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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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:

  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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
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  11. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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

  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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
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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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:

  48. 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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  49. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. 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:

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