilherme Loss de Morais, Juliano Tomazzoni Boldo, Luiz Gonzaga Paula de Almeida, Fábio Carrer Andreis, Alexandra Lehmkuhl Gerber, Nicolau Sbaraini, Rana Louise de Andrade da Paixão, Leonardo Broetto, Melissa Landell, Lucélia Santi, Walter Orlando Beys-da-Silva, Carolina Pereira Silveira…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:822
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  29. The basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor Twist1 has well-documented roles in progenitor populations of the developing embryo, including endocardial cushions (ECC) and limb buds, and also in cancer. Whet...

    Authors: Mary P Lee, Nancy Ratner and Katherine E Yutzey
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:821
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  30. Wing discs of B. mori are transformed to pupal wings during the larva-to-pupa metamorphosis with dramatic morphological and structural changes. To understand these changes at a transcriptional level, RNA-seq of t...

    Authors: Jun Ou, Hui-Min Deng, Si-Chun Zheng, Li-Hua Huang, Qi-Li Feng and Lin Liu
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:820
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  31. The polytene nuclei of the dipteran Chironomus tentans (Ch. tentans) with their Balbiani ring (BR) genes constitute an exceptional model system for studies of the expression of endogenous eukaryotic genes. Here, ...

    Authors: Alexey Kutsenko, Thomas Svensson, Björn Nystedt, Joakim Lundeberg, Petra Björk, Erik Sonnhammer, Stefania Giacomello, Neus Visa and Lars Wieslander
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:819
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  32. Transcription factors (TFs) contain DNA-binding domains (DBDs) and regulate gene expression by binding to specific DNA sequences. In addition, there are proteins, called transcription coregulators (TCs), which...

    Authors: Jinn-Jy Lin, Chun-Ping Yu, Yao-Ming Chang, Sean Chun-Chang Chen and Wen-Hsiung Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:818
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  33. Pyrethroid resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus is rapidly expanding across Southern Africa. It remains unknown whether this resistance has a unique origin with the same molecular basis or is...

    Authors: Jacob M Riveron, Sulaiman S Ibrahim, Emmanuel Chanda, Themba Mzilahowa, Nelson Cuamba, Helen Irving, Kayla G Barnes, Miranda Ndula and Charles S Wondji
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:817
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  34. The passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) is a tropical crop of economic importance both for juice production and consumption as fresh fruit. The juice is also used in concentrate blends that are consumed worldwide. ...

    Authors: Anselmo Azevedo Santos, Helen Alves Penha, Arnaud Bellec, Carla de Freitas Munhoz, Andrea Pedrosa-Harand, Hélène Bergès and Maria Lucia Carneiro Vieira
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:816
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  35. Carbapenem-resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii has gradually become a global challenge. To identify the genes involved in carbapenem resistance in A. baumannii, the transcriptomic responses of the completely se...

    Authors: Kai-Chih Chang, Han-Yueh Kuo, Chuan Yi Tang, Cheng-Wei Chang, Chia-Wei Lu, Chih-Chin Liu, Huei-Ru Lin, Kuan-Hsueh Chen and Ming-Li Liou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:815
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  36. High dose ionizing radiation (IR) induces potent toxic cell effects mediated by either direct DNA damage or the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). IR-induced modulations in multiple biological proces...

    Authors: Lucian Beer, Rudolf Seemann, Robin Ristl, Adolf Ellinger, Mohammad Mahdi Kasiri, Andreas Mitterbauer, Matthias Zimmermann, Christian Gabriel, Mariann Gyöngyösi, Walter Klepetko, Michael Mildner and Hendrik Jan Ankersmit
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:814
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  37. Bacteria of genus Thermus inhabit both man-made and natural thermal environments. Several Thermus species have shown biotechnological potential such as reduction of heavy metals which is essential for eradication...

    Authors: Benjamin Kumwenda, Derek Litthauer and Oleg Reva
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:813
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  38. Peptidases are key proteins involved in essential plant physiological processes. Although protein peptidase inhibitors are essential molecules that modulate peptidase activity, their global presence in differe...

    Authors: María Estrella Santamaría, Mercedes Diaz-Mendoza, Isabel Diaz and Manuel Martinez
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:812
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  39. Epigenetic modifications (especially altered DNA methylation) resulting in altered gene expression may be one reason for development failure or abnormalities in cloned animals, but the underlying mechanism of ...

    Authors: Guanglei Li, Qitao Jia, Jianguo Zhao, Xinyun Li, Mei Yu, Melissa S Samuel, Shuhong Zhao, Randall S Prather and Changchun Li
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:811
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  40. Ashbya gossypii is an industrially relevant microorganism traditionally used for riboflavin production. Despite the high gene homology and gene order conservation comparatively with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, it p...

    Authors: Daniel Gomes, Tatiana Q Aguiar, Oscar Dias, Eugénio C Ferreira, Lucília Domingues and Isabel Rocha
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:810
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  41. Sudden death syndrome (SDS) is a serious threat to soybean production that can be managed with host plant resistance. To dissect the genetic architecture of quantitative resistance to the disease in soybean, t...

    Authors: Zixiang Wen, Ruijuan Tan, Jiazheng Yuan, Carmille Bales, Wenyan Du, Shichen Zhang, Martin I Chilvers, Cathy Schmidt, Qijian Song, Perry B Cregan and Dechun Wang
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:809
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  42. There is growing interest in odonates (damselflies and dragonflies) as model organisms in ecology and evolutionary biology but the development of genomic resources has been slow. So far only one draft genome (Lad...

    Authors: Pallavi Chauhan, Bengt Hansson, Ken Kraaijeveld, Peter de Knijff, Erik I Svensson and Maren Wellenreuther
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:808
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  43. Growth regulating factors (GRFs) have been shown to play important roles in plant growth and development. GRF genes represent a large multigene family in plants. Recently, genome-wide structural and evolutiona...

    Authors: Fengde Wang, Nianwei Qiu, Qian Ding, Jingjuan Li, Yihui Zhang, Huayin Li and Jianwei Gao
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:807
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  45. Litchi is an evergreen woody tree widely cultivated in subtropical and tropical regions. Defective flowering is a major challenge for litchi production in time of climate change and global warming. Previous st...

    Authors: Xingyu Lu, Hyeji Kim, Silin Zhong, Houbin Chen, Zhiqun Hu and Biyan Zhou
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:805
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  46. The tropical green-lipped mussel Perna viridis is a common biomonitor throughout the Indo-Pacific region that is used for environmental monitoring and ecotoxicological investigations. However, there is limited mo...

    Authors: Priscilla TY Leung, Jack CH Ip, Sarah ST Mak, Jian Wen Qiu, Paul KS Lam, Chris KC Wong, Leo L Chan and Kenneth MY Leung
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:804
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  47. Whole-genome sequencing is an important method to understand the genetic information, gene function, biological characteristics and survival mechanisms of organisms. Sequencing large genomes is very simple at ...

    Authors: Shuguang Lu, Shuai Le, Yinling Tan, Ming Li, Chang Liu, Kebin Zhang, Jianjun Huang, Haimei Chen, Xiancai Rao, Junmin Zhu, Lingyun Zou, Qingshan Ni, Shu Li, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Jin, Qiwen Hu…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:803
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  48. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) play a fundamental role in not only blood vessel development but also post-natal vascular repair. Currently EPCs are defined as early and late EPCs based on their biological...

    Authors: Ting-Yu Chang, Tse-Shun Huang, Hsei-Wei Wang, Shing-Jyh Chang, Hung-Hao Lo, Ya-Lin Chiu, Yen-Li Wang, Chung-Der Hsiao, Chin-Han Tsai, Chia-Hao Chan, Ren-In You, Chun-Hsien Wu, Tsung-Neng Tsai, Shu-Meng Cheng and Cheng-Chung Cheng
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:802
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  49. The local environment plays a major role in the spatial distribution of plant populations. Natural plant populations have an extremely poor displacing capacity, so their continued survival in a given environme...

    Authors: Matteo Dell’Acqua, Andrea Zuccolo, Metin Tuna, Luca Gianfranceschi and Mario Enrico Pè
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:801
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  50. In pigs, the perinatal period is the most critical time for survival. Piglet maturation, which occurs at the end of gestation, leads to a state of full development after birth. Therefore, maturity is an import...

    Authors: Valentin Voillet, Magali SanCristobal, Yannick Lippi, Pascal GP Martin, Nathalie Iannuccelli, Christine Lascor, Florence Vignoles, Yvon Billon, Laurianne Canario and Laurence Liaubet
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:797
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